Queensland Premier Cricket latest: Norths Taverners duo shine in Wests take-down, top performers highlighted
Queensland Premier Cricket latest: Top talking points, performers and pictures from the weekend of Tav’s cricket and first grade men and women’s action here as Norths’ Tav’s duo takes 10 wickets between them.
Two Northside young guns are the talk of the town and kings on campus at school today after their deeds in Taverners under-17s cricket on Sunday.
St Patrick’s College fast bowler Theo Tsingos and Brisbane State High spinner Charles Hinze took a combined 10 wickets in less than seven overs to produce Norths’ biggest win of the season against Wests, a 246-run take-down.
It was the most astonishing bowling effort seen at this level, ever, and it came against quality opposition in Wests, at Wests’ home ground in Graceville.
The most stunning aspect was not the fact Hinze took three wickets in an over. Nor was it the fact both Tsingos and Hinze took more wickets than runs leaked.
It wasn’t the fact that, on the same deck, Norths recorded a weekend-best score of 9-253 and then some hours later had Wests all out for seven runs in the seventh over.
It was that incredible Norths all-rounder Hinze had about an hour before been run out for 99 runs.
Hinze, batting No. 5, went berserk in a 117-run stand with Eli Brain (63, 68 balls) that turned an okay 3-55 scoreline into a stunning 7-243 upper hand when he was ran out with a direct hit.
Hinze was backing up at the nonstrikers end and couldn’t have run faster or slid his bat better as he ran between the wickets after a late cut by teammate Mohit Ratnala.
What Hinze and Ratnala couldn’t have envisioned was a direct hit by gully fieldsman Charlie McGrath, whose throw cruelled Hinze of a well-deserved hundred.
But Hinze wasn’t done, after chipping in 99 of the best toward a bumper 253.
Hinze, a left arm orthodox spinner, bowled the first over and went without reward and on the other end right arm quick Tsingos snared two wickets in his first over.
The free fall had started.
Hinze then took three wickets in his second over. Twice he caught Wests batters leg before wicket. Wests had lost five wickets in the first three overs.
It got even better, for Norths, when Tsingos charged in for his second over and clean bowled another Wests batter for his third and finest of the bunch.
It was 6-6 after four overs and then 7-7 after six when Tingos took his fourth.
Finally, to wrap up the chaos, Hinze took three wickets in five balls to have the match won in an instant.
Hinze’s 99 and 6-4, paired with Tsingos’ 4-3, wasn’t just the only mammoth performance seen in round 10 of the Taverners competition.
UQ opener Charlie Henderson notched his third century of the season and was excellent behind the stumps against Redlands while Gold Coast all rounder Nathan Iffland scored a half century and took two wickets in a win over the Sunshine Coast.
Read on for all the talking points from last weekend’s Queensland Premier Cricket action, across the Taverners, first grade men and first grade women competitions.
TAVERNERS UNDER-17S
Sandgate-Redcliffe 6-103 def Wynnum-Manly 10-102
Sandgate were on its way to the finals following a comprehensive four-wicket win over Wynnum, which came courtesy of a courageous fielding effort.
Right-arm fast bowlers Lachlan Warner and Cooper Wyllie took two wickets each with the new ball to dismantle the Sea Eagles top order and have them 4-12 in a flash.
The visitors didn’t let up.
Tall Tom Cook took two wickets himself bowling right arm fast deliveries over the wicket, before Warner and Wyllie took their third wickets.
Gurnoor Sandhu and Finn Vikionkorpi also chipped in with the ball but no one could get out gutsy Wynnum No. 10 Sasen Perera who showed tremendous fight with an unbeaten 26 (30 balls). Zac Moore (22) also wagged his tail after the damage had been inflicted by Sandgate’s pacemen.
With the bat, life got off to a rocky start for Sandgate. Finn Haller’s tricky left-arm out swing bowling yielded two quick wickets and it was 2-17 in no time.
However, Sandgate steadied the ship courtesy of Finn Vikionkorpi (20), Owen Regan (23) and Bailey Keenan (32 not out), with Keenan’s knock of particular importance.
It took 24 overs for the mighty Gators, 8-2 on the season and a lock for the semi finals, to get home.
Valley 3-88 def Ipswich 10-140
Valley were also looking to finish its season strong and they did so at home, beating Ipswich via the DLS method after successfully chasing 86 runs from 27 overs. They needed just 21 in the end.
Visitors Ipswich opted to bat first but quickly they were met with a fierce lot of Ashgrove bowlers and all seven Valley boys that bowled came away with at least one wicket.
