Polar Bears Cricket Club News story


Grand Final win - well not quite, - but we'll take a massive win anyway! + AGM

24 Jun 2013

Good evening Bears

First off, can folks please email Popey with the Bearlow votes (for both games) at jason.bishop@velocitynet.com.au these votes go into the Bears 20/20 award.

The bears went into the Semi Finals fired up for a big day.  We treated the game like it was the grand final against the competition leaders - INFORM.  Good news, we had an absolutely blinder and took em out!  Some sensational fielding, tight bowling a double play wicket had INFORM totally gobsmacked and all out for 61!  The bears couldn't believe it and we were in with a super chance to win the grand final. 

Highlights:

Double wicket play
Azz 2 wickets, Rankin 3 and drady teaming up with HP for 1 a piece.

Batting, the bears took a very defensive posture to the point of almost a statue like innings, dragging the innings out to the last overs to get to 61.

Scorecard:

Polar Bears
Player BO R BF HO SR OB RC BE W S C
aaron thorne
0 0
 NA
 0.00 4 7 1.75 2
 0 0
Tim Bradley 1
 20 35
 Caught
 57.14 2 9 4.50 0
 0 0
Chris Davis 2
 1 6
 Caught
 16.67 1 2 2.00 0
 0 0
Adam Rankin 3
 0 2
 Bowled
 0.00 4 14 3.50 3
 0 0
Peter Dradrach 4
 20 15
 Caught
 133.33 2.4 4 1.43 1
 0 0
Damien Brennan 5
 9 17
 Bowled
 52.94 0 0 0.00 0
 0 0
Damien Plenty 6
 10* 18
55.56 0 0 0.00 0
 0 0
Steven O'Brien 7
 2* 2
100.00 4 23 5.75 1
 0 0




















Grand finals - well we played, and really the Semi was our Grand final.

Unfortunately the bears came up against a very inform Brown Trout, who definitely brought their A Game, smashing their way through the semi finals and really should have stayed there when we played them with the continuing batting prowess putting on 188.  The bears luck definitely dried up in the semis, and really the boys bowled well, dropped a few catches and really were outgunned with the batsmen finding the boundary a few to many times.

Highlights:

Tim making 50 not out!!!

Wickets to Rankin (2), DB (1), Azz (1)
Bears all out for 108 in very trying conditions
Polar Bears
Player BO R BF HO SR OB RC BE W S C
Tim Bradley 1
 50* 50
100.00 1 15 15.00 0
 0 0
Adam Rankin 2
 15 15
 Caught
 100.00 4 50 12.50 2
 0 0
Damien Brennan 3
 3 4
 Caught
 75.00 4 27 6.75 1
 0 0
Peter Dradrach 4
 13 10
 Caught
 130.00 4 31 7.75 0
 0 0
aaron thorne 5
 1 4
 Caught
 25.00 4 21 5.25 1
 0 0
Steven O'Brien 6
 2* 2
100.00 2 38 19.00 0
 0 0
Chris Davis 7
 16 8
 Bowled
 200.00 1 6 6.00 0
 0 0
Damien Plenty 8
 8* 7
114.29 0 0 0.00 0
 0 0

So that's it for another 20/20 tournament - stay tuned for more bears news as the new Committee was decided at the bears AGM held last Saturday.  The committee along with Chook (15th anniversary bash) will send more details in coming weeks about the Sunday Social tournament and possible spring 20/20.

Chook has asked if you have his questionnaire, please respond and send it in to chook, along with whether your attending the 15th anniversary.

drady