Bunbury and Districts Cricket reports

Dalyellup down reigning champs

By GEORGE GOODWIN

Dalyellup Beach, the long standing scourge of Colts combined with the weather to crush the Bunbury and Districts Cricket Association champions at their Dalyellup College Oval on Saturday.

Picture by Jon Gellweiler: Dalyellup celebrate their win

A short, 12-minute rain delay was enough for a precarious looking Dalyellup on 5-125 to settle their nerves and their lower order take to the champions on a wet, slippery surface to swell their score to 8-215.

The scattered shower plus a brief period of persistent drizzle played into the fielders hands for them to blast out Colts for a miserable 117.

The day could not have started better for the title holders with last week’s centurion Tim Cooper succumbing to sport’s great leveller second ball of the match.

However another solid half century contribution by lanky Matt Fink backed by a series of starts saw the Settlers stagger to 4-118 when the shower hit.

Struggling for accuracy with the wet ball, Colts young seamers lost length and direction in spite of a couple of changes of ball with youngster Curtis Read showing the way among in the vigorous tail wag for the settlers to finish their 50-overs on 215.

The Settlers’ attack used the new ball and seaming surface to great effect, ripping the heart out of the Colts with ace batsmen Matt Foreman, Ian Prosser, James Anderson and Murray Goodwin making just 13 runs between them.

Hartley and veteran Peter Grygorcewicz bowled the first 20 overs between them to reduce Colts to 6-54 with Hartley’s contribution a superb 5-21.

Young Colts bowlers Caltsounis and Topliss showed some fortitude with a tailend half century stand but it was too little, too late as Colts crashed to 117 off 36 overs.

At Roche Park, Hay Park recorded the highest tally of the losers at the weekend — but it was not enough to stop them crashing to a nine-wicket defeat against Collie.

The Redbacks scored 128 against the Coalminers, propped up by a middle order 36 byWACountry XI wicketkeeper Paul Jones and 20s from skipper Chris McMillan and Jono Whitney.

And as the dark clouds gathered over the Collie stronghold of Roche Park former Collie veteran Seth White continued his recent stupendous form to lay into the Hay Park attack with a hurricane half century to beat the rain.

No Hay Park bowler escaped the wrath of White as he ripped off 10 boundaries and three sixes in a hurricane 77 to share an opening stand of 113 with Will Cleggett and beat the threatening clouds.

Bowled out for 18, howzat happen?

By GEORGE GOODWIN

The magnificent seven was what the Marist Blues were calling their remarkable 10-wicket triumph over Leschenault in the Bunbury and Districts Cricket Association First Grade match at Leschenault Oval on Saturday afternoon.

By the time the Green Caps, who had been sent in by Marist skipper Adam Spinelli, had reached seven wickets down their score was also just seven.

In one of the most sensational First Grade collapses in years Leschenault were skittled for just 18 runs.

Six of their first seven players failed to score, while that number stepped up to seven when last man Michael Russell finished not out for no score.

Just 15 overs and four balls of cricketing mayhem was enough to route the Green Caps.

Swing bowler Matt Anderson was in tremendous touch, following fellow opening bowler Paul Tomasi’s first over dismissal of Tom Buchanan with the scalps of tyros Kurt D’Agostino and Josh Parker in a devastating double-wicket maiden to start his spell.

It got worse for the Green Caps as Anderson took a wicket in his second and fourth overs, followed in quick succession by three more in overs seven and eight.

He finished with figures of five wickets for six runs, while Tomasi took 4-9.

First change bowler Wayne Murphy took 1-2 to wrap up the Green Caps’ misery.

It took Marist’s openers Tomasi and Craig Zera just three overs to ecure the double bonus point win in a match that lasted little more than an hour.

Meanwhile, at Eaton Oval, the infamous Duckworth-Lewis system was brought into a match for the first time this season as rain held up play for about an hour in the clash between the Beavers and Capel.

With memories rife of their first round upset loss to Capel, Eaton ripped into their opponents on a revenge mission, tearing through the top five batsmen for 59 on their way to having the First Grade rookies at 9-103 when the heavens opened.

When play resumed, Eaton’s calculated target was 91 runs off 36 overs.

Capel made a fist of their defence to have Eaton reeling at 4-52.

But opener James Hillary did enough to steady his side, plundering nine fours and three sixes in an undefeated 72 off 35 balls as Eaton raced to 4-94 off 12 overs to cement their spot in the top four with a double bonus points victory.