Sarah Taylor Player of the Series in NZ

Taylor took the player of the series accolade, and hit 93 from 99 balls before being run out by Amy Satterthwaite.

The wicketkeeper-batter told BBC Sport: "It's just nice to contribute.

"I know it's the back end of the tour, but it's been a tough tour for all of us - it's been a bit up and down, but it was nice to come away with a win.

"At the start of the tour it was looking a bit ominous and we knew that we had a point to prove, so coming here to win the T20 series and then the ODI series, we've done ourselves justice and played the kind of cricket we wanted to play."

 From the BBC Sport website

0c/1s, 93	Eng Women	v NZ Women	Lincoln	28 Feb 2015	WODI # 941
0c/0s, 89*	Eng Women	v NZ Women	Lincoln	26 Feb 2015	WODI # 940

TWO WINS IN A ROW!!! - T MAC MASTER CLASS - AGAIN and BRANDI THREE IN FOUR

The As won two 50 overs games in a row for the first time since 2012-13.

T Mac continued her golden vein of form with her second hundred in eight days.  (The innings also saw her take her season’s runs to 516 at 86.17.)  She now leads the SACA A grade Women's table by 261 runs with three games to play.  She has nine wickets to be one behind the leader.

We won the toss and Tahlia and Rachael started from where they left off last week.  This week they batted into the 23^rd over making 132 (at a run a ball.)

Tahlia made 153 off 130 balls with 19 fours and one six.  She was dismissed at 225 scoring 68% of our runs. She opened with a four off the first ball of the innings and hit a boundary off the first or second ball of an over seven times in the first 18 overs of the game.  (West Torrens changed their field placings later in her innings.)

She scored 50 in 59 balls, 100 off 91 balls, 150 in 126 balls.

We scored over 250 for the second week in a row.  Kayla McGrath made 14, Donna Clark 11 and a nice cameo from Anna Kerrison (16 no ) late in the innings saw us with 8/256.

Tahlia secured the valuable wicket of ex state player Angela Moritz in the third over, but it was Brandi Ongley who opened up the Eagles middle order.  She took the wickets of Under 18 state player Brooke Harris, Under 15 state rep Tait Mackrill and Louella McCarthy in four balls in her second over.  With West Torrens at 4/21 in the sixth over we were well on top.

Tahlia topped off her master class with two further wickets and two catches.

Brandi’s 4/30 was a PB for her in A grade. It surpassed her best of 3/33 v Sturt in 2010/11 in B grade.

The Bs game was cancelled due to the heat.  A big thank you to Ella, Bridee, Rachel D and Tayla who subfielded throughout the Eagles innings.

We welcome  our second Darren Lehmann Academy player this weekend.  Tammy Beaumont comes in on Wednesday evening. She is an English International and is the understudy to Sarah Taylor as wicketkeeper for England.

CLUB RECORDS

T MAC scored her second consecutive 100 and another PB.  She goes to Number 5 and 6 on the Southern CENTURIAN’S  HONOUR ROLL 

1.  188 Shane Deitz v West Torrens 1999-2000

2. 182 Shane Deitz v Northern District 1999-2000

3. 155 Shane Deitz v West Torrens 2005-06

4. 154   P. Jeffrey v Elizabeth 1995-96

5.  153 Tahlia McGrath v West Torrens Feb 22 2015

6. 148 Tahlia McGrath v Port Feb 14 2015

She joins Shane Deitz as the only Southern player to score THREE CENTURIES IN A SEASON.  (Shane scored three in 1999-2000)

She becomes the first Southern player to score TWO HUNDREDS in consecutive innings.

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Thursday sees the Southern SAPSASA T 20 style trials for the Southern SAPSASA team.  Jess and Tahlia will be assisting SACA officials with this day.  We have many of our Reynella Oval crew playing with some of Ella's team mates from Strath,

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T Mac and Rachel record stand - A win at last! last 50 over win Dec 2 2012 - Ella’s A grade debut

The As had their first win in the 50 over competition for over two seasons with a 34 run over Port.

The win was highlighted with a RECORD BREAKING 203 run first wicket stand between Rachael Greenshields (44  PB)  and Tahlia McGrath (148). For Tahlia it was her second century for the season with 19 fours and four 6s.  It takes her to the top of the SACA runs for A grade with 394 runs –with state Captain Lauren Ebsary 129 runs behind.

