Lord Taverners Lew Cooper Cup and Hornets T20 win
Club cricket: Gators’ run machine, Uni quick among the stars as we reveal our 3-2-1 votes from round 1 of the Lord Taverner’s under 17 season which started last Sunday.
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The Lord Taverner’s under 17 boys Lew Cooper Cup cricket competition started with aplomb last Sunday, with exciting wins to Valley and Sunshine Coast early season highlights.
There were also wins to the Gold Coast, Western Suburbs, the Gators, University and Northern Suburbs.
And in this report we also acknowledge the Hornets’ historic T20 senior premiership.
Watch out for our weekly coverage across the summer of not only the esteemed Lord Tav competition, but also for senior men’s matches from first grade to fourth grade along with women’s first and second grade senior games.
Following a bumper round 1 of Lord Tav matches, we present our 3-2-1 votes
Gold Coast 8-235 defeated Darling Downs & SW Queensland 120
3. Rhys Horne (Gold Coast)
Right arm off-spin Horne tied the Darling Downs boys in knots with an unbroken spell of 10-3-12-3. Darling Downs had got to 0-32 and then 1-54, but Horne’s two early wickets started the erosion of the Wide Bay innings.
3. William Slack-Smith (Gold Coast)
Right handed Slack-Smith set an early tone with a rollicking half century against the new ball. Slack-Smith scored an even 50 from 68 balls in adding 106 for the first wicket alongside his opening partner Ryan Reid (47).
1. Ryan Reid (Gold Coast)
Left handed opener Reid got his team’s season rolling along early with a century stand alongside Slack-Smith. Although he scored 47 from 59 balls, he did plenty of running because only three of his shots went into or over the boundary rope.
Special mention: Aaron Convery (Darling Downs)
Convery stood firm for 70 deliveries until offie Horne, mentioned above, disturbed his stumps. He amassed 20.
Western Suburbs 2-104 defeated South Brisbane 103
3. Michael Neumann (Wests)
Calm at the crease, the Western Suburbs vice-captain led by example to steer his side to a first round win. Batting at No.3, he stroked seven balls to the boundary on his way to an unbeaten 44. He gathered some experience against the men last season playing in fourth grade.
2. Hugh Mason (Wests)
Hugh Mason right arm inswing was a point of difference with his 3-15 from five overs and in combination with Jacob Cibulka (2-12), he wrecked the South Brisbane innings. Mason took three of the first four wickets to fall, and from 4-32 the South Brisbane innings was bailing water. It was his Lord Tav debut after playing some fourth grade last season.
1. Riley Johnson (Souths)
The South Brisbane vice-captain was on a one man rescue mission when he was run out by Rushi Kakkad. Johnson was on the counter-attack with 38 from 42 balls, but when he went it was lights out. Ironically he got one back on Kaddad when he ran out the Wests opener.
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Special mention: Jacob Cibulka (Souths)
Cibulka was an important contributor at the bowling crease, not only for his two wickets, but his concession of just a dozen runs from eight overs.
Sandgate-Redcliffe 4-176 defeated Wynnum-Manly 7-174
3. Steve Hogan (Sandgate Redcliffe)
The right handed run machine was at it again with an unbeaten 78 in his season opening performance. Hogan was measured during his 97 ball innings, adding important runs with Damon Bass for the second wicket (48)
Nicolas Bragger (Wynnum-Manly)
The match was dead and buried until Bragger and Noah Maguire got rolling in the lower order. From 6-87 Bragger hit 51 from 84 balls to raise his team’s hopes.
Noah Maguire (Wynnum-Manly)
Maguire was Bragger’s sidekick, scoring an unbeaten 52 from 72 balls which gave his side a total to defend.
Special mentions: Lakshdeep Singh (Sandgate Redcliffe)
Singh stemmed the tide of Wynnum’s recovery with 2-19 from 10 overs.
Damon Bass (Sandgate Redcliffe)
Bass kept his head to ease his side to 1-97 alongside batting ace Steve Hogan.
University 0-252 defeated Wide Bay 134
3. Will Parkinson (University)
The quick wound up to take a blistering 7-22 in 7.4 overs in a dream start to his season. Bowling second change, he went through the Wide Bay line-up after a spirited opening by Wide Bay pair Lawson Black (24) and River Felstead (15).
2. Blake Armstrong (Wests)
Armstrong was steady with the ball (1-30, six overs) but even better with the bat in scoring 64 much needed runs.
Wests needed every last run as Wide Bay challenged all innings, spearheaded by bowlers Lachlan Burrows and Cooper Keogh.
1. Lachlan Burrows three wickets, right arms
Burrows chipped away with three wickets bowling his right arm off-spin.
Special mentions: Cooper Keogh (Wide Bay) and Alex Walduck (University)
Keogh was an exciting seam up bowler who made his Lord Tav debut aged just 14 while gloveman Walduck got among the runs with an important 42.
Sam Stuchbery (Wide Bay)
Stuchbery put together a stoic innings top score of 28, defying Parkinson and co for 71 deliveries before left armer Blake Armstrong got his measure. He was the glue of the Wide Bay innings.
