Under 10 Healesville v Seville – by Owen Morcombe
The U10’s welcomed summer, and a dry ground, playing Seville 1 at Margaret Reserve in Coldstream. Harry Muller and Milo Jackson opened the batting making a tidy 6 and 7 runs, respectively. Eli Keath kept the crowd entertained racking up an impressive 19 runs making light work of the boundary with two fours. Followed by Reggie Morcombe with 16 runs and three fours fuelled solely by red cordial. Arlo Turner didn’t miss a beat hitting his first career four – making a total of 14 runs. Alby Gotch wasn’t far behind with a solid 8 runs. Stand-out bowler went to Rory Jackson taking 2 wickets. Followed by Felix McMahon, Nate Adams, Harry Muller, Eli Keath, Reggie Morcombe and Milo Jackson taking 1 wicket each.
Under 12-9 Healesville 6/166 defeated Montrose 41 – by Adam Keath
Another dominant performance by the U12-9’s this week. After being sent in by Montrose the boys batted and ran aggressively. 21 from Tom Quaggin, 20 n.o. from Manny Winrow, 18 from Ryder Hudson, 15 from Louis Keath and a 13 n.o. from Declan Kruize saw the team Finnish with a daunting score of 6/166 off their 23 overs. If the batting was impressive the bowling and fielding was sharp. Montrose was 6/17 in the sixth over after Gus Morcombe took 3/5, Ryder Hudson took 2/5 and Louis Keath took 1/6. A final wicket stand saw Montrose make it to 41 before Arthur Coleman took the last of the wickets finishing with 1/2 of his 4 balls. Another great performance played with energy and good spirits.
Under 12-4 Healesville 5/144 defeated Mount Evelyn 7/130
Mt Evelyn batted first on a perfect evening for cricket. Summer Caldicott 2/18 was the only player to take multiple wickets. The fielding practice paid dividends with 2 catches to Henry Harding and runs out by Taylor Caldicott and Archie Hempel. Set 130 to win Healesville got to work with Raff Morcombe 58*, Ben Hunter 21*, Endo Gotch 16*, and Summer Caldicott 13* all retiring which enable Healesville to overtake Mt Evelyn’s target and claim victory.
Under 14 Healesville 8/108 defeated by Mt Evelyn 113 – by Liam English
Very unlucky to lose this week but great effort by the team with Eli Prentice making a great 34 not out. Great effort by the entire team bowling with Raph Morcombe taking 2 wickets in the second week
Under 16 Healesville 180 defeated Hoddles Creek/Wandin 158 – by Lucas Parker
Healesville continued playing Hoddles Creek/Wandin in a split innings game. Healesville resumed at 5/84 with Tyler Braden and Bailey Rutley at the crease who continued for five overs before Ethan Nikcevich replaced Tyler after he was out LBW. This pair had a steady partnership of 48 before Bailey Rutley retired. At the end of the innings, Healesville ended up with a total score of 180 leaving Hoddles/Wandin with a chase of just over 100 runs. The stand-out batting performances were hard to split with Denzel, Blake, Bailey and Ethan all making 30-plus runs. Hoddles/Wandin resumed their batting innings at 3/77. Healesville’s openers Riley Cameron and Megan Schelfhout worked well together trying to keep the batters from scoring before Lucas Parker got the breakthrough of J Fitzlaff to end a great partnership. Healesville fought hard to secure victory bowling Hoddles/ Wandin out for 158. The stand-out bowlers were Lucas Parker 3/11 and Megan Schelfhout 2/36.
Seniors 1st XI – Healesville 162 defeated South Warrandyte 70 – by Josh Handasyde
The first XI travelled back to South Warrandyte this week for the second day of the two-day fixture with Healesville in a commanding position only requiring 7 runs on the day to surpass South Warrandyte’s total of 70. Captain Kris Andersen and Ash Hamer resumed at the crease and were quickly able to put Healesville in the lead, with Healesville opting to continue to bat to erase the chance of a reverse outright. The Bloods then lost 4 quick wickets to be 7/95 giving South Warrandyte a sniff at a reverse outright. But some gutsy batting from Liam English (20 off 89) and Dillon Kerr (16 off 31) saw the Bloods get to the drinks break only 7 down. The day continued on with some lower-order hitting from Glen Poynton and a late 6 from Riley Cameron to score his first runs to give Healesville a score of 10/164, a lead of 94. Both captains agreed to end the game early. The Bloods now sit third on the ladder and prepare to host second-placed East Ringwood at Queens Park in a one-day match which is shaping up to be an important match for the season.
