Commentary Thread

[aussie1st]

Looking at his team can't see him coming back from this.

Germon not out streak comes to an end but after a well deserved 100.

35.5 2 Ruddy to Germon
Drifting down leg and the batsman just turns this down to fine leg for a couple.
And that's a century for Germon! Well played indeed Sir!

And the wicket that brings Chav in to do very little once again.

37.3 W Ruddy to Germon
Big nick behind and Low launches the ball into the sky. Great bowling!

Masi backs up his maiden FC 200 with a 100 in OD Cup.

39.3 1 Ruddy to Masibulele
Gently worked around to the mid wicket region.
And that's a century for Masibulele! Well played indeed Sir!

End of Over 40: 220-1, runrate=5.50, reqrunrate=0.90 (228-8)
Ruddy 10-1-61-1
Chavhanga* 6 (7 balls)
Masibulele 106 (96 balls)
Last Wicket: Germon c. Low b. Ruddy 101 (FOW: 204/1)

 

[surendar]

amazing.. Two centurions did it for you, Syl

And in my match, got the remaining three wickets too.. back to back wickets in very first over of clarke,

25.3 	[B]W[/B]	Clarke to Lumley
 	 	A ferocious in-swinger. Lumley had absolutely no chance. Bowling from the top drawer.
25.2 	[B]W[/B]	Clarke to Naidoo
 	 	He was nick-named 'The Wall' at school, apparently. He must be a Floyd fan, because its certainly not because of his defensive shots.
28.6 	[B]W[/B]	Wotton to Tau
 	 	Oh, that's terrific keeping! Taken brilliantly down the leg side by Bishop and he whips the bails off in a flash. Tau looks baffled. It's as if he didn't even know he was out of his crease.

So, Hunting Tigers need 131 to win,

End of Over 29: 130-10, runrate=4.48
Wotton 8-1-38-2
Govender* 29 (41 balls)

Lets see how the chasing goes!

 

[aussie1st]

Awesome bowling there Suren.

Masi couldn't last 2 runs more

41.1 W Vilakazi to Masibulele
Edged... and out! Low could quite happily catch those all day. A most straight forward dismissal.

Winning runs

41.4 4 Vilakazi to Quintus
The crowd seemed to like that improvised shot, it was ugly but he timed it perfectly.

Reporter's Summary
Baggy Blues Mt Lawley Panthers
Top Order: respectable woeful
Middle Order: feeble mediocre
Lower Order: worthless worthless
Seam Bowling: competent feeble
Spin Bowling: mediocre woeful
Fielding: woeful abysmal
MOTM: Masibulele

Ground sold out too

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

End of Over 37: 155-10, runrate=4.19
Eldershaw 7-2-12-5
Trainer* 13 (13 balls)

I know i will be out today of the Cup , but still managed to get 150

 

[w3lshrugby]

I can't believe this performance, I played a team a division above me, with some strong batters - although I had the stronger bowling line up. However, I was only on play-as-normal and I forgot to include Appleyard, my young immense player. This is what happened :o

Wales CC v MUM (1804774)
Date: 	07/10/2007 	Ground: 	Millenium Stadium
Pitch: 	Slow 	Weather: 	[sunny]
MUM won the toss and elected to field.
First Innings of: Wales CC (play as normal)
Name 			Runs 	Balls 	4s 	6s
Herd (+) 		b. Van der walt 	12 	26 	0 	0
Oneill 	lbw 	b. Blom 	79 	104 	3 	1
Mcandrew 		b. Shilowa 	21 	25 	1 	0
Bolland 		b. Shilowa 	16 	18 	1 	0
Wallis (*) 	lbw 	b. Loubser 	63 	73 	4 	1
Tomkins 	not 	out 	55 	44 	6 	0
Marsh 	not 	out 	11 	15 	0 	0
Vernon 						
Purse 						
Mensing 						
Anthony 						
Extras (6b, 3lb, 1w, 5nb) 	15 	
Total (50.0 overs, 5 wickets) 	272 	
FOW 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10
Total 	34 	67 	102 	166 	237 					
Batsman Out 	1 	3 	4 	2 	5 					
Name 	O 	M 	R 	W 	nb 	wd
Loubser 	10 	1 	48 	1 	0 	0
Van der walt 	10 	0 	66 	1 	1 	0
Blom 	10 	1 	47 	1 	1 	0
Shilowa 	10 	2 	38 	2 	0 	0
Russell 	10 	0 	64 	0 	3 	1

