SACA Grade Cricket

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Only four rounds to go in the grade competition and the premiership table is getting very interesting.

1st Northern Districts 127.09 points
2nd Adelaide 119.47
3rd University 119.35
4th Kensington 118.21

5th Woodville 115.56*
6th Sturt 109.81*
7th West Torrens 107.89*
8th Southern Districts 104.90
9th Glenelg 94.87
10th Tea Tree Gully 82.87
11th East Torrens 75.09
12th Port Adelaide 74.73*
13th Prospect 51.19
* = still have the bye to come

Round 10 - Sat Jan 24 and 31
Southern Districts vs West Torrens (Bice Oval)
Tea Tree Gully vs Sturt (Pertaringa Oval)
Glenelg vs Adelaide (Glenelg Oval)
Northern Districts vs University (Salisbury Oval)
Kensington vs East Torrens (Parkinson Oval)
Woodville vs Prospect (Woodville Oval)

Southern Districts vs West Torrens and TTG vs Sturt are effectively knockout finals. I can't see either of those teams dropping this game and still making the finals. Last roll of the dice for the Bays. The Buffalos are in good form.

You'd expect Kensington and Woodville to prevail against lowly opposition. Match of the round at Salisbury Oval between the Jets and Uni. Northern Districts have been the surprise packets of the season. Helps that they've had Cosgrove for nearly every game.

All the state players are available this week but there is a Shield game the second week of the match.

 

[Cap]

Wil be interesting to see how some of the redbacks go... if they get to play.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Round 10 - Day 1
Southern Districts 10/152 vs West Torrens 3/51
West Torrens were 3/9 at one stage. No Putland so I can't see the Stingrays knocking them over.

Tea Tree Gully 10/226 vs Sturt
65 to Simon Stolcman. Huge run chase for the Blues next week. Drop the points here and they can kiss 2008/09 goodbye.

Glenelg 9/247 vs Adelaide
Typical Glenelg... bat the full day at 2.5 runs per over. Boring. Don't reckon it will be enough against the Buffalos either.

Northern Districts 10/251 vs University 0/8
Cosgrove 102, Manou 69 and f___ all from anyone else. Will be interesting to see the Redbacks XI. If Cooper stays you'd think Uni will get these runs.

Kensington 7/386 vs East Torrens
Loooong day for the Reds, who had the Browns at 4/53 at one stage. Aaron O'Brien 153 not out. 186 would probably be enough, let alone 386.

Woodville 3/117dec vs Prospect 10/85 and 0/9
Outright points brewing for the Peckers. Will be very handy for them given that they've still got the bye to come.

 

[ubolt]

It was a brilliant innings by O'Brien and Cleary yesterday after a bit of a shaky start. Once they both got going it was going to be impossible to stop them. Sad thing for East Torrens was the amount of dropped catches. O'Brien never gave a chance, but Cleary was dropped 3 times (2 were basically sitters) and Pat Connelly who also made 50 odd was dropped 3 times (and again two were basically sitters).


I still find it interesting to see Northern Districts up the top, they've really only got a few run getters each week, and Cossie is generally one of them, but yet they still sit top. They've done well.

In the XXXX Gold Cup One Day competition. The semi finals were played last sunday. Glenelg defeated Sturt and Kensington defeated Northern Districts. The final for that game will be played at Adelaide Oval next Sunday beginning at 2:30pm.

 

[Ill Chicken]

Kensington looking for their 3rd OD flag in four years, will be hard to beat especially if all players are available. They'll be the goods come March as well, you'd have to say a Woodville/Kensington final be on the cards, would be disappointing if they meet in the semi-final.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

No Redback players available for the XXXX Gold one day grand final. Shield game at the MCG. So the Browns may be without Klinger, Cleary and O'Brien, although Daniel Christian may have pinched the allrounder's position off O'Brien?

Glenelg at full strength, assuming Neil Rowe has got over a hamstring strain.

Makes it a very interesting tussle. Jason Donnelly to bowl the Bays to victory in a tight one.

 

[ubolt]

i'm going to tip Kensington in this one - just to go against you Carl

should be a good game of cricket this one.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Round 10 - Day 2
West Torrens defeated Southern Districts. Passed their score of 152 about 5 down so pretty comfortable. Half century for West Thomas. Massive win for West Torrens, puts them back in the race for a top four spot. Southern Districts are gawn.

Sturt got the runs against TTG, finished at about 260 chasing 220. Keeps them in the finals mix, season over for TTG if it wasn't already.

