Condon has Perthes Disease, a degenerative condition.

While there's no suggestion the dashing left-hand batsman won't finish the season with the Hoppers, the former ACT captain has had five surgeries on his left hip.

"I'm overdue for a replacement, a few painkillers get me through on a Saturday," he revealed.

Condon required attention at one stage during his match-winning innings of 74 not out in the top of the table clash against Wodonga.

"He still looked a little sore and a little rusty, but he'll definitely be one of the best bats in the competition," Wodonga captain Tom Johnson said.

The Bulldogs made 8-124 in the rain-shortened match, but Condon made light work of the chase, storming to 1-125 from just 22.2 overs.

"I was just trying to kill the run chase as quick as we could, a chase like that there's no point taking it to the last over, anything can happen," he explained.

Condon captained the ACT at both under 19 and open-age level, but made an early life decision on his cricketing career.

"I had to make a call five or six years ago, whether I wanted to keep chasing it (the cricket dream), I made the choice to go and find myself a proper job and set myself up for life, rather than the next five years," the project engineer offered.

"I've accepted it (my hip condition) for a long time, it's been there my whole life, it was always going to happen one day, it was going to go (require surgery), it finally did and I had to make a call."

Condon hit nine boundaries against the Bulldogs, including an audacious ramp shot off former ACT team-mate Cam Suidgeest.

"Apparently, that's not the first time that Matt's done that to him, it was pretty funny to see," Hoppers' team-mate Anthony Hartshorn said.

"It's a shot you see at the higher levels quite often, but you don't see it played around here much, only when blokes are trying to be smart alecs really, I'd never really seen anyone pull it off that well."

Hartshorn and his brother Tim were behind Condon's recruitment in late January after having played alongside the precocious talent in Batemans Bay a decade ago.

"Obviously any runs he makes will be important, but it's his leadership as well, his experience from playing at a higher level," Anthony Hartshorn said.

"I think culturally he'll be a really good fit and it's all those external issues as well, the one percenters, that he brings to the table will be just as important, if not more important."

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