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*Official* Season XII Results and Discussion Thread
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w3lshrugby
School Boy/Girl Captain
Delighted to have a shot at winning both finals. The Blues have been an awesome team to be signed with this season, cheers Liam. 
bugssy
Cricketer Of The Year
your hotmail one....
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I don't use the leeahm account for email. Only for MSN.
PY
International Coach
Delighted with the way this season has panned out for the Blues!
V happy with my 136*, though need someone who can strike at a better rate to do that next game as Blacks are going to be tough to overturn. I'm confident though, especially if we roll through their much fabled top-order. C'mon Blueeeeee.
V happy with my 136*, though need someone who can strike at a better rate to do that next game as Blacks are going to be tough to overturn. I'm confident though, especially if we roll through their much fabled top-order. C'mon Blueeeeee.
bugssy
Cricketer Of The Year
what email should i send it to buddy!
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superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Sad end to the regular season..
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10 June - FC Final
Manuel Ramprakash Trophy: Cricket Web Blue vs Cricket Web Red
in CW Oval
Scorecard
Ball By Ball
Cricket Web Red took the first major win in the franchise's history with a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching three-wicket win, achieved over sixteen sessions of continuous cricket with vital contributions from a number of unexpected quarters. Players and fans alike had difficult to keep tears back after the sensational chase of 345 to win was completed. Cricket Web Blue were eventually made to pay for poor fielding and an overreliance on Demeza and Collins, but the match was extremely closely fought throughout.
Blue did, however, gain a hefty advantage from the outset, winning the toss and batting. After Mørk put down Mamesh in the eighth over, both the Blue openers asserted dominance, and Red had used five bowlers by lunch without success. Mamesh was very much the dominant partner against his old team, striking six fours in a 75-ball fifty, but Young also let himself loose after leaving the first 24 deliveries without adding a run to the total. The proceedings continued after lunch, with Kennett and Bennett finding occasional threat but never anything to worry the batsmen.
Fighting an old ball, a perfect batting wicket, two in-form batsmen and a tally of 135, Red rallied magnificently thanks to the spirited bowling of allrounder Gaurav Nayak. He trapped Mamesh lbw for 69 in the 41st over, and his next ball to Young was held by Thompson at gully. And with two men down, Red could finally begin their work towards parity. Runs still flowed reasonably easily - 99 were taken off 28 overs - but Wilshere was out hooking to Watt at square leg, and Blue closed the session with three down for 194. Expansive cricket then took care of de Silva and Crampton, but Fuller provided a fine foil to Cribb before he nicked behind for 40, having added 42 with Fuller. The famed Camps-Fuller partnership stood its way until stumps, and Blue closed on 299 for six, as Watt and Kennett once again failed to make impact with the new ball.
Ball dominated bat on the second morning, perhaps the only session of play where that was the case. 53 runs came for the loss of four wickets, and while all wickets fell to Blue, a majority of the runs were made by Red openers Dobson and Mørk. Fuller fell in the first over, held easily by Watt at square leg, while Sean Bennett yielded the fruits of hard labour, clean bowling Camps with a shorter one. Collins took the strike and brought 15 hard-fought runs, though at the other end Dunn faced the music, nearly lbw to Bennett and dropped by Kearsley. Eventually, Nayak was introduced, and completed his first career five-wicket-haul by claiming Dunn and Demeza (four-ball duck).
Red claimed some luck in the morning session, as a huge lbw appeal was turned down to Mørk on 10. The decision was crucial, as Mørk provided an anchoring point while they sailed towards Blue's total of 324. With Dobson inside edging on 10, Mørk had more luck, after Collins missed a shy at the stumps to run him out, and the partnership reached 50 with cautious prodding. It took more than 20 overs to split the two, and it looked as though Red would survive the afternoon session with only one loss, but Dauth once again caught a rush of blood, hooking to Demeza.
Luff fell with the first ball of the new session, bringing Kearsley to partner Mørk. He quickly assumed a dominant role, taking 31 of the first 50 partnership, but was forced to bat with the lower order after a Collins slower ball beat him. Chris Dwyer provided an entertaining half-hour before the close, egged on by a home crowd hungry for runs and success, and lashed out for 26 before Mamesh held the catch at first slip. Red closed the day on 220, a little overs hundred runs in arrears, with Thompson partnering Kearsley and six overs to the new ball.
