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Gallery | Saturday Sundries entertains senior and junior highlights as finals approach
Saturday Sundries are all the extra highlights from the weekend’s Cricket Shepparton 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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There was plenty to like on the lower-grade pitches throughout Cricket Shepparton’s realm - but off the park, there was a bizarre twist or two as well.
Megan Fisher was present at Tatura to capture snaps from its SJ Perry Shield meeting with Numurkah.
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Numurkah's Rodney Jackson top scored for the Blues. Photo by Megan FisherImage 2 of 7
Tatura keeper Lachlan Thurston shares it around. Photo by Megan FisherImage 3 of 7
Numurkah's Riley Dobson composed his innings steadily. Photo by Megan FisherImage 4 of 7
Numurkah's Sean Dawson deals with a short ball. Photo by Megan FisherImage 5 of 7
Tatura's Brandan Reilly was all smiles at the crease. Photo by Megan FisherImage 6 of 7
Numurkah's Riley Dobson scampers down. Photo by Megan FisherImage 7 of 7
Tatura's Divin Kuruppumadham gets acquainted with the rock. Photo by Megan FisherBloods blow them away
We begin our voyage this week with a look at a local Clyde Young Shield derby between Karramomus and Shepparton Youth Club United.
Truly, we witnessed something extraordinary when Chris Crouch’s home side went in to bat, sending Cooper Delahey and Alec Maguire out to set the tone on B-grade’s last one-day affair of the season.
These two batted like they were going to miss the 45-over format, too.
Delahey and Maguire took the combine to task for almost the entire innings, crafting a superb showing of tandem offence that resulted in a combined 25 boundaries across a whopping 249 balls faced between them.
The pair left barely three overs of action for anyone else in a brilliant 181-run partnership under sweltering conditions, and once the visitors finally had a crack of their own, the ball was practically magnetised to young Max Bicknell’s gloves behind the stumps.
The Karra keeper produced no fewer than six catches as the boys in blue rounded the day out on 203, Delahey and Maguire almost winning the game off their partnership alone.
They sure are resourceful up North
This is a pretty significant diversion from your usual Sundries fare.
Northerners Cricket Club decided to treat its senior B-grade contingent to a challenge ahead of its home Clyde Young Shield clash with Euroa.
As the club has shown off through its Facebook page, players were instructed to bring their kits to Tallygaroopna Recreation Reserve - but they could only be stored in anything but their usual kit bags.
Rubbish bins, a supermarket shopping trolley and even a kayak - you name it, it was probably a receptacle for Northerners’ garb.
Thankfully for the red and green, that creativity inspired a winning flavour on the park as well, with Trent Sidebottom dazzling Euroa bats on his way to figures of 4-20 from a nine-over spell which included four maidens.
He would turn it up with the bat all the same as one of two half-centuries in a straightforward eight-wicket win.
Maybe next weekend, he won’t have to carry his own bags after that outing.
One, two, three for Tiger cub
Now we turn our attention to the junior front, which has been in for some more appreciation from Sundries in recent times.
In an under-10 encounter between Kyabram and Notre Dame College-St Brendan’s, both sides managed impressive bowling feats in their final over - though the red and black would take honours on the day.
It was Jorden McCarty-Hill who amazed at the very end of the Redbacks’ innings, ripping and tearing his way to a hat-trick which earned him the match ball.
In an effort not to be outdone by McCarty-Hill, Liam Parsons sent the Tiger cubs’ reply innings off with a bang - three of them, to be precise.
Ever so close to emulating the feat, there existed just one dot ball between Parsons’ three wickets in the 50-run win, but we nonetheless got two starring junior displays in the one fixture.
Callan loads the cannon once more
Keep an eye on this name, to be sure.
Much as the Parsons name and Kyabram are intertwined entities, so too is the O’Dwyer clan with Numurkah - and youngster Callan is making a massive splash this season.
Already the owner of three fifties and a century playing under-12 cricket with the Blues and earning Junior Country Week selection in the process, O’Dwyer took his feverish mashing to a new level against Pine Lodge last Friday.
Having first tonned up against Shepparton Youth Club United just before the festive break, O’Dwyer let loose in an all-out pummelling at the Lodgers’ expense with an incredible unbeaten 114 off just 34 balls - a Herculean strike rate of 335 with 14 fours and eight sixes.
Not only did he dispatch more than half his balls faced to or over the rope, he racked up a century worth of boundaries alone in a head-turning display as his side posted a comfortable 58-run victory.
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