The day batting went bananas
THIS domestic run-fest is getting pleasingly out of hand.
Evening League tons and now a remarkable six centuries in one day of Weekend Championship action.
Saturday 5 June will go down in the annals of the local game as the day the batsmen went bananas.
Three centuries came across the two first innings of the day’s 50-over action and a further hat-trick in the second.
Three were in a winning cause, three in a losing action.
Will Peatfield’s 130 at the KGV was the last to be completed and, arguably, may have been the best given the predicament of his Cobo side.
Had he been able to complete the job – he fell just short of the target – it would have been heroic which meant that the day’s individual honours went the way of Griffins’ Le Tissier cousins, Luke and Nathan, who, in chasing down 283 set by the Old Elizabethan Association, cashed in on another College Field road. They took their first-wicket partnership all the way to 283 at which point the more free-scoring Luke holed out on the boundary attempting to finish the game with a six and get to his 150 in the process.
Which made it all very tough on the opposition’s Matt Stokes and Charlie Birch who enjoyed their own 200-plus stand earlier in the day in scoring 121 and 120 respectively.
First to three figures was Wanderers-Irregulars captain Lucas Barker whose 123 put his side in a winning position.
Late in the day Island coach Lee Savident questioned, via Twitter, whether five hundreds across two fixtures had ever happened locally.
The answer to that was simple enough and a resounding negative.
As for six, surely that will never happen again.
Report in today’s Guernsey Press.
