CENTENNIALS Bulls have enjoyed a number of highlights so far this season, but if they wish to climb off the bottom of the Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket Association ladder there's one area which must improve.
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According to top order batsman Kyle Aubin, it has been fielding which has let the Bulls down.
Last Friday night Aubin produced one of the best knocks of the Twenty20 Royal Hotel Cup season thus far when he blasted an unbeaten 70 off 49. It took his average in that competition to 102.
But his heroics with the bat was not enough as Bulls fell seven runs shy of victory against Cavaliers. The loss means Centennials will not advance to the finals of that competition.
Aubin felt it was fielding which cost them that match - the same element which has Bulls yet to win a BOIDC game this summer.
"We didn't drop any catches and that was a positive, but our ground fielding was poor. Just simple stuff like backing up on a throw when a run-out is on, that just wasn't done," Aubin said.
"Our fielding has been poor all year which has cost us every game bar the first two when we got bowled out cheaply.
"Every other game after that it has been our fielding which cost us.
"That's really what we need to work on, we are just dropping too many runs in that area when we don't have the strongest batting line up to chase. We need to be stopping as many runs as we can."
It has not all been negative for Bulls so far this season.
Blake Aubin currently sits third on the BOIDC's leading run scorer table with 280, which includes an impressive knock of 123.
He also hit an unbeaten 66 in the Royal Hotel Cup while Ethan Muller (44) and Tyler Horton (45) have made handy BOIDC contributions.
In terms of bowling, Horton's 4-79 against Rugby was a highlight.
But backing those sorts of efforts up in the field - as Kyle Aubin indicates - is crucial if Bulls are to turn things around.
