Bashley (Rydal) and Dorset batsman Jacob Gordon has begun to hit his straps in New Zealand, with some positive knocks in club and provincial T20 cricket.
He scored 78 for his North Island club side MPC against SPC Real Lodge Estate before making handy contributions for Northern Districts A in New Zealand's provincial T20 tournament.
He twice cleared the boundary rope making 34 in the 90-run win over Central Districts and repeated the dose in scoring 42 against Wellington A, a match Northern Districts lost by five wickets.
Bashley teammates James Trodd, who missed a large chunk of this past SPL summer season nursing an elbow injury, is making up for lost time by pending the winter with Berwick, who play in the Dandedong CA Turf League.
Trodd, who has teamed up with Calmore Sports' 199run gun Michael Wallace at Berwick, made a real impact in Berwick's first win, taking 5-41 and later hitting the winning runs as his side snatched a dramatic one-wicket win over Beaconsfield.
Joe Vaughan, the OTs & Romsey spin all-rounder, shone for Bentleigh, who came within a wicket of an outright win over South Bayside League rivals Carnegie. He made 39 of Bentleigh's 316-7 (they were 115-5 at one point). Vaughan then took six wickets - three in each innings - as Carnegie were dismissed for 105 before hanging on at 119-9 as they followed on.
An untimely bout of appendicitis delayed the start of the Aussie season for South Wilts and Cadnam raised Luke Evans - but he's back firing again for St Patrick's in the Albury-based competition on the New South Wales/Victoria state border.
He took three Wodonga Rangers wickets before scoring 41* to haul St Patrick's out of desperate trouble at 58-7 and to 138 all out , alas 47 runs behind. He shone again in cool 37 cel heat, as St Patrick's bounced back from their first defeat by taking 4-30 and later hitting two match winning sixes in the four-wicket win over New City. Evans made 19*.
Across in South Africa, Hambledon's Chris Pratt was homing in on a third successive half-century when Western Province cruised past Durbanville's 91 all out. Pratt was 36*.
He scored 78 for his North Island club side MPC against SPC Real Lodge Estate before making handy contributions for Northern Districts A in New Zealand's provincial T20 tournament.
He twice cleared the boundary rope making 34 in the 90-run win over Central Districts and repeated the dose in scoring 42 against Wellington A, a match Northern Districts lost by five wickets.
Bashley teammates James Trodd, who missed a large chunk of this past SPL summer season nursing an elbow injury, is making up for lost time by pending the winter with Berwick, who play in the Dandedong CA Turf League.
Trodd, who has teamed up with Calmore Sports' 199run gun Michael Wallace at Berwick, made a real impact in Berwick's first win, taking 5-41 and later hitting the winning runs as his side snatched a dramatic one-wicket win over Beaconsfield.
Joe Vaughan, the OTs & Romsey spin all-rounder, shone for Bentleigh, who came within a wicket of an outright win over South Bayside League rivals Carnegie. He made 39 of Bentleigh's 316-7 (they were 115-5 at one point). Vaughan then took six wickets - three in each innings - as Carnegie were dismissed for 105 before hanging on at 119-9 as they followed on.
An untimely bout of appendicitis delayed the start of the Aussie season for South Wilts and Cadnam raised Luke Evans - but he's back firing again for St Patrick's in the Albury-based competition on the New South Wales/Victoria state border.
He took three Wodonga Rangers wickets before scoring 41* to haul St Patrick's out of desperate trouble at 58-7 and to 138 all out , alas 47 runs behind. He shone again in cool 37 cel heat, as St Patrick's bounced back from their first defeat by taking 4-30 and later hitting two match winning sixes in the four-wicket win over New City. Evans made 19*.
Across in South Africa, Hambledon's Chris Pratt was homing in on a third successive half-century when Western Province cruised past Durbanville's 91 all out. Pratt was 36*.
Luke Evans on the attack.
