Gisborne District Cricket Association
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Woodend survives tough encounter
Woodend’s McIntyre Cup 1sts team had to pull out all stops to score an important victory against finals contender Sunbury United on Saturday. The tenth round GDCA match of the day ebbed and flowed with the Woodsmen enhancing their prospects of playing finals. Woodend head coach Josh Eastley said it was a good team performance…
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Country Week action for GDCA juniors
Last week saw Gisborne District Cricket Association’s junior players participating in country week cricket. Eight teams of both girls and boys played from Under 12s to Under 15s playing against teams from the Barwon, Central Highlands and Northern Rivers regions. One of the highlights of the week was the Under 14 girls teams who played…
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Browne blazes 106 n.o.
Barbados has produced some great cricketers over generations, and Alex Browne lived up to his reputation as a big hitter with a blistering match-winning century for Macedon on Saturday. Browne slammed an unbeaten 106 runs from 51 deliveries in the Twenty/20 McIntyre Cup 1sts fixture against Broadford. His innings, which included 12 fours and two…
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Clash of the season
Before the current McIntyre 1sts cricket season began, few could predict the Woodend versus Gisborne match could be labelled as ‘Clash of the Season’. Gisborne opening batter Riley Vernon hit up a match-winning 167 for the Dragons on Saturday, and Woodend captain Marcus Stewart scored 121 to ensure his side comfortably accounted for Romsey to…
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First defeat for Romsey
Romsey’s unbeaten run in McIntyre Cup 1sts this season came to a halt on Saturday, being bowled out for 201 by giant killers Rupertswood. So far this season Rupertswood has showed tremendous tenacity to defeat reigning premiers Gisborne and now last season’s runners-up. In the first two-day fixture this season, the Redbacks must have been…
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Rupo upsets Gisborne
Rupertswood displayed plenty of fighting spirit to defeat reigning premiers Gisborne by 12 runs in a dramatic fourth round McIntyre Cup 1sts one-day match on Saturday. It rates as a major upset, as Rupo was well beaten at Woodend the previous Saturday, and captain Matt Twentyman was forced to retire hurt on 40 with a…
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Fortunes ebb and flow
A largely absorbing third round of McIntyre Cup 1sts cricket on Saturday afternoon saw fortunes ebb and flow across all four matches. Reigning premier Gisborne struck trouble with a Fox, namely paceman Stephen, who took five of the first six wickets to fall for Sunbury Kangaroos, and it was vice-captain Leigh Brennan who largely put…
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Romsey on the last ball
A brilliant unbeaten 130 runs for the fifth wicket between skipper Ben Way and battle-hardened Matt Burkett enabled Romsey to topple Sunbury United on the very last ball delivered on Saturday. Burkett pulverised a drive through cover point for a boundary to give the Redbacks their second successive McIntyre Cup win on the last ball…
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Welsh paceman ready to fire
With a week to acclimatise, Welsh speedster Joe Monk was all ready to play his debut match with Woodend Cricket Club on Saturday … but the adverse weather intervened. The 27-year-old Monk and partner Ashlyn are already excited about spending the next year ‘Down Under’ — it’s something of a working holiday with priority being…
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Romsey by one run!
There was plenty of excitement at Sankey Reserve on Saturday, as Gisborne fell agonisingly short of overtaking Romsey’s first innings score in a dramatic last over. The Duckworth Lewis System of scoring was operated due to a rain interruption. Romsey’s Aaron Paterson bowled a sensational final over as the Redbacks scrambled home by one run.…
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First round in GDCA season
After all the excitement of the 2024 football season dies down, Gisborne District Cricket Association’s 2024-2025 season begins with a one-day round this Saturday. The powerful A-grade reigning premier, Gisborne, looms large once again as the side to beat in McIntyre Cup Firsts competition. One-day matches kick off the season, with quite a number of…
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Macedon’s West Indian import
A Barbados player whose father was the only West Indian test cricketer to be born in England arrives this week to play for Macedon. Excitement is building within Macedon Cricket Club, and among players and supporters, with Alex Browne expected to be a decided asset to the club on and off the field this season.…