Sport
17 December, 2024
Atherton climb ladder
THE Atherton Cricket Club’s First Grade team have moved to third place on the ladder following a hard-fought win at home against Norths on the weekend.
It was sturdy efforts of bowling from the home team that kept their Cairns opponents to 7/154 after 40 overs, but it wasn’t until the 32nd over that Atherton caught them, making them victorious at 6/156.
Norths won the toss and elected to bat, but it was slow going for the Cairns team at the beginning of their innings with the first four batsman totalling about 50 runs, including a duck.
A good effort from Benjamin McCartney, who got out on 50 runs and was the last wicket taken, and 39 runs from a fill-in, boosted their score tremendously.
It was fairly even across the board with Atherton’s bowlers, with each of them taking a wicket for themselves, and Matthew Coleman taking two.
Norths finished their innings 7/154.
Atherton got off to a strong start with their batting with opening batsmen Charlie Lawrence and Alexander Nasser scoring 22 and 27 runs respectively.
In to bat third was Logan Poggioli, who scored 35 runs and gave his team a helpful boost in the run chase.
Another 28 runs added from Chris Adams and the dismissal of Lachlan Hollitt at 6/149 was enough for the batsmen in the middle of the order to comfortably secure the win.
Atherton finished 6/156 after 32 overs.
This Saturday will mark Round 9 of the competition, and the Mareeba Bandits will take on Cairns Beaches at 12.30pm in Trinity Beach and Atherton will come up against the Rovers at 12.30pm at Loder Park, Atherton
The competition will pause for a week over Christmas and return on 4 January when Mareeba will come up against Atherton.
The local derby will start at 12.30pm at Borzi Park, Mareeba.
