A BRILLIANT weekend of cricket for the Bathurst City club was capped off on Sunday with the Redbacks' convincing victory over Lithgow Lightning in their Bonnor Cup clash at George Park 1.
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City restricted the visitors to just 8-97 from their 20 overs before they chased down the target with five wickets and more than five overs still in hand.
Clint Moxon was the player of the game for Bathurst City with his figures of 4-17 from his four overs, while new recruit Muditha Adikari claimed 2-15.
Olly Simpson bounced back from a tough BOIDC outing the previous day to top score for the Redbacks with a quick-fire 26 off 14 deliveries.
All six Bathurst City batsmen who faced a delivery managed to make their way to double figures in a solid team performance.
Redbacks Bonnor Cup captain Mark Day said while it was far from perfect it was a nice way to cap off two great days for the club.
"It was a good weekend for the club. I think we only had the one loss across all grades for the weekend, and that's something we probably haven't done for a while," he said.
"Sunday was great. We're never really sure what sort of team Lithgow can end up bringing down but we had a comfortable win. There's obviously lots that we can work on coming out of that game."
Batting and bowling each had their bright spots in the eyes of Day but he said there's still work to be done in the field.
"I lost count of how many catches we dropped so that's what the boys will be doing on Wednesday," he said.
"But there were some excellent performances with the ball. I was really pleased with that. Chasing 90-odd doesn't give a great gauge for where the batting is at but we probably lost one or two more wickets than we'd planned.
"We have some plans for Mocko's bowling and he started to execute them really well towards the end of last season. We thought we'd stick with the same plans and they're working well.
"Muditha rocked up to training on Wednesday, killed it, and went straight into ones. He'll be unreal. He hasn't played for about four years so once he gets match fit he'll be awesome."
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