First Grade
Claremont-Nedlands 6/271 (Sabburg 3/61) def. Wanneroo 98
No report this week.
Second Grade
Wanneroo 104 (Bonner 27, McGhie 27) def. by Claremont-Nedlands 5/105 (Spangenberg 2/9)
The Two’s won the toss at Kingsway and decided to bat first. Bonner and McGhie got the boys off to a good start, batting positively to lead the score to 51 when Bonner eventually lost his wicket. Unfortunately, after this opening 50 run partnership, not much else went to plan for Wanneroo. A combination of poor shot selection and decent bowling from the Claremont-Nedlands attack meant that we were eventually all out for a total of 104.
We went out to bowl optimistic that a few early wickets could lead to a close finish. Despite bowling tightly and building pressure, Wanneroo just didn’t have enough runs on the board and Claremont eventually got over the line making 5 for 105 in the 37th over. Spangenberg picking up 2-9 from his 3.2 overs.
It was a disappointing days cricket from the Twos, in which we will all learn valuable lessons from heading into our next game against Bayswater-Morley.
Third Grade
Claremont-Nedlands 9/188 (T Jessani 4/43, Slattery 2/27) def by Wanneroo 9/189 (T Brown 65, Gardner 50)
After a good break the 3rd grade boys resumed their season away to Claremont at Melvista, Jordy (Slattery) won the toss and made the easy decision to bat first on a very flat looking deck. Our openers Marc (The) Gardner and Tom (Silver Lightning) Blythman got off to a very decent start (0/32) before Tommy chopped one back on to the stumps in the 7th over. In came Tyler, starting slowish but still turning the strike over effectively. In no time Marc and Tyler were in Cruise Control making a beautiful 100 run partnership before Marc skied one straight up a ball after raising the bat for his well-made 50. Brown continued on, raising the bat himself on his way to a strong 65. Otherwise there wasn’t much to write home about as we lost our bottom 6 for 20 in the dying overs.
In reply Jordan (Skip) Slattery and Alex (Fitta) Fitzmaurice gave nothing away for the first 10 overs (1/15) with Jordan taking the early wicket from an ABSOLUTE SEED, the ball landing on middle and kissing the top of off. Heading into drinks having them 1/32 we needed to make sure we stay switched on, with our 2 youngest players and only spinners, Tarun (Taz) Jessani and Hayden (Cleveland Cavs) Cavanagh having a job to do through the guts of the innings. Claremont were aggressive in the middle session and kept the run rate on track with some lusty blows but thanks to some professional looking boundary catching the wickets also fell frequently.
Coming into the last session the equation was 70 to defend off the last 15. Fitta (Alex Fitzmaurice) made the breakthrough of the set batsmen with his worst delivery of his spell, a rank full toss outside off caught at point (it is true sh*t takes wickets) ending with 1/28 off 9 overs. More six’s were hit and more wickets fell to good boundary catches (two to Marinovich who was well-fed after an earlier barbecue).
With 5 overs to go it was going down to the wire with CNCC needing 20. Left to bowl were Jordan and John the Clutch Brothers. Only allowing singles and with Jordan cleaning up the #10 batsmen with a reverse-swinging ball in the 2nd last over, it all came down to the last over and then the last ball of the innings. Needing 5 to win, 4 to draw and the high drama of time-wasting complaints of us being behind time, the final over proceeded…
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Wanneroo two ahead with a ball to play, John Walter speared one in, the ball was hit to Hayden (Cleveland Cavs) Cavanagh at mid-off who calmly (despite changing his mind three times) lobbed the ball to Walts to take the bails off with the returning non-striker several strides short.
Exceptional win by a run, the song was boisterous, ‘twas a good start to the back half of the season. Jordan Slattery 2/27 and Taz Jessani 4/43 were our best bowlers.
Fourth Grade
Wanneroo 7/223 (Gillespie 102*, Hall 69) 2/50 def Claremont-Nedlands 163 (Carroll 3/34, Singh 2/19, Santich 2/29, Skouros 2/36)
The elite XI started the day well with Captain Carroll winning the toss yet again this season and sending the poor Claremont 4s into the field.
The day started rough with the Roos losing Yusuf in the first over of the game bringing in Gillespie. Riley (Labuschagne) rode his luck second ball by hitting it down the throat of first slip only for it to be put down. At this stage first slip was probably thinking, “hope this bloke doesn’t hit a 100 now…”. We then lost Maraldo the next over for a well-made 0 off 2 deliveries. Things were looking down for the Roos as we were 2/3 after two overs. Things didn’t look much better when we also lost Kane for a tidy 7 boosting his 4th grade average to 2.33! Kanes dismissal left us 3/20 but all that did was bring in the ol’ reliable of Allan Hall who put together one of the finest innings of Sixes, Sightscreens and Sledging you would ever see. Gillespie and Hall put together a mammoth partnership of 149 before Hall departed on a very nice 69. We then lost a few quick wickets with Santos stumps getting cartwheeled, followed soon after by Rhys Walkers – the latter’s off-peg would have required a visa to go any further. With 2 overs to go Riley Gillespie was in the nervous 90s with the whole team’s heart rate gradually increasing ball by ball knowing time was running low for the magical three figures. With a perfectly timed glide through backward point into one of the smallest of gaps, Riley pinched a single and brought up the magic milestone of a 4th grade 100. It’s really not for everyone to make a 4th grade hundred against Claremont. Seriously though well-done Riley on your first senior hundred. Was a masterclass to watch and I am sure there are many more to come for you.
