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Another Crushing Victory for the Pink Pigs

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Pigs.C.C vs Kirribilli Crusaders

Grade:            A Reserve

Venue:            Pig Park (aka Gore Hill)

Pigs.C.C          8/211 (36 overs)

Kirribilli        61 (26.1 overs)

Once again we were up against an Old foe. This week it was the youngsters from the Kirribilli Crusaders. Having soundly beaten the Crusaders by 8 wickets in the Grand Final 2 seasons ago, the Pigs were embarrassingly defeated in their only encounter last season. After a drizzly Friday, the sun came out on game day and Pig Park was in excellent condition once again. In the spirit of the Festive Season, the Pigs decided to don their Hawaiian Shirts for the day. 12.45pm and Skipper Stewart did the coin toss with the Kirribilli Captain. Young Hammerton called “Heads” and it came up……………Tails. First blood to the Piggers……..”um, we’ll have a bat” said the smiling Stewart.

Damo and Ricky padded up and the game was underway. Once again Damo and Ricky got us away to a reasonably quick start, with some well taken singles, before Ricky was bowled for 7 by Williams in the 5th over. Out came the Skipper and after a nervous start and with the opposition skipper chirping away between every ball (with some assistance from his backup “Cru”), Stewart hit the first boundary of the day with a trademark pull. The boys passed 50 in the 10th over, but Williams struck again in the 11th to send the Skipper back for 22. Haymaker then strode to the crease and set about with Damo to bring up the 100 in the 19th over. After a 78 run partnership, Haymaker was well caught for 38. Peller then joined the “in-form/charmed” Damo in the middle, but Damo was finally gone 14 runs later for a well made 61. Peller then set about blasting the “Cru” attack. The Cru Captain was still chirping away at the batsmen, but was starting to maybe think all his chatter might not be working all that well as the scoreboard ticked over. President Seldon once again had the best seat in the house as Peller took the long-handle to a tiring Kirribilli. Seldon then departed and Fabo arrived at the crease looking for his first runs for the season. 7 runs later, he was caught off a rank full-toss (around chest height Umpire Stewart) and he was gone. Peller went shortly afterwards for a well hit 44 and Bucky and Greg O batted out the remaining overs to send the Pigs to the break at 8/211 off the maximum 36 overs. Not quite the 3/316 that the Pigs had scored in the previous weeks game at Pig Park, but still a very defendable score on this ground.

A quick tea break and The Piggers were on the field. The two Kirribilli openers strolled out to face a returning Whitaker for the first over. 6 dots later the “Cru” were 0/0 off one. On came a “fired-up” Stato to bowl from the Highway end. With headache in place (from umpiring the first 20 overs of the Pigs Innings and having to listen to the persistently chatty Cru) he charged in. dot, dot, 1. Ellis had finally got them off the mark. Bring on Pendlebury. Another 2 dots and then the castle was knocked over. Cru 1/1 off 2. Skipper Hammerton strolled to the crease. After another pacey over from Whit, Stato was back on. 3 Balls later, Hammerton was gone for 1 after a ridiculous run-out. Ellis top edged the ball down to third man and with the ball starting to pull-up as it neared the boundary¸ the batsmen started to slow up, thinking that it would be four. However, Bucky chased it down and threw back into Ricky at the stumps who suddenly realised Hammerton had come down to congratulate Ellis (for his non-four). With confusion running supreme, “Cool-head” Ricky then threw the ball to the awaiting Haymaker at the non-strikers end and the run-out was complete. Cursing his schoolboy error, Hammerton trudged off the field. Cru 2/8 off 4.

