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*Official* Season XII Results and Discussion Thread

Loony BoB

International Captain
Good to see a couple of good performances from the Colts, although I must admit my batting is indeed too slow sometimes. Maybe that's just the downfall of the Colts vs. Black games - for the most part, we bat slow!

Great to see Dasa finding form in the OD game.
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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June 2

Cricket Web Colts v Cricket Web Red
CW Oval

Scorecard
Ball by Ball

Twin hundreds from Kenny Dobson and Sean Bennett led the way, as Cricket Web Red comfortably overcame a challenging total to defeat Cricket Web Colts by 7 wickets. The Reds chased 271 and got home with almost 4 overs to spare in a very impressive effort in front of their home crowd.

The Colts openers were off to an explosive start, taking David Kennett for 33 from his first 3 overs, and raising the 50 in the 6th over, after the loss of Daniel Towns for 27. The score continued to race along at more than 7 per over, even as Jasotharan played around a Raghav delivery on 30. Sean Bennett was given the ball to try to drag back the scoring, and bowled his 10 on the trot, taking 2-30 and dramatically pulling back the scoring rate. Chris Dwyer also operated to good effect, exposing that slower bowlers were the key on such a surface. Arunava Das flicked Bennett to mid-on, out for 59, and the innings looked to be falling apart.

Pooja Bharat laboured for 72 balls to score 38, highly uncharacteristically, and it was left to some hefty blows by Mike Wilson and Tarick Weber at the end to make the most of the pleasant start. Weber in particular was on form, and he hit 3 sixes and 2 fours in 42 from 31 balls. The eventual score of 270-8 paled in comparison to earlier expectations, but still stood a tall challenge for a struggling CW Red batting lineup.

The team's leading batsman, Matt Luff was caught and bowled for a first ball duck, providing David Pares with a dream start to a very impressive debut. He was the only seam bowler who kept his composure for the Colts, whilst Jack McNamara plugged away later with his fingerspin, but failed to take a wicket. Overall the Colts were powerless to contain a partnership of 238 for the second wicket. When Thad Bochat finally broke through, as Dobson holed out to the deep, he followed up with the wicket of David Kearsley a ball later. In the final 7 overs then, 33 runs were needed.

But whatever hint of interest there was in a contest at that stage was quick removed in Wilson's next over. Bennett shuffled across his stumps to successive deliveries and paddled the ball fine for boundaries. In Bochat's next over, Moerk clubbed him back overhead for six, then late cut for a boundary. In the space of 12 balls, 24 runs were scored, and the requirement was down to 9 from 5 overs. Wilson went up in appeal for lbw against Bennett to start the 45th over, but it was turned down. The following ball was again paddled fine for four. With 3 runs needed from the final 24 balls, Moerk stepped back and lofted Bochat over cover-point to pick up his second boundary and finish the game.

Cricket Web Colts 270-8 (50 overs)
AS Das 59 [75], TV Weber 42 [31], P Bharat 38 [72]
SV Raghav 3-52 [9], SA Bennett 2-30 [10]

Cricket Web Red 272-3 (46.1 overs)
SA Bennett 129* [133], GKK Dobson 117 [132], H Moerk 17* [10]
T Bochat 2-53 [8.1], DPW Pares 1-40 [10]

Cricket Web Red won by 7 wickets.
Man of the Match: SA Bennett

Cricket Web Black v Cricket Web Blue
PDV Dome

Scorecard
Ball by Ball

Dan Smith scored a brilliant hundred, then Zac Gelman bowled his full 10 overs on the trot and devastated Cricket Web Blue in another crushing one-day win for Cricket Web Black. Smith set up a total of 257 with his innings, then Gelman finished with figures of 4-32 and CW Blue were bowled out for 158 to lose by 99 runs.

The Blacks were inserted and lost Ian Markus for a tame 13, run out by Ben Wilshere's throw. But Dan Smith was in full flow at that point, and had 41 from 43 balls by the time Ashley Arnold (6) flashed Fuller to Wilshere at point. In Blackman he found a willing partner, and the resulting union matured to 85 runs. Williams then found the thin edge of Blackman's bat for 46, and Dunn returned with the wickets of McMeekin (21) and Armstrong (7) in quick succession. The game looked to be slipping away from the Blacks, and Dan Smith had been slowed down significantly in the process. He was dropped by Demeza on 87 - Williams the bowler - and raised his hundred with his 119th ball.

Matt Smith finally bowled the CW Black captain for 115, leaving Gelman to tidy up the innings effort with 23 from 23 balls. Dave Richards stated a rare failure, a first ball duck, so George Roberts got some time in the middle and hit a fine cover drive in 10 from 8 balls. CW Black finished on 257-7, then set their largely unproven attack to work on defending it.

