GPS First XI cricket: How round 4 unfolded here
GPS First XI cricket rolled into round 4 today, with Nudgee College and Brisbane Boys College retaining unbeaten records while the anticipated battle between twins was over before it started.
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St Joseph’s Nudgee College will roll into round 5 next weekend unbeaten after pace bowler Angus McLean and batsmen Matt Fielding and Bailey Todd spearheaded their side to victory.
They will also be joined in the unbeaten column by Brisbane Boys College who played out a thriller against an enterprising Toowoomba Grammar School.
Nudgee pair Fielding and Todd both hit 70s as Nudgee stormed away to be 1-134 before BSHS’s bowlers restricted their rivals to 201.
It is not the first time this season that the BSHS attack has rallied against the odds and credit must be given to them, with Moloney, Du and Skipwith leading the way.
But at the batting crease BSHS struggled against the pace and swing of McLean who has been a revelation this season.
The right arm outswing bowler had bold support from new ball partner Ed Kasprowicz, Carter Corless again and Fergus McFadyden, but McLean took the honours with 4-19.
BSHS’s Jack Sonter top scored with 42.
In other matches Ipswich Grammar School and The Southport School were bowled to victory in their respective matches by outstanding team efforts in the field.
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Round 4 was to have included the battle of the twin brothers when Jackson Evetts (Ipswich Grammar School) played Hayden Evetts (St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace).
But unfortunately Hayden was unable to overcome an injury in time to play.
It would have been a cherished moment for the students who so fondly remember playing together as juniors of the Walkerston Cricket Club in Mackay each Friday night at Harrup Park’’.
But despite being twins and loving cricket, the brothers were not joined at the hip and surprisingly have played far more cricket against each other, rather than with each other.
“When we first started playing cricket, we were in the same team but from about under 9s to under 14s, we found ourselves playing against each other for different teams more than with each other,’’ Hayden explained.
Jackson also added: “My first memories would be playing milo cricket on a Friday night and sharing all our gear.
“We started at the Walkerston Cricket Club together but Hayden changed after a few years and been pretty well at different clubs since.’’
In action today, Jackson Evetts scored 20 from 29 balls in IGS’ total of 8-188 and then claimed 1-16 as Ipswich Grammar School defeated Terrace.
Dinek Kinigama top scored for IGS with 52 in a steady innings which saw Ramsden and Sanderson contribute a pair of 20s at the top of the order.
But it was Ramsden’s bowling, and that of Raziel Bhandari (both three wickets) who were a part of an outstanding team performance.
Ramsden took 3-26 and Bhandari 3-11, but around them Harper, Evetts, Cibulka and Wegner did the job. It really was a fine bowling unit.
Theodore Bacalakis batted for one and a half hours for Terrace in a defiant display, scoring 36.
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On the Village Green, TSS’s bowlers produced a fantastic team effort in the field to defend 148.
TSS dismissed Brisbane Grammar School for just 97, having only scored 148 themselves.
The Southport School’s Dushyant Thaman took 4-14, bowling a remarkable six maidens as TSS responded with gusto at the bowling crease and around the ground.
He is a left arm orthodox spinner who is only in Year 10, but played with the maturity if a seasoned professional.
Of course, it never is a one man band effort by TSS and before his success Zac McDermott, Waterman, Summers and Grif Williams had all done their part.
Swing bowler Waterman also bowled three maidens during his five over spell, and only Ollie Spencer (23) withstood the pressure for a period of time.
In the first innings the BGS bowlers did well to restrict TSS, with Skerl, Sane and Matthews joining Batcherlor, Spence and Lutz in the complete bowling performance.
Big hearted Soham Sane claimed 3-32 and spinners Matthews and Spence two wickets apiece in an exciting game.
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At Oakman Field, Brisbane Boys College scored an imposing 7-248, only to have Toowoomba Grammar lapping at the shoreline late in the day.
TGS were all out for 234 in the 50th over, an amazing chase driven along by Chace Oates who plundered a run-a-ball half century.
Joe Sippell (51) was also the batting anchor until run out by Oscar Shaw, and it took come calm heads to ensure BBC defended their total.
One again allrounders Jamie Alexander (3-35) and Blake Armstrong (1-30) did a great job with the new ball, with Alexander also scoring a match high 79 (95 balls).
Shaw was a great tail gunner for BBC, blasting 41 not out as his team’s tally raced toward 250.
That was always going to be enough, wasn’t it?
TGS had other ideas as one batsman after another threaded partnerships together to ensure BBC always looked over their shoulders.
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