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Breeno's Blog

Well this is my first blog, so it will probably be a bit scratchy.
Well here goes.

Seniors
In "F" Grade, which is our clubs 4ths, we played the highly unfavoured Druids in a 40/40 one day game. We lost the toss and decided to bat. We threw a new guy in to open along with one of my fellow juniors, and we looked very solid to start with. This all went wrong when we 3/44 when I came in at no.5

It was the Captain and I in, and I played solidly, grinding it out, and scoring singles off the pace bowlers on a very bouncy pitch. The over before drinks the spinner came on and I hit two fours to take my total to 11 at drinks, and doing my job well, just holding up the wickets.

2 overs later I was caught off a decent cut shot without registering a further score, and we were 4/97. Wickets fell but we felt we made a decent score, all out for 156 as the team we were playing was bowled out the week before for 50 odd.

We came out to bowl, and our openers bowled well having them 4/30 ish. I came on second change and bowled a wide first ball, then took a wicket the next ball with the batsman looking to target me being a Right arm Medium Fast. Next ball was a beauty, shaping away nicely and the ball after that yielded my second wicket and me with a freak caught and bowled catch, diving a few metres to my left at full stretch. I then took another wicket in the following overs and we had them at 7/70.

They slumped to 8/90, with 20 overs left but two kids put on a great partnership dispatching us to all ends of the ground. They needed 9 runs off the second last over, which I was selected to bowl. 2 fours and a 2, quickly put an end to my hope of being the matchwinner, and we didnt know what to say when we were beaten by 10 runs. I finished the macth with 3/33, with two dropped catches and a few other missed opportunities.

Juniors

With our team winning the last 3 premierships, we were away favourites against Keon Park. We quickly slumped, with a good left arm bowler taking 2 wickets and with 3 of our top 4 batsmen having their wickets fall for less than 15. Then our number 5 and 4 batsmen(4 being probably our most solid) batting magnificently, they had us at 3/80 ish in a 24/24 one day format. We finished up with 105 runs on the board and me not being required to bat.

We felt we could defend our total, but with 8 fielders, we had them at 2/30 off the first 8 overs. We then had them at 5/80ish, with about 12 overs left when I was brought on to bowl...and bowl I did. I probably put my best two bowling performances ever back to back. The batsmen had no clue, and we grabbed another two fielders from our 15s playing across the ground and we looked back in the match. So Keon Park are 6/104, with my over coming up and me being on 1/4ish off 4. I bowled well, and second ball there was a misfield which led to four runs and match over. I bowled out the rest of my over and took another wicket, ending the day with 2/10ish.

Summary

Batting

11 runs at no.5

Bowling

3/33 off 6 or 7 overs.

2/10ish off 4.4 overs.

Bowled really well, but we happened to lose both matches on my over. Overall a bad weekend for my teams.
 
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Great start personally breeno, shame about the teams though. Great start to the bowling and solid with the batting, hope that your team can start backing up your performances and getting some wins under the belt
 
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Thanks Jimmy, Seniors have a bye for the next two weeks, so Juniors on Sunday is the next match I will be playing, another one dayer (24/24). Ill try to get some videos of my bowling in the nets up, hopefully my mate can film them tomorrow at training.

Hope all goes well with you too Jimmy!
 
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Sounds like ye were unlucky to lose both games, especially the Druids one after being so much on top. Still, it's early days yet and the signs are good for your own performances - before the season started what were you thinking of as a good haul for the season wicket-wise? And how did you do last year?
 
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Thanks Jimmy, Seniors have a bye for the next two weeks, so Juniors on Sunday is the next match I will be playing, another one dayer (24/24). Ill try to get some videos of my bowling in the nets up, hopefully my mate can film them tomorrow at training.

Hope all goes well with you too Jimmy!
Shame we're already buggered, facing an outright loss, gonna have to bat a long time to save the match! Only 7 turned up, but I guess thats the problem with having the first match in the holidays
 
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edladd;272349 said:
Sounds like ye were unlucky to lose both games, especially the Druids one after being so much on top. Still, it's early days yet and the signs are good for your own performances - before the season started what were you thinking of as a good haul for the season wicket-wise? And how did you do last year?

Last year I took 13 wickets from 13 matches in juniors at an average of 8. Only missed out on the div 1 bowling average by 2 overs.(we needed to bowl a certain amount of overs.)

