Adelaide Turf Cricket Association 2009-10

[bulldogs]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?

If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

You're assuming that people don't have to work there Dr Turf.... the majority of people are more likely to only have 2 days to watch the test, so if we go back to playing on Test weekend that would become 1 day.
there is say approx 1000 cricketers playn in the ATCA. are we catering for a small % who will go to the test match, i dont care who is playing i think we should be. A club like ours has now lost 3 weeks of trade its alright for the college sides who dont have a premises to look after.
I agree that we have missed a lot of cricket this year & that is extremely disappointing, but unfortunately that's life in a game that can be affected by the weather (although don't get me started on the heat rule - it's a summer sport so we should be playing unless it's too wet & not missing out because it's too hot).

But these days I'd much rather be free to go to the test match & I'd prefer to have Sundays free as well. I played Grade (district) cricket for 10 years & it was great to have the test match weekend off (which the ATCA didn't at that time). The only reason the A Grade play on test match weekend now is because the SACA wanted to remove as much Sunday cricket as possible from the program. Going back 10 years ago the A/B grade players were playing as many as 8 Sundays a season & a lot of the older players were moving to ATCA clubs to get away from Sunday cricket.

I suspect you're suggesting this as more of a one-off measure in reaction to having the test match off, but where would you draw the line? Would we then reschedule every day that we miss? And would you still call for us to play on the test match weekend if we were playing England & not the West Indies??

[geppscrossrams]

Twenty20 fixture finally available on ATCA website.

[skywalker]

Heard on the infamous grape vine that a certain ex Aust / State player might be having a game or two with para hills ? can anyone confirm or deny????

Greg Blewett this week according to the ATCA site. Will it be only the one game or more does anyone know?

At this stage it's just the one game.

If doing Greg's gardens is the way to get him come and play a game at my club, I will do that and clean his pool... free of charge Greg.. What do you say??

[saveyourlegs]

Heard on the infamous grape vine that a certain ex Aust / State player might be having a game or two with para hills ? can anyone confirm or deny????

Greg Blewett this week according to the ATCA site. Will it be only the one game or more does anyone know?

At this stage it's just the one game.

If doing Greg's gardens is the way to get him come and play a game at my club, I will do that and clean his pool... free of charge Greg.. What do you say??

Does he need anyone to polish his shoes? I will do that also if he wants to have a game with us

[Jimmy_041]

Someone else has already thought of the missus option

[Shark_Hunter]

Good on ya Adelaide Turf once again waiting until the last minute before making a decision on playing this week (Dec 5th) when the decision should have been made last Saturday once we knew the emergency committee called the Nov 28th game off due to bad weather.

This year in total we have now played five weeks of cricket and missed out on five (4x Weather) & (1x Adelaide Turf Vote to play). I doubt this has ever happened before.
Surely The Emergency Committee can overule the Adelaide Turf Clubs 10% or more (not in favour of playing this Dec 5th) vote on the One Day game missed (Nov 28th) and re-schedule it for an up coming Sunday?

If we are going to see ourselves as the benchmark of Amateur Cricket and second to District Cricket in the State why not set that example and play the game we miss out on, instead of missing the whole weekend for a test match.
There is five days to go and watch a test match, it only takes one day to play a round of cricket.

Does anyone know when the Adelaide Turf Twenty20 fixture will appear? Isn't it supposed to start next Tuesday? Surely they are not leaving this until the last minute too?

You're assuming that people don't have to work there Dr Turf.... the majority of people are more likely to only have 2 days to watch the test, so if we go back to playing on Test weekend that would become 1 day.

I agree that we have missed a lot of cricket this year & that is extremely disappointing, but unfortunately that's life in a game that can be affected by the weather (although don't get me started on the heat rule - it's a summer sport so we should be playing unless it's too wet & not missing out because it's too hot).

But these days I'd much rather be free to go to the test match & I'd prefer to have Sundays free as well. I played Grade (district) cricket for 10 years & it was great to have the test match weekend off (which the ATCA didn't at that time). The only reason the A Grade play on test match weekend now is because the SACA wanted to remove as much Sunday cricket as possible from the program. Going back 10 years ago the A/B grade players were playing as many as 8 Sundays a season & a lot of the older players were moving to ATCA clubs to get away from Sunday cricket.

I suspect you're suggesting this as more of a one-off measure in reaction to having the test match off, but where would you draw the line? Would we then reschedule every day that we miss? And would you still call for us to play on the test match weekend if we were playing England & not the West Indies??

Well said Silky.

[on_a_length]

Someone else has already thought of the missus option

[interested observer]

Currently absolutely p*ssing down at Golden Grove.....
Is it Footy season ???????

[Bluedemon]

the weather is nice today which means some cricket on Saturday, fingers crossed it stays this way though.

[azzaisbest]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

[geppscrossrams]

Gepps X 130 def. Hope Valley 84

[azzaisbest]

Gepps X 130 def. Hope Valley 84

That you did, we let you off the hook when we had ya 8 for 80 odd

[saveyourlegs]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

Love the pink ball, seems to take off alot quicker than the red ball.. what do you think azzaisbest?
did you make many runs last night?

[azzaisbest]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

Love the pink ball, seems to take off alot quicker than the red ball.. what do you think azzaisbest?
did you make many runs last night?

Im liking the pink ball, seems to float a bit through the air but otherwise is quite easy to pick up.
Not too many syl, started to get a couple away then insided edged one back on, what about yourselfs, how did the imports go

[teaoby]

i find the pink ball fine while batting but if you get a sharp catch it seems to mess with the eyes a bit.

either way love the 20/20 format. nothing better then going in seeing off 1 or 2 balls then going the hit! after a long day at a desk its a good anger relief!

[Senor Moto Gadili]

Port Districts v Gepps Cross A2 game washed out last Saturday with Gepps in winning position. Hoes does that happen?

[bloods08]

Port Districts v Gepps Cross A2 game washed out last Saturday with Gepps in winning position. Hoes does that happen?

That's what we are trying to work out also.

[Lightning McQueen]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

Is it a 2 piece Jaffer?

[Bag & Sledge]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

Is it a 2 piece Jaffer?

For the twenty20 comp all teams must use the four piece Pink Kookaburra Regulation Ball, we used those two piece jaffers last year and they were average.

[Lightning McQueen]

Man this thread had been quiet of late .......

Any scores from tuesday nights 20/20??

Noticed not all are up on the site yet , what are everyones thoughts on the pink ball??

Is it a 2 piece Jaffer?

For the twenty20 comp all teams must use the four piece Pink Kookaburra Regulation Ball, we used those two piece jaffers last year and they were average.

Yes, very, they drop heaps quicker when they get skied aswell.