Para Districts Cricket Association 2010-11

[sports follower]

Would imagine particularly with this rain the ground will be reasonably slow actually. The grass is a bit longer, looking very lush. But the boundaries will still be with in reach

In grade 2 no offence to BL, but surely CU will go all the way? Over the past two seasons they have appeared to just go from strength to strength.

As for any other cricket talk, well i really don't want to talk about grade 4.. bad habit of saying something that will come back to bite me on the a$$!!!!

Serious cricket talk then.........
I am sure all grounds will be slower than expected with all the rain over the last few days. We have had double the average of rain in January - March.
If Brahma can bat first and put up a decent score of 180+ it will put Units under pressure and they do like to play their shots so will give Brahma some chances. Units have a very good consistent bowling attack so a score of 180 will be tough but Brahma have shown this season they will not throw their wickets away and should bat out their 70 overs.
Not sure if Brahma's bowling attack is as good as Units and will need to bowl good area's to get some early wickets and put pressure on their middle to lower order.
Not a huge ground so that may also suit Units who have the batsmen capable of clearing the boundary, whereas Brahma are a side who are pretty good between the wickets although there were a few run outs last Saturday when they chased some quick runs.
Like I stated earlier my money is on the Units but good luck to both sides.

[Honda07]

Feltus on standby to replace Morton if all goes sour at tomorrow nights hearing.

Feltus bowled 12 on the trot with good pace on the weekend in grade 4 with no luck at all.

Suprised he cant find his way into the 11 anyway - he is a quality bowler. Mitchell must be impressive!

[Phantom Gossiper]

Feltus on standby to replace Morton if all goes sour at tomorrow nights hearing.

Feltus bowled 12 on the trot with good pace on the weekend in grade 4 with no luck at all.

Suprised he cant find his way into the 11 anyway - he is a quality bowler. Mitchell must be impressive!

Guess it's still doubts on whether he can last out a full game. Mitchell is handy thats for sure, has made the most of his promotion to the A grade on the back of collecting 20 odd wickets in the B grade.
You rate the R&C top 7 batting, but to me their greatest strength is depth in bowling. The batting line up although on paper looks quality, can be hit or miss, but the bowling lineup are consistant and attacking.

[Honda07]

Feltus on standby to replace Morton if all goes sour at tomorrow nights hearing.

Feltus bowled 12 on the trot with good pace on the weekend in grade 4 with no luck at all.

Suprised he cant find his way into the 11 anyway - he is a quality bowler. Mitchell must be impressive!

Guess it's still doubts on whether he can last out a full game. Mitchell is handy thats for sure, has made the most of his promotion to the A grade on the back of collecting 20 odd wickets in the B grade.
You rate the R&C top 7 batting, but to me their greatest strength is depth in bowling. The batting line up although on paper looks quality, can be hit or miss, but the bowling lineup are consistant and attacking.

Any attack with Jimmy in it is gonna be strong. Russell always bowls an immaculate line. Stama can swing it both ways and still gets the odd one to lift and kick, Craig and Daniel do enough to be dangerous and Bomber is not even required. I know nothing about Mitchell so hopefully I can bat long enough to find out. Then we have Jimmy who I expect to bowl 25 overs of consistent pace from one end and if u are not on ur game ur stumps can be knocked over everywhere or nicking one to that occasional one that goes away. He could never bowl that as consistently as he does now before he went to turf. Would love to have him from one end and davies from the other end to face. NOT!

[Thats Gold]

LM,

Put me down for the following all up:

Units @ $1.60 to defeat Lodge (G2) into EP @ $2.00 to defeat Atco (G3). Cost $82.00

Cheers and sorry to hear about your Gran mate.

[catchit]

Feltus on standby to replace Morton if all goes sour at tomorrow nights hearing.

Feltus bowled 12 on the trot with good pace on the weekend in grade 4 with no luck at all.

Suprised he cant find his way into the 11 anyway - he is a quality bowler. Mitchell must be impressive!

Mitchell has the knack of doing everything with the ball...not overlly quick but quick enough, you will get 2 outswingers then one that looks like it is going to go away but decks back in...bowled very well last week...
As for our ground...not a chance you will get value for shots,we have put a request in to get it mowed but with this rain i cant see them doing it...will be long and slow..good for our hitters though as its a 60 mtr hit over the top

[catchit]

Was talking to jim lastnight and to say he is pumped would be a understatement, looking forward to see him charging in on our home deck, always finds a extra yard at home with the run ups being the best in the comp by a mile...he was one happy boy when we got top spot and is itching to bowl a marathon spell...

