Battrick: SA U19 vs Eng U19

Match 2

Welcome to Newlands for the match between South Africa U19 and England U19.
The pitch is looking quite cracked! A field day for the seam bowlers I would reckon on this sunny day.

South Africa have made a few changes in their team since their last match,one of them making sure they selected the captain

The inclusion of all-rounder Casey means that we have a long batting line-up today. Whitbread took the new ball with Casey assisting from the other end.

Casey struck in the 5th over, taking the middle stump out of the ground and running around like Alan Donald with arms spread out wide.

The runrate stuck at around 5 an over and by the 20th over England put a 100 on the board. The 2 batsman in made the hundred partnership when Morrison beat the batsman all ends up.

The next batsman came to the crease and started knocking the balls all over the field. Blakeman did his best to keep the runrate down.
Even though it went all in vain as Whitbread and Morrison came on and the last 10 overs were the most expensive of the match. Could this cost SA the match?
The inclusion of a spinner could of helped slow the runrate down.

England set a decent toal of 268-4.

Our guys have the ability to chase the total down.
Van der walt and Henning opened the batting for us with Iveson, Anthony, Warren, Khulekani , and Casey still to come and bat.

Starting with a chase of just over 5 runs an over, Van der Walt set out to get the runs quick but was found plumb in front of the wicket.

Our skipper came in and was hoping to better his debut score of 30 but showed real sportmanship with a nick behind decision and decided to walk.

Anthony and Henning together showed great determination kept the score ticket over. The runrate was dropping but all was hoping that they would speed up.

Henning got his 50 first with Anthony following a few overs later. At the 30 over mark the required runrate creeped up into the 7’s and the need for runs was clear. The 2 slowly increase the strike rate and cought up with the England score at that stage, but again the last 10 overs is where it would all boil down too.

Both batsman reached their centiories but at a slow rate and thus putting more stress on themselfs and giving the upper hand to England.

Finishing 12 runs short in the end it showed were the runs were restricted in the middle of the innings cost us at the end and our bowlers giving away too many runs in the last session.

Thus the opening series of the season against England came to a draw. We could and should of won this match but great bowling by England put the odds back into their favour.

Now back to the drawing board for the Australia encounter and resting players for tough 2 match’s next week.

Battrick: Eng U19 vs SA U19

Match 1

Evening everybody,

To all those who missed the game, read on.

Tim IvesonPladzoeder, our captain today, won the toss and elected that we go in and bat.

A shuffle of two spots saw Esterhuizen and Iveson opening the batting for SA. As our opening match for our U19 the team was still a bit unknown.

Our two openers got a steady foundation down with singles to rotate the strike and hitting a four almost every over.
Iveson was gettign frustrated and attempted a reverse sweep, but lost his wicket for that attempt.

Khulekani came in and set off with a blistering pace to assist Esterhuizen with increasing the runrate. In the 24 over saw us getting 100 on the board and Easterhuizen making his debut maiden 50.

Khulekani lost his wicket 9 runs short of his 50. Making 41 off 49 balls for a strike rate of 83.67. Esterhuizen still assisting with keeping the boat afloat was fast on his way to make that 50 into a 100.

“Karpov” Warren our keeper came in with 17 overs left of the innings and was eager for the English bowlers.
First ball he drove into covers for 2, just to get his eye in. 4 overs later Esterhuizen swings and steps out of his crease for a easy stumping.

Platzoeder and Warren both ready for the final 10 onslaught.
Both of them quickly made hitting boundaries feel like second nature and saw the fielders drop their shoulders.
With singles to keep the strike rotated saw only 3 dot balls in the last 10 overs.
Between them they racked up 13 fours, sixes and in one over celebrate their maiden 50’s in style to take South Africa to a great total of 277 for 3.

Change of innings and Maymann and Whitbread opening the bowlign for us. Whitbread’s first ball see’s the batsman getting a thick edge and Warren taking a great catch behind the stumps.

England were set out to try and get the runs went all guns blazing. Maymann countered with another quick wicket. Thus putting Eng at 17 for 2 after 3 overs.

10 over down and with England being 2 wickets down also 4 runs behind. Waren shoed his reflex and glove skills by taking a stumping setting England to 67-3.

At the 20 over mark they were ahead by 23 runs but with our great bowlign having them at 3 wickets down. “The Terminator” Metcalf bowled a sitter for a easy catch for Platzoeder in the field.

With the runrate creaping up it was getting tight for the batsman. England Griffen kept the runs ticking even with wickets falling next to him.
Barker came back for his final few overs to take 2 important wickets and putting the home team on the back foot.

With 14 overs left Whitbread and Mayman came back for their last spells to finish off the tail enders.
Bringing a great thumping from the visitors. Winning by 112 runs.

“Thanks again to all our player’s managers and well done to our boys for showing they can do it”, is all the manager could say before being swept away for the after match party.

Man of the Match : Esterhuizen

___________England U19____South Africa U19
Top Order: _exquisite_______miraculous
Middle Order: remarkable ___remarkable
Lower Order: worthless _____abysmal
Seam Bowling: exceptional __exquisite
Spin Bowling: wonderful ____exquisite
Fielding: respectable _______proficient