Gold Coast Waveriders v Bayside Pirates

BPL02 - The Century. Semi Final

7 August 2022 1:00pm at Alan Pettigrew Oval

The Century format

100 ball innings

20 five ball overs with option for bowling team to bowl 10 consecutive balls

20 balls bowled before changing ends; batsmen to rotate strike at the start of each over.

Powerplay first 20 balls

At least one ten ball over to be bowled in the powerplay

all wides and no balls incur a free hit

Despite a win in the morning game against the Southern Rockets, the Bayside Pirates found themselves in second spot in Pool B and in a semi-final playoff against Pool A front-runners Gold Coast Waveriders. Harry McNeilly called successfully for the Waveriders and elected to bowl.

Jackson Smith had the Pirates in trouble early, teaming up with Nikhil Chaudhary twice in four balls to remove Isaiah Snell and skipper Kendall Fleming in the first 12 balls. Two overs later, it was 3/28 when Harry McNeilly got under one off Param Uppal to dismiss Norm Vanua. Aryan Jain and Clay Beams righted the Pirates’ ship with a 49 run 4th wicket partnership from just 22 balls before Chaudhary took a third catch off Smith to remove Jain and then backed it up with a wicket next over via a McNeilly catch to make it 5/93. Brandon Honeybrook smashed 16 (plus 2 wides) off a Slater Asnicar over, but was bowled off the last ball. Then, five balls later, Beams was run out on 49 by Oliver West to make it 7/135. The Pirates squeezed 29 from the final 25 balls to drag the score up to a competitive 9/164.

Addy Grewal and Paddy Cotter took 27 from the first 18 balls before Norm Vanua had Cotter caught by Lucky Peterson. Harry McNeilly blasted a six and a four from his first two balls to take the score to 37 at the end of the Powerplay. The Pirates struck back in the next 20 restricting Waveriders to just 23 runs and the wicket of McNeilly - caught on the boundary by Jain off Vanua from ball 37. The next 20 balls was all Addy Grewal; taking 31 from 13 balls, before being dismissed for 54 by a Lucky Peterson screamer off James Rosewarne on ball 60. The “equation” was 61 from 40 and when Uppal was dismissed 10 balls later, 48 from 30. Nikhil Chaudhary and Dylan McLachlan needed just 18 of the 30 balls available to seal the victory and the Waveriders’ place in the Grand Final for the second successive year.