The pace of Ben Fox was matched smartly by his accuracy, and he took two wickets in an 8-over opening burst, while Nath Patrick dismissed Thamba Mamesh at the other end. By the close of the 14th over, CW Blue were struggling at 56-3. Gelman's first over cost 7 runs, but he settled down quickly after that, and though Richards was not his usual economical self, the Blacks were able to build enough pressure to consistently take wickets. Only Robert Cribb showed any true ability in the situation, and he watched his teammates flounder against the changes of pace presented by Gelman. Cribb was last out, tragically run out when Patrick deflected a straight drive from Dunn onto the stumps at the non-striker's end. It was a fittingly woeful dismissal to end a very poor showing by CW Blue.

Cricket Web Black 257-7 (50 overs)
DP Smith 115 [137], AJ Blackman 46 [59], ZE Gelman 23* [23]
MJ Smith 2-46 [8], RG Dunn 2-50 [10]

Cricket Web Blue 158 all out (36.5 overs)
RGEWS Cribb 48 [65], SE Fuller/J Ullungura 17 [23/26]
ZE Gelman 4-32 [10], BB Fox 2-32 [8]

Cricket Web Black won by 99 runs.
Man of the Match: ZE Gelman
 

oz_fan

International Regular
Disappointing that we had another draw in the FC game. I've really got to work a bit more on my batting. Great win in the OD though with Smith's hundred and Gelman's 4-fer.
 

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
Hm. Way to find form Sean. Well batted Kenny too, I s'pose. ;)

Raghav applying for Kennett's spot, too.

Provisional one-day table:

Code:
Black 46pts (9-5)
Green 37pts (8-5, game in hand)
Red 36pts (7-7)
Blue 29pts (6-7, game in hand)
Colts 22pts (4-10)
Colts formally eliminated (can only score 32 points) after their NINTH successive one-day loss, possibly one of the worst streaks in Dev League history. Blue need to beat Green on Monday to be in with a shout for a spot in the final. Only Green can take the title from Black, as Red's run rate isn't good enough to overtake Black. Red v Green in CW Oval on the final day potentially crucial.
 
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Anna

International Vice-Captain
Playing like a midget with no arms. Black still rolling along though. :cool:

EDIT: LOL - Nath in Anna`s account for the record.
 

superkingdave

Hall of Fame Member
good win in the OD shame about the FC game.

Incidentally these were the tables after the first quarter


FC table after the first round of matches:

Code:
Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	Bat	Bowl	Points
Colts	4	3	1	0	0	9	12	63
Blue	4	2	1	1	0	13	11	56
Red	4	2	2	0	0	16	11	55
Green	4	1	2	1	0	11	12	41
Black	4	0	2	2	0	9	11	28
What a competition!
OD
Code:
          W  L  BP    NRR  Pts
Colts     3  1   0  -0.57   12
Blue      2  2   2  +0.01   10
Red       2  2   2  -0.14   10
Green     2  2   2  -0.20   10
Black     1  3   4  +0.89    8
Makes interesting reading
 

Travis_Teh

International Regular
Liam, the BBB doesn't work for the Green v Black on the 30th. I need it to see how many points black and green get from black's mammoth first innings ^^

Anyway, with bonus points still to come from one match for Black and Green, updated table:

Code:
Team	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	Bat	Bowl	Points
Blue	14	6	3	5	0	39	40	183
Black	14	4	3	7	0	41	38	163
Red	13	6	5	2	0	34	37	163
Colts	13	5	4	4	0	28	33	147
Green	14	2	8	4	0	41	36	121
 

Simon

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happy with my FC ton but a duck in the OD game again shows im possibly not cut out for 50 over cricket...

team wise the results were a bit of a worry, possibly time to plan for next season...
 

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
Gelman's an OD star, will be pressing for higher honours if he keeps this up.

Dissapointed with yet another draw, though you can't fault the Colts resolve in there. Dissapointed to fail in both innings but eh. Was some good performances from plenty of guys, Donald doing his rep no harm.

The OD game was brillant though, Gelman a deffo MOTM. Pleasantly surprised with my first Dev League List-A ton since Season X.
 

Mister Wright

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Hm. Way to find form Sean. Well batted Kenny too, I s'pose. ;)

Raghav applying for Kennett's spot, too.

Provisional one-day table:

Code:
Black 46pts (9-5)
Green 37pts (8-5, game in hand)
Red 36pts (7-7)
Blue 29pts (6-7, game in hand)
Colts 22pts (4-10)
Colts formally eliminated (can only score 32 points) after their NINTH successive one-day loss, possibly one of the worst streaks in Dev League history. Blue need to beat Green on Monday to be in with a shout for a spot in the final. Only Green can take the title from Black, as Red's run rate isn't good enough to overtake Black. Red v Green in CW Oval on the final day potentially crucial.
We beat Green the game before.
 

Mister Wright

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not that displeased with the first class game, I'm fairly confident if it hadn't of been for the rain we would have beaten Black, quite comfortably. Some really positive signs from our batsmen and Rai with the ball. A little more happier with my performance, but still plenty of room to improve.

Simply terrible in the one day form though. Still struggling to find the right combination.
 

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