AkshayS
Chairman of Selectors
Not a good start for the team I'm supporting.
Wasps fought hard till the end but it wasn't enough.
Wasps fought hard till the end but it wasn't enough.
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just_cricket
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Pool B: Northern Eagles v UT Gators
Oceania Premier League
Gators trump Eagles in another last over thriller
Usman Khawaja earnt the MOM award for his match winning 52
The teams of the OPL continued to be good advocates for the league itself, as some of the finest cricketers in the world clashed to produce another thriller.
Sachin Tendulkar was at his masterful best but just got a bit keen to get on with things - after racing with ease to 24 from just 12 balls he became just a tad careless and chopped one onto his stumps off the persistent, wry Kallis.
Guptill and Williamson played fluently and combined attractively, if a touch slowly, for an 89 run partnership before a mix up where Williamson thought he had beaten the keeper with a paddle sweep charged down the pitch only for Haddin to quickly collect the ball and neatly remove the bails with Williamson stranded down the pitch. Another needless run out accounted for Scott Styris and this, coupled with some canny bowling from Sehwag, Casson and Collingwood, pegged back the Eagles to 151 from their 20 overs.
Roach and Anderson showed why genuine pace and swing bowlers are so sought after in every form of the game with a fiery opening few overs. Roach had Sehwag caught behind for a royal duck, and later Anderson struck twice in quick succession to remove the dangerous Kallis, and then Haddin, to reduce the Gators to 47/3.
However next came the match winning partnership with the experience of Jaques and the young talent of Khawaja fusing for a 42 run partnership from just 30 balls. After Jaques was dismissed, Collingwood gave the young left hander support enough to allow him to reach his fifty off just 31 balls.
However in a devastating spell of death bowling Tim Southee took 4 wickets from just 2 overs to blast the guts out of the batting order, leaving them 141/8 with just one over to go. Enter Alister McDermott, who was the star for the Gators at the end, striking two successive boundaries off Styris to power his team home.
Gators trump Eagles in another last over thriller
Usman Khawaja earnt the MOM award for his match winning 52
The teams of the OPL continued to be good advocates for the league itself, as some of the finest cricketers in the world clashed to produce another thriller.
Sachin Tendulkar was at his masterful best but just got a bit keen to get on with things - after racing with ease to 24 from just 12 balls he became just a tad careless and chopped one onto his stumps off the persistent, wry Kallis.
Guptill and Williamson played fluently and combined attractively, if a touch slowly, for an 89 run partnership before a mix up where Williamson thought he had beaten the keeper with a paddle sweep charged down the pitch only for Haddin to quickly collect the ball and neatly remove the bails with Williamson stranded down the pitch. Another needless run out accounted for Scott Styris and this, coupled with some canny bowling from Sehwag, Casson and Collingwood, pegged back the Eagles to 151 from their 20 overs.
Roach and Anderson showed why genuine pace and swing bowlers are so sought after in every form of the game with a fiery opening few overs. Roach had Sehwag caught behind for a royal duck, and later Anderson struck twice in quick succession to remove the dangerous Kallis, and then Haddin, to reduce the Gators to 47/3.
However next came the match winning partnership with the experience of Jaques and the young talent of Khawaja fusing for a 42 run partnership from just 30 balls. After Jaques was dismissed, Collingwood gave the young left hander support enough to allow him to reach his fifty off just 31 balls.
However in a devastating spell of death bowling Tim Southee took 4 wickets from just 2 overs to blast the guts out of the batting order, leaving them 141/8 with just one over to go. Enter Alister McDermott, who was the star for the Gators at the end, striking two successive boundaries off Styris to power his team home.
United Territories Gators won by 2 wickets with 2 balls to spare
just_cricket
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Not to mention giving Guptill his full four overs 
Although to be fair he did okay
Although to be fair he did okay
AbhishekS
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The only reason I am supporting the UT Gators is Virender Sehwag. Although he got out for a first ball duck, the win should boost up the confidence of this under-rated side.
Aditya
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Poor tactics from the Northern Eagles. Tim Southee should have been given his 4 overs. He bowled 2 overs and got 4 wickets. In place of Southee, Guptill bowled his 4 overs, which in my opinion was a very poor move from the Northern Eagles. They need to come well prepared in their next match.
