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10 December, 2025
Knights struggle at home
COBDEN went down to Bookaar in the round eight Colac-South West premier division cricket match at Cobden on Saturday.
Skipper Johno Benallack won the toss and elected to bat first in the day/night encounter, reduced to 40 overs per team.
The Knights were in big trouble early, at 3/8, before a 78 run partnership for the fourth wicket between brothers Matt and Lachy Boyle steadied the ship.
Lachy Boyle hit 47 from 37 balls with six fours and a six.
Matt Boyle made 40 from 74 balls, with Brandon Goodhall (18) and Parker Walsh (17) the only others to make double figures as Cobden was dismissed in the 37th over for 160.
“Matt and Lachy batted really well on a spicy deck that had been under the covers,” Benallack said.
“You don’t often see Matty bat as slow as that but he did a great job, while Lachy hit the ball very cleanly.”
One hundred and 60 was slightly under what the Knights captain was after.
“Par was probably 180, we left 10 to 15 runs out there,” he said.
In Bookaar’s innings Parker Walsh took the early wicket of Simon Baker for five before the Pelicans put on 74 for the second wicket.
The visitors passed Cobden’s score in the 39th over seven wickets down.
“It was a close game pretty much all the way through, we weren’t far off.”
Parker Walsh with 2/17 from seven overs and Ash Rosolin with 2/20 from eight were the best of the Knights bowlers.
“Parker keeps hitting really good lengths, Roso (Rosolin) bowled extremely well in an important pace off role.”
The other wicket takers were Darcy Meade, with 1/24 from eight overs, and Campbell Walsh, who took 1/23 from 4.5 overs in a rare foray to the bowling crease.
“Darcy is just ultra consistent and did a good job with the new ball.
“Campbell bowls very similar (to brother) Parker so we thought he was worth a try, he came on and bowled well.”
COLAC SOUTH WEST CRICKET - PREMIER DIVISION
ONE DAY MATCH
COBDEN V BOOKAAR
Cobden 10/160 (36.4) lost to Bookaar 7/162 (38.5)
This week Cobden will host Birregurra at the Cobden Community Bank Recreation Reserve.
“Birregurra has been going well on hard wickets, it will be very interesting to see how they match up on turf.”
No play was possible in Cobden’s division two match against Ecklin at Frederick St oval.
This week the division two Knights have the bye.
In division three, 32 overs were played in the Cobden v Pomborneit Maroon match at the Timboon High School oval before play was abandoned.
Maroon had made 7/131 before the rain set in.
Raghavendra Rangarajan took 4/24 from eight overs to be Cobden’s best bowler.
This week in division three Cobden will play Woorndoo at Woorndoo.
Cobden’s under 16s had two wins last week, defeating Pomborneit in a Twenty20 game at South Purrumbete on Thursday night by six wickets, and defeating Heytesbury-Princetown at Timboon on Sunday by 102 runs.
Two wickets each to Mikey Benallack, Ben Vogels and Rhys Darcy on Thursday saw Pomborneit all out for 68.
Cobden replied with 4/80 from its 20 overs, Max Slater top scoring with 30 retired.
On Sunday, Cobden batted first and made 7/190 from its 35 overs.
Sam Mahncke top scored with 51 retired, with Mikey Benallack making 39.
Heytesbury-Princetown replied with 88, with Monty Darcy and Braxton Srdoc taking two wickets each.
In the under 13s, Cobden had the bye.
This Monday the under 13 Knights will play Pomborneit at Pomborneit.
In the Warrnambool Moyne District CA women’s competition, Koroit forfeited to Cobden.
This Sunday Cobden plays Wangoom at Wangoom.
In the South West CA women’s competition, the Cobden Blue v Bookaar game, scheduled before the division one men’s game on Saturday, was washed out.
On Wednesday night, Cobden Gold had a 24 run win over Nirranda at South Purrumbete.
Nirranda batted first, making 4/106 from its 20 overs.
Anna Dickson and Akeisha Bishop took a wicket each for Gold.
In reply, Gold made 6/130 from 20 overs.
Abbie Hanks top scored with 33 retired from 21 balls, hitting four fours and two sixes.
In tonight’s games, Cobden Blue play Ecklin at Ecklin, while Cobden Gold host Bookaar at South Purrumbete.
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