St Clair Hawks

Match Report – Round 7

St Clair Under

V’s

St Marys Leagues

Date

12/11/05

Opponent

Batting Highlights

1.Owen De Silva 5 runs, Cameron Findley 1 run and 50 minutes at the crease.

2. Ben Pagett 2 runs,

3. Adam Gradidge, 1 run (first for year).

Bowling Highlights

1. Brett South, 6 overs, 2 maidens, 2 for 13.

2. Jayden Kostrubiec, 4 overs, 2 maidens, 0 for 3.

3. Owen De Silva, 2 overs, 1 for 5. Jalay Bell, 6 overs 2 for 30 and Ethan Willard, 3 overs for 9.

Award Winners:

Sam’s Pizza:	Owen De Silva, for his strong score of 5 runs (career high and team top score) and his great bowling of 2 overs, 1 for 5.
KFC:	Ethan Willard, for his greatly improved bowling over the past few weeks, his strong economy rate and his fantastic catch on the weekend.
McDonald’s:	Jalay Bell
Match Trophy:	Jalay Bell, for his enthusiasm, his excellent bowling returning 6-1-2-30, his two awesome caught and bowled and his general fielding.

Comments:

In our sixth match we played St Marys Leagues.

Brendan Ross was the captain for the day. We won the toss and put St Marys in to bat. St Marys won the match on first innings. The game was played in a spirit of great sportsmanship.

Our opening bowling was fast and damaging, with St Marys falling to 2-7 before recovering well. Brett South (6-2-2-13) bowled fast and accurately, as did Jalay Bell (6-1-2-30) Jalay’s two wickets came from two great return catches. Ethan Willard (3-0-0-9) again performed well as an opening bowler and Jayden Kostrubiec (4-2-0-3) was difficult to hit away. Ben Pagett (4-0-0-16) continued his improved bowling, Brendan Ross (3-0-0-13) was his usual reliable self and Owen De Silva (2-0-1-5) and Adam Gradidge (2-0-0-8) bowled their best all year. Hasan Kemal (2-0-1-19) picked up another wicket and the team was well supported by Michael Lovegrove (2-0-0-9) and Cameron Findley (2-0-0-12). Our early fielding was great and enthusiastic, with catches to Adam and Ethan and a run out from a return throw from Hasan to Ben at wiccie. St Marys last wicket stand of 42 really took the game away from us and it was not helped that our intensity in bowling and fielding fell right away after the drinks break. Our sundries total of 63, in St Marys total run score of 7-142 from 36 overs, was a reversal of our good work the week before. St Marys hard hitting down the leg side was a lesson for our team to follow.

Our batting, with few exceptions, was possibly the worst we have done all year. Nine of our team were bowled, after we all agreed that protecting our stumps was important and I asked each batsman to the crease to play straight when the ball was on the stumps. Worse, most of the wickets were lost to cross-bat shots that were rash and unnecessary.

Ben Pagett (2 runs) and Brendan Ross (1 run) opened. Cameron Findley came to the wicket with out team at 4 for 7 from 8 overs and I asked him to stay in at any cost, to stop any chance of a follow-on. Cameron did this admirably, only scoring 1 run but staying in for 50 minutes before falling to a great ball. Owen De Silva (5 runs) came in late and hit the ball hard and Adam Gradidge (1 run) scored his first run for the year. We were eventually all out for 38 from 24 overs, with only 11 runs off the bat.

To improve our results we really need to concentrate on our batting and protecting our stumps, with too many of our players being bowled while playing wild cross bat shots. We also need to move our feet to get into position and hit leg side balls hard towards the boundary. Our bowlers need to stick to what they are good at, with no switching between pace and spin, over and around the wicket bowling. We will be introducing the concept of outswingers this week to improve bowling variation.