By Tara Murray
Macedon’s 150th anniversary celebrations started a little bit earlier on Saturday as it opened its account in the Gisborne and District Cricket Association McIntyre Cup.
It was a special day for the Cats who had a function after the day’s action with three hall of famers inducted.
On field, the Cats were able to account for Broadford.
Cats skipper Gary De Rosayro said it was a pretty special day for the club.
“It was a good day,” he said. “It was the 150th for the club and you can not put into words what that means.
“After a little bit of research it was found that the club might have been around even longer than 150 years.
“We decided to mark 150 years as it’s hard to find the history before that time.”
De Rosayro said they had a big crowd watching the two games, first and second XI, before 80 to 100 people attended the function on Saturday night.
He said that was one of the bigger attendances they’ve had at a function.
“We have life members in attendance and family members of the hall of fame inductees. The three had passed away but had family members speak on their behalf.”
It was the second time in as many weeks that the Cats had faced Broadford.
The first of those matches was a one-dayer, on Saturday it was a T20 match.
De Rosayro said having never faced Broadford before they had got to know them well the last couple of weeks.
The Cats decided to bat on Saturday and made 5-187 from their 20 overs.
Alex Browne was the star of the show with an unbeaten 106 from 51 balls. He hit 12 fours and two sixes.
De Rosayro said they had been waiting for a performance like that from Browne.
“We got him across as a batter, but he had been performing more with the ball,” he said.
“We could see that an innings like that was coming and it came yesterday [Saturday].”
De Rosayro said they thought that total was well above par, but Broadford fought hard to make it a contest.
Broadford finished 6-170 off its 20 overs. Cameron Howlett took two wickets for the Cats.
De Rosayro said it had been a bit of a weird season results wise.
“We don’t feel like we’ve playing bad cricket,” he said. “There were a couple of games that we dropped that we should have won.
“We’ve improved a lot from last year, but we had more wins on the board at this time of the year last year.
“Everything finally clicked.”
De Rosayro said the Christmas break came at a good time to give them a break, but now they had a win on the board it would have been good to keep that momentum going.
In other matches, Gisborne secured top spot at the Christmas break with a win against Woodend.
Romsey moved into second with victory against the Sunbury Kangaroos, with Sunbury United winning a thriller against Rupertswood.
The GDCA returns on January 11.
