Colts Report vs Sydney University - Round 13 |
The Colts arrived at St Pauls expecting another competitive match against 3rd place Sydney Uni, with the boys hoping to keep the undefeated season going after just stumbling across the line in the last round against Bankstown. Dedman opens the shoulders and drives down the ground Skipper Dave 'Mega' Millar won the toss and instantly realised he hadn't discussed with anyone whether we wanted to bat or bowl. This reporter was slightly confused as Mega waved in our direction and motioned both a batting and bowling action to the boys, were we batting or bowling? A number of cover drives were signalled back and not to long after Benny Armstrong and James Dedman made their way out to the middle. After a promising start Benny fell with score on 29, enter Nick 'I'm really an angry fast bowler' Franklin. Nick appeared to be in a massive hurry as he went 4,6,4,6,4 then unfortunately chased a slightly wider one which was well held at second slip to send him on his way for 24 of about 9 balls. Paul Dietz then joined James at the crease and the two of them went about building the innings. James brought up his half century as the team total passed 100 and soon after their partnership reached 50 James fell on 62, to another really sharp catch. Another quick wicket saw Hugh Selby join Dietzy in the centre. Again a promising partnership of 30 odd was broken with the total at 163 when Paul was bowled for 42, Dietzy had played a really patient and important knock on a day where the batsmen had to work hard to score runs, a good show of what is going to be required in the next weeks. Hugh continued to play his shots and keep the runs ticking over as wickets continued to fall around him and when he got out for a well-earned 32, we felt we were in a little bit of trouble and still quite a few runs short at 8/194. The fall of Hugh's wicket brought in the skipper who joined this reporter at the crease. After getting off the mark with a 4 Dave remarked 'I've just doubled my aggregate for the year', he now had 8 runs for the year. When this reporter departed a few runs later we were 9/217 and Tom Bangs joined the party. It was a great effort from Tommy who hung around very patiently and fed the strike to Dave who was belting the bowling to all corners. Dave was bowled four runs short of what would have been a well-deserved half century and the Colts were all out for 259. Tom was not out on 7 and played a vital role in that 42 run partnership. We arrived on the second day to be greeted by some overcast conditions and just a little bit of rain before play got under way. While we had recovered quite well to get to 259 we still felt it was a little bit short and knew we were going to have to be patient and bowl and field well. Dave Leiboff and Tommy Bangs opened up the attack and started quite well keeping the Sydney Uni batsmen quiet with only 16 runs off the first 10 overs. Bangs kept hitting his line and length and soon had the opener on his way edging through to Matt Turner. An inspirational bowling change by the Skipper saw Benny Armstrong enter the attack and he picked up a wicket in both his first and second overs with Nick taking a great catch at first slip, followed up by a caught and bowled. Nick then took over at the other end and he too picked up a wicket first over with the opener skying a short ball which was taken by the keeper, leaving Sydney Uni in trouble at 4/42. Ben and Nick then both continued their great spells and the wickets kept falling. Nick picked up his second with a clean bowled, followed by Ben getting another edge to Matty Turner, finishing his very impressive spell with 3/20. Nick then picked up an LBW to claim his third, 3/31 and was unlucky not to have got 1 or 2 more with a couple of edges just out of reach of the slips but got good reward for some aggressive and fiery bowling. A partnership of 31 took the score to 7/108 at tea but soon after Paul Dietz got the reward for some good tight bowling, with another bowled. Skipper Millar then picked up a wicket in the next over with another edge to Matty who claimed his 4th catch brining the last batsmen to the crease. After writing his name in the score book last week as 'Little Kid' (he was just 13), Paul Dietz decided to not to let rip fully at the youngster, however after missing the first ball, the youngest proceeded to get well behind Dietzy's next 4 and the 'Little Kid' suddenly saw the last ball whizz past his face. Brendan Gray then got chucked the ball to try his offies and picked up the last wicket with the first ball of his 2nd over to finish with 1/0. Sydney Uni had lost 3/0 and were all out for 115, our 259 had been more than enough. A good result for the Colts that sees us march on into the last round still undefeated, top of the table and a minor premiership secured. Three wins to go. Dave Leiboff |
Colts secure the minor premiership with a win over Sydney Uni
