Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Weston Creek, Cricket Clubinnings and 5-3 in the second. John took 3-15 and 4-2. Itwas our only outright win of the season, although we cameclose on a number of other occasions. We hadn't battedparticularly well - all out 108 of which I'd made 43 andsundries was the next highest at 17 and I thought we'd have tobowl well to capture the 1st innings points. City made 57 andRoger Lonie, Dave Brown and Phil knocked up a quick 58before I declared. City commenced their second innings at5.20pm and were all out for 10 at 6.20pm. I don't know whatthe record lowest score is for any side but I certainly havenever seen a lower score.Another first for the team was the inaugural century scored bya senior player. I talked my mate,Ernie Glass, into playing forus in an early season game against Queanbeyan, once again,at Waramanga Oval. Roger and I made a strong startalthough we were both having difficulties scoring anythingabove singles because of the long grass typical of earlysummer in Canberra. I was umpiring when Ernie came in.He square cut the first ball and scrambled a single. His nextseven scoring shots were singles and he finally turned to meand said, "Is it always like this?" I confirmed his suspicionsand he then proceeded to hit every ball hard and high. Hewas dropped six times and scored 102. In the same gamePhil took 7 for 32.Every side, no matter how talented, needs luck if they are towin a premiership. In the final we played Ginninderra atCampbell and we posted a very modest total of 128. Mostbatsmen made a start, except for Ian Arthur and myself whodidn't trouble the scorers, but no one was able to go on withit. Although the total wasn't large, we were still fairlyconfident because we felt, with our bowling strength, wecould bowl them out. Ian Arthur gave us the expected earlybreakthrough but it rained overnight and the next day, we hadto contend with a wet ball that got lower and lower. They put38