Seymour District Cricket Association

[Grandale]

just to get people thinking this is a team of players that I believe are possibly the best 12 in batting order I have seen in the SDCA your thoughts
1 L Boyde= k/more=bat
2 S watts= t/rook=bat
3 M O" Sullivan= E/hill=all rounder
4 G Cole= Roys=all rounder
5 G Stanley= E/hill= Sey=all rounder
6 R Hager= E/hill=all rounder
7 R Wilson= E/hill= spin good bat
8 J Tarrant Tall/Sey=all rounder
9 D Martin=Roys= Fast bowler can bat
10 G Hanson= K/more Fast bowler can bat
11 G Dowling= Sey=Keeper Bat a bit
12 T Blackwell=B/ford=all rounder

Pretty close to the mark there Phanto.
You're obviously a bit older than I, including names like L Boyd, G Dowling (I hope to chr1st you mean GARY) and G Stanley (and who the **** is R Wilson?) who I never saw play, but I think M O'Sullivan, G Cole, Hager, Tarran, Martin and Hanson would be unanimous choices in any best-of 11 from the past 25 years.
Personally, I reckon there have been better opening batsmen than Sammy Watts in that time (J Brown is one), while Barrel Barnes and Paul O'Bree wouldn't be out of place.

 

[Doona2]

Bit Harsh Doona! Im predicting a massive upset but Im not gunna put money on it.

Maroons are last-start winners aren't they? You mustn't think much of the Hillbillies B Grade Doona...

Ive felt for Browny this summer, great fella who deserves a couple of Maroon wins to finish of the season - but Avenel I just feel are hitting their straps going into finals thats all

 

[Doona2]

just to get people thinking this is a team of players that I believe are possibly the best 12 in batting order I have seen in the SDCA your thoughts
1 L Boyde= k/more=bat
2 S watts= t/rook=bat
3 M O" Sullivan= E/hill=all rounder
4 G Cole= Roys=all rounder
5 G Stanley= E/hill= Sey=all rounder
6 R Hager= E/hill=all rounder
7 R Wilson= E/hill= spin good bat
8 J Tarrant Tall/Sey=all rounder
9 D Martin=Roys= Fast bowler can bat
10 G Hanson= K/more Fast bowler can bat
11 G Dowling= Sey=Keeper Bat a bit
12 T Blackwell=B/ford=all rounder

Pretty close to the mark there Phanto.
You're obviously a bit older than I, including names like L Boyd, G Dowling (I hope to chr1st you mean GARY) and G Stanley (and who the **** is R Wilson?) who I never saw play, but I think M O'Sullivan, G Cole, Hager, Tarran, Martin and Hanson would be unanimous choices in any best-of 11 from the past 25 years.
Personally, I reckon there have been better opening batsmen than Sammy Watts in that time (J Brown is one), while Barrel Barnes and Paul O'Bree wouldn't be out of place.

Yeah beat me to it Grandy, obviously we've come thru the same vintage and I agree O'Sullivan, Hager, Martin, Barnes, G. Cole, Gerry Hanson, O'Bree all rate up there as the better cricketeres in my time, and I always loved competing against Cricket Hateley at both Avenel and Tallarook. More recently I'd say Joey Tarran, me old mate Trav Blackwell, Stu Peterson and Subba Arandt

 

[the red white and black]

Yeah beat me to it Grandy, obviously we've come thru the same vintage and I agree O'Sullivan, Hager, Martin, Barnes, G. Cole, Gerry Hanson, O'Bree all rate up there as the better cricketeres in my time, and I always loved competing against Cricket Hateley at both Avenel and Tallarook. More recently I'd say Joey Tarran, me old mate Trav Blackwell, Stu Peterson and Subba Arandt

No one rate from Heathcote? Nev Gilmore very underrated as a bowler and Brett Polson as a bat.

 

[phantom 309]

Pretty close to the mark there Phanto.
You're obviously a bit older than I, including names like L Boyd, G Dowling (I hope to chr1st you mean GARY) and G Stanley (and who the **** is R Wilson?) who I never saw play, but I think M O'Sullivan, G Cole, Hager, Tarran, Martin and Hanson would be unanimous choices in any best-of 11 from the past 25 years.
Personally, I reckon there have been better opening batsmen than Sammy Watts in that time (J Brown is one), while Barrel Barnes and Paul O'Bree wouldn't be out of place.

