breeno
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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.
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.