Valley 8-114 defeated Redlands 111
3.Samuel Lewis and Henry Mercer (Valleys)
Taking three wickets apiece, Lewis and Mercer had the Redlands boys reeling after an early breakthrough by Ted Challenor got Valleys off to the prime start.
Lewis picked up the crucial wicket of Thomas Stenhouse for naught and himself and Mercer both went at below 3 runs an over in a winning start for Valley.
2. Henry Frederiksen and Thomas Vaseo (Redlands)
Like Lewis and Mercer, Frederiksen and Vaseo were a potent one-two combo who did their job and more with three wickets each.
Frederiksen was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3/18 off nine overs. Across his two spells, Frederiksen bowled three maidens and not one wide.
1. William Tozer (Valley)
The Padua College all-rounder was at his best in the middle order scoring 34 runs off 46 deliveries.
It may not sound like enough to earn him No.1 honours but in the context of the game his 50-run-partnership with James Brandon was everything for Valleys.
Sunshine Coast 7-295 defeated Toombul 6-201
3. Will Noffke (Sunshine Coast)
The Scorchers captain had a timely cameo at No.8 scoring 32 off 27 to get his team home.
He hit two fours and two sixes and had a matchwinning 44 run partnership with Robinson.
2. Mitchell Hartshorn (Toombul)
Hartshorn batted at No.6 and was too good to be dismissed.
He didn’t overplay his hand and notched a classy 60 not out.
In a game where scoring quickly was gold, opening bat Samuel Kewley was king with a quick 39 off 41 to begin the Toombul innings.
1.Zac Robinson (Sunshine Coast)
Chasing 202 to win, first drop batsmen Robinson had his work cut out for him and he delivered with a crucial 63 run knock.
He hit eight boundaries in his 93 ball innings.
Norths 9-197 defeated Ipswich 131
3. Rishi Mehta (Norths)
Mehta burst onto the Taverners scene with three wickets a run out and a win at home.
2. Marlon Armstrong (Norths)
Armstrong saw out the new ball, facing 124 balls and enjoying a 97 run partnership with Cruz Baker.
He was unlucky not to reach 50 but 47 is an awfully good start.
1.Cruz Baker (Norths)
It is Baker’s second year of Taverner’s cricket and it showed at the weekend.
The Norths skipper hit 64 runs which included seven boundaries.
HORNETS STING IN T20 FINAL
The Cricket Ipswich community is celebrating a breakthrough achievement by the Hornets men’s first grade team following a stunning grand final victory in the prestigious KFC T20 max.
Spurred on by a big crowd of vocal supporters at Allan Border Field on Saturday, the Hornets beat a Norths side boasting former Test batsman Joe Burns and current Big Bash star Josh Brown.
The comprehensive five wicket victory was the Hornets’ first ever men’s premiership, a fittting reward for the club’s early pioneers and current stalwarts who have backed the Hornets over the past 11 years.
Ipswich was simply brilliant in the field, restricting Norths to 168 on the back of some brilliant catching from the likes of Jack Wood and Bryn Llewellyn.
Quicks Jem Ryan, a TGS old boy, and Sean Lutter took four wickets apiece, allowing the Hornets to take plenty of momentum into their batting innings.
Wood continued his brilliant KFC T20 Max form with the bat, smacking 42 from 24 balls, while IGS product Harry Sheppard was also in great touch in just his second top grade game.
Sheppard hit 38 from 18 balls, igniting a pro-Ipswich crowd with every lusty blow.
Norths showed plenty of fight to pick up four quick wickets, but their joy was short lived as captain Anthony Wilson (24no) and Jake Cross (37) put the game beyond doubt.
Cross hit four massive sixes, while Wilson struck one blow onto the roof of Queensland Cricket headquarters before hitting the winning run from the bowling of Will Prestwidge in the 17th over.
Ipswich Hornets coach Brendan Creevey summed up the emotional nature of the win and what it meant for the club.
“I’ve been around cricket for many years both as a player and a coach, and I’ve had my successes over the years, but since my involvement at the Hornets who have not tasted the success of a premiership until this T20 competition, I have come to resonate with many of their stories,” Creevey said.
“The stories of the Wood brothers, and their families, who bleed brown and gold. The uniqueness of the Lutter twins and the way they have toiled for many years without the ppportunity to raise a trophy.
“The humbling acknowledgment of the Wilson brothers, and their families, who have long served Ipswich cricket. But also to have the likes of Mark Rasmussen (first ever Hornets captain), and Jack Little (cap #1) present at the game, and seeing them with a tear in their eye after the game made it all real.
“So to answer the question of what this win means for the Hornets, you’d have to look into
the eyes of those who have represented the club for many years, and understand their story.
“It’s only then that you’ll come to realise exactly what this win means to those individuals, Ipswich Cricket and all the players past and present who proudly represent the Hornets.”
Creevey said it was a true team effort and acknowledged the contributions made by the entire squad and support staff.
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