West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 12 day 1

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Feb 252018
 

Prospect won the toss and batted in overcast and still slightly humid conditions that would remain bowler-friendly until some late afternoon sunshine.

 

The continuing absence of Elliot Opie and David Grant after a mid-week Toyota Futures League match, as well as of Dan Worrall on Redbacks Shield duties, meant more opportunities for Cameron Fatchen and Nick Palmer in support of season-leading wicket taker Scott Aufderheide.

 

Fatchen (pictured) had a day out, taking Prospect’s first three wickets on his way to 5/48. Also not out with the bat at stumps, his form would even carry over to early rounds of the club’s fundraising bingo night that followed and might have yielded even stronger returns but for a penalised late claim without all finer bingo details having been explained. While he’s yet to forgive the number 22, Fatch’s minor transgression quickly paled in comparison to club president Grant Chapman’s serial bingo confusion.

 

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A wicket to Palmer (1/31) and two to Aufderheide (3/31) saw the visitors adjourning to an unsavoury lunch score of 6/69. Prospect further collapsed to 9/95 upon a Lloyd Pope (1/19) wicket half an hour after the resumption but Lachlan Blunden (47no) and Krutarth Suthar (23) managed to compile 46 for the last for a total of 141.

 

In reply, our batsmen appeared to find Prospect openers Isaac Boylan (5/68) and William Daniel (2/42) a handful, Kensington sliding to 3/11 and 5/53 before Alex Ross (62) found support from Jake Brown (23 towards a fourth-wicket partnership of 38) and Euan Fletcher (28no, 24 of them as part of a stand of 69 with Ross for the sixth). It all means Kensington will next Saturday resume on 7/135, just seven runs short of first-innings points that would see a likely push for more.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 11 day 2

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Feb 182018
 

An eventful day’s cricket at Henley & Grange Memorial Oval has seen Kensington secure first-innings points against West Torrens but narrowly fall short of an outright win while also narrowly avoiding an outright loss.

 

The start of play saw English pair Adam Hose and Robbie White at the crease, in their last appearances for us before resuming county pursuits, as we resumed just 26 runs behind the home side’s first innings 153 and with six wickets in hand. Tidy bowling, however, saw us take an hour to achieve the target – by just three wickets – thanks largely to Hose (79no), who remained composed as three more wickets fell at the other end. A fourth, to an impressive run-out, saw skipper Jake Brown declare a ball earlier than would otherwise have been the case.

 

As we looked to dismiss West Torrens for a second time to set up the game, we were already missing Redbacks opening bowler Dan Worrall on Shield duties but on day two were additionally again missing Elliot Opie and David Grant, due to more approaching Toyota Futures League commitments, Cam Fatchen and Nick Palmer their mid-game replacements. Our attack impressively did the job all the same.

 

Scott Aufderheide (3/38) led the way with two early wickets, including one in the opening over secured with a Hugh Cranendonk catch despite calls to the contrary and a collision with Palmer in the process but thankfully without apparent injury. Brown (2/19) and Palmer (2/31) chipped in with two wickets each before Lloyd Pope again efficiently cleaning up the tail, a peach of a wrong’un putting him on a hat trick which the home side’s number 11 narrowly evaded before falling a matter of balls later.

 

West Torrens’ dismissal for 136 inside 41 overs set the Browns a victory target of 135 off 40 but Ben Williams (7/43) put the home team in contention, just as Jake Brown (72no) – pictured bringing up his 50 with a six – singlehandedly kept the visitors in the frame and all four results remained possible into the final over.

 

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We slumped along the way to 4/37, 7/70 and 8/85, Fatchen and Aufderheide offering some late support as Brown kept us on course. The fall of our ninth wicket and Pope’s judicious leave of the one ball he faced left Brown on strike for the final over and needing 13 for maximum points. He swung but managed a six on only the fourth ball before a two on the last ultimately left us five shy of the target and both sides narrowly denied.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 11 day 1

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Feb 112018
 

Kensington are well-placed to claim first-innings points and potentially push for more, after dominating day one with ball and bat away to West Torrens.

 

Jake Brown elected to bowl in humidly warm and overcast conditions that saw the start of play at Henley & Grange slightly delayed by passing precipitation, some early time passed with debate over the point at which heavy spitting had become a shower had become rain.

