BOIDC Round 5: Centuries, 6 fors and an outright

A fortnight is a long time in this BOIDC season. This time two weeks ago Bathurst City and Rugby Union were in first and second position respectively. A fortnight later they have dropped to 5th and 6th, such is the closeness of this season’s competition.

At Bathurst Sportsground, Orange City declared at their overnight scored of 7-269. After losing opener, Trent Fitzpatrick with 21 runs on the board, Hugh Taylor and Kobe Muir combined to take the score to 105 before Taylor was out for 78. Ed Morrish then removed Muir a short while later before Ruben Newton and Tanvir Singh added 101 to take the Rugby total to 210 before Lawson Hamling caught Singh off his own bowling for 47.

The momentum of the match started to swing in Orange City’s favour as Hamling and Morrish took 4 further wickets between then to have Rugby 8 wickets down and still 37 runs behind. Number 10 Aquinder Dhillon scored a quick 30 to get his team to within 6 runs of victory before Shaun Grenfell took the 2 remaining wickets to seal the win for Orange City.

Orange City 7d-269 (Harry Grindle 111 Shaun Grenfell 48 Harry McDonald 32 Ed Morrish 23; Hugh Taylor 3/21) def Rugby Union 264 (Hugh Taylor 78 Ruben Newton 69 Tanvir Singh 47 Aquinder Dhillon 30; Ed Morrish 4/60 Lawson Hamling 3/57 Shaun Grenfell 2/43) on first innings

At Loco Oval, City Colts resumed their first innings at 3-66 after Cavaliers had made 8-309 declared. Kurt Toole and Will Cross took Colts to 142 before Bailey Ferguson removed Cross to be the 4th wicket to fall. Ferguson and Kyle Buckley each picked up a further two wickets as Colts slid to 8-178 with the dismissal of Toole for a neat 100. Max Pearce cleaned up the remaining wickets to have Colts dismissed for 193 and wrap up first innings points. Cavaliers enforced the follow on in search of the outright win but Colts comfortably saw out the day to finish 1-134 in their second dig with Kurt Toole scoring more runs, out for 92 to finish the day.

Cavaliers 8(dec)-308 (John Warrington 75 Bailey Ferguson 51 Cameron Laird 51 Kyle Buckley 26 Jack Conolly 23* Max Powell 22; David Rogerson 5/98 Will Cross 2/60) def City Colts 193 (Kurt Toole 100 Will Cross 34 Russell Gardner 22; Bailey Ferguson 3/53 Kyle Buckley 3/60 Max Pearce 2/3) & 1-134 (Kurt Toole 92 Connor Brown 38*) on first innings

At Bloomfield Oval, Bathurst City added 30 runs to their overnight score before they were bowled out for 109. With a 70 run lead, Orange CYMS looked for quick runs to set themselves up for the change of an outright result and made 7-165 from 22 overs before declaring their second innings closed with a lead of 235. With plenty of time left in the match, a regular procession of Bathurst City wickets put the outright result firmly in CYMS sights; Rory Daburger picking up 6 wickets to help his side to maximum points.

Orange CYMS 179 (Hamish Smith 26 Tom Belmonte 25 Rory Daburger 25 Aditya Adey 22; Haydn Edwards 5/38 Blake Kreuzberger 4/40) & 7(dec)-165 (Harry Dyer 50 Lachlan Wykes 43 Tom Belmonte 38; Blake Kreuzberger 3/58 Cohen Schubert 2/34 Liam Cain 2/39) def Bathurst City 109 (Cohen Schubert 33 Jed Cruickshank 28; Greg Donaldson 4/25 Harry Dyer 3/33) & 112 (Jed Cruickshank 36 Blake Kreuzberger 21; Rory Daburger 6/21 Harry Dyer 2/33) outright by 123 runs

At Jack Brabham 1, after resuming at 1-9, Centrals gave themselves a sniff with St Pats at 3-95 but a 91 run partnership between Lachlan Roach and Connor Slattery saw the Saints to first innings points, before they eventually declared at 6-234. Batting for the second time, Centrals finished at 5-74 when time was called.

St Pats Old Boys 6(dec)-234 (Lachlan Roach 94 Connor Slattery 49 Lachlan Barnsley 26; Awais Qadri 3/55) def Centrals 177 (Graeme Judge 58 Satveer Gill 29 Bilal Qadri 26 Neil Brydon 22; Guy Hammond 6/60 Jay Webber 2/30 Connor Slattery 2/37) and 5-74 (Ben Parsons 3/27 Guy Hammond 2/5) on first innings