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Such things don't require preparation, they require some logic and common sense, and I am sure that the skipper of the Eagles doesn't have them or doesn't use them.
just_cricket
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Cheers for the comments, guys.
The only way it could half make sense to me would be that Vettori saw Southee as a specialist death bowler, and bowled Guptill only because things didn't turn out well for either of the two preferred spinners in Vettori himself, or Kane Williamson.
The only way it could half make sense to me would be that Vettori saw Southee as a specialist death bowler, and bowled Guptill only because things didn't turn out well for either of the two preferred spinners in Vettori himself, or Kane Williamson.
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Victoria Wasps faced a pretty distressing loss there, especially when they had a chance and it was only a super over. They could have easily trounce them over for they flaunt a rather aggressive and hard-hitting lineup then that of Pulse's.
Thrilling win for Gators, especially when Southee wrecked them. Khawaja played a nuggety half century there and McDermott led a great finish.
Thrilling win for Gators, especially when Southee wrecked them. Khawaja played a nuggety half century there and McDermott led a great finish.
Griddle Cakes
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All this talk of poor tactics, but the Gators only pulled in a victory with two balls to spare, and had eight wickets fall. The gameplan by Vettori was odd, sure, but his team only just fell short of a victory.
just_cricket
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Pool C: Stingers v Stallions
Oceania Premier League
Stallions canter home as middle order fails Stingers
Jayawardene and Morgan added an unbroken 128 for the third wicket
The Stallions were quick to make their impression on the tournament through their fiery opening bowlers, Bond and Wagner. As the right armer hooped it in late from over the wicket to claim two early victims, the left armer Wagner brought the ball back in to the right hander at good pace and got one to hold its line against Sangakkara to trap him lbw.
The runs flowed at a reasonable rate for the Stingers from the outset but the four quick top and middle order wickets really hurt them, as although Watson was impressive in first negotiating the quick bowlers and then launching the slower bowlers at the end, the Stingers could never really get away on the Stallions until the last two overs when Katich made up for lost time, doubling his strike rate.
On a flat, albeit slow SCG pitch, 155 was only going to be defendable if the home side claimed some early scalps. Sharma did for Papps with a good length delivery hitting the top of off and Bollinger had danger man McCullum caught at deep backward sqaure, but the Stallions' premier overseas players showed their class, and ability to hold their nerve. At 28/2 the Southerners were in a bit of strife but Jayawardene made a cake walk of the whole affair - it seemed impossible that the batting side had ever been under pressure, as the Sri Lankan calculatedly took apart the bowling attack while Morgan improvised his way to success.
Without really ever hitting a ball in anger, the pair punished most of the other Stingers bowlers, as all except Sharma, Clarke, and Watson, who bowled only three balls, went for over 10 an over. The Stingers had been red hot favourites before the game but the way the Stallions clinically rounded off the match, you wondered how.
Stallions canter home as middle order fails Stingers
Jayawardene and Morgan added an unbroken 128 for the third wicket
The Stallions were quick to make their impression on the tournament through their fiery opening bowlers, Bond and Wagner. As the right armer hooped it in late from over the wicket to claim two early victims, the left armer Wagner brought the ball back in to the right hander at good pace and got one to hold its line against Sangakkara to trap him lbw.
The runs flowed at a reasonable rate for the Stingers from the outset but the four quick top and middle order wickets really hurt them, as although Watson was impressive in first negotiating the quick bowlers and then launching the slower bowlers at the end, the Stingers could never really get away on the Stallions until the last two overs when Katich made up for lost time, doubling his strike rate.
On a flat, albeit slow SCG pitch, 155 was only going to be defendable if the home side claimed some early scalps. Sharma did for Papps with a good length delivery hitting the top of off and Bollinger had danger man McCullum caught at deep backward sqaure, but the Stallions' premier overseas players showed their class, and ability to hold their nerve. At 28/2 the Southerners were in a bit of strife but Jayawardene made a cake walk of the whole affair - it seemed impossible that the batting side had ever been under pressure, as the Sri Lankan calculatedly took apart the bowling attack while Morgan improvised his way to success.
Without really ever hitting a ball in anger, the pair punished most of the other Stingers bowlers, as all except Sharma, Clarke, and Watson, who bowled only three balls, went for over 10 an over. The Stingers had been red hot favourites before the game but the way the Stallions clinically rounded off the match, you wondered how.
Southern Stallions won by 8 wickets with 21 balls to spare
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