I noticed at the start of the season that I was bowling a lot quicker and set a good haul as backing up on last years performance, preferably averaging at least 1.5 wickets a match.

So far this year Ive got a good foundation to start on and work my upwards and hopefully rip through some teams.

I also set as one of my goals; to become a more patient batsman and get more opportunities out in the middle. With me batting pretty high up in the seniors, I cant see why I wont get decent time in the middle.

Stay Posted:)
 
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jimmy33;272350 said:
Shame we're already buggered, facing an outright loss, gonna have to bat a long time to save the match! Only 7 turned up, but I guess thats the problem with having the first match in the holidays


Ouch, yea I know how it feels to want to get a good start to the year and being bogged down with close losses, I hope all goes well. Have you got a blog? If not you should start one.
 
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Ouch, yea I know how it feels to want to get a good start to the year and being bogged down with close losses, I hope all goes well. Have you got a blog? If not you should start one.
I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that people will get tired of hearing about my team getting hammered week in, week out! I might, I'm just enjoying everyone elses
 
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My good start to the season has payed off, with the seniors 4ths having a bye this week, Ive been moved up to the 3rds. Its gonna be a hot one today, so I just hope to god that we bat.

Ill keep you all posted after the match:)
 
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You in Melbourne? It didn't turn out to be that hot where we were today, decent breeze.

Congrats on getting up to the 3rds!
 
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We played Bundoora Park today and we were warm favourites.

Well we batted today and bowl next week. We started off shaky with the trigger finger umpire giving one of our most solid batsmen out LBW for 3.

Then our number 3 put on a good partnership with the other opener, who reached 37 before he chopped it on to his stumps. Our number 4 fell quickly for 5.

We were 3/140 at tea.

we soon lost quick wickets and were on 8/240 before our number 10 and our number 3 put on a 99 run partnership with our number 10 falling for 26.

I was next in and hit a four pretty soon and was looking good. I was surprised how solid I was on a low flat track against some quality bowling. I hit 3 fours to power my way to 15 not out.

Alright so its the last over and I'm on 15 with our number 3 on 199, with me on strike. First ball I missed. Second ball I creamed a cover drive to the fielder at deep cover with the wicket keeper yelling "Let it go for four so he doesn't get 200".

The Fielder said how about no and threw the ball back with great sportsmanship. The number 3 then hit 3 4s and made the club record of 213*. The match was over with me being on 16* and the number three being on 213*.

We finished the day with 380ish runs and are looking pretty good to defend that.

Cheers, Ill keep you posted about Juniors tomorrow.
 
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Jonesy;273034 said:
You in Melbourne? It didn't turn out to be that hot where we were today, decent breeze.

Congrats on getting up to the 3rds!

Yea wasnt as hot as we expected but still hotter than usual, dry old day though with the wind being the only relief.
 
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Wow thats a great total, man 213* is a brilliant knock. How many overs did you play? 80? I'd say your pretty good for a win.
 
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Yea we played 80, and it was a fantastic knock, best Ive ever seen at club cricket (To be honest this guy could play 1sts but chooses not to). We should be right for a win but you never know. Hopefully we back it up next week.
 
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Man I'm glad that was an 80 over match, 213* in 50 overs would be mental! Congrats to you for your runs in the 3rds and make the most of those 300 odd runs next week, maybe you will run through them? That'd be nice hey?
 
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Hopefully I can run through them Jimmy, especially since I got moved up for my bowling efforts last week (And the fact our 4ths have a bye). My focus now turns to tomorrow, and winning at home against probably one of the better sides in our division (Juniors).
 
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Well, a sad day for me and the kookas for sure.

In Juniors we bowled first, and got slapped, and I mean everywhere, I bowled trash with 3 overs, 0/15ish. In 24 overs the opposition made 160 odd.

Well first ball was a wicket (Bodgy decision at that too), with our best batsman following soon after. A 40 run partnership was achieved by our number 3 and 4, and then when they went out, the wickets fell. I batted at 7, and faced one ball, which went straight to a fielder who was close in, then I realise my partner is 3/4 of the way up the pitch and I was run out.

I know I shouldve called no, but i went with my instincts and got out.

Hopefully next week I can perform.
 
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Oh by the way, the senior game last week in which our player made 213*, was 70 overs, not 80.

News: I dropped myself down to the second 17s side to get more opportunities with the bat and ball, especially with some gun players coming back to the 1s side.

Ill let you all know how it goes tomorrow and saturday.
 
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