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ALL SMILES: Strathfieldsaye players celebrate a wicket against Bendigo on a rain-affected day at the QEO on Saturday. The Goers
reached 5-223 when play was abandoned. All first XI games will continue under ordinary conditions. Picture: GLENN DANIELS
Roos turn the tables on Redbacks
ROUND 6
BY LUKE WEST
HAVING been routed by
Bendigo United in last sea-
son’s semi-final, Kangaroo
Flat turned the tables on the
Redbacks on day one of a
rain-affected round six in the
BDCA on Saturday.
While only 42 overs were
played at Harry Trott Oval,
that was enough for the Roos
to grab nine wickets as the
Redbacks ended the day at
9-85 in what is a round that
is now all ordinary condi-
tions matches.
The Redbacks after being
Klemm’s painful catch in grill Dragons stripped of six points
FIELDING at short leg
certainly isn’t for the faint
hearted as Kangaroo Flat’s
Jake Klemm discovered
on Saturday.
In one of the BDCA’s more
bizarre dismissals, Klemm
caught Bendigo United
opener Mark Di Fede with-
out using his hands at Harry
Trott Oval.
Di Fede flicked the ball
to the leg side, only for it
to lodge into the grill of
Klemm, who under new laws
introduced into the BDCA
was wearing a helmet as he
was within seven metres of
the batsman.
With the ball stuck in
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sent in were on the ropes
from the outset, with Nick
Williamson (0), Corey Dan-
iels (4) and Mark Di Fede (1)
all out just seven balls into
the day as Bendigo United
collapsed to 3-5.
Roos’ captain Brent Ham-
blin (4-27) removed Wil-
liamson and Daniels in the
opening over, before Di Fede
was caught on the first ball
of the second over off Dylan
Klemm (3-19) when the ball
lodged in the helmet grill of
Jake Klemm at short leg.
The Roos’ team included
wicket-keeper Riley Burns,
who took three catches, mak-
Jake Klemn
Klemm’s grill, Di Fede was
given out caught for one.
However, the ball also
broke Klemm’s nose. He
ing his first XI debut along-
side his dad, Adam Burns (2-
21), playing his 203rd game.
Only Tyson Templeton
(28), Riley Treloar (19 n.o.)
and Jake Thrum (10) scored
in double figures for the
Redbacks, who have just four
members of the team that
decimated the Roos for 88 in
their semi-final last season
playing in this match.
• Bendigo captain Shane
Koop is within sight of his
first century for the Goers.
Sent in by Strathfield-
saye at the QEO, the Goers
reached 5-223 before rain
halted play in the 74th over
was taken to Bendigo Hos-
pital before later returning
to watch his team-mates rip
through the Redbacks.
Under the new rules –
which are sanctioned by the
ICC to improve safety in the
game – “a batsman can be
caught, run-out, or stumped
even if the ball makes con-
tact with a helmet worn by
the fielder or wicket-keeper.”
The rules also include
all wicket-keepers wearing
a helmet with a faceguard
while keeping at the stumps,
and all batsmen when facing
a fast or medium-pace bowl-
er must wear a helmet.
– LUKE WEST
in what was the first XI game
that had the most play.
Opener Koop batted
through to finish unbeaten
on 90 off 231 balls, while
veteran Mark Ryan made
his second consecutive
half-century.
Ryan followed up his sec-
ond innings 54 n.o. against
Strathdale last week with 57
off 99, putting on 107 for the
fifth wicket with Koop.
The competition’s leading
run-scorer, Kyle Humphrys,
took his season tally to 387
with a knock of 42 as part of
a 51-run third wicket stand
with Koop.
SANDHURST’S first XI team
has been stripped of the six
points it earned in its round
two BDCA win over Kanga-
roo Flat after teenager Will
Keck bowled one extra over
than permitted in a spell.
Being 18-years-old, Keck
is limited to bowling no more
than eight consecutive overs
in a spell and a maximum of
20 in a day.
However, it was noted on
the umpire’s report after the
game that Keck had bowled a
spell of nine overs.
The Dragons under a level
five offence were stripped of
their six points for the win
and fined $100.
LEADER: Bendigo captain Shane Koop
works the ball to the leg-side on Saturday.
FATHER-SON TEAM-MATES: Kangaroo
Flat's Adam and Riley Burns.
Tom Hart (12 n.o.) and
Koop will resume the Goers’
innings on day two.
Kristian Rogers (2-61 off
19.4) took two of the five
wickets for the Jets.
• Eaglehawk will resume
its innings at 3-75 against
White Hills at Scott Street.
White Hills’ Rhys Irwin has
taken all three of the wickets
to fall so far – Cory Jacobs
(14), Anthony West (29) and
Cam McGlashan (4) – to have
figures of 3-29 off 16 overs.
Jeremy Brown (16 n.o.)
and Aaron Monro (8 n.o.)
will continue the Hawks’
innings next week after bad
Will Keck
Sandhurst contested the
penalty at a tribunal hearing
last week, with the tribunal
panel upholding the deci-
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light stopped play.
• The only team to win
the toss and bat was Hunt-
ly-North Epsom, which
reached 2-34 off 23 overs
before rain halted play at the
first drinks break.
Brodie McRae (2) and
Anthony Tanner (10) are the
batsmen out for the Power.
Opener Brett Elvey (6 n.o.)
and Sandun Ranathunga (11
n.o.) were the not out bats-
men when play at Bell Oval
was abandoned.
• There was no play in the
match of the round between
Golden Square and Sand-
hurst at Wade Street.
sion of the BDCA board.
While the points have
been removed from the
Dragons, they aren’t award-
ed to Kangaroo Flat.
Sandhurst has confirmed
it’s considering an appeal
of the penalty to North-
ern Rivers.
Sandhurst president
Shane Robinson didn’t
wish to comment while the
club was still weighing up
its options.
With the loss of the six
points the Dragons slipped
from the top of the ladder to
third heading into the start of
round six on Saturday.
– LUKE WEST