We played Palm Beach/Currumbin at Mallawa Road. Ian Coyne was in charge and won the toss and batted.
Our best opening partnership of the season between Coyne and Graham Reynolds put on 41 before a good piece of fielding saw Coyne run out. We put together a score of 140 which was pretty good given difficult batting conditions. The wind was quite severe and caused the ball to dip a lot so all in all the team was happy with the score. Main contributors were Les Daley (who had been moved down from opener) and obviously enjoyed facing the older ball with a fine 36, Darren Williams in his first game of the season 26, Graham 26 and Coyne 21.
Opening bowlers Rory and Amit did a great job with Rory bowling out his 7 overs to finish with 3/29. We were very much in the ascendancy at the 17 over break with Palmie 5/69. A good fight back from them saw them get back into the game. Bowling the last few overs were Darren Williams and after one wayward over fought back with some very tight bowling and Coyne. At the start of the last over Palmie needed 8 runs to win and we needed 1 wicket. Success with the 2nd ball with a great catch by Amit. Actually any catch that Amit takes is great and he took 2. Bowling figures were Darren 2/29, Amit 1/17, Jim Griffin 1/20, Priyal 2/17and Coyne 1/21.
Great win by 5th Grade Orange.
