Premier League First Grade

In a tightly contested match at the Sam Loxton Oval, Runaway Bay Premier Div 1 faced off against Coomera Premier Div 1 in Round 7 of the CGC Premier League - Division 1. The significance of this fixture was palpable as both teams sought to secure crucial points in their league campaign.

Runaway Bay’s innings started with promise, but they struggled to maintain momentum against a disciplined Coomera bowling attack. Rhys Howarth emerged as the standout performer for Runaway Bay, scoring a well-crafted 56 runs from just 56 balls, showcasing his ability to anchor the innings with six elegant boundaries. His contribution was vital as wickets fell around him, particularly with Freddie Fowler and Ben Houghton managing only modest scores of 27 and 24 runs respectively.

Despite their efforts with the bat, Runaway Bay found themselves restricted by Coomera’s bowlers who applied consistent pressure throughout their innings. In response to Coomera's total of 198 runs, Runaway Bay were ultimately bowled out for just 179 runs in a disappointing finish that saw them fall short by a margin of 19 runs.

On the bowling front, Ben Houghton shone brightly for Runaway Bay, claiming four wickets for just 32 runs in his six overs, while Freddie Fowler backed him up with three wickets at an economy rate of just over five runs per over. Dhiraj Ahuja also made a notable contribution with one wicket and an impressive economy rate of just over three runs per over across eight overs.

Fielding proved critical for Runaway Bay; they executed some sharp catches and managed a run-out which demonstrated their commitment on the field despite the result not going their way.

While the defeat stings, it is clear that there are many positives to take away from this match for Runaway Bay Cricket Club Inc., particularly through individual performances that reflect resilience and skill.

Premier League Second Grade

Domination: The exercise of power or influence over someone or something, or the state of being so controlled.

Round 7 of the season had the Bay 2s skipping west of the M1 to take on winless Coomera. With juniors having been called off in the morning and after inspection of the pitch, an anxious murmur rumbled through the squad. 'Oo, she's green'. 'Feels a bit soft'. The short but thick outfield, mid-week showers and the grassy deck suggested that bowling first might be the way to go. So, as the coin came down on tails and between squeaks of excitement and wrist pain, I proclaimed 'We'll have a bowl thanks mate'. 

Returning 1st grader Jake Secombe (0/27 from 6), took up the new ball from the southern end and aided by a steady South-easterly breeze threw down 2 consecutive wides, followed by a dot and then two more wides to get proceedings underway. "Get him back in 1s!" Stevie-Slayer Watson partnered with Jake and shuffled in from the northern end. With overhead conditions perfect for swing blowing, Steve was amongst the wickets early once again when he caught the edge of one of the Coomera openers (screaming catch at second slip). While Jake slowly found the right areas (and I dropped catches off him), Stevie, workman like as ever, just carried on doing his thing. Dot, dot, one, caught and bowled, dot etc etc. In his best spell of the season, Stevie bowled through his allotment straight, returning the outstanding figures of 8 overs, 3 maidens, 2 for 15. Unplayable!

A steady 53 run partnership had the Coomerians on-track for a score somewhere around 200. That was until Jawid (2/20 from 7), Nayeef (1/32 from 8) and our ever reliable mathematics teacher Mr. Davies (1/34 from 8) applied the old Bay squeeze. Having dismissed the two run-makers, the tail swatted a few around to get the Crocs up to 159 from their 40 overs. This was a really patient bowling performance from us this week. Wickets didn't tumble early like they had in previous weeks and we earned our 6 wickets through discipline and persistence. Our hunger in the field also improved markedly from previous weeks. Despite looking like a bowler's deck the pitch played remarkably well and given last week's batting performance we were pretty confident that 160 was going to be too big of an ask.

First grade big-dog Slayter Cox, opened up with Bay 2s regular Varun and the pair took no-time at all getting our chase underway. Slayter slashed one through cover-point very first ball of the innings, blocked one, left one then slashed one straight to gully to have us 1/4. Amir replaced Slats and took up the same approach by hitting his very first ball for 4 also. Varun, bizarre and flamboyant as ever, got a few away when he was given some strike but was briefly overshadowed by a scintillating knock from Amir that really put Coomera on the back foot. In an innings featuring four 4s and a 6, Amir belted a classy 32 (32) before he fell victim to one that held up in the deck. Amir and Varun had the score at 2 for 51 after just 7.5 overs when the time came for me to slither out to the center. 

After blocking a couple, I was gifted a throat-high full bunger from the young Coomera leggy which I gleefully accepted by splicing one straight to backward square. "No ball". "Thank Christ for that". The free hit only served to hurt my already injured wrist even more as I toed on for a catch to mid-on. "Good start Paddy"... Varun and I together posted a shaky 20 or so before Varun fell for a very handy 18(25). Job done again Varun! 

