Proserpine Junior Cricket Match Report 29th Oct 2022

Under 11s Match Report 22/10/22 – Proserpine Pitbulls vs Sarina Spartans

Written by Michael Hope

After a bye last week, the under 11s hosted their first ever home game against the Sarina Spartans.

Captain Laura’s bay flip went to the Spartans, and the Pitbull pups were sent into bat.

Bradley (4) and Sean (3) led the way with some great shots, unfortunately picking out the fielders, Aiden (9) followed up with some quick running between the wickets, and when his brother Jaxson (9) came in they kept the scoreboard ticking over nicely. Laura (7) was hitting the ball as clean as can be and teamed up well with Ellen(5) who played some excellent shots!
Tyrone (5) came out swinging and Zahra(5) was excellent with her calling and running between the wickets. Kobi (5) came in last to face the remaining deliveries and played a couple of great pull shots.
8/72 was the scenario at the end of the first innings.

A quick slushy break and the pups were back out to defend their total.

Bradley (1/8 off 3) was very accurate, and also got a spectacular direct hit for a runout. Sean 0/12 off 1) found the middle of the batters bat, and decided to give wicket keeping a go, to which he did some great stops and got a caught behind. Aiden (1/12 off 2) got a beauty on line to take out middle stump. Jaxson (0/9 off 2) came close a couple of times, but missed out on a wicket. Zahra (0/8 off 2) bowled excellently. Laura (2/6 off 3) bamboozled the batters with her 2 step run up taking out the stumps twice.
Kobi (1/8 off 3) was accurate, with some great change of pace. Ellen (1/8 off 2) bowled an unplayable delivery! Tyrone (2/6 off 2) bowled a couple of beauties to take out the stumps.
Despite having an excellent bowling and fielding effort the Pitbull pups were unable to restrict the Spartans ending up with 11/77 got us by 5 runs!
Getting closer to that first win.

Player of the day went to Captain Laura.