Gallery | Saturday Sundries ushers in finals with Karramomus domination across the lower grades

To highlight this week’s edition of Saturday Sundries, we witnessed Haisman Shield-like feats — literal imitation, in fact — and some insane displays with Kookaburras in hand.

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News photographer Megan Fisher was behind the lens for yet another terrific E-grade clash at Vibert Reserve, this one coming between Karramomus and Northerners.

Going plain insane with it

We’ll stay at that featured Vibert Reserve game for the time being.

There seems to be something about the complex in Shepparton’s south that inspires remarkable feats of late.

Karramomus’ Whitelock Shield side pulled off a brilliant bowling recovery last week, but in hosting Northerners this time around, it was all about scoring — and lots of it.

The Jets had first crack, and would have been feeling fine after avoiding that kind of late-stage madness in their innings as Garrick Rogers and Mark Lee mashed their way to a 138-run partnership.

Finding or clearing the rope on 26 occasions combined, 254 at comfortably more than a run a ball would leave you sitting pretty, right?

Unfortunately for the green-clad visitors, there was an immovable rock — or Brocq, in this case — blocking their path.

You could not look away as Brocq Robertson made the most, and then some, of Vibert Reserve’s friendly confines with an almost video game-like 10 fours and 15 sixes as part of a titanic unbeaten 165 as the Bloods chased down with ease.

This was more the kind of scorecard you might have whipped up on the Stick Cricket flash games when you were 10, but on a day which yielded more than 500 aggregate runs, Robertson was simply top of the pops.

A, B, positive

It’s traditionally considered taboo to talk about the Haisman Shield on Sundries, but there’s a good reason in this case.

You had the Karramomus A-graders complete a marvellous feat at Euroa’s expense, rolling the Magpies twice at the weekend in what was, despite a strange scoreboard listing, confirmed as an outright win.

Sure enough, though, the club’s Clyde Young Shield arm would set out to prove that it was every bit as capable of the magnificent in travelling to Euroa for the second half of its own two-dayer.

It was done in a different way after Karramomus chose to bowl first on day one, but it was clear a similar result was brewing once a whopping 207 runs were put on the board in a fourth-wicket stand between Duncan Lowis and skipper Chris Crouch.

Tragically, their respective labours would end in an instance of double ignominy; Lowis was caught on 98, while Crouch suffered the agony of being clean bowled by Mitch Gleeson on 99.

As much as that could have likely been an entry by itself, it was all about the team in this case with a blistering tally of 5-281 posted before a declaration turned the game for home.

You’d have been forgiven for thinking hope was extinguished when Carl Norton got on a tear and drove forth a 48-run opening stand, but Luke Sibley still had something to say about it all.

Sibley was simply ruthless, skittling batters left and right on his way to a five-wicket haul at an economy comfortably below two as the Bloods claimed the final three wickets without score to complete a sensational innings and 16-run result.

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‘Ah hell, I’ll do it myself’

Last one, we promise.

This Karramomus-heavy edition makes its final red and yellow stop over at the Jim McGregor Shield, where a pair of whopping efforts helped topple Pine Lodge at Lemnos.

Let’s not ignore what stood out for the Lodgers, though — Travis Knight did a superb job in carrying the bat through all 40 overs, contributing a rock-solid 70 on the way.

The only issue was in spite of all that, the hosts still had to settle for 8-123; look no further than Inderbirpal Singh’s big day out for answers.

The C-grade specialist claimed his first four-wicket haul on record in a rip-roaring showcase which featured six maidens from his eight overs, conceding just two runs as he dazzled and delighted.

With a gettable target set, Travis Guppy took it upon himself to remove all doubt with a knock that reminds everyone he remains one of the lower grades’ most fearsome hitters.

In fashion not unlike Nelson Muntz of The Simpsons throwing and catching his own touchdown pass, Guppy batted like he was late to be somewhere as he rattled off his century with a walk-off boundary to deliver victory.

Jackson Crouch steadily held up an end throughout and shouldn’t be forgotten with a clean sheet 10-wicket victory ultimately both of theirs to share.

It was the third time this season Guppy has carried his bat for an unbeaten ton — and the second time this year he has done it in an unblemished chase after running down Invergordon’s 195 in round 11.

Double time for the combine

Shepparton Youth Club United had itself a day to be celebrated in its own right in the SJ Perry Shield at home to Murchison.

Made to bowl first, the combine might have been frustrated at times as Nick McKay kept things ticking over from the opening spot, raising his bat along the way, but 156 looked doable on paper.

Quite this doable, though? That was another matter.

Donald Conway and Shobhit Galhotra put the pedal to the metal from moment one and it looked like a second clean sheet chase of the weekend might be upon us.

Galhotra would be on his way just eight runs from victory, but the exceptional hailstorm of runs — more than 12 an over by the time the boys in blue emerged victorious — made it academic from there.

Eighty-one off 37 and 64 off 40 from your two openers — the Big Bash could only dream of it.