Day 1
Wow! What a day. After a fabulous win last week against Hornsby, we played an underdone ARL and smashed them. Winning the toss (something different) John elected to bat and the tone was set. We took 6 off the first over and kept up the run rate for the next 43 overs.

There were so many highlights:
• Ross A clocked up 7,000 runs in the 1st over
• John Steel just slammed 100* with the highlight being a lofted cover drive for 6 and his amazing running
• Tony Hadley continuing to score heavily with 62*
• Nathan looking the goods in his 1st knock of the season with a typically understated 20*
• Kishore just missing a hat-trick

The onslaught was so ferocious John declared 10 minutes before Tea. This was a brave decision but as it turned out – absolutely right as we got them out just before stumps thereby banking our 6 points.

Then on to the bowling – equally impressive, admittedly against some ‘interesting’ batting. Everyone bowled very well. Ben was very good taking 2 wickets and got great support from Andrew with Kishore chipping in with 4 wickets and was once on a hat-trick. He ended up getting 3 in 4 balls.

After rolling them for 63 we had a second bite and got another 2 wickets with Sahil getting both, including a fantastic one handed caught and bowled in failing light.

While taking account of the opposition we were ruthless and did everything right. Some of us were talking during the match that while our batsmen were outstanding, the bigger issue was the strength of the order with players yet to bat – we will have the odd bad day this season but should be a real force.

Day 2
The game was over by 2.15 pm with another powerful bowling and fielding effort. There was a little bit of resistance from one of their batsmen but this was only for 20 odd runs. We basically did the job and did it well.

This was a bowling day. Senthu and Andrew opened up and it was purely a matter about when the floodgates would open – the odd good shot but with a lot more half chances. Andrew Watt finished with 2/23 and caused a lot of angst with his variable bounce. Ben was the standout bowler on Saturday though with 3/13 – all wickets coming in one over. Sahil of course got his two wickets from last week.

Welcome to Michael McDowell who took a sharp catch in the gully early on.

We play Ku-ring-gai Chase next week at Annangrove again and this will be a better test as to how we are going but …we can’t do much better than lead the Comp after 2 Rounds with 16 points.

Ross A

Posted by Ross Anderson on October 1, 2007 08:57 AM