Female B Grade T20
South Perth def. Wanneroo 9/79
Bit sketchy on the scores here as MyCricket still hasn’t caught up with the final result, which unfortunately didn’t go our way this time. Like the Under 17’s, B Grade featured a number of players who were playing in their first T20 final at this level, plus a couple of players from Community Cricket who have played fairly regularly this season.
Losing the toss and being sent in probably suited the Roos, but scoring was difficult given the conditions on the day. At 3/46, with Shenae (20), Tene and Shayna having been dismissed, Kristin (14) and Emilie (17) built a really good middle-order partnership, getting the score into the 70s. But four wickets in four consecutive balls (spread over the 17th and 18th overs) really had us on the hop, as the score went from 3/72 to 7/72. In the chase for quick runs, a couple more wickets were lost, seeing the Roos finish with 9/79.
An opening stand of 52 from South Perth got the game onto their terms, but thankfully Kristin was able to break the partnership with a good catch by Ayla. The score was reached without too much further trouble, but not before the Skipper had tried different bowling options to try and get the breakthroughs. In the end, South Perth progressed to the GF, and our Roos now turn their attention to the remaining rounds of the 40 over season, where a Top 2 finish is needed to play finals.
Female U17 Grade T20
Semi Final: Wanneroo 4/95 (Williamson 32) def. Midland-Guildford 7/91 (Quinn-Schofield 2/13)
Grand Final: Melville 7/90 (Bartholomew 2/19, Allen 2/20) def. Wanneroo 82
After a great T20 season, the Roos went down in a closely fought final against Melville, after a very high standard game in the semi against Midland-Guildford. Success isn’t always about winning, and there was plenty of development on show from the young Wanneroo side, seven of whom were playing in their first T20 finals at this level.
We loved seeing Chloe bowling genuine heat, collecting wickets in both games, steaming in off the long run, despite the oppressive heat! Myla’s six in the GF was literally the shot of the day from any of the four teams that contested the semis, and seeing her notch the top score for the Roos in this match was a great moment. Aymie bowled well all day, but her three full-length dives to make her ground when batting in the Grand Final really exemplified the team spirit and the never-say-die attitude of the Roos. As did Soph going out to bat after being sick and cramping up before the GF – love that determination.
Layla had a great day with bat and ball – taking wickets and scoring runs under pressure in both matches. Speaking of pressure, we loved seeing Chops stand tall in the semi, coming in to bat when the game was still to be won, finding her composure and settling into the task at hand to see us over the line. Womby ticked off another of her season’s goals with a great stumping in the semi when she neatly removed the opposition’s best batter. She took catches in both games as well, completing a great day behind the stumps. Polly notched a great partnership under immense middle-order pressure in the Grand Final, working hard to keep the score moving, having also bagged a catch that she never looked like dropping after a long hot day in the field.
Spud got to experience the tension of a high stakes run chase in the GF, and dealt with the pressure of the last wicket beautifully. She and Hadds worked together to keep the Roos in the game for as long as they could – great experience into the bank. Steffi’s stamina was there for everyone to see, as she got through the back-to-back games in style, covering so much ground in the field and not letting anything get past her, as well as taking a clutch catch in the semi just as Midland were threatening to get away. And Emmersyn set an incredible pace throughout the day, running as fast at the end of the day as she did at the start, getting water to her team mates at every opportunity and keeping up the hydration levels despite the temp sitting above 36 degrees for most of the afternoon.
Tegan’s two run outs in the semi (one with Layla, one with Womby) are worth a watch on the Frogbox replay – and what a way to support your bowlers and your team! Seeing a pumped up Skipper Tahls appeal for a caught behind in the GF was an inspirational moment and didn’t the girls get around it! Tahls led her young team well throughout the day, graciously congratulating the winning side in her post-match speech.
