Premium Content Subscriber only WHEN you score a masterful l78 at this stage of your career, you can't be batting too badly. That is especially the case when you have to deal with arthritis and are captain of a talented young side that needs an experienced hand to guide them. Ipswich Hornets Second Grade captain Nick De Giusti is doing just that in this year's Allan Pettigrew Shield competition. De Giusti's fine 249 ball knock against Redlands at Wellington Point last weekend left him understandably sore after holding the team's innings together. "It was pretty good. I come in when the team sort of needed it,'' he said, batting at number four and having wickets fall around him.