Club cricket’s best players across eight grade finals
Who were the best players across the women’s Raymont Shield grand finals, and six men’s grade semi-finals? Here’s 50 of the best who got our 3-2-1 best player votes.
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In KFC Premier Cricket-Sci Fleet Motors, University will play Redlands after unselfish play from Bulls batsmen Bryce Street and Jack Clayton helped them bat for two days against Wests.
Street and Clayton scored centuries after departing Hobart on the morning of the match following Queensland’s Sheffield Shield match, the boys arrived at lunch and were slotted into the game. It was a display of their loyalty to the club.
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So who gained our 3-2-1 votes across the weekend’s men’s KFC Premier Cricket-Sci Fleet Motors semi-finals, lower grades finals and the women’s grand finals?
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University of Queensland (6-356) defeated Wests (DNB).
3. Bryce Street (Uni)
Street was a batting barnacle, batting long and hard across Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday to score 114 not out. His innings never gave Wests a sniff in a match Uni merely had to draw to qualify for the final.
2. Jack Clayton (Uni)
Clayton has had a dream summer after more success at representative level and it is not over yet for the Brisbane Boys College Old Boy. He helped bat Uni into the decider by batting time to accumulate a match high 122.
1. Paddy Dooley (Wests)
The biggest season of Dooley’s career ended with the Wests left arm spinner enduring a marathon spell of 47-18-63-2. He tried every trick in the box and never gave up in sweltering conditions.
Hats off to young Wests quick Tom Whitby for his effort of 30-10-66-2
Redlands (221) defeated Northern Suburbs (211)
3. Simon Milenko and Leigh Drinnen (Redlands)
Milenko made a season high 81 and Drinnen made one of his biggest scores of the summer (71) to bat Redlands into the grand final. Milenko backed his skills, scoring fluently to hit four sixes and six fours during his flighty 118 ball innings. He also took a wicket. Drinnen played the long game, facing 158 balls to drop anchor around his teammates.
2. Jon Stimpson and James Bazley (Redlands)
Although the Tigers produced an outstanding team bowling effort, would they have won without Stimpson and Bazley? Representative all-rounder Bazley rose to the occasion with an early wicket, and then the last wicket of Ryan Walker who had dug in for well over an hour. Stimpton chipped away to claim three big wickets – Josh Brown, Noah McFadyen and Samuel Neale who was threatening to take Norths to victory in a low scoring final.
1. Noah McFadyen (Norths)
To win a final you need to take wickets and the young swing bowler capped a terrific season with bat and ball to take 4-60 and almost restrict Redlands to a losing score. He took two early wickets, and then wicket No. 34 and 35 later in his spell. In all he took 35 wickets at just 28.28. He also averaged 27.95 with the bat.
Hats off to Norths Raveesh Srivastava for his gallant 58.
And also to Redland’s Jack Sinfield for his terrific tight bowling (2-27, 16 overs) that mount pressure at the other end. He got danger men Fleming and Srivastava.
Second grade, Allan Pettigrew Shield
South Brisbane def Redlands
3. Brendan McNae (Souths)
Talking about leaving his best until last. Wily veteran who played first grade earlier this year, McNae conjured up a match winning performance of 6-27 to poleaxe the Redlands line-up and bowl his team into the grand final. His devastating 15 over burst reduced the opposition innings to rubble which was a pity given the gallant manner in which Redlands had competed all season.
2. Toby Sawyer-Brown (Souths)
Sawyer-Brown (3-41) was McNae’s sidekick, this game and all season. He has taken 26 wickets this summer at an average of 22. He took the first wicket to fall and then another two, including James Catlow-Elliott who threatened to give his bowlers a target to bowl at.
1. Claye Beams (Souths)
In a low scoring final Beams innings of 57 was the difference between his team collapsing or posting a winning total. His 84 ball knock included seven fours and a six, and his partnership with young all-rounder Connor McMillan (34, 101 balls) was crucial.
Hats off to Klinton Goodridge (Redlands)
Goodridge claimed 4-45 to finish with 40 wickets at 22.85 this season.
Gold Coast (1-254) def Norths (9-250) second grade
3. Ashton Gumm (Dolphins)
Gumm will be on the verge of 1000 runs in the summer when his team plays South Brisbane in the grand final. Gumm’s season best 160 not out came at a serious clip – he faced just 183 balls during a rollicking innings.
