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CommBank MyCricket Legends: Record haul

A wicketkeeping record on the Apple Isle and a ridiculous bowling comeback lead this week's edition of CommBank MyCricket Legends

When you turn up for a club game and the opposition has three Test cricketers and the KFC Big Bash League’s leading run-scorer in their XI, the average club cricketer deep down knows it probably won’t be their weekend.

Which is likely what happened when Kingborough’s first XI turned up for the opening day of their two-day clash to see George Bailey, Alex Doolan, Xavier Doherty and Ben Dunk wheeling their kit bags into the opposition change rooms.

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And when the star-studded South Hobart Sandy Bay side reduced their hosts to 1-1, with opener Nathan Frietag copping a first-baller, Kingborough could have only dreamt that not only would they comfortably win, but that one of their players would achieve something that’s never even been done at international level before.

But that's exactly what happened.

Firstly promising Tasmania batsman Beau Webster scored an unbeaten 177, putting on 278 for the third wicket with teammate Harry Evans (153) to propel Kingborough to 3-359 declared.


Then, with Bailey and Doolan unavailable for the game’s second day a week later due to Sheffield Shield duty, Kingborough wicketkeeper Matthew Coad recorded a record-breaking milestone as his side completed a 184-run win.

Coad clung onto eight catches behind the stumps, the most taken in a single Tasmanian Premier Cricket innings, breaking North Hobart 'keeper C.R Driscoll's 1926 mark of seven catches.

Kingborough and Tasmania left-arm spinner Clive Rose called it the best performance he's seen by a gloveman.

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“He took two caught behinds off me which were really good ones. as a spinner I don't usually expect them to be taken,” Rose told cricket.com.au.

“And he took a couple diving catches off the fast bowlers too.

“It was the best day of keeping I have seen by a keeper.

“The only byes he had were off the opening bowler when he sprayed one down leg side.”


Coad took two more catches in South Hobart's second dig to take his match tally to 10, another competition record. 

The most catches ever taken in a single innings of Test cricket is seven, with four glovemen having having completed the feat.

The Australian record for the most dismissals in a first-class innings is eight (Wally Grout in a Queensland v WA Sheffield Shield match in 1960 and Tim Zoehrer in an 1991 Ashes tour match) while Pakistani Tahir Rashid and Zimbabwean Wayne James share the all-time first-class record of nine.

In Victoria, Kilsyth’s Matt Burgess recorded surely one of the greatest turnarounds in fortunes in club cricket history.

Burgess was dropped to the side’s fifth XI after returning figures of 0-83 off six overs in a fourth XI appearance the weekend prior.

Undeterred, the 36-year-old accountant took a staggering 15 wickets for the match, including a nine-wicket haul, to lead Kilsyth to an outright win over Warranwood.

His match haul of 15-41 (9-28 in the first-innings and 6-13 in the second) were the best figures in the club’s history, an effort made even more impressive considering his lack of net practice this summer.


"I haven’t been to training once this year," Burgess told the Lilydale Leader.

"I copped a bit of stick after the 0-83 figures so I wanted to try prove a few people wrong, but a lot of people have been congratulating me on the figures so that has been pleasing.

"I was nearly going to make this my last season after the last game and take up lawn bowls instead.

"Bowling is a bit taxing on the shoulder and it takes a little bit of time to recover after each game."

MEN’S PREMIER CRICKET TOP TOP FIVE

Some amazing performances in Premier Cricket on the weekend, including Test quick James Pattinson who continued his domination of Victorian Premier Cricket and English leg-spinner Mason Crane who amazingly has taken his third consecutive seven-wicket haul!


1. James Pattinson 6-43 & 131 Dandenong VIC 


2. Ahillen Beadle 109 & 5-64 Manly Warringah NSW 


3. Chris Chellew 7-3 Fremantle DCC WA  


4. Greg Munro 175 Footscray-Edgewater VIC 


5. Mason Crane 7-53 Gordon NSW 


WOMEN’S PREMIER CRICKET TOP FIVE


A massive 253-run opening partnership between Chloe Piparo and Elyse Villani leads this week’s Top Five.


1. Chloe Piparo 161 not out Midland Guildford WA 


2. Elyse Villani 139 Midland Guildford WA 


3. Veronica Pyke 95 not out North Hobart TAS 


4. Charlotte Anneveld 4-8 Gordon Womens NSW 


5. Emma Biss 4-13 Melville WA 


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