Round 12 (17/1/09)

In Round 12 last weekend the A grade team travelled to Margate where we batted first and looked well set with the score 2/120 off 32 overs. This improved to 4/205 with 6 overs remaining and a score beyond 250 appeared well within our capabilities. A dramatic batting collapse however saw us lose our last 6 wickets for only 20 runs and we ended with 225. Dan Elliott continued his fine season with 64. Marc Owen scored 45, Jamie Knott 30 and Levi Treptow 20.

After a moderate opening partnership by Margate we started to make inroads to their batting and at 4/51 we appeared to be heading for another victory. They then built an excellent partnership and with a couple of chances missed, batted us out of the game and won in the 47^th over by 5 wickets. Robert Chapman was the pick of the bowlers with 3/38 off his 10 over spell while Dale Punshon and Brett Stevenson each took a wicket.

B Grade had the bye and this week travel to Kettering.

Due to a number of players being unavailable for C grade on Sunday, mainly due to the match at Bellerive, we had to throw the net far and wide to come up with a team. Having done that, we then scored a very good victory.

Batting first Scott Dare 41 got us off to a good start and contributed most of a 58 run opening partnership. Marcus Newman in his first game for the year came in at No. 8 and smashed 70 with 7 4s and 4 6s. Heath Collis made 22 and Gab Lefleur 20 as we made 265 before being dismissed in the 44^th over.

We then took a couple of early wickets and despite Kettering batters playing some fine shots were able to take wickets reasonably consistently as they were dismissed in the 35^th over for 140. Jim Murray took 2/4 off 2 overs, Patrick Verrall 2/5 and Anthony Baker 2/14. Heath Collis took a classic catch, substitute fielder, Ollie Burke, took a great outfield catch and skipper, Shane Hall, bowled an over to forget.

The Under 15 game on Friday night was washed out.

Before a huge crowd at the Crows on Thursday 15^th Jan we played a match against Tasman in the Statewide Twenty20 competition. We were able to score a close victory. (Please see detailed report elsewhere). Our next game is also at home, this Sunday 25^th Jan at 2 pm against Branxholm. We encourage everyone to come along and see some good cricket in this highly entertaining form of the game.

As A grade have the bye this Saturday and B grade are playing at Kettering we took the opportunity to schedule a Gala Day with 2 Social Twenty20 matches to be played. The first game at midday will be between teams made up and playing under the banner of our two major sponsors. (Vodafone vs Laminex). The second game will start around 3pm and will be between the Kingston Crows Past Players and Kingborough Superules. Anyone interested in playing on the day is asked to be at the ground around 11.30am. You don’t need to have any connection with either of the businesses or sporting teams to participate.

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