Inverloch crushed by Workmens
INVERLOCH suffered a crushing defeat in the A Grade Division One grand final over the weekend being completely outclassed by the mighty Wonthaggi Workmen’s Cricket Club.
In fact if you’d slept in on Sunday morning expecting to get to the cricket at lunchtime to watch the finale you would have probably missed the end of the match.
Such was the domination of Club it dispatched the Inverloch bats on Sunday for a poultry 38 with the top score being Will Rankin’s 8 followed by Ben Thomas’s 7 and “extras” and Lewis Rankin 6.
On Saturday Club won the toss and elected to bat first hitting a pretty handy total of 197.
Early bowling by Inverloch was tight with David Britt out for 12 and the other opener Sam Huitema run out for 25.
Mitchell Thomas stuck around for the second top score of 32.
But a middle order slump saw Club slump to 6/103 and it was Inverloch with its heads up.
Captain James Sherrin dug in and top scored with 34 and Ryan Birkett made 30 to bring the score up to a respectable total.
Inverloch’s bowlers toiled well and several took two wickets apiece, Kit Rotthier 2/37, Dave Newman 2/36 and Ben Thomas 2/40.
Inverloch would have gone home after day one thinking the match could be won.
But no-one would have expected the match to end the way it did.
Opener Walter Taberner was gone caught for a duck with the score on one, then Brett Debono also fell for a duck; Inverloch 2/2.
And so it went on, scores of 3, 2, 0, 8, 6, 6, 4, 0, and 7 saw a sorry end to Inverloch’s season.
Zane Macdermid was rightly named man of the match with his magnificent 5/9 tearing the heart out of Inverloch’s bats.
Details
WON CLUB d INVERLOCH
1st innings Won Club
D. Britt c. W. Taberner
b. R. Thomas 12
S. Huitema r.o. 25
M. Thomas c. W. Taberner
b. K. Rotthier 32
R. Thomas b. D. Newman 7
K. Brann lbw.
b. L. Rankin 5
J. Wallace c. T. McQualter
b. K. Rotthier 14
J. Sheerin c. W. Rankin
b. D. Newman 34
M. McCall b. B. Thomas 18
R. Birkett b. B. Thomas 30
J. Thomas c. R. Thomas
b. T. McQualter 2
Z. Macdermid n.o. 12
Extras 6
Total 197
Bowling: L. Rankin 1/41, K. Rotthier 2/37, R. Thomas 1/10, T. McQualter 1/28, D. Newman 2/36, B. Thomas 2/40.
1st innings Inverloch
W. Taberner c. S. Huitema
b. R. Thomas 0
B. Debono b. R. Birkett 0
D. Newman b. J. Thomas 3
K. Rotthier c. R. Thomas
b. Z. Macdermid 2
T. McQualter b. Z. Macdermid 0
W. Rankin c. R. Thomas
b. Z. Macdermid 8
L. Rankin c. D. Britt
b. M. McCall 6
W. Williams c. D. Britt
b. Z. Macdermid 4
E. Cousins b. Z. Macdermid 0
B. Thomas c. J. Thomas
b. M. McCall 7
R. Thomas n.o. 2
Extras 6
Total 38
Bowling: R. Thomas 1/4, R. Birkett 1/3, Z. Macdermid 5/9, J. Thomas 1/9, M. McCall 2/10.
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