First Grade
Wanneroo 10/192 (Slattery 100) def. by Bayswater-Morley 7/327 (Sabburg 4/73)
The 1s unfortunately lost one of potentially the biggest tosses of all time and were sent out to the field. Bayswater got off to a flyer and were 2/154 at lunch. It wasn’t until the introduction of Chris ‘Strawb’ Sabburg when the Roos began to fight back. Wanneroo kept fighting back especially in the middle session restricting Bayswater to just 50 runs between lunch and tea. Unfortunately Bayswater were able to build partnerships towards the end and finish on 327 from their 90 overs.
On day 2, Wanneroo were unable to change the momentum of the game and lost wickets throughout the day. Mitch ‘mitchmate68’ Slattery was the standout putting on a display after Tea as he powered his way to his first A Grade 100! Wanneroo finished up all out for 192.
Second Grade
Bayswater-Morley 275 (Forssman 3/76, Fryer 2/35) def. Wanneroo 215 (Spangenberg 97, Holly 33, Fryer 29)
The twos lost the toss and were asked to field first on a near 40-degree day at the best place to play cricket Hillcrest Park. The pitch looked one which was good to bat on and partnered with the weather conditions the boys knew it was going to be a grind but a grind they were up for. Our bowlers did little wrong but went unrewarded, further proving how tough it was going to be, until Jessani made the break-through at 1-138. Wickets started to fall more regularly after the dismissal of their openers with Fryer taking a wicket on the last ball before tea. The roos were in a good position having Bayswater 6-191 just after tea but unfortunately just let them slip as they finished all out for 275.
The roos came back the second week with high hopes of being able to chase down this total but the pitch proved to be difficult early. Then came Holly and Spangenberg who fought hard combining for a 98-run partnership. Once Riley fell Spangenberg continued on his innings playing many classy shots, now partnered with Fryer who was looking to attack the bowlers. But unfortunately Connor fell agonisingly close to a century, just 3 runs short run out but it was a great innings. After his dismissal wickets fell regularly from the roos, leading us to fall short of Bayswater-Morley’s score.
Third Grade
Wanneroo 7/303 (Mcdonald 106, Kelsey 70, Marinovich 52, Harris 36) def. Bayswater-Morley 10/261 (Fitzmaurice 4/83, Marinovich 2/28)
The Three’s won the toss at Kingsway 2 and Jordy elected to bat first on a very flat looking wicket. Losing a wicket early, Tom “Silver Lightning” and Kelsey started to rebuild, and we worked ourselves back into the game with a 50-run partnership until we unfortunately also lost Tommy. Kelsey went on cruising at about a run a ball until he was dismissed for 70 just before lunch.
After a few quick wickets, came in Jack ‘Beugs’ who smacked the bowlers all around the park bringing up his first grade ton scoring 106 off just 121 balls. Batting alongside him was Jordan “Gordo” Marinovich who brought up his first 50 in seniors grade cricket. After a very dominating day of batting Jordy declared on 303 and sent Bayswater into bat with 9 overs left in the day. After running around for 1 Grade, Fitta was given the new rock once again and brought an early breakthrough to end the day.
Day 2 began with Jordy and Fitta opening the bowling with Fitta striking again early in the day. Bayswater put on a 90 odd run partnership until Fitzy struck the pad first ball after drinks bringing up his third wicket and putting Wanneroo well and truly back on top of the game. Jordan “Gordo” Marinovich took two himself, one being bowled straight through the gate sending the wicket cartwheeling. Beautiful sight.
Jordy finished us off taking the final wicket of the match with Wanneroo taking the W and winning by a comfortable 42 runs. Top performers with the bat was Jack McDonald with 106 off 121 and Kelsey 70 off 77. The best bowlers were Alex Fitzmaurice 4/83 and Jordan Marinovich 2/28.
