Story A Journey Down Under - First Innings Posted

[Aussie Team]

Man your presentation is great. It is simple and really amazing. And mate can you say from where do you got that MVP.

 

[Chewie]

Thanks guys. I detailed the MVP system in this entry in the story Callum used it in his story, and told me what site it was from.

 

[Chewie]

South Australia v Tasmania, Ford Ranger Cup, Adelaide

Tasmania Bowl, Doherty and Tait Back
October 18, 2010


Toss: Tasmania chose to bowl

Bailey won the toss and after a few moments’ consideration, decided to bowl first. He reckoned that Tasmania was better at chasing totals, rather than setting them, a mind-set drilled into him by his coach. Tasmania made three changes from the side that drew the 4-day game against South Australia. Ed Cowan was replaced by Xavier Doherty due to the need for an extra bowler in the one day format; this means that Tim Paine will be opening the batting as well as keeping. Alex Doolan was also replaced by Rhett Lockyear, who is considered more aggressive and appropriate for this shorter format. Gerard Denton also replaced Griffith, who had struggled in the 4-day match.

South Australia made two changes to their line-up, with Tony Lang making way for Shaun Tait, the specialist short form fast bowler, and Jamie Smith being replaced by Jake Haberfield. Tait will be looking to instil fear into the Tasmanian batsman with his extremely fast deliveries, which have recently been reaching speeds approaching 160km/h.

 

[AkshayS]

not much writing, still a clean presentation.
Tasmania are looking damn too strong with Ponting and Bailey and Birt and Cosgrove, Surely they had to win.

 

[Chewie]

Yea it's a pre-toss bulletin. Next time I think I'll include that in with the first innings one

 

[riz7khan12]

I've tried organising it but because I've used formulas to calculate it I'll have to rewrite it in order to post it. I'll do that for the next update.

not necessarily, just click on that "arrow" button on the top of total, it sorts everything from Highest-Lowest or Lowest-Highest

btw good luck against tassie, btw did i win my bet? :o

 

[Chewie]

not necessarily, just click on that "arrow" button on the top of total, it sorts everything from Highest-Lowest or Lowest-Highest

btw good luck against tassie, btw did i win my bet? :o

You bet on South Australia to win, and it was a draw

I've made a second table that has everything correctly

 

[Chewie]

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South Australia v Tasmania, First Innings, Ford Ranger Cup, Adelaide

Leigh and Klinger Power South Australia to a Dominant Position
October 18, 2010

South Australia 260/9 (Leigh 77, Klinger 65, Hilfenhaus 3-42)

At 49/3 and then 190/6, it looked like South Australia would struggle to bat the 50 overs out, and be dismissed for an easily chasable total. However, Michael Klinger and Andy Leigh put on a 107 run partnership for the fourth wicket, before some hard hitting from Tim Ludeman late in the innings took South Australia to an above par total of 260 after being sent in to bat.

South Australia got off to a sluggish start, with Blizzard dropped in the first over off Hilfenhaus before being run out by a direct hit by Doherty, as they reached 29/1 after the first ten overs. The bowling powerplay was taken immediately and returned dividends straight away as Daniel Harris was out LBW in the first over. In this period, Denton troubled Klinger inducing many plays and misses, however it was Butterworth who was to take a wicket, and not of Klinger but of Ferguson. The bowling powerplay had been effective at further strangling South Australia who scored 25/2 from the five overs.

Upon coming to the crease Andy Leigh immediately made his mark with a number of powerful square drives. Both Denton and Butterworth were punished which prompted Bailey to bring spin into the equation with Doherty bowling his first over of the season. Unfortunately it was a very expensive one, as Tasmania were unable to restrict the blossoming run rate. The reintroduction of Geeves did not have any effect either as these two batsmen reached their 100 partnership. Finally, Klinger was caught trying to hit one too many fours. Christian didn’t hang around for long, LBW off Denton trying to keep the momentum going. Butterworth was reintroduced and managed to take the wicket of the danger man Leigh, with 12 overs still left in the innings.

The batting powerplay was taken at this point, with Hilfenhaus and Geeves returning to bowl. The first over was a maiden from Hilfenhaus, while Geeves managed to take the wicket of Haberfield. At this point however Ludeman started batting very aggressively, middling everything and rotating strike with the tail well. He was eventually bowled by Hilfenhaus but he had saved the South Australian innings from a below par score. To further rub salt into the wound, the number 11 batsman Edmondson hit 3 fours in the last over to bring the score up to the very respectable 260/9. Tasmania have a long way to go to win this match and make up for their poor performance in the 4-day match.

