Mount Clear's Akshay Ballal after his 181 against Darley
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00:00I'm hearing the third highest ever Mount Clear score and possibly the first time anyone's made
00:05150 and taken six to get in the one game. What a weekend, a couple of weeks it's been. Tell me
00:09a little bit about it. Yeah it was really amazing, I mean the win made it more amazing.
00:15Chasing 340 was not easy but the kind of wicket we have here, I think anything under 350 is
00:23chasable. I should thank Georgie for making such an amazing wicket. I think we played as a team
00:30and this is totally a team victory. Yeah you've got it, you say something about team but you've
00:36made history for the club here though, personal and I mean I don't think there'd be many times
00:40that Mount Clear has chased down 340 in one either. I mean it's pretty significant what
00:45you've managed to achieve. Yeah it's just a matter of time that's it and I think for us
00:51more important is winning the flag. Individual performance will come and go.
00:56What's the point when you don't win the game even if you perform well. Well you're individual,
01:01I know you're trying to play it down but individually I think you've had like five
01:04innings in a row over 70 or something like that. I mean you're making runs for fun this season.
01:09I mean that's why I'm here, that's why they brought me here to score runs. It's been really
01:14good, I had a good season last year as well but I was a little disappointed that I couldn't
01:19reach my target which I wanted to score 800 runs last year when I was short of 55.
01:24But I think for now I think the season is going really well because still three more games.
01:31Well this is important because you lost that first game after Christmas, you lost the 2020.
01:36I mean there was a little bit of a something happening, it might have been falling off the
01:40wagon a little bit but you've just turned it around and now you've moved yourself I think
01:43a couple of games clear on top of the ladder. That's what good teams do. Every team they will
01:48have a bad patch here and there but that's it's important how you come back as a team and today
01:53we showed that we are one of the best teams around in Ballarat. Were you confident? I mean
01:59340s never, it's not a score that anyone chases down very often. I mean how did you go about it?
02:05Was it about pacing yourself? What did you do? Yeah just I mean to bat straight on the wicket
02:10like this it's impossible to get you out. That's what we spoke as a team, just bat straight and
02:17I mean you will get loose balls one here and there, make use of it and that's what everyone
02:22did. They waited for their loose balls including me, just played along. You've done well mate.