Fast bowler Will Easter was responsible for making the first breakthrough and from there, Oliver Hayes, Angus Peters, Declan Lambert, Peters, Easter (run out), Nissanpal Singh Saroya, Dan Desmet (two wickets in a row), and finally Peters all took wickets.
Desmet’s first wicket removed Ipswich’s top scorer, Oliver Lockwood, who withstood 86 balls for his 37. Young Hornet Rylan McDonald, batting No. 9, also challenge the Valley bowlers with a defiant 31 (40 balls).
All out in the 46th over, Ipswich turned its focus to the field where they were met with poise and patience by the Valley openers.
Will Hawkins (33, 44 balls) and Calem McCathie (36 not out, 68 balls) got their side off to a merry start scoring 68 runs before Isaac Krause drew first blood.
When the rain hit, Valley were 1-69 and flying. Out of the break, leg break bowler Marko vanVuuren was at his best taking two wickets in three balls.
It was too little too late as magic man McCathie and Oliver Hayes brought up the winning runs running between the wickets.
UQ 3-244 def Redlands 7-143
UQ powered onwards and upwards on Sunday, claiming its 10th straight win in a season plucked from fairytale land.
The hosts lost just three wickets across 50 overs. Hamish Down (24), Charlie Henderson (100), Theo Bacalakis (43) and Mitch Harte (41 not out) warmed their engines for the finals in a fortnights time.
It was Henderson’s third century in nine innings this year and it took the Nudgee College opener’s average to a stunning 106.17, with the next best average belonging to fellow UQ gun Bacalakis who has hit 543 runs at 67.88.
Henderson’s 141-ball blitz was elegant and outstanding. He tallied 72 runs running between the wickets and shared in big partnerships with Down (46-run partnership), Bacalakis (100-run partnership) and finally Harte (82-run partnership).
Harte was also fabulous across his 52-balls, hitting three fours and rotating the strike wonderfully.
Redlands quick Tom Vaseo took two wickets but it was a day for the outstanding UQ batsmen.
In the field, UQ muscled up to cut Redlands off 37 runs shy of the 180-run total (calculated using DLS method).
Tigers openers Jackson Williams (13) and Ezra Wolfik (20) were a tad slow off the mark due to the pinpoint fast bowling of UQ right armers Oliver Witt and Jacob Bingham.
It meant Redlands were in a race against the clock, and matters worsened when Bailey Beachy-Head took two quick wickets to have the visitors 2-33.
Redlands No. 4 Lachlan Pask, as the rain trickled down and made life hard for the batters, scored a top notch 48 (52 balls) to spark life back into the chase.
Pask was in attack mode from the get-go and was in glorious form during his time at the middle. When wicketkeeper Henderson stumped him swiftly off the spin bowling of Yumeth Hewa Walgamage, Redlands were doomed needing 53 from 15 (6-127).
This UQ win was set in motion well by Bingham and Witt who bowled economically, before skipper Bacalakis (6-1-18-1) really suffocated the Redlands batters. Hewa Walgamage (7-0-40-3) snared three key wickets for his troubles.
Gold Coast 3-169 def Sunshine Coast 10-167
The Dolphins secured its most important win of the season over the Scorchers because they are now a lock for the finals in two weeks time.
Third placed Gold Coast (6-4, 27 points) are clear of fifth seed Toombul (5-5, 22 points) following Sunday’s comprehensive seven-wicket win in the Glass House Mountains.
The Scorchers did well to post 167, with George Fisher (14), Ben Blackwell (29), Rory Ramsden (39), Aiden Thompson (16), Caelan Barr (27), Lewis Andreassen (16) and Cody Emerson (13) all chipping in before the timely Goldy bowlers cut their innings short before any significant damage could be inflicted.
Jack Penfold was key for the visitors taking two important, top-order wickets. Morgan Carter (3-27) and Nathan Iffland (2-26) were on song as well.
Cooper Brown also brought his A game in the field. He took two wickets in three overs and ran out Darcy Millard.
Talk about a damaging injection late in the game.
Chasing 168 to win, the Gold Coast rebounded fabulously after losing its opener Oliver Lum to 15-year-old bowling all-rounder Emerson.
Emerson did take another wicket in Josh Slack-Smith (20), but Slack-Smith’s Dolphins teammates didn’t like that.
First drop batsman Jaxson Davies scored his third half century (53) off 58 balls to lead the charge alongside tireless all-rounder Iffland (56 not out, 67 balls).
The prolific pair put on 78 runs together before Emerson caught out Davies off the off spin bowling of Eli Pearce.