First Innings of: MUM
Name 			Runs 	Balls 	4s 	6s
Archer (*) 	not 	out 	32 	36 	1 	1
Newby 	c. Tomkins 	b. Mensing 	10 	12 	1 	0
Harewood 	c. Herd 	b. Mensing 	0 	1 	0 	0
Bridge 	c. Tomkins 	b. Anthony 	0 	2 	0 	0
Brennan 	c. Herd 	b. Anthony 	5 	6 	1 	0
Marriott (+) 	lbw 	b. Anthony 	0 	5 	0 	0
Russell 	c. Herd 	b. Anthony 	1 	3 	0 	0
Shilowa 		b. Anthony 	6 	15 	0 	0
Blom 	c. Bolland 	b. Anthony 	0 	2 	0 	0
Van der walt 	c. Tomkins 	b. Vernon 	7 	17 	1 	0
Loubser 	c. Herd 	b. Vernon 	0 	1 	0 	0
Extras (0b, 2lb, 0w, 0nb) 	2 	
Total (16.4 overs, 10 wickets) 	63 	
FOW 	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10
Total 	26 	26 	27 	33 	37 	39 	49 	49 	63 	63
Batsman Out 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9 	10 	11
Name 	O 	M 	R 	W 	nb 	wd
Anthony 	7 	1 	22 	6 	0 	0
Mensing 	5 	0 	20 	2 	0 	0
Purse 	3 	0 	14 	0 	0 	0
Vernon 	1.4 	0 	5 	2 	0 	0
Marsh 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0

 

[ZoraxDoom]

End of Over 10: 59-0, runrate=5.90
Keil 5-0-26-0
Haishen* 30 (29 balls)
Holmshaw 20 (31 balls)

Solid start in a friendly vs. another n00b. I wanted to bowl first, matches take too long to end when I bat first...

 

[aussie1st]

Ripped apart my opponents batting, sadly couldn't get much advantage out of the batters. Might just declare overnight and finish the game in the morning session.

Pups Package elected to bat first all out for 33. Barrowdale with 7-15
In reply lost both openers early and was 5/128 before Germon and Hamed putting on a 242 run parntership. Germon ended with 173 and Hamed 105. Baggy Blues are now 7/404.

 

[angryangy]

Fighting Mongooses 3/505 (89.0)
Way 217
Dodge 169
Browne 59 n.o.

Mec Warriors 4/32 (21.0)
Moodley 4/18 (9.0)

Another first innings declaration target met easily. 360, 400 and now 500 came all too soon. The run rates are just silly. 360 at 3 an over would easily get you into day 2, but it seems the team has much more important things to do!

I'm thinking I might as well have them follow on and take Thursday off.

 

[Griffo]

My new allrounder had a very solid debut even with poor PFL taking 3-41 on Defensive settings. I got them all out for 271 which is not as low as I had hoped but with them batting first I knew it would be a possibility.

I reached 1-108 before stumps to make the most of a solid day with Wotton on 3* with poor PFL hopefully he can perform and the rest can build around him although James looks set to explode with 58 from 87 balls

First Innings of: the one hit wonders
Total (85.1 overs, 10 wickets) 273

First Innings of: The Top Class Kids
Total (24.0 overs, 1 wickets) 108

Looking to bat all tomorrow on a slow pitch to get some more cash, im pretty certain that my bowlers can do the job in 1 day

 

[Gilly Fan]

I did crap. They declared on 3/503 and I'm 2/4 at stumps.

