Here are the Brunswick Cricket Club match reports for last weekend.
Firsts 2/272 v Altona 240
Winning the toss, Hilly had no hesitation in batting first in reasonably good conditions. We were off to a flyer as Jacko & SoS put on 109 for the first wicket before Jacko fell. Jacko applied pressure to the bowlers with 7 boundaries in his innings of 53 off 55 balls. SoS was joined by Hilly & another century partnership was unfolding. SoS was rewarded for his hard work, able to convert his good starts over the season so far with a sensational 100, his first for the club. Hilly as usual carved the bowling up to all parts of the ground with 64 off 60 balls with 5 fours & 1 six, before he was runout late. 2/236 & Stutts making his debut showed his class with a cameo of 14 off 11. 2/272 at the close.
SoS finished 122no off 146 balls with 8 fours & 2 sixes & absolutely spent. Class, intelligence with an occasional touch of bravado. Absolutely brilliant!!
1/10 became 2/36 as Tang dismissed both their openers. Then Doz had their key bat well caught by B Mossy 3/30. A partnership ensued, however DBon got a vital breakthrough with 2 in 2 balls, to set them back – 5/104 soon became 7/116. We enabled them to dictate the game a bit to us, however we had elected to go for the kill early, so we had lessened our bowling options during the middle overs. A strong partnership took the game deep, until Louie struck 8/237 off the final ball of his eighth over. Louie struck again off the first & second ball of his next over to snare a hat trick, which no one knew about until about 2 hours after the game concluded. The final wicket was a “cracker” of a caught & bowled. I did hear Louie mention that even Maxwell would not have caught that!!!
Doz 1/35, Tang 2/28, Louie Cameron 3/53 (inc Hat Trick ), J Moss 0/57, B Moss 1/33 & DBon 3/32
Seconds 111 v Altona 8/175
P Walters 27, M Horrocks 32
J Martyr 4/28, R Ratwatte 2/11 , B Bonavia 2/33
Thirds 4/55 v Melton 94 – Game Abandoned due to rain
The 3rd XI took their talents this week to the far-away land of Melton and was greeted with a pitch that resembled something of a day 7 Holbrook wicket. It had been said to have rated in DiscoveryChannel.com’s top 10 driest places on earth.
After losing the toss, captain Eric was set to unleash the biggest and best looking bowling attack in the league on the Melton top order. Hamish McLaren (1/20) was the first to strike and this was quickly followed by Andrew Potter (1/23) dismissing the over confident Melton opener with smarts and guile. The big Welshman Ed Sivak (2/21) backed up these excellent displays, rattling the stumps twice. He was supported beautifully by young gun Akshay Khabarwal who spun a web in the footmarks left by the big quicks taking 2/11. At 6 down and with Melton reeling, Eric turned to the greatest 4XI bowler of all time Tom Burn to do some damage, and no one was disappointed. A brave but stupid no.8 bat strolled to the crease with no helmet on, bringing excitement to Meady’s eyes. As if scripted Tom got one to rear off a length and clocked the poor bloke in the side of the head. A brief concussion test took place and the Melton batter told he could not carry on, this opened the door for Tom to rattle off another 2 wickets. After being told, “this is your sort of deck”, Declan Smith was unleashed to finish off the tail, and after a beautiful maiden the pressure was too much for the 9 year old number 11 who practically kicked his stumps over ending the innings at 94 all out. Tom Burn finishing with excellent figures of 3/3 and Farzad Mahmud supported the other end beautifully with 0/10.
Chasing a small target on a bit of a tricky wicket and some light rain settling in, Captain Eric gave Randy Dazzler the license to swing. Unfortunately, after a thrilling first over Randy was bowled for 6. Farz (0) and Giri (2) quickly followed, this included a trademark Giri helmet throw and left the wicks under a little pressure at 3/19. However, Sanj and Akshay (12*) came together and put together a momentum changing partnership. With the pressure easing on the wicks in the middle, it was rising in the scorer’s room. Tom Burn messaging for assistance as a group of grandmothers closed in on him, furious he had bowled their grandson and injured the other bloke. But before assistance could be provided Sanj let a wrong-un go deciding someone else should have a go, being dismissed for 17. This bought the steady hand of Captain Eric to the crease who raced to 8 and took the wicks to 4/55 and within touching distance of another comfortable win.
It was at this point transmissions from Melton ceased. Has WW3 started? Alien invasion? Maybe the mixture of an extremely poor and dry pitch and 1mm of rain has bought a halt to play?
We may never know.
The 3rd XI are set to take on the Valley of Plenty next Saturday at the mecca of cricket Holbrook Oval at 12:30pm.
Fourths 8/262 v Melton 61
T Nixon 36, B Allan 40, P Holly 101no
H Butt 3/9, P Pandya 2/11 R Powell 2/18
Saturday B 5/109 v Williamstown Colts 70
The clouds had started to roll in as the Brunswick men gathered at McDonald reserve (not in Geelong) for the second game of the back half of the season. Skipper Andrew Chopper Read had digitally inserted the importance of a win in each players slack inbox. The facts were that the Saturday B Wicks had lost a number of games recently, albeit closely, and that saw us only just hanging on to fourth spot by a few percentage points. And Saturday saw the juicy match up against the fifth placed side - Willi Colts 3.
