Southeast Queensland’s top cricketers: Batting and bowling ranks across the grades
More than 6000 batters and 5000 bowlers have taken to local cricket pitches so far this season, we’ve sorted the stats across the grades. See where you rank as competitions start.
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The cricket season is starting to heat up as competitions start take shape across southeast Queensland The Courier-Mail has ranked the top performers with the bat and ball as players showcase their skills.
More than 11,000 cricketers have taken to cricket pitches across the region this season and we have compiled a list ranking every batter, by runs scored, and every bowler, by wickets taken.
The list features male and female senior players from the Sci-Fleet Motors First Grade, the women’s top division in the Katherine Raymont Shield, all the way to the Lord Taverner’s, Community Cricket Championship, Sub Districts and Warehouse leagues.
Rankings also include junior competitions, which have already started, with more to come before the Christmas break.
University of Queensland star Bruce Street maintains his spot at the top of the batting rankings
University of Queensland first grade star and Queensland Bulls player Bryce Street keeps his spot at the top of the batting rankings after a dominant start to the Premier Cricket season.
The top-order batsmen, who has played 26 first class games for Queensland, has hit a total of 622 runs so far this season at an average of 56.5.
Street also hit a top score of 201 and 69 boundaries along the way for UQ.
Norths batsmen Josh Brown is right on the heels of Street in second place with 609 runs from 17 innings.
Brown is batting at an average of 38 runs but has been a powerful hitter with 97 boundaries along the way and a high score of 159.
Western Suburbs’ Sam Truloff moves from fourth to third with 606 runs while Gold Coast’s Max Bryant is fourth with 605 runs and UQ”s Angus Lovell is fifth with 530 runs.
Northern Suburbs young gun Alexander Procopis, who plays in the Lord Taverner’s competition, is the highest ranked junior at 16th with 380 runs.
Sandgate-Redcliffe’s Tess Cooper at 41st with 284 runs in the first grade competition.
Jordan Bonney from the Park Ridge Panthers is the highest ranks Sub Districts player and Shane Rabbitt from Pine Rivers Cricket Club is the top Warehouse player.
Gold Coast paceman Jackson Smith still sits atop the bowling rankings
With the ball in hand, it’s Gold Coast Premier Cricket star Jackson Smith who still claims top spot in the bowling rankings.
Smith has been in red-hot form so far this season with 30 wickets from 91 overs, giving up just 494 runs along the way.
He also has season-best figures of 5/23 and is one wicket clear of teammate Matthew Kuhnemann, who has taken 29 wickets in the Premier Cricket competition.
Kuhnemann has season best figures of 6/37.
UQ’s Hayden D’Addona moves into third spot with 27 wickets while Nikhil Chaudhury from Northern Suburbs slips to fourth with 25 wickets as Cameron Boyce (Valley) and Paddy Dooley (Wests) are tied for fifth with 24 wickets.
Wynnum Manly Lord Taverner’s star Jackson Steinhardt is the highest ranked youngster, in 13th spot with 20 wickets while Valley’s Christina Coulson is the top women’s bowler at 19th spot with 17 wickets.
Dean Zammit from the Gold Crest Cobras is leading the way in the Community Cricket Championship, sitting in 14th spot with 19 wickets.
ANDREW DAWSON’S WEEKLY CRICKET REPORT
Two-twenty recent or current schoolboys, most from the GPS First XI system, had broken into the Sci-Fleet Motors Men’s First Grade Two Day competition, with Toombul Tom Balkin shining with his right arm fast bowling.
Balkin, who was also a more than handy batsman, has snared 21 wickets this season at an average of 21.
Balkin, a Nudgee College product, has also garnished his start to the summer by making the Queensland Metro under 19 side which is bound for the national championships.
Balkin is built low to the ground, a little like the great Andy Bichel, and skids the ball through at a great rate of knots, but he was learning more about his craft as the weeks rolled by.
Ferny Grove SHS’s Zanden Jeh was also having an excellent summer with his left arm orthodox spin, snaring 16 wickets at 31.31 across all forms of cricket for Valley.
Also at Valley, Hugh Weibgen, who will leave BGS next month, has snared 10 wickets – despite being an outstanding batsman.
He has scored 405 first grade runs so far and he will captain the Queensland Metro side at the under nationals.
St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace old boy Aubrey Stockdale was also making a nice impact at Toombul.
An unlucky omission from the 2022 World Cup under 19 squad earlier in the year, Stockdale has taken 13 wickets and hit 67 as a highest score.
Norths’ Noah McFadyen was also going well. A former Nudgee teammate of Balkin, McFadyen hit a century earlier this month and has also taken 11 wickets with his swing bowling.
Ipswich Grammar School old boy, Ipswich Hornet’s Dylan McAteer, had also snared 12 wickets in his 11 matches.
An outstanding talent is Gold Coast’s Hugo Burdon, a No.3 bat who also bowls spin.
He has a top score of 101 not out during his 17 matches of education this summer, and also taken 10 wickets.
Flynn Thomasson, from Valley District Cricket Club, was a two season First XI player at Churchie and has scored 234 runs at 21.27 this season, while also taking two wickets.
IGS old boy Noah Emmerson, who was elite for his school in GPS competition, has tasted first grade at Ipswich while Nudgee old boy Mitchell Pascoe has played 13 games for Sandgate-Redcliffe
Another The Southport School old boy, Lachlan Crump, Terrace products Dylan Kritzinger (Redlands) and Luke Davies (Wests) five each and Nudgee old boy Connor Carroll (Northern Suburbs) have all played five games.
Australian under 19 keeper Toby Snell has played in 10 matches for Toombul, Will Prestwidge (Norths/Terrace) five game and 2022 BGS premiership winner Angus Tolhurst (Wests), three A grade games.
Tolhurst was also in the Queensland Metro under 19 rep team.
BSHS pair Sam Geyer and Connor McMillan were in the first grade system, as was St Patrick’s College’s Charles Moore (Sandgate) and Nudgee old boy Jet Liebke (Northern Suburbs).
Toowoomba Grammar School’s Jem Ryan, who will also be at the under 19 national carnivals, capped off a huge 2022 cricket season by playing two first grade games at Ipswich.
Club cricket will continue this weekend after being washed out last Saturday and Sunday.
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