Edgemead…found the sharp edge of the knife here…
I was seriously out of it for a few days now because of flu (or a bad cold, sometimes can’t tell the difference when it gets that bad). So my match report of last Saturday’s game is very late in comparison to others. The silver lining to the dark cloud though is that it gave me a proper chance to evaluate our performance on Saturday and maybe outline a few problem areas to work on without becoming too critical.
We fielded first on another bad pitch. Our players tend to get too critical about our own facilities at our club when the situation out there is pretty much a lot worse. Edgemead tried their best to accommodate us with a field and I can not believe for a second that they would have willingly chosen that field as the venue if they knew what a state that pitch was in!
There were craters the size of a mans fist on the end. It was barely rolled and compacted which made this pitch a bowler’s paradise. We fielded first and thought we did a good job restricting them to 106 all out with none of their batsmen progressing past 17 runs individually. We had a good keeper in Justin Broker and would have loved to see him back in the fray for this week’s game, but unfortunately he can’t make it.
The fact that the only real extras on a bad up-and-down pitch came of the odd bye and wide when the Edgemead bowling performance had soooooo many 2’s and 3’s in extras is a good yardstick to use to compare our fielding performance to theirs.
Our batting though let us down.
We got bowled out for 92! Wray dug in and managed a flashy 41, which included a couple of huge sixes over square leg, but not after he got pinned by a few nasty laterally moving balls in the stomach and groin area! Then the rest of our batsmen did not take into account the nature of the pitch and tried in vein to play as normally as possible and lost their wickets in the process in a spectacular fashion, handing the opening bowler of Edgemead the distinguished figures of 4/10 in 8 overs.
We had some highlights in the bowling department as well. Wayne “Horse Chestnut” Beukes finally hit his straps and managed to get figures of 2/6 in 5 overs, Wray managed 2/0 in three balls (well done big guy) and Bryan Fulton managed 2/20 in 8 overs.
Where do we go from here? I sincerely do not know. Bellville next on Saturday at Bosmansdam where we had a good 8 wicket win about a month ago. Lets hope the field treats us as good as it did then because God knows we need some luck now…
We fielded first on another bad pitch. Our players tend to get too critical about our own facilities at our club when the situation out there is pretty much a lot worse. Edgemead tried their best to accommodate us with a field and I can not believe for a second that they would have willingly chosen that field as the venue if they knew what a state that pitch was in!
There were craters the size of a mans fist on the end. It was barely rolled and compacted which made this pitch a bowler’s paradise. We fielded first and thought we did a good job restricting them to 106 all out with none of their batsmen progressing past 17 runs individually. We had a good keeper in Justin Broker and would have loved to see him back in the fray for this week’s game, but unfortunately he can’t make it.
The fact that the only real extras on a bad up-and-down pitch came of the odd bye and wide when the Edgemead bowling performance had soooooo many 2’s and 3’s in extras is a good yardstick to use to compare our fielding performance to theirs.
Our batting though let us down.
We got bowled out for 92! Wray dug in and managed a flashy 41, which included a couple of huge sixes over square leg, but not after he got pinned by a few nasty laterally moving balls in the stomach and groin area! Then the rest of our batsmen did not take into account the nature of the pitch and tried in vein to play as normally as possible and lost their wickets in the process in a spectacular fashion, handing the opening bowler of Edgemead the distinguished figures of 4/10 in 8 overs.
We had some highlights in the bowling department as well. Wayne “Horse Chestnut” Beukes finally hit his straps and managed to get figures of 2/6 in 5 overs, Wray managed 2/0 in three balls (well done big guy) and Bryan Fulton managed 2/20 in 8 overs.
Where do we go from here? I sincerely do not know. Bellville next on Saturday at Bosmansdam where we had a good 8 wicket win about a month ago. Lets hope the field treats us as good as it did then because God knows we need some luck now…
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08:30:44
We can only hope for some luck … Bellville is a strong team