Day three began with helpful clouds for the bowlers. Collins used this and the new ball to frightening effect, trapping Thompson lbw with a fuller one before putting down the simplest of chances off Nayak. The Red stalwart took full advantage, even though Collins struck again to remove Kearsley in the nineties, and slashed, cut, and ran his way to fifty with able support from Kennett and Bennett. His luck ran out after lunch, and Collins cleaned up, leaving Red with a lead of 26. Mamesh and Young took 37 deliveries to obliterate that, though Nayak had a fair shout for lbw turned down due to an inside edge. Mamesh brought his team into the lead by hooking Kennett's first ball of the match for six, but Young fell in the next over to Watt, pushing a gentle return catch into his pouch. With Mamesh run out on 48 just before tea, Red wrenched the initiative again, despite both Wilshere and Cribb easing themselves into form before the break.
The evening session belonged to Blue, somewhat, though not through any assertion of dominance. Sixty-one runs were gathered in thirty-one overs, a throwback to olden days, but Red failed to produce any chances and went to the pavilion thoroughly dissatisfied with the evening's work.
Cribb and Wilshere returned to their mission the following day, facing out 13 overs for 19 runs before the talisman, Nayak, struck with the first ball of a new spell, as Cribb prodded to Bennett at second slip. This brought a change in attitude, with both de Silva and Crampton eager to score runs, and 71 came in the final two thirds of the session, which also included a wicket for Dwyer and a drop off Bennett's bowling. Wilshere had quietly sneaked his way past his regular-season high of 84, reaching 95 at lunch, and faced off the new ball by easing to his hundred. At the other end, Crampton was replaced by Fuller after a streaky shot was easily caught on the inside of the boundary by Nayak, though Fuller easily saw off the bowling. Wilshere, however, eventually made a mistake after his six-hour batathon, getting a tiny edge to one which Mørk fumbled into his gloves and exiting for 120.
The Red advances were temporary, as Camps and Fuller attacked on the leg flank. Kennett and Watt provided 12 reasonable overs after tea, but didn't threaten, and Camps brought up the fifty stand with an extravagant straight smash over long on for six. On a wearing pitch, the introduction of spin eventually paid off, as Bennett removed Camps for a second time, caught by Luff at short leg. Fuller stuck to his guns, but stood by helplessly as Collins nicked a Thompson short ball to a diving Dauth in the gully. Blue closed the fourth day with two wickets in hand, but they were quickly removed, a rejuvenated Watt bouncing out the tail to leave Fuller on an unbeaten 61 despite two fours from the 11 balls he managed to face in the morning.
Nevertheless, Blue had reached 370, and Red required a similar performance to the first innings on a tired, rapidly wearing ground. Demeza and Collins galloped towards the sea of Red fans at either end, putting almighty efforts into the deliveries, but they were seen off as Red collected 29 runs from the opening assault. Dunn and Cribb took over the job before lunch, but provided straight and unthreatening deliveries, as Red made it through to lunch with 83 runs and no loss. Having bowled three overs before lunch and getting a good rest, Demeza pulled Blue back in the game with two strikes after the break. The new batsman Luff fought off Demeza, only to flick Collins onto middle stump for 11, while Mørk survived Dunn's vociferous appeal to complete the 156-ball fifty.
Just before tea, however, Demeza struck again for his most prized wicket of his six thus far. Ryan Dunn, having been pulled to deep midwicket by his captain earlier, held the simplest of catches as Kearsley, too, fell for 11 - and suddenly Red required nearly 200 runs with only six wickets in hand. Dwyer was called in to provide a contrasting batting option to Mørk, and did so until he gave a return chance to Camps at 20; then Mørk took over the hitting job. Mørk's second fifty took only 106 balls, with 42 coming after tea, before Demeza finally broke through with his second-last over of the day. Thompson and Dwyer were left alone in the charge for victory, with still 77 needed for the win. Dashed singles ended the day; Thompson and Dwyer got bat on thirteen balls, yet failed to reach the boundary on a single one.
