Newcastle District Cricket Association: Dan Bailey claims 13 wickets in Belmont outright against Waratah-Mayfield

The right-arm paceman took nine wickets across two innings at Waratah Oval on Saturday, finishing with match figures of 13-73 off 28.4 overs.

Bailey almost single-handedly guided Belmont to an outright result against Waratah-Mayfield, moving them from eighth to sixth on the Newcastle District Cricket Association competition ladder and three points shy of the top four at the Christmas break.

"I've never seen him [Bailey] bowl better," Hainsworth said.

"He's just bowling the house down.

"At one stage I was going to swing him round from the top end so he could bowl with the wind, but he kept taking wickets."

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Bailey and fellow seamer Jace Lawson already had six wickets between them from day one with Waratah resuming at 6-36 in reply to Belmont's 174.

The next four were all claimed by Bailey, who ended up with 8-40 in the first innings, as Waratah were dismissed for 71.

Belmont enforced the follow on and Bailey picked up where he left off, taking the first four of Waratah's second dig leaving the hosts 4-35 and still 68 behind.

Scott Mackenzie (44) provided some resistance and made the visitors bat again, but Waratah were eventually all out for 113 and Bailey (5-33) had his second five-wicket haul of the game.

Belmont were one down chasing the 11 runs required with 17.5 overs to spare.

"It was a great day for us," Hainsworth said.

"We got the four wickets we needed early, which was key because it could've been a different result if we couldn't enforce the follow on.

"It gave us an opportunity for a crucial outright and we ended up with maximum points."

Hainsworth said "our season" would now go on the line during January, with Belmont meeting University and Hamilton-Wickham in back-to-back encounters.

Elsewhere on Saturday and Wallsend also collected 10 points, jumping from equal fifth to equal fourth on the table.

Stockton resumed at 1-23 in their second innings, trailing by 25 after being dismissed for 115 and the hosts declaring 8-163 at Wallsend Oval.

The visitors were all out for 154 and Wallsend reached 2-109 in 35 overs to clinch the outright result.

Wallsend's Gary Geise added five more wickets to his tally to make six for the innings and 10 for the match, his first back in the top grade this summer.

And at Ron Hill Oval, last-placed Toronto narrowly avoided an outright loss to Cardiff-Boolaroo.

Toronto were knocked over twice on day two, first for 108 and then 186 in reply to CBs 248 last weekend.

With first-innings points already in the bag, Cardiff needed 47 off five overs and fell six runs short. This sees them slip to equal seventh.

LADDER: Wests 40; Hamilton-Wickham 35; Merewether 34; Charlestown 33, Wallsend 33; Belmont 30; Cardiff-Boolaroo, University 29; Stockton 19; Waratah-Mayfield 17; City 15; Toronto 14.

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