As Matt Baker joined me at the crease I warned him that the pitch was holding up a bit. After looking the goods for 8 or 10 balls, Baker then lived our my prophecy by getting a leading edge to be caught at point. With Matt gone, after a drink and the score at 4/107 (20), our man Jawid strode to the middle and announced to me 'I am going to be really careful this week'. Just moments later he blasted his first ball over cover for 2, which he then followed with a monster 6 over cow corner that he absolutely nothing of. Jawid's first 11 runs came from just 5 balls. "Bit slow". As I practised my cut shot from the northern end, Jawid batted as if he was only allowed to use the circle button on the PlayStation. I was closing in on 50, as Jawid faced up for the 23rd over with 140 runs on the board. I queried 'you're not going to leave me hanging here are you mate'? 'No, no of course not, you deserve 50', Jawid responded before hitting 3 consecutive 6s, to move us just one two runs short of victory. 'Glory hunter' I a sneered to myself moments before Jawid was caught and on his way back to the sheds. This week Jawid only returned 35 runs, which might sound like a half-score but for the fact that he only faced 14 rocks! Four 6s and just the one 4 this week...

James Munro came in to face one ball and with 50 still in my sights I asked, "do you want a bowl next week James?". Ignoring my dickheadery James kindly blocked out his first and only ball of the match. Seeking personal glory above all else, I tried to hit the 4 I required to get me to a milestone, but was soon reminded that I cannot hit like Jawid. As I skied one to mid-on only to be dropped we scurried through for the two runs required to secure our victory. With 14 and a half overs left, we chased down the 160 required on our #$^%s. 

This was a quite comprehensive victory boys. We stayed patient with the ball, and punished anything loose when we batted. The fielding performance was our best yet as we showed real eagerness to stop the singles and cut down the twos.

Well done boys! Back to Loxton next week to face a strong and likely well-mannered Palmy.

Patrick.

Premier League Third Grade

Well after a week off I was raring to go and get stuck into Mudgee at Corwood Park 😊 

Handed the reigns and without Grossy with a broken finger, there was some concern with critical matters such as sorting out match fees, do we have 11 and most importantly the TOSS.  Well true to form I lost the toss, and we were sent into the field. 

The good news was with the assistance of Travis we had 11 and a strong balling attack, albeit with a few untested juniors but went in confident and a goal of getting through 40 overs and being focused on achieving targets.  Truth, is we fielded brilliantly although I was apparently to positive and got told so, however my plan worked and at drinks we had then 3 for 68.  Unfortunately, we drop a couple of key catches which saw the opposition creep to 150 by over 30 and eventually 210.  However, this was a real result and taking 9 wickets in the process came off at the break brimming with confidence that we seriously had a chance.  The balling was tight and wickets flowed but the fielding award has to go to young Jake Schultz who was a ball magnet and took 3 catch and had bowling figures of 3 for 14 off 5 overs.  That said Nic McConnell was so unlucky with 0-26 off 8 and Will Secombe 1-42 off 8 and balling at the death is always hard.  I shouldn’t forget Fahim Tonmoy who although shows figures of 4-52 did get their key run scorer dropped twice which should have seen us have a free beer and the score closer to 180.    All in all a great effort in the field from all and will mention Angus who stopped at least 20runs but did drop a sitter and I hope he bought young Jake a drink as he was saved when he bowled the batter the next ball – no damage done !

 Now onto the Batting ? – Tough to know where to go with this as no one really got on top.  Angus and Jed got off to a good start, but Jed edged on to slip after looking solid and Angus withstood a tough few overs and was also starting to find some gaps but fell short. Admed and Humza got a start and fell, Jamie struggled with the lack of pace from a bowler throwing grenades.  Will Marron and Fahim came and went leaving myself and the tail to wag its way to 40 overs with no real chance of the win, but to at least show some grit and make Mudgee have to stay out in the field for the full contingent, is great result ! 

All in All, although not a Win, it was one of the best performances in the field and there are good signs that a WIN is just around the corner (cliché I know but I am confident and positive – maybe to positive for some - JED ?). I must mention Jake Schultz again as he went at 100% in the field all game and would have to have been my player of the game.  However must say the fielding from the whole team was a standout – Well done ALL and great to have the support from everyone as the stand in Captain ! 

Regards

 Sean Sandford

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We welcomed our good friends Broadbeach to our home deck Sam Loxton 3 & for once we had 12.

