Iona College student Finn Haller takes 7-7 as Ashgrove win last over T20 thriller

An Iona College student claimed 7-7 in a schoolboy T20 cricket competition won by Marist College Ashgrove in a thriller over Villanova. Story here.

Ashgrove won the AIC T20 tournament at Banyo.

Iona College student Finn Haller claimed seven wickets for seven runs during an AIC T20 tournament won by Ashgrove in a last over thriller against Villanova.

Haller, a Year 10 student who is yet to play a First XI one-day match for Iona, took five wickets in five balls against St Edmund’s College, including a spell of 7-7.

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A left arm swing bowler, Haller pitched up to claim many of his victims bowled or LBW.

“It was old style swing bowling,’’ said Iona College coach Wayne Niven.

From the Wynnum Manly club - ironically the same club as former Queensland swing bowling great Adam Dale - Haller made the ball sing.

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What a joy it was to see good old fashioned skill as the youngster let the ball do the talking.

Aged just 15, Haller made the Queensland schoolboys under 15 team and will play Taverner’s U17s at the Sea Eagles next season.

Marist College Ashgrove won the T20 final against Villanova in a match which went down to the final over.

Finn Haller of Iona after he took 7-7 in the AIC T20 tournament.

After Marist’s Braiden Polich had scored a half century, Marist tail-enders Archer Tallon and Oliver Haynes scrambled the winning runs with just a few balls to spare.

Earlier, Villanova’s Lachlan Whaites had lit up the Padua College Oval with a stirring 50 to elevate his side to 126, leaving Ashgrove a competitive 127 for victory.

FOOTNOTE: Look for the www.couriermail.com.au to cover the AIC First XI one day competition starting in February.