One of Cooma Cricket Club’s most popular families, the Fawcetts, have come together to be part of the club’s top-of-the-ladder B-grade Goulburn Murray Cricket team.
In round 10 on December 14, for the second time, the three Fawcett brothers and their father were part of the same team.
Brothers Xavier, 23, and Hunter, 17, started the season as the only representatives of the family in the second grade competition.
All three brothers have had highlights this season - Xavier with a pair of run a ball twenties and a three-wicket haul in round 10,.
A week earlier Cooper was at the crease when the team beat Girgarre, making an unbeaten 21 from 18 deliveries - having earlier taken three wickets. Hunter took three wickets in the same game.
Xavier is completing his Primary School Teaching Degree at La Trobe University Bendigo and has accepted a part-time teaching role at Kyabram P-12 in 2025.
Younger brother Hunter will be studying Year 12 next year, while working part time at Woolworths and trying his hand with local builder Ben Napier - part of another well known Cooma cricketing family.
The boys’ father, Peter, joined the team in round four. He wasn’t required with the bat as Hunter scored 22 not out from 14 deliveries and Xavier was two not out in the 40-over 208-run total.
Cooper only arrived in the club’s B-grade ranks mid-season and in round 10 on December 14 the three brothers and their father were all part of the team’s nine wicket win.
Twenty-year-old Cooper has just returned from six months of cricket and travel in the United Kingdom and is now back in Kyabram working at both Kyabram Club and Woolworths.
He has plans to attend university in Bendigo next year.
Cooma now leads the competition with an 8-1 win/loss record, the Fawcetts’ season highlight coming in week nine when Hunter and Cooper both took three wickets - the pair taking the last four wickets of the Girgarre innings in the space of 11 deliveries.
In the same game the Fawcetts’ young Moama-based cousin, Mace Love, sub-fielded at stages in the match, making it five family members taking the field for the B-grade unit.
The Fawcett boys have played together for a couple of seasons and their father receives the occasional call-up to field at first slip.
– Continuing the theme of the ‘family’ club veteran cricketer Leigh Hall played with his son Brayden in a game two weeks ago, the latter upstaging his father with three wickets in his first game.
Cooma also has the Hubbles and the Napiers who are regularly batting and bowling alongside one another for the club.