*Official* CW Grade Cricket discussion and results thread

[Tom Halsey]

Panthers going well.

Why am I bowling less overs than 3 amatures?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

One-Day Semis (apology for the short reports, I accidentally simmed the three-day games instead...)

Semi-Final One: Titans v de Grooters @ Twybridge

Greater Robbham Grooters	Twybridge Titans
GKK Dobson			RJ Twyman
PR Sajith			AS Das
Sukhvinder Singh		LR Joslin
JW Tebbut			HWR Gunn
Z Ghansar			CH Bokey
*MJ Robbins			JB Brown
CR Palmer			+SJ Burke
EE Lucas			AJ Buttsworth
JA Finnegan			EC White
+TPA Jervis			RB Cotterill
MT Mitchell			*JP McNamara

The Titans fell to 172 after an initial opening stand of 56, as Zaid Ghansar's medium pace yielded five for 34, despite healthy innings of 44 from Rich Twyman and 34 from Jonathan Brown. Das and Burke also passed 20, but most succumbed to Ghansar, or if not to Finnegan (2-24), Mitchell (6-0-44-1) or Sajith (8-0-45-1). After 80 from Sukhvinder Singh, it was easy enough to chase down, and de Grooters cruised into the one-day final, with Jack McNamara going wicketless and conceding 34 in six overs.

Titans 172 (41.2 ovs) lost to
de Grooters 175-4 (34.5 ovs) by six wickets

Semi-Final Two: Jets v Tigers @ Stedingham

Stedingham Jets			Gofftown Tigers
+T Mamesh			RGEWS Cribb
*SA Bennett			JA Courtis
HR Wallis			*BJ Goff
CR Butler			+S Jasotharan
RF Prabhakar Rao		JB Malthus-Howell
LRC Chaudhari			D Deeps
CL Kalmar			Mohammad Mahmood
Javed Shafiq			Jamaluddin Hossain
M Bala				D Muhaffy
T Loganathan			GM Thomas
AA Cameron			NJ Masterman

The Jets struggled initially, with Mamesh and Bennett both failing as they fell to 20 for 2, but a half-century from Holden Wallis and a well-crafted ton from Chris Butler lifted the Jets to 228 for 6 - also helped by 35 off just 33 balls from Chris Kalmar. Greg Thomas then ran through them, finishing with four for 48, while Brendon Goff also got two for 17 as change bowler. Andy Cameron got early wickets, but Goff plundered his way to a 139-ball ton, hoiking Butler for a six to bring up his century. Cameron finished with four for 43, but Goff finished on 115*, winning the battle of the batsmen and the match.

Jets 242 (49.4 ovs) lost to
Tigers 245-5 (47 ovs) by five wickets

 

[Matteh]

Once again my One Day bowling is rather average - 6-0-44-1.....
Grooters still managed to win though

 

[SquidAU]

At least my batting is getting better.....bowling is up the creek without a paddle ATM.

Fancy a spinner bowling a no ball.......I am ashamed!

 

[Dasa]

That's a bit of a thrashing for us...

 

[crickhowell]

51, my first decent grade cricket score

 

[chaminda_00]

Never really got going this season in club cricket with bat or ball. That was a really good century by Bulter and Cameron bowled really well, we should have backed up those guys better.

 

[Robertinho]

Woo, go the Grooters

Looking forward to returning and playing for the de Grooters at some point

 

[andyc]

Wow I actually did something good for a change. Pity we still lost, hard luck Jets.

 

[Hazza]

Quick thing

HW Wright LBW b Bokey 50 41 6 1

Its Harry Warwick

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Quick thing



Its Harry Warwick

Yep. The CWBCC official responsible for sending over your data to the relevant scorers is a retired doctor, and his handwriting was indecipherable.

 

[Hazza]

Yep. The CWBCC official responsible for sending over your data to the relevant scorers is a retired doctor, and his handwriting was indecipherable.

Excuses excuses

Not bad though, 50 and 2-43 on debut

 

[cbuts]

well at least the jets went down fighting

 

[Matteh]

So when are the semis?
i know they were postponed but i keep looking at this board every day in hope only to be disappointed

 

[cricketboy29]

Life's disappointing, my friend, sad but true.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Greater Robbham de Grooters	Davistow Darters
PR Sajith			Dawlat Ameer
EE Lucas			RA Langley
Sukhvinder Singh		+M Gaukroger
*+AP Chaulk			DA Kearsley
JW Tebbut			CA Naik
CR Palmer			Ehsan Ahsan
Z Ghansar			HW Warwick
P Fisher			DJ Comley
JA Finnegan			NS Hoy
CD McKern			*DJ Watt
MT Mitchell			DM Kennett

