T Mac in her first function as new Rolton medallist

Photos from Geoffrey Pinder

Sarah wins McCauley Trophy

Sarah Taylor named the winner of the Andrea McCauley medal Player of the Year, Megan Schutt runner-up. #DansieMedal

T Mac runaway winner in Rolton Medal

Tahlia McGrath won the 9th Annual ROLTON MEDAL at the Bradman Medal evening held at Adelaide Oval.

She becomes out first medallist since Jess O'Reilly in C grade in 2006-07.

In the count T Mac lead the voting when the "live count" started at the end of round seven.  She earned maximum (6) votes in the game against Northern where she took 5 for (including four in her first three overs.  This gave her a 12 point lead over competitors Hannah Perry and Bridget Patterson.

This meant she could not be beaten (but could still tie.)  She earned four points on the back of a top score of 64 against Kensis.  These votes put her in an unassailable position in the last round.

She eventually won by seven votes.

Tammy Beaumont scored six votes for her 100 in the last round and Kayla McGrath scored two votes in the last round for her PB of 46.

a few speccie pics from reynella

Thanks to Geoffrey Pinder.

c'mon ireland at the world cup

Last day presos at Reynella

Thanks to photographer Geoffrey  Pinder.

Our Tammy to captain England

BBC Radio Kent Sport @BBCKentSport · Mar 12

CRICKET: Kent's @Tammy_Beaumont named captain for @ECB_cricket Women’s Academy squad to play 4 50-over matches and 2 T20s against Australia.

(This team will play against "The Shooting Stars" - the Australian Academy side .... or Australia A.)

As finish with a win - As thwart Sturts bid for finals - Tammy has day out - Three debutants in B grade

 The As grade finished the season with an eight wicket in over arch rivals Sturt.  In doing do it thwarted their efforts to make the finals.  It also saved us from the wooden spoon.

We held The Blues to 216 off 50 overs.  we bowled accurately using our slower bowlers to take the pace off the ball.  The best with ball was Tammy Beaumont.  She took 2/41 with a mixture of offies, cutters, and quicker balls.  She took the key wicket of Australian rep Megan Schutt late in the innings.

Brandi took a wicket to take her tally to a season BP of  13 wickets in A grade.

Chasing 219 we lost Tahlia in the first over (the second time Megan has dismissed her this season).  Rachael and Tammy consolidated the innings taking the score to 92 in the 22^nd over.  Kayla and Tammy took us home with a 131 run third wicket stand.

For Kayla it was her second PB in consecutive weeks – being run out for 46 in quest of her first 50 for the club – having scored two at state level).  She batted 67 balls, 80 minutes with 5 fours.

But it was Tammy who stole the show.  She enjoyed playing Megan and really appreciated the extra pace on to the bat.  She took full toll of the Sturt off spinners taking them for better than five an over.

Her nimble footwork and judgement of the quick single were a feature. 

Full stats

Tammy 121 no 137 balls 160 minutes 16 fours 2 sixes .

·         Tammy went from 93 to 99 with one shot

·         Her last six saw us win the game with six overs to spare

We thank her for her work over the last three weeks.  It is a great experience for our batters to work with international players. 

It was our FOURTH CENTURY  for the season.

We also thank Tammy for her work with the Reynella In2 Cricket group on Saturday morning.

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The Bs were back on board after a month off. (Due to heat, forfeits etc.).  we debuted three players – Sanjete Singh, Billy Manuel and Gypsy Shermirer (the latter two from the recent SAPSASA  and Gary Putland trials. We played against Shari Bray ( for the second time in three weeks after she played with Northern’s As a fortnight ago.)

Batting first we started well with 28 off the first five overs with newcomer Sanjete Singh and Rachel Dickinson looking good.  Bridee and Rachel took the score to 42 – but we lost seven wickets quickly to be 8/49.  Kaitlyn Heath and first gamers Caitlin Seccofein and Billy Manuel held them up to see us all out for 60. 

Bridee took a wicket in the first over and first gamer Gypsy made their openers rush their shots early.  We took further wickets at 36, 44 and 50 but they passed us in the 25^th over.

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ROLTON MEDAL

With a close look at the stats this seems to be race in two between Tahlia and Nothern’s Hanna Perry.  It will depend on how the umpires have seen T Mac’s performances in the games we lost.

Tammy Beaumont

Anna's evening

A’s almost again! K Mac BP this week ....Bs first win

The As went into the game against Kensis with a chance to be the only Southern side with a chance to make finals.  ( All mens and junior sides were out of the running.)