2. Joshua Spies (Dolphins)
Spies took the first three wickets cheaply to set the wheel in motion for Gold Coast. His 18 overs yielded 5-48, taking his season tally to 41 scalps at just 20. He will be a force to be reckoned with in the grand final.
1. Tom Campbell (Norths)
Fancy scoring a 100 in a semi-final and losing. Brilliant young Norths batsman Campbell fired off a century as Norths made 9-250 – a score which has won plenty of semi-finals over the years. The Terrace old boy took his time, with Jeremy White rescuing Norths from the perils of 5-61.
Hats off to Jeremy White for his gallant 60 for Norths.
Jodie Purves One Day Shield
Wests 3/113 def Souths 6/112
3. Melissa Lewis (Souths)
Lewis only had 112 runs to play with but she still gave it a good crack, picking up two of her team’s three wickets on the day.
One of them was Hamblin (see below), who was seeing them like watermelons.
2. Matilda Ingram (Souths)
Ingram was on a mission and indeed she succeeded, the opener tallying an unbeaten 48 off 114.
She faced the shiny new ball with great poise, scoring all 48 of her runs without the help of a boundary.
1. Taylor Hamblin and Chelsea Sonter (Wests)
Wests were never in doubt with these two seeing out the new ball. Hamblin came out in a hurry, scoring 37 off 45 with four fours and a six highlights of her quick cameo. Earlier, Hamblin picked up 2-14.
Meanwhile Sonter (30) remained at the batters crease for the entire 30 overs, steering Wests to the premiership at home.
Katherine Raymont One Day Shield
Sunshine Coast 5/329 def University 10/242
3. Charli Knott (University)
Although University didn’t secure the result, Knott should hold her head high knowing she batted her heart out, the No.3 putting in a mammoth shift at the batting crease.
Knott, who struck it at a run-a-ball, scored 81 in the chase, standing tall after both openers were removed cheaply.
2. Ruth Johnston and Mikayla Wrigley (Sunshine Coast)
Charnie Bloxsom and her University teammates would have been smiling from ear-to-ear after finally removing Boyce (see below).
But, little did they know Johnston and Wrigley were gearing up for a 110 run stand, after the previous partnership between Boyce and Johnston accumulated 148.
Johnston hit her strap with 69 off 59 while Wrigley was firing from the other end with 71 off 56.
1. Georgie Boyce (Sunshine Coast)
Does it get bet any better than a century in the biggest game of the summer? Surely not.
Opening batsmen Boyce catapulted her side to a whopping 329 with 108 of the best.
In her time at the crease, she teed off for 11 fours and a six.
Third grade
University def Redlands, Norm McMahon Shield
3. Michael Philipson (Uni)
The seasoned campaigner took a season best 5-23 as Redlands collapsed for just 84. Redlands had a good enough start, but Philipson took three wickets in a hurry as the shine was starting to disappear off the new ball. He also scored 38. He has had another mighty summer with 34 wickets at just 17, and 655 runs at 31.19.
2. Damon Venner (Uni)
Venner produced a season best 65 as he and Waring took their side from 2-9 to 98 to set up the final. Venner was in for the long haul, facing 222 balls to ensure his team did not slide into oblivion.
1. Banjo Waring (Uni)
Waring only scored 25, but it was a valuable contribution in the context of the match. He batted for a marathon 249 balls, and his 89 run, third wicket stand with Venner proved the difference.
Hats off to Redlands Mitch Drennan tried to bash his team out of trouble with 37 from 49 balls.
Norths def Souths
3. Paul Draheim (Norths)
The Toowoomba Grammar School old boy tied the opposition in knots with a telling, season best 6-47. But he also scored a remarkable 41 (78 balls) in a last wicket partnership with Samuel Deacon (17 not out) that gathered 65 runs and took their side to their winning total.
2. Cruz Baker (Norths)
Baker produced a season best effort of 84 when his team needed him most. Norths were 7-100 when he rallied the tail to around 200 before Draheim and Deacon took over. He batted time, but if the ball was loose he went for it, stroking eight fours and two sixes.
1. Adriane Morrison (Norths)
Norths were 7-100 and sinking fast when Morrison joined Cruz Baker in a partnership which carried the side to 8-179. It was from there that Draheim and Deacon then progressed the total to 246 which was just enough to give Norths victory. Swing bowler Morrison likes to play his strokes, but he batted time to help get his side out of trouble. Morrison also took 1-49.
Hats off to Souths Samuel Edwards for his 66.
