Last Saturday the Kingston Crows A grade team took on Woodbridge at home. The Crows batted first and Dan Elliott was once again among the runs with 51. Tight bowling by Woodbridge saw us take 32 overs to post one hundred runs but a fine third wicket partnership of 154 between Jamie Knott 91 and Brett Stevenson 80 saw us accelerate in the latter overs and enabled us to reach 4/258.

Good bowling by all the Crows bowlers saw Woodbridge struggle to build a score although the end came quickly after they had reached 5/91 and were then dismissed for 96. In fantastic news for all followers of cricket in the HCCA, Andrew Henley returned to the A Grade team and in a dream comeback took 3/5 off 4.4 overs. Dale Punshon took 2/13 and Jamie Knott 2/26. 

B Grade went down to Franklin to take on the Southern Tigers in a top of the table clash. Unfortunately the Crows were never in the game after being dismissed for only 108 off 44 overs. James Murray 28 and Jason Jones 22 scored the bulk of those runs. 

The Tigers then batted us out of the game losing only 4 wickets in overtaking our score. Jason Jones took all those wickets and finished with 4/20. 

C Grade took on Longley at home and were sent to the field after losing the toss. With two of the “Bunyips” top order batters scoring centuries the lads had some leather chasing to do as Longley scored 9/301 off their 50 overs. Patrick Verrall with 3/26 and Dean Heywood 3/46 were the most successful bowlers. 

Without being too negative one could always assume that a total of that magnitude was way too much for the boys and with Danial Woodhead 46, Shane Hall 29 and Gab Lefleur 22 making contributions they managed to score 135 with Dean Heywood being unable to bat 

The boys now play their final game of the season at Kettering next Saturday. 

The Round the World Flight Night last Saturday was a huge success. Many thanks to the Social Committee and partners and everyone else who prepared the meals etc.