By JARROD POTTER
VICTORIAN PREMIER CRICKET – 1st Round 9 (One day)
CASEY-SOUTH MELBOURNE (6/139) squandered its best chance yet of points after skittling Ringwood (6/148cc) in their Twenty20 clash at Casey Fields.
Chris Hall (3/24) opened the bowling and struck early alongside Simon Black (2/37). A fiery opening stand between Josh Holden (50) and Dan Watson (43) then put the Swans in a great position early at 0/100, but the wheels fell off after the duo were dismissed as Casey spun its way to nine short at 6/139.
Sunday’s Round 10 was washed out leaving Casey to host Essendon on Saturday afternoon in Round-11 Twenty20 action.
WELCOMED back in more ways than one, Dandenong (112) all-rounder James Pattinson made his bowling return in the Panthers’ five-wicket Twenty20 loss to Monash Tigers (5/113).
Quick wickets first up left Dandenong in all sorts at 3/15 and the innings never recovered from there as Brett Forsyth’s (41) heroics came to an end, hitting out against Melbourne Renegades’ spinner Aaron O’Brien (3/30).
Shots were hammered impressively past Dandenong’s attack by Andrew Chalkley (42 not out), who finished off the job for the Tigers. James Wilcock (2/13) and James Nanopoulos (2/16) were the best of the Panthers’ attack.