Robby Wilson early to late 70s played some district cricket at Essondon during this time as well, I have no problem selecting him but mainly due to the shortage of quality spin bowlers we have had in our ranks over the years, love to see some others put forward but I did struggle to think of many, the G hanson is for GREG to me best fast bowler we have produced, yes it is garry dowling no set of cleaner hands have I seen around here, the closest is kevin hall to me, love the idea of barnes and o'bree I simply did not think of them, sam watts as an opener, I could not recall to many quality openers, keen to hear about who I may have forgotten.

 

[mouche]

Any scores from today? Kilmore a grade were bowled out for 84 or so and have Yea 9/150 odd and Kilmore b grade bowled Yea out for 97 and are 5-150

 

[Doona2]

Any scores from today? Kilmore a grade were bowled out for 84 or so and have Yea 9/150 odd and Kilmore b grade bowled Yea out for 97 and are 5-150

A-grade - Eastern Hill got 266 vs B'ford with that man Youngman posting a brilliant 150 apparently. Alexandra were cruising at 1/150 before collapsing to 220 (J.Tarran 5wkts) against Tallarook (1/40).

In the B-grade; Broadford 4/322dec. (Jackson 106, Zanini 131*) vs Eastern Hill 0/2 and a C-grade score B'ford 95 lost to Kilmore 8/96.

 

[Fishy]

Seymour A's need to take 8 wickets for about 4 runs to gain 1st Innings points(bowled out for 87) The Hillbillies made 206 J Tamblin 145no batted from start to finish Avenel are 3 for 50 with Dilly still at the wicket

 

[Doona2]

Seymour A's need to take 8 wickets for about 4 runs to gain 1st Innings points(bowled out for 87) The Hillbillies made 206 J Tamblin 145no batted from start to finish Avenel are 3 for 50 with Dilly still at the wicket

B-grade
HEATHCOTE 64
NAGAMBIE 54
AVENEL 49 (1.31)
KILMORE 48
Puckapunyal 46 (1.08)
Broadford 43 (1.32)

Kilmore already got 1st innings points over Yea, but if Avenel fall short of Seymour's 206 then it may open the door for B'ford or Pucka (150) if they can get a few quick wickets against Nagambie (1/50)

 

[jazzy]

think the broadford boys might be safe doona. don't think they will win but i think our boys will get the required 180 odd to win as the track looks like a pearla. the bigshow has promised a show today at the rook so i'm heading up to see it. with subba and the 2 tarrans still to come might yet still be a tight finish. lachie last night would have been a tad disappointed with going out, was striking the ball very well and got a leading edge back to the bowler on 20 odd.

 

[phantom 309]

Food for thought
Will Nagambie and Heathcote return to A grade there current ladder possitions would indicate that they should, with B grade going to be all one day games next season it is a good time for them to be competative in both A and B grades, Nagambie have a good structure and they produce many good players through there juniors [ just won the under 14s flag undefeted at this level for 2 years ] if they could get young Mitch Winter Irving back they will be well on the way to having a good A grade team. Heathcote need to get some juniors going and should do so by entering an under 16s team for next season [ as should Yea ] if they do move up they will start to find that there playing numbers will start to look after themselves with juniors in place. Pyalong shoiuld move up to B grade next season as well, I believe they will enter an under 16s next season and will continue to gain in there senior ranks due to this. Royals have worked hard on there juniors over the past 2 seasons and now have a great opertunity of building there club back up to A grade status within the next couple of years. It speaks for itselfe clubs with a healthy junior structre are more often then not the clubs filling the top ladder possition.

 

[phantom 309]

believe Tallarook won fairly well Avenal & E/Hill as well making the final 4 in A grade

Tallarook
Avenal
E/Hill
Broadford
I would think 4 fairly evenly matched teams should be a cracker of a final series

 

[jazzy]

rook won 8 down but are missing 2 of their better bats next week in subba and lachie so could get interesting. maybe the bigshow might have to step up this week. work of note glen "boycott" jackson made a 40 min duck which was very impressive!!

 

[Doona2]

rook won 8 down but are missing 2 of their better bats next week in subba and lachie so could get interesting. maybe the bigshow might have to step up this week. work of note glen "boycott" jackson made a 40 min duck which was very impressive!!