Kensis batted first losing a wicket to a Cara Allen run out in the second over.  We dismissed state player Bridget Paterson in the 8^th over to have them 2/25.  A 60 run partnership between Lowe and Pope took them to 3/85 in the 22^nd over.  We kept pressure on in the middle over to have them 5/133 in the 40^th over.

But they scored 86 in the last 10 overs to give them 222.

Former England International ( and 2013/14 state player) Beth Morgan (45) and experienced Amy Wiseman (42 no) did the damage.

We lost the early wicket of Rachael in the 3^rd over.  Tammy Beaumont (34) and T Mac (64) put on 104 for the second wicket to see us 1/111 in the 21^st over.   This gave us a good launching pad.

The T Mac innings ( which she described as “ a bit scratchy early”) she took herself to 590 runs  for the season 265 runs ahead of second placed Lauren Ebsary with one game to play.

She is also the top runscorer in the at Southern

           

PLAYER	MAT	INN	NO	100S	50S	0S	4S	6S	MINS	HS	RUNS	AVE.	STR.
1	McGrath, Tahlia M	12	12	0	3	2	1	82	5	643	153	634	52.83	108.9
2	Tanner, Shaun W	16	18	2	0	3	0	51	8	990	83	606	37.88	79.3

Tammy’s opening scoring shot was a four – this was her first runs on Australian soiling (making a duck last week  and a further duck in the State trial game yesterday. )  She showed us her power game, nimble footwork to the spinners and deft use of the short single to third man.

The second partnership which gave us a sniff was a 45 run stand between Anna Kerrison and Kayla McGrath.  Kayla came in at the lost of Tammy’s wicket and put on 13 with her sister.  She dominated the partnership with Anna batting for  over an hour hitting six fours and batting with surety and confidence. Her score of 40 was a PB in A grade.

We needed 57 with 14 overs remaining. 

 Kayla and Anna 

 T Mac 

Tammy Beaumont

Anna gave excellent support with a picket fence for 10 ( all singles.)

But with the lost of Anna we lost four wickets in 16 balls to see the Kensi side well on top.

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The Bs won their first 50 over game – but not quite the way we wanted to… with Port telling us of a forfeit on Saturday evening…we play our first game for a month on SATURDAY.

Highlights from our Pink Games evening

A’s agonizingly close T Mac PB again – with ball this week (what is the secret)

The A's had the premiership favourites on the ropes but could not pull off a win.

We fielded first and TMac produced a withering spell.  She took two wickets in her first over and followed with two more in her third to have the top team 4/5 after five overs.  Newcomer Tammy Beaumont took two exceptional catches at slip (and followed up with an opportunistic run out later in the innings.)

(Last year T Mac took 16 wickets - this year 14 with two to play.)

Northern recovered with a 49 run fifth wicket stand to take them to 54.  We had them 7/61 with a wicket to T Mac (to give her five).  But a defiant ninth wicket stand anchored by former Stingray Shari Bray saw them dismissed for 103.

T Mac’s five wickets took her to 14 for the season.  She is currently leading the BATTING AND BOWLING awards with two rounds to go.  She won the SACA  bowling last season.
Her 5/19 off eight overs was a Personal Best in  A grade and her first MICHELLE (five fa) at the highest level.  (She has 5/2 and 6/24 at B grade.)

T Mac started our innings where she left off last week with two fours in the first over. Our first 10 runs were scored of six balls our next 10 took eight overs as we struggled to get away the accurate Northern bowlers.  State spinner Hannah Perry took 3/14 of 10 conceding only three scoring shots in 60 balls.

We were 4/24 in the 10^th over.  Anna Kerrison (12) and Kayla McGrath (17) put us back in the game with a 24 run stand for the 5^th wicket.  They were patient and chose their shots well.  But with the loss of those two wickets we could not establish a match winning stand.  Kylie (19) and Cara took us to 79 and a last wicket stand of eight saw us 13 runs short.

The result and the win of Sturt sees us one game out of the four with two to play.

(T Mac's secret brekky!!!)  There are two dozen in the McGrath freezer for the rest of the season and beyond.

The Bs had problems with injuries, work and unavailability of players.  But we will be ok for the last two rounds.

This week the As have Kensington at Bice and the Bs have Port at Gordon Brown.

The SAPSASA games at Reynella went well on Thursday with a guest appearance from TMac.  We expect to debut two players from this group over the next two weeks.

Our Reynella coaching has two weeks to run (Kanga has three) and we welcome Ethan Grzyb to our stable of coaches.