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Bushrangers captain Bradley Quinn (left) and all-rounder Shane Muller will have to wait and see if their Fraser Coast Cricket A grade semi-final showdown with Cavaliers goes ahead.

ALISTAIR BRIGHTMAN

BUSHRANGERS have won the Fraser Coast Cricket A grade premiership for eight of the past nine seasons.

They are still in with a chance of winning another this year and Mother Nature might just help them secure a berth in next week’s grand final.

Bushrangers, the defending premiers, are due to go head-to-head with Cavaliers in the all-Hervey Bay semi-final showdown today at Urangan’s Keith Dunne Oval.

The winner will take on minor premiers, Past Grammars, at Maryborough’s Newtown Oval next Saturday for the right to be crowned the Fraser Coast’s finest.

But who will take on Past Grammars comes down to two things – whoever wins the game or what happens if Mother Nature plays a major part in deciding the outcome, something there is a great chance of happening at this stage.

If the game is called off because of the wet weather, Bushrangers will go through as they finished second on the ladder, just two points ahead of Cavaliers, at the end of the regular season.

While he would love to play in another grand final, Bushrangers all-rounder and vice-captain Shane Muller said he hoped it wasn’t the weather which decided who goes through.

“We’d all rather play and get a result that way,” Muller, the man-of-the-match in Bushrangers nine-wicket grand final triumph over Past Grammars last season, said

“Saying that, the conditions would have to be right from the start.

“It wouldn’t be fair on either team if the game was played in conditions not fit for cricket.

“Playing on a wet wicket wouldn’t be the way to go in a situation like this.

“All we can do is wait and see what the weather brings but the forecast is not looking all that flash for today.

“I went to the ground yesterday and it’s already really very wet mate.”

Fraser Coast Cricket secretary Ashley Graham said if the game was called off there was nothing that could be done about it.

“The weather has not been at all kind to cricketers of late,” he said.

“So in a case like this, it just comes down to the rules.

“Bushrangers finished higher than Cavaliers so unfortunately that’s it.”