Bathurst’s Adam Ryan, by his own admission, didn’t hit the ball as well as he would have liked throughout his innings in Tuesday’s Cricket NSW Plan B Regional Bash semi-final.
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But the fact that innings was at the Sydney Cricket Ground means he’ll still rate the respectable knock of 40 off 41 balls as a career highlight.
The St Pat’s Old Boys gun was tasked with resurrecting the Central West’s innings in its Plan B Regional Bash semi-final with the ACT, after some superb early bowling the Aces’ seamers left the Wranglers’ reeling at 3-33.
Ryan was soon joined by skipper Jameel Qureshi when the score was 4-40, and the pair went about their rescue mission with the sort of class and patience you’d expect from two of Western Zone’s best bats.
The duo put on 71 for the fifth wicket to help lift Central West to the respectable total of 5-111 from 20 overs.
Ryan, though, said there was one thing missing.
“I just wish I could have found the boundary a bit more often,” Ryan said, hitting two fours during his 43 minutes at the crease.
His batting partner for a lot of that time, Qureshi also found the boundary twice. In total, Central West managed to find or clear the fence on six occasions.
ACT gun Tim Floros hit nine fours, the Aces 13 in total. It proved the difference in the six-wicket semi-final win.
Still, playing on the SCG isn’t something these Wranglers will forget in a hurry, least of all Ryan.
“It was surreal,” he said looking back on his time in the middle.
“It went so fast though. It was good fun, I enjoyed every moment and it’s something I’ll never forget.”
Ryan said the SCG deck was great to bat on, but the class of the ACT fielders made life tough out in the middle.
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“They bowled well and their fielding placements were tough, I just couldn’t hit the gap,” he added.
“The only thing that’d beat this experience would be a packet stadium.”
Ryan said the whole Regional Bash experience this summer has been tremendous.
“It’s great to play that higher standard of cricket and go back and share that with your clubs,” he said.
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Nick McGrath
Editor, Central Western Daily
Editor, Central Western Daily
