Staggy Creek A Grade batted first against Tattersalls Rats and slumped to a dismal 8-86, but the saviour of the innings was Troy Brabant who finished with an unbeaten 102 runs. Mick Kenny completed a fine innings of 52, then last wicket batsman Jon Krauss carried on the fight back with 39. Krauss and Brabant smashed a tenth wicket partnership of 124 to complete Staggy Creeks revival and tally 289.

Jacob Haines took 6-33 for Rats to engineer the collapse but then observed the match-winning onslaught by Staggys’ tail-enders. Rats faced a huge task and at innings end their 136 fell way short of a victory celebration. Guy Mepham made 33 not out and Jacob Haines with 32 completed a fine personal performance. Blake Whitechurch starred with the ball to finish with 6-29. Troy Brabant took four catches to add to his undefeated century.

The other A Grade match saw an upset of sorts with RSM rolling an understrengthed Campbell & Freebairn. C & F batted first and were all out for 115. Tony Blake top scored with 24 while for RSM, Russ Campbell took a fine 4-23. Todd Hughes took the first three wickets to finish with 3-26. RSM chased down the relatively small total but were a shaky 4-45 at one stage.

Scott Leonard steered his side to victory with a well made 38 not out and Jackson Stafford scored a confident 24. Tony Blake was the best bowler for C & F with 3-34.

In B Grade Oxford Invincibles struggled to 98 against Tingha with Jesse Williams making 31. GT Livermore stood out for Tingha with 5-21 and Raymond Connors snared 3-16.

Just 99 runs stood between Tingha and victory. However, they folded to be all out for 65. Scott Peterson took a fine 6-28 and was supported by Jesse Williams with 4-35. The other B Grade encounter saw Empire Warriors, 8-247 defeat RSM all out for 110.

In representative cricket on Sunday, October 16, Inverell played Glen Innes in Round 2 of the McDonalds Country Plate at McCosker 1 Oval. Inverell won the toss and batted first, accumulating 9-256 off their fifty overs. They were best served by Dave Mudaliar with 53, Sage Cook 40 and Richard Wilson 23.

Glen Innes struggled in reply and were bundled out for 75 to hand Inverell an easy first innings victory. Tom Scoble opened the attack and had Glen Innes reeling to finish with 4-11 while Jai Tasker showed fine control to take 4-7 off 5.3 overs. In the field Josh Cook claimed an outstanding catch in the slips. Inverell now advance to Round 3 and will oppose Narrabri at Inverell this Sunday.