Grade Cricket Season X - Results and Discussion

[Samuel_Vimes]

Schedule
Squads

These matches are not first class nor List A games.

The first round of three-day matches was simmed today:

Davistow:	Nixonstown:
	
Dawlat		Pitt
McDonagh	Prestwidge
+Jellett	Grierson
Naik		Currie
Ehsan		Sanjeet
Comley		Eccles
Murdoch		Flanaghan
Bayley		Tushar
Cassidy		+Dalton
*Patrick	Riaz
Pradeep		Laeeq

Nixonstown Foxes 277 & 137 lost to
Davistow Darters 308 & 107-2 by eight wickets
Points: Foxes 2, Darters 15

Dylan Jellett, Nath Patrick and David Comley were all heroes at Heathridge Oval, as the Darters won their first match of the season. Jellett scored 133 in the first innings, while Patrick bowled a second innings spell of 10-0-27-5 to remove the entire top order of the Foxes the second time around. Jellett then hit another half-century as the Darters chased down 107 with ease.

Pickford:	Greater Robbham:
	
Young		Tariq
Richings	Lucas
DeSilva		Sukhvinder
Fuller		Tebbut
+Hepworth	Palmer
Benjamin	Broadbridge
Jacob		Finnegan
Trafford	Buxton
Cockerill	+Jervis
McCrystal	Pardhasaradhi
Bhadauria	Fortune

Greater Robbham de Grooters 338 & 191-5d
Pickford Panthers 265 & 36-0
Points: de Grooters 7, Panthers 5

McCrystal and Bhadauria reduced de Grooters to one run for three wickets, but they still escaped with a draw against Pickford. Tebbut and Palmer hit centuries in a 198-run fourth-wicket stand, and the professional bowlers failed to back up; the Panthers then crashed to 43 for 4 before half-centuries from Hepworth and Callum Benjamin saved the day. Rain on the third day then halted de Grooters' chase for victory, along with a painstaking 83 from Sukhvinder, and the Panthers eased to a draw.

Stedingham:	Gofftown:
	
Desi		Cribb
Wallis		Courtis
Prabhakar Rao	+"Haddin" Vaughan
Chaudhari	Mahmood
Popat		Nash
Hogarth		Jamaluddin
+Innes		Kipling
Loganathan	Swann
Javed		Thampi
Bala		Demeza
Gillespie	Masterman

Gofftown Tigers 201 & 308 beat
Stedingham Jets 154 & 253 by 102 runs
Points: Tigers 14, Jets 0

Blazing half-centuries set the Tigers off to a magnificent start, with 110 for the first wicket, but Tharmi Loganathan took five for 48, including a hat-trick of Thampi, Demeza (batting at 10!) and Masterman as the Tigers crashed to 201. However, the Jets failed to exploit a good start, and fell from 95 for 1 to a total of 154. In reply, the openers once again set the tone, and healthy contributions from the entire top eight ensured that the Tigers made their way past 300. Chasing 350, Iron Desi opened by smacking Demeza for runs on the first day, and he ended up with 80 - off 64 balls - before he was bowled by Masterman. Once he was gone, the Jets lost the last nine wickets for 117, Trav Demeza ripping out the middle order but still ending with 13-0-80-3 after the treatment of Desi.

Twybridge:	Edfield:
	
+Burke		+Barnaby
Joslin		Herbert
Gunn		G Nayak
Wilshere	James
Bokey		Satish Kumar
Crampton	GN Nayak
Amresh Kumar	Galbraith
Buttsworth	Smith
White		Banik
Cotterill	Whitehead
Dolphin		Derick

Twybridge Titans 392 & 230-8d drew with
Edfield Seahawks 356 & 66-0
Points: Titans 6, Seahawks 6

Barnaby ruined Edfield's chances of winning this match with a Mørk-esque 85 off 320 balls. After the Titans had been bowled out on the first day for 392, the Seahawks lasted well past lunch after dogged resistance from Galbraith and Banik, while the professionals failed to impress. Gaurav Nayak was especially poor, scoring 4 and bowling 22 overs for 118 runs.

Campsfield:	Garven Island:
	
Langdon		Hanbury
Masood		Tariq
Singh		Shaukhat
Hasabnis	+Monaghan
McEwan		Gregory
Gooljar		Piper
+Harvey		Edmondson
Jacklin		Dharajia
Collins		Das
Das		Bristow
Jadeja		Stuart

Campsfield Braves 198 & 172 beat
Garven Island Sharks 107 & 110 by 153 runs
Points: Braves 15, Sharks 0

Two splendid bowling efforts ensured that the Braves got their first win of the season, with Gareth Gooljar enjoying the spin friendly wicket and lack of batting application from the Sharks. The Braves batted first, and after a slow start Hasabnis made a century to help the Braves to 198. Adam Collins then bowled a long spell across two days which yielded four for 44, and Gareth Gooljar wrapped the Sharks up for 107 after a spell of 7.3-2-8-4. With the help of Dhamaka Singh, who top scored with 33, the Braves managed 172 the second time around, and on the tricky pitch Gooljar celebrated another four-for of tail-enders, while Collins dug out the key wickets of Hanbury and Monaghan.

Table:

Braves		1-0-0	15
Darters		1-0-0	15
Tigers		1-0-0	14
de Grooters	0-0-1    7
Titans		0-0-1	 6
Seahawks	0-0-1	 6
Panthers	0-0-1    5
Foxes		0-1-0	 2
Jets		0-1-0	 0
Sharks		0-1-0	 0

[steds]

Come on, the Jets. Played, Tharmi. Nice to see you keeping Stedingham's pride intact.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

Iron Desi

Who? He related to Inzamam?

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by steds

Who? He related to Inzamam?

A little bird told me it's Inzamam's middle name.

[Barney Rubble]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

A little bird told me it's Inzamam's middle name.

Not "Ul" then?

[Robertinho]

Nice draw by the undermanned de Grooters... 7 points will do

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by Barney Rubble

Not "Ul" then?

Inzamam-ul-Desi? Sounds a bit odd, doesn't it?

[age_master]

Sharks will pretty much always get hammered when Blue or Red have the game off - apart from Cloete all of the Dev players come from Green and Black

[Loony BoB]

Great showing by Comley in his game and good to see Burke making runs, but not so good that it was against my team!

Vimes, can you ensure that both Nayaks get a bowl in the future games? Since we lost Brown last season, Nayak's bowling will probably become a lot more important to Colts.

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

Vimes, can you ensure that both Nayaks get a bowl in the future games? Since we lost Brown last season, Nayak's bowling will probably become a lot more important to Colts.

Will try. G Nayak has been upgraded as a bowler, anyway.

[Loony BoB]

Thanks.

[NZTailender]

Go Tigers go

[Matteh]

de grooters a bit unlucky in that it rained...
still wasn't a loss

[roseboy64]

Bad start by the Sharks.

[cometer]

Solid performance there by the Darters. Personally a pleasing result that i managed to take a bag full of wickets. Hope it's the start of better things to come

[Nnanden]

Up the Darters! Good win, no way should we have lost to that line-up. Proud to be captain of a winning side, and it was great to lead by example in the second innings. Jellett and Comley were fantastic and well done also to Cassidy for some tight bowling.

Great way to kick it off, I love grade cricket. Great lay-out Hakon.