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Spirit of Cricket
Our A1 side was cruising in 2nd position after 5 Rounds until they lost on the last ball of the day to the last placed Glenorie side. It isn’t easy losing but to lose to the last placed Team who were 9 wickets down is painful. What made this worse is that the top score was 38* and the batter was a 13 year old on debut and batting at no 9.
Anyway, I got a note from Bruce Wood (Association Coaches Association):
“.....Glenorie CC (defending Premiers) have had a slow start to the season and were sitting in last position on the A Grade competition table, playing WPHC CC (second place on the table).
WPHC were heading for an easy win before young Riley came to the crease at No. 9 and steered his team to victory, in partnership with Adam West and Glenn Gittins.
You could imagine that the WPHC players were very disappointed in letting the match slip away and losing to the team in eighth position, however to their great credit, they put all that aside and warmly congratulated Riley on his batting.
Riley’s proud father, Jack McDowell, sent me a few messages today, which I have copied (with his permission) for your information.
Jack has asked me to pass on his thanks to the WPHC Club......”
We lost a game but the players involved gained a lot more and built on our Club reputation of fair play and sportsmanship.
“The ball went that way”
What do you do in a top of the table clash when an Opposition player is motoring towards 200 with lots of time and overs to go? You go to your best bowler.
Enter Rob Knapman (Skipper B1 Blue) who is 2nd in the Association B2 bowling ranks. Showing tactical genius this is exactly what Rob did with the over, taking over 20 minutes to bowl. The only problem is that it went for a lot and included 3 lost balls at Greenway Oval of all places.
Rob perfected each ball and each one went further over the boundary and further down Shepherds Drive. When the boys had no idea where the last ball went someone who parked over 100 metres away was almost collected. When the boys jumped the fence, something they were becoming skilled at, the bloke pointed down Shepherds Drive and said, ‘the ball went that way’ – still rolling down the hill and probably at Pennant Hills by now.
History repeating
Back in 2013/14 Matt Digby (B1 Blue) made his Seniors debut playing for Buzz Burrows (C2 Blue Skipper) within 2 weeks of the current Round.
Ian Digby (D1 Red Skipper) with Ben Burrows on his Seniors debut - Caterson 4 - 23 January 2021
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