Roudenko Cricket Academy Charity Day 2023
Monday 2 October 2023 at D M Henderson Ovals
In honour of Dave “Mango” Orange
David ‘Mango’ Orange passed away suddenly on 9 August 2023. Dave played seven seasons at Souths, debuting for First Grade in his first season in 2008. Dave went on to play a number of First Grade games across all formats, before taking a step back and being an integral part of the 2012/13 Third Grade Premiership winning team. Dave made many lifelong friends in his time at Souths and in the cricket community in general. He is remembered as a great team mate and even better bloke.Proceeds from the RCA Charity Day will benefit Dave’s wife Kerry and nine month old daughter Eylea.It was a glorious day for cricket at D M Henderson Park. Rules of the event were as follows:
10-a-side; 11 overs per team
An indoor cricket ball to be used
Each player bowls one over; Player with the worst figures bowls the last over.
Batters retire at 25, but can return if all players have batted
Batters can nominate six individual deliveries at any time during the innings from which runs are doubled. Nomination must occur prior to the delivery by advising the umpire. If the delivery is not a legal one (ie., Wide or No ball), the double carries to the next legal delivery.
Last batter can continue, but may only score two or multiple of two.
Game 1: Wynnum v Wanderers at D M Henderson Lower
Wanderers won the toss and elected to bat. A top order collapse saw Wanderers reduced to 4/33 in the 4th over, before Christian Murphy partnered with Chris Gannon for 22, then Jeff Horsey for 18 to add some respectability to the score. Wickets to Will Aspeling in the 8th, Lachlan Reberger in the 9th and two to Joe Whittaker in the 10th reduced Wanderers to 8/88, but Murphy returned to add 23 from 6 with Amitoj Sidhu and take the score to 112 from the allocated 11 overs. Murphy finished with 42 from 15 and Joe Whittaker 3/21.
In reply, Amreen Kahlon and Dale De Sousa shared an opening stand of 41 before Jeff Horsey disturbed Amreen’s stumps at the end of the 4th over. De Sousa reached his 25 shortly after, but was ably replaced by Joe Whittaker who clubbed 31 from 8 and also retired. Saad Farooqi and Scott Reberger saw Wynnum home with 11 balls to spare.
Game 2: Souths v Brisbane Super Kings at D M Henderson Upper
Souths won the toss and elected to bat. Campbell Farrelly smashed 29 from 6 from the first over to bring about his own retirement with the score on 31! There was no respite for BSK as fellow opener Dinek Kinigama blasted 16 form the next four balls to take the score to 47 from 10 balls before he fell to Jai on the 11th. Souths’ momentum continued throughout the innings with six overs yielding more than 20 and just one over (by Hemant) going for less than double digits. Eddie Comer accumulated 45 from 10 and Dylan Crees 59 from 13 after retiring and returning.
Chasing a mammoth 225, BSK’s Dhoni opened the innings with a four ball blitz of 6.4.6.12 off Brad Anderson in an opening over which gave up 37 runs! BSK were well in the hunt at 1/63 from three overs before Justin Basi applied the brakes in a 6 run 4th over and Gunasekera nabbed two wickets in the next to slow the momentum. Dhoni returned at the end of the innings to add another 22 from 7 balls, but the task was too great for the Super Kings.
Game 3: Wynnum v Brisbane Super Kings at D M Henderson Lower
Wynnum won the toss and elected to field. Despite losing two wickets in the 2nd over to Lachlan Reberger, BSK recovered well to be 2/92 after 7, with both Karim and Aman contributing 25s. However, an inspired four over spell by Wynnum saw just 21 runs added for the loss of four wickets, keeping the score to just 113; one more than they had to chase in Game 1.
Wes Aspeling, Ollie Lunt and Will Aspeling all reached 25s in a clinical 9 over chase.
Game 4: Souths v Wanderers at D M Henderson Upper
Wanderers won the toss, batted and were in trouble early until Harry Carroll took 22 off Om Bhikadiya in the 3rd over. A bizarre 12 no balls, including 5 in one over by Eddie Comer kept Wanderers in the game with a score of 146. Christian Murphy blasted 26 from 7 to go with Carroll’s eventual 44 from 10.
