An excellent display of batting set up a decisive win for the Emus against The Willows. Superb timing and stroke play from Dawson and Dierick especially paved the way for their very respectable total. Thankfully The Willows did claw this back considerably in the later overs with some fine bowling from Nathan Wingham who took 5 for 18 from his ten overs; outstanding figures in the context of the game. Others chipped in along the way as well to restrict what could have been a 300+ score.

In reply The Willows batting got off to a slow start. We did manage a couple of small partnerships but never enough to threaten the Emus’ total. Ben Laughton and Brad Doody both looked good and worked hard to get us back in the game but a steady loss of wickets finally was our downfall.

Overall, it was a good game and we saw some excellent young talent from the Emus team.