Western Power v Gold Coast Waveriders
BPL02 - U18s
19 September 2002 8:00am
at Ivor Marsden Memorial Complex - Field 1
A beautiful day at Ivor Marsden greeted the teams for the start of the U18 BPL tournament. The early (8.00am) start meant that there was a little dew around and pitch conditions were likely to be tricky. The Waveriders won the toss and elected to bowl.
The decision seemed to be the correct one when five Power batsmen came and went in short order at the top of the innings and Waveriders opening bowler Henry Zietsch found himself with the enviable figures of 3/4 from three overs. Jared Adamski and Aum Thanki then set about a rescue mission for the Power taking the score from 5/23 to 63 before Aum left his crease and was stumped by Danny Statham off spinner, Adita Ghai; the first of four victims for Ghai. Adamski battled on in a “lone hand” innings of 52; all the more remarkable in that no other batter reached double figures. His innings came to a close in the 17th over with the score on 84. Zietsch returned to pick up a 4th wicket and finish with 4/7.
The target was a modest 94 and the Waveriders seemed to have this covered at 1/43 in the 10th over, before the wheels fell off. Tom Stevenson struck, removing the dangerous Tom Campbell via a catch behind to Griffin Thomson. Then, a double strike by Aditya Joshi in the 11th, removing the opener Johal (a catch in the deep to Lucas Sefont) and the new batsman two balls later; Regan Liebke taking the catch. Stevenson picked up a second wicket four balls later and Joshi chimed in again in the 13th with Liebke again providing the hands to reduce Waveriders to 6/58. The Power continued to apply pressure allowing just 7 runs off the bat in the next three overs. Wickets to Jack Geldard and Zane Newton in consecutive overs had the Waveriders 8/72 and it was game on. With two overs to go, the Waveriders needed 16 runs. Dayne Margiotta and Mitchell Pascoe decided to chance their arms in the penultimate over and it came off. 19 came from the over and the target was overhauled with six balls to spare.
An exciting start to the tournament.
