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29 January 2023

The annual game between Dayboro and Samford was held on a sapping hot day. The Ben Winn Memorial Shield brings a different energy to the other cricket held before Christmas. The eskies are longer, the crowd is bigger, and it felt about 10 degrees hotter.

Samford won the toss and elected to send Dayboro in. The unique rules of the Winn Shield – 40 overs and max 4 overs per bowler – lets every player know they’ve got a part to play. Ben Winn and Kane Zalewski opened, playing watchful shots to the moving orange ball and latching onto anything in their zone. In representative games like this, everyone can play. It means when you get a chance, it’s really important to take it, as you may not get another.

Samford put down three crucial chances in the early overs: Ben, Kane and Barra all got a second life. Mick Draper wound the clock back with some text book swing bowling, taking the dangerous wicket of Kane and the Rangers were hopeful. Barra did Barra things, playing cuts off the back foot when given width and playing confidently down the ground when over-pitched. Jordan Lane bowled an exceptional over to Barra in the over of his retirement, but the 2022 Tiger Lawson Award winner showed his class, chalking up 53 and putting Dayboro in a solid position.

Charlie Geddes and Adam Heathwood kept the scoreboard ticking along, picking the gaps in the field and notching up boundaries. In the end, 40 overs of good bowling, good batting and rough fielding equated to a total of 201. Five an over was a challenging ask, but Samford felt if they could bat the overs, they’d go close to the target.

Batting your overs is the secret of Winn Shield. If you can hold on for the full allocation, things tend to work out. Spoiler alert – Samford did not bat their overs. Several batsmen started well and looked likely – Steve Simpson looked in good touch, Rod Shanley hit some lovely boundaries, Julian Heap used his long levers. But just as something was building, it was snuffed out, either through excellent Dayboro catching or just the right field setting. Ben Winn deployed an excellent

“three out” field, coupled with accurate and well-pitched slow bowling. Time and time again, Samford fell into the trap set by Jimmy Flynn, Boyd McKenzie and Mal Geddes (who is actually pretty quick).

Ben Jordin played a gritty knock of 42, at one point necking a mouthful of table salt to keep cramps at bay, but he eventually ran out of partners, Samford all out for 120.

Nikki Boyd MP, Member for Pine Rivers, presented the Tiger Lawson Award to Barra for player of the Chronicle Cup series. The Flynn family presented Charlie Geddes with the Kerry Flynn Memorial Shield for man of the match and in a fitting touch, Ben Winn was presented the shield, named in his grandfather’s honour, by his parents.

A report on the day wouldn’t be complete without mentioning who was absent. My Dad, David Bannerman, is unwell and couldn’t attend. We’ve received news recently that he might not be with us for much longer. The comradery and the spirit that Dad tried so hard to grow was on full display. Bringing people together, living in the present, enjoying each other’s company. He would have loved it. Stories about Dave flowed after the game. He means a lot to a lot of people. I’m proud to be his son.

Gavin Bannerman

VILLAGE PUMP NOTICEBOARD - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

This is an edited version of an original email sent to ABC journalist Antonia

O’Flaherty.

Good Morning Antonia,

My partner Kerry and I purchased our beautiful 40 acre property at Cedar Creek in 2015. We selected this property very carefully. It’s surrounded mostly by Council and State bushland, our closest neighbour is about 1km away and most importantly it has no road noise. We both need that peace and serenity for our mental wellbeing.

We built our mountain top dream home in 2017 and have loved living here, until the flight path changes were introduced and the plane noise frequency became excessive. The plane noise exhaustion for us didn’t happen suddenly, it’s an accumulative thing that slowly builds and over time becomes almost unbearable. We did the unthinkable and we actually considered selling our beloved home, however we couldn’t bring ourselves to move.

We understand that we live close to the major capital city and some plane noise is unavoidable, however for us, it’s the concentration of flights over our home that we feel is so unfair. It’s the continuous stream of roaring jets that continues hour after hour that wears you down. It ruins your mood and can destroy what was otherwise going to be a peaceful and relaxing day.

We believe the flight noise should be shared throughout Brisbane and not concentrated over a few flight paths, as it’s the frequency that wears you down. One or two flights an hour is tolerable, however a stream of almost constant jet noise is not. Aside from creating additional flights to share the noise, we believe BAC needs to demand more flights take off and land over the bay and also Amberley needs to provide their airspace to commercial flights.

The most disgusting and inhuman matter we believe is Brisbane’s lack of a flight curfew. To regularly be woken up by a roaring jet in the middle of the night is beyond infuriating. The requirement for humans to have 7-8 hours of quality sleep is well understood and for a corporation to be allowed to take away our human right to have undisturbed sleep in the name of profit is criminal. Even from a purely economic standpoint, I’m certain that the reduction in productivity that comes about through a loss of sleep would far exceed the profit gained by allowing late night flights.

Craig

On Friday 27th January 2023 my dwindling faith in human nature was restored: shortly after I broke down on Mount Glorious Road at midday, in that awful heat with groceries in the car, a young man stopped and came to my aid. We tried to re-start my car and he was willing to drive behind me in case it broke down again – it did, and so he got all of my groceries out of my car and into his and drove me home. His name is Peter and he lives on the mountain and I am so very thankful and grateful for his kindness and help.

Later, when trying to load my car onto a trailer to take it to the garage, yet another young man stopped and rushed over to help push the car up onto the trailer. Chivalry is alive in Samford.

Thank you to both those young men.

And my deepest gratitude too to my lovely neighbours Lynn and John for their efforts in taking their trailer to my car, loading it and then driving us to the garage at Keperra.

Sally Culver