Seniors Round 10 Day 1 Reports
The bowlers take St. Johns to task.
After routing Footballers last week, the 1st XI took on another side fighting for a spot in the four, St. Johns at home this week.
The Gators won the toss and sent St. Johns in on yet another coolish day and after there was quite a bit of rain the night before. The Gators bowling attack miserly and effective, once again and managed to close St. John's innings after 52 overs for 141. Cam Wheeler with 3 wickets and Steve Deller with 4, ripping the heart out of St. Johns.
The Gators then went in to bat and finished the day at 1 for 51, with Clint Buckland on 33no. With 9 wickets in hand and only 90 odd runs to get, the Gators are in the box seat and are looking to keep their winning streak going.
Seconds set a massive total for St. Johns to chase.
By fighting our way back into the top 4 with the win last week against the Footballers, the Gators travelled away to Talaskia to play St Johns Tecoma and start the winning streak again.
After losing the toss, in which Eraj wanted to bowl, the Gators were sent in to bat. Coming back into the team, Kallum opened the batting with Chris Harris. With the combination of poor bowling from St Johns Tecoma, a fast outfield and superb batting, the two blasted the gators off to a powerful start. Kallum took the game out of St Johns’ hands by piercing the boundary left, right, and centre and was looking at reaching a massive score, but lost his wicket at 72 after reaching a 101 partnership with Chris Harris.
Searching for some form, twin brother Brad came in and looked to replicate his brothers innings and made a sensible 29. On the other end, Chris Harris was seeing them like beach balls and continued where Kallum left off and soon reached his ton. By the 45th over, Chris Harris reached his highest score ever with 155 before losing his wicket, with his innings placing the gators at 4/308 and set them up for a big win. Cameo appearances by Paul Adams with 41, and a promotion for Ryan Fabrici from the 3rds saw him get a quick 17.
The Gators were 8/377 before the skipper declared, and decided to have a crack at St Johns, with an hour before stumps. Both openers, Eraj and Brad, took a wicket each, leaving the opposition 2/47 overnight.
The Threes come up against a comp bowling legend.
The 3rds were back home at the tip for this round playing Upwey, after winning the toss we chose to bowl first, Lachy Smith got us off to a good start dismissing one of their openers early, Nick Burridge also bowled tightly. Luke Heads continued his great bowling this season taking another wicket before two of their batsmen got on top of us. At drinks they were 3/80 of 20 overs, after drinks they continued scoring quickly before Argy came onto to bowl and dismiss one of them with his first ball. After that we slowed their scoring down and after 35 over they are 4/156.
Our batting this year hasn't been our strongest suit and with Upwey's bowling attack being one of the best in our division, it was also going to be tough, All batsmen toiled hard and didn't give up their wickets easy, Argy was the pick of the batsmen with 18, we finished our 35 overs at 8/81 with Heff and Nick Burridge at the crease.
