Wes Nicholas bagged 3/15 as Buckley Ridges bowled out Dandenong West for 81. 72894Picture: Jarrod Potter
By Jarrod Potter
BUCKLEY Ridges continued its domination of opposition batsmen, bowling out Dandenong West for 81.
At 5/26, Wests’ Matt Tripp cobbled together 26 and found some assistance at the other end from Shaun Weir (10) with a four and a six, and Andrew Harry (14) with two fours, to lift the total to 81.
Wes Nicholas and Craig Batchelor both took 3/15, Shaun Ferriera claimed 2/9 and Te Ahu Davis captured 2/25 off 14 overs.
In their batting innings, Ridges found themselves on the end of a Nathan Goodes hat-trick, with Troy Aust, Daniel Watson and Davis the three victims. At 4/48, the rebuilding was done by Craig Batchelor (43) and Suren Ekanayake (30) before the pair fell to Mohamed Faizer.
At stumps, Jeremy Kuru (12 not out) and Simon Fonceca (2 not out) were the in batsmen with the score at 6/120.
For the Wests, Goodes claimed 3/30 and Faizer 2/8.
@BT Sub Sport News:MORDIALLOC v NORTHDANDENONG
Janahan Kumaralingam took 4/23 to push North Dandenong into the prime position against Mordialloc.
A big total looked on the cards for the Bloodhounds, as openers Tim Richardson (61) and Aaron Martello (38) put together an 85-run stand, before the staggers set in.
Regular wickets fell as Mordialloc made its way to 185 all out. Gayan Sameera was the other multiple wicket taker for Norths with 2/29.
In reply, North Dandenong openers Kumaralingam and Scott Neeson bunkered down for six overs to be 0/10 at stumps, leaving 176 runs to chase on Saturday.
@BT Sub Sport News:PARKFIELD v KEYSBOROUGH
Keysborough were done away with easily as Parkfield dismissed the Burras for 61.
Steve Spoljaric continued to impress, this time with the ball in hand as he took 4/6 off 12.4 overs.
The Burras were in a world of pain at 7/24 before middle-order batsman Anirudh Motupalli (12) and tailender Mushy Perera (26) combined to double the score and get Keysborough over the half-century. Shane Bell was miserly with 3/15 and Hemantha Alles snared 2/16.
In reply, Keysborough’s bowlers provided the resistance to Parkfield the batsmen couldn’t muster, with Alex Deuchar 3/15 and Perera 3/38 halting any potential onslaught.
The Bears made 8/111 before declaring near stumps.
It left Burras openers Mahesh Karunaratna and Darren Lawton six overs to wall in, which they did, finishing the day 0/11 with a lot of work ahead of them this weekend.
@BT Sub Sport News:SPRINGVALE SOUTH v NARRE WARREN
Springvale South and Narre Warren were the only Turf 1 match not to start, with Alex Nelson Reserve not recovering from Saturday morning’s rain.
