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Photo: Phil Wurth (Captain #24) with Cam McBrien (Captain #25) - Seniors Presentation Night - Greenway Park Community Centre - 06 May 2022
6 wickets for 7 runs
How about Kaushal Gandhi for the C4 Blues in the Sheep Station Trophy game against the White’s (Agniva). Kaushal bowled 3.5 overs and took an amazing 6/7. A few callouts about this performance:
• Included in this was a hat-trick, only the 53rd in our 93 year history and the first in C4 Grade
• In what must be another first (no stats on this one but....), the first 2 wickets of the hat-trick
were LBW’s. How about Vinod Kumar who was himself given out LBW and gave the decisions.
This is what Sheep Station Sportsmanship is all about
• Unfortunately, we don’t have records of 6 wickets in an innings (just 7 or better) but it would be
up there. For info, the best bowling performance (7 wickets or better) in C 4 are by Peter Flook who took 7/30 in 2024. The best 7 wicket haul was by Tim Scoular (A2) who took 7/3 back in 2014.
Photo: Kaushal Gandhi (C4 Blue) after taking 6 for 7 and this included our 53rd Club hat-trick in the Sheep Station Trophy game at Greenway Park – 9 November 2024.
A hard lesson
In an A2 game, this time we were bowling and Jack Hutchinson came on to bowl. In the words of our intrepid, on the scene Reporter, Ben Burrows:
“...then Jack “MVP” Hutchinson came on. First ball of the spell he goes around the wicket to a left handed, single. Right handed on strike. Jack runs in to bowl over the wicket, as soon as he lets go of the ball a no ball is called. Painfully Kenthurst’s best bat skies the ball to the safe hands of Willy for a single.
On my way to sock Jack in the mouth for overstepping, the umpire explained that the no ball was for not telling him which side of the wicket he intended to bowl on. Now some of the team forgave Jack for this, especially considering that he did say that he was coming over the wicket.
However as the bloke standing next to him when he did so, it was a bit quiet Jack.