 Green Shield has close loss to strong Fairfield team at Rosedale
Gordon’s 3rd round fixture against Fairfield- Liverpool started well with skipper Lachie Borg winning his first toss of the season and electing to send Fairfield-Liverpool into bat with ominous weather looming, knowing it would play a big part in the match. Gordon’s first innings started very well with opening bowlers Rohan and Sean restricting the opposition to 1/20 after 8 and a bit overs before a lengthy rain delay of several hours halted the match.
After the rain had finally cleared, the match was reduced to a 36 over match. Gordon continued their good start with the ball with all the fast bowlers (Rohan, Harry, Will Sean, Lachie and James) bowling in good partnerships and keeping Fairfield- Liverpool’s run rate to about 3 an over along with picking up several key wickets however they were unlucky not to take more wickets before the tea break.
Fairfield-Liverpool resumed at 3/92 after 28 overs and they looked to score quickly to post a decent target expertly using local knowledge to work the ball into the gaps and run hard and challenge the fieldsman’s throw, putting pressure on the fielding side. This resulted in Fairfield- Liverpool reaching 8/139 after their 36 overs. A bit more than we would’ve like to be chasing but still an easily reachable total given our batting line up.
Our batting innings started well with Saahil and Spratty setting a good platform for our run chase going just under 3 an over for the first 10 overs. However after the dismissal of Jack, who had been looking good at the crease, and with the absence of Connor we struggled through the next block of 10 overs on the back of some good bowling and fielding from the opposition.
This left a lot of work left for our middle and lower order, although it was nothing we couldn’t handle. Good contributions from James, Lachie, Harry and Max towards the end of our innings saw that we were still in the match only needing 6-7 runs an over. Unfortunately with such a big ground our approach of trying to hit boundaries meant our target was not achieved and we fell an agonising 9 runs short of the target we were set, finishing with 9/130 after 36 overs.
Scores
Fairfield 8 for 139 (Sean Campbell 3 for 22, Rohan Silva 1 for 20, James Partridge 1 for 17, Lachie Mactier 1 for 35 defeated Gordon 8 for 131 (Chris Spratt 26, Harrison Middlebrook 26)
Report by Lachie Mactier
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