Wheatley then came in and nicked his second ball from Stato to Ricky, but it went down. Stato then got his second for the day, bowling Ellis (10). Cru 3/14 off 6. Wheatley and Lerade then tried to set about getting some respectability on the Kirribilli scorecard and managed to negotiate their way through the next 5 overs. Whit was unlucky to not have Lerade, when 2 nicks to Ricky in the one over were not given. They obviously don’t walk down Kirribilli way. The game was then put out of Kirribilli’s reach in the 12th over when Stato took wicket, wicket, dot, wicket with the first 4 balls of the over, sending Wheatley (18), Foley (golden duck) and Merven (silver duck) back to the sheds. Someone had better pad up! Cru 6/32 off 12. Whit (a very unlucky 0/21) and Stato (5/16) bowled out their maximum and after 16 overs Kirribilli were 6/41 and requiring 171 off the last 20 overs.

Bucky and Fabo then took over. Fabo (1/9) got in on the action in his first over (with the lucky “8th” ball of the over) – President Seldon taking a lofted catch at Cover. Not to be outdone (and coming off 3/13 the previous week) Bucky took wickets in his 3rd over and 4th overs, to leave Kirribilli on 9/53. Bucky “Warne” (3/11) then decided to try his hand at Leg Spin and with his first ball, Williams took the long handle to him and skyed one to Stato at Mid-Off. Game over. All out for 61. Victory to the Piggers by 150 runs and off to The Great Northern we go!

Stato

P.S To all the Pigs Family, have a safe and Merry Christmas and see you all back in the New Year.

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Record win for Pink Pigs

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Pigs CC vs Cammeray CC

Grade: A Reserve

Venue: Pig Park (aka Gore Hill Oval)

Pigs 3/316 (40 overs)

Cammeray 89 (20.4 overs)

Having been denied a second successive Grand Final appearance in their previous meeting in the previous season’s Semi-Final, the Piggers were pretty keen to show Cammeray that they wouldn’t roll-over this time around. With the Pigs coming in dribs and drabs shortly before the 1pm kick-off and Cammeray having their “full compliment” of 10 players doing a team inspection of the pitch at Pig Park (aka Gore Hill Oval) some15 minutes prior to game-time, it was an important Toss to win for Skipper Stewart. Reno called Heads and…………………it came up…………….Tails. Happy Days, “we’ll have a bat” said Stewart.

Damo and Ricky padded up and we were underway. After a surprisingly quick start for the Pigs (we generally score about 12 runs off the first 10 overs) and some good running between the wickets, Ricky (7) was unlucky to get an edge to the keeper with the score on 18 from 4 overs…………….. That is pretty much where the joy stopped for one team……………. Skipper Stewart swaggered to the crease and set about destroying the Cammeray attack with great support from the “in-form” Damo. The Score quickly reached 50 in the 8^th over and like a run-a-way train, smashed through the 100 in the 16^th over. Damo (42) was then adjudged LBW with the score on 126 in the 18^th over. President Seldon then joined Skipper Stewart in the middle to get in on the run feast. With huge boundaries, many 3′s were run, but the guys kept on going. The Skipper then brought up his century with another four off the Bradbury and raised the bat to crowd. With the Scorers (Bucky and Brenton) running out of lead at a rapid rate, the score passed 200 in the 29^th over (RR 6.9) and 250 in the 35^th, where Nathan hit 4,4,6, 6 (onto and over the grandstand roof), dot and in his final stroke of the day was caught at deep deep mid-wicket attempting to hit a 6 into the Graveyard. Nathan’s fantastic innings of 160 broke the previous Pigs Record score by 4 runs(156 by N.Stewart esq vs Dreggs). With great respect, the Cammeray players clapped him off the ground and probably thought that they would now have a relatively quiet last 5 overs…………..they were wrong! The great man Peller strode to the crease with Symonds Tusker in hand smashed 53 not out (Including a massive 6, that his good mate Tiger Woods would have been proud of) from his 5 over cameo with excellent support (mainly watching) from President Seldon (35no) at the non-strikers end.

So at the end of the 40^th over, the Pigs had amassed an amazing 3 for 316 (Highest One-day match score for the Pigs Cricket Club………..ever!). If Cammeray were to win, they would require a bee’s dick short of 8 runs an over for their 40 over innings.

