By Travis Gloury
Under 12
Yarra Glen V Lusatia Park
Lusatia Park 3/103
Yarra Glen 3/144
Round 12 saw Yarra Glen under 12’s taking on Lusatia Park at Yarra Glen.
Captain Flynn Bain winning the toss and electing to bowl 1st. The opening batters for Lusatia Park got away well and put on some handy runs.
The Yarra Glen bowlers worked hard all night with the first wicket to fall to Flynn Bain, Lusatia 1/40.
The second wicket would fall in quick succession to Josh Holland, Lusatia Park 2/41.
The third wicket would fall to Oliver Lilly who has worked hard all season on his bowling, Lusatia Park 3/86. Lusatia Park would finish their innings at three for 103 off 23 overs.
Yarra Glen batting innings would get off to an excellent start with Harvey Williamson and Flynn Bain both retiring from their allotted 15 balls, Heath Burke and Wyatt Hill continued on from the positive start, Heath (12) was the first wicket to fall, Yarra Glen 1/67. Wyatt Hill was well supported by Oliver Lilly (1) with the second wicket to fall, Yarra Glen 2/86.
Poppy McLeish (1n.o) has been improving every week and continued on supporting Wyatt. Ben ‘big show’ Holland continued on with his impressive form of late retiring on 10 runs which included a glorious cover drive for four.
Harvey Williamson would re-enter the crease but unfortunately was the third wicket to fall, Yarra Glen 3/112.
Flynn Bain and Wyatt Hill would return to the crease and dominate for the remainder of the innings, Flynn finishing on 23n.o and Wyatt smashing his way to 42 off 30 balls which was fantastic to watch. Yarra Glen winning the game 3/144 posting the highest U12’s score for the season!
Well done to all.
Under 14
Wandin V Yarra Glen/Kilsyth
Wandin 6/120
Yarra Glen all out 78
This week saw the return of Toby Pauli. Great to have you back Toby.
Yarra Glen/Kilsyth managed to restrict Wandin to 6/120 with a couple of nice run outs however struggled to build batting partnerships on a day that didn’t go put way with regular wickets falling to be all out for 78.
T. Harper top scored with 26 followed by Lucas Burke (12).
The team looks forward to a top of the table clash next week with Yarra Junction.
Under 16
This week our fifth place under 16 team had a home game against second place Eastfield.
After losing the toss and being sent into bat, Yarra Glen quickly slumped to three for 15 within the first five overs.
As they always do, this team fought back strongly with important middle order contributions from Kade Smith (23), Charlie Watts (24 n.o) Sam Donnelly (13 n.o) Dylan Shambrook (10 n.o), Daniel Shaw (7n.o) and Tristan Riddiford (11).
This enabled Yarra Glen to recover to post a competitive score of 7/130 off our 25 overs.
This was a competitive score, but we knew we would have to bowl well against Eastfield, who are renowned for being a strong batting team.
Yarra Glen’s bowlers held their nerve and took wickets regularly throughout the innings.
Pick of the bowlers was Dylan Shambrook (3/21) whilst Kade Smith (1/14) and Daniel Shaw (1/7) took a wicket each.
In the field, Sam Holland and Sam O’Callaghan each secured a run out to bring the game to a nail biting conclusion.
For the third game in a row, the game came down to the final over with Yarra Glen needing one more wicket for victory whilst Eastfield needed 18 for victory.
Dylan Shambrook had the responsibility of bowling the last over and with two balls to go. Eastfield needed 11 to win.
The returning opener from Eastfield hit the second last ball of the game for six leaving Eastfield needing five to win or a four to tie the game off the final ball.
The last ball of the game was hit hard out to Spencer Boers at deep cover who prevented the boundary resulting in a victory to our boys by two runs.
Another close finish for our boys but they kept cool heads under pressure to secure an important victory.
A great win for Yarra Glen boys in what is a very even competition.
The team know however that if they play their best cricket, they are capable of beating any team on any day.
Senior – 1st XI – one day game, 40 overs each
Norwood 3rd XI V Yarra Glen
Norwood all out 131
Yarra Glen 4/135
The 1st XI travelled to Norwood this week to take on the second placed Norwood 3rd XI.
After losing the toss and being asked to bowl Brodie McCann and Phil Cowan began well creating a couple of chances that Yarra Glen were unable to take.
Shortly afterwards, Phil Cowan removed their opener LBW before Brodie McCann claimed his first wicket at first eleven level having their other opener caught behind.
From there, Yarra Glen maintained the pressure with the ball and in the field, never allowing any partnerships to develop and ultimately Yarra Glen were able to dismiss Norwood for 131 in the 37th over.
Wicket takers were Jordan Bain (3/24), Phil Cowan (3/13), Tim Lilley (2/41), Brodie McCann (1/25) and Tony Biddiscombe (1/20) in what was a strong bowling and fielding performance.
In reply openers Ash Waters and Phil Cowan began the run chase solidly putting on a 52 run opening stand being until Ash was dismissed LBW.
From there Phil became the aggressor hitting the Norwood attack to all parts of the ground and bringing up his half century with two consecutive sixes.
When Phil was eventually dismissed for 74 we needed only 37 more to win, and whilst Yarra Glen lost two more wickets in that time, Tony Biddiscombe (21n.o) and club legend Tom Davey (6n.o) saw us home for a much needed win which keeps our finals chances alive.
Well done to Yarra Glen 1st XI who have beaten the two top teams this season.
2nd XI – 36 overs each, one day match.
Yarra Glen V Warrandyte 6th XI
Warrandyte 6/168
Yarra Glen 2/173
Will Duff and Xavier Bosua were the the only multiple wicket takers with two each restricting the opposition to 6/168 after 36 overs.
Captain Shane Fordham took a magnificent one handed diving catch at midwicket to dismiss their opening batsman which was a sign of things to come as Shane got the run chase off to a flyer with a 100 run partnership with fellow opener and under 16 captain Sam Gloury, before Sam chipped one to mid wicket for 21 after looking comfortable at the crease.
Shane continued the onslaught with batting partners Hunter Grenfell and Will Duff to pass the required total with six overs to spare with the loss of only two wickets to finish with 114 n.o, including 17 boundaries in an innings that saw balls disappear to all parts of the ground and reach his third century for the club in a wonderful Captains innings that keeps the team in the top four on the ladder as we approach the last game before Xmas.
