LIVE - Horrigan Cup Round 1 - Pumas v Sticky Wickets

PUMAS

RA Boy 24 (58)
SA Flack 8 (7)
LE Schaw 2 (4)
BG Herd 6 (8)
TA Miokovic 7 (22)
SLO Graham 41 (93)
B Olsen 43 (78)
DA Astele 32 (18) not out
AD Hunt 4 (7)
K Bovver 11 (5) not out

Total : 178/8 (50)

JR Denton 10-1-46-5 (4.60)
SDR Laing 9-0-49-0 (5.44)
SJ Nova 10-2-36-3 (3.60)
AJ Son 10-5-20-0 (2.00)
BC Jacobs 5-1-14-0 (2.80)
MD Dorn 6-2-13-0 (2.17)

 

No, not really. The point of the conservative batting was the fact that the top order have been completely blown away and they needed to score as many as they could in the 50 overs. Given they had much fewer resources than they'd normally have at that stage of the innings they had to take fewer risks to ensure they got a somewhere-near-decent score. Batting "normally" at that point would have just resulted in 120 all out.

If they'd got out ages back, Astele and Hunt would've had to anchor and then there would have been no-one to hit at the end.

 

What they actually struggled with was Denton's opening burst - they left them no wickets to play with in the middle overs against the spinners so they went nowhere.

 

0.1 K Bovver to JP Thornton; one run
0.2 K Bovver to DG Speirs; one run
0.3 K Bovver to JP Thornton; no run
0.4 K Bovver to JP Thornton; FOUR
0.5 K Bovver to JP Thornton; no run
0.6 K Bovver to JP Thornton; no run

End of Over 1 (6 runs)
Sticky Wickets 6/0 (6.00)

%DG Speirs 1 (1b, 100.00); %JP Thornton 5 (5b, 100.00)
%K Bovver 1-0-6-0 (6.00)
Sticky Wickets need 173 more runs to win at 3.53

 

1.1 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; no run
1.2 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; two runs
1.3 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; no run
1.4 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; no run
1.5 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; no run
1.6 AJ Izett to DG Speirs; no run

End of Over 2 (2 runs)
Sticky Wickets 8/0 (4.00)

%JP Thornton 5 (5b, 100.00); %DG Speirs 3 (7b, 42.86)
%AJ Izett 1-0-2-0 (2.00)
Sticky Wickets need 171 more runs to win at 3.56