Fourth grade. Bob Spence Trophy
Valley def South Brisbane
3. Archie Ramanathan (Valley)
Archie was elite all season and he did not let up in the semi-final, taking 5-16. This season he took 49 wickets at 12.82.
Ramanathan was a also a part of Valleys’ all-conquering under-19 championship side.
2. Kristiaan Ezzy (Valley)
Ezzy blazed a brilliant 72 in the blink of an eye to disrupt Souths momentum with the new ball. Valley were 3-29 and 6-79, but with the walls crashing down Ezzy counterattacked with a superb knock under pressure in union with Saxon Jeh (see below)
1. Saxon Jeh (Valley)
Young Saxon Jeh has had a remarkable summer and it continued at pace in the semi-final when he claimed 3-14 from 14 overs. He has now taken 61 wickets at 17.02, while also scoring a handy 288 runs at 22. His best innings of the summer was on the weekend when he helped Ezzy (see above) rescue his side from 6-79. Jeh was last man out for 65, a defiant innings which took well over two hours.
Hats off to Myles Dennis and Louis Henderson for their three wickets apiece for Souths.
Norths def Wests
3. Michael Wright (Norths)
Norths were going okay but not out of the woods at 6-121 when Wright produced 77 not out when his team needed him most. He was not in a hurry, taking sessions to construct his innings which was the foundation of Norths winning total.
2. Nathan Kerr (Wests)
Kerr had a big summer with 28 wickets at 16, four of which came in the semi-final. He put the opposition onto the back foot with two early wickets, then came back with the new ball to find another two scalps in sweltering conditions.
1. Andrew Campbell and Parth Patel (Norths).
The boys roared through the Wests batting with seven wickets between them, rendering Wests 7-40. It was a lost cause, but still a form finding exercise for them ahead of the grand final.
Hats off to Norths Matthew Clarke (43) and also Harry Dutton for his valuable 36
Fifth grade, Roy Tanner Shield
Norths v Western Suburbs
3. Jim Maher (Norths)
A Queensland batting legend scored 135 not out across almost two days to bat his side into the grand final. A member of Queensland’s first six Sheffield Shield winnings teams, and a World Cup representative, Maher wound the clock back with his long, defining innings.
2. Joseph Campbell (Norths)
Campbell was jollied along by Maher in a partnership which took Norths from a crisis of 4-31, to 5-121. It was arguably his best innings of the year when his team needed it most.
1. Hugh Mason, Steve Gramenz and Declan Brooks each claimed two wickets for Wests. They must have felt like they were bowling in a greenhouse, so hot and humid was it.
South Brisbane v University
3. Liam Brady (Souths)
Brady bowled his side into poll position with a telling 20-10-33-5. He had support from Lucky and schoolboy Wegner, but Brady was the main man from start to finish.
2. Coby Cole Stegman (Uni)
Coby stood out like a lighthouse with his gallant 61 from 109 balls in a collapsing innings. He was selective with his shots, but still found eight boundaries.
1. Dean Collings and Charlie Bassingthwaighte (University)
The boys took seven wickets between them in a telling contribution after Uni has reached the foundation of 4-132. Bassingthwaighte has now taken 23 wickets at 16.70 while Collings claimed 14 wickets at 15.
Sixth grade, Wep Harris Shield
Redland def Norths
3. Jake Matthews (redlands)
Mathews has scored 594 runs this season, but his most valuable this summer were the 63 scored as an opener as Redlands made 201.
2. Michael Holmes (Norths)
He scored runs and took wickets in a dramatic sixth grade semi-final.
His 35 was crucial with the bat, then he backed it up with 4032 from 28 overs – an absolutely elite performance.
1. Norths trio Eli Brain (36) and Will Bowen (30) teamed together with Holmes (see above) to almost steal victory for their side after Redland made 201 – just ahead of Norths 198.
University def Souths
3. Fergus Rees (Valley)
Rees was composed as ever at the batting crease, seeing the bowlers out with ease. He faced 173 balls for his 36, before claiming two wickets at the bowling crease.
2. Elliot Shepherd and Alex Balston (Valley)
After their side had batted for 109 overs, this Valley duo got to work with the ball and took three apiece.
Thanks to their efforts, Souths were knocked over for 160, 23 runs shy.
1. Brad Anderson (Souths)
It’s not often you take six and lose but that was the reality Anderson had to face after destroying the Valley middle order.
He bowled a whopping 39 overs and leaked just 29 runs. You bet there was 21 maidens.
He wasn’t done, the No.6 smacking 45 off 43 in the chase.
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