ALL THE CRICKET BENALLA DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION Towners on top early against St Joseph’s (BE) Violet Town and Warrenbayne dominated in the Benalla and District Cricket Association’s Cleary Shield on Saturday, easily accounting for St Joseph’s and a depleted Benalla side. At Benalla’s Friendlies Oval, St Joseph’s hosted Violet Town, which was sent into bat after St Joseph’s won the toss. It was a decision that soon backfired as Towners’ skipper Rob Saker took strike for the first ball and went immediately on the attack. He racked up a quick-fire 40 runs before he was out in the ninth over with his team on top at 2/60. New recruits Troy Jones (27) and Ben Janissen (17) kept the pressure on the St Joseph’s bowlers with clever placement of the ball and brisk running between wickets. Youngster Nathan Abley batted confidently for his 19 runs and a cameo 17 from just six balls faced from Gary Abley iced the Towners’ innings, giving them a more-thancompetitive score of 5/141. Conor Brodie (1/21 off four overs) and Brendan Anderson (1/23 off four overs) were the pick of the bowlers. St Joseph’s needed a flying start and hoped Vijay Satyanarayana could deliver as he did last week. But he was well caught on the boundary by Nathan Abley for just four runs, shortly after fellow opener Harry Listed holed out for nine. This brought Sam Gladstone and Brendan Anderson to the crease and this pair kept the score ticking over, but clever field placement and consistent bowling kept the score in check. As the run rate rose, risks had to be taken, and Anderson (13) got bowled trying for the big shot, as did Steven Lister shortly after. The game was all but over with the required run rate out to nearly 15 an over. Gladstone finished with 38 in a solid display that will be more suited to the longer form of the game, and St Joseph’s finished its 20 overs on 8/114. Lee Brennan continued his good form with the ball taking 3/15 off his four overs, with Nathan Abley giving good support taking 2/10 off three overs. Warrenbayne compiles handy total From page 28 In the battle at Gardens Oval Warrenbayne batted first and compiling a handy total of 4/132. The evergreen Greg Hoysted scored 27 and opening partner Al Sutherland hit up 28 as this pair combined in a 64-run partnership. A cameo 18 runs off seven balls from Damian O’Brien at the end of the innings gave his team a great finish. Luke MacFarlane (2/21) and Jake Pallpratt (2/22) were Benalla’s most successful bowlers. With only nine batsmen Benalla’s run chase was always going to be difficult, but skipper James Dalton gave his team some hope scoring 40. But Benalla was eventually all out for just 87. Jimmy Rahore took 3/7 cleaning up the tail, while Nick Brazil impressed with 2/12 off four overs. In the Trewin Shield games Merton, Euroa Juniors and Warrenbayne were victors. Aaron Place was the star for Merton in their win over Delatite scoring 57 n.o, with Merton finishing at 2/99 in the 14th over easily overhauling Delatite’s 7/98 cc. Aaron Madsen top-scored with 43 in the Delatite innings. Euroa Juniors chased down 124 in their game against St Joseph’s. Joey’s batted first and scored a healthy 3/124 thanks to Zach Parker (49 n.o) and Richard Hubbard (37 n.o) St Joseph’s had no answer to Juniors’ Sean Hemeter who scored an unbeaten 59 and steered his team to victory with 11 balls to spare. New recruit Dan Leach finished on 26 n.o. Warrenbayne batted first against Benalla and managed to hit 8/140 off 20 overs, with Regan Sheehan top scoring on 41 and Chris Lindsay supporting with 27 Benalla finished at 8/128 with Cody Crawford (45) and Ric Webster (35) leading the way. Fintan Brazil took bowling honours with his 3/9 off four overs. Walker Shield Tatong and Warrenbayne have started the Benalla and District Cricket Association Walker Shield season off with wins in their one-day games played on the weekend. Tatong easily accounted for Goorambat-Devenish while Warrenbayne won a close game against a young Violet Town side. Out at Tatong, the home side won the toss and batted. Openers Mark Saunders and Steve Clarkson put on 52 quickly before Clarkson was trapped LBW for 26 by Will Thomas. A couple of wickets fell in a short time and Tatong was 3/79. When Mark Saunders was caught for 55, the score was 4/96. Despite some good bowling from Anthony Harwood, who finished with 3/37 from seven overs, Tatong’s middle order batted well and they finished with 7/240 from their 40 overs. Nathan Delaney finished 79 n.o while Brett Davies made a steady 28 and youngster Tristan Fitch finished 22 n.o. Will Thomas finished with 2/31 from his eight overs. In reply, Goorambat-Devenish openers Rory O’Brien and Harwood put 32 on the board before O’Brien was trapped LBW by Delaney. The wickets started to tumble after that and Goorambat Devenish finished all out for 78. Deric Benjamin to-scored with 20 and three Tatong bowlers took two wickets apiece including Matt Green on debut and Brett Davies who snared 2/0. Warrenbayne took on Violet Town, with Warrenbayne racking up 7/208 from its 40 overs. Les Wallace top-scored with 101 and Zac Wallace made 38. Veteran Darren Skelton made 21 n.o. Best of the Violet Town bowlers was Josh Hogg who snared 2/8 from three overs. In reply, Violet Town got close but fell 16 runs short to finish the 40 overs on 9/192. Opener Brian Moffatt top scored with 40 and he was well supported by Patrick Mackrell and Jake Holmes who both scored 39. John Love was the pick of the Warrenbayne bowlers finishing with 2/11. Next week Tungamah will play host to Tatong, Warrenbayne takes on Goorambat-Devenish at Arundel St and Violet Town has the bye. Junior Cricket The Under-17 Briggs Shield competition got underway on Saturday in two-day matches. Warrenbayne scored 8/110 off their 40 overs against Delatite with Fintan Brazil (32) and Regan Sheehan (28) doing best with the bat. Benalla batted first against St Joseph’s in their game and were all out for 125 with both Tom Webster and Zac Pallpratt retiring on 50. St Joseph’s are 1/36 in reply. The Under-15 Rankin Shield competition began this week while the new under-13 competition starts up on Saturday. A pleasing number of young children signed up for the popular Milo in2Cricket program last weekend, and that program gets underway this Saturday at the Benalla Gardens Oval at 9 am. Registrations are still being taken for those that missed out last week.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:41:58 +0000
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