Local cricket: The best MPCA, VSDCA and Premier Cricket photos
Batters scored with ease but bowlers also sent the stumps flying across Melbourne at the weekend. Here are our best photos.
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As Melbourne’s weather finally heated up so did the action on cricket fields across the city.
From right on Port Phillip Bay to the Mornington Peninsula, competitions ramped up their seasons as the Christmas break drew even closer.
Leader Local Cricket’s photographers captured the action in the Cricket Southern Bayside, Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association, Victorian Premier Cricket and Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.
You can see the best photos from our photographers in the gallery below.
Our photographers were also there to capture the action from the second round of the Youth Premier League at Casey Fields on Sunday.
You can see those photos here.
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