 Green Shield Report vs St. George
The mighty Gordon Green shield boys travelled out to the marvellous Hurstville oval to face their first round opponents, St George. After our trial match dilemma the boys were determined to make amends. Dan Lake was certainly chirpy in the morning due to the fact that he had made his first grade debut (fielding only) the day before when Craig Simmons sustained an injury while bowling.
(Henry Carmichael in action last year)
We were doing our normal warm up routine, high catches, stump hitting, then the batsmen batted and the bowlers bowled, however after this rocket had a surprise for us. He called us over and told us about “the snake”. He said that we need to be careful when the ball was coming along the ground as it may zig zag like a snake along the ground. The boys expected this to me a minor thing however we were fascinated when the ball quite literally zig zagged the whole way to us. When we made a fielding error we claimed that we had been bitten by the snake.
 Henry “skip” Carmichael did the toss and we found out we were bowling. We knew that it would be tough seeing as the day before first grade waited 40 over’s before a wicket came however we were up for the challenge and took the field with gusto.
(Chad Soper in action for 4th grade this year)
Chad and Henry opened up the bowling and bowled quite well on a very flat deck. The bowlers did very well and tied down the batsmen at one end only letting him score 9 off 48 balls causing him to play a false shot and soon Dan had one scalp and St George were 1-54. The bowlers kept toiling away bowling very well and restricting the run rate to 3.5 runs per over. Dan Lake bowled exceptionally with great lines and great atactics.
Enter Justin Avendano into the attack and with immediate success. A top spinner collecting middle stump and soon St George were 2-93 at drinks. After drinks the bowlers kept toiling away with Henry coming back for a brilliant second spell collecting the two prised wickets with a superb caught and bowled and a brilliant in-swinging yorker on middle stump. Mark “nando” Anderson came into the attack and bowled some great lines and lengths. This caused a big shot into the deep where Michael was patrolling. It looked like a certain, one bounce 4 however not in mickies mind it wasn’t. He ran across the boundary leapt into the air and took a wonderful boundary catch to remove the man on 54. Brilliant pressure bowling causing a wicket.
 The St George boys then went back on the attack starting to hit balls to all corners of the ground and started to get the run rate back up however the Gordon bowlers took up the challenge and kept working hard for their team mates. Unfortunately it started to drizzle and gradually got harder. The umpire called on the covers and getting back on was looking ominous.
(Justin in action for Gordon)
The rain gradually stopped and the umpires told us 5 minutes until the re-commencement of play. We all got ready and as soon as we stepped foot outside the dressing rooms the rain came down again and unfortunately it did not stop causing the umpires to abandon the game.
A lot of positives came out of the game. Our fielding efforts were very good and I think the bowlers were exceptional on a flat track to restrict them to 213 after 54 overs.
Jono “chief” Wigham | 
