Kingston Crows Cricket Club

Round 9. 7/1/12

Games in the Huon Channel Cricket association recommenced on Saturday 7th January after the traditional Christmas/ New Year break.

A Grade were on the road to Snug where our opponents elected to bat first but lost a wicket to Jamie Knott off the very first ball of the innings. They consolidated however and we were made to work very hard for our wickets. At the conclusion of their 50 overs they had scored 9-219 with opening bowlers Jamie Knott 3-33 and Ash Woodhead 2-39 being the most successful of our attack.

Our opening batsmen Daniel Elliott 69 and Trent Rollins 21 added 54 before Trent fell in the 15th over. We then lost our skipper with the score 73 before Elliott and Jarrod Collis 20 took the score to 109. Garry Smith 23 and Daniel then added a further 46 before both fell within a couple of overs to leave us 5-166 in the 39th over. Jamie Knott 26 no and Stuart Conway took the score to 5-206 in the 46th over when the wheels fell off as we lost our last 5 wickets for just 12 runs and lost the game by 1 run with 3 balls remaining. A disappointing end to the game for the Crows as our captain reminded his players in no uncertain terms after the match.

B Grade played their first game at home for some time and skipper Levi Treptow, heeding the weather forecast of rain during the afternoon, took the somewhat unusual option of electing to bowl first. Heath Collis 3/24 took the first three wickets to leave Woodbridge 3-21 and from there they were not able to gain too much momentum and were dismissed for 114 in the 36th over with Shannon Woolley taking 5-30.

Mal Godfrey then unleashed an all out assault on the Wombats' bowlers as he raced to his 50 in the 5th over. At that stage the Crows were 0-53, Godfrey on 50, Dave Leamey on 1 and Extras 2. Mal eventually fell for 76 in the 10th over after hitting 12 4s and 4 6s. Leamey 27 no and David Bain knocked off the remaining runs after only 12.3 overs.

On Sunday our C grade were on the road to Castle Forbes Bay to take on the Southern Tigers. We choose to bat first and after losing a wicket on 7 were able to get useful contributions from most of the batsmen although at 6-161 we probably weren't thinking that we would end up 6-249. Braden Livingston batting at No 5 was the backbone of our innings making 80 no. Chase McConnon scored 36 opening and skipper Jonathan Cashion 26 no shared an unbroken 7th wicket partnership of 88 with Braden.

The Tigers put up a determined batting effort with good contributions from their first three batsmen in particular. In the 37th over their no. 8 batsman struck 22 runs to take the score to 6/171 before he was caught off the final ball of that over for 41. From there we were able keep taking wickets and eventually dismissed them for 204 in the 44th over to record a crucial victory. Livingston completed a great match by taking 4-36 while Cashion took 3-21.