The mighty Crocs took on Yass on the turf at Victoria Park on a hot and blustery afternoon on November 28.
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Captain Courageous Josh 'Mr Bump' Carmody won the toss and for the third game straight, the Crocs found themselves in the field in the first innings.
The boys had a spring in their step after some improving bowling and fielding performances over the past three games.
Jacob Carmody and Chris Dwyer were given the new rock duties and promptly set up arguably the greatest tandem opening bowling spell this competition has ever seen.
Dwyer was hooping them around corners, and although he didn't get a breakthrough, at one point bowled 18 dots straight.
His partner-in-crime Carmody was bowling pure heat from the Caravan Park End and nipped one 55cm off the seam to take the middle stump of a quality opening batsman.
Both bowled their eight overs straight to have Yass 1-30 at drinks.
The next period saw the Crocs dominate proceedings with brilliant catches from Alex Blomfield, James Green and Brendan 'Evergreen' Whitechurch.
Blomfield chipped in with three wickets himself, much to the frustration of his wicket-less cousin.
Jacob Piper and Jason Stuart cleaned up the tail with 2 wickets a piece, throw in two brilliant run-outs from Dwyer and Piper and the boys had bowled out the competition leaders for 108. It was a deserved result from a quality bowling and fielding effort in difficult conditions.
Unfortunately, that was about the end of the positives for the boys for the remainder of the day.
The Crocs posted 72 in reply, with Dwyer providing a good knock of 24, to lose by 36 runs in what was a very winnable game over the competition's best.
Champagne Moment: Tied between Greeny's ripping catch at short cover, and the opening spell from Carmody and Dwyer.
A**-Clown of the Week: Jacob Carmody chanting 'Bowling Sheany' from fine leg - odd since Sheany hasn't bowled since the summer of 2003.
Player's Player: Chris Dwyer in an absolute landslide.
Positives: Fielding, bowling, chat, banter, catching, after-match functions, squad, The Whitechurch return
Negatives: Batting.
Quote of the Day: "You don't win Premierships in November" - The Skipper. Never a truer word spoken.
See you all at Boorowa this weekend for a quality game against Gundaroo.
Last home game the fans in attendance were treated to two Crocs fielding in their undies for a few balls after fishing sixes out of the creek.
Treat yourselves and come down for a look.
