Of Bushrangers...

This scorecard! :O

The Pura Cup final.. Supposedly the top 2 cricket teams in Australia battling it out over 5 close fought days.. Or not!

Day 1 - Victorian Bushrangers - 5/269
Day 2 - Victorian Bushrangers - 344 all out, Queensland Bulls 1/301
Day 3 - Queensland Bulls - 3/584
Day 4 - Queensland Bulls - 6/900 declared
Day 5 - Victorian Bushrangers - 202 all out.

Margin of victory - an innings and 354 runs.

Jimmy Maher 223
Shane Watson 201
Clinton Perren 173
Martin Love 169

One thought this type of score does bring to mind is..

If this match was played in the subcontinent or Pakistan.. Would there be accusations of match-fixing?

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And on a better note for one set of Bushrangers (the Dardanup Bushrangers) who won the 14/U South West cricket grand final on Sunday. Played over 50-overs per side the Leschanault team batted first (even stranger, they are also called the Bushrangers) :/
and scored 97 runs, which the team from Dardy soon had achieved with only 2 wickets lost! My 14-yr old brother who plays for Dardanup, was named in the 4 best players of the match, for his great stump-to-stump bowling and haul of 2-12 off 10 overs. :)