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| Match Details |
| Round |
Round 12 |
| Opposition |
Ashfield CC - Green |
| Date |
12-Jan-2019 |
| Ground |
Centenary Park |
| Match Summary |
| Result |
WIN on 1st innings by 82 runs |
| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
7 wickets, 161 runs
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| Ashfield CC - Green 1st innings |
all out, 79 runs
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| Match Report |
We won the toss and elected to bat. A good start but it’s a bad day of cricket when it comes down to Kitty and Kimba bowling in tandem to save a match though.
The game started without a captain, again, so we throw in Kitty. He sent in Bobo and Jeff to open. Bobo took his time to settle in taking 17 balls to get off the mark, he shouldn’t have bothered, 3 and he was out. After 10 overs we were just 20 runs. Then Luke came to the crease. The combined age of Luke and Jeff being less than the next youngest player. They steadied the ship and while the score was only 57 at drinks we were just 1 wicket down. The grass in the outfield was quite long and there was no value for batsmen and we were looking at a reasonably low score to defend. Luke obviously fired up on watermelon and double chocolate chip muffins at drinks took to the bowling and score a few boundaries including a 6 to get the score ticking over. The 5 overs after drinks added 29. Jeff departed to a horrendous LBW decision and Luke was caught 2 runs later with a game high of 39. V came and went cheaply, not used to the rough outfield and dodgy pitch, much preferring the neatly trimmed grass and the well prepared wickets of the SCG which was the last ground he had stepped onto.
Now it was up to Gilly and debutant Kieran to make a decent score of it. Not looking likely given the most popular score for a debutant being a duck. But away went the score with Kieran also putting on a quick 39 to also finish on a game high score. Kitty more known and as a bowler these days came to the crease after a training camp at Port Macquarie where his brothers tested him with short pitch bowling, and the first two balls were short and he despatched both of these to the fence. Finished the day 24 unbeaten. Kieran fell on the penultimate ball in a way which confused the umpires. He slashed hard a ball about waist high and got a slight edge on it which was caught by the keeper but the bat flew about 20 yards. Now if his hand wasn’t on the bat at the time it nicked the ball was he out? Then confusion reigned supreme on the bench with regard who should come in. Hugh lost and out he went for 1 ball. Hit the ball straight back to the bowler and Kitty called him through for a run. Run out for a golden duck, Kitty was put on the esky and judged by his peers and found guilty of a vicious run out.
In the end a tidy score of 161 but you could take your pick of scores from the score book. We even ended up with 36 overs entered in the scorebook. The CFO was happy with the scorers.
It was now up to to our bowlers to the defend this score. No Chopper to open the bowling, apparently he had a date he couldn’t break. Our captain might have deserted us as we haven’t seen him since early December. So we had to use Luke, a boy, to do and old mans work and open with V.
We got off to a good start with 5 maidens (though the running tally has a score of 2 runs after 5 overs) but you know how sometimes the start doesn’t quite match the finish. Remember Kitty and Kimba are bowling at the end.
V drops a catch of his own bowling, judged a Dolly by his adoring public. Saviour drops one which he should have defended more strongly in the fines session. He technically didn’t get a hand to it with the bruise showing quite clearly it hit him on the inside of the elbow. One is dropped in the slips cordon, Jeff drops a difficult one. Hugh has obviously had enough of these drops and in an attempt to stop the rot calls Jeopardy, and then drops one himself the next over.
Gilly decided to show the young fellas how us old blokes go in the field and tore a hamstring and retired to slips.
Finally - the debutant takes a catch to get us back on track. A reasonable catch, you know the standard one where you run around the boundary for 20 metres make a desperate final dive to reach the ball ending up on your knees and take it low down doing a couple of commando rolls in the process. The sort of thing we all do on a regular basis.
The catch of the day though was off Tony’s bowling. Tony throws one of those pies, which only Tony can do, short down leg side with no moment in the air or off the pitch and the batsmen’s eyes open wide and he thinks it’s Christmas again. The ball goes like a tracer bullet, while only getting about 6 feet off the ground it was going at such a pace it would have easily cleared the ropes for a maximum. The only thing to stop it going for 6 was Kimba at a shortish square leg. Never in doubt, the catch is taken and shows the other how it’s done (That’s how I saw it, others may have a different view). The record book will show Tony took the wicket but all credit should go to the bowler at the other end who was putting the batsmen under enormous pressure, which was Kitty!
With things coming to a close in the match and the captain in an act of desperation drags Tony, pretty harsh considering he took 2 wickets in his previous over. This had the known wicket takers of the side Kitty and Kimba bowling in tandem and hoping for a miracle. While Kimba looked dangerous and it was only a matter of time before he took a wicket Kitty snared a wicket first. Kitty has not taken a wicket since Round 1 2007/08. A gap of 161 games* between wickets. Not relying on the Gypsies catching he cleaned bowled him, top of off stump - under bowled.
With Kitty’s wicket they were all out for 79 (29 ov) and the Gypsies win by 82 runs.
Luke’s game high of 39 could be considered a fail given his recent form and his average for the season has plummeted to 47.3 just a smidge in front of Kitty with 46.5 but our current leader of the batting average is Jeff with 62.0
Bobo leads the aggregate with 197 despite 4 single figure scores in a row.
V and Chopper are now equal on most wickets taken with Daryl in 3rd and Saviour and Hollywood tied on 4th.
As is right the Captain still remains the most fined player this season. The CFO is happy with our 2nd highest fines session of the season in round 12.
Date votes are now secret but Ganesh takes the title for worst voting card ever submitted which is a big effort considering Matt’s voting record.
The bowling figures on the day look reasonable.
Ov mdn wkt runs Avg Econ
V 6 3 2 9 4.50 1.50
Luke 5 2 2 5 2.50 1.00
Jeff 6 0 0 12 2.00
Saviour 6 6 3 17 5.67 2.83
Hollywood 2 0 2 12 6.00 6.00
Kitty 3 0 1 13 13.00 4.33
Kimba 1 0 0 5 5.00
* 161 appearances by the Gypsies, of which he played 80. Bobo took a wicket in Rnd 3 this year a gap of 256 appearances by the Gypsies but he only played 36 of those. 36 is nothing special, Kimba is on a string of 36 games without a wicket.
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| Kurrajong Gypsies 1st innings |
| Biboudis, John |
3 |
| Badrous, Jeffrey |
19 |
| Opacic, Luke |
39 |
| Singh, Varinder |
3 |
| Gill, Anthony |
10 |
| McDonald, Kieran |
39 |
| Fenton-Smith, Will |
24* |
| Ross, Hugh |
0 |
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| Ashfield CC - Green 1st innings |
| Singh, Varinder |
5 overs, 1 for 9 |
| Opacic, Luke |
5 overs, 2 for 5 |
| Badrous, Jeffrey |
6 overs, 0 for 12 |
| Cohen, Nathan |
6 overs, 3 for 17 |
| Masters, Tony |
2 overs, 2 for 12 |
| Fenton-Smith, Will |
3 overs, 1 for 13 |
| Casey, Glenn |
1 overs, 0 for 5 |
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