By Tyler Lewis
Wicket, wicket, wicket, wicket, wicket, dot ball.
If batsmen miss, Flynn hits.
It is a simple equation for young Flynn who claimed an impressive triple hat-trick on the weekend for the Devon Meadows Junior Cricket Club.
Flynn’s coach Michael Addison was impressed by his remarkable effort to claim five wickets; all bowled consecutively and was pleased he followed the advice of his coach.
“Under 10s it is you bat for a certain amount of balls and if you go out you just swap ends,” he said.
“It is just a bit of fun, getting them into cricket, but I have been working with him at training and telling him to practice bowling at the stumps because if you bowl at the stumps, more often than not you are going to get them out.
“And that is what he did, he just happen to do that for five balls in a row, it was pretty incredible.
“He is consistent, he tries hard and if you give him something to work on you know he will go away and work on it, he is not one of those who smile and nod which you get out of some kids.”
With good reason, Flynn wasn’t shy of celebrating his triple hat-trick, pulling out the wings when he got this third in a row.
“He got the second one and I said ‘if you get this you know what it means?’ and he said ‘yeah’ so I said ‘if you get it, just put your arms out and run, and all the players will run after you,” Addison said.
“He got it, bowled him and then took off, the whole team took off after him and it took us all about three minutes to get them back in their fielding positions.
“So I said ‘if you get another one, maybe don’t do that, just stay on the pitch and everyone will come to you’ and then he got the fourth one so that erupted again.
“I said ‘I have never seen anyone get five in a row so no chance you are going to do that’ he said ‘okay no worries’, comes in and bowls the fifth one in a row.
“I went alright fair enough; all five were bowled so he hit the stumps five times in a row.”
Individual scores are not recorded in the under-10 competition, but Flynn finished with three overs, 6/3 which included three extras.
