Bendigo United opening bowler Tom Batters' brilliant summer continued when he took five wickets in Sunday's Victorian Country Cricket League challenge match at the Junction Oval.
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It was the second time for the summer the seam bowler claimed a five-wicket haul in the all-star matches.
Playing for the East All-Stars, Batters bagged 5-27 off 8.4 overs to help his side to a six-wicket victory in the first match at the QEO last month.
He backed that performance up with figures of 5-38 off his eight overs in East's loss to West on Sunday.
Batters had figures of 10-65 off 16.4 overs across the two matches.
Strathdale-Maristians' Jack Neylon had a good day with the bat in Sunday's game.
Neylon made 38 off 49 balls to be the second-highest scorer in East's score of 9-218 off 40 overs.
Cam Taylor (Strathdale) made 20, while his opening partner Joel Murphy (Sandhurst) fell for seven.
The West team responded with 8-220 off 37.1 overs.
Taylor bowled six overs for the East all-stars and had figures of 0-46.
East had West in trouble at 8-172 before an unbroken ninth-wicket stand between Nathan Alexander (45 not out) and Sam Coutts (27 not out) swung the game West's way.
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