Round 2 saw the 1st XI take St Barnies down at Myrtle Oval. After losing the toss for the consecutive week, the 1s were sent in on a seaming deck. It was tough early doors for the Marcellin batsman but got through to lunch with the score around 4/80 with Whitey and Blacky still at the crease. The lunch break seemed to give the pitch a bit of time to dry and and it was all Marcellin for the remainder of the day. 40+ runs for White, Black and Burty and also a lovely 57 from Minto ensured that the Marcellin bowlers had something to bowl to. The innings coming to a close with the score of 8/269, a very competitive total.

Not a great match for the 2’s as we went down by 5 wickets to our old rivals North Balwyn. After winning the toss and being sent in our top order failed to fire with the score 3/7 at one stage. Luckily Lachie Evans for the second week in a row steered us away from disaster with a fantastic 81.

Round two saw the Marcellin Planning Partners third XI down at their forever uneven home deck of McCutcheon Oval against Ashwood’s 2nds. With the toss won by our fearless skipper P-Dinny, and the message of “bat the full 80 and we win the match” being drummed out; the boys warmed up their forward defence ready for a long grind. As many players had never played C grade cricket or an 80 over match before, it set the scene for a game of firsts for many of our players.

The 2015/16 season started for the B turf defending champions with a humid and muggy one dayer at Glen Iris. It got off to the worst possible start with news that the umpire had called in sick. It had already been a rough morning for opening bowler Day whose hopes that, “Shaving my head will be fine, I’ll probably end up looking like Juddy”, were sadly misguided.