By Matt Zell

Curban have defeated Baradine by 7 wickets to take out the 2021/22 Ossie Carrett Cup Grand Final on Saturday @ McGrane Oval.

Winning the toss & electing to bat, Baradine got off to a fair start with T McGlashin, Reagan Evans & Paul Leonard all making starts before being dismissed in their teens.

Alex Hunter (26) & M Johnston (18) combined for a valuable partnership but boundaries were hard to come by with Doug Kelly (3/17) & Scott Chandler (1/14 off 8) both miserly.

Baradine managed to bat out their 45 overs & finished with 7/117. Curban’s run chase could have started in the worst possible way had it not been for the generosity of a Baradine fieldsman who dropped Doug Kelly first ball of the innings.

This proved to be extremely costly as he went on to compile 77 knock out to continue his stellar run of form of late. Doug was well supported by John Bunter who made 24 in an opening partnership of 92.

Tim Gasby chipped in with a brisk 8 before he became the 2^nd of Ben Hjort’s 3 victims. Unfortunately Ben was the only Baradine bowler to feature in the wickets colomn as Kelly polished off the required runs with minimal effort.

Curban passed the total 3 wickets down with 16 overs to spare to be declared the winners of the Ossie Carrett Cup. A huge congratulations to Curban & special thanks to Baradine who took the field with just 9 players due to a team mates' wedding.

One other special mention to Georgia Allen who fielded from fine leg to fine leg for Baradine with a big smile on her face the whole time. She was rewarded with a bowl after the match was concluded & managed to take the prize wicket of Andrew Peart who was hit plumb in front with one that jagged back off the pitch.