Chris Davenport 150th Game - Round 1 Match Report

Senior Teams

The Port Boys started the season in style with an impressive 3 wins against Rockingham Mandurah.

 1st Grade

A Grade skipper Chris Davenport celebrated his 150th A Grade game with a comfortable victory. Bowling first, opening bowlers Sam Greer (3/31) and Jacob Headland (3/22) both struck early to leave Rocky 3 down early. The 4th wicket partnership was broken by Kaiden Cookson (1/14) and fellow spinner Darin Jayaprakash (2/23) continued to chip away at Rocky. The Port wrapped up in the innings in only 35 overs, bowling Rocky out for 139. In reply, the early loss of Kyle Walsh didn’t cause too many nerves in the camp as milestone man Davenport joined Dokey Hoogenboezem and the pair took the Port close to the target. Davenport was dismissed for 38 but Hoogenboezem showed his class as he finished the innings 85 not out, wrapping up the game with 3 big sixes. The Port ran out comfortable winners by 7 wickets.

 2nd Grade

The 2nd Grade fell to an agonising defeat at Rocky. The Port batted first and were grateful to young opener Jack Anderson who showed patience in compiling 68. Unfortunately the Port were unable to put together a significant partnership however a few cameos helped them finish their innings on 8/197, a total they were confident in defending. An early wicket for the excellent Brandon Walsh (4/26) gave the Port some early momentum but Rocky fought back as the runs began to build. The introduction of spin help wrestle control back with Elijah Turriff-Smith (2/23) being the pick of the slow bowlers. A late rally from Rocky left them needing 9 to win from the final over and, whilst Ryan Fox kept his cool on field, unfortunately the Port fell to an over rate penalty after the game to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

 3rd Grade

The 3rd Grade started the season with an impressive win in a low scoring game. It was another young opener, Dylan Ratter, who set the standard early for the 3s, looking very confident in his innings of 40. Similar to the 2s game, the 3s couldn’t find that big partnership to put a very competitive score on the board. However contributions throughout the team were key to the Port getting a total, with 7 of the 8 Freo batsmen making double figures, as Freo finished on 6/168. In reply, The Port were able to chip away with constant wickets and, similar to the batting, it came down to contributions across the board to get over the line. Spinners Nick and Charlie Campo piled the pressure on as both finished with 2 wickets apiece, as did seamer Ben Moore playing his game for the club after a 2 year break. Rocky were eventually bowled out for 123 giving The Port an impressive 45 run win.

 4th Grade

The 4th grade batsmen hit the ground running as they produced a strong display at Rocky. Openers Benoit Gaffney (53) and Bernie Hoogenboezem (75) put on 137 for the first wicket and built an excellent platform for the rest of the innings. Some positive hitting from Ethan Beatty (43) helped the Port to an impressive final score of 4/241. Rocky started the innings well before skipper Alex Cecchi (2/32) struck twice in quick succession to help get the Port on track. He was supported by seamers Ethan McDowell (2/38) and Sam Harding (2/39) as Freo were able to take regular wickets and control the run rate.  Rocky couldn’t get going at the end of the innings and finished on 8/201, giving The Port an impressive 40 run win to start the season.

Junior Teams

With The Port being so close to securing 4 wins confidence is high as we move on to Round 2 this week against Mount Lawley.

Well what a start to the Premier junior season with FDCC posting four from four wins over the weekend. Both our U15 and U17 both had T20 fixtures against Rockingham Mandurah to start things off ,both our U13 and U14 had there Sunday afternoon fixture at Stevens reserve. On behalf of the Fremantle Districts Cricket club we welcome all those new U13 families to the Port club and hoped they had an exciting experience yesterday watching there boys play on turf for the first time. Welcome also to the five new families that have joined us with our U14 side , three in U15 and one in our youth U17 side.

It was great to be at Stevens yesterday to see all the mums and dads , grand parents there to support the sides and our famous club.

 Under 17s

On Saturday our U17 finished there 20 overs vs Rockingham Mandurah bowling and Rocky finished at 8/74 at the conclusion , Walker 3/6  , Spark 2/6. In reply Fremantle with a scare finished 5/75 with 18 balls to spare , Sweetman top scored with 28no of 24 deliveries partnered at the end to get the port boys home Hallows 16 of 24 deliveries , Harding chipped in early with a run a ball 14 to have these three boys only getting to double figures on the score board.    

 Under 15s

U15 Vs Rockingham Mandurah at Lark Park Port U15 batting First compiled a respectable score of 3/107 of their allocated 20 overs , the openers did there job with Matthews top scoring 32 of 42 deliveries Hwight scoring freely 27 of 46 deliveries with both Kane-Slocombe 13 of 19 and page 13 of 14 posting a very competitive total. At the turn around Fremantle were not headed with Rocky losing early wickets and just couldn’t get themselves into the game finishing 8/60 , Saxon was the pick of the bowlers with 4/17 well supported by Hwight 1/6 as well as White 1/9

 Under 14s

U14 vs Claremont Nedlands. This was a cracking match with the final result going Fremantle way very late in the day. Fremantle batted first and compiled 8/154 in there 50 over match James top scored with a patient 41 of 92 deliveries well supported by Tailor 30 of 73 deliveries as well as the captain Bloodworth 25 of 42 deliveries. Freo would of liked 30 -40 runs more however a good bowling show was needed and they delivered in the end to bowl out Claremont for 10/127 in the end. A best a field performance by James 3/10 Blumenthal 2/7 with P.Dhanawade rounding of with a handy 2/14       

 Under 13s

U13 vs Claremont Nedlands in there first official game for Fremantle batted first and compiled 10/115 in only 28 overs Higgs top scored with 21 of 45 deliveries supported by Stoyanov 20 of 27 deliveries to consolidate the middle order. The Captain came in after the loss of an early wicket to compile a respectable 16 of 25 deliveries. At the change over the team knew like the U14 a solid bowling performance was required to get the chocolates and that they did rolling Claremont for 10/107 in the end , a stellar match winning bowling performance by Stoyanov with a maiden 5 fa 5/15 of four overs in the middle. Cargill chipped in with 2/18 to steer the U 13 boys over the line to get the season underway.