WANT to spice up your game? It's quite simple, just post some spiteful comments on Facebook. In the lead-up to the 2009-10 season, a Warrnambool and District Cricket Association (WDCA) player used the social networking site to broadcast that Wesley CBC's division one line-up didn't look too flash. As expected, the Two Blues found out about the remark, which wasn't the only negative one about them floating around on Facebook. They used the comments as motivation. Their coach printed them then read them to his players at the start of the season. The side responded to the situation out on the field on Saturday, smashing 7-354 against the more-fancied Nestles. Obviously someone from The Factory underestimated Wesley's line-up. Perhaps they should find that wall post they wrote and click delete.
WHEN your farm is less than a minute from the cricket ground in the one-tonner, the temptation is irresistible. With a late-calving cow, a Panmure Bulldogs cricketer Wayne Wickenton rushed home between innings after his side restricted Killarney to 6-181. Relying on the top order to give him enough time for some odd jobs, he was soon heading back to the ground after the Bulldogs slumped to 6-69. Responding to a mobile phone text from captain Simon Bourke, Wickenton padded up and produced a matchwinning 62 to lift his side to a one-wicket victory. After featuring in lower-order partnerships with Daniel Meade (23) and Nathan Shand (34) there was no time for Wickenton to bask in personal glory, as he had to leave the ground in a cloud of dust to milk the cows.
WDCA players need to virtually keep their mouths zipped this season. Players from across the divisions have reported that umpires are cracking down on sledging and even comments which seem harmless. A player in division two who called out "we've nearly got him" was told to hush and in division one, chatter about a bowler's moustache also drew a complaint. "We don't want any inappropriate sledging or bad language or inappropriate behaviour," association president Robert Haberfield said. "It's no different to any other year."
AFTER months of planning, females will embrace Twenty20 in Warrnambool for the first-time ever. Warrnambool and Hamilton have organised a girls-only Twenty20 game against each other on November 7, which will be a curtain-raiser for a women's Premier Firsts match the following day. As part of country round, Essendon Maribyrnong Park and Box Hill will take to Warrnambool's Walter Oval. Organisers of the weekend hope the matches will give female cricket a boost and that it will help with their ambitions to introduce a girls' cricket competition in south-west.
IT was the game within a game. After big-hitting Mailors Flat middle order batsman Rob Bleumink smashed six of the best - sixes that is - in a score of 68, Panmure Pups No.3 Simon Schrama put six balls over the fence in his innings of 65. The Jets narrowly won the most important contest, for premiership points, last Saturday at Winslow. The Bleumink-Schrama batting rivalry has just begun.
POMBORNEIT could complain to South West Cricket officials about Terang's fielding methods during Saturday's match at Terang. The host had an extra player in the field at the start of the round three encounter. Greg Abbott's dog, Rock, was eager to help out the home side but obviously wanted to do his own thing rather than set the field correctly. He hovered around Ross Parker. The Terang bowler did not want the dog to steal his thunder, effectively shooing him away. It's lucky he did or Rock could have disrupted the two catches Parker took in Terang's win over the two-time reigning premier.
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