Winding up to release this delivery is Xavier Mitchell in the A Res.
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A Res hosted Benalla Bushrangers at home on what was the warmest day in some time. Benalla won the toss and chose to bat.
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Both opening bowlers had a wicket to their name early as Brendan Hill found an outside edge, and Andrew Dishot knocked off the top of the bails.
Before the Bushrangers could form a big partnership, Aneeque Azam took 2 wickets in 2 balls as the Lakers were back on top.
Not long after, Dishot had his second and third to go with another 2 in 2 balls from Azam.
The crafty leg spinner wasn’t done there, Aneeque created his 5th wicket finding a gap between bat and pad, before taking his 6th with an excellent one-handed catch from Brendan Hill at 1st slip. Benalla all out for 126.
Eyes on the ball in the first of two catches by A Res wicketkeeper Justin O’Brien.
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Yarra Mul had 29 overs to bat and get some valuable runs on the board.
Things weren’t looking too good early as the Lakers fell to 4/28, with O’Brien, Cope, Dishot, and Hill not troubling the scorers too much.
Young gun, Van Kreeck, and man of the moment, Aneeque Azam, built a strong partnership, batting out 29 overs.
Azam finishing on a patient 14 from 45 balls, and Kreeck bringing up his 50 on the last ball of days play.
The Lakers finished 4/79 with another day to bat next week.
Aneeque Azam took 6/49 in the A reserve on the weekend, putting A Res in the box seat for day two of their match against Benalla.
B Grade
Yarrawonga Mulwala CC 10/164 def Beechworth Wanderers 10/88.
Joe Connell plays a forward defensive bat to this ball in the B Grade.
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B-Grade Lakers were too strong for the Beechworth Wanderers.
Lakers’ openers Charles Jamieson and Marcus Hargreaves started well putting on 35 runs before Hargreaves was bowled out by Beatson.
Strong batting followed by Tyrn Docking (19), Steve Lappin (18), top scorer Hudson Gillies (32) and Jack Connell (28).
After setting a total of 164 Beechworth’s chase started strong with captain Dylan Pool (53) getting hi eye in early. But unfortunately for Pool his teammates were unable to stay around for any partnerships.
Best of the bowlers for Lakers was Joseph Connell with 3 for 9 of just 5 overs. James Reilly took 3 for 29 of 8 overs. Captain Gus Browning chimed in with 2 of 7 of 6 overs.
C Grade
Gapsted 5/203 def Yarrawonga Mulwala CC 10/117.
C Grade suffered a crushing defeated to Gapsted in their away match.
The Lakers won the toss and elected to bowl. After an early wicket by Josh Bozolla the Lakers boys found it hard to get wickets with the second scalp coming with Beechworth on 83, the third wicket falling at 147 runs and the fourth at 202.
In their run chase Lakers’ opener Peter Brear (17) was resilient however was the first wicket to fall at a score of 29 runs. Wickets regularly fell throughout the innings leaving the Lakers with only 117 runs for their innings, 86 short of Gapsted.
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