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Day 2
The Sunday arrived quickly and the younger fellas arrived early to ensure a quick game of footy tennis to warm up. It worked with Daniel taking an early wicket before the batsman completely took out his own wicket in what was a moment of madness.
A couple of fruitful overs for Berowra ensued before Mudi was able to strike three times before the lunch break to reduce Berowra to 8/77. After the break, spirits were high as the volume in the field increased with notable voice cracks from Zia and Will before the ninth wicket fell when Aden caught a brilliant delivery from Rey behind the stumps.
The two tail-enders batted for what felt like ages until Luke “Junior” Fullerton struck demolishing middle stump. Bowled out for 89. The boys knew the job was done until Berowra’s skipper decided they’ll field again.
Out went Aden and Will again and played well to the tea break with both not out at 0/14. Both batsmen were batting well before both openers were given out to questionable decisions. Daniel and Pravin batted nicely before Daniel was bowled for 19 and just as the Berowra skipper called it.
West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook were champions with an undefeated 2021 so far.
Well done to all the boys who have worked incredibly hard all season and have played some brilliant cricket as well. Let’s go again next season!!!!
The players are:
Back Row from left to right: Kamran Bloach,
Zia Ahmed, Rob Hanich, Muditha Dissanayake, Roger Friend, Rob Fynes-Clinton, Pravin Chanmugam. Front Row from left to right: Luke Fullerton,
Will McLennan, Daniel Vink, Reyhan Ahmed, Alastair Fullerton, Aden Hanich.
Normanhurst Oval - 27th & 28th March 2021.
D1 Grade
WPHC Blue (Ross S) 181 defeated Hornsby 141 Day 1
The team has been really nervous all week not knowing what the weather was going to do and what the state of our ground would be. It’s the first GF for most of the team and I reckon I have seen close to 200 WhatsApp messages going backward and forward.
Once we knew where we were playing the anticipation became real......I know half of the guys were up well past midnight the night before the game messaging....nervous tension...
Everyone arrived at the ground over an hour before play excited to be involved in a Grand Final.
Also the first time they have played with “real” umpires... The ground itself had just been mown, but was still lush and as it turned out very difficult to hit a boundary....the skipper was really hoping to win the toss and send Hornsby into bat, play to our strengths and protect us from our batting collapses that have dogged us all season. Unfortunately the Opposition stole the heads call (which usually works for Ross) and without any hesitation sent us into bat.
Instructions were clear... please try and preserve your wicket, runs will come if we manage to bat some decent overs and let’s build some partnerships. The left hand/right hand combination of Muthindra and Gihan started slowly but soundly, however we lost our 1st wicket early, 1-8....
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