 

Even with Dan Worrall on Redbacks duties, along with batsmen John Dalton and Alex Ross – Ross at last also rewarded for some consistently strong form – we fielded the strong fast-medium attack of Elliot Opie (2/39), David Grant (2/43), Scott Aufderheide (2/42) and Brown (1/11), supported by legspinner Lloyd Pope (3/16) playing his first game for us this calendar year and since his Under 19 World Cup exploits earned him enough global notice for the coveted social-media verification of a blue tick on his Instagram account.

 

All Browns bowlers looked sharp as the home side crawled to 2/61 off 26 overs to lunch. Slip and keeper catches off Opie and Aufderheide in the second, third and fourth overs after the break had the Western Eagles battling at 5/76. Grant then took wickets on ball one of his second spell’s both first and second overs, while Pope (pictured) brought a swift end to the innings and a slightly early tea by dismissing Nick Crouch (a run-a-ball 47) and two tail-enders in his sixth, seventh and eighth overs – that the last was an lbw decision was only slightly disappointing following a rare innings run of nine ‘caught’ dismissals, even with a couple of sharp chances not taken, West Torrens all out for 153.

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With fully 46 overs to be faced, a long final session loomed and was to last just more than three hours. Openers Hugh Cranendonk and Henry Dall fell, in consecutive overs, with the score at 27. Adam Hose (62no) and Jake Brown (29) then had us looking at the possibility of first-day points, before wickets either side of the second drinks break had us ultimately settling just 27 shy at the close of play at 4/127. 

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 10 day 2

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Feb 042018
 

Not losing a wicket in a day’s play will help win you most games of cricket and this is exactly what occurred on a glorious Saturday at Parkinson Oval.

 

Alex Ross came into the side, replacing debutant Sam Rahaley, for his first match with us since late November and some strong BBL performances with the Brisbane Heat but spent the day padded up to be next in, needing to get up only each time a piercing alarm in the adjacent Burnside rugby clubhouse inexplicably went off – three times.

 

Skipper Jake Brown (106no off 153 balls) hit the first three boundaries of the day but Englishman Adam Hose (175no off 200 balls) then began to score more freely and impose himself on the game with the innings we’d known he was capable of producing. Including two boundaries the previous Saturday while with nightwatchman Elliot Opie before his dismissal late in the day, Hose’s innings featured 22 fours and 4 sixes, while Brown hit 12 fours and a six, as they compiled a staggering and near-chanceless unbeaten partnership of 284 over the course of 57.1 overs.

 

Session by session, the pair compiled 97 off the 28 overs before lunch, 145 off the 24 overs between lunch and tea – including a rapid 96 off 10.5 punished overs after the drinks break, which had been taken early while one of several ball searches took place in and around the creek at the southern end – and 40 in just four overs after tea.

 

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Hose brought up his 100 off 148 balls in 192 minutes and his 150 off 189 balls in 245 minutes, while Brown – pictured being congratulated by Hose – reached his 100 off 150 balls in 237 minutes, shortly before Hose scored the boundary that took the Browns to 3/304 and past Southern District’s 10/301 for a win that had looked unlikely at 3/20 let alone with all seven wickets from day two’s start of play still intact.

 

 

 

 

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 10 day 1

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Jan 292018
 

Kensington trail Southern District by 279 runs with seven first-innings wickets in hand, after a long hot Saturday of toil on Parkinson Oval perhaps highlighted even before play’s commencement by the debut of our youngest-ever A or 1st Grade player.

 Fresh from a 2nd Grade century on his last day as a 14-year-old, Sam Rahaley has made his debut at 15 years and six days – he received his cap from club great Andrew Rumbelow and has managed his debut a month earlier than our previous youngest and now Geelong Cats footballer George Horlin-Smith.

 With back-to-back forecasts of 42C either side of a Saturday night ‘low’ of 27C, the start of play had been brought forward to 10am but, even with the dodged bullet of Sunday’s 44.1 to be recorded at Kent Town, Saturday’s 39.6 was challenging enough on a day that would see play still lasting fully until 5.53pm.