Maybe Broadford got the better of the Jacko's - Boycott's little brother Evan knocked up 108 in the Bs yesty

Saw my third "ton" of the weekend today with Eastern Hill veteran Trevor Chapman scoring 150 at Broadford. The Hill were never going to run down 322 with 5 players aged 14-16 but full credit to the entire batting list who managed to see all bar 3 overs out today against an attack that aint no where near the worst Ive seen this summer, Pollock, Ingham, Kersten, Carboon to name a few.

Younsgters Bassett and Rudd-Schmidt hung around with Chappy for lenghty partnerships, as did Baker late in the day for what Im sure will be a day they'll look back on when their careers progress, a lesson in digging in and applying yourself . . . . well done Chappy .

 

[nomad]

..... indicate that they should, with B grade going to be all one day games next season it is a good time .....

Surely this hasn't been set in stone, it would need to be passed at the Association AGM wouldn't it.

What are peoples thoughts on the pros and cons of such a move?

 

[Doona2]

Surely this hasn't been set in stone, it would need to be passed at the Association AGM wouldn't it.

What are peoples thoughts on the pros and cons of such a move?

$hithouse I hate it now when teams want to pull the pin at 3.30-4.00pm on the 2nd day 2 day cricket has to remain. B-graders will turn into pussies and wont aspire to play 2-day cricket in the As, and what I witnessed yesty by Chappy will never b seen again

 

[phantom 309]

$hithouse I hate it now when teams want to pull the pin at 3.30-4.00pm on the 2nd day 2 day cricket has to remain. B-graders will turn into pussies and wont aspire to play 2-day cricket in the As, and what I witnessed yesty by Chappy will never b seen again

the world has turned and if we are going to stay on it we have to move with it, one day cricket for B grade is a MUST and I dont believe for one second that our compatition will suffer from its introduction, we may not see to many batting displays as you wittnessed yesterday with Chappy but I do believe we will see guys like him staying on and playing longer due to the one day format, we will see more younger players staying in the game as well, comming out of under 16s with 35 overs an innings and into 80 overs a day in B grade is not helping to keep them now, the amount of players that work on the odd weekend will still be able to play a good standard of cricket when they are available, there are a number of players that only get home on the odd weekend they will then be encouraged to keep playing, I know that some will think why dont all these people just play C grade, my answer to that is most of them are well above that level and do want the challenge of playing at a higher level. I would think that there has been more hundreds scored in the C grade this season than A or B grade, this indicates to me that the oppertunity of making a big innings in the one day format will still be there

 

[Grandale]

Couldn't have said it any better myself Phanto.

 

[mouche]

$hithouse I hate it now when teams want to pull the pin at 3.30-4.00pm on the 2nd day 2 day cricket has to remain. B-graders will turn into pussies and wont aspire to play 2-day cricket in the As, and what I witnessed yesty by Chappy will never b seen again

Im with you on this doona. I hav been playing seniors now for about 5 years and have to say that i love 2 day games.

 

[buzz123]

the dead rubber of a grade on the weekend, yea v kilmore, finished with yea outrighting kilmore. kilmore bowled out for 84 with yea in reply making 160 odd (A Miller posting maiden half century w 54). kilmore then bowled out for 130 with yea chasing only 54 for victory and doing so for the loss of 3 wickets. both sides were missing key members.

crickets a funny game, yea nearly being outrighted the previous week and then outrighting a side the next week. ridiculous!

doona as for ur comments about lego man, he did lose his shit and was as annoying a personality as any of the yea blokes had ever played against. in the first innings, yelling out "no ball" consistently during our first change bolwers first spell from the boundary (didnt have anything to do with the fact his son had no idea how to play him and subsequently went out).

this poor behaviour continued into the second innings when the tallarook boys wanted to use a new ball 6 overs into the innings after starting with an old ball!!! haha never heard of a new ball being introduced after an innings has actually started, but good luck to em. anyways, lego man cried foul at this obvious breach of rules on the yea boys behalf by disallowing it to occur and preceded to call our lads "shit bunch of blokes", even taking it out on the batsmen at the time who had no say in it! also very disappointing that he told hume and hovell legend phil simpson, one who knows the rules very well, to piss off and stay out of it when phil produced the relevant rule saying that you cannot use a new ball halfway into an innings!

