Ballan Cricket Club

Under 11
Ballan White 9/44 lost Mt Clear 4/84
Ballan Blues 12/49 v NSCC 6/71

Under 15 (Round 5 Day 1)
Ballan 121 lost Mt Clear Blue 190
Batting – Sarah Burton 21, Jackson Letcher 11, Eamon Grigg 10 n.o, James Bayard 5 n.o
Bowling – Eddie Bayard 4/18 off 6 Overs, Sarah Burton 3/13 off 6 Overs, Jai Singh 1/6 off 3 Overs, Clover McIlwaine 1/21 off 7 Overs, Tyler Bruning 1/18 off 3 Overs

Beginning Day 2 bowling, the team were challenged to bowl the opposition out. With six wickets to get, the team got to work. Clover McIlwaine and Sarah Burton bowled the opening spell in tandem, keeping things very tidy and restricting the opposition’s scoring.

Eddie Bayard entered the attack bowling beautiful line and length targeting the stumps to pick up two quick wickets in his first over of the day before going on to get his career best figures of 4 for 18. Jai Singh was super economical, and Eamon Grigg continues to improve and gain confidence in his bowling only going for five runs off his three overs this week. The team were very happy to bowl Mt Clear out with three overs to spare and only allow them to add 68 runs to last week’s total.

When we resumed batting, the batters were encouraged to make use of their time at the crease, learn from Day 1 and implement what we had trained specifically for during the week. It was very pleasing to see our training pay off as we added close to 50 runs to our total.

Under 17 (Day 1)
Brown Hill/Ballan 139 Creswick 1/14

First XI (BCA 2nd Grade)
Ballan 79 defeated by East Ballarat 8/82
Batting – J Jarvis 22, M Kennedy 14
Bowling – K Heafield 8-1-28-3, L Snaith 6.3-1-17-2, R Lister 3-0-3-2

Second XI (BCA 5th Grade)
Ballan 8/220 defeated by Ballarat Redan 8/221
Batting – P Singh 60, J Singh 35, M Phillips 28
Bowling – A McIlwaine 4-1-10-1, J Wernicke 4-1-14-1, P Singh 5.4-1-28-1, D Leach 7-2-30-1, M Vallance 4-1-21-1, M Burton 2-0-11-1, M Shugg 3-0-24-1, A Britt 3-0-30-1