Kangaroo League
An Aussie Pairs event took place for the first time in 2025 as part of the Club's regular Saturday morning coaching sessions, with the aim of giving predominantly newer bowlers a taste of competition to help prepare them to represent the Club in our other teams. It was a huge success, with Hawks (Angie Aspinall, Steve Baulsom and John Horner) being the inaugural winners, triumphing over Merlins (Ady Aspinall and Ken Bulpitt) in the final.
For 2026, the newly named Kangaroo League was established as a fun, but fully-fledged, Club competition in which 12 teams battled it out on Saturday mornings over 14 ends under Aussie Pairs rules: two players per side from each team, each one playing lead and skip roles by virtue of the first of the pair bowling the first two and the last two woods on each end, the second bowling all four woods inbetween, and then swapping over for the next end.
The 12 teams were: Bilbies, Crocodiles, Dingos, Emus, Kangaroos, Koalas, Kookaburras, Platypuses, Quokkas, Tasmanian Devils, Wallabies and Wombats. The squads for each of the teams and the fixture list are in the .pdfs at the bottom of the page, as are the results and the week-by-week league table.
After the final round of regular fixtures, Wallabies topped the table with 19 points from a record of played eleven, won nine drawn one and lost one, followed by Dingos in second three points further back on 16, Kookaburras in third on 14 and Crocodiles in fourth with 13. The semi-finals thus saw match-ups between Wallabies and Crocodiles in SF1; and Dingos and Kookaburras in SF2.
15 Aug: SF1: Wallabies 15 v 7 Crocodiles (a match much closer than the result suggests)
15 Aug: SF2: Dingos 15 v 19 Kookaburras (a tight match with Dingos holding six at one point on the final end)
The final between Wallabies and Kookaburras took place as part of the Club's Finals Day on 29 August, with Kookaburras (Dave Clipsom and Steve Trim) beating Wallabies (Nickie Furniss and Michael Hopkins) 15-14 on the final end (match extended from the normal 14 ends to 18).