As is the custom in Mercantile cricket, there are a number of Williamstown sides, there is no set start time and the umpires are usually an idiosyncratic lot. We kicked off early at midday, Chopper duly losing the toss. The Colts batted first on what looked like an old tired wicket, looking to compile a big score which had become the standard outcome on McDonald Reserve. But quickly it was clear this wasn’t going to be the case. The top order was dismantled by the three established seamers: the author, opening partner Luca The Butcher The Baker The Candlestick Maker Tansley-Beckerman and (possibly the greatest name ever witnessed at Brunswick) Hector Harley. The latter bowled an absolute peach to remove really the only resistance in the young side, swinging one in, through the gate and into the top of off. Enter debutant Mustafa “Big Bird” Emu for his first game in the side. With a laconic amble into the crease complete with a skip step, a brand new set of whites and no spikes, the Good Stuff mopped up the tail taking 4 for 5 off 3.5 overs. Other notable efforts were: Osgar Bryant taking the gloves for the first time in B grade on an up and down deck; Daniel Payphone Booth designating their best batter only to snick off (to a Harley-peach) on his second ball in the middle, Gaz Martin Cox with a calf-exploding wicket celebration and Chopper who took two very nice catches (but dropped one off the author!). The Colts were bundled out in just 20 overs for the paltry display of 70.
Chop was accompanied by AB in the middle to comprise our riposte. Chopper fell to probably a virus, also managing to nick one. AB played probably the best shot of the match (according to him) in a glorious on-drive that clearly signalled he was in for the big score he so desires. But ever the team man, he scored his allotted 1/10th of the runs and headed back to boundary with his bat under his arm for a can of V. Everybody Loves Raymond Dadwal reversed swept his way into a light grilling from the captain before Payphones was adjudicated LBW, having failed to hit the ball which then hit his pad, in front of the wicket (there is some technicality here but it is beyond the author). For those spectating, we knew it would be a long afternoon as the teacher-come-allrounder was not very happy with the application of the law and was prepared to have something to say about it. Regardless, that enabled club stalwart Jez Anderson and new player Lincoln Allan to come in and belt the living poop emoji from the other side’s bowling offering seeing us canter past the lowly total only 4 down. As the total was passed with a boundary off the new fella’s bat, the opposing captain suggested that the game was over - not on your nelly was Chopper’s reply. We continued to bat on in what was a display of defiance by Chopper, thinking only of improving his percentages and the mental disintegration of the largely 12 year old opponents. After a few more pleading appeals from the opposition skip, the Umpire finally intervened and said he had some other plans for the arvo than be a party to this.
The big win sees the Wicks consolidate their fourth position, only three points behind (one of the sides called) the Reds and improve their percentage while building some momentum as we march towards finals.
Saturday D 7/229 v Sacred Heart 2/14 Game Abandoned due to rain
Brunswick won the toss and elected to bat first on a brand new pitch at Fawkner Park 4 in South Yarra against Sacred Heart. An opening stand of 53 between Mark Anthony Legg (36) and Shravan Sheth (11) setting the tone for the innings, with Mark hitting 4 sixes to make up for a painstakingly slow outfield where good shots were not being rewarded.
Akhil Guduri (48) and Manuda Koku Hennedige (19) built a steady 81 run partnership after the Wicks lost 2/0 before the drinks break. After losing 2/1 with about 10 overs remaining, Kiran Long (22*) took to the middle and once again contributed a handy knock in the middle order to see out the 45 overs, with the Wicks finishing 7/229. Some wayward bowling from Sacred Heart led to them being our top scorer with 65 extras including a half century of wides.
With the drizzle settling in, the Wicks set an aggressive 6/3 field searching for quick wickets. The tactic seeming to work with Evan Nolte (2/6) claiming both openers including a ripper of a catch at 2nd slip by Mark. Akhil (0/8) was dangerous with the new ball from the other end, but was unlucky not to send off stump cartwheeling after a courageous leave from Sacred Heart's number 4 batsman left even the umpire making the Patrick Bateman Ooh Face. Unfortunately, the rain got too heavy to continue play as the umpire called for the covers with Sacred Heart 2/14 after 8 overs. Despite the rain stopping 30 minutes after the covers were called, it became apparent that the covers had been stored wet and laid down without drying, which made the pitch too soft to continue play, a test ball leaving a large divot on a good length.
A disappointing way to end the match, as Brunswick appeared well on top in very good bowling conditions with the ball seaming and swinging ridiculous amounts, but we still walk away with 2 points and a hold on 3rd spot on the ladder.
Sunday B 188 v Youlden Parkville 197
R Anderson 61, C Rowe 38, Z Welsh 6/17 & 28
Sunday D 149 v Youlden Parkville 130
This week we were up against Youlden Parkville, away at McAlister Oval, Parkville. Youlden P won the toss and chose to field.
Unfortunately, we got off to a very shaky start with the bat and quickly found ourselves 8 down, well short of even a ton. Thankfully, through some very handy batting partnerships from Shaik Faisal 39 not (58), Alastair Saunders 18 (17), Ben Pickering 13 (32) and Yogi Sarang 10 (34), we were able to get to a defendable total of all out for 149.
Our bowlers and fielders then set to work and amazingly we were able to bundle Youlden P out for 130, at the 43.5 overs mark, 20 runs short of their target. Terrific bowling from Ben Pickering 3/15 (9), Romi Rahman 3/17 (9), Yogi Sarang 2/21 (9), Al Saunders 1/18 (6) (his first wicket for the Brunswick CC - well done Al) and Lachie Anderson 1/16 (5), and superb catching from Krishna Shrestha, taking 2 with the gloves, and Al Saunders, Ben Pickering, Lachie Anderson and Saamin Iqbal each taking 1.
Overall, a terrific hard-fought win, with the team showing great grit and determination and a never give-up attitude to achieve it.
C’arn the Wicks.
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