There were some close competitions in Saturday afternoon’s cricket, in Round Four of Forbes District Cricket Association. <\/p>\n
Three action-packed matches played out on Saturday afternoon, but there were a couple of forfeits due to busy times on farm for players. <\/p>\n
Hard fought wins to Kiacatoo, Parkes Raptors and VCR Globe Hotel, with Forbes Inn Magpies and Cambridge Cats gaining wins due to forfeits. <\/p>\n
Great efforts from players around the grounds, including:<\/p>\n
Kiacatoo defeat Vandenberg Warriors<\/p>\n
Kiacatoo headed out to bat first and saw out their 30 overs at 9\/161,<\/p>\n
Top-scoring was G. Smith with 51, with Z. Grimmond making 35 and A. Limbad 33.<\/p>\n
The Warriors, P Hurford (4\/32 off five) and J Little (4\/43 off six) took four wickets apiece to contain them, J Ellison also claiming 1\/20 off six, but in the end the Warriors couldn’t quite chase down the required runs. <\/p>\n
H Hodges batted 65, J Smith added 27 and J Little 21 as the Warriors made 8\/151 off their 30 overs. <\/p>\n
J. Doyle produced a tight bowling spell claiming 4\/20 off five for Kiakatoo.<\/p>\n
R. Smith claimed 2\/13 (4.0) and G. Johnson 1\/28 (5.0).<\/p>\n
At Parkes’ Woodward Oval, Parkes Raptors defeated Forbes Battapi.<\/p>\n
The Raptors were 3\/146 after their 30 overs, S Guess making 21, J Paton scoring 74 not out and R Dunn also not out on 29 at the end of the innings. <\/p>\n
Harry Leadbitter was in fine bowling form claiming 2\/18 off his six overs, and J. Cole took 1\/37 off five.<\/p>\n
But the Battapi were just short in the run chase, all out for 135 in 28.6 overs.<\/p>\n
C. Mitton top scored with 57, H. Leadbitter added 33 and J. Cole 18 towards the total.<\/p>\n
The Raptors’ bowlers were too consistent: R. Dunn claimed 3\/25 (6.0), B. Parker 2\/15 (6.0) and J. Carty 2\/35 (6.0).<\/p>\n
VCR Globe Hotel were in the winner’s circle after their game against Trundle Ducks CC in a contest where the wickets tumbled.<\/p>\n
VCR Globe headed out with the bat first: S Bale (31), A Roy (30) and N Hessell (24) adding valuable runs before the Ducks had their team all out for 121 (29.1 overs).<\/p>\n
H. Jones did the damage taking 4\/9 off six, J. Fernando took 2\/27 (5.0) and V. Williams 2\/28 (6.0).<\/p>\n
But then it was the VCR Globe bowlers’ turn and they weren’t about to let Trundle amass too many runs either. <\/p>\n
T. Porter was 41*, J. Fernando 14 and T. Boden 9 as the Ducks were bundled out for 89 (26.2 overs).<\/p>\n
Three wickets apiece went to C. Batt 3\/11 (5.0) and M. Townsend 3\/18 (4.0), while J. Janetzki took. 2\/15 (4.0).<\/p>\n
With harvest picking up, there were a couple of forfeits for the round. <\/p>\n
Forbes Inn Magpies defeat Condobolin Boomerangs (forfeit) and Cambridge Cats defeat Bowlie Tigers (forfeit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were some close competitions in Saturday afternoon’s cricket, in Round Four of Forbes District Cricket Association. Three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-280052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}