Pinelands Cricket Club

Once again a clinical performance with the bat this weekend by the Flying 4s. We started with our openers not not lasting long and we looked in early trouble with evergreen Michael Slater going early for 2 and after playing the most talked about straight drive for four, there was the even more talked about [...]

After a resounding win the previous week the 3rds lost an important toss and went into bat on a damp and sticky wicket. The batters applied themselves well and achieved a respectable score of 163/8 in our 45 overs. Good contributions came from Rogan Fliton – 54, Graham Dupe 32 and Mike vd Merwe 26*. [...]

An early start to the season as our league was increased by 2 teams saw the boys come out firing on all cylinders despite being reduced to 10 men shortly before a shot was played in anger…   Junior Ambrose spun the coin incorrectly and The Tiere chose to bat and what looked like a [...]

 4th XI vs Camps Bay 1st XI at Caprice The protea team have the 438 game and now after Saturday 15th January 2011 the fighting fourths will forever have their very own 277 game.   To say this was a remarkable day would be like saying Barney likes a spice or Wardy enjoys Tin Roof, [...]

INDY OIL PCC 1st XI VS CLAREMONT CC 1st Sat In what seems to be the trend this season  – green wickets, PCC lost the toss and were put in to bat first. We welcomed back our “superstars” Justin Kemp, Ryan Canning and Aviwe Mgijima from provincial duties to bolster our side for this game. [...]

  Indy Oil PCC vs Old Mutual CC (away) SAT 13th NOV – Day 1:   On an underprepared wicket PCC won the toss and elected to bowl first. Tight bowling by the seamers lead to pressure on the batting side and resulted in a continuous fall of wickets throughout their innings. Leg spinner Nazim [...]

1st XI vs UCT at home 30 Oct(League)   Indy Oil Pinelands captain Colin Birch won the toss and stuck the visitors in on a sticky wicket and under overcast conditions. The moved paid off as UCT found themselves in Dire Straits at 70 / 7 . Pinelands however failed to wrap up the tail [...]

  1st XI vs UWC Away   Starting the second morning under  cool overcast conditioners , The visitors new they were in for a real challenge should they be able to save the match against a very strong UWC X1. The students came out firing , only batting a further 30 overs , declaring on [...]

On a cracking day for cricket the PCC 1st team made the trip out to UWC to face them in the first 20/20 semi final of the day. PCC won the toss and chose to bat first setting a target of 142 to defend. We needed to restrict UWC to seal a spot in the [...]