 Southerns captain Josh Barrett elected to bat on a wicket green enough to offer some assistance to the bowlers but was one half of a first-time pairing (Shaun Tanner 54 and Barrett 47) that put on 93 for their team’s best opening stand of the season, aggressively riding their luck along the way with a number of half chances falling just short or wide of fielders, before home skipper Jake Brown bowled Tanner for the much-needed breakthrough. A second wicket, to David Grant (1/77) just before the interval saw the visitors lunching at 2/118. A post-interval collapse of 4/12 left them 6/180 before David Sboro (48) partnered Matthew Sugg (40) and then Huw Stone to add 63 and 52 for the 7th and 8th wickets as Southerns reached 301.

 Three Browns bowlers finished with three wickets apiece for their efforts – Elliot Opie 3/65 off 21, Scott Aufderheide 3/45 and Brown 3/69 again with a mix of fast medium and orthodox spin in the continuing absence of Lloyd Pope, newly world-famous after his record 8/35 off 9.4 eye-catching overs steered the Australian Under 19s to an astonishing World Cup quarter-final win over England. With Alex Ross and Dan Worrall returning this Saturday from KFC BBL duties, Rahaley will be replaced and won’t manage a bat in his debut game but did roll the arm over for two overs – a delivery from his first is pictured – shortly before the second new ball was taken.

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 With an awkward six overs to face before stumps, Kensington managed to lose both opening bats bowled shouldering arms, as well as nightwatchman Opie who’d found himself facing the second ball of the innings. Kensington are 3/22 with Adam Hose (11no) and Brown (1no) to resume this Saturday.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 9 day 2

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Jan 212018
 

Tea Tree Gully’s batting depth and a failure to apply bowling pressure consistently for long enough in defence of a sub-par total proved too much for Kensington to manage a much-needed away win over the ladder leaders at Pertaringa Oval.

 The Browns resumed at 8/202 but with David Grant (15 not out) unable to continue his innings and neither he nor innings principal salvager Elliot Opie (83) on hand to bowl, due to approaching Toyota Futures League state commitments in Fremantle, Nick Palmer and Cameron Fatchen their respective incoming replacements.

 Just eight runs were added, Lucas Froude six of them to reach 64 not out, as the innings lasted only a further 3.4 overs, moments short of any being witnessed by the team’s late-arriving and duly fined scorer Anthony ‘Buck’ Rogers who was evidently victim to a village alarm-programming error (AM ≠ PM) combined with the half-hour earlier start, distant away venue and some very sleep-accommodating air conditioning on another scorcher as the mercury rose from a ‘low’ of 23.7 to reach 38.5 at West Terrace/ngayirdapira.

 Defending just 210, our bowlers were up and about in the session to lunch – Fatchen, skipper Jake Brown (2/27, one each with fast medium and slow orthodox) and Palmer each grabbing an early wicket before Scott Aufderheide (2/57) removed both set batsmen immediately before the interval to see the Gullies 5/100 and the Browns still in the game.

 The home side would lose just one wicket in the second session, however, and another just three runs shy of victory, as the pitch flattened and skipper Matthew Weaver (49) all but saw his side home before a Brad Evans six clinched the result half an hour after the tea break.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 9 day 1

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Jan 142018
 

Elliot Opie and Lucas Froude have engineered one of Kensington’s more significant innings recoveries, steering the Browns towards a defensible total from what had been a ruinous start.

As gathering weather threatened some favourable conditions for bowling on a green-top, Tea Tree Gully captain Matthew Weaver elected to field before sweeping showers, heavy at times, delayed the start by more than two hours and saw an early lunch taken. Players stayed sharp with a solid session of P-I-G circle kicking, making use of a verandah area to inject a degree of rebound difficulty. 

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Wind and emerging sunshine saw Pertaringa Oval fit for play from 1.15pm but opening bowler Ben Atkinson proved an immediate handful from the northern top end – he clai

med the first seven wickets in a 12-over spell of 7/23, as slip catches and lbw and bat-pad decisions saw the Browns slide to 7/39 before Opie (83) joined Froude (58no) for some methodical rescue. The pair each posted their highest 1st Grade score as they compiled 138 for the ninth wicket, first negotiating the hour to tea (7/59) after which Opie and later Froude scored increasingly freely.

