Bill West
An explosive 96 not out from Kyneton allrounder Hayden Ingleton highlighted Gisborne District Cricket Association’s fifth round of one-day matches on Saturday.
Ingleton dominated play at Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve, slamming 12 fours and six sixes. He came to the crease with the Tigers on 3/102 after captain Tom Boyer 57 (nine fours) and Kyle Cordy 30 shared an opening stand of 90.
Ingleton took the long handle to the bowling, in his short stint at the wicket, and 40 overs expired with Kyneton having a formidable 4/241 c.c. on the board in the Johnstone Shield encounter.
The 24-year-old scored 84 of his 96 runs in boundaries. Not one six came from any other player in the match.
“I had a chance to get my maiden century but the overs ran out,” he ruefully said.
Gisborne faced a huge uphill task to be competitive, and the first three wickets to deadly accurate Ben Stokes ensured the home side struggled, eventually being out for 127 (Peter Nichols 28, Danny Prendergast 25) in 35.1 overs.
Stokes claimed 3-9 from eight overs and Ingleton 3-21 from nine – all clean bowled.
Ingleton played all his junior cricket at Kyneton and – apart from a couple of seasons at Macedon – is a Tiger through and through in both cricket and football.
Kyneton Cricket Club would like to play finals at the end of the season, but realises one big win can count for little unless consistency is maintained.
