Kingston Crows Cricket Club

Round 11. 21/1/12

The Kingston Crows A Grade team took North Huon at Glen Huon last Saturday where the home team invited us to bat first. We lost both openers in the 6th and 7th overs and then Brett Stevenson 25 and Michael Conway 34 added 61 for the 3rd wicket. Having approached 100 with only two wickets down no one would have predicted that we would then be 7/112 in the 26th over. Jamie Knott 77 and Ash Woodhead 30 resurrected our innings with an 8th wicket partnership of 94 and then Knott and Dale Punshon 36 added 61 for the 9th wicket and enabled us to reach a respectable total of 267 when Punshon was dismissed in the final over. Earlier Trent Rollins made 27 at the top of the order.

North Huon were in trouble at 4/69 in the 14th over before a partnership of 87 in just 11 overs between Voss and Parbs put them right back in the game. Trent Rollins 3/43 then dismissed both of those batsmen to give us back the ascendency but the Warriors weren't done yet and edged closer to our target before being dismissed for 259 in the final over to give us a narrow victory. Ash Woodhead took 2/36, Jamie Knott 2/46 and Dale Punshon 2/53.

B Grade were at home to Longley where the Bunyips elected to bat first and Tom Kink 2/14 had them reeling at 2/9. They them took the score to 2/55 when Chris Honner 4/4 and Braden Livingston 4/22 destroyed their batting line up dismissing them for just 66. Thank to Mitchell Owen for fielding for the team.

Openers, Mal Godfrey 47no with 10 4s and 1 6 and Levi Tretow 16 no then peeled off the required runs in just 8.2 overs.

On Sunday our C Grade team took on the undefeated Slab Road side at home. The Roadies elected to bat first and their openers went on a run spree adding 127 before they lost their first wicket in just the 12th over. From there our boys fought back fairly well restricting them to 235 when they were bowled out in the 35th over. Simon Wass 3-31, Dale Hayers 3-55 and Dave Leamey 2-65 were the most successful of the bowlers.

Our run chase progressed reasonably well but the Crows' batsmen were unable to convert their starts into some big scores that were required to achieve the total. Dave Leamey made 22 and Shane Hall 22.