Adelaide all out for 92 chasing Glenelg's 247... and it took them 85 overs! Surely the most boring day in the history of cricket, in any country, at any level. What is going on with the Glenelg pitch? Bays keep their slim finals hopes alive.

Jets stay on top, defeating University. Cosgrove took 3 wickets, Uni finished about 50 short of the Jets 251. Delmont and Adcock both missed out and Christian and Cooper were on Redbacks duty.

East Torrens fell about 250 runs short of Kensington's 7/386. With Adelaide and University both losing the Browns may have snuck into 2nd place. Handy to get a few hours rest for today's GF too.

Woodville beat Prospect outright. Massive win for them. they've still got the bye to come so they needed this result big time.

 

[Ill Chicken]

Kensington went down today, anyone got the full details?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Kensington went down today, anyone got the full details?

Browns made 153 batting first. Apparently lost a wicket off the first ball of the game and only got worse from there! Allegretto 41, Schwerdt 40, Brinsley 25.

Bays were 2/22 at one stage but then cruised to victory. Alex Carey finished 64 not out and won the medal.

 

[ubolt]

Connelly out LBW first ball of the game. Looked plumb. Connelly didn't look too happy though. But that's cricket.

Didn't quite live up to expectations this game. Typical slow limited overs game in SA Grade Cricket. The Semi-Final between Northern Districts and Kensington would have had to have been the best one in a long time. 263 vs 253 off 50 overs.

Another premiership decided on Sunday too: the Women's A Grade Twenty20 final. Port made 5/91 off their 20 (after being 0/70 off 14 overs). And Northern Districts got the runs in 14 Overs.

only a few more rounds to go now. Round 11 starts this weekend.

 

[Beltaball]

This weeks round 1v11,2v12,3v13,4v9 Top v Bottom

Feb, 14 Feb West Torrens v BYE View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) Adelaide v Tea Tree Gully Glandore Oval View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) East Torrens v (1)Northern Districts Campbelltown Oval View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) Port Adelaide v (2)Woodville Port Adelaide Reserve View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) Prospect v (3)Kensington Prospect Oval View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) University v Glenelg University Oval No 1 View
7 Feb, 14 Feb(11:40 AM) (4)Sturt v Southern District Price Memorial Oval View

 

[Ill Chicken]

Apparently the covers were left on until 10:30ish out at Parkinson Oval. The Browns lost the toss and were almost rolled on sticky wicket against Port Adelaide.

 

[ubolt]

shocking deck out at Bice saw Adelaide rolled for 108 after being 24/6. Dan Cullen and Luke Williams held the innings together. Southerns at stumps are 105/6.

Not a great pitch. Balls flying high, going underground, going normal, turning, decking, swinging. You name it - it had been done.

 

[Ill Chicken]

Disappointingly the Browns are playing Woodville and Northern Districts are playing Sturt. Tipping the Browns to come through with their state players back to meet Northern Districts in the GF.

 

[ubolt]

looked like a bit of a thriller for them on saturday ill chicken: now they have to do it all again. this time over 2 days.

Semi Final Line Ups for all grades:

A Grade:

Northern Districts vs Sturt (Salisbury Oval)
Woodville vs Kensington (Woodville Oval)

B Grade:

Northern Districts vs Southern Districts (Park 25 #1)
Tea Tree Gully vs Glenelg (Pertaringa Oval)

C Grade:

Northern Districts vs Southern Districts (The Paddocks #2)
Sturt vs West Torrens (Unley Oval)

D Grade:

Adelaide vs Sturt (Glandore Oval)
Tea Tree Gully vs Glenelg (Bulkana Oval)

Under 16 Red:

East Torrens vs Adelaide (Campbelltown Oval)
Kensington vs Sturt (Parkinson Oval)

Under 16 White:

East Torrens vs Northern Districts (Windsor Gardens VC#1)
Kensington vs Tea Tree Gully (Marraytville High School)

Under 14 Red:

Sturt vs Kensington (AA Bailey Reserve)
East Torrens vs Port Adelaide (Park 25 #2)

Under 14 White:

Sturt vs Adelaide (Park 23)
Port Adelaide vs Northern Districts (EP Nazar Reserve)

Women's A Grade:

Sturt vs Northern Districts (Price Memorial Oval)
West Torrens vs Port Adelaide (Henley High School)

Women's B Grade:

Tea Tree Gully vs East Torrens (Adelaide Oval #2)
Port Adelaide vs Southern Districts (Port Adelaide Reserve)

Women's C Grade:

Prospect vs Northern Districts (Prospect Oval)
Southern Districts vs Port Adelaide (Port Adelaide forfeit game!)