[Lightning McQueen]

Was talking to jim lastnight and to say he is pumped would be a understatement, looking forward to see him charging in on our home deck, always finds a extra yard at home with the run ups being the best in the comp by a mile...he was one happy boy when we got top spot and is itching to bowl a marathon spell...

I think you have too much concrete behind the stumps, it's nice that it's a level surface but ankle, knee and back injuries would be rife through jarring.

[Lightning McQueen]

Suprised he cant find his way into the 11 anyway - he is a quality bowler. Mitchell must be impressive!

Guess it's still doubts on whether he can last out a full game. Mitchell is handy thats for sure, has made the most of his promotion to the A grade on the back of collecting 20 odd wickets in the B grade.
You rate the R&C top 7 batting, but to me their greatest strength is depth in bowling. The batting line up although on paper looks quality, can be hit or miss, but the bowling lineup are consistant and attacking.

You say that being a R&C lad, playing against them is a different story, you have one strike bowler and the rest bowl an impeccable line and length, very similar to Browny and Sibbs, they rely on batsmen's mistakes or poor judgement to get wickets, it just works out that most batsmen in the PDCA lack patience and fall for it.
There's probably only 4 or 5 bowlers in Grade 1 that have to rely on themselves to get wickets, no disrespect to any other bowlers getting around as I do think and the figures prove there's plenty of decent ones.
90% of them are stump to stump length bowlers with a bit of sideways movement, batsmen get over-confident and get forced into mistakes, I haven't seen too many loose balls in the games that I have seen this season, it's changed our line of thinking as the season has progressed,

[catchit]

Was talking to jim lastnight and to say he is pumped would be a understatement, looking forward to see him charging in on our home deck, always finds a extra yard at home with the run ups being the best in the comp by a mile...he was one happy boy when we got top spot and is itching to bowl a marathon spell...

I think you have too much concrete behind the stumps, it's nice that it's a level surface but ankle, knee and back injuries would be rife through jarring.

We havnt got the blokes who charge in to worry about injuries like that and havnt had any injuries because of the concrete..jim gets his pace from rythem and a great action and the 7 games we have played there he has bowled alot quicker than anywhere else...the down side of the concrete is the throws to the stumps, the ball can become scuffed up quickly if fielders dont look after the keeper..
Was talking to russel and wouldnt be suprised if jim starts his marathon spell when brahma are 2 down, only because of the record he has against the great man sibb..get through him early and jim can have 20 overs at the other 7.. Also would change groovers outlook on the game and might get abit to confident early on...russel and mitchell very handy new ball bowlers, and capable of getting early wickets with both being able to swing it both ways..will depend on the conditions i guess..alot of tactics to consider with brahma having a solid and patient batting line up..masha would be keen to impress to justify his selection i would imagine, and that there will be enough pressure for him..groover yet to be a big game player which is also enough pressure to work with,as it will be on his mind walking out to bat, 15 games mean nothing now,all comes down to the biggest game of the year for the pdca..

[Sonofbrowny25]

Would imagine particularly with this rain the ground will be reasonably slow actually. The grass is a bit longer, looking very lush. But the boundaries will still be with in reach

In grade 2 no offence to BL, but surely CU will go all the way? Over the past two seasons they have appeared to just go from strength to strength.

As for any other cricket talk, well i really don't want to talk about grade 4.. bad habit of saying something that will come back to bite me on the a$$!!!!

Serious cricket talk then.........
I am sure all grounds will be slower than expected with all the rain over the last few days. We have had double the average of rain in January - March.
If Brahma can bat first and put up a decent score of 180+ it will put Units under pressure and they do like to play their shots so will give Brahma some chances. Units have a very good consistent bowling attack so a score of 180 will be tough but Brahma have shown this season they will not throw their wickets away and should bat out their 70 overs.
Not sure if Brahma's bowling attack is as good as Units and will need to bowl good area's to get some early wickets and put pressure on their middle to lower order.
Not a huge ground so that may also suit Units who have the batsmen capable of clearing the boundary, whereas Brahma are a side who are pretty good between the wickets although there were a few run outs last Saturday when they chased some quick runs.
Like I stated earlier my money is on the Units but good luck to both sides.

