By Bryce Edwards
Wandin 1st XI 8/221 defeated Warrandyte 4th XI 8/170
Wandin’s 1st XI took on Warrandyte 4th XI in a must-win for Wandin to secure a finals spot.
Wandin’s Captain David Thorne won the toss and chose to bat and the openers in Rod Aitken and Jamie Elliott got off to a fantastic start putting on a quick 99-run partnership before Jamie Elliott was eventually run out, but the runs didn’t stop coming as Jamie Oakley continued the quick scoring and some big hitting towards the end from Miles Rayner and David Marshall would see Wandin post 221 after 35 overs.
Rod Aitken 69
Jamie Elliott 45
Jamie Oakley 41
David Marshall 14
Miles Rayner 12
With Wandin posting their biggest score for the year, it would be difficult for Warrandyte to chase down and the Wandin bowlers didn’t make the job easy with an all-round bowling and fielding effort from everyone, Warrandyte would only make 170 after 35 overs.
Hamish Lamont 1/28 off 7 overs
Daniel Trembath 1/18 off 7 overs
Tim Thorne 2/37 off 4 overs
Leigh Curwood 2/36 off 7 overs
David Marshall 1/28 off 7 overs
Jamie Elliott 1/28 off 3 overs
Wandin 2nd XI v Seville Burras 4th XI
The top spot was on offer for Wandin if they could travel to Warburton and beat the fifth-placed Seville Burras.
Wandin would bat first in muggy conditions and find scoring tough, with a young Seville bowling brigade making life difficult for the batsmen, Wandin would be nervous at 5/63 at drinks.
Again Wandin would have plenty of scores of 10 + but with R Painter (38) the only one to score above 20, Wandin were bowled out for an under-par 124 . M Wynd 3/24 and A Cummins 2/1 the top wicket takers for the Burras in a good bowling performance.
Wandin openers M Kogelman 3/12 and JE Kneebone 3/28 would be fantastic in both spells as Seville innings always seemed evenly poised with opening batsmen H Murphy 61* providing stiff resistance to the desperate Wandin bowling attack.
With the home team at 8/115 enter JE Kneebone who would take the final two wickets and secure the top spot on the ladder for Wandin after the home and away season.
Wandin 3rd XI vs Yarra Junction
The toss was won by Yarra Junction who elected to bat first. For the third game in a row, Wandin was able to take a wicket in the first over to have Yarra Junction 1/4. Excellent bowling from Wandin restricted Yarra Junction to 4/65 after 18 overs. Yarra Junction was then able to put together a little partnership to take their score to 4/107 after 25 overs. A breakthrough was required for Wandin and in the next over they got it with two wickets falling. Yarra Junction ended up with a score of 6/159 after 56 overs.
M Polido 4/25
J Polido 2/21
Wandin’s turn to bat. An unfortunate run out in the first over didn’t end up affecting the way Wandin’s batsmen went about chasing the score down and after 8 overs Wandin was 2/53. From there it was just a matter of time before Wandin chased the score down, putting on 1110 in the next 11 overs to win convingly 3/164 after 19 overs. R Vallence hitting his third 50 in a row was the main highlight of the day.
R Vallence 52 retired
M Owens 42no
T Day 22
Wandin Womens def Chirnside Park by 39 runs.
Wandin Womens took on Chirnside Park at Kimberley Reserve in a crucial game to lock in finals, with the senior men down to support the team. Winning to toss and electing to bat, Wandin opened with Wilson and Burgi, seeing a good start on a slow ground. However, it was the partnership between Trembath and C Edwards which saw the run rate pick up, and furthered by Cuddon and O Edwards batting. C Edwards finished on 51 not out alongside Leckie, with Wandin defending the 143 off their bat.
Chirnside Park presented strong opening bats, with O Edwards and Wilson opening the bowling. A breakthrough in the 7th over saw Chirnside 1-30, and Wandin kept the energy alive. A direct hit from O Edwards (2/12) and further wickets for George (1/12), Wilson (1/16) and C Edwards (3/10) kept Chirnside 4-63 at drinks and wrapping it up in the 27th over, bowling Chirnside all out for 104.
Another great game was played today, and Wandin is now into the finals next week!
