KINGLAKE CRICKET
CLUB REPORT

Rounds 5 and 6 for the NMCA E -Grade team for the Kinglake Cricket Club’s 1st XI were both played at their home ground, Kinglake Memorial Oval, this past weekend in glorious sunshine.
For round 5 on Saturday, Holy Trinity’s 3rd XI lost the toss and was invited to bat.
After 32.1 overs they were restricted to a total of 113 all out With D. Wright 19, J. Cloonan 21*(who carried his bat), and M. O’Neill 22 their most successful batsmen. Kinglake’s Captain for the day, James Gibbs, rotated his bowlers on a regular basis using six in all with only himself, returning figures of 5 overs, 0 maidens, 0 wickets, for 19 runs being unable to take a wicket.
The kudos were evenly spread among the other bowlers with Tim Stonehouse 5-1-25-2, Steven Kerr 4-1-18-1, Max Murray 7-1-10-1, Declan Grant 7-2-16-3 and Reece Koers 4.1-1-16-3 all on the board.
Unfortunately even though the bowlers had
one such a masterful job, Kinglake’s batsmen were not quite up to the task, being all out for 102, just 12 runs short of victory.
Alex Hybinett opened the innings with James Gibbs, but had to retire on 18* with the score at 1-53. His opening partner J. Gibbs, was dismissed for 11 in the fourth over whereupon James Edwards took up the challenge and was eventually dismissed for 27.
Max Murray then came and went for 0, Declan Grant 4, Ted Groenewegen 10, and Steven Kerr 18.
This left Kinglake at 102 for 6 but the extra runs needed proved to be too elusive with ducks being recorded against Reece Koers, Tim Stonehouse and Lachlan Martin. Josh Green remained 0*. Holy Trinity had five of their six bowlers taking wickets.

In round 6 it was captain for Kinglake Alex Hybinett’s turn to lose the toss to the Preston Baseballers 3rd XI and be asked to bat first. Alex opened with himself and Simon Andrews, only to be bowled second ball for 0. There was another parade of batsmen that came and went with Simon 5, James Edwards 12, James Gibbs 4, Steven Kerr 18, Jason Gaffee 34, Declan Grant 0, Max Murray 0, Keith Martin 0, Lachlan Martin 2, and Josh Green 0*. With extras at 12 (2 byes, 1 leg bye, 6 wides and 3 no balls) after 22.4 overs Kinglake were all out for 87.
Three of Holy Trinity’s four bowlers were on song with C. Gillet 6-0-15-2, M. Walters 6.4-1-7-4, J. Leone 5-0-35-0 and M. Snow 5-1-27-4.
Holy Trinity only took 16.3 overs to take the game with the loss of two wickets. F. Ardis was caught by Jason Gaffe from the bowling of Tim Stonehouse for 27, while M. Parents was caught and bowled, also by Jason. M. Walters 34* and J. Frost 3* were the other batsmen used.
Bowling for Kinglake were James Gibbs 4-0-20-0, Declan Grant 4-0-11-0, Jason Gaffee 4-0-11-1, Max Murray 2-0-17-0, Tim Stonehouse 2-0-13-1 and Josh Green 0.3-0-14-0.
Kinglake starts a two-day game at home against Strathewen’s 2nd XI next weekend for round 7.
– Bruce Stonehouse