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Pavilion Cup - Round 5

Hi and welcome to Radio DNA, 969 on your radio, for the Round 5 Pavilion Cup wrap up. Let’s go straight to our reporter, Tony Kreig, on the ground of one of the recently completed games. He has the captain of the winning side with him. Are you there, Tony?
Tony : Yes I am and [...]

PC Round 6 Match Preview

As the Pavilion Cup moves towards its pointy end there are some intriguing contests in store. One such match pits twice runnersup Ayatollah of rockenrollah against the Pakistani champions Hasraz. What follows is a preview of the match including a profile of the two managers, their main players and the match itself.
The managers:
Heffner: Also known [...]

Pavilion Cup - Round 4

I wandered around the Koo Wee Kricket ground on a warm and sunny Sunday lamenting my lack of enthusiasm in this season’s Pavilion Cup, my boys playing our semi-regular friendly against Damage Inc at the Cliff Burton Memorial Oval. No disrespect to them but I wish I was playing against Staples015, hoping for revenge for [...]

Pavilion Cup - Round 3

A much warmer day greeted the third round of the Pavilion Cup and I settled into my favourite chair for the afternoon. My boys started well but fell away quickly and I knew I didn’t have the attack to knock out my opponents. I did play only seconds for aforementioned reasons but credit where credit [...]

Pavilion Cup - Round 2

Round 2 bought us another cool day in Melbourne and I am sitting here a little worse for wear after attempting a comeback in real life cricket and my 44yo body told me very quickly my time had come and pass. It was a fun day with the 3 amigos playing and contributing 35 of [...]

Pavilion Cup -Round 1

The first round of the Pavilion Cup is over for Season 8 and it did certainly feel a lot lower key for this author then in seasons past. Maybe because for the first time I know I won’t be playing my best side to get as far as I can; my leagues are just too [...]

Pavilion Cup Final - Bigglesthwaite CC v Ayatollah of Rockenrollah

Bigglesthwaite CC v Ayatollah of Rockenrollah
Result: Bigglesthwaite CC won by 9 wickets
Toss: Bigglesthwaite CC won the toss and elected to bowl.
Man of the match: Brendan Jamieson (3 points), Leslie Hogan (2), William Harris (1)
It was the final of the much anticipated Pavilion Cup. The toss of this big match was one that either team needed [...]

The Homegrown Pavilion Dream

On Nov 2, 2007 manger Fruitl00ps (me) was assigned a local amateur cricket club to train them and turn into professionals and achieve glory! Fruitl00ps named the team “NRI Sixters” (NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian). Having read the rules and giving a quick thought to the game system/mechanics, Fruitl00ps quickly decided to put one of [...]

Pavilion Cup Semi Finals.

4 teams, 2 matches; bragging rights for an entire season on offer not to mention a cool million dollars of FTP money - it is the time for Pavilion Cup Semi Finals! The competition has been dominated by Australian and Indian teams, which can be considered a pretty fair reflection of current state of real life cricket. The semis, appropriately, are between 2 Indian and 2 Australian teams; with India hosting!

Stafford Rangers v Jeanz

Date: 13 Jul 08 10:00
Crowd: 10,000
Weather: Hot
Pitch: Green
The luck of the draw saw the pre match Favourites Stafford drawn at home. Stafford a team containing a number of good seamers including Jon Egg (England U19) of course set a seamers pitch of green its effects somewhat weakened by the weather being hot. Jeanz a spin [...]