At the start of the sixth day of play, Red required 64. Thompson cut that down by a further 11 during the first four deliveries, flaying Collins on the leg side, before Dwyer was caught by Mamesh on 63. In a manic situation, Mørk called upon the cool head of veteran David Kennett to bat at eight, instead of the match hero Gaurav Nayak. After blocking the first five balls, he swung through the line and smacked the ball over midwicket for six, before once more playing out the over. However, Thompson called him for a single in the next over, and Kennett failed to dive home safely; a 13-minute cameo ended. 40 runs were required with three wickets in hand, and Sean Bennett stepped in confidently.
Thompson was not deterred from his swift running tactics, however. 19 of the next 33 balls were taken for runs, before Bennett struck cover drives for four, cutting the target further. With 12 needed, Camps called upon Dunn for an incision, but with the home crowd realising the eventual outcome of the match, every run was cheered as if a century had been reached. With Demeza falling short and to another Bennett square drive, the target was down to six, and Demeza's no-ball was greeted with even more cheers. It was, however, fitting that new recruit Thompson struck a hard drive to long off, and Bennett and Thompson jogged through, clicking bats as they crossed and secured the trophy.
Cricket Web Blue 324 all out (104.5 overs)
T Mamesh 69, PE Young 61; GN Nayak 5-68, CP Thompson 2-61
Cricket Web Red 350 all out (111.1 overs)
DA Kearsley 93, GN Nayak 62, H Mørk 61; AAA Collins 4-77, TJ Demeza 4-106
Cricket Web Blue 370 all out (144.4 overs)
BL Wilshere 120, SE Fuller 61*; DJ Watt 4-41, SA Bennett 2-74
Cricket Web Red 345 for seven (104.2 overs)
H Mørk 106, CR Dwyer 63; TJ Demeza 4-128, AAA Collins 2-97
Cricket Web Red won by three wickets
Man of the Match: G. N. Nayak (Cricket Web Red)
Manuel Ramprakash Trophy: Cricket Web Blue vs Cricket Web Red
in CW Oval
Scorecard
Ball By Ball
Cricket Web Red took the first major win in the franchise's history with a heart-stopping, gut-wrenching three-wicket win, achieved over sixteen sessions of continuous cricket with vital contributions from a number of unexpected quarters. Players and fans alike had difficult to keep tears back after the sensational chase of 345 to win was completed. Cricket Web Blue were eventually made to pay for poor fielding and an overreliance on Demeza and Collins, but the match was extremely closely fought throughout.
Blue did, however, gain a hefty advantage from the outset, winning the toss and batting. After Mørk put down Mamesh in the eighth over, both the Blue openers asserted dominance, and Red had used five bowlers by lunch without success. Mamesh was very much the dominant partner against his old team, striking six fours in a 75-ball fifty, but Young also let himself loose after leaving the first 24 deliveries without adding a run to the total. The proceedings continued after lunch, with Kennett and Bennett finding occasional threat but never anything to worry the batsmen.
Fighting an old ball, a perfect batting wicket, two in-form batsmen and a tally of 135, Red rallied magnificently thanks to the spirited bowling of allrounder Gaurav Nayak. He trapped Mamesh lbw for 69 in the 41st over, and his next ball to Young was held by Thompson at gully. And with two men down, Red could finally begin their work towards parity. Runs still flowed reasonably easily - 99 were taken off 28 overs - but Wilshere was out hooking to Watt at square leg, and Blue closed the session with three down for 194. Expansive cricket then took care of de Silva and Crampton, but Fuller provided a fine foil to Cribb before he nicked behind for 40, having added 42 with Fuller. The famed Camps-Fuller partnership stood its way until stumps, and Blue closed on 299 for six, as Watt and Kennett once again failed to make impact with the new ball.