Our part time skipper lost the toss & we were asked to field. We were all excited with the return of Arron (the Physiotherapist) Quine prior to the start of play, the bookies slashing our odds once they were told he was back after a huge night at the Valley with his nerdy uni mates.

Broady shot out of the blocks early but were pegged back with some tight bowling through the middle of the innings before getting away again in the last few overs.

Their highest scorer was dropped early by the new keeper prompting him to suggest “it was deliberate” as he was scoring slowly so he wanted to keep him in, (good one Gerry). Broady finished on 3/180 from their 36 overs with Duane, Snitty & Macca finishing with 1 wicket each. We opened with Luke & Col, they both took a liking to Broady’s attack scoring at around 8 an over until Luke was bowled for 34 off 31. Next in was the oldest of the Foenander triplets, Andy & he played the anchor role to Col, allowing us to pass Broady with 9 overs to spare with the loss of only 1 wicket, allowing Col to pass 100, before we passed their score.

Andy finished with 29 from 46 & Col, 104 from 96. I’m not too sure whether we were more excited with Col’s ton, beating Broady or the $250 free grog, the latter I reckon!

Once again, thanks to Mal for scoring all day & the ”Knee brothers” for umpiring our whole innings. Jamie Hunt

Round 6 saw us take on Helensvale Gold on Sam Loxton 4. Chippa won the toss, for the first time this season and decided to have a bat.

With the 15knott south easter helping the Helensvale swing bowlers early, Geoff Watson and Chippa opened the batting and got us off to a steady start. With our score on 32, Chippa popped one up and was caught on 21 of 17 balls. We then saw a steady fall of wickets 2 for 33, 3 for 36, 4 for 46. Credit to a couple of Helensvale’s bowlers who bowled well with swing and pace. The juniors in our team batted well, all digging in on a ground that is difficult to score without risk. Will was a standout batting through the middle of the innings while the wickets fell around him. He was run out with a few overs to go, trying to push the runs with a few wickets in the shed, a hard earned 34 off 68. We batted through the 36 overs, 9 for 115.

With small total to defend Chippa went with a different approach to open the bowling. Lachlan at one end and Noah at the other, to try and draw a couple of false shots from the Helensvale openers. Both the boys were bowling well keeping things really tight and scoring was difficult. Lachlan got the breakthrough with a great catch to Chippa in the deep, 1 for 18. 3 balls later and the new batter is bamboozled by Lachlan, stumped by Flynn, 2 for 18. Lochlan and Noah would each finish their 6 overs, Lochlan’s figures 2 for 16, Noah 0 for 20. We dropped a few catches during this opening spell and lost the chance to get in front in the game.

Helensvale put a partnership of 86 on at this stage and other than a call for change of umpire there wasn’t much excitement in the field. Chippa brought himself into the attack and was creating a few chance and some frustration at the batting crease. The set batter tries to drive him down the ground and Toby takes an absolute screamer above his head. With the score at 3 for 104, plenty of overs in hand and only 11 to win, it looked like it would be an early afternoon.

It was at this point while I was fielding at gully I overheard an interesting conversation between Flynn, Toby and Will. Together they had decided to lift the chat, encourage and rally the team. It worked, they raised the level of chat and friendly banter and before the end of the over the whole team seemed behind the bowler and chasing everything in the field like it was the first ball of the day. Arran was bowling at the time and claims a wicket each over for his next 3 overs! Figures of 3 for 14 of 3.3 overs for Arran. Alas not enough runs on the board for us and Helensvale get the runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Nice way to

finish the game though and I’m sure with effort like that our next win is just around the corner. Cheer

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In a crucial encounter of the CGC Community League - Division 3, Runaway Bay Orange demonstrated their dominance against Alberton Community with an emphatic win by eight wickets. Played at the picturesque Runaway Bay Cricket Club, this match was pivotal in Round 6 of the season and showcased the team's robust strategy and execution.

Batting first, Alberton struggled to build momentum, ultimately posting a modest total of just 88 runs after their allotted overs. The standout bowler for Runaway Bay was Jason Hay, whose exceptional figures of three wickets for just five runs from six overs highlighted his control and precision. Deepak Subramanya and Arron Cosmo also made significant contributions with the ball, each claiming a wicket while maintaining tight economies.

Chasing a low target, Runaway Bay's batting lineup approached their innings with composure. Tony Rowe anchored the chase with a steady 26 runs off 52 balls, while Jamie Phillips contributed with a gritty 23 runs from 79 deliveries. A notable performance came from an unnamed fill-in player who scored an unbeaten 19 runs off just 31 balls, sealing the victory comfortably as they reached their target in just over half of the available overs.

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