Tweed Cricket with Hank Thompson
HALFWAY through round three and it looks as though finally the Tweed team dry spell of winning will come to end – this is due to the fact that the Tweed teams are playing one another in this round.
POTTSVILLEe v MURWILLUMBAH
The oval at Seabreeze has certainly gotten a working over so far this year, with Potty first grade playing at home for the third time in a row.
On what was yet again a perfect batting wicket, Potty won the toss and elected to bat first. Opening with Nathaniel Wilson, who usually opens the bowl, I personally was surprised to see that the first wicket didn’t fall until Potty were 117.
An excellent first wicket stand between Wilson (67) and Daniels (51) really set up the Pelicans for a big innings, and with Aiden Rogers scoring 50 and captain Jamie Bennett 77 not out, Potty cruised to 7/291.
It may have been easy for Bennett to go for his hundred, but selflessly declared in attempt to get the Murbah boys on the backfoot.
Best for the Murbah boys was Vinnie Quigley with 5/94. Captain of Murbah Ian Rowlings wasn’t overly excited by the effort from his team, missing both fast bowlers Mikael Granger and Andrew Meads, Murbah dropped six catches in total. Murbah then batted, and struggled their way to 3/33.
Wickets were shared for the Pelicans.
CUDGEN v TERRANORA
Cudgen returned to the venue of their premiership victory last season, however circumstances couldn’t be more different.
The red dirt boys have started slower than a Arjuna Ranatunga-Inzamamul Haq quick single, losing their opening two games.
Their opponents Terranora, have shown glimpses of a successful side already this year, but are also yet to register their first win.
Cudgen won the toss and surprisingly gave the Lakes first use of a cracking pitch. The decision seemed to pay off though, Terranora regularly losing wickets and were all out with the score on 104. Best for the Hornets were Michale Anderson, as always, with 3/27 and Terry Wilson with 3/6.
Cudgen then batted, and blasted their way to 6/254 from just 43 overs. Amazingly Tait Burns hit more than half of these runs, scoring 153 not out, his second century in a row. David Stoddart was not out at the finish with 40.
Tait was more than impressed with the team’s effort and especially his own, putting his success this year down to the pressure of possibly losing his place to some of the young up and coming junior Hornets.
Unfortunately details of the Terranora efforts were not available at the time of print.
NEXT WEEK
After a long hard statistical analytical analysis, I, Hank Thompson, am slowly making my way through the numerous L.J. Hooker team responses from a player survey involving 15 questions. As per other excellent journos, I am delving deep into the psyche of each and every player, asking those tough questions us cricket supporters would love to know about the current L.J. Hooker League. Stay tuned, results will be published next week.
Got something to say – hankthompson20@yahoo.com or find me on facebook.
