SA U19 vs Aus U19 – season 12

Match Report
By Weeksy
Here is the match report for the South Africa vs Australia game, sorry its a bit late. Hope ya like it.

Game 2 saw our under 19 boys travel to the land down under of Australia, with the game being played at Adelaide.

Rob Ward and Derek “Mysterious” Groenink walked out to toss the coin. Ward won the toss and sent South Africa into bat on an uneven pitch.
Groenink (55 of 71) and Tony Mullen (44 of 45) led the way brilliantly with a great opening partnership of 101, unfortunately, Jimmy ‘The Pain’ Hurter
could not add a single run to the partnership with Groenink as he was dismissed for a duck, then Groneink was out as well.

Loosing three quick wickets like that was not a good sign for the boys, they looked to Doug “The Giant” Kempen and Ray “maddog” Myall to steady the ship,
unfortunately Myall couldn’t do the job only making 4. With the team total now on 124/4 things didn’t look to good.
Kempen was now joined at the crease with Miles “North” Weston, these boys then went on to play brilliantly and stand up for their country when they needed to most.
Kempen ended up on 77 not out from 96 deliveries with Weston facing 74 balls for his not out performance of 77.
The end of 50 overs saw the score at 265/4, mainly thanks to the great opening partnership of Mullen and Groenink, then another partnership followed with Kempen and Weston putting on 141 together.

Now it was time for the South Africa boys to head out and defend their total of 265. The boys were on a high after they got a wicket with the first delivery of the day thanks to Pete Mbata bowling great lines and getting Frank Chambers to hit a catch straight to Shaun Mbatha.
Mbata then followed on to take the next to wickets to end with figures of 3/49 with 1 maiden of his 10 overs. Frank Dhanji was the star batter for Australia making 103.
Kris Nordien was another bowler who chipped in claiming 2 wickets off his 10 overs for 45 runs. Vic Mosheua also bowled good lines, but was unlucky to claim a wicket finishing up with figures off 10 overs 1 maiden for 41 runs.

Australia being at 3 fa 180 were looking alright, but some quick wickets by Nordien brought them back to be 6 fa 213.
The game was coming down to the wire, the crowd started to chew on their fingernails with 31 needed off the last 3 overs. You must say it was looking slightly in favour of SA.
Unfortunatley they got 17 of the 48th over. With Australia only needed 14 off 2 now and the ball was tossed to Phillip ‘Dennis’ Norden to trundle his arm over for the last over of the day.
He bowled well, but with luck not on his side, Australia won with 1 ball remaining, unlucky for our boys, after putting up such a great effort with the bat and then following up to get some quick wickets with the ball.
Plenty of positive to come out of the game, batting partnerships, and some good bowling when wickets were needed.

we now look forward to the next match against Pakistan at home, good luck boys, you are starting to play well together now and a win is just around the corner.

SA U19 vs NZ U19 – season 12

Match Report.

Yesterday, Season 12 kicked off with a home match against New Zealand.
Prior to the match we had a few players with jetlag and thus the choice of who to play was that much more difficult. With 3 spinenrs being in good form, the groundsman at Newlands went out and worked hard to get the pitch dusty to try help them out.

New Zealand won the toss and sent us in to bat.
Bill “whitewolf” Strydom and Dan “Toffee” Wilson opened the batting for us.
Strydom started well with a quick single to get the board ticking. A ball or two was quickly sent to the boundry, showing we are ready for the challange.

Fifth over Wilson missed a inswinging yorker and leg stump was gone and so was he.
Our keeper for the day, Tony “Mullet” Mullen came to the crease but only lasted 1 over before being sent back with to the dressing room.
Seeing wickets falling next to him, Strydom went the next over for 24.

Two new batsman at the crease and all preasure on them with us at 36/3.
Doug “The Giant” Kempen got a quick 11 to help with a few runs to get us to 69/4

Gerry Ledingham and Ray “maddog” Myall to try steady the ship after a dismal start.
With great bowlign from the New Zealand bowlers, our runrate started to slowly drop.
With four batsman down, these two had to get a decent platform for us.
In the 31st over Myall made his debut halve ton and sure was set for his 100.
Ledingham followed soon, but with our runrate at below 4, it was going to be difficult to defend.

