Poidevin Gray Report vs Easts - Round 6 |
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 Poidevin Gray report vs Easts
The Stags' younger brigade arrived at Chatswood determined to put on a better showing than their previous encounters by chalking up a win against top of the table Easts. Skipper Evans lost the toss but was not fussed when Easts elected to have bat, on a wicket that would offer something if the bowlers could put it in the right areas. Dan Smith and Jack Skillbeck opened up, bowling some good lines and restricting the opening batsmen's scoring opportunities. (Harry Evans sends the BBQ area into a panic behind the Trumper stand) This allowed Alex Lines to come on and pick up 3 wickets in his 1st over immediately putting the pressure back on the East's batting lineup he continued to bowl good areas throughout his spell and finished with the impressive figures of 3/17 off 4 overs. The stags continued to bowl well with Tom Carruthers and Justin Avendano continuing to mount pressure. Kurt Roughley was brought into the attack and bowled extremely well bowling in the crucial final stages he picked up 2/17 off his 4 overs to ensure that the Dolphins were restricted to 130 off the 20. One of the areas the stags improved on dramatically was the fielding, ensuring that the Dolphins were not able to rotate the strike easily, and forcing them to take risks to score. Before heading out to bat Skipper Evans set us a challenge to not only chase down the target but do it in a dominating way within 17 overs. Though this did not start well with Jordy Liddle out early, Harry Evans then joined Steve Colley at the crease and put on 40 before Steve lost his off pole. Justin Avendano then joined Harry at the crease and the pair put on 35, with Harry nudging singles but also being very severe on any lose bowling to ensure that the runs continued to flow.
(Alex Lines who took three wickets in one over and Kurt Roughley who kept the scoring quiet at the close of the Easts innings) Justin was out trying to push the scoring making the stags 3/85. Henry Carmichael then joined Harry at the crease, with the aim of trying to finish the game inside the 17 over target, he fell with around 10 runs remaining and it was left to Dan Smith and Harry to finish over the win in the 16th over. Special mention must go to Skipper Evans who put on a great display of 20-20 batting not trying to hit everything for 6 rather nudging 1s and 2s and waiting for the bad ball and punishing it finishing on 73 Not Out. Hopefully this group of stag's youngsters will be able to finish of their season well with a win in the final game in 2 weeks time. Henry Carmichael |