The 203 run stand was our highest partnership for ANY WICKET for the Women’s teams, it is our HIGHEST PARTNERSHIP for any wicket at Southern this season and equals the CLUB RECORD for the first wicket for the club.

T Mac and Rachael batted into the 35^th over batting at almost a run a ball in the 42 degree heat. For Rachel it was a continuation of her good form (after 21 last week against Sturt) and a PB.

Kayla McGrath 29 and Jess O’Reilly 20  kept up the momentum as we finished with our top score in A grade of 7/281 off our 50.

Cara had Port opening bat Kirsty Williams stumped in the second over, current state player Sam Betts (76) and former state player Alecia Dean (58) looked like they may take the game away from us.  But a good spell  from Donna (1/17 off seven) slowed the momentum.  Our slower bowlers Rachel Greenshields 3/39 and Kayla McGrath 1/42 took key wickets and cleaned up the tail.

10 year old Ella Wilson became A grade player Number 39 with her debut game.  She has been playing very well in the Bs with some very encouraging performances.

This week the As are at home to West Torrens and the Bs are off to Kensington to play their Brown side. Both games are on Sunday.

Don’t forget the McGrath Foundation Breast Cancer awareness Games evening on Febluary 21 after Presos.

As almost! Bs….well…. Mystery cap found!!!

The As played their best cricket this year to see them give Sturt a big fright at Price.

We batted first with Rachel Greenshields making 21.  She and Tahlia gave us a solid start of 27.  By the 23^rd over we were 5/73.  A 55 run stand between Kayla McGrath (34) and Anna Kerrison (22) took us to 128 with 11 overs to bat.  Cara Allen continued her good form with 11 no (after 40 last week in the Bs) to see us post a competitive 152.

For Kayla it was her best score for Southern this season.  Anna gave her excellent support with good running between the wickets.  Both players batted over 60 balls and an hour.

We took an early wicket 1/1, and had the Blues 5/84.  A couple of half chances and five overs when they took the game away from us saw them pass us in the 42^nd over.

The Bs took two early wickets against Kensi Brown.  A 76 run stand took them to 86 in the 19^th over, but 62 from former Southern player Marg Hay made 62 at a run a ball to set us 5/227. 

We lost wickets at regular intervals in the first innings.  Nikki Moyle 24 balls and Ella Wilson 25 balls put up a good fight.

We staved off an outright with captain Rachael Dickinson making 20.

We thank Marg Hay for the return of TWO BAGGY REDS.  This included the infamous “lost” Number 33 which is now owned by Marg Jude.

Don't forget the annual game against the Police on Tuesday evening as part of Febluary.

The annual Bangka Sunday Memorial Service will be held at the SA Women's Playing Field on Sunday at 10 am.

Cara PB as Bs battle hard

The Bs played the only game this weekend.

The As games were cancelled as last Monday’s grand final of the T20s was played at Adelaide Oval.

Sturt batted first scoring 201.  We took and early wicket  but a 95 runs stand for the second wicket set up the game for the Blues.  Alecia Holt was the pick of the bowlers with 4/21 off eight overs  (nine wickets in her last two games) and Brandi Ongley took two late wickets.

We lost our first five wickets at regular intervals to be 5/78 off 18 overs.  Chloe Lyons (19 for the second consecutive innings) and Cara Allen (43no) put on 62 to give us a glimpse of a win. We needed 61 off the last 10.  But the loss of Chloe slowed the momentum.

Cara’s innings was very patient.  It was her PB surpassing 29 no  made in a T20 game last season.

She hit `six boundaries  on the slow running Price Memorial Oval and batted over 100 minutes.

This week we start our Saturday morning coaching at Reynella Oval.  This will run for the next six weeks.

We will also be involved with the pre game activities on February 12 before the Febluary game against the Police.

There are no B grade games on February 14 due to the unavailability of the Playing Fields.  The annual Bangka Memorial service will be held at 10 am.  If you are keen to be involved please see Kempey.

We wish Sarah Taylor all the best with her games in New Zealand over the next few weeks and thank her for her contribution over the season.

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