By Randall Woodley
All last Saturday’s cricket matches for the Tewantin-Noosa Thunder Cricket Teams were called off due to the heavy rain.
In fact, the TNT Firsts were the only team who were able to play any cricket and their match ended disappointingly with a win in sight. Starting earlier at 10am, the TNT boys needed to take ten Maroochydore Swan’s wickets quickly to gain the first innings points before the rain came.
At beginning of play, the Swans were 0/8 in reply to TNT first innings score of 9 declared for 208.
Opening bowlers, Jarrod Officer and Robbie Payton opened the bowling and showed their experience and skill, bowling to a young Swans team. Both exhibited their speed and guile and the pair soon had the opposition batsman in trouble.
Officer struck first with the score on 16, having their opening batsman caught low down in slips by Lachie Gunner. Then two good catches by keeper Andrew Kratzmann found the Swans at 3 for 28.
Robbie Payton, turning back the years bowled six superb overs, swinging and cutting the ball for figures of 1/4 with four maiden overs.
At the other end, Jarrod Officer bowling with fire and bounce ended with 3/30 off 11 overs showing that he is back in form. Captain Stephen Shaw took 1/4 before the heavens opened and play was abandoned.
The result was disappointing for the home team, as with Maroochydore on 5/61 after 23 overs, even they would have conceded it was only a matter of time before they were bowled out well short of the required target. And an outright win for the TNT team would not have been out of the question.
Next Saturday the team will travel to Caboolture for day one of their two day match against last year’s premiers Caboolture.
The other three matches were called off before play started due to the heavy rain.
