The Kingston Crows Cricket Club’s players enjoyed being able to take to the field last weekend and better still all four teams recorded good victories. 

A grade ventured to Longley where the “Bunyips” won the toss and elected to bat. It appeared that their main mission was to bat out their 50 overs as they batted until the 49^th over to amass 138. The total was certainly flattered by a last wicket partnership of 47 with their No. 11 being their highest scorer. Dale Punshon was the destroyer with 5/31; Daniel Elliott took 4/35 and Ross Hinkley 1/13 off his 10 overs.  

After a reasonable start we found ourselves in a great deal of trouble with the score 4/57. James Murray 46no and Chris Honner 28 in his A grade debut for the Crows combined to add 55 for the 5^th wicket as we reached our target for the loss of 5 wickets. 

On our Home ground B1 were asked to field first by the Southern Tigers but soon had them in trouble at 3/35. Although they made some minor partnerships they were never able to get on top of our attack and were dismissed for 164 in the 49^th over. Sam Peacock took 2/18 off his 10 overs, Shannon Woolley 2/28, Nick Townsend 2/29 and Ash Woodhead 2/36. 

Marc Owen then blitzed the “Tigers” attack smashing 15 4s and 6 6s on his way to 122no as we reached our target in the 22^nd over for the loss of only 1 wicket. Marc added 107 for the 1^st wicket with Damien Pearce 19 and an unbroken 58 for the 2^nd with Heath Lovell 20no. 

Our B2 traveled to Castle Forbes Bay to also take on the Southern Tigers who also elected to bat first. They managed a score of 105 before being dismissed in the 47^th over. Trent Pearce took 3/29, Scott Sward 2/12, Chris Tomlin 2/15 and Chase McConnon 2/15. 

What looked to be a fairly simple run chase turned out anything but that as we crashed to 5/51 before Chase McConnon came to the rescue with 34no and took us to victory with 4 wickets in hand. 

C grade were asked to bat first in their home game against Snug. With some good efforts we were able to reach 7/298 after our 50 overs. Shane Hall 54 and Gab Lefleur 23 were able to lay the foundations of our total with a 3^rd wicket partnership of 100 that was obviously assisted by a large number of sundries. Manning Parkinson then took over making 81 including 11 4s and a 6. Earlier Daniel Woodhead made 24 opening the batting. 

The undermanned Snug team then struggled against our attack with Brendan Norris taking 5/31 and Alistair Triffitt a career best 2/4 as they were dismissed for 51. 

The Christmas Party/ Spit Roast has been moved to Saturday 19^th December. To assist with catering please let Nick Townsend know if you are attending.