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1st. X1 Match Report

Glen Waverley Hawks 7/251 (L.Galle 73*, B.Coster 66, S.Perkins 42, T.Bockman 30)
Nunawading 203 all out (M.Briginshaw 2/37, L.Galle 2/43, P.Eldridge 2/17)

I won the toss and elected to bat so opened with Brad Coster and Trent Bockman. They went along nicely building a good partnership and picking up one's and two's on the slow outfield. We lost Bockers on 30 with the score 1/63 in the 32nd. over. so it was a slow and steady start. I came in and with Brad put on 71 for the 2nd. wicket when brad was dismissed for a well made 66. He has found his spot opening the innings and is playing really well with a nice straight bat. We lost Mahn's quickly and when I went for 42 and snail for 3 we were in a spot of bother at 5/156 with only 15 overs remaining. Luke Galle and Nathan Bungey then had a telling partnership of 45 in 10 overs until Bungey went for 13 to be 6/201 after 75 overs. The last 5 overs Luke started to hit the boundaries and we produced a competitive score of 7/251. The last over of the day Luke took 18 from it and ended 73* with Matty B in his 200th. game making 5*. A very good batting display set up by the openers which makes it a lot easier for the middle order to get amongst the runs.

Bowling the next week I opened with Matty B and Luke Galle who beat the bat regularly but couldn't find the edge. We had our first wicket at 26 when Bungey replaced Matty and had their opener clean bowled. From this point Nunawading got on top of our bowling and they put on an even 100 for the 2nd wicket. Once we got Nunawading's Captain and the leading run scorer in Wilson Shield (Stewart) we soon were putting our trademark bowling pressure on the opposing batsmen. At one stage they were 2/166 but we fought back hard to have Nunawading all out for 203. A great bowling effort and we need to keep winning to make the finals.  Another great win and well deserved by all the players. A special congratulations to Matty Briginshaw who played his 200th. game. He made 5* and took 2/37 in a good performance. He currently has over 1,500 runs for the club with one memorable century against Doncaster and 349 wickets including one hat-trick. He has been a reliable strike bowler for many years and there is more good cricket to come. Well done Matty B.

Scott Perkins
 

Round 9 VS Nunawading 2nds


We were playing away this week against Nunawading who were sitting about 6th and needed to keep winning to keep their season alive.

I won the toss and decided to have a bat with our top 3 batsmen unavailable this week I threw the challenge to Scotty Zach and Cammo who started off really well
seeing the first 10  overs or so before cammo fell. Scotty was still plugging away taking his time and really trying to get his eye in and set up him self up for a big day.
Monkey came and went and we were 2 for 45.

Scotty Mills came in who looked like he had never stopped playing blocking right off the middle and looking very comfortable. The Scott's managed to put on a nice partnership of 48 and we were sitting at 2 for 92 about 5 overs out from tea. Scotty made a very important 51 but then got carried away and went for the big one. After this we kept tumbling and lost 4 wickets for 13 runs in those 5 overs before tea. After tea not much changed and we were all out in the 52nd over for 123.

BATTING
Scott " Gilchrist" Zachariassen         51
Scott " Painted on Whites" Mills                22

At the end of our batting innings we had 25 overs to bowl which we would bowl nice and tight and keep it pretty uneventful except for a couple of important wickets taken by Disco Holden and we had them 2 for 38 overnight needing 8 wickets for just 85 runs.

Disco and Johno came out firing and the screws were tightened early with plenty of edges not carrying off a dead pitch. But Disco managed to snag another one and then just kept going. Fall of wickets as follows, 3 for 46, 57, 58, 66, 78, 89 (including Ano who made 5) with Disco taking all the 8 wickets thus far and bowling 24 overs on the trot.

Right on top with only 2 wickets required with about 30 runs needed we bought on Badcock from Disco's end after he had bowled till he was completely stuffed. Badone managed to hit the spots and bowl their number 10 and we needed one for a great victory. Johno was bowling tight from the opposite end and putting the pressure on the batsmen who were now starting to play a few wild shots. But a turned ball on the leg side and great pick up and throw from our young debutant Zaron would see their number 11 run out and Nunawading to loose by 17 runs.

Dean " Octo " Holden                    24 overs 8 for 41
Chris " Bad to the Bone" Badcock        9 overs 1 for 17
David " Beamer" Johnson                 22 overs 0 for 35


Fantastic effort by all the boys and it was great to see Disco take his best figures ever. It is only our 3rd win for the year but it is a marvellous thing to watch all the boys busting their asses for me as captain, for the team and for the club even though the ladder is irrelevant.

Next week we play Kerrimuir away who are sitting about 10th so hopefully we can go back to back and get our 4th win on the board then make it 5 to finish off.

To all potential 2nds lads lets keep training and doing the simple things well so we can have another win cause I know everyone enjoyed that feeling on the weekend.

Cheers Monkey