Day 1 for the Lusatia Park 1st XI against Lilydale at home as the visitors won the toss and elected to bat first. With seemingly no urgency to score runs at tea with 49 overs bowled, Lilydale were 2/95. After the break and with wickets in hand they started to push the score along and at the end of their 80 overs finished at 8/229 with their main contributors being B.Anthony-Digby with 79, R.Erulkar 39 and B.Pearce 39. The best of Lusatia Park’s bowlers was Terry Bennett with great figures of 5/53 from 23 overs.
The 2nd XI played Wantirna South away, won the toss and batted first. With a run blitz from the get-go with only 56 overs bowled by the home side, Lusatia Park declared at a phenomenal 5/345 with fantastic efforts from Mick Dwyer scoring a brilliant 102 not out and putting on a 6th wicket partnership of 101 with Keiran Cantwell who made 50 not out. Other contributors were Tyson Gaskett 51, Corey Winter-Annette 34 and Sumant Gupta 30. With 24 overs to bowl, Lusatia Park topped off a great day to have the home side in trouble at 3/27 at the end of the day.
