Colts edge out Victoria despite amazing performances from Elliot and Harwood
Matthew Elliot held on to an amazing 9 catches as the bushrangers were beaten by the Colts. After winning the toss and Batting the colts got off to a primising start with Sharath and Beasley both batting solidly and scoring just over 2 an over, Sharath became more confident and slashed at a wide one and was caught by elliot. S Liyanage followed suit the next ball and all of a sudden the bushrangers had new life with the colts at 2/45. Beasley and Anderson than worked about rebuilding the innings, mmoving the score along to 127 before Elliot snatched up a loose shot off the bowling of Harvey to remove Beasley. I Guneratne followed the exact pattern of his rookie counterpart getting out the next ball, also being caught by Elliot. Madanagopal hung around a while but never really looked like scoring many, eventually removed by Welsford for 9. Anderson was removed soon after for a well made 79. Payne batted well with the tail pushing the team total up to 232 with 41 from just 51 balls. 232 was not considered enough however and after a blast from their manager the colts fired up and really looked hungry for the win.
The Victorian innings never really took off with all batsmen except Mott struggling to score runs at a descant speed, and he only made 25. All the bowlers bowled well, Lee taking 3/47, Shaw 1/28, Beasley 2/23, Daly 1/24 and Pushpakamara 3/19.
The Colts 2nd innings started solidly again with Sharath and Beasley partnering for the first 90 runs. before Harwook came on and removed both of them along with Liyanage, Guneratne and Anderson in quick succession leaving the colts reeling at 5/124. Madanagopal steddied the innings but no other batsman could hold off the seemingly unstoppable Shane Harwood. Madanagopal ended up with 49* and Harwood the amazing figures of 9/92.
despite the heroics of harwood the Bushrangers still needed a tic over 300 in their last innings and got off to a solid start with Elliot, Mott, Arnberger, stanton and Hodge all getting starts, they all failed to go on with it however and the tail couldn't finish the job ending up 85 runs short. Lee (4/64), Shaw (2/64) and Beasley (3/24) shared the wickets.
Harwood ended up with match figures of 13/151, Elliot took 9 catches and Beasley made 101 runs and took 5/47.