RAIN RAIN!!!

NEWS

No A or B grade games due to rain.  The Bs were called at 11am Sunday!

Jess’s D grade game Saturday was also rained off.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Stingrays Cup evening… Serena had a great night booting home three winners out of six!!!!

T Mac played for the PM’s X1 against South Africa at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney.  She opened the bowling taking a wicket in her first spell ( caught by Amanda Wellington) and took a further wicket in the middle overs.

She batted Number 3 making

Pacing her innings in quest of 203 at just over four and over she lay the foundation with 30 off 46 balls and was involved in a 58 run second wicket stand with captain Beth Mooney. The PM’s X1 won with 11 balls to spare.

This was the second time T Mac has been selected in this team with last year’s game being washed out.

COACHING

Our involvement in the Reynella Oval Milo In2 Cricket and Girls Only programs continues.

We are coaching many of our B graders with the Strikers Cup competition Wednesday evenings at Woodcroft College.

We also wish these girls all the best with their SAPSASA commitments November 21-24.  Kylie, Kempey and Donna will be working with this team.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Charlotte Edwards will be speaking at Cricket Lovers (East Barton Terrace) on Wednesday  23^rd November.  If you are keen to go to this event please contact Kempey.  Jess, T Mac and Marg Jude have also spoken to this group over the last five years.

NEXT WEEK

This week the As play West Torrens at the High School ( the A grade men have a Saturday  / Sunday game at Bice)  and the Bs have a double header at the Playing Fields starting at 11am before we have a weekend off for the Test Match.

ONGLEY’S RULE!!!!

The Ongley team put on a 27 run partnership as they batted together in the Bs for the first time!!!!

Brandi had a big day out with a PB of 42 and bowling very well 3/22 off eight overs.

Serena batted for over 25 balls again (second game in a row) for six.

We started well against West Torrens taking 4/3 in the sixth over.  Cara swung the ball late taking one wicket and troubling the West Torrens skipper and ex-Australian player Caroline Ward. Brandi took two three wickets in her opening spell to have them 5/37 in the 18^th.

An 86 run stand for the sixth wicket took them to 7/130 in the 36^th over and some late hitting saw them 8/148.

Our aim was to bat the overs and spend some time in the middle early in the season. Brandi and Divya gave us an very good platform taking us to 1/48 in the 11^th over. (Divya is our latest recruit from the Darren Lehmann Academy).  She batted with good aggression and ran well.

A 15 run sixth wicket stand between Brandi and Rachel Dicko gave us a sniff of an unlikely win as we were able to get the runs / over to less than  four.

But the introduction of Jolanda Winson slowed the run rate and wickets fell. We finished 15 runs short.

The A Grade was a similar story where we fell 36 runs short in our quest for 158.

We had Kensis 1/19 in the fifth, 2/27 in the sixth and 3/73 in the 12^th, but a 85 run stand between state squad members Doecke and Pope took the game out of our reach.

T Mac was  the most economic with 14 off her four overs with 16 dots out of 25 balls.

Tabby Saville maintained her good form with 49 off 32. T Mac scored 27 off 23 (including one 6!!) to see us within 73 with eight overs to go. But spinner Shae Daly took the wickets of Tabby and T Mac within five runs to put the pressure on.

This week:

The Bs go back to T 20 format with two games at Park 23 and the As  playing Port at home in a 50 over game.