CRICKET

CLV

By LIAM DURKIN

 

THIRD time lucky.

The trade-off for hardly missing any cricket during October has been an unseasonably wet start to summer.

All matches across Cricket Latrobe Valley were rain affected at the weekend, making for consecutive damp Saturdays.

Unlike the previous weekend however where not a single ball was bowled, some teams still got on, and even had enough time to win.

Rovers defeated Raiders by Duckworth-Lewis-Stern at Duncan Cameron.

The Round 7 match, previously scheduled as a two dayer, saw Rovers given 88 to chase in 23 overs.

Raiders made 7/113 from 38 overs before the calculator came out.

Liam Maynard again did most of the heavy lifting, scoring 56 not out for the visitors.

His responsibility has increased markedly in recent weeks, due to injury from all-rounder Keenan Hughes (back at the weekend), and the defection of fellow all-rounder Rob Webber to Latrobe.

Rovers captain Ewan Williams nabbed 3/19 from eight overs. His brother Dougal then made a run-a-ball 26 to see his team maintain a stronghold in the top two on the ladder.

Finn Mahoney took 2/19 for Raiders.

Mirboo North batted for 7.3 overs against Traralgon West, before rain made its way up the Strzelecki.

Just one over was bowled at Traralgon South, with CATS 0/2 against Gormandale.

There was no start between Willow Grove and Latrobe at Moe Racecourse Turf, yet a full game was played on the opposite oval on the astro in C Grade.

 

EX STUDENTS batted 30 overs, putting up 153 against Imperials at Catterick Crescent.

Jack Robertson showed he is as reliable as ever, making an unbeaten 46 off 43 balls.

Youngster Zac Bastin continues to take huge strides, this time scoring 37 off 39 balls.

Wickets were shared among the Imps boys. Tylah Donoghue grabbed 3/30 and Aaron Johnstone 2/25 following his promotion.

No other Premier A matches got a start, except Centrals, who batted five overs at Apex against Churchill.

That 30 overs were bowled at Catterick and hardly any at Apex showed just how diverse local weather can be.

A couple of clearances have also come through before the Christmas deadline.

Off spinner Ross Whelpdale has gone back to Morwell from Churchill, and was named in Premier B at the weekend.

Given matches at the weekend were reverted to one dayers, all teams split the points.

Clubs will now play a two dayer to see out 2025.

 

AS the welcome screen on Stick Cricket states: Hit out or get out.

Cricketers across the Latrobe Valley have channelled such thoughts in recent weeks, with the local twenty20 competition getting underway.

Matches are played on Tuesday nights, breaking up the usual monotony of training.

The fixture has been compromised slightly due to teams struggling for numbers as blokes can’t get to games by the 5.30pm start time due to work.

As a result, some clubs have done gentleman’s agreements and arranged to reschedule games among themselves.

With this in mind, it is important to remember that midweek T20s are largely hit and giggle affairs.

The competition has been divided into four pools of four teams.

The top two teams from each pool will play quarter finals next Tuesday (December 16) before the rest of the finals series is completed in the new year.

Round 1 was rescheduled to be played yesterday (Tuesday, December 9).

Results at time of print (Monday, December 8) were:

Pool A

Round 2: Morwell 0/76 (J Mason 40*, B Mills 26*) def Mirboo North 74 (T Dixon 3/7, D Day 3/19, B Clymo 2/13), Moe 5/149 (A Philip 69, N Kane 45, H Rogers-Collen 3/24, T Robertson 2/22) def Raiders 6/126 (H Rogers-Collen 44*, L Maynard 34, C Grant 2/14, B Zomer 2/29)

Round 3: Moe 3/102 (N Kane 47*, C Grant 35) def Mirboo North 5/101 (F Ingram 32, D Freitag 2/13, R Colgrave 2/26), Morwell vs Raiders (washout).

Pool B

Round 2: Churchill 4/154 (B Kearns 83, R Ayres 32, J Cecil 2/20) def Jeeralang-Boolarra 7/83 (B McCormack 29, B Kearns 2/5, C Williams 2/22), Traralgon West vs Toongabbie (no scores entered)

Round 3: Churchill 8/139 (R Ayres 68, A Peck 3/24, J Cooke 2/24) def Traralgon West 63 (B Kelly 3/2, R Harvey 2/7), Jeeralang-Boolarra def Toongabbie on forfeit.

Pool C

Round 2: Glengarry 8/142 (S Marks 64, J Armstrong 5/30) def Gormandale 9/119 (C Graham 2/18), Ex Students 6/123 (J Pryde 34, R Battista 29) def Willow Grove 83 (M Bentley 2/2, A Matthews 2/9, M Harris 2/10).

Round 3: Ex Students 5/116 (J Zappulla 42, Z Bastin 30, A McCormick 28, B Dissanayake 2/17) def Gormandale 8/115 (Y Soyza 35, Z Bastin 3/8, M Harris 2/20), Willow Grove 6/120 (D Walsh 50*, S Marks 2/24) def Glengarry 6/119 (P Henry 47*, B Marks 36, D Walsh 2/11).

Pool D

Round 2: Imperials 5/137 (A Johnstone 36*, A Spowart 35, L Shuttleworth 29, J Donovan 2/23) def Centrals 6/135 (T Shankland 65, A Johnstone 3/20), Rovers 7/159 (D Williams 77*, R Noble 3/27, S Rasool 2/26) def Latrobe 9/111 (S Freshwater 28, K Scott 3/13, E Williams 2/5).

Round 3: Imperials 3/119 (A Johnstone 45*, C Pilling 38, R Noble 2/23) def Latrobe 7/116 (R Noble 28, T Dhawan 26*, J Jones 2/4, C Pilling 2/19).