A wonderful day of veterans’ cricket was held at Wauchope between Mid North Coast Over 60s and Commercial Banking Company Oldboys on Sunday November 4.
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Alex Rullis(MNC) opened the CBC innings with David Ziehlke. A direct hit from Mike Bulmer ending the innings of the CBC danger-man, Ziehlke .
The MNC opening attack of Steve Cass and Bruce Wilson commanded respect, as Rullis found out, as he too adventurously played to an accurate in-swinger from Wilson, which toppled his castle.
Steve Allan started playing his shots, and his innings was most attractive and entertaining. Steve retired at 35 to much applause.
CBC recruits for the day, Paul Price (24) John Corcoran (27) kept the scoreboard ticking along, and at drinks, the CBC were 6/82.
After the break, Greg Kohler adopted an aggressive approach early, with a six from his first ball faced. Corcoran also joined in with a lovely six over the deep mid-wicket. After the departure of Corcoran and Kohler, Kev Pike (11*) played a cameo, and the innings ended at 9/158 with all to play for after lunch.
Corcoran and Brett opened the bowling for CBC with Warren McWilliams and Steve Cass facing the music. Much to Mama Cass’s dismay’, a quick single and an ungrounded bat found him short with a direct hit from side-on by Pike.
Dave Relf (17) looked comfortable until he lost his footing and was also run out. Two quick wickets and CBC were well in the match.
The McWilliams innings continued with runs accumulating with shots all around the ground. Again he showed his consistency and retired on 35. At the break the MNC were travelling well at 3/83, just one run ahead.
After the break, the CBC captain, Tony Adnum, was fielding like a demon and, then brought the quick Ziehlke and offie, Steve Allan on to bowl. Both bowled extremely accurately to bring the scoring rate back on level terms.
Alex Rullis started to carve up the MNC Team taking 3 well earned wickets. At the other end, Kev Pike was bowling his doobie-dobblers accurately and after 5 overs had conceded only 11 runs.
With two overs to go MNC needed 11 runs to win. With Corcoran steaming in, MNC were still in good batting- hands with stalwarts Dave Wilson and Jeff Perkins at the crease and both finding quick form. The MNC boys scored eight runs in the penultimate over leaving 3 to win and one over to go.
Pike sneakily bowled the first ball down leg side, then Perkins in quite masterly fashion went bang, bang – smashing his Association secretary about, and the match was over, with a close and exciting contest enjoyed by everyone. MNC winning score was 6/160 with 4 balls to spare.
