Port Melbourne hosted Bayswater at North Port Oval for a 45 overs each game on Saturday 2 March. They were very generous hosts, with their wickets falling regularly and the run-rate not likely to burst a blood vessel on a sunny, breezy autumn afternoon.

The Peter Vesty Scoreboard is electronic, which probably wouldn’t have worried Peter. He was one of the first scoreboard attendants we wrote about, and he welcomed the pending change to his draughty, rusty castle. “Blow it up or burn it down,” he said to us in 2011. “It’s no good for my asthma.”

Both cricket club and football club celebrate 150 years not out this year. A fair effort.

Impossible to get away from footy at North Port Oval. Don’t know if Fred Cook was a member of the ETU but he was certainly a member of the goal-kicking union, kicking 1210 goals for the Burrough in the days of the VFA.

Before Fred Cook ruled the goalsquare, Bob Bonnett beckoned his team-mates to pass the ball lace-up. He kicked 933 goals, mostly in the 1950s.

Question without notice for the Instagram chap who knows a thing or two about (abandoned) cricket pitches and about goalposts (of the week): Does the length (or height, really) of a goalpost correlate in any way to the length of a cricket pitch?

The Bayswater boys were making quick work of their  target, possibly hoping to reel in some bonus points.