By Josh Handasyde, Michael Davern, Matt Wilkinson, Pete Nolan and Chris Handasyde
U12-3 Healesville 4/99 drew with Eastfield (abandoned due to rain)
Louis Keath 18, Ryder Hudson 14*, Angus Morcombe 8*, Joshua Braden 7*
U12-7 Healesville 0/81 drew with Lusatia Park (abandoned due to rain)
Angus Holmes 34*, Rory Jackson-Ward 8*, Otis Rowland 5*
U14-3 Healesville 5/117 defeated Wantirna Sth 94
In the revised 1 day fixture after the first week got washed out. Versing a strong Wantirna South Lineup.
Healesville looked to cement their place as a premier team in the comp.
Being sent in to bat, Henry Harding faced his full allotment of balls finishing on 25* with a perfect openers knock. Summer Caldicott, Raff Morcombe and Aeden Senti would all also face their balls and help Healesville to the competitive total of 5/117.
With a fielder short, tight bowling and good fielding was required and Raff Morcombe, Harry Thomas and Summer Caldicott all provided early jagging early wickets and keeping the run rate low.
Through the middle overs, the bowling dropped off with extras proving a killer as well as sub par fielding.
At 5/80 off 17. Wantirna south were right in the game before 2 Ryder Hudson wickets, and wickets to Harry thomas, Kael Senti and Raff Morcombe in consecutive overs saw Healesville to the 23 run victory bowling Wantirna out for 94.
U14-7 Healesville 9/126 defeated by Lusatia Park / Hoddles Creek 6/146
U16-4 Healesville 4/100 defeated Yarra Glen 2/97
Denzel Parsons 36*, Sam Keath 12 & 1/17, Tyler Braden 12, Will Watson 10*, Cooper Bell 1/5
1st XI Healesville 2/142 defeated East Ringwood 141
At home against East Ringwood looking to beat them after losing early in the year.
Fielding first a disciplined effort saw run restriction before Luke Chandler sparked up removing both openers off Caught and bowled dismissals.
Spinner Josh Handasyde would continue his fine form with the ball, jagging two wickets whilst keeping the run rate low.
Great bowling in the middle overs from Darcy English and Tarkyn Nicolandos saw Nick Zinghini and Darren Edwards reap the rewards at the end of the innings with East Ringwood trying to push the rate along and losing five quick wickets with Zing ending 2/8 and Daz 3/22 to be all out for 141.
The chase started terribly with form openers Josh Handasyde and Nick Zinghini both in the sheds with the score 2/9.
Tom Handasdye and Ash Hamer would get together and run excellently between the wickets putting away the bad ball from an all round tight bowling unit from East Ringwood with Ash finishing 74* and Tom 55* seeing Healesville over the line in an important win.
2nd XI Healesville 189 defeated by Kilsyth 233
The 2XI took on Kilsyth on a windy day away from home, losing the toss we were bowling first. Beau Hawkins (0/37 off 8) and Max Wallace (1/36 off 7) started us off to a Kilsyth team going hard at the ball, neither were able to secure a wicket in their opening spell even though there was quite a few close chances.
Young Sam Keith (1/19 off 3) had a crack with the ball next and got the first break through for us in the eighth over.
While Healesville tried their best to get another wicket, the batters formed another partnership until Ben Wallace (1/16 off 1) came on to bowl getting a wicket on his third ball bringing the score to 2/92 in the 17th over.
After taking a wicket, Ben decided his one over was enough and gave the ball back to Max to have a crack at a second spell, bowling well in partnership with Riley Cameron (2/38 off 5), Max took a wicket and Riley taking two from the other end brought the score back to 5/154 in the 24th over.
With Riley bowling well and Max needing another spell, Healesville turned to the janitor Dylan Edwards (3/40 off 6) who with Riley started to slow the run rate back down. Grant Braden (2/19 off 5) replaced Riley and followed suit with some tight bowling continuing to restrict the runs with Dylan later in the innings until the pressure got too much for the batsmen with Dylan breaking through taking two wickets in an over and a third wicket shortly after slowing Kilsyth down to 7/219 after 37, Grant took his turn in the next over getting two wickets in consecutive balls bowling Kilsyth all out for 233.
With a large total set to chase on a lovely quick ground we believed we have a good chance of chasing down these runs but unfortunately things started to look grim losing a few top order batsmen quickly we didn’t have a good start at 3/35 after eight overs.
Grant Braden (60) came out to bat and started turn the game back into our favour starting to put quick runs on the board but another collapse around him brought us to 6/76 in the 15th over.
With the day looking like it could be over early Ben Wallace (50*) joined Grant in the middle, while Grant was continuing to pogo balls all around the ground Ben batted himself in patiently turning the strike over until he felt comfortable then he also shifted gears and started to pile on quick runs also, tipping the game back in our favour.
Grant miss hit a ball and was caught after a good knock putting us into a better position of 7/121 after 27.
The job wasn’t done yet and after losing another quick wicket Sam Keith (31) came out to join Ben, who was now seeing them like a beach ball, took no time at all to get comfortable and started playing shots and running up the score with Ben. Needing nine an over for the last five overs, Healesville looked like they could make the come back and get over the line Ben and Sam carried on scoring runs going for the win until Sam was caught on the boundary.
Dylan came out to bat wanting to turn the strike over to Ben and see us over the line unfortunately chopped one on and finishing us all out for 44 runs short at 189.
3rd XI Healesville 7/175 defeated St Andrews 9/172
Round 7 saw Healesville host St. Andrews at Margaret Lewis reserve in a one day match.
Healesville won the toss and elected to bowl and both Gary “Barra” Mundi (1/28) and Brenton Damrow (1/25) took an early wicket to leave St. Andrews reeling at 2/0. Due largely to a fantastic century from Ethan Albiston they were able to recover their innings and post a defendable total of 9/172.
The main wicket takers for the Bloods were Prem Singh (3/18) and Raff Morcombe (2/42).
Early wickets again set the tone for Healesville’s innings and at drinks the required run rate had crept up to six an over and the game was anyone’s for the taking.
Thankfully for the Bloods the middle order of Raff Morcombe (41), Brenton Damrow (28*) and Aman Singh (26) came to the rescue and all batted superbly to control the tempo and bring the game right down to the wire, with veteran Alan Pearce hitting the winning runs with a boundary in the final over. A fantastic team victory in a very competitive match now has Healesville sitting in second place on the ladder.
4th XI – Healesville 4/125 defeated by Mooroolbark 4/125
Mooroolbark 5th XI hosted Healesville 4th XI at Kiloran park. Healesville won the toss and elected to bat making a total of 6/124 (Curtis Adamson 50*, Scott Fawdry 27).
A man short in the field Healesville bowled well and worked hard to protect their total but Mooroolbark would pass the required score with just three overs remaining (S Fawdry 2/30, C Bell 1/19, R Hudson 1/32).
Congratulations to Ryder Hudson, boweld very well and took his first senior wicket
5th XI – Healesville 119 defeated by East Ringwood 166
Danny Hyndman 20 & 2/14, Simon Caldicott 17 & 4/14, Taylor Caldicott 16, Lee Caldicott 15*, Summer Caldicott 2/34
