Consistent opening batsman Billy McLay has also been given the nod from the Cricket Shepparton selectors after some consistent scores this season.
Tyler Larkin, son of Stanhope Cricket Club premiership coach Rohan and multi premiership winner and captain of the Cricket Shepparton Central Park St Brendan’s team, will skipper the local side with Mueller his deputy.
The Cricket Shepparton squad is: Tyler Larkin, Kyle Mueller, Connor Hayes, Luke Nolen, Mark Nolen, Mitch Winter-Irving, Mitch Cleeland, Jesse Trower, Liam Evans, Henry Barrow, Blake Armstrong, Billy McLay, Chaz Cheatly and Sam Nash. Paul Trevaskis is the manager.
The 50 overs game starts at 10.30am and features most of the best performed cricketers in both the strong Shepparton and Bendigo competitions.
Drinks and a barbecue are available.
Treasured colt dies
It was one of those weekends when you weren’t quite sure whether to laugh or cry.
A Friday two weeks ago started normally for me — a quick breakfast and look at the form guide, specifically the Melton trots meeting that night because a trotter I have interest in, Claudys Hero, was running.
Then my son-in-law arrived to spoil and shatter my day.
He had called to tell me the third foal of Claudys Princess’, who was bred in September last year, had just died at a stud in Queensland from a snake bite.
Talk about mixed feelings when that news hit.
The colt foal was by highly credentialed American sire Propulsion and naturally I and the other syndicate owners of Claudys Princess had probably unreal expectations of what he might develop into.
We will never know now, but there is not cost in dreaming.
But even the grief of the colt’s death was momentarily smothered that evening when Claudys Hero, (did he know something?), put up a huge run to win at Melton in quick time.
It was also a special win because Claudys Hero is only the second foal out of a mare I bred, Claudys Princess, a dual winner of Australia’s female Trotting Mare of the Year winner in her prime racing days nearly a decade ago.