The chase was well in hand at 2/82 from 6, before Chris Gannon chimed in with a hat trick from the first three balls of the 7th over to make it 5/89! Brad Anderson ‘s timely 24 from 9 was brought to a screaming halt when he was deceived by Callum Atchison and stumped by Amitoj Sidhu in the 10th. Corey Curran took 12 and a wide off the remaining deliveries of the 10th, leaving 16 to get off the last. Young Arjun Dhanda cleverly milked a single off the first allowing Curran the strike. A four and a two left 9 to get off three. Arjun again came to the fore sacrificing his wicket in search of a 2 to keep Curran on strike. 8 to get off two. 4 to Curran; 4 to get off the last ball. 4 again! Souths home on the last ball.
Game 5: Wynnum v Souths at D M Henderson Lower
Wynnum won the toss and elected to field; the decision vindicated with Souths 5/39 after just five overs. Brad Anderson and Dylan Crees plundered the 6th over for 24 before Will Aspeling and Saad Farooqi applied the brakes in the 7th and 8th. At 5/70 with three to go, Souths needed something. Anderson obliged taking 21 from the over to catapult the score to 91. Dale De Sousa’s economical 10th included the wicket of Anderson; Souths 6/95 with one to go. Despite three wickets in the last, the returning Dylan Crees managed to take 18 runs from it to set Wynnum a target of 117 for victory.
Three wickets in the second over to Eddie Comer set the Wynnum cause back. A solid 27 from 16 by Scott Reberger and a last ditch 17 from 7 by Lachlan Reberger was not enough to steer Wynnum home. Souths up by three runs.
Game 6: Wanderers v Brisbane Super Kings at D M Henderson Upper
The last of the pool matches was a dead rubber, but fiercely contested between Wanderers and BSK. Wanderers won the toss and batted. Harry Carroll, Christian Murphy and Amitoj Sidhu all posted 25s to propel Wanderers to 83 from just 4 overs. From that point, BSK fought back to restrict Wanderers to 4/51 from the final 8 overs.
Chris Gannon was on a hat trick again in the second over when he had Jaiveer stumped off a wide by Sidhu and Hemant caught next ball to take his tournament tally to a table-topping five wickets. Two hat tricks in a day was a bit much to hope for though as Nick P calmly called a double and pumped the last ball of the over for 12. Nick P called double again an over later off Amitoj Sidhu and pumped that one over the fence as well, but was out next ball when Sidhu zeroed in on the stumps. Dhoni’s 4 to take him to 28 snuck by the scorer and he was out a ball later; bowled by Callum Aitchison. Carroll and Murphy claimed wickets in the 5th and 6th overs but conceded 27 runs in the process to leave BSK 43 to get off the last 5. It was left to Kirat and youngster Sachin to guide BSK home in a partnership of 39 from 28; the final runs coming from a double 4 with four balls to go.
FINAL: Souths v Wynnum at D M Henderson Lower (under lights)
After a close tussle in the Game 5, this matchup promised to be a mouth-watering prospect and it did not disappoint.
Wynnum won the toss and chose to bat. Wickets in each of the first two overs and a tidy follow-up in the third had Wynnum 2/19. A six and a double six to Ollie Lunt in the 4th prompted his retirement on 27 from 7 and put Wynnum back on track on 41 from 4. Wickets in each of the next two shifted the momentum back to Souths - 4/59 from 6 - but Wynnum fought back again. 82 came from the last five thanks to 24 from 9 to Lachlan Reberger and a bizarre 16 off one ball when Dale De Sousa, called a double, ran four and collected four overthrows in the last over!
The target was 142 - the highest target set on the Lower oval all day. Souths started well with 25 from the first two overs before veteran Wes Aspeling trapped Dinek Kinigama in front and followed up with the wicket of Campbell Farrelly who paddled one straight to De Sousa behind square. It was all Souths after that as Eddie Comer and Dylan Crees made their way to 25s and guided Souths to 2/83 in the 7th. Guyan Gunasekera added a crucial 25 from 9 to take Souths within 21 runs with an over to go.
A single, a two and a wicket meant that Souths needed 18 with three balls remaining, BUT, three doubles remained. A single to Arjun (2)…16 to get; two to come. Prince Lucky on strike….six (doubled)…12… Four to get off the last….. six! doubled… it didn’t matter. Euphoria! A win to Souths off the last ball of the day.
