The A1 and A2 sides both having byes and the numbers for the A5s side not quite there, the A4s headed to Moculta to take on Angaston and had an easy victory to start the year. A great effort in the field saw Angaston restricted to 65, with Sam Dunn the best with the ball with 3 wickets. Paul Healy took 2 wickets and caught a butterfly, Kym Underwood recalled times gone by with an excellent spell of express bowling returning 2 wickets for 7 off 5 overs, Darryl Hean took a wicket to kick off his year. Nic Burton took the remaining scalp and decided that catching butterflies was too hard, so caught the cricket ball a couple of times instead. Great to see the young fella’s contributing in the field, with Darryl Hean’s run out something that will only get better as the year goes on!

A relatively easy chase followed with Tanunda passing the score 4 wickets down. Tim Brooks decided he needed to run himself out on 13 so he could spend the rest of the afternoon trying to work out how to get his spare tyre out of his fancy vehicle, run machines Danny Rey and current A4 cricketer of the year Darryl ‘All-round’ Hean making about 20, with Sam Dunn getting the team across the line with his gallant 0 not out. Well done all.

The Under 16’s travelled to Saddleworth on Saturday to play Gilbert Valley. The boys got off to a flying start with the ball, having the home side 5 for 45 at drinks. Unfortunately the second session wasn’t quite as good, with the fielding dropping off. Gilbert Valley ended scoring a competitive total of 7 for 146. Pick of the bowlers was Lachie Miller with 3 for 25 of 8 and good contributions from Brodie Robinson 1 for 27, Ben Biagi for 18 and Bailey Smith 2 for 23. A solid effort with the bat is required this week, we are confident the boys can get the job done. Special mention to Brett Grocke, Shaun Akkerman, Dylan Abinett and Blake Lockett with their help so far at training, it is much appreciated by the next crop of senior cricketers!

The U14’s 2 day game against traditional rivals Nuriootpa is evenly poised. After losing the toss and taking the field a team bowling effort eventuated – 7 Bowers taking wickets. Capped off by some great fielding – 2 run outs, which limited the opposition to 95 runs. With a young batting team calm heads are required next week to ensure bat the full 40 overs on offer. The opportunity is there for taking, good luck this week!

The 12’s played Light Pass at Stockwell on a beautiful summer’s day on Saturday. Samuel Tapscott had the captain duties this week and was sent in to bat by the Light Pass captain. Jordan Rosenzweig and Malakia Gaskin-vanWieringen opened the batting with a solid start, putting on 16 runs. Solid efforts by all other batsmen helped guide us on our way to a fabulous end result of 3 wickets for 81 runs. All bowlers bowled well with Jordan Rosenzweig taking 3 wickets, supported by Samuel Tapscott, Angus Dohse, Jack Collins and Hugo Schild who all took a wicket. Well done to the whole team for an all round great game of cricket. The boys encouraged one another and assisted each other during the batting warm ups. A huge thank you to all parents for their support and encouragement of all players.

The Under 10’s headed to Nuri on Friday night to take on the traditional rival, with many of our future cricket stars having their first game of cricket. The main focus for the team is to learn the basics of the game while having fun, and the group is showing they have what it takes to do both. Tanunda batted first and batted well, with good running between wickets and all players having a go, highlights were Mitch Radzevicius, Sam Roestenburg and Ben Swan hitting 4s. The team bowled well with Skipper Chloe Rosenzweig, Ben Mernagh and Walter Holmes best with the ball, Nick Holmes and Ben Swan both taking good catches. The absolute highlight of the fielding effort was an excellent direct hit runout by Mitch Radzevicius. An excellent start to the year for our youngest side.

Milo Cricket has commenced at Tanunda Oval, 4pm on Thursday’s. It’s great to see the youngsters out there learning the basics.

For anyone thinking about donning the whites, we are a couple short of being able to comfortably fill the A5 side each week – so we’d love to hear from anyone who’s either played before and is keen to turn back the clock or for anyone who hasn’t had a game before but wants to give it a go. Training is at the nets at Tanunda Oval from about 5:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.