 Joshua Macey’s lbw dismissal of Opie, also from the northern end, has removed any chance of Atkinson joining the select few to have taken 10 wickets in innings. Froude and David Grant (15no) safely navigated the closing overs to 6.55pm stumps at 8/202. Play will resume half an hour early this Saturday to make up remaining overs lost to the weather.

Saturday’s play capped a remarkable week for the Browns and some of its leading players – Lloyd Pope was in the starting XI for the Australia Under 19s World Cup warm-up win in New Zealand over Sri Lanka, John Dalton and David Grant both featured for a Cricket Australia XI in a warm-up win for the touring England one-day side in Sydney, Dan Worrall took 2/25 in his season-first BBL hit-out for the Melbourne Stars and Alex Ross scored 27 off 19 for the Brisbane Heat before being controversially dismissed for obstructing for the field when even non-geometers could have reasonably concluded he’d avoided injury and wilfully obstructed nobody.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 7 full report

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Dec 262017
 

The Browns have wrapped up first innings points on day one and set up the chance of an outright win next Saturday, in an eventful day that saw 22 wickets fall for 310 runs.

Skipper Jake Brown sent Northern Districts in to bat on a wicket promising some assistance for the bowlers – supported by some good catching in slips and elsewhere, the bowlers capitalised to see the home team 4/35 after the first hour, 6/75 at lunch and all out for 92 just 30 minutes after the break. New-ballers Elliot Opie (3/23) and Scott Aufderheide (4/29) led the way. Nick Palmer snared 2/12 after battling his way to Salisbury Oval, helped by a phone call to his dad after the only apparent local he’d felt comfortable asking for directions, a BMW driver, turned out to be similarly out-of-area and lost.

We did make a shaky start to the run chase. Being rattled by the demoralising day unfolding at the WACA for their national side presumably doing nothing to help, both of our Poms were back in the sheds inside of the first over and before a run had been posted. John Dalton (34) and Hugh Cranendonk (22) steadied things but there was still work to do when Dalts was dismissed at 6/76. The seventh fell at 86 but Sam Williams (16) and Palmer saw the win secured with three in hand.

The dismissal of Williams triggered an entertaining apparent battle for deserving ownership of the number 9 position between Palmer (43 off 40) and Daniel Burns (28 off 23 including four sixes off one Cameron Williams over). The eventual total of 171 meant a 79-run lead with 18 overs to have a crack before stumps, Opie (2/14) making the inroads to have the home team two down and still 32 runs in arrears heading into day two.

Day 2, The Browns welcomed back David Grant, Henry Dall and Euan Fletcher from Strikers and SA Under 19s commitments, meaning Nick Palmer didn’t have to locate Salisbury Oval for a second time, together with two less directionally challenged teammates also dropping back to the Bs.

In 37C heat, Northerns resumed their second innings two down and 32 runs in arrears but Mark Cosgrove (is 69 off 69 balls a double date?) was looking dangerous and steering the home side to safer territory until his stumps were splayed by Elliot Opie (4/71), the first of four wickets before lunch. A Scott Aufderheide (2/24) wicket on the first ball after the break kept us on top towards seeing the home side all out for 189 within an hour of the resumption, Grant (3/40) the other multiple wicket taker and claiming the last.

Imperious batting from John Dalton (66 not out off 48 balls) meant the target of 111 was never going to be a problem. The wicket of Dall (29), right on the tea break, would be the only loss on the way to a nine-wicket most welcome outright win sealed with an Adam Hose (13 off 9) boundary.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 5

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Nov 272017
 
Day 1, Woodville won the toss and batted but the day looked promising early as Elliot Opie, back from Futures League duties, took two wickets in his fifth over including opposition skipper Harry Nielsen. Another to Aufderheide just before lunch saw the visitors 3/60 at the interval. A tougher second session had the score 5/172 – a Jake Brown wicket just before tea adding to Fatchen’s shortly after the drinks break. It took the second new ball, albeit the very first delivery of it, for Elliot Opie (3/55) to dismiss young Northern Territorian Jacob Dickman for 104 and grab his third LBW decision of the day. Despite the odd close call, we didn’t quite manage to put them away for a bat before stumps, with Woodville 9/280 and expected on Sunday to bat on.
 
