Green Shield vs UNSW - 2011/12

We knew it was a good day for Gordon when captain Lachlan Borg decided to win the toss and chose to bat on a good batting wicket.

Chris Spratt and Connor Jackson were both full of confidence from their recent innings and started positively. However Chris was soon dismissed for 8 by a good caught and bowled.

Lachlan Borg during his century.

This bought Jack Colley to the crease and was quickly entertained by some serious sledging that was being aimed at Connor after numerous decent deliveries. Not long after Connor went for 16 after a ball snuck through the gates. At this stage Uni NSW thought they were home when a bowler came to the middle at number four. However the bowler Lachlan Borg had other ideas and stuck his head down which turned out to be a classy captains knock.

Colley and Borg put on a good partnership until Jack went for 54 to a crap shot. Borgy and Max then batted superbly, with lots of quick running and hard hitting. Max then went for 35. Good support was given with all batsmen and resulted in Lachlan Borg bringing up his century in the last over which will be a strong memory for the bowler for many years to come. Lachlan Borg did tell me before his innings that he had a dream the night before that he made a hundred.

Gordon then came out to bowl trying to defend the score of 248 and looked dangerous however luck didn’t go our way and found ourselves at tea with the score at 0-100 after 20 overs. After tea the Gordon came out with a strict game plan to bowl to field and slow the runs. This plan worked efficiently and wickets fell as the runs slowed. With us running out of bowlers injured Lachlan thought he would come on to be captain courageous in which turned out to be a match winning spell taking the prize wicket.

Harry Middlebrook, Lachlan Borg and Rohan Siva in action against UNSW

Uni NSW then found them selves at 8-213 needing 5 runs an over to take victory. A run out then saw them at 9-220 this was after Jack Colley got bombed for a 6 over mid off. Harry then came on (the man with the red mullet) got the last wicket.

An excellent win for the boys.

Jack Colley