Grade Cricket

[Armchair expert]

Massive collapse by Adelaide sees West Torrens through to the final.

[wedgetail]

7 down, 3 to go. Is the premiership now a race for 5?

Adelaide made light work of Kensington's batting line up, bowling them our for 131, defending their 253, to put them right in the mix.

Sturt slogged it out all day with the bat (78 & 8/199), to avoid giving Port Adelaide an outright result after Port declared their 1st innings closed at 7/198.

Woodville declared at their overnight total of 5/301. All of East Torrens' batsmen chipped in to chase down the total, 5/302, with 5 overs to spare.

West Torrens declared at 9/289 last week and had both Tea Tree Gully's openers dismissed early, but despite keeping wickets in hand from that point on, TTG left their run too late. 14 overs with the 2nd new ball saw TTG lose 4/54 and fall 20 runs short, finishing up with a draw at 8/269. Frustration for both teams, one of which will probably see themselves in Division 2 next season.

It was West Torrens 4th Draw for the season, in a quirk of the points system, they have lost less games than the ladder leading Kensington, but sit firmly in the relegation zone with three rounds remaining.

Kensington 100
Port Adelaide 95
Sturt 85
Adelaide 80
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East Torrens 75
Tea Tree Gully 45
West Torrens 40
Woodville 20

Round 8
Sturt vs East Torrens
West Torrens vs Kensington
Tea Tree Gully vs Port Adelaide
Adelaide vs Woodville

Woodville have appealed their recent loss to West Torrens at Henley citing a 'damper pitch' on day 2 when they were chasing West Torrens' 202. At stumps they were 2/50ish on the first day and at one stage 3/90ish and in the box seat on the second day. It has already taken 2 lengthy meetings, numerous witness statements and detailed statistical analysis of batting averages over the season etc and STILL no outcome. Interestingly, WT was 4/54 the previous week on a supposedly better wicket. I could be wrong but believe that West Torrens has no involvement in the preparation of the pitch as it is done by an independent party.

[Tony Clifton]

Surely that's the domain of the umpires?

They are the impartial ones who saw the pitch both weeks and should decide whether they think anything untoward happened

[Insider_Trading]

Surely that's the domain of the umpires?

They are the impartial ones who saw the pitch both weeks and should decide whether they think anything untoward happened

Umpires are usually only there to decide if it is safe or not.


Heard yesterday there was a 7 hour hearing on Thursday about this.

Final result apparently: nothing to report

[Tony Clifton]

Has there ever been a club found guilty of pitch doctoring I wonder?

[Aerie]

Kensington 100
Port Adelaide 95
Sturt 85
Adelaide 80
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East Torrens 75
Tea Tree Gully 45
West Torrens 40
Woodville 20

Round 8
Sturt vs East Torrens 183 (a slow grind by East Torrens to almost bat out the day)
West Torrens 194 vs Kensington 5/59 (WT again salvaged a shaky top order start, JFM century, then picked up some handy wickets in the last session)
Tea Tree Gully 9/262 vs Port Adelaide (Perhaps the game most evenly poised at Stumps)
Adelaide 7/367 vs Woodville (The Peckers will be hoping for a dry pitch this weekend)

One Day GF on Sunday between West Torrens and Kensington - the predicted weather may be a factor? Looks likely this game might need to be rescheduled?

[Port Pirie Power]

Stir in Div 2…. Prospect forfeit their match vs Northerns giving them the full 30 points for the match and putting them back into 2nd.

[Insider_Trading]

How did they forfeit?

Didn't Prospect get the runs in the 2nd innings?

[Port Pirie Power]

How did they forfeit?

Didn't Prospect get the runs in the 2nd innings?

Slashed a player for 2nd week for an exam, player was found to not have an exam.

Pretty crazy to use that before uni had even gone back.

[Insider_Trading]

Very random!

[Tony Clifton]

So what was the real reason he didn't play?

[Insider_Trading]

Heard today that this Prospect player apparently had an assignment due. However on the day of the game he was interstate at a wedding.

[Armchair expert]

Both can be true

[locky801]

Both can be true

Both can be true

Yes he had an assignment to be at a wedding

[Aerie]

More contrived results yesterday. Woodville & Port both declaring 5 wickets down in their 1st Innings.

[Insider_Trading]

Kensington all out for 122 in the 50 Over Final.

West Torrens currently 0 for 60 in the 15th over.

[Armchair expert]

Easy win for West Torrens by 9 wickets

[wedgetail]

Terrific weekend for West Torrens who defeated Kensington in both the 2 day match on Saturday and the One Day Cup final today. Keeps their record safe of being the only club to win the triple crown of titles in the one season. Too bad they will be unlikely to contest the 2 day finals or..............?
Stranger things have happened but priority will be to avoid relegation I feel.

[Aerie]

Eagles 3rd One Day Premiership in 5 years and 4th in the last decade. They join Kensington and Glenelg as the most successful clubs in terms of One Day premierships, with a total of 8 since the comp began in 1967/68.

A dominant display with both bat and ball. A good toss to win with the pitch under covers overnight and overcast conditions. James Reuther (4/31) ripping through the Kensington middle order and the very impressive young left arm orthodox spinner, Deakin Murphy, picking up 3/12. As they have done many times over the past decade, Kelvin Smith (33) and Bailey Capel (53*) ensured the Eagles would add some more silverware to the trophy cabinet down at Henley, chasing down 122 1 down.

[Aerie]

Round 8
Sturt 6/186 def East Torrens 183
West Torrens 194 & 1/126 dec def Kensington 124 & 3/65
Tea Tree Gully 293 & 0/0 dec def outright Port Adelaide 5/104 dec & 138
Adelaide 7/371 dec & 0/0 dec def outright Woodville 5/105 dec & 111

Two more games full of rubbish declarations gifting outright points this week, making 4 games like this so far this season.

As we saw a couple of Rounds ago, top 4 teams will play each other and bottom 4 teams play each other this Round.

Adelaide 110** (KENS / WT)
Sturt 105 (PA / TTG)
Kensington 100 (ADL / WDV)
Port Adelaide 95* (ST / ET)
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Tea Tree Gully 75* (ET / ST)
East Torrens 75 (TTG / PA)
West Torrens 60 (WDV / ADL)
Woodville 20 (WT / KENS)

**20 Gifted points thanks to contrived results
* 10 Gifted points thanks to contrived results