 

[Imager36]

Hmmm... 261 shouldn't be too hard, but you haven't got the longest batting line up around, and Tait'll probably bowl a couple of good'uns at least... Then again, if you can't chase down 261 against South Australia, lord knows what the rest of the season will be like

 

[riz7khan12]

i played this game yesterday and the highest i made was 220. so it must be hard to get 260. Although i dont know much

 

[CG123]

Great bowling by Hilfy, to help restrict them to 260.
Tait will be the key for SA with the ball, but the rest of their attack looks like nothing, so you should hopefully be able to chase it down.
A maiden in the batting powerplay. :laugh

 

[hedger_14]

Doherty should be opening with Geeves bowling at #3. Anyway, long time since I checked this story or any story as a matter of fact but it looks like it is progressing very nicely. Tassie should be able to chase that down with their strong batting lineup. KUTGW.

 

[nitish99]

Brilliant story so far, the presentation has been very simple but at the same time has been very effective. The story has been very good and I am loving this. Thats why I voted for you in the SOTM.

 

[Chewie]

South Australia v Tasmania, Ford Ranger Cup, Adelaide

South Australia win Thriller
October 18, 2010


South Australia 260/9 (Leigh 77, Klinger 65, Hilfenhaus 3-42) beat Tasmania 258/9 (Paine 79, Tait 4-57) by two runs

South Australia managed to keep control of a tight match at the Adelaide Oval, thanks to a tight last over bowled by Shaun Tait. Tasmania looked in control as Tim Paine anchored the innings while Mark Cosgrove and then George Bailey batted with him in large partnerships. In the last two overs however Peter George and Tait managed to give up 9 singles between them, with Tait also taking two wickets, to give the Redbacks a victory by two runs.

Tasmania got off to a strong reply to South Australia’s 260/9, with Cosgrove and Paine making a 93 run partnership that lasted past the twentieth over. Cosgrove batted aggressively, hitting two fours off George’s first over, and then a six off some very loose bowling from Tait. In the first ten overs, 8 byes were also given away thanks to some very poor keeping from Ludeman. By the end of the powerplay Tasmania were 75 for no loss, and began to play defensively in order to keep the partnership going. Cosgrove however missed a ball that jagged in sharply, bring Australian captain Ricky Ponting to the crease. In the four day match, Ponting hadn’t looked very comfortable, and his poor run of form continued here as he was out for just one run.

Paine stayed strong at the other end, but he had been scoring extremely slowly. It was almost as if he still thought they had to save the draw in the FC match as his strike rate hovered around 50 for most of his innings. Bailey joined in the defending game as the required run rate crept towards 7 an over. Seeing this, both batsman began playing more expansively, with Bailey nearly out caught behind, only for Tim Ludeman, the keeper to drop it. He had an especially bad day behind the stumps, and Mark Sorell, the South Australian coach will need to work out what should be done with Ludeman before the next game. Despite this reprieve however, the batsman were not more circumspect and Paine departed shortly afterwards after hanging his bat out to a ball that kissed the edge. The run rate had spiralled to 8 an over now with Birt and Lockyear in, after Bailey was bowled by an inswinging yorker. The new batsmen were forced to swing their bats straight away to reduce the required run rate and make the total more manageable.

The batting powerplay was taken with 76 runs needed from the last ten overs, and 6 wickets in hand. At this stage it was Tasmania’s game to lose, and it looked like Birt and Lockyear would steer them home with some aggressive batting in the powerplay. Birt however edged Tait to slip, while Lockyear was run out trying to get a suicidal single near the end of the powerplay. 31 runs needed off the last 5 overs was still manageable with Doherty hitting two fours when he came to bat. However Tait bowled an impeccable line and length, restricting the runs and forcing the batsmen to try hit over the top. With 6 runs needed off the last over, two singles were taken off the first two balls, before Tait took two wickets in two balls. With 4 runs needed from 2 balls, a boundary would win the game for Tasmania, but the batsmen were unable to connect bat to ball.

The match was a great showcase for the current fifty over system, with the introduction of a different format being discussed. In both innings Tasmania had the opening upper hand, before squandering it both times. If they had made more of their chances the result could have been different, but the score line is an appropriate representation of the closeness of these two teams in this tightly contested match up.

I'm not totally hopeless at this game as these results may appear to represent By the way, just_cricket, if you're reading this, your Cricinfo footer has gone down, so I had to make my own.

-edit- It appears that some of my pictures have also gone down. I think it's a problem with tinypic so please bear with me, there may be some missing pictures in places.

 

[CG123]

As I said just above Tait would be the key for SA, and in the end he was.
You needed more from your big guns Ponting and Bailey, plus someone in your middle order probably should have converted their start into a 50.
The presentation and pictures look fine to me, so I assume you got them fixed.
You need to start putting some results on the board, and Ponting really needs to lift his game.
KUTGW.