We were all excited when we found out we had had enough numbers for a school knockout cricket team! Some players on our team were experienced and had played for the knockout cricket team the year before. On Friday of week 8 we headed over to Belair Primary School to verse Blackwood in our first Match. Our captain, Nathan, headed over to do the toss hoping to bowl first which ended up happening with us winning the toss. We had a struggle getting wickets early as they had a good defending top order that didn’t make any runs. Blackwood ended up getting a gettable total of 78 runs. Our top order did well getting the bulk of the runs so the middle and lower order could finish off the job with everyone getting a bat.

Because we won our first game, we had to verse Belair Primary in our second match to go to the second round of knockout cricket. Nathan went over to do the toss hoping to bowl but the opposition won the toss, so we had to bat first. In the first couple of overs Belair had a good bowling attack so it was a struggle for us to score runs. When our batters started getting used to the bowlers, the runs started to flow quite easily. We ended up making an average total of 88. Belair’s top order scored an average amount of runs in the first few overs but once we got one wicket lots of wickets started coming. We ended up drying up Belair’s run rate so everyone on our team could get two overs. Now we get to play round two of knockout cricket!