Seniors 2nd XI – Healesville 2/262 defeated Yarra Junction 36– by Ethan Nikcevich
On a sunny 30°C day at Queens Park Healesville won the toss and elected to bat. Healesville’s top order proved themselves once again with Tom Handasyde’s form of runs continuing with 82 (78) and his highest individual score, Troy Poynton went off for his highest score of 114*(87) before retiring to give other batsmen a chance to make some runs. Tom and Troy’s opening partnership was 213 before Troy retired, bringing Harry Baxter to the crease to continue his form and make a rapid 33. Yarra Junction was set 263 to win off 35 overs and lost wickets at a fast rate, Scott Fawdry, Curtis Adamson, Blake Rallis and Moss Fawdry all picked up two wickets each with Brodie Grace picking up one and a run out cleaning up Yarra Junction all out for 36 off just 11.5 overs. Healesville remains undefeated and moves to 5-0 with the demolition of Yarra Junction.
Seniors 3rd XI – Healesville 8/123 defeated by South Croydon7/127 – by Sam Drummond
Healesville 3rd XI lost the toss to South Croydon and was sent into bowl. With the usual opener (Dave Plunkett) absent, Jack Plunkett and Sam Dennett opened the batting attack for Healesville. The two made a lovely first partnership of 28 before Sam Dennett was dismissed for 15 runs. Top scorer Matthew Cooper was sent to the crease and put on a clinic of 50 runs before retiring. Jack Plunkett was then dismissed, sending his brother Vinny Plunkett into bat. Wickets started falling fast with Vinny, Gabriel Houlihan and Elijah Prentice all going out for a small total. Sam Drummond made a total of 8 before being run out. Denzel Parsons was then caught out with a total of 5 runs, sending Robert Nolan and Peter Nolan out to the crease. Robert was also dismissed after making a quick total of 6, leaving Peter Nolan and Brian Louw to finish off the innings, both retiring not out for 9 and 2 runs, respectively. Healesville posted a score of 8-123. It was now South Croydon’s turn to bat. F. Edgar was dismissed for a duck after Sam Drummond bowled him. D. Gregor made 17 before being bowled by Denzel Parsons. K. Dass and E. Gregor caused Healesville grief making 32 and 15, respectively. A. Kumar (15 runs) and Y. Somasekaran (22 runs) kept a steady flow of runs. G. McCallum and N. McCallum saw South Croydon to a victory after a total of 7-127. The stand-out bowlers for Healesville were Denzel Parsons 2-19 off 5 overs, Matthew Cooper 1-8 off 3 overs and Sam Drummond 1-12 off 3 overs. Congratulations to South Croydon and good luck next week!
Seniors 4th XI – Healesville 8/137 defeated Warrandyte 131 – by Adam Keath
The Healesville fourths travelled to Wesburn to play the Warrandyte 8ths in great conditions. Warrandyte won the toss and decided to bat first. Healesville did well to keep the scoring down but Sam Keath was the only one to break through in the first 20 overs, taking 4/15 off his 4. But it was the introduction of the father-daughter combo of Russel and Amelia English that broke the game open, Russel with 1/11 and Amelia with her first senior wicket returning 1/12. The rest of the wickets were taken by Leonard Robinson 2/8 and again Cooper Bell took his first senior wicket with 1/8. Warrandyte all out in 32 overs with 131 runs. The chase started like there was a function back at the rooms to get to! Owen Morcombe 23 and Premdeep Singh 18 got Healesville to 2/67 in the 8th over. It was then left to Amandeep Singh 19 and Russell English 38 to bring it home eventually getting to the winning score in the 22nd over 6 wickets down. Another great win.
