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The sixth instalment of the Staff/Parents versus Students Cricket match was labelled a match to 'savour' and boy did it live up to the hype.

The Staff/Parent team, buoyed by the four-wicket win in 2018, took to the oval with confidence and a skip in their step. The Student team, purely made up of members from our Year 12 cohort, were keen to make amends and regain the bragging rights for 2019. However, Buckley and Maney put pay to any such hopes racing to 50-1 off the first four overs! Thereafter, Shamus Brodie bowled to Matt Brodie, reducing the rapid run rate, before both Wil Bowering and Matt Withers further stemmed the haemorrhaging. Yet it was Portia Holdman, who removed Craig Neumann and Tori McIntyre in the space of two balls, who really stole the show. Thankfully, Kaitlin Egan survived the hat-trick ball but soon after ran out David Cole.  Grant Lean and Ian Ross finished with a flourish to guide the Staff/Parent side to a respectable 108, albeit a much smaller total based on the earlier predictions. 

For various reasons the stock of the Staff/Parent team that took to the field was slightly depleted and two unwitting spectators proved to be rather super-subs: “Ryan Sidebottom Kuhl” fresh from scoring duties in 2018 stepped on to assist both in the field and with the ball together with “Liam Plunkett Turley”. It was the latter who duly opened the bowling and removed Will Chay with his first delivery, which immediately brought the Captain, Adam Kuhl, to the crease. Adam wasted no time at all in erasing the deficit, hitting several fours and a six (that interestingly was caught by his brother, who some might say conveniently landed over the boundary rope).

Ethan Chuck strode to the crease backed by John Cena’s anthem but did little to trouble the scorers until Tori McIntyre came on to bowl her only over and it was at this point the students in the ELCC building were in danger of the bombs he was delivering. Grant Lean, David Cole, Ian Ross and Ciaran Buckley did their best to reign in the run rate and as such, this led to a very tense finish. The timely run out of Tom Gould in the final over led to the return of the Student’s talismanic captain, Adam Kuhl to finish the game off…or so he thought. 

Currently, the result is pending a SACA investigation and not since ‘Sandpapergate’ has there been a bigger controversy to rock the game to its core. So stay tuned for an update at the next Whole School assembly.  

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David Cole | One-time and possibly two-time winner of the ‘Gary Ashby Cricket Shield’

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