 

[Doona2]

the tallarook boys wanted to use a new ball 6 overs into the innings after starting with an old ball!!! haha never heard of a new ball being introduced after an innings has actually started, but good luck to em. anyways, lego man cried foul at this obvious breach of rules on the yea boys behalf by disallowing it to occur and preceded to call our lads "shit bunch of blokes", even taking it out on the batsmen at the time who had no say in it! also very disappointing that he told hume and hovell legend phil simpson, one who knows the rules very well, to piss off and stay out of it when phil produced the relevant rule saying that you cannot use a new ball halfway into an innings!

Who was the goose that forgot the 2nd new ball!!!

 

[buzz123]

Who was the goose that forgot the 2nd new ball!!!

haha i think that falls onto ur mate 'the bigshow', but we shouldnt of collapsed the way we did, very embarrassing

 

[Doona2]

haha i think that falls onto ur mate 'the bigshow', but we shouldnt of collapsed the way we did, very embarrassing

bit on his (BIGSHOWS) plate at the moment - hasn't fired a shot all year (on field that is) and now with a couple of key bats out for the semi, the man who has carved out a reputation for scoring runs this time of year when it counts just may have the hopes of the Rookery on his shoulders this weekend

So yeah I can see how his mind was a few weeks ahead of himself

 

[phantom 309]

the dead rubber of a grade on the weekend, yea v kilmore, finished with yea outrighting kilmore. kilmore bowled out for 84 with yea in reply making 160 odd (A Miller posting maiden half century w 54). kilmore then bowled out for 130 with yea chasing only 54 for victory and doing so for the loss of 3 wickets. both sides were missing key members.

crickets a funny game, yea nearly being outrighted the previous week and then outrighting a side the next week. ridiculous!

doona as for ur comments about lego man, he did lose his shit and was as annoying a personality as any of the yea blokes had ever played against. in the first innings, yelling out "no ball" consistently during our first change bolwers first spell from the boundary (didnt have anything to do with the fact his son had no idea how to play him and subsequently went out).

this poor behaviour continued into the second innings when the tallarook boys wanted to use a new ball 6 overs into the innings after starting with an old ball!!! haha never heard of a new ball being introduced after an innings has actually started, but good luck to em. anyways, lego man cried foul at this obvious breach of rules on the yea boys behalf by disallowing it to occur and preceded to call our lads "shit bunch of blokes", even taking it out on the batsmen at the time who had no say in it! also very disappointing that he told hume and hovell legend phil simpson, one who knows the rules very well, to piss off and stay out of it when phil produced the relevant rule saying that you cannot use a new ball halfway into an innings!

Now no problem legman is a good guy, but isn't this one of the reasons why we love to have a beer and a chat in the rooms with our team mates after a game so that incidents like the one mentioned can be enjoyed by all, not just the lucky ones there to wittness it.

 

[jazzy]

the dead rubber of a grade on the weekend, yea v kilmore, finished with yea outrighting kilmore. kilmore bowled out for 84 with yea in reply making 160 odd (A Miller posting maiden half century w 54). kilmore then bowled out for 130 with yea chasing only 54 for victory and doing so for the loss of 3 wickets. both sides were missing key members.

crickets a funny game, yea nearly being outrighted the previous week and then outrighting a side the next week. ridiculous!

doona as for ur comments about lego man, he did lose his shit and was as annoying a personality as any of the yea blokes had ever played against. in the first innings, yelling out "no ball" consistently during our first change bolwers first spell from the boundary (didnt have anything to do with the fact his son had no idea how to play him and subsequently went out).

this poor behaviour continued into the second innings when the tallarook boys wanted to use a new ball 6 overs into the innings after starting with an old ball!!! haha never heard of a new ball being introduced after an innings has actually started, but good luck to em. anyways, lego man cried foul at this obvious breach of rules on the yea boys behalf by disallowing it to occur and preceded to call our lads "shit bunch of blokes", even taking it out on the batsmen at the time who had no say in it! also very disappointing that he told hume and hovell legend phil simpson, one who knows the rules very well, to piss off and stay out of it when phil produced the relevant rule saying that you cannot use a new ball halfway into an innings!

not sure if i have been mis-informed but didn't the yea captain and umpire agree to allow tallarook to use a new ball if one could be supplied?? also find it a bit strange yea didn't have spare ball to use, wonder if the shoe was on the other foot if one would have magically appeared?? agree that the rules state that it can't be done but surely if both captains agree as well as umpire then thats good enough. i thought cricket was a gentlemans game, unfortunately things seem to have changed!!