It happened for me just a week or two ago with my cricket team in here in Mackay, Pinnacle, when we won the 3rd grade competition. The night before, there was a huge crowd in the stand for the Party in the Park and the 1st Grade Final, and just a few less for us the next day at Great Barrier Reef Arena. Well, let’s be honest, there was five, five people in the stand, and two of those were kids who wanted to go home.
It was a cracker of a game with Pinnacle Vs Souths, and we won with only 3 balls spare and no wickets left. For the non-cricket people, that means it was very close and we nearly lost.
Now normally with 3rd grade, we play on the “outer grounds” at Harrup Park, at Mirani High, at Magpies and a few other grounds, so for us to get a game at Great Barrier Reef Arena was pretty cool.
The win was great, the celebrations were good and went well into the night, and morning for some in my team, but there was another highlight for me.
My 12-year-old son loves his cricket. He takes a bat and ball to all my games so he can smash it around the spare grounds at Harrup Park. Our final on the Sunday was the final game of cricket for the 22-23 season in Mackay, and now GBRA gets tweaked into an AFL set up, so the pristine cricket pitch that was used for 1st and 3rd grade finals had done its job for the year.
With no official cricket left, my boy and I went out to the middle and played some father son cricket together. A cricket ground that gets used for WBBL, international matches (Australia Vs India women’s), Sheffield Shield … and me and my son. It was a pretty cool thing to do after out grand final win on that beautiful ground, perfect lawn and centre wicket.
Scotty
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