Interim Results from Rd 3 matches played against Bective on Saturday 25th October.

1st Grade
City won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Bective were dismissed for a total of 309 runs on the last ball of the innings.

Best bowling:    Tait Jordan 4/45 off 10 overs; Jack McVey 2/44 off 19 overs; Daniel Lawrence 2/54 off 10 overs

The 11 guys in the team spent the whole day in the field in the heat.  It was a mighty effort by the bowlers & fielders under the circumstances.  Thanks to young Brody Gregg who assisted in the field when the bowlers finally got a break after tea.  Next week we will have Simon, Ryan and Dan back in the team to get some runs on the board and hopefully chase down the big target.
2nd Grade
City lost the toss and bowled first.

Bective were dismissed for a total of 263 runs in the 67th over.

Best bowling:  Simon Bellamy 3/62 off 18 overs; Jinto Joseph 2/42 off 11 overs.

At stumps, City were 1/17 off 10 overs.  Josh Bennie is 6 runs N/O and Pat Dwyer is 8 N/O.

City will be hoping to continue on with a big score next week with some good batsman still to come in.
3rd Grade

City won the toss and elected to bat first.

City were dismissed for a total of 157 runs in the 48th over.
Best batting:  Eddie Beattie 36 runs; Liam Dunn 34 runs; Tim Paynter 27 runs.

At stumps, Bective are 8/106 off 29 overs.

Best bowling:  Eddie Beattie 3/16 off 7 overs; Brock Dunn 3/22 off 6 overs; Liam Dunn 2/25 off 8 overs.

City only need to take 2 more wickets on day 2 of their match to take first innings points.  Another man of the match performance from Eddie has put the team in a good position.

4th Grade

City lost the toss and bowled first.

Bective hit 2/148 off their allotted 40 overs.

Best bowling:  Paul Lawrence 1/21 off 7 overs; James Wallace 1/26 off 5 overs.

At stump, City are 0/122 off their 40 overs.

Best batting:   Russell Pitt 53 runs N/O; Noah Pitt 48 runs N/O.

The game is right in the balance at the moment with City trailing by just 20 runs at the half way point in the game.  The Pitt father & son combination have set up a great match with an unbeaten opening partnership of 122 runs.  City will be looking to take some early wickets next week and then continue with their good batting display.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOO it is about each batman batting for long periods, then victory is ours CITY

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Jack McVey continues to show why he is said to be best bowler in Tamworth Cricket.

On Saturday Jack McVey had bowled his heart out for his club, City Rebels in Saturday’s heat at Chaffey Park, finishing with two wickets for 44 runs off 19 overs for his City United side against Bective.
He bowled seven maidens on Saturday and toiled hard all day, through the extreme heat and on a wicket that was described as “a road”.

Jack then backed up on Sunday to represent Tamworth in the  SCG Country Cup at No. 1 Oval where the Tamworth team fell at the first hurdle when humbled by Toronto in a two wicket loss yesterday.
The captain of the Tamworth Team Tom Groth had nothing but praise for City’s young bowler  “The boys dug deep. Jack (McVey) did bowl very well.”
The young paceman McVey was outstanding taking two wickets for 13 runs from his 10 overs.

Jack McVey in full and committed flight for Tamworth in yesterday's Country Cup loss. He took 2-13 from his 10 overs.Photo: Gareth Gardner 261014GGC05

“I forced him to bowl his 10 overs out, bowled five straight maiden overs to stall the Toronto chase.” Groth said. “He was gone but he kept bowling and he almost bowled our side to an astounding victory.”
GOOOOOOOOOOOO quotes were taken from The Northern Daily Leader CITY

It's - The odd couple

It is sad news that our 3^rd Grade Captain Trent Balderston will not be playing for the rest of the season as he has a serious knee injury sustained while playing Basketball.
The new co-captains for 3^rd Grade will be Paul Lawrence and Terry Skewes (the odd couple). Both men are looking forward to captaining Trent’s young side.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOO for the love of it CITY

More players than a rugby team

Our 2nd Grade side for this coming match against Bective East has 16 players named, add to this the Scorer/manager and that makes 17 ready to take the field. More than enough for  a Rugby team.

Mark Fisher 0402931783, Dave Smith (1st week)/Jacob Hawley (2nd week), John Miskle (1st week)/ Tom Fitzgerald (2nd week), Rod Pryor, Dan Rogers, Glen Ryan (1st week)/ Lachlan Cooke (2nd week), Josh Bennie, Pat Dwyer, Simon Bellamy, James Fisk(1st week)/ Terry Kampe (2nd week), Jinto Joseph, Jake Philp. Scorer/Manager Pillip Hood

 It reminds me of a true story, told to me.