As most of de Grooters were busy with the Bar XI game, the Darters made the most of it to qualify for the first 3-day Trophy final. Surprisingly, it was their batters who won them the game, as they faced 99 overs in the first-day rain on a pitch that got more and more worn. Beautiful batting from Rich Langley (56), Dave Kearsley (54) and Megan Gaukroger (nine-hour 75), sent the Darters to 246 for 3 at stumps on day one, before the pair lashed out hitting 31 in 10 second-day overs against McKern and Mitchell. Mitchell eventually had Gaukroger caught at slip for 87, and Finnegan took care of the next five batsmen to end with six for 70 - Mitchell and McKern grabbed two wickets each, and the Darters were bowled out for 315. But with a new ball, de Grooters lost both their openers in the space of thirteen deliveries, and plenty of chances were created. However, it took an hour to get the next wicket - an outswinger from Kennett flew to Kearsley's outstretched hand at backward point, and de Grooters were 27 for 3. Hoy then took two wickets before lunch, Warwick and Comley took one each, before a splendid over from Watt yielded a hat-trick of pros - Chaulk c Warwick 51, McKern c Warwick 0, Mitchell c & b 0. De Grooters followed on 197 behind - and faltered. David Kennett bowled unchanged with metronomic line and length, and once he had Sajith bowled for 10 with one that nipped back, the wickets fell quickly. He took eight wickets in a spell lasting 10.3 overs, removing three batsmen for ducks, and getting three lbws. Hoy also trapped the batsmen in front twice, ending with 4-2-8-2, but Kennett's spell of 10.3-2-28-8 will surely be remembered in Davistow for some time.

Darters 315 beat
Grooters 118 & 61 by an innings and 136 runs

Pickford Panthers		Edfield Seahawks
PE Young			+H Mørk
T Gould				DP Towns
+MA Hepworth			P Bharat
DB Jacob			G Nayak
DRP Chopra			KF James
MW de Silva			DK Rai
SE Fuller			DP Tucker
CB Benjamin			GN Nayak
TC Halsey			*JE Sanders
JJ McCrystal			NA Borcich
NS Pickup			RS Whitehead

The Seahawks came from behind to snatch a victory at Pickford, the first team to do so this year, as their aggressive batting paid dividends in the second innings. Pickford's six-pronged bowling attack simply could not threaten, as the Seahawks turned a 33-run first innings deficit into a win despite the heroic efforts of Callum Benjamin - redeeming himself for two costly dropped catches in the first hour, spilling Mørk in the first over while on four and Towns on 7. Mørk went on to make 17, before Bharat went in with the aim to hit every ball. She nearly managed - of her 31 balls faced, two hit the pad, two whisked past the outside edge, twenty-five were scoring shots, two were nicks to a vacant silly point, and one hit the bottom edge as Pickup had her caught. That, and the introduction of Benjamin, saw the Seahawks shot down to 145 from 112 for 2. Peter Young played his shots for a fine 56, yet two wickets from Borcich pegged the Panthers backed to 105 for 5 before Sean Fuller came in and put on runs - a total of 43 lifted the Panthers to 173 for 6, before Tucker and Borcich took them out for 178 - Borcich finishing with four for 39, while Rai bowled 13 maidens. Bharat (68 off 51) and Mørk (39 off 88) boosted the Panthers in the second innings, as the clouds cleared up and the Seahawks made it to 151 for 3 at lunch - hitting 146 in a session. The high run rate continued, Gary Nayak making 59, and though Benjamin took another wicket (Rai c Gould 19), he conceded 40 runs, as the Seahawks powered on to 332 - well helped by 53 from Tucker and 44 from Sanders. Borcich then showed a good display of swing, rapping the batters on the pads and having one wicket in a tight opening spell, but the Panthers made their way to 61 for 3 - before Gary Nayak and DK Rai took three wickets before stumps, and the Panthers were 86 for 5. Chopra was run out early, but in fine batting conditions Fuller and Benjamin thumped the 50 partnership in 13 overs, and the Panthers went to lunch with 201 for 7 - needing 99 to win. Borcich and Sanders opened up after lunch, and that turned out to be the key - Benjamin slogged to Towns for a run-a-ball 78, Halsey was caught at midwicket by a diving James, and Pickup gave a return catch to Sanders for 5 - leaving the Seahawks winners by a margin of 60 runs.

Seahawks 145 & 332 beat
Panthers 178 & 239 by 60 runs

Sorry for this being so late...I accidentally simmed a match with the wrong teams and got slightly frustrated...

 

[steds]

Sorry for this being so late...I accidentally simmed a match with the wrong teams and got slightly frustrated...

I did that with the latest Crusaders game...us winning 40-odd - 6 probably did wonders for our form, though

 

[Tom Halsey]

Bah.

 

[Hazza]

Well done darters!

One more thing, its H.G Warwick

 

[Neil Pickup]

Who prepared that pitch? They're fired. Teams shouldn't make three figures never mind three hundred...