Numurkah batter Dustan Ebborn feels the agony of being run out.
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Saturday Sundries are all the extra highlights from the weekend’s lower grade cricket — from the top run-scorer to the best bowling figures and anything else of interest from across the district’s grounds.
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The weekend’s action had a little bit of everything: sibling six-fors, ball mastery and a dance that turned deadly.
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News photographer Megan Fisher swung by to capture Tatura’s pulsating one-wicket win over Numurkah in the Clyde Young Shield.
Tatura wicket keeper Kade Walker scrambles to get behind the pegs.
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Numurkah’s Dustan Ebborn plays a straight bat.
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Tatura’s Rick Hughes bowls some express pace.
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Numurkah’s Tyson Woods punches one through point.
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Tatura bowler Cade Dealy rolls the arm over.
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Numurkah batter Sean Baker goes over the top.
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Deja Mu
There’s something in the water out at Invergordon.
In the first edition of this season’s Saturday Sundries, we spotlighted Hawks’ bowler Ashleigh Murdoch turning on the style by taking six wickets in a C-grade encounter.
Fast forward six weeks, and her brother has evened the score.
Invergordon mainstay Travis Murdoch razed Pine Lodge’s order on Saturday, getting the pill hooping, swinging and skittling during a tight-lipped 20 run victory.
He finished with 6-24, slightly bettering his sister’s 6-29 taken earlier in the season and taking bragging rights in the customary Christmas Day backyard test match.
Marster class
From one sublime bowling display to the next, enter David Marsters.
Mooroopna may have been on the wrong end of its Jim McGregor Shield clash with Northerners, but there was no denying who was best on.
Marsters lived true to his name, seeing the umpire’s finger work overtime as he made Northerners trudge south back to the sheds like clockwork.
His 6-17 display helped restrict the Jets to 141, and though Mooroopna fell 52 runs shy of the target, Marsters’ spell was the best across all of Cricket Shepparton’s lower grades on Saturday.
An honourable mention goes to Shepparton Youth Club United’s Steve Tate, who also raised the ball by jagging 5-21 in a match winning performance over Waaia in B-grade.
Hook line and sinker
It’s clear Travis Guppy can bat.
He’s smacked seven centuries in the past three seasons alone - but he’ll be forced to wait another week to raise the bat and helmet following a stumble in the nervous 90s at the weekend.
The Undera opener was in signature form in the Jim McGregor Shield against Central Park-St Brendan’s, and after belting 14 boundaries, it seemed imminent that Guppy would add another ton to his illustrious record.
But John Kealey had other ideas.
As Guppy wound up to send the spinner onto Channel Rd and bring up the 100 with one lusty blow, cult hero Kealey set the trap and removed him via stumping on 97.
It mattered little as Undera went on to make 7-272 and win by 147 runs, but Guppy may think twice before going for a dance down the wicket while in the 90s.
That’s got to hurt
In our featured game - Tatura versus Numurkah in B-grade - the drama levels were off the charts in the final over.
The Blues posted 182 in the first innings and, with six balls remaining in the second, seemed out of the race as Tatura hovered on 7-179.
Leigh Miles grabbed the rock for the 45th over and conceded two singles before dismissing Paul Mahoney (51 runs), then Lachlan Cook was run out a ball later.
A single on the fifth ball left the game tied; Miles versus veteran Glenn Walker, who would prevail?
Well, as it turns out, technically neither.
A bye on the final ball handed Tatura a one wicket win, devastating Numurkah while Tatura laughed its way back to the bar.
