5th Grade vs Campbelltown-Camden - Round 11 - 2011/12

Gordon 5th grade headed out Raby 3 looking to keep their winning streak going. We lost the toss and were sent in on what looked to be an ok wicket. Corbs and Sahil started well both scoring freely and getting us off to a great start.

However, with the introduction of spin and some rain on the pitch, scoring became a lot harder.

The Ginger Ninga, Ben Armstrong, takes a bagfull of wickets for his side

A sticky wicket combined with poor shot selection led to a middle order collapse. Tom Carruthers (41), backing up from his 50 last week and the newly nicknamed Prem aka T. Cooper (please ask Tiddles for all clarification on this nickname) set about resurrecting the innings but in the end we struggled to a below par 154.

With the ball we started well but didn’t make as many in roads early as we would have liked. Ben Armstrong then came into the attack and took 3 wickets in his first over to put us back in the game. Ben has been Mr .consistent with his line and length all season and is a great asset to this bowling attack. At 6 for 130 odd the game looked over but as is the 5th grade way we kept persisting and some good catching combined with tight bowling from Matt Todd, Charlie Bangs and Prem saw the score reach 9/140 odd. Their number 11 came out swinging and it paid off with the Ghosts passing our total 9 down.

In the end we paid the price for not batting our 50 overs, it was bitter pill to swallow as our first loss of the season was inflicted but we will re-group and take on Bankstown in a two day game this weekend where we will look to take 1st spot back on the 5th grade table.

Dan Richtor