All Stars Drive Through Huntly (Without slowing down.)

The penultimate game of the All-Stars regular season was against Huntly.

The All Stars looked strong on paper, but all manner of niggling injuries lurked.

We were very keen to have a bat and try to rack up a big score. But the skipper failed the toss test again and we were in the field.

Dave was resting his dodgy knees so Pieter and Duncan opened up and both picked up a wicket in their second overs. That was great, but it was all she wrote for those two as Huntly dug in.

The skipper rang the changes bringing in Caleb and himself - again results were nearly immediate as we both picked up a wicket in our second over. Both wickets were notable catches for Jimmy O - who nonchalantly parried each of them up into the air before reeling them in.

We were on a roll and Caleb and the skipper both picked up another wicket before Huntly steadied the sinking ship for a while.

Bowling changes seemed to be the order of the day so we threw the ball to Jared and Rakesh and the magic worked again. Jared started his second over a bit rough with a couple of half trackers smacked to the fence, but then induced a top edge to short fine leg where the skipper overcame a slow start to sprint in an take the catch at knee height.

Rakesh got results even faster, bowling five dots and then inducing a big slog which went a long way up before plummeting into the hands of a very relieved skipper at mid-on.

Two overs later Jared induced another slog and it was all over for Huntly. All out for 110 in 29 overs.

We were keen to get the reply over with quickly - there was plenty of showers around - and the points were there for the taking. Jimmy naturally pencilled himself in as one of the openers, and we sent out Duncan to feed him the strike.

We weren't disappointed as Jimmy got us off to a flyer with a quickfire 17 at better than a run a ball (17 off 16 for the record.)

When James departed new-guy Daimo joined Duncan at the wicket and the big dogs set about pounding Huntly into submission.

12 overs into it, it was all over with Duncan getting 40 and Daimo 38.

Next week a semi-final dress rehearsal against Suburbs at Steel 1.

BTW - The points table is updated on the HCA Website.

POD Points

Duncan 3

Yap 2

Daimo 1