THIS WEEK’S ROUND UP….. ELLA’S HEROICS

In the Under 14 Whites Ella Wilson scored the winning runs as the boys chased down 136 with three balls to spare!!!!! She also took a wicket.

 She was when she came in we needed five to win putting on the six runs needed with batting partner Dane Moore.

Welcome to  Divya Rawat Saxena who joined the Stingrays this week….This time last week she was living in Canada!!!! Divya joins us as part of the Darren Lehmann Academy.  She joins an elite group including Anna Kerrison and Tammy Beaumont (2014/15) and Kathryn Bryce (last season). She was involved in the Strikers Cup Have a Go last Wednesday working with Charlotte Edwards.

And while on Charlotte pencil in Wednesday November 23 (the eve of the Test Match) for a Q and A with Charlotte as part of the Cricket Lovers (SA) in North Adelaide.  It would be great to have Southern players at this event….The interviewer will be Kempey!!!

Our girls continue to draw praise in the Men’s 4^th Grade.  Men’s A grade captain Sean Tanner passed on the  message from the Prospect 4^th Grade captain who was very impressed with Jess, Alicia and Tabby in their recent game.  3 players out of 11 is not bad…. But watch out for more in coming weeks.

Alecia was top score in the first innings….

Caitlin  Seccafein took another THREE wickets in for her school side in the local boys Primary School competition (keep it up GOLDEN ARM!!!!)

STATE NEWS

The SA Scorpions beat Victoria on Friday (always good to beat the Vics) with TMac taking  1/21 off six overs and  making 35. Charlotte scored  15.

On Sunday we went down to the ACT by 33 runs/

T Mac making 15 and Charlotte one. T Mac took 0/15 in her first spell.

Coaching news

We start Milo In2Cricket at Reynella Oval this Saturday

Strikers League starts at Woodcroft College this Wednesday

GAME NEWS

The Bs had the bye.

The As played in as one umpire described “the worst conditions I have experienced in over 200 games!”

In game one Tabby gave us a great start with 34 off 31.  She showed great “game sense” taking on the field and some powerful drives and sweeps.

Jess (coming off a pair yesterday for the FOURTHS) made 12 and K Mac 13 no.  Alecia played a nice cameo at the end for a run a ball 9.

89 was well under par as it proved with Port scoring the runs in the 15^th.

The second game saw us bat first again Tabby (13) and Jess (28) were the mainstays of the batting. But 74 (all out) was not enough as they passed us in the 16^th.

On the day Tabby was outstanding in the field and Jess showed her excellent leaderships skills with determined games with bat and ball.

Quote of the day “Looks like that weather is going around us….. “ as the sleet like conditions hit us in the face…… from the worst weather forecaster in the world…..

Coming up

Thursday Nov 3  T20 Men’s game at Bice….from 5.20pm.

The Bs have a 40 over game Sunday at Christies 1pm start (11 a side)

The As have a T20 against Kensington at Kensis (1.30 start)

And don’t forget our Night at the Races on November 12.

Welcome Lottie and the first weekend of cricket!!!

Welcome Lottie

The Stingrays welcome Charlotte Edwards to the team for the 2016/17 season.

Charlotte will play games for us in between her Scorpions and Strikers commitments. It was great to see Charlotte at training last Friday and she will be at the Come and Try Strikers Cup on Wednesday at Port Noarlunga Oval.

(From Cricket Australia website…..

Charlotte retired as England captain at the end of the 2016 World T20.

During her 20-year international career, including 10 years as England captain, Edwards won numerous individual awards, with few bettered by her being only the second-ever female recipient of the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2014. ..(she) also won the 2015 ECB Women’s Cricketer of the Year, 2012 ICC Women’s World T20 Player of the Series and the 2008 ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. She has been nominated for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year four times and is a seven-time top scorer in the UK Women’s County Championship.

