Cricket washout standard procedure

YOU can practically bet on it that there’ll be rain on the first Saturday in October.

And right on cue, the rain arrived in the western end of the Leongatha and District Cricket Association at about 1pm just as Phillip Island was getting set to take the field against Korumburra.

But it wasn’t to be. A lot of games started in A and B Grade but none reached any sort of a conclusion as the mid-afternoon rain settled in.

The best Phillip Island could do last week was a well-attended training run at the nets beside a forlorn looking Cowes oval, which after the pressure of a busy football season on newly laid grass will not be ready for play for months.

There’s been talk that the ground was sown with the wrong sort of grass, but that’s a discussion for another day.

Phillip Island coach Daniel Mock said the club was looking forward to a new season with a new-look A Grade lineup keen to be competitive again after success in 2023-24.