Iffland and Brown (25 not out) then cruised to victory with their 55-run stand surging the Gold Coast home with 20 overs to spare.
Toombul 8-213 def Souths 8-151
Toombul did its best to ensure they were a chance of squeezing into the final four, but of course results did not fall their way elsewhere on Sunday, namely at Wests where Norths won big to secure its place in the finals.
Vice-captain and opener Fraser Judd (78, 120 balls) did a terrific job taking the shine off the new ball and steering the Bulls to 174 before Eddie Wallace struck.
Judd enjoyed a neat 69-run opening stand with Don Gambaro (32), a 45-run spurt with Jason Bakshi (21) and ran expertly between the wickets during his time at the crease.
Hemant Balamurugan (17) and Sam Jones (36 not out, 37 balls) also contributed runs to the cause, with No. 6 Jones again demanding more time to shine higher up in the order.
Jones has built a nice resume in the second half of the season with scores of 40 not out, 13, 47, 34, naught and Sunday’s run-a-ball blitz against Souths.
Souths spinner Jonathon Tennakoon, after taking 4-23 against Wests last weekend, repeated the dose and took 4-42 from his 10 overs.
Off spinner Hunter Hampton (10-3-25-1) and left-arm orthodox spinner Gurutva Singh (10-2-32-0) demand all the praise for their economical bowling that made scoring fast a tough job for Toombul.
Thanks to Jones’ scoring spurt to finish, Toombul were well placed entering the second innings defending a DLS-adjusted 186 in a shortened 39 overs.
Indeed Souths were up against it even before openers Ishaan Sandhu and Tharuk Mahaarachchi fearlessly trotted to the middle. And they did a great job, albeit Souths fell short by 35 runs.
Captain Sandhu (32, 38 balls) and Mahaarachchi (41, 65 balls) led the way but the suffocating spin bowling of Spencer Green reigned supreme.
Green caught Sandhu leg before wicket and caught-and-bowled No. 3 Oliver Goring for 10 as time got away from Souths. Green finished with 2-8 off eight overs.
Earlier, Gambaro’s bowling and Bakshi’s wicketkeeping also undid Mahaarachchi in an important turn of events.
Tennakoon was tenacious scoring 25 from 29 with time running out rapidly after Toombul had upped the ante in the field.
Fast bowling Lenny Henry took three wickets and ran out Eddie Wallace with the help of Gambaro to put icing on the cake for the Bulls.
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DARLING DOWNES DAZZLER DELIVERS
Darling Downes product Emma Jackson went big on Sunday, scoring 54 from 37 opening the batting to be the driving force behind UQ’s 16-run win over a gallant Sandgate-Redcliffe.
Jackson lost her batting partner Taylor Stumer in the first over and thrived on the back of that early loss, scoring quick and easily as a batting spearhead. She hit six fours and a six.
Jackson was key in 44-run and 34-run partnerships with both Laura Marshall (15) and Tara Wheeler (10) on a day where GatorS Megan Dixon (2-22), Phoebe Smith (2-21), and Sofia Velic (4-0-18-0) troubled the UQ batters the most.
In the field, UQ’s hot start put winning on the cards quickly. Khushi Mistry and Charlotte Atkinson removed both openers and Sandgate were in trouble at 2-26.
Then came Darcey Johnson’s inspired innings from No.3. Johnson smashed 47 runs from 38 balls and took it to the UQ bowlers where she could as she knew time was of the essence.
Six boundaries later and Kyrna Crump took the most important wicket of the match when Johnson went out swinging.
Pari More (12, 12 balls), Meagan Dixon (29, 21 balls) and Tanisha Gudigar (13 not out, 15 balls) scored quickly but not quick enough as Tara Wheeler and Mistry moved to take a wicket each and put the game out of reach for Sandgate.
WOMEN’S HEAVYWEIGHTS CAN’T BE SPLIT
There was a thrilling tie between Wests and Wynnum on Bill Albury Oval in Tingalpa when Wests (5-99) were ran out one run short on the final ball of the game.
A spot-on throw from mid-wicket fielder Allegra Pollack and great hands from wicketkeeper Eve Mollee meant Wests had to settle with a tie after Ayaka Stafford (10) and Filipa SueSee (15 not out) had scored eight runs off the first five balls of the over to go ominously close to Wynnum’s 2-99 total.
It was a shortened match of 17 overs each and Wests needed 100 to win but good Wynnum fielding was the winner after that absorbing final over.
