In a shortened match due to rain interruptions, the Baw Baw Veterans Cricket team were well and truly outplayed by the home team, Canterbury Cricket Club.

The players ventured down to Deepdene Park on Whitehorse Road in Melbourne to find a well-presented ground with a turf wicket that had nothing in it for the bowlers, and short boundaries and quick outfield.
If ever there was a toss to win, today was the day. Baw Baw lost the toss.
Canterbury chose to bat, of course, and got off to a very quick start.
After four overs their score of 1/22 didn't seem too bad, but by the end of the tenth over, the score was 82 without further loss. Canterbury was on target for ~320.
By the drinks break the score had reached 148 without further loss, so the run rate had slowed, but only slightly.
Unfortunately, the game was interrupted two or three time through rain during the course of the next 14 overs.
An early lunch was called after 30 overs, and it was decided to reduce the game to 35 overs each. Four overs after lunch the rain came again, so the innings was called at that point, with Canterbury finishing on 5/219 runs.
Their innings included 24 fours and a six. A combination of quick fielding and poor calling by Canterbury saw Baw Baw pick up three run outs and the only bowlers to take a wicket were Tony Wyatt and Brett Carey.
Without naming names, five of Baw Baw's bowlers had runs scored off their bowling at rates of 6.3, 7.5, 6.1, 7.0 and 10.1. In all their bowlers couldn't seem to find a consistent line.
The Baw Baw innings began with a required run rate of slightly less that 6.5 per over for the whole 34 overs – a tough ask.
However, openers Tony Wyatt and Mark McLauchlan got off to a flier for the second week in a row.
After five overs, the score was 56 with 11 boundaries. A bit of a muck-up in the scoring saw Wyatt retire early showing 40 on the board off 24 balls when in fact he was 32 off only 18. So, the error potentially cost the team at least a further eight runs.
As it turned out, it wouldn't have mattered, because once Wyatt retired and McLauchlan was out, six wickets fell for 28 runs and the game was lost.
Rod Pallot and Russell Vincent ensured that Baw Baw batted for our full 34 overs by contributing 14*. and 17* respectively, but in the end, Baw Baw only reached 8 for 116.
Man of the match for Baw Baw was Tony Wyatt once again, with a terrific all-round performance.