Fourth Grade
Bayswater-Morley 5/179 (Maraldo 3/37, Glamuzina 2/17) def. Wanneroo 148 (Zain 34) and 3/87 (Maraldo 28, Zain 27*)
Hi, my name is Kane Pearce and this week we travelled out to Hillcrest to take on Bayswater Morley in a 4th grade blockbuster. Stand in skippa Cam Mac doing gods work as usual, won the toss and elected to bat as the temperature soared passed ‘way too hot to field’. The day didn’t start great especially after the team found out no-one was invited to my birthday party and also when we lost a few wickets early! We got through to lunch with the game reasonably even and hopes that skip and Yusuf could keep building on a pretty flat deck and an outfield that ran quicker than I do every Saturday night towards my new favourite venue – Bar 1. Then, such as the early hours of the morning being at Bar 1, we declined rapidly. Wickets falling like I peel through 3’s on Saturday nights but always managing to survive until the kebab afterwards (just about getting through to tea) when we were rolled for just 148.
Our bowling innings didn’t start near as well as my ball date as both openers, Steve Smith and the other bloke milked us everywhere until we finally got the prized wicket and sent Stephen back to the Sixers. No joke though, this blokes name is Steve Smith, bats like him too check out his stats http://mycricket.cricket.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/cricket/viewplayer.aspx?entityid=524&save=0&playerid=60414&eid=524&locx=PLY&seasonid=157
We’ve now come out to bowl on a glorious day 2, I’m rocking the whitest face in world cricket thanks to my poorly applied suncream and the Oakley ToadSkins (cannot use the real name due to copyright reasons as we all know the write-up goes worldwide). It’s a slow start to the day, but Baysie end up getting over the line just before drinks. As we return from drinks, one of the best 4th grade bowlers I’ve ever seen (other than revelation Xander Gamluzina who himself took 2 amazing poles), J. Maunder had somehow gotten the ball to start reversing. This was through a combined effort from the back sweat of C. MacDonald, J. Maunder, and the lip balm of N. Santich. This ball was going around corners just before lunch.
As we hit lunch Baysie had soiled themselves at the fact that jared was able to swing a cricket ball and declared 31 ahead. Weird. This left us with the task of batting through to tea and avoiding giving them a sniff of an outright. Yusuf was simply stunning in his blunting of the attack but myself and Jack Maraldo were a little too eager to cash in on quick runs on a flatty and our dismissals earned us a little school boy lecture from a stand in skipper who wanted to make the most of his temporary power. After the talking too from the temp skip, I was hurt and have now reflected on my self on what I could of been for this 4th grade side and how I could of played test cricket. It may even spur me on to pay some of my fines money. Thanks C-Mac for the words! I really hope all of you Roos boys enjoyed reading my wrap up as much as I enjoyed writing it! Anyways go the Roos and jugs on me post game Saturday!
Regards,
Kane Pearce the bar1 enthusiast
U/17 Male
Wanneroo 9/243 (Jones 67, Walker 59, Lucas 28) def. Bayswater-Morley 175 (Jessani 3/37, Glamuzina 2/1, Rotham 2/19)
Round 11 was the first two-day match for 2023.
A sight that not many parents thought would happen was, it was the first match of the season where the Under 17s team were injury free and playing with the original named squad for the season.
The weather on day 1 was set to reach high 30s meaning this was one toss the captains would want to win. The captains feeling the pressure from their team members as they made their way to the centre pitch for the coin toss, mid-air Bayswater-Morley called tails resulting in Wanneroo winning the toss, sending Bayswater-Morley to the field.
The top order felt the pressure and failed to make runs, allowing the middle order to carry the team to get the job done. The Captain M Skouros scored 24, B Jones an amazing 67 and J Lucas scoring 28. However, another two quick wickets resulted in the lower order to show what they can do. R Walker hitting 59 runs and was well supported by N De Villiers resulting in Wanneroo setting a defendable target of 9-243.
Day two was a lot cooler, with the vision was to bowl them out to release some pressure on the team for the season. Having significant depth in the bowling attack we successfully managed to bowl them out for 175 in 45.6 overs. T Jessani spinning an amazing 3/37 off 10 overs, J Rotham 2/19 off 6 overs and a fully healed X Glamuzina spinning 2/1 of 1 over.
