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Master blaster fires for Buckley By Nick Creely Source:-dandenong Buckley Ridges champion Daniel ‘DJ’ Watson sent a reminder of his sheer power and class with a dominant century against HSD to guide the Bucks to a barnstorming win on Saturday. DJ – who has produced many performances of his glittering career at Park Oval that have turned heads and sent others ducking for cover – belted an unbeaten 138 from 124 balls against the Cobras in his first Turf 1 century since 2017/18. After being sent in to bat, Watson and new recruit Ian Cockbain (14) – the Gloucestershire batsman making his debut for the club – were fluent early on notching up 33 for the first wicket before the home side broke through to remove the dangerous top-order star. Despite falling to 3/97, Watson blew the home side away with a whirlwind century on a big ground, combining power with clever shot ...

“A WALK WITH THE LORD” – By Des Kelly Once again, the author of the above story is unknown, still, it comes in at an appropriate time, as EVERYONE in Australia at the moment is requested to PRAY to this same LORD, for rain in the drought stricken areas of this huge Country, where farmers are now at their wits end, and are losing not only their cattle and crops, but their mental faculties, as well, worrying about the rains that are almost non-existant, and have been so, for, in many cases, much longer than ever before. I have been in Australia for 57 years, and this is the first time that a public announcement has been made to this effect. Several Country Towns-People ARE NOW PRAYING FOR RAIN, and happily, some of these areas have already had some showers of blessing, which means that their prayers ...