As a leader, Edwards led England to the 2009 ICC Women’s World T20 and 2009 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup titles, as well as four Women’s Ashes triumphs, including the 2005 victory which ended 20 years of Australian domination.

 From SACA website

Edwards represented England in 23 Tests, 191 ODIs and 95 T20Is and became the most capped international female cricketer in the history of the game. 

We have had the pleasure of hosting Sarah Taylor, Tammy Beaumont, Anna Kerrison and Kathryn Brice over recent seasons.

Ella Wilson

Congrats to Ella who took 3/25 off 11 overs for the Under 14 Whites.  She opened the bowling at the start of the West Torrens innings last week taking a wicket in her first spell.  This week she took two wickets in her opening spell to see the 14 Whites win by three runs (defending 79!!!).

The As scrambled to 116 – having been 4/5.  Charlotte Edwards topscored with 30, Jess O’Reilly made good runs at Number 8 (26 no) and Kayla McGrath started the season well with 23.

Four ducks…..

Charlotte opened her career at Southern with a six off a waist high full toss from Stacey Oates.

We had the Blues 2/23 in the fifth over, but they passed us 2 for in the 20^th over.

The Bs.

The Bs won their first game for the season with a forfeit from Port.

The second game saw us up against Kensington Brown.

Batting first they made 6/119 in their 20 overs.

Caitlyn Seccafien took a career best 3/18 off her four overs and Ella Wilson backed up her three wicket Under 14 effort with 2/13.

Our batting suffered a similar fate to the As with the loss of early wickets. At one stage we were 3/5. Sundus Rasa (7) and Serena Ongley (11) put on 12 for the fourth wicket to take us past the A grade’s 4/5!!!

Serena feasted on the Kensi bowlers again (after a PB of 13 last year) for 11 off 23. She and first gamer Amelia Knight put on 21 in seven overs for the best partnership of the innings.

Amelia batted 42 minutes and faced 23 balls in her innings.  She ran well between the wickets and defended the stumps well to remain not out.

Erin Temme batted 19 balls and showed good defence when she was given out LBW.

The return of left armer Cummings (an NT rep) finished the innings. We were all out for 41.

Congrats to our first games Hannah Watchman, Sundus Rasa and Amelia Knight and Erin in her first game as B grade captain.

This week

1. Milo IN2 Cricket Come and Try Day at Reynella Oval from 9 am. (Many of our players will be involved in this)

2. Our new Strikers League for girls 8-15 starts with a Come and Try Day at Port Noarlunga Oval from 4.30pm…. after that we will be at Woodcroft College Oval.

3. No B grade next week…. We have a bye.

4. The As have a T20 double header at Park 25 No 2.

The first round.... rain... still!!!!

Oh for a fine day!!!!

Round one games were called off due to the weather.

A big thank you to the cooks and organisers  at today’s BBQ.

On the state scene the SA Scorpions had a one wicket loss to NSW and a tie with Queensland.

We beat Tasmania.

Our reps TMac top scored in the game against NSW with….. and was top wicket taker with   3/…..

The late wickets took us within a whisker of a win.

TMac was also our top wicket taker against Queensland.  But it was our international recruit Charlotte Edwards who won player of the match with 100.

In the third game T Mac batted Number 3 making 31 and Charlotte top scored with 59. TMac finished with two wickets in the win over Tassy.

We had three players involved in games on Saturday.

Tabby Saville and Jess O’Reilly made their senior debuts in the Men’s Fourth Grade.  They were part of a win! (this side won two games last year.)

Tabby was second top score with 28 (four 4s), batting with her usual aggression (putting on 55 for the fourth wicket).  She opened the bowling, bowling off spin into the strong wind taking 2/37 off 10 overs (and took a catch), Jess bowled five overs into the breeze for 0/10 and took at catch.

Ella Wilson made her debut in the Under 14 whites, opening the bowling and taking 1/10 off four overs.

This week we the As play Sturt at Price Memorial with state and international reps available.

The Bs have a double header with both games at Adelaide University Number 2.