There were blue skies finally last Friday at the Nutrien Ag Solutions Cricket Complex which allowed the Challenger Blasters and Junior Hardball cricket games to go ahead. The Challengers began with the whole group participating in some fun drills of running between wickets set up on the grass, then bowling the correct line and length in the nets. They were then split into two groups to play games of ‘Pairs Cricket’ on the fields.
The Junior Hardball game had a mixture of low scores in the batting, tight bowling from some and also far too many wides from some others. It is something we need to work on at training to get more consistency in the line and length of the bowling. Top scorer this game was Oscar Mahoney who scored 16 runs not out, which included the only four in the game. The next best was Tyler Schultz on 10 and was also unbeaten.
As previously mentioned, it was a mixed bag in the bowling. Tyler was also one of the best here, taking 2 wickets for 7 runs. Others to take 2 wickets were Xavier Cross, 2 for 14 and Harrison Smyth, 2 for 16. William Chandler, Oliver Calligaro, Oscar Mahoney and Logan Pickup all took one each. The ‘Players of the Week’ award winners were Logan Pickup and Jacques Gardner who both played very well. We are now looking forward to this Friday for our last week of Junior Cricket for this season, our presentations will follow.
Contributed by Scott Heidke
Caption: Logan Pickup and Jacques Gardner. Photo supplied