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I'm backing a Woodville vs Sturt grand final.

Reckon the Redbacks boys are pretty much over their season now and Manou and Cosgrove will need to sober up significantly to make a contribution. Cossie's mind already on his impending shift to Queensland, if rumours are true. Sturt to sneak past them in a close one. Five wickets to Ollie Thomas.

Woodville too strong at home. Play their ground well. Have the wood on the Browns after winning from an unwinnable position on the weekend (put on 30 for the last wicket!) Daniel Harris and Ken Skewes to spearhead the victory.

Having said that, apparently Kane Richardson got two right hand batsmen out lbw last weeekend whilst bowling around the wicket. Two of Andy Collins seven lbw's for the game. Is there a bigger ego in South Australian cricket circles? Or a worse umpire?

 

[Ill Chicken]

Kensington will have a fairly different top order come Saturday though in comparison to last week. Cleary, Klinger and O'Brien will push O'Loughlin, May and either Gilles, Allegreto or McNeil out. I'm tipping Allegreto but will probably be Gilles. They could even play the extra bat considering O'Brien and Cleary are both well above district all-rounder quality.

Northern Districts and Sturt will be hoping to play Woodville rather than the Browns, as everyone knows the finals record we hold.

 

[Ill Chicken]

Woodville rolled for 80 odd and Kensington rolled for 70 odd.

 

[ubolt]

Woodville vs Kensington scores:

Woodville 80 all out (34.5 Overs)
Kensington 71 all out (32.4 Overs)
Woodville 179/3 (71.5 Overs)

Northern Districts vs Sturt scores:

Northern Districts 265 all out
Sturt 187 all out


Grand Finals: 21st and 22nd March this coming weekend

A Grade:

Northern Districts vs Woodville (Adelaide Oval)

B Grade:

Northern Districts vs Tea Tree Gully (Salisbury Oval)

C Grade:

Sturt vs Southern Districts (Price Memorial Oval)

D Grade:

Adelaide vs Glenelg (Glandore Oval)

Under 16 Red:

East Torrens vs Kensington (Campbelltown Oval)

Under 16 White:

Tea Tree Gully vs Northern Districts (Bulkana Oval)

Under 14 Red:

East Torrens vs Kensington (Windsor Gardens VC #1)

Under 14 White:

Sturt vs Port Adelaide (Unley Oval)

Women's A Grade: 21st March

Sturt vs West Torrens (Park 25 #1)

Women's B Grade: 21st March

Tea Tree Gully vs Port Adelaide (Pertaringa Oval)

Women's C Grade: 22nd March

Prospect vs Southern Districts (Prospect Oval)

 

[meh]

Watch Chad Sayers go interstate and forge out a successful first class career.

I think Woodville will get over the top of Jets, the Jets bowling still seems a little suspect. Woodville's bowling line up is much more dangerous and they have a steady batting line up with Harris, Page, Skewes, Wells etc.

Should be a great game, interesting location, thought Adelaide Oval was unavailable because of the construction? ahh well.

Also Gullies to win the B grade flag

 

[Ill Chicken]

Anyone know the results?

 

[ubolt]

A Grade:

Woodville 272/9 (90 Overs)
Daniel Harris 44
Matthew Page 61
Ken Skewes 49
Luke Wells 45
Aaron Sayers 29
Tom Clark 17*

Mark Cosgrove 5/64 (17 Overs)
Andrew Frick 1/72 (29 Overs)
Steven Marks 1/35 (18 Overs)

Northern Districts 231 all out (71.1 Overs)
Cameron Francis 32
Graham Manou 24
Mark Hanson 63
Steven Marks 21
Trent Pascoe 32

Chadd Sayers 3/64 (21 Overs)
Carl Tietjens 2/46 (12.1 Overs)
Daniel Harris 3/30 (13 Overs)
Kane Richardson 1/45 (10 Overs)
Tom Clark 1/14 (4 Overs)

B Grade:

Tea Tree Gully 194 defeated Northern Districts 56

C Grade:

Sturt 192/7 defeated Southern Districts 188/9
*winning runs hit with 6 balls remaining in game*

D Grade:

Glenelg 194 defeated Adelaide 182

 

[Ill Chicken]

Woodville (A grade) and Glenelg (D grade) go back to back.