Units do have some big hitters and you are correct that we are better between wickets, but being a final anything can happen. Lodge bowlers can do the job i think

[catchit]

And yes browny i have told jimmy about all those pm you sent me..bagging him...
Also we have taken the oth approach...no sitting under our shelter...i had nothing to do with the decision

[SmithyOTH]

Well its been quiet on here today, I take it the Lodge boys dont have any more reasons for the coach not playing. Sore toes etc.

Their silence tells me I have got it 100% right.

Or have they been banned by the club?

I thought this was answered well already SF. But just in case u missed it we have an injured leg spin bowler playing as a batsman. We finally have everyone available for semi's and so Rick didnt need to play. He has surgery in the off season and is already planning next season. Definitely no ill feeling anywhere OR no ban from forum. Dissapointed there hasnt been any discussion about the actual games this week. Everyone sledging each other on a faceless environment. We certainly know we have a tough game ahead. Rosies Top 7 is as good as I have played against for years. I am looking forward to finally being able to hit a boundary again. I assume the oval catchit is nice and fast. We have played our last 4 at either greenwith or Smithfield so the batsman are looking forward to getting value for shots. As for Gr 2 - Central united have been pretty awesome for the year. They are a very aggressive batting side and our boys will need to bowl tight. hopefully win the toss and make 200 to put them under some pressure. Anyone else with some opinions on cricket?

rather frustrating playing every second game at OTH, I dont even think Kieron Pollard could hit a boundary along the turf there

[SmithyOTH]

And yes browny i have told jimmy about all those pm you sent me..bagging him...
Also we have taken the oth approach...no sitting under our shelter...i had nothing to do with the decision

you dogs

[james07]

Any attack with Jimmy in it is gonna be strong. Russell always bowls an immaculate line. Stama can swing it both ways and still gets the odd one to lift and kick, Craig and Daniel do enough to be dangerous and Bomber is not even required. I know nothing about Mitchell so hopefully I can bat long enough to find out. Then we have Jimmy who I expect to bowl 25 overs of consistent pace from one end and if u are not on ur game ur stumps can be knocked over everywhere or nicking one to that occasional one that goes away. He could never bowl that as consistently as he does now before he went to turf. Would love to have him from one end and davies from the other end to face. NOT![/quote]

Youve actually faced mitchell before honda and you kept hitting him over gully, he played at Sandy a few years back, he bowls off the back foot like maxie walker

[whufc]

Any attack with Jimmy in it is gonna be strong. Russell always bowls an immaculate line. Stama can swing it both ways and still gets the odd one to lift and kick, Craig and Daniel do enough to be dangerous and Bomber is not even required. I know nothing about Mitchell so hopefully I can bat long enough to find out. Then we have Jimmy who I expect to bowl 25 overs of consistent pace from one end and if u are not on ur game ur stumps can be knocked over everywhere or nicking one to that occasional one that goes away. He could never bowl that as consistently as he does now before he went to turf. Would love to have him from one end and davies from the other end to face. NOT!

Youve actually faced mitchell before honda and you kept hitting him over gully, he played at Sandy a few years back, he bowls off the back foot like maxie walker[/quote]

you sure thats not Adam? (Goofy) the older brother he definatly use to play for Sandy Creek.

[bothamsfearnley]

Any attack with Jimmy in it is gonna be strong. Russell always bowls an immaculate line. Stama can swing it both ways and still gets the odd one to lift and kick, Craig and Daniel do enough to be dangerous and Bomber is not even required. I know nothing about Mitchell so hopefully I can bat long enough to find out. Then we have Jimmy who I expect to bowl 25 overs of consistent pace from one end and if u are not on ur game ur stumps can be knocked over everywhere or nicking one to that occasional one that goes away. He could never bowl that as consistently as he does now before he went to turf. Would love to have him from one end and davies from the other end to face. NOT!

Youve actually faced mitchell before honda and you kept hitting him over gully, he played at Sandy a few years back, he bowls off the back foot like maxie walker

you sure thats not Adam? (Goofy) the older brother he definatly use to play for Sandy Creek.[/quote]


L Mitchell?

The links not working but see round one Brahma Vs Sandy Creek 2008/9

[catchit]

Both mitchells played at sandy...adam a fair bit sharper than lee...but lee moves the ball both ways and bowls a good length..he realises you cant bowl short in grade 1 and get away with it..

[catchit]

Only 2 bedtime stories to go groover...

[Groover]

Only 2 bedtime stories to go groover...

Only 1 if your on the good stuff!