Day 2, Woodville surprised by declaring on their overnight total of 9/280 to give their bowlers the maximum 96 overs but they ultimately needed just 58.2 in the grey overcast conditions.

With 4/95 at lunch, the scoring rate wasn’t an issue. We were looking more than half a chance for the first hour after the break, with Alex Ross (59) and Euan Fletcher (42) putting on 77 before their departures triggered a slide to 183 all out at the scheduled tea break.

Looking for positives and highlighting our strong youth contingent, four school leavers in the side having remained disciplined to miss two nights were able to make the earlier trip to Victor for the last night of Schoolies.

With two weekends off due to the Test and bye, our attention now returns to the Twenty20 comp and Tuesday’s local derby home match against Sturt.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 4

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Nov 132017
 

Day 1, With heavily overcast conditions offering some assistance to bowlers, the skipper got us off the right start by winning the toss and electing to bowl.  The match would ordinarily have started on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, so the teams and match officials lined up on the boundary to first observe a minute’s silence marking 99 years since the end of First World War hostilities.

All bowlers contributed and were supported in the field, as Glenelg were tied down and kept losing wickets. At 9/124 and with tea looking particularly early, Glenelg 16-year-old number 5 batsman Josh Hoffman decided to unleash, causing late damage to some of the bowling figures (Grant’s very tidy 4/47 became 4/80) and also a club window pane, struck hard on the full as he moved swiftly from 40 to 94. It fell to Euan Fletcher, again barely silent since the pre-match observance, to run out the Bays’ number 11 who’d contributed 2 to an 11th wicket stand of 56. Even so, 180 was a more than gettable target.

Skipper Jake Brown led an aggressive response, striking 44 off just 33 balls (6x4s and 1×6), and Alex Ross continues an outstanding run of Brown form reaching 62 not out off 51 balls (8x4s and 3x6s), opener Henry Dall a more circumspect 38 not out. When the umpires decided conditions had become too gloomy around 6.30pm, we were just 13 runs shy at 2/167 off just 33 of the 41 scheduled overs. To make up lost overs, play resumes 30 minutes earlier this Saturday at 10.30am.

Day 2,   The 10.30am scheduled start to make up for lost time the previous Saturday meant an even longer anxious wait to see if the centre square would dry enough from the week’s wet weather for us to get on the park for the 14 runs we still needed. Players variously took to the gaming console for some Call of Duty, had a stroll through a local par 3 golf course and in at least one instance possibly even ‘chilled’ with a close acquaintance before players were summonsed to be back at the ground for 3 o’clock. While there might have been no luck had it been left for Glenelg to be convinced, the umpires more importantly did decide that conditions were fit for play for ultimately a 4.30pm resumption. An Alex Ross boundary took him to 66 for a total of 383 runs in his last four two-day Kensington knocks @ 191.5. Euan Fletcher scored 3 off the only ball he faced and Henry Dall remained not out on 40, bringing up some boundary leg byes off the last ball of the day’s third over to secure the points with 7 wickets in hand. Job done, some points at last on the board in the main comp with another home game next round against Woodville next Saturday/Sunday.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 3

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Nov 062017
 
Port Adelaide defeated Kensington
Day 1, This week the A grade welcomed Euan Fletcher into the side for his debut game. A pleasure to see a young kid that has matured as a person and cricketer over a quick period of time get his opportunity.

Winning the toss and batting at Port Reserve we started quickly with Henry Dall and Jake Brown punishing some loose bowling. Henry uncharacteristically searched for one too many and nicked one which brought Adam Hose to the crease. Both imposing figures (literally.. I feel sorry for the seams on their whites, especially with a thigh pad in) at the crease Jake and Adam put on 95 before losing Adam for 53 just before lunch.

A 105 partnership then followed with Jake and Alex Ross both looking a class above as Port struggled to find an answer. It is always bittersweet having Alex play for us as we know hes missing out on selection higher but today he put together as composed an innings as we’ve seen from him in grade land. Having lost Jake for 77 Euan and Alex put on 50 odd as Euan looked composed and comfortable at A grade level. No other word for it… a collapse.. came after that. Browns all out 285, disappointing as 350+ was achievable an hour earlier. Alex Ross with 105.

