2nd grade men played out a thrilling last ball victory over souths on Sunday to secure a one day semi final birth!
Wests were in the field first of which souths made a steady start getting to 60 runs when the first wicket fell with Dupinder Singh making the breakthrough, then another 50 run stand was achieved by souths when alrounder Luke Davies knocked over Souths top scorer Aaron Joby for 49 caught behind. Steady partnerships throughout the souths innings and some disciplined bowling from wests had souths bowled out for 189 in the penultimate over of the innings. Darcy Murphy 2-49, Joe Fry 3-36, Will Dooley 2-32, Dupinder Singh 2-24 and Luke Davies 1-12 all featured in the wickets column. Wests then set about the chase with openers Carlyon and Collins getting to 26 before Collins was caught for 11, Ben Maynard followed shortly after for 1 to leave wests 2-32. A mini partnership between Carlyon and new batter Del Simone of 31 was just getting going when skipper Carlyon was caught for 35 from 57 balls. Del Simone was going to prove to be the rock of the innings with him passing 50 but when he was removed with the score on 7-136 wests still required a further 54 runs for victory. Left arm seamer Darcy Murphy was the man to stand up holding his nerve to finish 32 not out off 38 balls hitting the winning runs off the last ball of the match to secure a monumental victory!!!
2 DAY Cricket Results
1st grade took on uni at GMP1 on Saturday and are in a very dominant position at the end of day 1. Wests were in the field first and bowled very miserly in the first session with Uni 1-50 at lunch. Lunch time seemed to be the turning point with wests bowlers running through uni after lunch to have then all out for 132 on the stroke of tea. Orthodox spinner Paddy Dooley did all the damage snaring 4-30 off 23 overs with all other bowlers contributing 1 wicket. In reply wests are 0-72 with Collins 38 not out and Snell 31 not out.
2nd grade made a solid start against Uni at WEP Harris oval being all out for 273 at the close of play, Josh Del Simone was the rock of the innings scoring 118 and was well assisted by Ben Maynard 32 and Danny Young 32.
3rd Grade skittled uni bowling them out for just 94 with former qld under 17 quick Harry Weir destroying the uni batting lineup with 5-15, Luke Thompson took 2-22 and Nathan Kerr took 2-16.
4th Grade have a tight tussle on their hands with uni at GMP2 with wests being all out for 214, Eashan Nakar 57 and Nick Lahey 46 were the main contributors with the bat. Uni are 0-15 in reply.
5th grade, wests batted first and were all out for 176 (no other stats were available)
6th grade will need some solid contributions from their lower order week 2 with then in pursuit of uni’s 147 total, wests are 5-62 in reply. Darcy Graham 3-12 was the pick of the bowlers for wests. Wests at one point were 3 for 0 in reply but scrambled to 5-62 with Markus Brits 35 not out and Jordan McNally 5 not out the two batters looking to finish the job.