We ended up setting a whopping total of 223 for 7. Claremont were shaking.
We couldn’t have asked for a better start with Captain Carroll finding the outside edge of the Claremont opener. Wickets then just kept coming, with Skouros finding some luck with the ball trickling onto the stumps and then not long after Yad taking the 4th wicket leaving Claremont in a spot of bother. We reached the first drinks in a commanding position of 5/46 with the thoughts of an early pint of Great Northern reaching everyone’s mind. Post drinks Claremont found some resistance with 6,7,8 all making 30+ which only just frustrated the Roos 4s and in particular Nic Santich as he had to wait a lot longer to find out the result of the re-running of the Perth Cup. We finally decided to stop toying with Claremont and finally bowled them all out for 163 leaving the elite xi with a convincing 60 run win at home, nicely boosting our finals chances.
Female B Grade T20
Perth Cricket Club 5/86 def by Wanneroo 1/88 (Reichelt 40*)
Our match this week was against T20 League leaders Perth, away at Fletcher. Perth won the toss and elected to bat but were immediately in trouble at 1-5 thanks to a great pill from Josie (1/18).
The pressure from our bowling unit was awesome in this game, supported by tight fielding. Wickets fell steadily and the runs were restricted. Emilie (1/12), Emma (1/11) and Kristin (1/17) all bowled their maximum allotment of overs and collected wickets. Shayna completed a neat stumping and Sarah and Emilie combined for a run out, as Perth reached 5/86 off their 20 overs.
The Roos set out to run the total down in a positive manner. Tene wasted no time and built a solid opening stand with Shenae before being dismissed with the score on 38. Shenae continued her great form and finished on 40*, with Shayna also undefeated on 23*. Wanneroo across the line one wicket down in the 12th over.
Female U17 Grade T20
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U/17 Male
Claremont-Nedlands 7/84 (Marinovich 3/12, Skouros 2/6) def by Wanneroo 4/85 (B Jones 41*)
The boys travelled away to Melvista Oval to play in a must win game against Claremont-Nedlands in a 20/20 fixture. Wanneroo won the toss and chose to bowl.
Claremont-Nedlands were 0/60 after the 11th over when a change of ends for Jordan (Gordo) Marinovich saw him take two wickets from two balls to be on a hatrick. A flurry of wickets and a Claremont-Nedlands collapse saw them on 7/64 by the start of the 16th over. Jordan ended up with figures of 3 for 12 off his 4 overs with 1 maiden. Matt Skouros contributed with 2 for 6 off 3 overs with 2 maidens and all the other bowlers bowled well on the day. Claremont-Nedlands ended up on 7 for 84 after their 20 overs.
Our turn to bat and the standout for the day was Ben Jones who hit a well composed innings of 41 not out from 38 deliveries which included 5 fours. He was well supported by Matt Skouros who hit 18 from 31 deliveries and Reece Walker rounded out the innings with Ben to end up on 11 not out from 10 deliveries with 2 fours. Wanneroo chased down the runs in the 19th over to finish up on 4 for 85 and taking the points.
U/15 Male
Wanneroo 3/137 (Prance 29, Deckert 28*) def Claremont-Nedlands 54 (von Bergheim 3/9, Prance 2/5)
14 Female Carnival (double)
Game 1: Wanneroo 0/129 (Wallis 52*) def Rockingham-Mandurah 44 (Syahril 2/5, O’Connell 2/8)
Game 2: Wanneroo 4/132 (Wallis 44) def South Perth 8/119 (Syahril 2/13, Krynauw 2/17)
Our young Roos had a fantastic time at their double header on the weekend, turning in two very solid team performances.
There were numerous individual highlights, including a maiden half century to Addison Wallis, who scored 52* in Game 1, and backed this up with 44 in Game 2. Improved batting partnerships were also a feature, with our top order batters (Addy, Summer, Sarah, Kitty, Emma and Molly) working so well to build big scores across both games. The value placed on wickets was also high.
Game 1 saw each of our eight bowlers claim a wicket – how awesome! Samira (2/5) and Sophie (2/8) picked up the best figures in this game, with Molly and Chelsea both taking a couple of great catches!
Game 2 also saw Emma (2/17) pick up a brace, while Samira rounded out a good day with the ball with another 2/13. Fielding from our Roos was awesome in this match with five different catchers plus run outs involving Arabella (direct hit), Sarah and Samira.
The girls looked really settled as a team and super happy both on and off the field. Fuel and hydration were also managed well – great to see!
The standout development moment of the day was the Wanneroo fight back in Game 2 when South Perth were 0/77 after 9 overs and racing towards a win – our girls really dug deep to collect 8 wickets for just 42 runs in the next 11 overs. Fantastic work from our emerging leadership team was the key and the focus from our athletes to achieve this outcome was excellent to see!