Sport
2 February, 2024
Quick hit encounters: rivals go for 20:20
SWINGING batsmen hitting big injected excitement into Saturday’s clash between Arnold and Wedderburn. The clubs agreed to play a 20/20 match that saw the ball regularly belted to the boundary and plenty of sixes scored too. Ryan Metelmann had the...
SWINGING batsmen hitting big injected excitement into Saturday’s clash between Arnold and Wedderburn.
The clubs agreed to play a 20/20 match that saw the ball regularly belted to the boundary and plenty of sixes scored too.
Ryan Metelmann had the home side off to a flyer despite the loss of opening partner Kyle Hewett on the third ball when bowled by Will Holt and caught by Isaac Holt.
Metelmann scored half his 40 runs with boundaries before a run out.
Campbell Hancock had a handy innings to finish on 21 not out, including two boundaries, while Heath Lock was the last Arnold wicket to fall but not before he hit two sixes.
Arnold’s showing at the crease was helped by poor fielding by Wedderburn - seven dropped catches.
Metelmann made an early impact with the ball, having Will Holt back to the pavilion and Wedderburn 1/2.
Luke Holt steadied the top order and went on to make 79 - six sixes and a pair of fours in the total - before caught and bowled by Lock.
But by then, Holt had taken Wedderburn beyond the 107 set by Arnold.
In a good, tight game, Kingower won with just six balls to spare against Boort Yando.
Runs were hard to score for both sides and the outfield slow.
The four top scorers for the match, Boort’s Alex Cockerell (59 off 104 balls ), Fergus Bear (33 off 76 balls) and Kingower’s Matt Rowe (51 off 105 balls) and Ben Rose ( 42 off 96 balls ) all having a strike rate of only around 50 per cent.
Just 10 boundaries and two sixes hit for the day - Cockerell (two sixes, two fours), Knight (a four ), Weaver (two fours ), Rowe (three fours), Rose (a four ) and Leach (a four). Harry Malone, who had starred earlier in the day for the Boort juniors, could not put in a repeat performance and was bowled inside stump by Jayden Leach, ending a handy partnership with Cockerell.
Kingower’s bowling was tight but Boort persisted with finding the singles that would account for half the home team’s score..
Cockerell brought up his half century with a stirring boundary.
Kingower just got ahead in the scoring rate after the 32nd over and was able to take a few risks with wickets in hand to get over the line.
Play was held up following the 29th over in the Kingower innings when Boort Yando fieldsmen David Melville misjudged a catch in the outfield and suffered a cut to the nose and was taken to hospital.
Boort Yando v Kingower
Boort Yando
A. Knight c B. Rose b M. Rowe 9
A. Cockerell not out 59
F. Bear c L. McNeill b M. Rowe 33
H. Malone b J. Leach 7
H. Weaver not out 12
Extras 12
Total 3/132
Bowling J. Leach 7-0-1-31, M. Rowe 7-1-2-17, L. DeJong 7-1-0-33, B. Rose 7-0-0-23,
R. Murphy 2-0-0-5, L. McNeill 4-0-0-13, T. Murphy 1-0-0-4.
Kingower
M. Rowe c A. Malone b A. Knight 51
B. Rose run out (T. Zanker) 42
J. Leach c H. Weaver b A. Cockerell 17
L. DeJong not out 4
T. Murphy not out 0
Extras 19
Total 3/133
Bowling A. Cockerell 6-1-1-18, H. Weaver 7-2-0-11, A. Knight 7-0-1-42, W. Gould 4-0-0-11, F. Bear 7-0-0-28, G. Zanker 3-0-0-16.
Arnold v Wedderburn
Arnold
R Metelmann run out (S Giorlando) 40
K Hewett c I Holt b W Holt 0
A Davies c F Turnbull b I Holt 14
C Hancock nout out 21
C Dale c M Smith b S Steel 10
H Lock c L Holt b M Woods 17
P Scholes not out 0
Extras 6
Total 5/107
Bowling: W Holt 4-0-1-15, F Turnbull 4-0-0-22, S Giolando 4-0-1-8, L Holt 1-0-0-10, I Holt 4-0-1-20, C Steel 2-0-1-21. M Woods 1-0-1-10.
Wedderburn
L Holt c and b H Lock 79,
W Holt b R Metelmann 1
C Steel c Metelmann b C Hancock 22
I Holt b A Davies 9
M Smith not out 3
Extras 3
Total 4/113
Bowling: R Metelmann 3-0-1-11, M Dale 3-0-0-23, C Dale 4-0-0-0-29, C Hancock 3-0-1-30, A Davies 2-0-1-30, H Lock 2-0-1-9.
LADDER
Wedderburn 30
Kingower 28
Arnold 14
Boort Yando 4
THIS WEEK
Kingower v Arnold
Wedderburn v Boort Yando