The Under 16 Douglas Muddies started off with a win in their first game of the season at the Port Douglas Sport Complex playing a one-dayer against Norths last Saturday.

Captain Kaiden Sorensen lost the toss and the opposition chose to bat. Playing his first U16 match with his new team, Keel Sorensen opened the attack with some great spin bowling.  

Muddies' first four bowlers restricted the opposition score to only 8 after seven overs.

Nathan Evans was the first to breakthrough with only his fourth ball and had the opposition 1-12 before Michael Schulz followed suit by claiming two wickets with catches to wicketkeeper Ethan McCullough and Hayden D’Addona.

Bowling figures for the Muddies were Tom Goodall 1/1 off 4 overs, Kaiden Sorensen 1-4 off 4, Michael 2-10 off 4, Nathan 1-3 off 2, Keel Sorensen 0-5 off 3 overs, Hayden 0-10 off 4, Adon Trewick 0-5 off 3, Sean Evans 0-4 off 2, Ashley Davison 0-5 off 2, and Ben Shrimpton 0-5 off 4. 

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The Norths batting total after 32 overs was 6/53.

The Muddies went in to bat needing 54 to win in 32 overs. Hayden and Ashley opened the batting but lost their wickets as Ben and Ethan steadied the ship and led the team to 3/57 after 16 overs.

After 29.3 overs the Muddies were all out for 93 with Ethan top scoring on 23 and Ben not out on 20 runs. The Muddies won by 40 runs.

The Muddies U16s have a bye for the next two weeks but many of the players have some busy Sundays ahead with representative trials.