Adelaide Hills Cricket (HCA, TVCA & A&EH)

[Barkeroo]

Who is Tom Plant playing for in AEHCA?

Langhorne Creek apparently.

[Barkeroo]

Wistow with the first up win against Woodside

[saintal]

Wistow with the first up win against Woodside

The Echidnas are on a roll. Nice to see the move back up into A’s has started well. Looking from afar it seems a few clubs have suffered some personnel losses, and Lobethal and Hahndorf are the teams to beat once again obviously.

The A2’s kicked off on Saturday. Most of the games were fairly one sided except Maccy’s 20 run win against Mt Barker. Was nice to topple long time rivals Woodside, although we made things harder than they needed to be in the end. With 10 teams it should be a competitive race for the 4 finals spots.

Birdwood won’t lose too many minor round games in the TVCA. If Cambrai have their strongest team available in March they’ll be a strong chance to make it 4 straight flags. Can't see any of the other 4 clubs winning it.

[caleb777]

Damn impressive effort from the Magpies to almost beat Creek today with an extremely depleted side.

[jackpot jim]

Damn impressive effort from the Magpies to almost beat Creek today with an extremely depleted side.

Creeks were almost just as depleted so the close result wasn't really a surprise
If not for Clements ton (His 1st score of note for the season) Hahndorf would've won easy
Tough round with many tipsters getting 0/4

[caleb777]

Damn impressive effort from the Magpies to almost beat Creek today with an extremely depleted side.

Creeks were almost just as depleted so the close result wasn't really a surprise
If not for Clements ton (His 1st score of note for the season) Hahndorf would've won easy
Tough round with many tipsters getting 0/4

Almost just as depleted? Plant, Clements x2, Blackwell and Kropp all played. Dorf had Judd x2 and Ty Watson in who are the only regular a graders.

[jackpot jim]

Damn impressive effort from the Magpies to almost beat Creek today with an extremely depleted side.

Creeks were almost just as depleted so the close result wasn't really a surprise
If not for Clements ton (His 1st score of note for the season) Hahndorf would've won easy
Tough round with many tipsters getting 0/4

Almost just as depleted? Plant, Clements x2, Blackwell and Kropp all played. Dorf had Judd x2 and Ty Watson in who are the only regular a graders.

Creek had 4 -5 A Graders Rest were C/B Grade standard Missing 5 - 6 of their best team.
Hahndorf had 7 - 8 missing ?
Hence almost as depleted.
Yes Creek had 4 handy players for sure but were still almost as depleted players missing wise.

In other games Nairne inflicted Lobethals 1st loss for the season in an upset
Wistow continue to defy the tipsters and continued their fairytale return to A Grade by defeating Strath on the Turf in a very low scoring game. Rumour has it that Strath need new covers as they leaked causing some issues with the pitch. No idea to what extent and how much of that can be blamed on the low scores?
Woodside continue their revival in narrowly getting over Bremer Callington

Many tipsters had a wipeout this week with a 0/4 result

[Barkeroo]

Most of the pitch at Strath was ok from what I'm told. But there looked to be a really wet patch in the middle of the pitch from a leaky spot in the covers apparently. Any time the ball hit the wet spots it would take a 'tennis ball bounce' sometimes going up over the batters head but still bouncing a couple of times before the keeper, it made it hard to play any shots off of anything that wasn't relatively full. 100 would probably have been a winning score if Strath could have got there.
There was also a rain delay at the start of the second innings an the covers weren't put on but luckily it was a pretty light shower.