A quick tea break was taken and then we were back on the field. Josh Holt opened from the Hospital End and with a nice wind at his back, sent down some quick deliveries. In the 3^rd over, the Piggers got their first scalp with Josh getting Steve Si to nick one to Ricky. One down for 11. Stato opened from the Highway end and bowled tight, only conceding 5runs from his first 3 overs and getting in on the action in the 6^th over of the innings, knocking over the second Opener (Barton). Score 2 for 19 after 6. Reno (Cammeray Skipper) was then run-out by some fantastic fielding by Mr Justin Fabo and the Pigs had Cammeray on the rack at 3 for 23. Wickets continued to tumble with Bucky bowling well and taking 3 for 13, Fabo taking his first Pigs wicket for the season and Adam Ant taking the last Cammeray wicket remaining with the score on 89. Excellent fielding by the likes of Adam Ant, Brenton and Fabo added to what was a great day for the team. The winning margin of 227 runs was a credit to the team for all the training that they have done at the Great Northern over the last couple of months. The Man of the Match award was a close one, but Skipper Stewart got the nod (on count back – over an unlucky Bucky).

Bring on Kirribilli next week,

Stato.

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Double trifecta mega match report

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Hello, I’m the reporter for B Grade and given no one else writes reports, this is the all-in-one club report for the Pigs CC for week number… what are we up to? Mister Black – what week are we up to – is it round 5?

I have no idea Mister Brown.

Okay, never mind. Maybe you’ll be able to help by reporting on the C Grade?

Maybe.

Oh, goodo. And my Pink friend will be helping by commenting on the A Res fixture. Say hello Mister Pink.

Hello Mister Pink.

Oh, my goodness, that never gets old…

Week 1

Our story starts at Blackman Upper on Saturday afternoon. B Grade clash with Comenarra with the winner to most likely jump into the 4 and the loser most likely certainly not going to. New boy Rob arrived at the designated time of 12.30pm and was met with a sea of “am I at the right place, no one is here” a phrase he repeated a number of times until someone arrived some time later. Comenarra had some players arrive, but the dude with the kit did not. What happening with you Mister Black?

Thanks Brown, all good here at C grade, we have 7, and are fielding, please send players.

Dude, we have none. Best wishes.

Thanks Brown, d*ckhead. What’s happening with you Pink?

Well A grade are in bed, but to make this report flow, we will pretend we are playing, which is at the same ground as you Brown. Which is going to cause confusion and possibly some collisions. With references to Ned and Damo, apparently we live in a multiuniverse with many dimensions, so there will be two of each on the field. Batting and bowling. But not to each other. We think.

Thanks Pink, you freak, anyway, we have had a toss here and Comenarra are batting. Here comes D Train, oh slashing cut by Nolan and a near catch. D Train again, another slashing cut – dropped by Clear. Great start. Nolan and Payne are dismantling the attack here and are managing to miss every fielders outstretched hand. Looks like a long day in the sun for B Grade – geez its hot here.

Captain Stewart has won the toss here and will bat. Promoted Jackson and (non promoted) Seldon to open the innings, oh, yes, marvellous start this – runs coming everywhere except off Jackson facing Kent, which Kent tells Jackson about, every ball.

Still fielding, still not many people here – Northbridge blue helping by dishing catches directly at the few fielders spotted around the ground – C are doing well.

Better than B it appears, oh, hang on, Payne is gone, bowled by Damo. Nice work that, finally a wicket but, struggling a bit here. Piersey has come on to bowl. First ball – cannot do much with that ball, or the second one, or the third. Great over so far, three dots, what’s to come now. 4 4 4. oh. C’mon skipper – pull a trick here – do something. What’s this – a change. Yes, the skipper is not going to bowl himself anymore – Guy will relinquish the keeper pads and have a bowl.

We are doing okay here – they still keep hitting the ball to the fielders. HEY, NORTHBRIDGE, the idea is to hit it away from the fielders. (muffled – sh*t up). Oooops, I have annoyed da ‘bridge.

