Good Old Australia

On the 29th of October we went down to the Coffs Harbour International Stadium to see the Australian women's cricket team battle the fourth Ashes match against England. Unfortunately we lost by around 20 runs but Australia still won the ashes with a 3-1 win. We went to Coffs and as expected we met with our fellow cricketers from the North Coast Academy while we watched the game. England decided to bat after the toss which they won and made a record breaking 284 runs which was their highest amount of runs scored against Australia in a ODI match (*ODI One day international)

Megan Schutt took 4 wickets and England made 44 runs off her bowling. Ellyse Perry not only bowled and took 2 wickets but she also took a catch from Ashley Gardner's bowling and Jess Jonassen stood with one wicket. Around the beginning of when we batted rain came. But that was not enough for them to call it off (It takes a lot of rain to make the games called off). Alyssa Healy, who's is a exceptionally good batter and keeper, opened for Australia and scored 71 runs off 71 balls and was unfortunately caught on her 72nd ball. After that her opening partner Nicole Bolton made 62 runs off 82 balls. And after that the wickets kept falling and runs were drying up. In the end Australia were 9-257. All though they lost I was still quite happy as I brought my local cricket club hat and had it signed by Elyse Villani and Jess Jonassen.

Cricket Semi Final!

Last Thursday and last Friday Verity (My Sister) and I had a cricket semi final. It was a very very VERY close game, getting too intense and tight for comfort it came down to 1 wicket and 1 run to win.
By the end of our bowling we had to chase 235 runs with only 5 wickets in hand. The first 3 wickets fell fast leaving Verity and another batter of our team out there with just 2 wickets left. At drinks we only needed about 50 runs! We were tied before you knew it but Verity was unfortunately run out on a no ball and if you are not familiar with cricket you can only get out on a no ball if it is a runout and a no ball also equals a run so we won then but the people who were keeping track of the runs did not realise it was a no ball until after the game so everyone thought we were still tied. And so the next batter came in but the batter that Verity was batting with hit up high and someone caught it we all thought we lost but Miss G (My sister and coach and umpire of our team) called it a no ball so we won! It was a very tight game but we made it and even we tied I think we would of won anyways.

P.S My sisters Verity and Han have made their own blogs. Links>  Verity's Blog  Han's Blog