Round 13 (24/1/09)

With A grade having the bye last Saturday the Kingston Crows B grade team travelled to Kettering where we triumphed in a close and exciting game. The Crows batted first and once again failed to bat out their over being dismissed after 44 overs for 207. That score was inflated by a 7^th wicket partnership of 58 between James Murray 60 and Shannon Woolley 32. These two came together with the score 6/105. Chris Tomlin contributed 31 and Marcus Newman 21.

After being 3/79 Kettering had a good 4^th wicket partnership and appeared to be heading to victory when acting captain Jason Jones brought back opening bowler Trent Pearce in the 38^th over with the score 3/153. He immediately dismissed both set batsmen and put us back in the game. Kettering rallied however and at 7/189 looked a strong chance. The Crows were able to pick up the last 3 wickets as Kettering were dismissed in the 49^th over for 197. Jason Jones took 3/28, Trent Pearce 2/33, Anthony Lean 2/41 and Shannon Woolley 2/45.

C grade played Ranelagh-Grove at Ranelagh on Sunday and unfortunately copped a bit of a hiding. The “Rams” batted first and amassed 2/238 off their 50 overs with Zac Scriber 2/42 and Steve Matthews 2/43 being the wicket takers.

Our lads did bat into the 37^th over reaching 104. B Collins made 22 opening the batting and Ash Woodhead scored 19 and Mal Scriber 16.

The Under 15s were well beaten by Margate on Friday evening.

On Saturday the Crows Past Players took on Kingborough Superules in a social Twenty20 match. A good day was had by all with the footballers taking the points largely due to the batting of Roger Wilcox.

The Crows advanced to the semi finals of the Statewide Twenty20 competition with a convincing win over Branxholm on Sunday. Please see report elsewhere.

"From the Hill"

Click on our Sponsor's logo to visit their Web sites