Thanks Black – another wicket here, 2 down, but the runs are coming. At least they are not getting desperate yet and bowling Wardy – oh, sorry Wardy, did you hear that.

Hey Brown.

One moment Black – change in bowler here – Wardy is coming on. Excellent decision D Train. GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, got him, caught behind what bowling, what deceivingness. 3 down, lets have tea – 3 for 173, well, in some trouble – Nolan batting very well.

When do I get a turn here?

Typical A Graders, me me me. Going well here, wickets still falling, run rate slow, but, all is going well.

Seriously, is this a joke?

What is happening A?

Stewart just got a………..….

Oh, sorry to interrupt what is probably about to be an insightful bit of information on Nathan Stewart, but we have huge urgent breaking news here – the grass has just grown, sorry C, what were you saying?

…nothing.

Big change here, Jim Magor comes on, this is an aggressive captaincy decision – on average the most expensive wicketless bowler ever for the Pigs. GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Nolan is gone gone gone 3 shy of the century – Magor has cleaned bowled him. Wow, what a start and Jim’s first Pigs wicket. Big chance here now to pull back this score and maybe only face a chase of 250 or so. GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM – Magor again, this is huge – great catch, from Guy, I think, not sure. Here comes Damo back on – GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, what a wicket, this is huge.

Um, excuse me, Damo is batting here.

No bowling.

Um batting.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, another one, Wardy nick to first slip. Yes, all happening here. Even NZ winning a test match.

Damo moves passed his 50, and A is putting together a good score here while C Grade are playing basketball – with their shirts off – thank God the ladies aren’t here.

No, we’re playing cricket, with shirts on. ‘Bridge all out for 160 something, great result from C – now have to bat out rest of the day without losing more than 4 wickets. Stay tuned.

Thanks Black, Damo is out for 77, team nearing 300. Brenton is in, oh dear, oh oh oh dear, that is a huge six. Heeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaadddddddddssssssssssss, wow, that’s the way to start your first game of cricket. Nasty Ned Brown is in also, on debut for the Pigs CC. Boom, that’s also a six, wow, this is good batting. Crowd growing with news of the fireworks.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM Damo, GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMM Jimbo, Comenarra being skittled here – the projected score is falling – real chance of clawing this one right back and there it is, yes, all out for 223, or so, well done to B with a great come back. 3 good wickets to Damo and Jimbo. Um, what’s happening, all our batsmen our leaving – dudes, we are batting, you nevvvvvvvvvvver finish. So, we have to bat out 1.5 hours with 7 batsman persons – thanks. Okay, Guy, and Wardy to open. Good luck chaps.

Solid start here. All going well, same boat as you Brown, with survival the key, not runs.

Guy forgot the survival bit and is going for runs.

Bucky is in now, well passed 300, this is great, wonderful, oh, Bucky is out, oh, Bucky has just punched Rick, oh, Rick reacts by asking for another $2. oh, another punch, ugly here. Oh, there we go, last wicket and A Grade are well in the drivers seat with around 310 or so. Wanderers to face four pressure overs tonight. Oh, nice bowling Adam, good maiden, to a very tight 7-2 aggressive field. Nice work. Oh, a little loose Pete Eller, you are getting tonked What’s that, Kento and Cottee have just said that they are not here next week and are going to tonk from now on. All fielders have now been moved to the boundary.

Guy, gone. Piersey, gone. 40 minutes to go and Wardy and the main man Jim have to hold out for 40. The bowler that is not Payne comes in, Jim, forward, carefully, watchfully, blocks it out – solid. That accurate description just given, is then repeated 29 more times.

Same boat, here, but, surviving, I think we are going to make it to stumps.

Yes, stumps here, all good, Wardy and Jim are superstars setting up a great chase next week.

Week 2

…Testing – can you hear me Black?

Loud and clear Brown. How are you today then?

What about me?

I’m well, thank you – and you?

Hello?

Not doing too badly truth be known.

Hello? [tap] [tap] [tap] do you hear me?

