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Sanjaya lives up to spin

When former Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell suggests you get a certain player out from overseas to play cricket, you sit up and listen. Chappell,...

Bats send Falcons down to the cellar

Plenty Valley has consigned Roxburgh Park Broadmeadows to the bottom of the north-east ladder in Victorian Sub-District cricket. In a rematch of last year’s north-west...

Teen a cricket star on the rise

Plenty Valley’s Sophie Van De Heuvel is a name to watch out for in Australian women’s cricket. Van De Heuvel, who was 15 last week,...

Top four still in sight for Craigieburn

Craigieburn knows a win in the final game before Christmas is vital to its finals chances in Victorian Turf Cricket’s North A1 division. With his...

Plenty finds a way to win

Plenty Valley has finally tasted victory in the Women’s Premier Cricket season. After losing the first eight rounds, the Bats comprehensively beat Dandenong in a...

Kangaroos win the Wright way

Greenvale Kangaroos have jumped out of the blocks in the early rounds of Victorian Turf Cricket’s senior division. And in bad news for opposition sides,...

Keon Park confident of turning the run chase tide

Keon Park is hoping that Saturday’s run chase is the start of a turnaround when batting second in the North Metro Cricket Association. After struggling...

Roos fail to bounce back

Its winless start has taken on form for Greenvale Kangaroos, which lost both its Victorian Premier Cricket T20s at the weekend. It was a tough...

Plenty of work for Bats to do

Despite being on track for a fourth win of the Sub-District cricket season, Plenty Valley knows there’s still a lot of work to be...

Young Burras take flight

Gladstone Park is starting to reap the rewards of promoting home grown talent in the North West Metropolitan Cricket Association. Runners-up last year in the...

Bats work hard to put it all together

There’s plenty of positive signs for the Plenty Valley women’s Premier Cricket side. The Bats sit on the bottom of the table without a win...

Mernda breaks its duck

Mernda got its first win of the season in Diamond Valley Cricket’s Barclay Shield on Saturday. They reached a target of 163 with three wickets...

Girls at the cutting edge

Local cricket is slowly growing its female profile as Westmeadows fields its first girls’ cricket side. The team is playing in the North West Metropolitan...

Craigieburn in big build

Craigieburn has come out on top against local rival Broadmeadows. At a time when the club is dealing with its rooms being rebuilt, Craigieburn is...

Greenvale and Melbourne head for second-day battle

Despite a season’s-best batting performance, Greenvale Kangaroos find themselves on the back foot in Premier Cricket against Melbourne after day one. Looking for their first...

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Batting collapse proves costly for Kangaroos

Greenvale Kangaroos’ continue to show good patches of cricket but can’t put it together enough in Victorian Premier Cricket. The Kangaroos got themselves in...