The Crows were the lone west group team without a win after four matches.

They occupy the dreaded bottom spot on the ladder and finals are already out of range.

The Kane Twentyman-coached team will spend the second week searching for its first win in the competition in two years.

Last season the Crows did not register a win after four of their six matches were abandoned due to inclement weather.

This year's competition kicked off last Monday with the Crows losing a nail-biter to Altona at Dempster Park.

The Crows elected to bat first after winning the toss and could only eke out 80 from 42.5 overs with Vikramjit Sandhu top-scoring with 18.

The bowling and fielding of the hosts was flawless and made it a nervous run chase for the A's.

Chase Singarella made an impression with 4-21 off seven overs, but the A's just got home by the skin of their teeth.

The Crows hit the road for the first time on Tuesday against Yarraville at the Yarraville Oval.

They could not contain the batting might of the top-placed Eagles, who smashed 5-208 from 45 overs.

The Crows improved their batting from 24 hours earlier to make 151 off 44.5 overs, but they were not in the same ballpark as the Eagles.

Benjamin Luca was superb with the bat for the Crows with 59.

It would not be third time lucky for the Crows at home against Williamstown on Wednesday.

They suffered a heartbreaking four-run loss, despite having the Seagulls all out for 122 after fine bowling displays from Singarella (4-21) and Dean Dial (2-8).

The Crows came agonisingly close to victory before being bowled out for 118.

Shashin Withanawasam (33) and James Leach (29) led the chase.

The fourth round was a similar not-enough-runs tale with the Crows losing to Werribee by 27 runs on the road at Chirnside Park.