Ball dominated bat on the second morning, perhaps the only session of play where that was the case. 53 runs came for the loss of four wickets, and while all wickets fell to Blue, a majority of the runs were made by Red openers Dobson and Mørk. Fuller fell in the first over, held easily by Watt at square leg, while Sean Bennett yielded the fruits of hard labour, clean bowling Camps with a shorter one. Collins took the strike and brought 15 hard-fought runs, though at the other end Dunn faced the music, nearly lbw to Bennett and dropped by Kearsley. Eventually, Nayak was introduced, and completed his first career five-wicket-haul by claiming Dunn and Demeza (four-ball duck).
Red claimed some luck in the morning session, as a huge lbw appeal was turned down to Mørk on 10. The decision was crucial, as Mørk provided an anchoring point while they sailed towards Blue's total of 324. With Dobson inside edging on 10, Mørk had more luck, after Collins missed a shy at the stumps to run him out, and the partnership reached 50 with cautious prodding. It took more than 20 overs to split the two, and it looked as though Red would survive the afternoon session with only one loss, but Dauth once again caught a rush of blood, hooking to Demeza.
Luff fell with the first ball of the new session, bringing Kearsley to partner Mørk. He quickly assumed a dominant role, taking 31 of the first 50 partnership, but was forced to bat with the lower order after a Collins slower ball beat him. Chris Dwyer provided an entertaining half-hour before the close, egged on by a home crowd hungry for runs and success, and lashed out for 26 before Mamesh held the catch at first slip. Red closed the day on 220, a little overs hundred runs in arrears, with Thompson partnering Kearsley and six overs to the new ball.
Day three began with helpful clouds for the bowlers. Collins used this and the new ball to frightening effect, trapping Thompson lbw with a fuller one before putting down the simplest of chances off Nayak. The Red stalwart took full advantage, even though Collins struck again to remove Kearsley in the nineties, and slashed, cut, and ran his way to fifty with able support from Kennett and Bennett. His luck ran out after lunch, and Collins cleaned up, leaving Red with a lead of 26. Mamesh and Young took 37 deliveries to obliterate that, though Nayak had a fair shout for lbw turned down due to an inside edge. Mamesh brought his team into the lead by hooking Kennett's first ball of the match for six, but Young fell in the next over to Watt, pushing a gentle return catch into his pouch. With Mamesh run out on 48 just before tea, Red wrenched the initiative again, despite both Wilshere and Cribb easing themselves into form before the break.
The evening session belonged to Blue, somewhat, though not through any assertion of dominance. Sixty-one runs were gathered in thirty-one overs, a throwback to olden days, but Red failed to produce any chances and went to the pavilion thoroughly dissatisfied with the evening's work.
Cribb and Wilshere returned to their mission the following day, facing out 13 overs for 19 runs before the talisman, Nayak, struck with the first ball of a new spell, as Cribb prodded to Bennett at second slip. This brought a change in attitude, with both de Silva and Crampton eager to score runs, and 71 came in the final two thirds of the session, which also included a wicket for Dwyer and a drop off Bennett's bowling. Wilshere had quietly sneaked his way past his regular-season high of 84, reaching 95 at lunch, and faced off the new ball by easing to his hundred. At the other end, Crampton was replaced by Fuller after a streaky shot was easily caught on the inside of the boundary by Nayak, though Fuller easily saw off the bowling. Wilshere, however, eventually made a mistake after his six-hour batathon, getting a tiny edge to one which Mørk fumbled into his gloves and exiting for 120.
The Red advances were temporary, as Camps and Fuller attacked on the leg flank. Kennett and Watt provided 12 reasonable overs after tea, but didn't threaten, and Camps brought up the fifty stand with an extravagant straight smash over long on for six. On a wearing pitch, the introduction of spin eventually paid off, as Bennett removed Camps for a second time, caught by Luff at short leg. Fuller stuck to his guns, but stood by helplessly as Collins nicked a Thompson short ball to a diving Dauth in the gully. Blue closed the fourth day with two wickets in hand, but they were quickly removed, a rejuvenated Watt bouncing out the tail to leave Fuller on an unbeaten 61 despite two fours from the 11 balls he managed to face in the morning.