Having 12 overs to bowl the skipper set the task of getting 2 wickets before the day finished. That target was done and dusted in 7 balls. Elliot Opie getting a wicket 2nd ball and Scott Aufderheide with his first. Jake then asked for 3 wickets… next over… done. The bowling was good there after with a few half shouts but Port remained further unscathed and the game placed delicately with Port 3/27. A special mention to Euan Fletcher with a catch at gully and talking more in the field on debut than some players have done in their career!

With Port Adelaide resuming on day two at 3/27 chasing our 285, we welcomed 20-year-old quick David Grant back into the attack from injury and in for Elliot Opie out ahead of Futures League duties. It was Grant who broke Port’s 111-run fourth-wicket stand for the first of his three wickets (3/54) as well as capitalising on Austin Umpherston’s serious bout of the Michael Slaters just before tea to see him run out for 99 attempting a quick single that was never there. The loss of Port’s topscorer had them teetering at 7/246 at tea, with the Magpies also up against some punishing unique chat in the field from Browns first-gamer Euan Fletcher. A Lloyd Pope wicket after tea brought to the crease Chemar Holder, who showed no sign of having faced anything like our promising leggie in his native Barbados but who somehow managed to avoid dismissal as Port reached the target with just two wickets in hand. As disappointing as it is to lose a game we were always in if not on top, our batters even with Ross’s 105 had ultimately left too many runs out in the late slide of the week before and will aim to bounce back from the slow season start against some traditional rivals to retain the competition’s least imaginatively titled prize, the Glenelg/Kensington Cup.

West End Men’s 1st Grade Round 2

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Oct 222017
 
The 1st Grade travelled to Cambelltown oval to face off against local rivals East Torrens CC.  The day started well with Captain Jake Brown winning the toss and electing to bat.  We got off to a poor start losing John Dalton and Adam Hose cheaply in the first 5 overs to be 2/15.  Unfortunately, wickets flowed steadily throughout our innings with the only real resistance coming from Henry Dall scoring 50 from 61 balls including 5 x 4’s and 2 x 6’s.  Lloyd Pope managed 14 not out from 17 balls to take our total to 10/125 from 33.2. Certainly not our best effort with the bat.
For us to get the win it was going to take an extra special effort with the ball and in the field! We started well with Elliot Opie removing the dangerous Luke Robins in the 3rd over and Nick Palmer following up with a wicket 3 overs later.  Jake Brown then picked up back to back wickets to have East Torrens struggling at 4/40.  A partnership from East Torrens then took the score to 4/100, 2 quick wickets left a glimmer of hope but East Torrens passed our score 6 wickets down in the 40th over.  All the bowlers contributed well, Elliot Opie 1/39 (10), Nick Palmer 3/23 (8.2) and Jake Brown 2/17 (7) but in reality 125 was never going to be enough runs.
 
It has been a tough start for the 1st Grade with 2 poor results but with plenty of hard work and a change of format to red ball cricket this week no doubt our fortunes will change.

1ST Grade This Week

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Dec 152016
 
Hi All,

With both 2nd grade teams not able to make the Grand Final, the 1st Grade stand alone this week. A tough weekend last week as both 2nd Grade teams battled a lack of numbers. Both had only 7 for the 1st game with the 2nd game no better. Unfortunately the lack of numbers told with the Browns losing in the 19th Over against Northern with only 7 players. Interestingly only a month ago we loaned Northern's fielders when they were short in the 40 Over game. No reciprocation last week.

1ST Grade V Southern Districts at Park 25 #3 on SATURDAY 17TH DECEMBER. Game starts at 11:50. Ready for warm ups by 11:00. Southern Districts are the home team.

Amy Wiseman (C), Jordan Doecke, Rachel Church, Kelly Armstrong, Hannah Armstrong, Eliza Doddridge, Sarah J Jameson, Emily Jones, Shae Daly, Sophi-Rose Green, Maeve Edwards

CONGRATULATIONS to Maeve Edwards and Sophi-Rose Green on their 1st Grade debuts this week. We wish you both well. Good Luck

Ditts, Andy and Kevin