U/15 Male
Bayswater-Morley 6/151 (Jones 2/21) def. by Wanneroo 4/350 (Prance 108, Deckert 98, Pugh 28, Redman 26*)
When it’s heading for 38 degrees, you need your skipper to win the toss and bat and that’s what Dylan Prance did at Hillcrest. Things went downhill after that for the hosts with Oliver Hudson and Lincoln Pugh building a solid foundation of 40 in reasonably quick time before Hudson was caught for 17.
Pugh managed a well compiled 28 before becoming the second wicket to fall at 2/93. This brought Liam Deckert to the wicket with an established Dylan Prance who was starting to express himself. Prance and Deckert went about building a massive score. Prance was ruthless against any short or loose bowling whilst Deckert put on a front foot clinic, driving straight down the ground both in the air and along the ground with precision and brutality.
When Prance was dismissed with the score at 3/277 the pair had compiled a third wicket partnership of 184. Prance’s maiden WDCC century included 12 fours and two sixes to see him finish with 108 from 103 balls.
Deckert thoroughly deserved to rack up his own ton but played around one to be stumped for 98 off just 88 balls. Kane Gostlow (8 not out) closed out the innings with Josh Redman whose cameo 26 not out off 11 balls involved a reverse sweeping masterclass. With a slow over rate penalty in their favour, the young Roos amassed the imposing total of 4/350.
After chasing leather from Prance and Deckert the previous week, Baysie were greeted with the same pair spearheading the opening attack. At 1/12 (caught Prance bowled Deckert – I kid you not) Baysie went about stabilising their innings whilst their required run rate blew out.
Redman (1/27) and Blake Jones then spun Baysie into the ground with Jones being the pick of the bowlers with 2/21 off his 10 overs. The hosts finished at 6/151 off their 50 overs after never getting into their chase and after everyone at WDCC but the keeper got a bowl.
Road tripping to Gosnells for the next two weeks, the 15s have final prospects still realistically intact.
U/14 Male
Scarborough 10/122 (Bergheim 3/23, Prance 2/10, Rawlins 2/17, Furlong 2/20) def. Wanneroo 108 (Jones 40, Rawlins 32)
A midweek change in ovals had the Roos move from our home ground to playing Scarborough at Justin Langer Oval. This was great news to all parents with the sandwich roster falling on the hosts.
Winning the toss, the Roos elected to bat and found the going tough in the 38 degree heat. Unfortunately, a steady stream of wickets kept falling and when a partnership started to take shape, Scarborough got the breakthrough. Blake Jones played a great captains role, reaching 40 off 96 balls and Aidan Rawlins put on a quick fire 32 off 32 deliveries to get the total to 108 in the 44th over.
With a small total to defend, the boys needed to take their chances and this week they were up for the challenge. The opening fast bowlers Aiden Rawlins and Jace Von Bergheim started strong with Aiden getting the early breakthrough with a great catch in first slip by Brock Prance. The boys were backing up the bowlers with Jacob Smith and Liam Mayo Hopkins taking great catches and Robbie Kilgour taking an excellent one hand diving catch at first slip. Scarborough were 7/94 and the boys were up and about keeping it tight. Unfortunately, 108 was too small a total to defend and they managed to fall over the line, losing two more wickets on 109 before being bowled out for 122.
Great figures for our bowlers, Aiden Rawlins 10.4.17.2, Jace Von Bergheim 10.0.23.3, Ben Furlong 10.1.20.2 and Brock Prance 6.1.10.2.
Even though the boys weren’t victorious, they showed encouraging signs, fighting hard and playing the game out to the end. With two more games to go and a few more runs posted they should be in the hunt.
Go Roos!!
U/13 Male
Scarborough 104 (Patel 3/8, Hannent 2/22, Young 2/25) def. by Wanneroo 7/203 (Doepel 47*, Cavanagh 29)