Wayward Doctors fall to Pine Rivers
- Shamsul Kazi
- Jun 25, 2018
- 2 min read
Pine Rivers 9/281(50) def PDCC 179(40.4)
H Shahid 62, J Cross 39, N Jain 2/38, S Kazi 2/40, K Chaudhary 2/53, A Panju 2/59
After a month off due to rain, it was back on the park for the undefeated Doctors. An away trip north to Dakabin (near North Lakes, I had to google it too), against the 1-2 Pine Rivers, was what was on offer. The day proved to be a perfect one, with a blue sky and a pitch that looked ready to be scored on and with winning the toss, that’s what Pine Rivers decided to do.
Early opportunities went missing begging and the openers capitalised before the first wicket fell just before the 50, with Corrigan taking a nice catching moving to his right at cover. The second wicket fell shortly after on 71, to much controversy as the batsman was given out caught behind. The batsman’s indignation could be heard by the budding Socceroos down the hill (He was a Richmond supporter and we all know how they are). The dismissal was also the first of several to the new keeper for the week Aayoush Aurora, who showed some clever handiwork behind the stumps, taking two quick stumpings during the innings.
The third wicket partnership would double the score and deflate the Doctors, before Panju took advantage of his own handiwork by sticking his hand out to a returning ball. From there the Doctors would pull the game back slowly in their favour, taking 6/81, but the damage from errant bowling (Resulting in 56 extras) and aggressive batting saw the total pile to 281.
The chase started off with promise, with Aurora and John Cross, in his return game following a shoulder dislocation last season. Cross would take 13 off the first over, punishing anything short and the pair would also make it to 47 before Aurora, who had been struggling with his own shoulder injury he had incurred earlier in the innings, drove one on the up to the fielder.
Wickets fell steadily from there, with partnerships few and far between, before Shahid and Pham would provide some resistance with Pham scoring 17 before he too succumbed. Shahid was the rock of the innings, making 62 and he watched people come and go around him, before he finally edged one to the keeper to close out the innings, with the Doctors 102 short.
Join us for Super July with three games in three weekends as we travel to Redcliffe on the 8th to face the old grand final foe, Peninsula before making up the washed out matchday against Valley Blue on the 15th.