By Josh Handasyde, Michael Davern, Matt Wilkinson, Pete Nolan and Chris Handasyde
U12-3 Healesville 6/127 defeated by Croydon Ranges 5/138
U12-7 Healesville 3/108 defeated by Wandin 1/133
Alby Gotch 18, William Ferguson 17*, Mason Kincaid 14* & 1/9, Angus Holmes 10*
U14-3 Healesville 2/150 defeated Eastfield/Croydon Nth 134
At Home against Eastfield/Croydon North, captain Aeden Senti started the game as per usual, losing the toss and saw the bloods batting, Aeden and Summer Caldicott opened and Senti finished 29*, Mika Kerst would also score runs with a nice 18* and runs seemed to be the theme of the day, with only two batsmen being dismissed in a very tidy batting effort.
Key performers were Ryder Hudson 20*, Henry Harding 25*, Harry Thomas 16* and Louis 8* eventually seeing the team to the total of 2/150 off 25. Coming in to field Max Ferris got the early breakthrough but the runs were flowing. Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals but strong batting from a few batsmen in particular saw Eastfield always keeping the Healesville faithful nervous.
Harry Thomas the pick of the bowlers with his 1/4 and tight bowling with a multitude of people taking one wicket.
Eastfield would eventually get bowled out for 134 with two overs to spare with Henry Harding dealing the final blow.
A win for Healesville but not the bowling/fielding display the team, especially the coach would hope to see again.
U14-7 Healesville 4/130 defeated Warranwood 4/103
Taylor Caldicott 33* & 2/4, Tully Ellis 31*, Angus Morcombe 14*, Samuel Hyndman 1/6
U16-4 Healesville 7/133 defeated Eastfield 7/130
Denzel Parsons 37, Sam Drummond 27*, Tyler Braden 23, Raff Morcombe 3/15
1st XI Healesville 0/151 defeated Lilydale 6/145
Back at home facing Lilydale trying to even the ledger at 2-2, Healesville elected to field and premiere fast bowler Mitch Tampaline was up and about early sending the off stump flying not once but twice getting the early wickets that Healesville yearned.
Lilydale would then build steadily before Luke Chandler was able to break through with a quick bouncer seeing Tom Handasyde take an easy catch.
Josh Handasyde would tie down the runs and eventually broke through with a sharp stumping by brother Tom.
Josh continued to bowl tightly and finished with 3/10.
Lilydale would continue to plod and despite their opening batsmen and captain carrying his bat they would finish on 6/145.
A chase Healesville felt was well within reach with Josh Handasyde and Nick Zinghini doing there job and despite a sharp chance dropped off each, they finished the innings not out with Handasyde taking the aggressive role finishing 75* and Zinghini 52*.
A great performance from the team as they get back to two day cricket next week.
2nd XI Healesville 5/230 defeated Wantirna Sth 6/161
After winning the toss, the 2XI elected to bat against Wantirna South.
Mark Powell and Kris Anderson got us off to a massive start with the pair playing shots where ever they felt like bringing up a 100 run partnership in 17 overs until Kris was caught in short for 49 and next over Mark was dismissed for 48.
At 2/103 father son pair Ben and Max Wallace are at the crease both looking well until Ben miss timed a pull shot straight to square leg being dismissed for four.
Now with the score at 3/110 in the 22nd over Riley Cameron marches out to bat bringing some pace between the wickets along side Max played some nice shot and quick running between wickets had a 34 run partnership was looking good but got trapped infront of the stumps for 25.
With nine overs left in the innings Michael Davern approached the crease looking break a recent slump in form started making short work of the bowlers hitting hard balls finding the boundary with ease and freeing max at the other end to have a bit of a crack put on a quick 64 run partnership in seven overs until max who had batted well hanging around for 21 overs was dismissed for 24 Beau Hawkins wasted no time at the crease hitting a big six down the ground on the third ball he faced helping Michael to put on an extra 22 runs in the last two and a half overs putting the score to 5/230 at end of innings with Michael finishing unbeaten on 55 and Beau with nine.
With the high target being set, Healesville set out to attack hard and get on the front foot and get early wickets.
Max Wallace succeeded getting a nice caught and bowled in the second over and Beau Hawkins also striking in the second over edging the other opener to second slip setting getting the sore to 2/30 after seven overs.
Healesville entered a slow period with no wickets and a couple dropped catches we didn’t drop our heads and kept pushing Wantirna South with some good lockdown bowling from Beau Hawkins finishing with 1/10 off 8, Dylan Edwards 0/23 off 5 and Denzel Parsens 0/16 off 5.
Brodie Grace broke the partnership in the 27th over with some consistent bowling making the batsmen sky a ball to Dylan at midwicket bringing wantirna South to 3/86.
Max Wallace came back on for his second spell looking improve on his expensive first spell replaced Brodie (1/16 off 7) managed to strike again in his first over to end up with 2/57 off 7.
Michael Davern bowling at the other end finally managed to land the ball on the pitch for the first time in a few games snagged himself a wicket finishing 1/12 off 4.
In a moment of weekness Kris Andersen was able to convince the captain to give him a bowl which nearly worked out well almost getting a wicket first ball had a neat few overs getting himself a tough caught and bowled finished us off with a cheeky 1/14 off 3.
Bowlers bowling tight lines and hard work in the field we kept Wantirna sth to 6/161 from their 40 overs giving the 2XI the win by 69 runs.
3rd XI Healesville 176 defeated by Warrandyte Sth 6/183
Well, the Healesville 3rd suffered their first defeat of the season.
After winning the toss, Healesville decided to bat, Ben Mackey (54) and Aman Singh (36*) with a quick cameo from Grant Braden (48 of 15 deliveries) got Healesville’s score to 176.
Our bowlers bowled with zero luck all day with plenty of edges finding the ground and boundary, Warrendyte eventually getting the runs in the 35th over.
4th XI Healesville 5/273 defeated Lusatia Park 7/237
Healesville won the toss and elected to bat, the opening batsman set the pace early scoring freely, three batsman would retire with the maximum score of 50 and Healesville would finish the innings with an imposing total of 5/273 A. Keith 52* M. Harding 53* R. Morcombe 50*.
Lusatia Park batted well in reply but would fall short posting a total of 7/237 giving Healesville the victory by 36 runs B. Reid 3/18 H. Harding 2/37 R. Morcombe 2/41.
5th XI Healesville 9/214 defeated Lusatia Park 9/213
First game for our 5th XI with a fantastic game that went down to the last ball.
It was a really family oriented game.
Healesville had four Caldicott’s and three Ellis’s in the team, and Lusatia Park had three Parkers, two Ahmad’s and two Pritchards.
Game was played in great spirits by both teams – thanks to Lusatia Park for a fun day.
Sean Ellis 53*, Simon Caldicott 38, Mika Kerst 21, Taylor Caldicott 20, Lee Caldicott 4/15, Kyan Ellis 2/30.
