Cricket

  • District’s batsmen face Test paceman

    Colac District’s batsmen were fighting to keep their bodies intact and their Country Week title hopes alive facing a former Sri Lankan Test fast bowler yesterday.

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  • Country Week skipper backs Alvie young gun

    Leighton Hart has backed Alvie young gun Liam McGuane to be a leader of future Colac District Country Week teams.

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  • The blueprint for success

    Colac District vice-captain Mark Kent is steadfast behind his Country Week blueprint: make 200-plus runs every day, execute with the ball and hold your nerve in the field.

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  • Stakes high for one-dayers

    Another frustrating weekend washout is likely to turn Division One’s round 13 into 50-over one-day games this weekend.

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  • Pomborneit recovering from inferno

    A redevelopment of Pomborneit’s cricket ground is almost complete, two years after a Black Saturday bushfire tore through the area west of Colac.

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  • Spinner up to the challenge

    Lone spinner Matt Beckett says bowling on familiar turf wickets in Melbourne will help him perform his trademark middle-innings shutdown role at Country Week.

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  • Daring clearance sparks confusion

    Confusion about the legitimacy of Levi Dare’s clearance back to Stoneyford has raged throughout Colac district cricket circles this week.

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  • Rockettes unearth a player for the future

    Barwon Rockettes have potentially unearthed a future cricket talent in Colac’s Tayla Banham.

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