Wrapup of yesterday's games
Schmaltzberg beat TMO by 7 wickets
TMO would have fancied their chances when Armand Bernstein was run out at 60 for 3, but from then on, it was way too sloppy from the Orangutans. Tyagi failed to back up his good fifty with a bowling performance and Matt Passmore gave up way too many freebies.
Key player watch:
Shanuka Kurusumuttu (Schmaltzberg), 77 not out, was there at the end of a comfortable chase, full marks, 10/10
Alonso Kock (TMO), 24 runs and 4-0-16-0 - not outstanding but put a platform up which the other players failed to build onto, 6/10
Moooo (10) beat ***** CC by 39 runs
Despite a spirited fightback from Tim Chester, determined to revenge his horrific bowling performance, ***** just had no way to come back from 90 for 6 chasing 223. Earlier, Meyiwa and Tauseef had put up a strong platform, while Jigar Chengelpet put up one of the most destructive performances of the day to post what was in the end an unassailable target. Upset of the round, though the rankings suggest Moooo's away win 11 weeks ago was even better.
Key player watch:
Shanuka Veenstra (Moooo), 21 off 19 balls, 4-0-22-0 - got out at a bad time and wasn't particularly threatening with the ball, 4/10
Sampath Ramalingam (*CC), 0 off 2 balls, 8-0-46-3, eventually got the rampaging Chengelpet but a bit expensive in the middle orders, nothing deducted for getting out on the slog in desperation, 7/10
GG CC beat Free HK by 5 wickets
An incredible performance by GG's medium pacers on FHK's dry ground; once Agnes Chow gave her wicket away to Sutherland's innocuous floater outside off the wheels came off for the league leaders. Despite quite a few wobbles, GG managed to get to the target of 114 in enough time to pick a bonus point and open up a gap to the chasing pack from 6th to 10th.
Key player watch: Tony Chung (FHK), run out for 5, incredible call to run two on a prod down to midwicket, 0/10
Bram Human (GG), 11 off 22 balls, nothing particularly special but saw out nine overs and the batsmen had chopped off two fifths of the target when he got out, 4/10
Odds: FHK 1.15, GG 5.50
Dynamo Morpork beat Winton by 8 wickets
Professional performance by Morpork, first restricting Winton's batsmen with accurate, niggling bowling in the first 30 overs - bit of tap towards the end but it only showed that the pitch was very playable, which Marita and Van Heerdens proved with their mammoth 131 stand to seal a comfortable eight-wicket win to take over the league lead.
Key players watch:
Adam Simons (Winton), 6-1-20-0, on target and miserly but Winton needed wickets if they wanted to defend their tally, 6/10
Menno Fouche jr. (Morpork), 3 off 5 balls and two innocuous overs, got called back for a not makeable second by Hughes, 4/10
Jura CC beat Honest Hunks by 116 runs
Jura can post massive totals when they get going and that's exactly what happened here, a brutal assault from Pickering, Zikhungwini and Simon Brooks, the man of the match. Alllrounder Tariq Sajjad and wicketkeeper Dipesh Mehra put up some resistance, but with no team contributions it was a drubbing.
Key player watch:
Nalin Mittur (Hunks), bowled for 9 after having helped accelerate, four expensive overs, 3/10
Tinozivaishe Zikhungwini (Jura), 82 off 79, set an excellent platform for the final total of 265/8, one point deducted for getting out to innocuous spin, 9/10
ataraXIa beat Ashgrove Astronauts by 6 wickets
ataraXIa arrested their slide with a very disciplined bowling performance, reducing Ashgrove from 100 for one in the 23rd over to a meagre total of 143. There was some brief hope for the visitors when Murray Crichton had Winton bowled to take out the fourth ataraXIa wicket, but a solid partnership from Simmonds and Murdoch saw the hosts home easily, though without a bonus point.
Key player watch:
Frans Potgieter (ataraXIa), 8-1-21-1, kept things tight against the top order and forced them to do adventurous stuff against the other bowlers, didn't need to bat, 8/10
Daniel Bennett (Ashgrove), run out on a direct hit to precipitate the collapse but top scored with a fifty, 7/10
Players of the round:
3* Jigar Chengelpet (Moooo)
2* Simon Brooks (Jura)
1* Liam Kotze (ataraXIa)
