Ton up twice for our Liam Shaw

        Ton up twice for our Liam Shaw

Moonee Valley batsman/wicketkeeper Liam Shaw has joined rare company, with centuries in successive matches.
Liam's whirlwind 128no in the Fifths on January 7 was followed by 100no in the Sixths the following week - and Liam becomes just the ninth player in Club history to ton-up in successive games.
He opened the batting in the Sixths, against Pascoe Vale United, and the team was three down for 144 when he reached the three figures and was forced to retire under grade rules.
Liam has a batting average of 315 over his past three knocks, as the last round before Christmas saw him stroke a brutal 87 as the Valley Sixths fell 15 runs short in a big chase against Strathmore Heights.
Above: The scoreboard could still only tell half the story of Liam Shaw's whirlwind innings of 128 not out - the first of his two centuries.
Our partnership for the fourth wicket - comprising the innings of Liam, Liam Farrell and Graeme Bloom - was 104.
While he scored at a cracking pace, Liam's innings against Pascoe Vale United was a little more subdued than the previous week, when he had:
* Five sixes off what became the last over of the game - just six runs short of the Moonee Valley all-time record.
* A 122-run unbeaten partnership with skipper Dan Terzini.
* 12 sixes and 9 fours for the match.
* Three catches as keeper - all of his good mate Dom Rettino.
Liam's successive centuries are the first at Moonee Valley since Trent Milne tonned up in the Fifths and Eighths in 2011/12. Other players to achieve the feat are Warwick Nolan in 1988/89, Ian Denny in 1990/91, Sandro Capocchi in 1991/92, Shane Golds in 2001/02, Matt Thomas in 2006/07, Arosha Perera in 2008/09 and Dean Lawson in 2008/09.
Liam played his junior cricket at Old Students Cricket Club in the Shepparton district, but dropped out of the game for about seven years before he was enticed to play with mates at Moonee Valley.