On 26-07-2005 The Nukes II played their final game for the season when the squared up against CTC for the bronze medal. CTC batted first and managed a good total of 102 runs. Unfortunately, we could only reply with 76 runs, which meant that for the first time in a long while no Nukes player had something to show for the season's efforts. Man of the Match goes to Chris Marais for a net contribution of 24, just edging Warren King with a net contribution of 22 runs. Well done dudes!

So, that is that for the Winter 2005. See the Winter 2005 page for the Accolades. The new season starts in a weeks time. For those who missed it, we entered THREE teams in the Spring 2005 season, The Atomic Nukes, The 8 Nukes (which means The Infinite Nukes for those mathematically less inclined!) and The Nukes Kywalkers. From next week we are really painting the Centurion Arena RED....Nukes RED that is!

On Sunday afternoon, the final game of the season for The Nukes ended in disaster. Our batting was solid as we put up 115 runs. However, our bowling was atrocious. Not even the occasional brilliant fielding could save the game and we eventually lost by an unlucky 13 runs. Man of the Disaster is Erik who contributed an ironic (yip, you guessed it!) 13 net runs.

The Nukes II will face CTC for the Bronze Medal at 18:30 on 26-07-2005. Good luck!

Oh, what a night! But not for us... The Nukes played CSA for a place in the gold medal final and sadly lost by 19 runs. Man of the Match though was Philip le Roux with a solid contribution of 14 runs. We then had to sit around and mope for an hour to wait for the 3rd-4th place semi. It turned out that we had to play Gonads for a place in the final. What can one say, they had the twins and some other good players... We lost by an unthinkable margin of 40 runs. Erik vd Linde did not do too badly and is rewarded with the Man of the Match award for a net contribution of 9 runs.

The Nukes II played The Incredibles in their 3rd-4th place semi-final, which they won quite comfortably by 15 runs. Man of the Match goes to Dugald Smith for a massive net contribution of 23. We then had a chance to get to the gold medal final by beating The Scorpions. Unfortunately they did not read the script and the writing was on the wall for us! We lost by 31 runs. Man of the Match was Reshendren Naidoo with a net contribution of 8 runs.

So, come Sunday, both teams will play for the Bronze medal. May our neutron scatter be decisive!!!

This is it! Semi-final week has arrived again! The Nukes finished top of the D2 league log, while the The Nukes II ended third on the E5 Green log. Finals day is on Sunday 24-07-2005.

Tomorrow, The Nukes are set to square up against CSA at 18:30 in the 1st - 2nd place semi-final. Strangely, we have not played against CSA during the round-robin stages of the season (probably due to our brief stint in D3?) and as such, don't really know what to expect. That the game will be tough, goes without saying, but we feel we might just have enough fire power to ANNIHILATE the youngsters! However, should the unthinkable happen and we lose, we have a second bite at the cherry at 20:50 against the winner of the 3rd - 4th place semi-final.

The Nukes II will face The Incredibles, also at 18:30. We don't expect any stiff opposition as our victory against them during the season was somewhat convincing! Then, at 19:40, we play against the loser of the 1st - 2nd place semi-final for a place in the gold medal final. However, should we lose the first game, we will play at 20:50 for a place in the 3rd - 4th place final on Sunday.

Whatever happens, we all look forward to quite a competitive night of action cricket! Good luck Dudes!

Behind the scenes, things have also evolved at The Nukes. We have currently so many players that we decided to enter a third team from next season! It will however not be a first, second or third team, but three independent teams, which chose themselves. So from next season, we will have The Atomic Nukes, The Nukes Kywalkers and another team, who have not yet decided on their name (the indecision entirely due to circumstances within their control!), painting the Centurion arena red with radioactive enthusiasm! Watch this space!

On 12-07-2005 The Nukes played Vis & Chips again. Most of their team was late and being the great sports that we are, we fielded first. They got 78 runs to which we replied with 121 runs, meaning victory by 43 runs. Man of the match goes to Steve Aaron for a net contribution of 16 runs, although Erik (14 net), Gerhard, Wimpie and Philip (all 12 net) also desrves a mention.

Congratulations to Gerhard (1009 runs) and Philip (1001 runs) for reaching that career milestone!!!

This ends the round-robin part of the season. Semi-finals to come with finals day on 24-07-2005, so keep watching this space!

On 05-07-2005 The Nukes II faced Midway Plumbing. The Nukes II destroyed each and every toilet bowl in sight: we won by 61 runs! Man of the Match was Steve with a COLOSSAL net contribution of 41 runs. (Go read Ryan's match review now!)

Later that night, The Nukes played Gonads. Our fielding and bowling effort up front was up to spec, but then our batting let us down. We lost by 7 runs, breaking a 6 game winning streak :( Man of the Match though was Heinrich with a solid net contribution of 19 runs courtesy of career best bowling figures of 6 / -10! Go Steady Eddie!

On 01-07-2005 The Nukes II located and eliminated AWOL! The Nukes II batted first and set a target of 119, to which AWOL replied with 70. Man of the Match goes to Warren with an impressive net contribution of 22.

