North Nowra Cambewarra Blues U11 cricket team played the Ulladulla United Blues on the weekend at one of the world’s notorious blowfly hotspot. Nowra High School pitch 2. We were greeted with mild conditions, although the forecast hung over us with expectations of high thirty degree temperatures. Northies (short for our long team name) won the toss again, but this time, thankfully, Cameron Murray, our most decisive captain yet was ultra, ultra, ULTRA decisive and sent the Ulladulla team in to bat.

Super keen and ready to go, we opened our bowling attack with Micah Edwards taking the nice shiny red cherry and applying pressure, picking up a wicket in the 1st over. Then Jack Walsh took the ball. After a pair of initial settling deliveries, drew an outside edge that was caught by the keeper. Quite a sharp catch by Jack Sweet. The following delivery saw the stumps bowled down. Next delivery everyone erupted. H-A-T-R-I-C-K! The keeper had taken another great sharp catch. It was the Jack and Jack show. Jack Walsh, you are a star! A HATRICK! Jack Sweet went on to take 6 catches in his 15 overs as wicket keeper. Bro bags Troy Sweet also took consecutive wickets to be on a Hat-trick opportunity, but it was not to be. Alex Jelavic, Tully Dennis and Jacob Zerafa took two wickets each. Cameron bowled one of his famous “Cam Specials” to take a wicket. Harry Evans and Toby Huard bowled fiery overs keeping the lid on the scoring. Jack Sweet bowled a very good over with no luck. 5 runs were conceded as his hat magically fielded the ball. A hat trick of sorts!

In the batting department, everyone batted well enough to play for the Australian Cricket team. Jack Walsh almost hit the first 6, landing one only a metre from the boundary. A few more hours at the gym and he’ll land one in the scorers gazebo for sure. Tully Dennis caused a ruckus in the crowd by hitting consecutive boundaries. Harry Evans and Jacob Zerafa ran and scored well, Toby Huard scored the usual consistent bag of runs. Cameron came in for a cameo innings, running and backing up awesomely. Troy Sweet faced their speedster bowler for 3 overs, Micah Edwards scored runs, and our wonderful wiki, Jack Sweet scored runs as well.

What else is there to report on? Have I missed anything? Did I mention the filthy flies? Did I mention the word Hat-trick? Oh, stop yelling “the score!”, “THE SCORE!” It was a comprehensive win, 9/145 vs. 19/31 to North Nowra Cambewarra.