Match Details
Round Round 6
Opposition Iron Cove Tigers
Date 10-Nov-2018
Ground Timbrell Park 1


Match Summary
Result WIN on 1st innings by 59 runs
Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings 9 wickets, 176 runs
Iron Cove Tigers 1st innings all out, 117 runs


Match Report
Questions are being asked of the selectors



The biggest question for the selectors is whether WFS can make it back into the side. He’s played in 2 games both of which were losses and after he benched himself to have a good hard look at himself the Gypsies put together back to back wins.



The biggest issue for WFS is the form of his replacement keepers. Bobo is on fire with the bat again this year and is averaging 59.0 and doing an excellent job of keeping. This level of performance has not been seen in cricket since the injection of Adam Gilchrest onto the international scene. Bobo is ably assisted in the wicket keeping duties by Daryl who is revelling in the roll of wicketkeeper/bowler. In round 5 he takes career best figures of 3/10 which didn’t last long following up with 3/8 this week. On the minus side he has been fined twice for hattrick avoidance.



While keeping this week Daryl took a screamer behind the stumps. The batsman swung hard got an outside edge and it flew towards 1st slip and Daryl casually stuck a glove out and catches the ball one handed after it had gone past him. Doesn’t hurt it was off the captains bowling which should earn him that vote on the selection panel. Some said Hugh had it at 1st slip, others said it was travelling so fast it would have knocked his teeth out. Whatever he was fined for catch avoidance as it was going straight to him. All at the ground agreed that was the best catch taken by a Gypsy since… the over before when Hugh took a screamer at 1st slip or even the previous week when Hugh took an excellent catch in the outfield. The judges for catch of the year are already faced with a difficult task to separate these three catches.



The only thing that might save WFS and give him a spot in the side is the fact the Gyspies are forever struggling to get 11 players. Maybe WFS might be selected but not as a keeper. The thought of WFS patrolling the boundary might bring back the crowds, who has ever seen him anywhere but behind the stumps.



The Gyspies inning was marred by just 3 run outs, so we can see our running between wickets has improved. Saviour has been schooled by the Pakistan coach in the off season and stopped mid pitch for a conference for a ball which didn’t reach the boundary. Lucky not to be another run out on this ball. The guy who put the cones out was fined for run avoidance because on any other day that was a four.

V only lasted about 2 over at the crease and Iron Cove celebrated long and hard dismissing him so quickly for just 62 runs. Bobo 38 and Cilla 16 scored runs and the rest of the team were just content with running themselves or their partner out. Sundries 29 being the 3rd highest scorer.



A couple of early wickets for our bowlers who were well supported by the field and then the Iron Cove captain made the tactical blunder of putting the two young (13/14yo) debutantes together at the crease. Our experience shows this doesn’t work, they don’t get out the just block anything line and length and go very slowly. The bowlers knew this and that’s what they did, line and length. The game slipped away from Iron Cove when they had a partnership of 15 in 11 overs. The mistake was getting them out, the next guy in took to us for 52 runs. The most impressive part was his 3 sixes even though the cones had been strategically placed in the next suburb to prevent such a thing.

Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings
Bradley, Steve 16
Biboudis, John 38
Singh, Varinder 62
Tan, Daryl 2
Gilroy, Rodney 13
Fernandes, Roshan 4
Shanahan, Jim 3
Cohen, Nathan 6
Masters, Tony 0*
Iron Cove Tigers 1st innings
Singh, Varinder 7 overs, 3 for 21
Shanahan, Jim 7 overs, 2 for 10
Masters, Tony 4 overs, 0 for 26
Cohen, Nathan 4 overs, 0 for 13
Ross, Hugh 6 overs, 0 for 17
Fernandes, Roshan 3 overs, 1 for 18
Tan, Daryl 2.5 overs, 3 for 8