Nagambie’s Flynn O'Brien tonned up in B-grade against SYCU on Saturday.
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Megan Fisher
Here at Saturday Sundries, we cover everything in Cricket Shepparton’s stratosphere.
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Whether it be a 12-ball over, a unbeaten treble-bat raise or a snapped hamstring sustained on a shuffle from first to second slip, there is no escaping the wide-casted net that encompasses the weird, wacky and wonderful world of lower grade cricket.
If you did well - or really, really bad - we will find you.
This week’s edition shines the spotlight on a thunderous teenage batting partnership, a one-man show with the willow and a bunch of ducks that made us say ‘what the flock’?
News photographer Megan Fisher was behind the lens to capture day one B-grade action between Nagambie and Shepparton Youth Club United at Princess Park.
Nagambie’s Archy Harrison hopes and prays not to get triggered.
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SYCU bowler Steven Tate applies some revolutions.
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SYCU fielder Matt Barclay chases after the ball in vain.
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SYCU wicket keeper Ian Maiden watches the ball fly past for a bye.
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SYCU’s Hamish McGregor gets his hands on the red rock.
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The Lake Show
Whatever is in Nagambie’s water when it comes to cricket, I’ll take a pint of it please.
The Lakers boast a seriously impressive talent pool when it comes to their youth stocks, with batting machine Flynn Bush (1202 runs) and breakout speedster Ryan Ezard (10 A-grade wickets) enjoying stellar 2025-26 seasons.
And they’re not alone.
Saturday saw two teens carve it up in B-grade, with Archy Harrison and Flynn O’Brien both posting mega totals on the way to Nagambie reaching 296 on day one against Shepparton Youth Club United.
Harrison raised his bat for a gallant half century before being trapped LBW on 72, while O’Brien went all the way to knock a maiden career ton, eventually holing out for 105.
If Nagambie can keep these kind of youngsters around, we may about to witness a Lakers dynasty without Shaq or Kobe.
A day for ducks
Now to the SJ Perry Shield, where unfortunately for Numurkah, the D in D-grade didn’t stand for delightful.
Rather, it stood for duck.
The Blues suffered a 162 run loss to Tatura, tasked with chasing 202 for victory on a day where mistimed shots, jaffas and torrid fortune were rolled into one big, crap sandwich.
Numurkah saw six players dismissed without troubling the score, all out for 39 after 30.4 overs at a remarkably slow run rate of 1.27.
When trudging back to the shed, we’re sure all six of the runless batters uttered something that rhymes with duck, but hey, there is one positive.
At least it wasn’t seven.
Pass the Pub test
We’ve seen some absolutely whopping totals in the Jim McGregor shield this season, with C-grade never ceasing to provide more classic hits than The Eagles.
At the weekend, we got our second biggest score so far.
Old Students opened the shoulders for 40 overs of unadulterated carnage, taking Mooroopna’s bowlers to the cleaners on the way to 8-318 with one man whacking balls at a particularly savage rate of knots.
Pubuda Senevirathna was seeing them like pumpkin carriages, let alone pumpkins, as he came in at five and still stood at the innings’ end, notching 106 not out off 80 rocks with 14 boundaries and four maximums nestled in the mix.
Mooroopna was unable to scale the mountain of runs, spicing up the race for finals with one regular season round remaining.
