First Grade
Wanneroo 212 (O’Day 37, De silva 37, Stumpers 28*, Holly 27) def. by Midland-Guildford 9/215 (Billington 4/26, Dzodzos 3/38)
After Christmas break cricket has finally arrived to Kingsway, thanks to Vinny Clarke for his hard work to get us up a decent deck. At a special and atmospheric Pink Stumps Ladies Day event, Deon lost the toss and Midland Guildford put us in to bat first.
Sam de Silva and Harry Swindles opened the batting for us and got a decent start, losing our first wicket at a score of 47 from 7 overs when Harry ‘the tenant’ Swindles was removed for 12. From there Sammy and Connor Spangenberg carried on to drinks, but both were unfortunately removed within minutes of each right after leaving us 3-70.
The rest of the day was a procession of starts as the engine room of Aryan, Riley, Deon and O’Day all looked good but were unable to convert to a big score. O’Day and one H. Stumpers made the largest partnership of the innings, coming together at 6-144 and fighting well to push the team total above 200. We were ultimately bowled out for 212 with two overs left in the tank.
Midland-Guildford in form openers started well in their chase, but our golden left-arm Lachlan ‘chooks’ Poulter struck to remove their best bat Beaton for 22. From there it was the Deon Billington show as he spun a web around their top and middle order to finish with 4-26. He was ably supported by Mathew Dzodzos who cleaned up their other obdurate opener to expose their tail to his left arm angles. He finished with 3-38.
Unfortunately despite getting the opposition to 9-145, we were unable to take the last wicket as their wicket-keeper and number 11 batted well the take the game away from us in the final overs.
Second Grade
Midland-Guildford 219 (Smith 3/36, Fryer 3/44, Forssman 2/36) def. by Wanneroo 9/227 (McGhie 103, Forssman 37, Millar 32*)
Smudge won the toss and elected to bat on what looked like a bit of a flatty, Brodie McGhie getting us off to a flyer straight away. A few early wickets fell but Brodie was still scoring at an extreme rate. At 3-46 extras were the 2nd top score on 3, will let you do the math there.
From there Brodie found an able partner in Darcy as they put on a 82 run 4th wicket stand which really steadied the ship. Brodie batted extremely well and notched up his maiden century for the Rwo’s. Kyle then helped the tail wag with a run a ball 32. We ended our innings on a very competitive 227.
Midland got off to a very good start with not losing a wicket until their 13th over and scoring at a good clip. This was until the ever-reliable Donny was brought into the attack and after a few very good overs with pressure building, got the first breakthrough. We then got a few quick wickets which really turned the momentum to our side. Midland were cruising for a bit and the game was getting down to the wire. It came down to the last over where Midland needed 12 off the last over to win. Adam Smith then proceeded to take the first hat-trick of his career at a clutch time. This last over helped us to an 8 run win and the Twos remain top of the ladder.
Third Grade / Fourth Grade
Bye
Female B Grade T20
Rockingham-Mandurah 52 (Reichelt 3/9, Giandzi 2/9) def by Wanneroo 4/134 (Crafford 48)
Female U17 Grade T20
Midland-Guildford 7/98 (Spadaro 3/26) def. by Wanneroo 3/106 (Bakker 36)
U/17 Mens (double round)
Saturday
Wanneroo 179 (TD Brown 45, Marinovich 43, Glamuzina 30) def. by Midland-Guildford 5/224 (Rotham 2/17, Marinovich 2/41)
The first game back after the Christmas holidays and the weather gods put on a treat. With a 9:00 start that was welcomed by both players and parents. Midland won the toss and sent us in. We got off to a great start with a 3 off the first ball from Riley. The scoring continued at a good rate early with solid contributions from Xander (in his first game back after a wrist injury) (30), Jordan (43) and Tyler (45). However, the loss of 6 for 35 towards the end left us all out and just 179 on the board.
Needing to take wickets early we had them 1 for 2, then 2 for 43, however a stand of 139 before we could take another wicket meant that the game was lost Midland-Guildford 5/224. There were however some good performances with the ball with Jayden 2 for 17 off 7, Jordan 2 for 41 off 9 overs, Matt 1 for 14 off 2 overs and Nathan 0 for 27 off 9 overs.
Sunday
Willetton 3/111 def. Wanneroo 6/108 (Skouros 36)
The U17’s headed south to play Willetton in a T20 for their second game of the weekend.
We won the toss and decided to bat. We nearly lost Xander before a ball was even bowled with him being a minute late out of the change rooms to face the first ball. Mirror time needs to be monitored. Xander & Tyler got off to a great start with 20 on the board after the first 2 overs, including 3 fours in a row from Xander. Momentum swung a little after losing our openers at 2/36 after 7 overs, with some tight bowling restricting our scoring. Captain Matt Skouros steadied the ship with a handy knock of 36 from 32 balls and Rhys finished the innings off with a quick fire 14 from 8 balls, leaving us with a total score of 6/108. Opener Xander scored 17 off 14 and Jordan made 16 from 31.
Willetton came out with great intent and were quickly 0/23 after the first 3 overs. A bowling change saw Hayden Davey claim the first wicket with wicket keeper Joel completing the catch. Hayden was so ecstatic with the dismissal that an over-exuberant aerial high-five with keeper Joel, ended with Joel floored on the ground wondering where that truck just came from. After 10 overs Willetton were 2/66 and continued scoring freely seeing them pass our score only 3 down after 16.3 overs. Matt Skouros took 1/14 off 1.4 overs and also got a direct hit run out. Hayden Davey ended with 1/10 from 2 overs and was unlucky to not have a couple more wickets to his name. Rhys bowled well with 0/8 off 2 overs and Jayden also, with figures of 0/21 off 4 overs.
U/15 Mens
Wanneroo 7/85 def. by Willetton 5/93