Newest Sporting Venture - Cricket!

After an extremely shaky start (the first team they joined folded due to insufficient players)
Ella and Mia played their first game of cricket!

Cricket training has been scheduled for Mondays from 4.30 - 5.30pm making our Monday nights a little crazy as both girls are tied up with swimming from 5.30 - 7pm! Anyhow we are living one Monday at a time and so far have made this work.

Last Monday night, the girls met their other team mates - two 13yr old cousins, plus 3 other 8/9 yr olds  (two of which also are at Aranda!). The girls were also introduced to their coach, Zoe who took them through their paces in the nets. The girls looked so little all kitted up in their gear!

Meanwhile to keep Katy entertained, we played rocket golf (an offshoot of frisbee golf).

Two days later, in their official Wests uniforms, the girls played against Weston Creek at Duffy Oval. It was a 120 ball match that was cut short thanks to a heavy downpour. Again Andy, I and Susie juggled life and all made it to the match.

Susie had a steep learning curve having to record the stats for the first half of the game. Each girl faced 17 balls, bowled 2 overs and played in all the different fielding positions (except for wicket keeping).

It was great to have a lovely team to play against and learn the ins and outs of the game. The older girls in our team also did a wonderful job in passing on lots of tips to the young ones.

Ella had fun. She scored 3 runs, enjoyed being the wicket keeper for half the match and bowled fairly well.