Come the big day. Northern District were minor premiers and had beaten us during the season, putting us into second place. We batted first with a rain delayed start but ending the day at 8/190. Not very promising but at least Lachie was still in and Craw knew how to hang around and hit the loose ball. The partnership flourished until Craw succumbed for 46 leaving Jake to hang in there with Lachie. Jake did this for a valuable 2, but was stranded there as Lachie was dismissed for 144. The score was exactly 300, but was it enough as ND had a strong batting lineup.

Day 2 ended with ND being 4/120, Jake having two of the wickets and adding another immediately the next day; 5/131 so game on. I will leave first grade temporarily because we mustn’t forget the seconds, who played yesterday.

Their 50 over final was against Sutherland and at the end of our allotted 50 overs the score Was 9/217 – Ash Doolan 49 and Hugo Farquharson 45 – not a big total. Sutherland started reasonably, but at 2/115 they lost 3 for 3 to put us back in the game. Then a partnership off put them back in contention, but they ran out of steam at 9/212. A win is a win, if only buS runs. Second grade can now boast of winning 6 premierships.
Back to Bankstown Ova where NDs is digging in. There doesn’t seem to be an effort to wind and? wil give them the premiership. As an example, leyden Park bowled 51 overs orSSio and ? wickets After another 60 odd runs, another wicket, with runs coming slowly and id wicket here and there. With the score at 9/279 and about 5 overs to go till stumps, the in form batsman tries to keep the strike and fails, so it’s all over. Premiers.