Last 10 overs to go, 158/4 and we could still set up a decent total.
In the 45th over we got too eager and lost 4 batsman in 1 over, with New Zealand bowler, Killen, taking a hattrick.
Myall running himself out and our 2 AR’s not putting anything on the board.
Down to 190/8 we were just hoping to get 200 on the bord and defend when we field.

A low target of 206 was set up with a required runrate of 4.12 needed.

New zealand started well, as we did, and a early runout was joyfully accepted by the spectators and team.
They kept the runs keeping ticking over and had wickets in hand.
Phillip ‘Dennis’ Norden struck in the 10th over and took the settling Tsimba.
Fitness was showing on our bowlers and we just did not pitch the ball in the right places and did not keep the runrate down.
On the NT side our lads were looking good agaisnt India (93-3, runrate=4.65, reqrunrate=6.47 (286-4)), and RL, SA just needed to stay in.
Back on topic
Caleb “The Ambassador” Ferreira came back for his second spell and got Shanks just before he made is 50.
Runrate still being a problem and NZ having depth, wickets is what we needed!
Pete Mbata struck two overs later and New Zealand 176/4, we can still pull it off.

Mbata clean bowled Carter-harris, the danger man at that point, 2 shy off his maiden debut century.
With it all being too little too late,we lost the match with 5 overs remaining.

Bad day for SA cricket

Battrick: SA U19 vs Aus U19

Reporting from Newlands today where Australia won the toss and elected to put South Africa in to bat on their home pitch.

The pitch is looking rather cracked and on this hot sunny day it would be a field day for the seamers.

Sticks and Mouse opened the batting for us today and started the first over with a bang. Sticks looked as he was going for a great innings but lost his wicket early.

Karpov joined Mouse at the crease, coming in lower down on in the order. These two put up a great 64 run partnership when a dterrible umpiring decision sent Karpov back into the stands.

With the loss of the wicket Australia had us on the back foot and the runrate started to drop. Their bowlers were bowling great and the batsman did their best to keep the scoreboard ticking.

Mouse got his fifty and was trying his best to improve on his 83 vs England. Anthony lost his wicket as the 2 made their 100 run partnership, that kept our boat steady.

Disney in and want show that he is not a few run wonder and put bat to ball to assist Mouse in his first century. Disney started to show why he was picked and hit 5 fours and 3 sixes to take his score to 63 off 44 balls. Mouse lost his wicket and Farmer came in, hitting 2 great fours in the last over, to steer SA to a mighty 276-4 in the alotted overs.

The Antichrist opened the bowling and early gave away 6 runs. Could this show what is waiting in the next 49 overs?
The Animal bowlign from the duck pond end showed great line and length to keep Australia at bay.

Australia kept a good runrate and it was high priority to get it lower. Screech and Blade came in and really tightened the ropes on Australia with great bowling to put huge pressure on the batsman.
With the runrate dropping drastically and the RRR growing, it started swinging the game back into SA’s favour.
Still with no wickets taken, we were happy with the runrate dropping.

Jimmy came on for his session, taking over the great spell from Blade to keep the runs low. By the time The Animal came back for his second session the batsman was so frustrated that 2 wickets fell insuccession.

The last 10 overs remaining and at this stage SA and Aus were on the same score.

The required runrate creeping up high for the Aus, it was all or nothing. Our bowlers kept their cool and alowed the singles to go.

These last 20-30 min the threads were full of supporters that watched the game. F5 buttons were pressed millions of times, stress increased and all to see our boys beat Australia in the greatest game played in BT.

Congrats to the lads!

South Africa U19 won by 9 runs.
South Africa U19 276-4
Australia U19 267-2

The ratings say it all!

____________ _South Africa U19__Australia U19_
_Top Order:_____masterful________phenomenal__
_Middle Order:___exquisite_______ _masterful_____
_Lower Order:__ _abysmal_________abysmal______
_Seam Bowling:__masterful________masterful_____
_Spin Bowling:___sensational_____ _masterful_____
_Fielding:______ _proficient_______ _strong________