With two representative competitions taking place on the same day - the Stribley Shield in Wagga and the ACT Premier Cricket Third Grade T20 competition - Goulburn was required to field two teams.

The conflict in schedules was a matter of bad luck, as the bushfires near Canberra had forced the postponement of the T20s from December 21 to the same weekend as the Stribley clash.

Goulburn District Cricket Association vice-president, Bob Smith, said the need to field two representative sides was "unprecedented", and left selectors at a quandary as to how to proceed.

In the end, the players were asked to indicate whether they would prefer to play in Canberra or Wagga, and the GDCA filled in the blanks once the players had made their choices known.

"The Goulburn DCA isn't strong enough to pick two strong rep sides, but we went close," Smith said.

"I'm rather proud of how they both performed ... There was quite a bit of to and fro to pick the sides, but in the long run we got it done."

The GDCA side played two T20 matches on Sunday.The first was against ANU at Reid, where Goulburn performed impressively to win by over 60 runs.

The second match, against the dangerous Western District-UC side, did not go Goulburn's way as the team fell for 104 at Kippax. In response, Western District reached the target with roughly four overs to spare.

Though the results were mixed, they were a positive for the GDCA and Cricket ACT.

"[The win against ANU] vindicates Canberra's decision to let us in the competition," Smith said.

Meanwhile, over in Wagga, the Stribley Shield team struggled with the same top-order fragility which appeared against Cootamundra.

"Some of our senior blokes didn't stand up, and the younger blokes did a phenomenal job," Goulburn's Stribley Shield captain, Dane Stevenson, said.

Stevenson identified Abdul Raheem, who scored a half-century, and Archie Wearne, who took four wickets, as the standouts for Goulburn.

"They took the opportunity by the scruff of the neck and did a marvelous job with it," Stevenson said.

At the end of the first innings, Goulburn were all out for 121. As many as 40 more runs, Stevenson believes, would have been defensible, particularly as the wicket was played well throughout the day.

"The wicket was good, it flattened out and got harder as the day went on, but the wicket we batted on wasn't anything to be too concerned about," he said.

"We lost wickets in clumps, we had seven out of our ten batters that don't score over ten, that makes it hard to get a good total."

Wagga reached the target with four wickets to spare, but the result will not have an impact on the competition as Goulburn and Cootamundra had already qualified for the final.

The Stribley Shield final will take place on Sunday, February 23. The venue will be decided at a later date.

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