Welcome back to week 2. All games ready to go, and a win on offer for all teams. Wardy and Jim start us off and looking good. What’s that, oh, 4 byes, thank you ump. Scorers, 4 byes. Yes thank you. Oh, sorry, 4 more wides scorers. Yes, thank you. No ball, thank you – scorers. Partnership now up to 35, 17 off the bat. Pink?

What? Oh – Nasty Ned and Horley to bowl here, 2 down already – great start to the day, big chase ahead, all warming to the task.

Huge crowd here to give Nasty a big return to C Grade. Oh, lovely moment with crying captain Luke with tears in his eyes – that is sweet. Oh, he raises the ball – yes, bows, yes, love it. there are moments, and this is one, and, oh, there we go in amidst the teams, first innings points, to C Grade, nice work, and they are going to play on for the outright – stay tuned.

Jim is out, great innings though, what a match for the young man, 3 debut wickets, and a wonderful few runs to protect the tail end for week 2. well done, claps all around. Damo in, and off and running early. Oh, sorry, what’s that, 4 byes, scorers 4 byes please. And a wide, and a wide. Score ticking along. Closing the gap but a long way to go.

Not that much happening here, on the scoring front, or the wickets, stayed tuned.

All out for 226 with a good lead, still time for an outright, will keep going. Nasty to opening the bowling, here he comes, obviously very fresh legs – GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Stankovic is out first ball, caught behind, Ned goes wild, crowd goes wild, Luke is openly crying, tears everywhere. Police are called. Can you believe that start, what a return.

Ned comes in to bowl for A Grade – GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned opens his bowling account in A Grade.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned again. Oh, the scenes are jubilant, Luke hugs Ned, yes, lovely, oh, dear, Luke is removing his [censored] – oh, did not see that coming.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned takes 2 for A Grade.

Sorry, scorers, that’s 5 wides, did you get that – yes, and another wide.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned Brown is attacking this is great. This is just marvellous cricket. No jubilant scenes at all – lesson learned.

Stewart is just coming on to………………..

Yes, sorry Pink, news here – Ward struck and retired hurt – nasty one on the elbow – Rob, in, on debut, comes in. Bang, 2, bang, 2. nice start.

Oh, all happening, Northbridge falling over – Alan Jones has been called. This is looking great for the outright, Northbridge require 30 more just to make Pigs bat again.

Rob hits four. Damo scoring well. No ball scorers.

That’s it here, A grade have rolled Wanderers for 196 and the follow on is being discussed. Yes, yes, it is to be enforced. This is exciting, not that much time, but, worth a crack.

………………………………………..

Brown, are you there?

Brown? Wanderers starting second dig – Horley and Ned to open the bowling.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned is up to 4.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned takes his first in innings 2. Just go a text message from Mister Brown – “at pub, won by tea, went to pub. Top score, extras, with 63, then Damo, then byes”. Well done B, enjoy the beverage.

GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Ned takes his 5th, oh, just a marvellous return for Ned, just marvellous.

Pink?

Yes?

Wrong Game, mate. Ned just got his 5th here, and, while you are at GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, his 6th.

Oh, yeah, getting confused, what day is it – well, GOT HIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, his 10th for the weekend is just up. But, struggling to make any other inroads here, Wanderers batting well here to keep Pigs out.

All out here, Pigs need 60 to win off 15 overs. Police have arrived*. West hits a big six, and another one. Going to try and do it in 2 overs.

Yes, its all over here, Pigs are not going to get the wickets, so the teams call it a day, great win for the Pigs. Marvellous effort by Damo for 120 runs for the weekend, bowling was shared well and fielding was as usual excellent and Stewart scored a good…………………………

Hold everything Pink! Outright victory here, with a fair few overs to go. well done, and all that is left is a enormous top of the table clash next week – mouth watering, and bring some spare balls.

And so, in conclusion, if amassing an undefeated club round in round 4 was beyond our expectations, further, beyond the aforementioned beyond, was to do it twice it in a row. It happened. And it was good.