Honors even against Saints on Day One – Weekend Wrap 3 Oct 2020

The 1st Grade boys turned up to a picturesque Manly Oval with a lot of confidence after a big win against Mosman a week earlier, Skipper Jay Lenton won the toss and decided to have a stick first up on good looking cricket wicket.

Openers Ben Bryant and “Don’t call me Joel, Call me Fireball Foz” did a brilliant job seeing of the opening bowlers from the St George side which included a rather well known player called Trent Copeland. Unfortunately Foz was dismissed by 1st change bowler Moises Henriques. The boys were in a pretty good position at lunch with the score at 2/70. After the lunch break Ollie Davies continued his unbelievable run of form with a run a ball 91 unfortunately getting bowled as back to back centuries approached, The Skip also provided a great innings at the other end in support of Ollie. Jay copped a peach of a delivery from Copeland and was out for 31 just after tea. This brought Nappa and Faz to the crease with Nappa being very busy and faz powering the ball all over the field, these two out on just over 100 before Faz held out for a very well made 50, The lower order got a bit of a licence at he rear end of the day. Nappa finished on a classy 89 and the team making there way to a respectable 383.

A big day next week with a very strong St George batting lineup.

Go Manly

Jake Carden

The twos boys rocked up to a pictures Hurstville oval looking to continue the momentum from the previous week against Mosman.

Jamo’s track record last season in regards to winning tosses was horrific so if you think this year he had changed his ways you are absolutely incorrect, sent into bowl on the hardest cricket surface possibly ever

Jamo and Seward opened the bowling with early energy and after a seed from Jamo, our spirits were high but cricket had other plans.

We soon found out that this would be a brutal day in the dirt. Wiggers bowled extremely well and grabbed three wickets throughout the innings, also well supported by Joel Davies, Tom Kay and issi. A well compiled innings by the opposition opener made things tough however, after initially thinking we may be chasing 500+, we did extremely well to pin them back to 395, a menacing total however a very chaseable one on this outfield and short boundaries.

Brewster and Weston batted superbly for the last six overs of the day finishing on 0/28.

A big chase next week for the boys but there is great confidence in our strong batting line up.

Joel Davies