Jake Winter in action for South Wilts in 2016 [Roy Honeybone]
Former South Wilts overseas player Jake Winter top scored with 61 and Hampshire Academy teenager left-armer Josh Croom grabbed two more wickets, but neither was able to get Glenelg across the line in the South Australia West End Grade semi-final against Kensington in Adelaide earlier today.
Dismissed for 219, Glenelg fell 21 runs shy of Kensington’s 240 – the result paving the way for the 2020 pennant winners to play Adelaide University in next weekend’s Grade final.
Playing possibly his last match on Australian soil before flying home on March 31, Croom took 2-64 in his 11-over stint, removing Josh Doyle and South Australia’s David Grant before Kensington recovered from 128-7 to make 240. Ex-Hursley Park batsman John Dalton made 12.
Croom has taken 32 wickets in Grade cricket, a remarkable achievement for an 18-year old, who has spent the past four months at Darren Lehmann’s Cricket Academy.
Winter, who spent the 2016 summer at Bemerton, glued the Glenelg innings together, making 61 and battedg for three hours under pressure as his side slipped to 122-5 before a gallant late order rally swelled the final score to 219.
Hope was all but lost at 213-8 when the 6’4” Croom strode to the crease for only the sixth time in four months. Ball in hand 22 yards away was Aussie leg-spin prodigy, the flame haired Lloyd Pope, who destroyed England with a 8-35 return in the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Now a regular in South Australia’s Sheffield Shield side and tipped to wear the Baggy Green sometime soon, Pope picked up a simple return catch to dismiss Croom for a third ball duck. He will get many more …
The other West End First Grade semi-final was played out in a bizarre manner - log table toppers Adelaide University (whose ranks included ex-Totton & Eling player Will Bosisto) batting all 150 of their match against West Torrens and making 428 ! West Torrens didn't get a hit, but got plenty of fielding practice in the 36c heat ...
Dismissed for 219, Glenelg fell 21 runs shy of Kensington’s 240 – the result paving the way for the 2020 pennant winners to play Adelaide University in next weekend’s Grade final.
Playing possibly his last match on Australian soil before flying home on March 31, Croom took 2-64 in his 11-over stint, removing Josh Doyle and South Australia’s David Grant before Kensington recovered from 128-7 to make 240. Ex-Hursley Park batsman John Dalton made 12.
Croom has taken 32 wickets in Grade cricket, a remarkable achievement for an 18-year old, who has spent the past four months at Darren Lehmann’s Cricket Academy.
Winter, who spent the 2016 summer at Bemerton, glued the Glenelg innings together, making 61 and battedg for three hours under pressure as his side slipped to 122-5 before a gallant late order rally swelled the final score to 219.
Hope was all but lost at 213-8 when the 6’4” Croom strode to the crease for only the sixth time in four months. Ball in hand 22 yards away was Aussie leg-spin prodigy, the flame haired Lloyd Pope, who destroyed England with a 8-35 return in the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Now a regular in South Australia’s Sheffield Shield side and tipped to wear the Baggy Green sometime soon, Pope picked up a simple return catch to dismiss Croom for a third ball duck. He will get many more …
The other West End First Grade semi-final was played out in a bizarre manner - log table toppers Adelaide University (whose ranks included ex-Totton & Eling player Will Bosisto) batting all 150 of their match against West Torrens and making 428 ! West Torrens didn't get a hit, but got plenty of fielding practice in the 36c heat ...
