Sport
5 November, 2024
Atherton dominates local derby
THE Atherton Cricket Club simply outclassed Mareeba in Saturday’s 1st Grade match-up in Atherton, thrashing the visiting side by 180 runs and securing them their first win for the season.
The Round 3 match saw Mareeba win the toss and elect to bowl, with Atherton’s Charlie Lawrence and Alexander Nasser open the batting, and after a good stint Lawrence was caught out on 48 runs.
Atherton batters Chris Adams and captain Tom Boorman contributed greatly to the team’s final score, scoring 150 runs between them.
Boorman finished his stint on 74 runs with 10 4s, while Adams was caught out on 76 runs with seven 4s and three 6s.
Atherton finished their 40 overs 7/259, setting up a difficult chase for the Mareeba side.
Opening the batting for Mareeba was Tristan Curmi and Remo Esposito and after a short stint, both were bowled out by Atherton’s Angus Vikionkorpi.
Coming out to bat third was Will Hanlon for Mareeba, who in his 19-run spell secured himself as Mareeba’s highest run-scorer for the day.
Atheron’s bowlers proved too good for the Mareeba side, taking three ducks and keeping all the batsman below 20 runs each.
Atherton’s Angus Vikionkorpi and Greg Misener took 3 wickets each and Tom Boorman took two himself.
Mareeba were all out after 27.2 overs with a total of 79 runs.
Atherton drew first blood in the first match-up of the rivalrous derby, the next time these two will face again will be in Round 10 on
4 January.
