Cricket

Stalwarts urge club to seize opportunity

By Matt Murnane • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Behind-the-scenes Warrion cricket stalwarts have urged the club’s Division One team to seize the opportunity it has fought so hard to earn. The Panthers will finally break their finals drought tomorrow after spending eight seasons re-building a club that was once Colac district cricket’s most powerful force. Excitement at [...]



IT’S JUST NOT FAIR – Captains back push for weather change

By Matt Murnane • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Division One’s key figures have thrown their weight behind a push to change Colac district cricket’s time-honoured bad weather policy. Four top-grade captains this week voiced their support for Rob Oborne’s challenge to Colac District Cricket Association to bring its bad weather policy into line with international cricket.  Oborne, Colac [...]



Skipper rejects turf wicket talk

By The Colac Herald • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Apollo Bay captain Jake Gillam has rejected suggestions his team’s lack of turf-wicket preparation could come back to haunt the Sharks this weekend. Underdog Bay travels to Warrion Recreation Reserve this week having missed out on a valuable final-round turf wicket hit-out against Colac last week. [...]



Energy in field Alvie’s secret

By The Colac Herald • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Alvie captain Michael Groves hopes the energy his band of young guns generates in the field will be the driving force behind the club’s title defence during the next fortnight. Groves said the ability of his players to take half-chances and their willingness to throw themselves on the ground to save [...]



Colac club stalwart calls for new policy

By Matt Murnane • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Colac stalwart Rob Oborne says it is time for Colac District Cricket Association to change its out-dated bad weather policy. Oborne said association officials had no choice but to address its rules relating to weather-affected games amid the fallout from two turf-wicket Division One washouts and a [...]



Irrewarra skipper endorses Stoneyford

By Brett Worthington • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Irrewarra captain Kane Quickensted has endorsed Stoneyford as the force to watch in Colac district cricket’s Division One finals. Quickensted signalled in-form players Levi Dare and Grant Brauer as the key to Stoneyford’s potential finals success. “Stoneyford are a pretty professional unit that are committed to the cause,” he said. [...]



Weather helps Birregurra, again

By Matt Murnane • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Wet weather has again assisted Birregurra’s progression deeper into the Division Two finals. As was the case in last season’s semi-finals, Mother Nature smiled on Birregurra at the weekend, helping the club outlast Colac in the third-versus-sixth cut-throat qualifying final. In the only rain-affected [...]



Wet wicket ends City’s finals hopes

By Matt Murnane • Mar 9th, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Rain has washed away City United’s Division One premiership hopes for the second time in two seasons. It was a case of déjà vu for finals hopeful City, which went into Saturday’s final round needing to upset Warrion to give itself a chance of sneaking into next [...]



Colac club stalwart calls for new policy

By Matt Murnane • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Cricket, Sport

Colac stalwart Rob Oborne says it is time for Colac District Cricket Association to change its out-dated bad weather policy. Oborne said association officials had no choice but to address its rules relating to weather-affected games amid the fallout from two turf-wicket Division One washouts and a rain- [...]



Colac’s Bushranger shifts again

By Matt Murnane • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Cricket

Colac cricketer Aaron Finch will shift back into Sheffield Shield mode today as a weary Victoria sets itself for another ride on its rollercoaster summer. Finch has been shifting between four-day, one-day and Twenty20 cricket for the past two months but will finally settle into the game’s longer form for the remainder of [...]