Woodgreen opener Laurence Harding is in good form Down Under, helping his adopted Australian club Royal Park Brunswick reach this weekend’s local Victorian Turf Association semi-finals.
Spending the winter in Melbourne’s outers after gaining an Economics degree at Bath University, the 21-year old made only one half-century before Christmas.
But since the turn of the year has been in good nick, making scores of 51, 48 and 36 before recently celebrating his maiden century on Australian soil, 115 against East Keilor.
Harding made 16 and then an unbeaten 23 as Royal Park won a low scoring two-innings affair against Deer Park to secure a North-West Metropolitan zone semi-final visit to Point Cook this weekend.

Newly promoted Hythe & Dibden will have 20-year old Kiwi all-rounder Tarin Mason as their overseas player for this season’s Hampshire League County Division 1 campaign.
Tarin, pictured, played in the West Country last summer, helping Hayle win the Cornwall County Division 1 title, with 25 wickets and over 300 runs, mainly batting in a lower-order all-rounder’s slot.
He plays for Marlborough Falcons in the Tasman Premier League in New Zealand and assumes the overseas role from the influential Australian Luke Hodges, who led last season’s CD2 promotion push with 458 runs and 29 wickets.
Tarin will captained at Jones Lane by Tom Richards, who succeeds James Page in the Hythe hot seat after three successive promotions have catapulted the Waterside club back to County 1 after a ten-year absence.