The Nukes II will be playing against Midway Plumbing tomorrow at 18:30, while The Nukes will face Gonads at 20:50. May the critical team win in both matches!

On 21-06-2005 The Nukes played against SARB Men. The Nukes won the game with 33 runs. The Nukes batted first and put up a defendable 116 runs, with each partnership pulling its weight. The SARB's were then restricted to 83 by accurate bowling and sharp fielding. Man of the Match was Gerhard vd Merwe with a HUGE net run contribution of 29!

Later, The Nukes II squared up against The Scorpions. The Nukes II lost a low scoring match by 36 runs. The Nukes II put up 60 runs and kept The Scorpions under control until the start of the last skin, when they stepped on the gas and powered to 96 runs. Man of the Match (and this is now getting to be a good habbit!) was Rob Bollen with a net contribution of (an unfortunate?) 13 runs.

On 14-06-2005 The Nukes II played against Playas. Unfortunately The Nukes II were "outplayad" by a big margin. Playas put up a huge total of 163 to which The Nukes replied with 67, which meant defeat by 96 runs. Man of the Match goes to Chris Marais with a net run contribution of 10 runs.

The Nukes squared up against the Usual Suspects at the same time. The Nukes batted first and put up 97 runs. The bowling and fielding started off slowly (maybe due to the cold of winter?), but picked up in the second half of the innings to restrict Usual Suspects to only 58, meaning victory by 39 runs and maximum points. Man of the Match goes to Erik van der Linde with a net contribution of 19 runs.

The Nukes were also promoted back to league D2, which we now lead comfortably: 72 points after 5 games. The Nukes II is in second position in league E5 Green with 73 points after 7 games.

On 10-06-2005 The Nukes II played against The Incredibles. The Nukes II put up a good score of 115 and then gave their best performance ever in the field by restricting The Incredibles to a meagre 64 runs!!! Every catch stuck and every run out (well almost every one!) were taken. Well done to the whole team. Man of the match though was Rob Bollen with a net contribution of 15 runs!

Tomorrow night at 20:50, The Nukes play against Ususal Suspects, while at the same time, The Nukes II will square up against Playas. Good luck to all!

On 07-06-2005 The Nukes II played against Gecko's. The Nukes II put up a good score of 126, but could not prevent Gecko's from scoring 150 runs, siganlling defeat by 24 runs. Man of the Match was Reshendren Naidoo with a net run contribution of 9 runs.

Directly afterwards, The Nukes took on the Gonads. The Gonads were restricted to 91 runs, to which The Nukes replied with 102 runs. Man of the Match was Dirk Swart with a mammoth net contribution of 25 runs. Yeahaa Dirk!

On Friday (10-06-2005) The Nukes II is scheduled to play against The Incredibles at 19:40. Good luck dudes!

On 24-05-2005 The Nukes II played against CSA A and sadly came second against a fairly young team. We lost by 38 runs. Man of the Match was Dugald Smith with a net contribution of 8 runs.

Later that night, The Nukes faced off against Active 8. We finally won a game this season, all be it by only one run! We had to chace down 91 runs and got home with a ball to spare. Man of the Match was Steve Aaron with a net contribution of 10 runs.

On another sad note, we saw that The Nukes were demoted to league D3... Now we have a new plundering ground though, so watch out!

Also welcome to our latest playing member, Etienne Moraal. May you score many many runs!

The technical difficulty with your browser has been cleared up. Unfortunately it does not change the fact that we lost to The Replacements by 18 runs on 17-05-2005. Man of the Match was Steve Aaron with a net run contribution of 10 runs.

Tomorrow night, The Nukes II will be squaring up against CSA A at 18:30 and at 20:50, The Nukes will be taking on Active 8. Hopefully, on Wednesday we can report a resounding victory for both teams. Watch this space!

On 17-05-2005 The Nukes II played against Tonkers. Finally, the Tonkers got tonked! The Nukes II won the match by 2 runs. Man of the Match was Dugald Smith with a net contribution of 22 runs.

Later that night The Nukes squared up against The Replacements. The Nukes got replaced by XXX runs. YYY had the best overall performance with a contribution of RRR runs and is awarded Man of the Match. (Due to technical difficulty, your web browser is unable to translate XXX, YYY and RRR. Please bear with us!)

Welcome to our latest member, Juan le Roex. Hope you enjoy playing with us.

Also updated the Accolades of the Autumn 2005 season.

On 10-05-2005 The Nukes II played against Beach Boys and lost the game by 23 runs. Man of the Macth was Pieter Viljoen with a net run contribution of 24. Nice going Pieter!

Later that night The Nukes played against EASP and lost the game by 7 runs. Man of the Match was Dirk Swart with net run contribution of 11 runs.

Yeah! The Winter 2005 season starts today!

The Nukes is still playing in D2 and The Nukes II also playing in E5, as before.

The Nukes II will play against SA Earthworks Scorpions (sheesh, long name dudes!) at 19:40 tonight. Hope we get of to a good start in the new season! Unfortunately, the team supposed to play The Nukes (Al Ameen), withdrew from the league and now we have a free night...

Welcome to our newest member, Thinus Greyling. Hope you enjoy playing with us!