From B to A and into the final!
On a terrible day for cricket, Star's senior A side played their way into their first ever 20/20 final. The two games involved everything from great batting, superb bowling, tremendous fielding and the replacement of an umpire, but in the end a combination of regular A's and some top performing B's was enough to see the Star boys home.
Huntly struggled with the wet ball which aided Star to 158 after 20 overs. The notable scorers were Reg Prasad (39), Francois Botha (29) and Tharik Alam who once again showed his potential by hitting 33 of a lot fewer balls. On the bowling front the Star openers Charles Johnston (4-0-21) and Eben Geldenhuis(4-0-11) restricted Hunly to less than 35 of the first 8 overs. Tharik Alam took 4 for 11 of his 4 overs in what continues to be a superb season for him. In the end the run rate was just too steep and Huntly fell 44 runs short when the overs ran out.
Melville was tipped to be the team to beat after they put St Paul's away by 50 odd runs earlier in the day. Star batted first again, and a magnificent run a ball 80 odd run partnership by the B's opening duo of Sean Mulcahy (43) and Jeremy Prasad(42) saw star to another good total of 155. The openings bowlers again did the choking job well by giving away less than 35 runs of the first 8 overs. Charles Johnston(4-1-13), Alex Henebry(4-3-19) and Francois Botha(4-2-25) were all in the wickets, with 3 run outs coming from pressure in the field.
So with 4 from 4, Star A will be playing in the final on the 18th at Steele park, hoping to bring home a well overdue bit of silverware!
posted by Just another medium pacer @ 1:10 pm
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6 Comments:
Tharik is the find of the season for Starvarsity.. his good all-round performance can take the club to new heights.
He is indeed a very good player, but it takes more than one player to take a club to new heights! Cricket is a team sport and should be viewed as such; Value the great players for their greatness, but remember that it might well take a lot more effort for a lesser talented player to get one wicket than it is for a multi talented player to get a fiver-for!
Point noted. My appreciation for Tharik's performance, however, was never a statement on the capability of his team members.
Needless to say, a player's perfomance only compliments the team effort to reach new heights.
Never made a 20/20 final while I was playing. Clearly a much better team with some of the old deadwood cleared out. Well done guys.
Agreed.
Not the deadwood bit :)
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