The Cowra Bowling Club have a simple equation ahead of them: Win the next three matches and they make finals.
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However, while they can thank a downturn in form from cross-town rivals the Cowra Valleys, skipper Chris Day is under no illusions about what faces his side this Saturday afternoon at Holman Oval.
Parkes’ Royal Colts have been the dominant team in the Lachlan Premier League, only losing one match for the entire season, and were relentless in their dismantling of Canowindra last week, bowling the visitors out at Woodward Oval for 66 runs.
Day knows his side can’t look too far ahead.
“We’re focusing on the job this week,” Day said, who despite the formidable form of the opposition, is looking to back his team’s brand of play in to win the game.
“We’ve got a couple of blokes at the top that go pretty hard… they’re not going to change the way they play.
“You mightn’t get as many boundaries from them, but look for ones or twos and get them to change line and length.”
That’s what you play sport for, is to play finals
- Bowling Club skipper Chris Day
He added that this has been reflective of his side’s on-field philosophy for most of the year, honing in on cricket’s basics with a young team that has grown in confidence as the season progressed.
“We’ve just got to do the basics… be very proactive with the bat, bat our forty overs… make the most of all our chances,” Day said.
While the Bowling Club have lost batsmen and leg spinner Ben Colby this week, they have regained stalwart Nick Berry, who returns from a long layoff to bolster the team’s batting lineup.
Sans Colby, it is a line up that is almost full strength, with Day looking to back his young side in to make what for many of them will be their first appearance in finals at A-Grade level.
“That’s what you play sport for, is to play finals,” Day said.
“[The] coming games are do or die games for us and we have every confidence they’ll stand up for us.”
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