Myall is already out.

 

[voldemort]

Sneaky Penguins v Florence Freestylers (1791304)

Bowling in a H&F pitch

End of Over 27 (2 runs). Florence Freestylers: 147-2, runrate=5.44
Roe 4-0-19-1
Hewlett* 36 (27 balls)
Wright 7 (13 balls)
Last Wicket: Bennie b. Roe 67 (FOW: 121/2)

Got two 3k waged batsmen out already

Florence Freestylers
Top Order: proficient
Middle Order: abysmal
Lower Order: worthless
Seam Bowling: woeful
Spin Bowling: strong
Fielding: abysmal

 

[aussie1st]

Ended up putting my declare total at 600. Sadly Barrowdale couldn't last long enough to get Sam his 100.

End of Over 119 (1 runs). Baggy Blues: 518-10, runrate=4.35
Lead by 485 runs. (Pups Package 33-10)
Sifiso 12-3-54-1
Sam* 87 (118 balls)

This game should be over by today

2.3 W Borrowdale to Whiting
Went for a big swing, went for a bigger walk... that's not how to do it kids!

5.6 W Hitish to Seeby
Surprise bouncer. Right at the throat and Seeby is unable to get away from it. Ends up fending a dolly to Germon at short fine leg.

End of Over 7 (2 runs). Pups Package: 9-2, runrate=1.29 (1st Inn: 33-10)
Trail by 476 runs. (Baggy Blues 518-10)
Borrowdale 4-2-5-1
Spyrou* 0 (0 balls)
North 2 (22 balls)
Last Wicket: Seeby c. Germon b. Hitish 7 (FOW: 7/2)

 

[Hooper]

148.1 3 Donnelly to Gayle
Gayle glances it away fine, and it's a comfortable three runs.
A triple century. Excellent innings this.



Gayle* 315 (431 balls)

Matt Gayle has made 300!!! What a damn score! Thats the best any of my players have had.

At the moment Iam

End of Over 153 (7 runs). St Michele CC: 628-5, runrate=4.10

Pretty decent run rate

 

[Griffo]

Hooper how much did Bennett hit?

End of Over 88 (1 runs). The Top Class Kids: 408-5, runrate=4.64
Lead by 135 runs. (the one hit wonders 273-10)
Purse 17-4-49-2
Mason* 2 (20 balls)
Hamilton 38 (48 balls)

Last Wicket: Dennis c & b. Purse 84 (FOW: 389/5)

On a slow deck im not quite sure on when to declare but I will bat out the day and assess it after I came back from cricket training. James made a brilliant hundred which set up the innings with good support from most of the batsmen.

Into my "tail" now with Mason a decent bat as well as Carrington and Mbeki to come who can belt it around Hamilton playing well and all the batsmen have taken control of two of the weakest bowlers where all my runs seemingly have come from

Morrison 20-0-156-1
Sambrook 27-5-106-1

CANT WAIT FOR MORRISON TO RETURN TO THE BOWLING CREASE

 

[aussie1st]

He has almost double his 1st inns score, sadly for him it's just a matter of time.

15.6 W Hitish to North
You will not see a better ball than that. It swung big, it swung late and North can only prod at thin air as the bat is beaten and his off-stump plucked from out of the ground.

22.4 W Hamed to Spyrou
Bowled! The long walk back to the pavilion begins now. Spyrou was well beaten there!

31.3 W Mohammed to Gilks
Clearly hitting all three!

End of Over 32 (1 runs). Pups Package: 72-5, runrate=2.25 (1st Inn: 33-10)
Trail by 413 runs. (Baggy Blues 518-10)
Mohammed 2-0-2-1
Clarke* 22 (39 balls)
Sifiso 0 (3 balls)
Last Wicket: Gilks lbw b. Mohammed 6 (FOW: 72/5)