The 35-year old played in Wodonga’s 2009-10 grand final win over North Albury.

“I went down to Melbourne after that and played a few years,” he said.

“But I did my shoulder and had close to six years off.

“I’ve actually been surprised my body’s held up, my shoulder surgery created a fair few issues when I tried to come back, so I just decided to hang them up.”

In fact, the old blokes led the way in the season’s first two-dayer.

Four players with a combined age of 147 dominated with the ball.

North Albury’s Greg Daniel (36 years old) took 6-84 against East Albury, while Tallangatta’s Dilhara Lokuhettige (37) snared 4-22 against St Patrick’s.

One-time Test quick Daryl Tuffey (39) grabbed 4-21 against Albury.

And, if you want to stretch it for the old guys, New City’s 43-year-old Steve McLennan took 3-56  against Wodonga.

Who says it’s a young man’s game?

Cricket fans have been stunned by the number of dropped catches in the Big Bash.

That will make a few teams feel better after the weekend.

Tallangatta dropped three against the Patties.

“We were lucky to get them out for 120 because we dropped a lot of easy catches,” Bushies’ coach Matt Armstrong said.

And North Albury had a similar dilemma against the Crows.

“Kris Milosta gave us two chances before he was 10 and that really cost us big time, we should have been looking at 120-130,” Greg Daniel said.

CAW was stunned with the sudden loss of Brad Weeding on Tuesday.

Brad’s sons Jarryd and Dylan play for Lavington and East Albury respectively, while daughter Lauren’s partner is Sam O’Connor, who also plays at Lavington.

All three boys played on the weekend, where a minute’s silence was held at the Albury-Lavington game and East-North match.

“In the cricket community Brad was known and the boys have played rep cricket and are known by everyone,” North’s Greg Daniel said.

“It just shows how the cricket community really is.

“It really is a family here on the Border.”

Brad Weeding was 55.

Belvoir could well have taken a major step towards sealing a finals’ berth against Wodonga Raiders.

The Eagles used a surprise tactic by declaring after 71 overs.

“They sent us in and put us on the back foot a little bit,” Belvoir coach Josh Warren said.

“We were taken aback by that, so we were just trying to counterattack because we didn’t think they’d expect to face five overs.”

The plan worked with Raiders slumping to 3-13, with an outright a possibility on day two.