After a bye last week, the Proserpine Pitbulls’ Under 11 side hosted their first ever home game against the Sarina Spartans.
Captain Laura’s bat flip went to the Spartans, and the Pitbull pups were sent in to bat.
Bradley (4) and Sean (3) led the way with some great shots, unfortunately picking out the fielders before Aiden (9) followed up with some quick running between the wickets.
Aiden’s brother Jaxson (9) came in and 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, with 8/72 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 got a spectacular direct hit for a runout. Sean 0/12 off 1) found the middle of the batter’s 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 pipping the Proserpine side by five runs, with the team closing in on their first ever wind.
Player of the day went to Captain Laura.
Contributed with thanks to Michael Hope
Proserpine’s junior cricketers played in an exceptionally close match against the Sarina Spartans on the weekend
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