Nevertheless, Blue had reached 370, and Red required a similar performance to the first innings on a tired, rapidly wearing ground. Demeza and Collins galloped towards the sea of Red fans at either end, putting almighty efforts into the deliveries, but they were seen off as Red collected 29 runs from the opening assault. Dunn and Cribb took over the job before lunch, but provided straight and unthreatening deliveries, as Red made it through to lunch with 83 runs and no loss. Having bowled three overs before lunch and getting a good rest, Demeza pulled Blue back in the game with two strikes after the break. The new batsman Luff fought off Demeza, only to flick Collins onto middle stump for 11, while Mørk survived Dunn's vociferous appeal to complete the 156-ball fifty.
Just before tea, however, Demeza struck again for his most prized wicket of his six thus far. Ryan Dunn, having been pulled to deep midwicket by his captain earlier, held the simplest of catches as Kearsley, too, fell for 11 - and suddenly Red required nearly 200 runs with only six wickets in hand. Dwyer was called in to provide a contrasting batting option to Mørk, and did so until he gave a return chance to Camps at 20; then Mørk took over the hitting job. Mørk's second fifty took only 106 balls, with 42 coming after tea, before Demeza finally broke through with his second-last over of the day. Thompson and Dwyer were left alone in the charge for victory, with still 77 needed for the win. Dashed singles ended the day; Thompson and Dwyer got bat on thirteen balls, yet failed to reach the boundary on a single one.
At the start of the sixth day of play, Red required 64. Thompson cut that down by a further 11 during the first four deliveries, flaying Collins on the leg side, before Dwyer was caught by Mamesh on 63. In a manic situation, Mørk called upon the cool head of veteran David Kennett to bat at eight, instead of the match hero Gaurav Nayak. After blocking the first five balls, he swung through the line and smacked the ball over midwicket for six, before once more playing out the over. However, Thompson called him for a single in the next over, and Kennett failed to dive home safely; a 13-minute cameo ended. 40 runs were required with three wickets in hand, and Sean Bennett stepped in confidently.
Thompson was not deterred from his swift running tactics, however. 19 of the next 33 balls were taken for runs, before Bennett struck cover drives for four, cutting the target further. With 12 needed, Camps called upon Dunn for an incision, but with the home crowd realising the eventual outcome of the match, every run was cheered as if a century had been reached. With Demeza falling short and to another Bennett square drive, the target was down to six, and Demeza's no-ball was greeted with even more cheers. It was, however, fitting that new recruit Thompson struck a hard drive to long off, and Bennett and Thompson jogged through, clicking bats as they crossed and secured the trophy.
Cricket Web Blue 324 all out (104.5 overs)
T Mamesh 69, PE Young 61; GN Nayak 5-68, CP Thompson 2-61
Cricket Web Red 350 all out (111.1 overs)
DA Kearsley 93, GN Nayak 62, H Mørk 61; AAA Collins 4-77, TJ Demeza 4-106
Cricket Web Blue 370 all out (144.4 overs)
BL Wilshere 120, SE Fuller 61*; DJ Watt 4-41, SA Bennett 2-74
Cricket Web Red 345 for seven (104.2 overs)
H Mørk 106, CR Dwyer 63; TJ Demeza 4-128, AAA Collins 2-97
Cricket Web Red won by three wickets
Man of the Match: G. N. Nayak (Cricket Web Red)
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State Vice-Captain
great win reds well played mork nayak and kears great finish to a great season imo
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Gutted. A final worthy of the occasion, but we could so easily have won.
Travis_Teh
International Regular
Most excellent live sim, by the way.
Shame we couldn't pull the final to go with the league.
Shame we couldn't pull the final to go with the league.
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REDS
Excellent report Mork. Gaurav what a champion
Excellent report Mork. Gaurav what a champion
kears_falcon_9
International Debutant
Fantastic win there Reds!
Was out late last night so missed the sim, but waking up and reading this makes my hangover feel not so bad
GO REDS!
Was out late last night so missed the sim, but waking up and reading this makes my hangover feel not so bad
GO REDS!
chaminda_00
Hall of Fame Member
We done guys, finally got there in the end.
GO RED!!!!!
*Worth doing it one last time*
GO RED!!!!!
*Worth doing it one last time*
