St
Clair Hawks
Match Report – Round 11
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St
Clair Under |
11 |
V’s |
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Date
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Opponent |
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Batting
Highlights
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1.Brett South, 17 runs. |
2.
Brendan Ross 3 runs. |
3.
Ben Pagett,
2 runs. |
Bowling
Highlights
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1.
Jalay Bell, 5 overs, 2 for 19. |
2. Jayden Kostrubiec, 5 overs, 1 maiden,
1 for 14. |
3.
Brett South, 5 overs, 1 for 15. |
Award
Winners:
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Sam’s
Pizza: |
Michael Lovegrove, for
his strong captaincy, great bowling returning 2 overs,
1 for 10, his strong wicketkeeping and his general
enthusiasm. |
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KFC: |
Adam Gradidge, for his best ever bowling of 2 overs 0 for 9, his improved fielding and improving
batting. |
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McDonald’s: |
Brendan Ross |
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Match
Trophy: |
Brendan Ross, for his consistently great effort
in every game and his strong bowling returning 4 overs
for 16 runs and his fantastic batting performance where he nearly carried his
bat and scored three runs. |
Comments:
This weekend we played
Glenmore Park Red. Michael Lovegrove was the captain for the day. We won the toss and elected to bowl on a wet
track. Glenmore Park Red won the match
on first innings, after a much improved showing by our team from their previous
game against the Reds.
Against easily the best team in the competition, our bowlers performed
extremely well and our fielding was enthusiastic, although we continue to drop
too many catches to be competitive.
Our bowlers performed well, with Jalay Bell (5-0-2-19) and Brett South (5-0-1-15) opened the bowling strongly. Ethan
Willard (4-0-0-14) backed up the
openers well and Jayden Kostrubiec (5-1-1-14) bowled a dangerous line and length. Michael
Lovegrove (2-0-1-10) continues to bowl excellently in the middle order while Cameron Findley (2-0-0-9) and Adam Gradidge (2-0-0-9) returned their best bowling figures
ever. Brendan Ross (4-1-0-16) bowled
strongly and was unlucky not to take a wicket and Ben Pagett (3-0-0-15) bowled accurately after his stint as wicketkeeper. Owen
De Silva (2-0-0-12) and Hasan Kemal (2-0-0-18) both supported the team well in their
bowling. From 36 overs,
Our batting was patchy, but we stayed in for 30 overs
against a top line bowling team, scoring all out for 42. Special mention goes to Brendan Ross (3 runs), who, aside from having retired hurt early
in his innings, stayed in for the entire innings and was the last batsman
out. Ben Pagett (2 runs) looked comfortable until he was bowled. Brett
South (17 runs) batted
strongly and looked at ease until he was run out by a brilliant piece of
fielding, one of two runouts against us. These were the only players to score runs,
although Jayden Kostrubiec stayed in for 9 minutes, Adam Gradidge for 10 minutes and Cameron Findley for 17
minutes.
We are still playing too many cross bat shots and that is reflected in
the number of players we had out bowled. We need to defend our wickets
better. We also need to hit the ball
into the gaps and take runs when they are on offer, and to move our feet when
we play the ball. Too many of us are
standing still and swinging wildly at balls on the stumps and by not scoring runs, we are allowing the other team to move their fielders
in close. Our catching and general
fielding is still poor and needs practice, although we are improving. We must learn to WALK IN with the bowler, to
have us moving when the ball comes our way.
Our enthusiasm was great this week and it was good to hear players
backing each other. It was also good to
see players moving themselves into position and not waiting for the coach to
make the call. Even the