by batmanbegins » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:04 pm
Well I tipped correctly, Scibs V Meadows is the GF for the 2nd time in 3 years and they will play each other in the finals for the 3rd consecutive year.
Scibs had a reasonably easy win over Uris, A very even batting performance plus the always erratic Uris bowling conceding 38 extras led to Scibs scoring a very good score in a final of 195. Uris in reply were in complete disarray at 8 for 65, including a hat trick from daniel desengo before the experienced head of carter and young gaetan put on 90 for the 9th wicket and it looked as tho uris may pull of a miracle but they then lost their last two wickets in consecutive balls to be dismissed for 153, thanks to carters 80 odd. Uris will be shattered to lose another semi but they had a very good second half of the year and just need to start better next year as they always start the year slowly.
Meadows as they always seem to do in finals won the toss and batted first (I cant remember the last time they batted last in the finals they are very good at the toss), Flagstaff did the cardinal sin of dropping rohan on 0 which of course led to him making a ton and meadows posting a very imposing score of 3 for 251 which was always going to be to big of an ask for the flaggies. Flaggies never looked likely apart from young tosh who batted well but i would advise them not to poke the bear that is meadows as it never ends well and they ended up 90 runs short. Flaggies had a great year which should of seen them end up top but they lack the class of meadows with the bat and once they dropped a few catches it was always going to be hard work.
Prediction: Scibs V Meadows- Well meadows are strong favourites as they should be with their batting line up, Dawe, Reid, Reid, Tonkin and Pethick is the best top 5 in the comp by some way but if their is one team that has held in particular rohan to low scores recently it's Scibs who rohan hasnt made a 50 against them in a year or two. If scibs get into the young thomas brothers and jaensch early then they will fancy their chances as they arent as expericened in big finals as they have never had to bat in the big games. Mcgowan and Tarque are huge keys with the new ball, as early wickets are there only chance. Scibs issue is with the bat as they have never made runs against meadows and its tough to see them making enough runs unless tarque, behn or shearwood get going but you never know as there tail wagged on the weekend. Rohan is the key with the ball as well for meadows and scibs will need to see him out. Meadows in a close one in my opinion but It would be nice to see a new team win.