Lucy Logan (27), Olivia Steel (11) and Rebecca Storrs (16) scored the runs for Wests while Wynnum off spinner Annika Bjorkman was involved in plenty taking two wickets and running out Logan
Spinner Amreen Kahlon (4-1-18-1) and Sea Eagles captain Clodagh Ryall (4-1-14-0) were most impressive with the ball.
Earlier, Wests bowled excellently and leaked just eight sundries (compared to 19) to limit the damage.
Wynnum opener Pollack was all class during her 27-run knock, as was Eloise Schabe who belted an unbeaten 51 from 48 balls to show Wests who was boss.
DOLPHINS BOWLERS BRING THE HEAT AGAINST SCORCHERS
The Dolphins dazzled as bright as diamonds when defeating the Scorchers by five wicketsto snare its first win of the T20 season away from home.
The visitors constricted the hosts and had them all out for 92 before chasing down the winning total with just under five overs to spare.
Amelia Kemp was the MVP of the first 10 overs when taking two quick wickets to have the Scorchers 2-12 and then 3-14 when her buddy Zoe Sherriff crashed the gates down the other end.
In the middle stages, Laura Scheiwe stunned the Scorchers with three wickets in quick succession. Off a short run up, Scheiwe was superb before Karri Keen clean bowled the Sunshine Coast’s top scorer, Dahlia Glennie (27).
At 7-76 after taking Glennie’s wicket, the Gold Coast had a clear advantage and the clean up crew up was of course the terrific trio of Scheiwe, Kemp and Sherriff.
Kemp then showed her value opening the batting.
Kemp scored 20 from 22 balls after losing her opening partner in the first over. From there, the Gold Coast cruised home thanks to Rebecca Duckworth (21), Olivia Winter (23) and captain Lara Shannon (16 not out), who all scored at run-a-ball pace to earn an early mark up the Coast.
Scorchers Peyton Meredith (4-0-20-0) and Kalea Moore (2-0-3-1) were fabulous with the ball in hand.
BULLS MASTERS TWO DAY, MEN’S FIRST GRADE TOP PERFORMERS
+Wynnum junior Harley Malpass exploded for his best ever first grade score of 117.
A prodigy at school, Malpass was at his best on Saturday against the Bulls. He belted 13 fours and stuck around to join forces with Reuben Burger who added an unbeaten 56 to the cause.
+ Wynnum batted the lights out against Toombul, emphasised by Jehan Daniel’s knock at No.7 where he scored a run-a-ball 92 before Jack Balkin got his man.
+Wests weapon Sam Geyer continued his lights-out form at UQ. He scored an unbeaten 145 to guide Wests to a wonderful 4-338. Alongside him, skipper Steven McGiffin was just magnificent (98).
+UQ top gun Bryce Street was impossible to put away despite McGiffin and Geyer seeing the ball so well. He finished with figures of 21-5-44-1 and has more to give next Saturday.
+Ashgrove old boy and club stalwart Dylan McLachlan was at the peak of his powers, scoring a team high 88 from 109 balls against Ipswich.
+ Toowoomba young gun quick Charlie Lachmund was like a Jem Ryan reincarnated for the Hornets. He took five wickets and bowled just two wides across 17 overs which showed his control.
+Norths off spinner Michael Cormack shouldered a heavy load against the Gold Coast and came up trumps (32-2-128-4).
+ Goldy No.5 batter Callum Taylor took charge and scored an unbeaten 163 to help his team toward 9-356. The laser-focused right hander put his head down and did most of his work running between the wickets. Brad Munro (43) didn’t much about either when he entered the fray late in the day last Saturday.
+ Young right arm fast bowler Lachlan McClure starred for Redlands with a fifer for the ages. The young quick out of Iona College had it swinging both ways and after making the first breakthrough, he collected four more later in the day’s play. Across 16 overs he did not bowl a single wide and went for 1.46 runs an over against the Scorchers.
+ Redlands gun James Pullar (21-4-70-2) also had it on a string before big improver Damyn Waddups scored 41 in reply to the Coast’s 10-218. Tom Engelbrecht was huge for the Coast, scoring 59 at No.7 to give his bowling attack something to bowl at.
+ Gator Josh Creevey chomped Souths in half with his five wicket haul. Souths could only manage 115 after Creevey was done with them.
He started the day with a wicket in his first spell and a little later on took four wickets in quick succession to send Souths spiralling.
+ In reply, the two Steven’s - Steven Hogan and Steven Cawood - caught fire with scores of 97 and 44 respectively. Hogan, who remains not out, is fresh from graduating high school at St Patrick’s College and scored efficiently to give his beloved Sandgate-Redcliffe a handy 59-run lead.
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