A cricket umpire died and went to heaven, sporting a stump in his chest. Stopped by St Peter at the gates he was told that only brave people who had performed heroic deeds and had the courage of their convictions could enter. If the umpire could describe a situation in his life where he had shown these characteristics, he would be allowed in.
“Well,” said the umpire, “I was umpiring a match between the Bective Bulls and City Rebels at TREC. The Bective team only needed one wicket, while the City Rebels side only needed two runs for victory. When the ball was hit high in the air the batsmen crossed but the catch was taken. City Rebels were clearly the better side all game, they played in the right spirit of the game and deserved that win, I ruled it a NO-BALL and awarded the match to the City Rebels.”
“OK, that was very brave and noble of you, but I will have to check it in the book.” says Peter, and disappears to look it up. When he comes back he says “Sorry, there is no record of this. Can you help me to trace it? When did all this happen?”
The Umpire looked at his watch and replied “45 seconds ago.”
GOOOOOOOO may your chapter of the story told of this match be a telling one CITY

Club and TDCA NEWS.

This coming weekend’s match is a start of a two-day match against Bective East. Selection and training will be held this afternoon from 5pm at Riverside 2 nets.
In TDCA news, any City players who have nominated for the upcoming T20 competition are reminded that selections will take place tonight from 6.30pm at Butch Southwell House?  There will be a free BBQ and drinks for nominated players.

 

Results from last weekends matches.
1st Grade - War Veterans Cup Rd 1 v Souths played on Saturday
City won the toss and elected to bat first.
City were dismissed for a total of 111 runs in the 37th over.
Best batting:  Simon Toyer 18 runs, Dan Lawrence 16 runs, Terry Kampe 15 runs
In reply Souths hit 3/114 in 21 overs.
Best bowling:  Simon Toyer 1/25 off 3 overs

1st Grade - War Veterans Cup Rd 2 v Old Boys played on Sunday

City lost the toss and bowled first.
Old Boys hit 7/330 off their 50 overs.
Best bowling:  Jack McVey 4/62 off 10 overs.
In reply City were dismissed for a total of 189 runs in the 47th over.
Best batting:  Simon Toyer 64 runs, Dan Whale 46 runs.
It was a tough weekend for the guys having to play two games of cricket. Even though they suffered two losses, the guys gave their all and went down fighting valiantly.

Games for the rest of the grades played against Norths

2nd Grade:
City lost the toss and bowled first.
Norths were dismissed for a total of 124 runs in the 34th over.
Best bowling:  Josh Bennie 5/23 off 8 overs, Pat Dwyer 2/15 off 4.4 overs.
In reply City were dismissed for a total of 86 runs in the 28th over.
Best batting:  Dave Weekes 21 runs, Rod Pryor 14 runs, Mark Fisher 13 runs.
Congratulations to Josh on taking the first 5 wicket haul for City for the season.  And a timely return to cricket for Weekesy.

3rd Grade:

City lost the toss and bowled first.
Norths were dismissed for a total of 150 runs in the 37th over.
Best bowling:  Corey Pannowitz 3/28 off 8 overs; Joseph Jinto 3/34 off 8 overs.
In reply City were dismissed for a total of 75 runs in the 29th over.
Best batting:  Tom Fitzgerald 32 runs N/O, Trent Balderston 15 runs.
Tom batted nearly through the whole innings before running out of partners.  Still a gallant effort for a team playing with only 10 players.

 4th Grade:

City lost the toss and batted first.
City hit 9/191 off their 40 overs.
Best batting:  Neil Cooke 100 runs, Robbie Gregg 36 runs N/O, Josh Cooke 16 runs.
In reply Norths hit 6/164 off their 40 overs.
Best bowling:  Robbie Gregg 2/21 off 8 overs, Brody Gregg 2/59 off 8 overs.Congratulations to Cookey for hitting the first ton of the season.  Also a good all-round performance from captain Gregg.



Congratulations to you Neil on your Century, your boys have something to chase down now.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO thank you, Nikki for a wonderful report CITY



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The GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY

The good, the bad and the ugly was the story from 2^nd Grades match on Saturday.
 

The GOOD was Joshua Bennie taking five wickets for 23 runs from his eight overs, outstanding!!!!! two of his wickets were caught and bowled.
 

The BAD could have been possibly Sugar’s uncanny resemblance to the character Walter White aka “Heisenberg” from the TV show ""Breaking bad"
 

The UGLY was after a wonderful bowling and fielding effort to have Norths all out for a small total of 124 runs, we let a great opportunity slip by being bowled out ourselves with a smaller total of 86.
 

GOOOOOOOOOO we will get them next time CITY