Chris Thewlis blasts 63 off 21 balls for Rye in MPCA Twenty20 game
A Camberwell Magpies big hitter has smashed a barrage of sixes in a T20 game for Rye, with one ball landing in a very unusual spot.
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He’s done it again.
Camberwell Magpies big hitter Chris Thewlis has blitzed the bowling while appearing as a marquee player for Rye in a Mornington Peninsula Twenty20 match on Tuesday night.
Thewlis blasted 63 off 21 balls (7 sixes, 4 fours) as Rye chased down Boneo’s 5-99 in only 7.5 overs at Rowley Reserve.
One of his sixes landed in a skate bowl at a nearby skate park.
Rye opener Nathan Hunt played the anchor role, making a more-than-respectable 38 not out.
Thewlis grabbed headlines when he made 237 off 72 balls for Camberwell Magpies in a Premier seconds game last season.
Last month he cracked 45 off 18 balls (5 fours, 3 sixes) for Rye in the opening round of the T20 Jack Peacock Cup.
Thewlis is pals with Rye captain Jordan Blades. They’re both from Wangaratta.
Rye has won two of its three T20 games to sit second on the south conference ladder.
In other eye-catching performances on Tuesday night:
*Rosebud captain Patrick Nagel captured 4-11, including a hat-trick, to send Dromana crashing all out for 93 after it was cruising at 4-93. In reply, the Sharks coasted to 97 off 15.5 overs, with Jarrod Hicks (41no) completing the job for the undefeated Rosebud.
*Casey South Melbourne captain Michael Wallace blasted 42no to propel undefeated Somerville (1-91 off 13 overs) past Moorooduc (90). Brad McDonald snared 3-6.
*Baxter leg spinner Yohan Maddege returned the stunning figures of 4-8 off four overs against Flinders, which recovered to secure the win, with Dwayne Field (29 off 22 balls and 3-14) having an outstanding game.
*Tyabb paceman Sam Holland-Burch continued his stunning form, taking 4-13 off four overs in a win over Crib Point. It followed his nine-wicket haul in a two-day match for the Yabbies last week.
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