First Grade
Wanneroo 130 (de Nobrega 32) def. by Subiaco-Floreat 7/216 (Sabburg 2/38, Richards 2/41)
The 1s were back at Kingsway for the 4th round of the season. Deon won the toss (again) and sent Subiaco-Floreat into bat first. Matthew Dzodzos and Bailey Richards started off well restricting the runs and picking up 1 each along the way. Deon then brought himself on and picked up another.
Teenage Debutant Matt Carrol continued his good form, bowling with maturity, skill and bravery against a strong batting line-up. It was a treat for all supporters watching the team get around him when he took his first A-grade wicket. Matt finished with 1-36 off his 10 overs.
The Roo boys bowled really well through the middle overs keeping the runs to a minimum, and some disciplined death bowling by returning openers Dzodzos and Richards kept Subiaco to a very chaseable score of 216.
The top order of de Nobrega, Sabburg and Slattery all started well but once they got out it was a much too often sight of a roo collapse and we were bowled out for 130.
Second Grade
Subiaco-Floreat 7/244 (Smith 2/42, Ardagh 2/45) def. by Wanneroo 9/248 (Fryer 85, B Holly 43, R Holly 28, Charles 26)
The Roo’s 2s won the toss and elected to have a bowl on a seemingly good-looking deck that had us all fooled. With only one wicket within the first 31 overs it took a little bit of brilliance on the boundary by Riley “was that on frog box?” Holly to get the wickets rolling. Good bowling from Adam Smith (2-42) and Micheal “fossil” Ardagh (2-45) at the death managed to keep the score to 244.
The batting started off shaky by losing 2 early ones. Many tried hard to steady the ship with Blake Holly making a hard fought 43 but wickets seemed to fall as things began to look settled. As the total started looking out of reach Donny “3 votes” Fryer (85 off 75) began to up the run rate creating belief. Joined by Hayden Stumpers (24 off 17) they managed to chase down most of the remaining 67 off 40 balls until both Donny and Hayden fell in the 49th leaving 2 off the last over with 1 wicket in hand. Adam “Ashwin” Smith left things to the 2nd last ball to create theatre, in the end hitting a 4 over short mid-on to get the 4th win in a row for the 2s.
Also, can confirm… it was not on frogbox.
Female B Grade T20
Wanneroo 2/76 (Stillitano 32*) def. by South Perth 7/149 (Beckett 3/29, Harvey 2/13)
Covers on upon arrival is never a great sign of the likelihood of play but the game got underway right on time. Spirits were lifted as the side welcomed back Tene from Indoor Nationals and Shayna from injury.
It was also great to see another senior community player debut for the Roos – Monique Todd. Monique was joined by Ayla Meintjes (also from Warwick-Greenwood) as we covered for some absences.
Winning the toss and bowling, Emilie and Emma started briskly, with Emma picking up an opener cheaply. Some big hitting from Tyler Jones put the Roos on the back foot and accelerated the score to 58 after 6 overs, before Josie claimed her wicket. From that point on, the South Perth run rate held at about 7 an over for the rest of the innings, seeing the visitors reach 7/149 after 20. Josie was the pick of the bowlers with 3/29, while Emma took a tidy 2/13. Emilie and Kristen both collected a wicket too. Well done to the Roos for persisting through the drizzle – great to see six of the seven dismissals were clean bowled.
It was a large total to chase and the skies grew ever more ominous. But the Roos went about their work steadily with the bat. Tene (13) got a start, but it was Shayna and Mathilda who started to take it to the bowlers after being brought together with the score at 2/16.
In a really solid little partnership, this pair turned the strike over and punished the bad ball – Buckets was particularly damaging with 6 fours in her score of 32*, with Shayna looking as composed as ever with 20* off 25 balls.
With the score at 2/76 off 12 overs and plenty of batting in the shed, the heavens really did open, covers went on, and the game got called off.
A real shame as this was shaping up to be a cracking run chase. In the end, the Roos were 5 runs behind on the D/L method, meaning a win to South Perth in the only game of Senior Female cricket that wasn’t abandoned on the day.
Female Youth League T20
BYE
Third Grade
Wanneroo 100 (Bonner 26) def. by Subiaco-Floreat 173 (Slattery 3/19, Mcdonald 3/38)
Captain Jordan Slattery won the toss for the 4th time in a row, and given recent struggles in setting up the score the last few games he chose to send Subiaco-Floreat in to bat first. Following a slow start Alex Fitzmaurice broke through taking a wicket with the first ball of his spell. It was slow going from there, with Subiaco not scoring easily but denying us wickets. At 1/107, we took 2 wickets within a couple overs to swing things back our way before the 30 over drinks break. After drinks we came out and took 5/13 with a big thanks to Jack ‘bowling all-rounder’ McDonald and Jordan ‘prime-time’ Slattery who did most of the damage. Subiaco went on to make 173.
After the innings break, we got off to a flyer with players rep Cam MacDonald and Jacob Bonner kicking things off. But other than that, we began to drop like flies getting bowled out in the 34th over for 100.
Fourth Grade
Subiaco-Floreat 6/172 (Marinovich 2/14, Douglas 2/22) def. by Wanneroo 5/173 (Blythman 58, Zain 34*, Kumar 27*, Williams 25)
A top of the table clash at Alderbury with the winning team taking top spot on the ladder. We lost the toss and were asked to bowl first, with the opening bowlers bowling well without reward. Jordan Marinovich took the first wicket thanks to a sharp catch from Kane “hates doing the write up” Pearce, before he quickly took another wicket with a caught and bowled. With momentum in our favour, the Roos kept things tight for a while before the off-spin of Callum Douglas took a couple of wickets. Subi ending up on 172 after their overs.
Tom Blythman picked up where he left off last week, hitting his second fifty in as many weeks to get the Roos off to a good start. The middle order was solid, with contributions coming from a few batters, including Sam with 25, Yusuf with 34 not out and Anil with 27 not out. Yusuf hit the winning runs with 4 overs to spare, launching into a few almighty fist bumps as he got the job done. The 4s are still undefeated and top of the table thanks to this result.