North Nowra Cambewarra U11 Blues boys took on the glittery Ulladulla Gold team at Nowra High School last weekend. Nobody mention those darn flies please! We lost the toss… AGAIN! All that practicing last week and we still can’t get it right! We’ll find our Mojo soon. Anyway, we batted first at the request of the Ulladulla Golds’ Captain.

Alexander Jelavic and Micah Edwards strode out confidently and started out well for the batting side. The Sweet boys, Jack and Troy then batted together. Definitely a scorer’s nightmare. Even their own dad couldn’t tell them apart, nor could their mother who is never ever, ever wrong! What chance do their future girlfriends have?! Harry Evans and Jack Walsh proceeded to pile runs onto our total. Jack Walsh drew the lucky straw and batted an extra four overs and continued with Toby Huard. The little master blaster himself came in and smashed a delivery over the boundary for the first six of the season. A memorable shot Toby! Jacob Zerafa and Liam Gomez continued the team’s good scoring and the final batters Cameron Murray and Tully Dennis rounded the innings off in style, both with good batting contributions. 9/149 was our innings total.

The Ulladulla Golds put up a gallant effort. We were only able to take 8 wickets from them compared with 21 the week before. However, they were unable to make inroads towards our total, Without mentioning every single bowler, the team bowled accurately giving away far less extras than in previous weeks. Our fielding was good. Without blowing too much wind up our own selves (can I say that?) there was a dozen or more catches landing just out our reach. A number of side-on run-out chances went begging which could potentially have resulted in us taking heaps wickets. But if this is what unlucky is like, we’re happy with unlucky! I should mention Tully Dennis took a number of excellent catches. It was “All happening” (to quote Bill Lawry) at one point where the umpire rushed to avoid the ball and ended up diving over a converging player, Jack Walsh. During these shenanigans, Troy Sweet was able to scamper in and take a catch at the very point the umpire had just dived from. It’s all part of the free entertainment!

Did we mention the Ulladulla Golds’ score? 8/56. OK, so there we have it. First six of the season, first umpire acrobatics in history of U11 cricket and a win for North Nowra Cambewarra Blues.