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He’d barely picked up a bat in five years before the beginning of the summer but Jonno Crowe showed he’d forgotten nothing after belting a 62-ball double-century in a midweek competition in Perth on Tuesday.

Crowe, a refrigeration mechanic originally from Alice Springs, recorded the astonishing knock for Roleystone/Karragullen in the Swan and Helena Districts Cricket Association T20 competition.

The 26-year-old returned to Gosnells Cricket Club’s 1st grade side this season after some time away from the game and was keen for a hit during the week ahead of next month’s WACA Premier Cricket final against Fremantle.

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Apart from two Gosnells teammates, Crowe admitted he barely knew any of his comrades going into the match against Midland and was "almost nervous" about playing with them.

"They sent us in," Crowe told cricket.com.au with a laugh.

"I left the first ball, then I don’t know, I teed off. A fair few of them came out of the screws.

"It was just one of the days I guess.

"I got to a 100 in the seventh over, and then I was just trying to go straight, trying to hit everything straight.

"They put my score up on the board when I was on 190, I tried to bring it up (the 200) with a six and I got one."

When Crowe was run out in the 18th over - the only way he was going be dismissed - he’d sent 41 of his 62 deliveries to, or over, the fence as he blazed a career-first double century.

He finished with 17 sixes and 24 fours, helping Roleystone/Karragullen romp to a colossal first-innings total of 311. Midland fell well short in their run-chase, bowled out for 107 in the 16^th over.

In Melbourne, Victoria Metro U19 captain Will Pucovski kept his staggering run of form going in his return to Victorian Premier Cricket on the weekend, striking his fifth century in 11 days.

Pucovski last week smashed the U19 National Championships record for most runs at a carnival after plundering four hundreds in consecutive games, finishing with 650 runs at 160.

And the 18-year-old kept his triple-figure love affair going on Saturday, notching his maiden 1st XI ton for club side Melbourne, helping them reel in Greenvale’s 242 in a comfortable victory.

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Pucovski, who on Wednesday was named as skipper of the Gilchrist XII to face the Ponting XII in a BBL curtain-raiser featuring the best youngsters from around the country, finished with 165 off 198 balls to cap a remarkable purple patch.

Many veteran club cricketers go an entire career without being involved in – or even witnessing – a hat-trick, the holy grail of bowling milestones.

So the 22 weekend warriors who saw three separate hat-tricks completed in a single Upper Great Southern Cricket Association A grade fixture certainly have a story to tell their grandchildren.

Dumbleyung had progressed their first innings tally to 3-42 when Wandering first-change bowler Bailey Parsons took the first hat-trick, before teammate Evan Barrett snagged the second to end the hosts’ innings at 186.

Still smarting from his golden duck that sealed Barrett’s hat-trick, David Head then snared one of his own to complete the most incredible hat-trick of the game.

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Even more unusually, none the hat-trick heroes took another wicket before or after their triple-blows. And in amongst the carnage, Dumbleyung No.4 Scott Jefferis managed to eke out a century, an ultimately match-winning hand, though he too was a victim of one of the hat-tricks.

In Adelaide, a pair of umpires recently notched a historic first in Adelaide as Mary Waldron and Eloise Sheridan became the first-ever female duo to umpire a Premier Cricket match in South Australia.

Waldron, a former Ireland international who became the first female to officiate a match in the competition in nearly 40 years earlier this season, was joined by Sheridan for the West End fourth grade match between Woodville and Tea Tree Gully on December 10. 

"It was an exciting opportunity to be a part of the first pair of females to umpire a Premier Cricket match," said Sheridan. "I really enjoyed umpiring with Mary; it was a nice change to not be the only female out on the pitch or involved in the game.

"A couple of players commented on the fact that there were two female umpires as most had only seen one or none before.

"It seemed like the logical next step for me to stay involved in the game that has been such a big part of my life. I'm looking forward to seeing where umpiring can take me."

Finally in country Victoria, Swan Hill's Ultima Tuf had a day out with the ball, bowling Woorinen out for just 10 in a B Grade one-dayer on Saturday.

But it wasn’t smooth sailing for Ultima as they slumped to 2-1 in their chase, before eventually securing an early finish a short time later when they passed the modest total with seven wickets to spare.

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Is this one of the greatest performances in Premier Cricket history? Essex import Callum Taylor smashed a double ton then took a 6-fa for Mount Lawley DCC.

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