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.

[jackpot jim]

Great Southern v A&EHCA in the Meyer Shield Final on KI

Great Southern beat KI and Murray Towns to be the only undefeated team
Despite a 5 run loss by A&EHCA to Hills on Sunday, A&EHCA got through on NRR

Saturday games were T20s
Sunday Games were 50 overs

Believe the Final will be played over 45 overs

[Dutchy]

Ridiculous finish in Lofty/Kangies on Sat,both teams needed to win and SCIB's not win to make finals. SCIB's drew which wasn't enough and Lofty took 5 for bugger all in the last 2 overs to win by a run and grab 4th. Its on youtube if you want to have a look.

[jackpot jim]

Ridiculous finish in Lofty/Kangies on Sat,both teams needed to win and SCIB's not win to make finals. SCIB's drew which wasn't enough and Lofty took 5 for bugger all in the last 2 overs to win by a run and grab 4th. Its on youtube if you want to have a look.

Hard to believe the 2 teams batting 2nd in those games didn't get the job done from the positions they were in

[saintal]

It’s finals time…

A Grade- Lobethal have come back to the pack somewhat since Xmas, but will still fancy themselves on the big stage. The other 3 teams seem pretty evenly matched.

A2 Grade- After finishing bottom a couple of years ago Echunga have continued their rise to finish minor premiers. Have the strongest batting line-up, while Lobethal a little more dependant on their bowlers. Nairne at full strength will also give it a shake.

B Grade- Can’t say I keep a close eye on this grade. Appears a tight top 4 with a big gap back to the 2 teams that missed out.

C Grade- Bremer-Cally moved up from D’s and have finished minor premier and will host a semi on turf. Nairne their biggest threat, while Strath and Lenswood edged out a large chasing pack for the final 2 spots.

D Grade- Mount Barker are odds on to go back-to-back, not having dropped a game this season and featuring a few guys clearly playing the wrong grade…

From a Lenswood perspective the A2’s season faded after a strong start, which has been the frustrating norm over the past 4-5 seasons. To have both C’s and D’s in the finals is a great result though, as major round appearances in any grade for the club have been few and far between since the turn of the century.

In the TVCA it’ll again be Birdwood v Cambrai in both grades. The Skunks comfortably claimed the A’s last season, but I sense this week might be different.