Poidevin-Gray Shield, NSW Premier Cricket: Team of Round 1

The opening round of the under-21 Poidevin-Gray Shield in a new T20 format saw fast-paced action across ten fiercely-contested matches. See which players were the best performers.

The opening round of the under-21 Poidevin-Gray Shield in a new T20 format saw fast-paced cricket action across ten fiercely-contested matches.

Four cricketers – Western Suburbs’ Finn Gray, UNSW’s Thomas Byrnes, St George’s Jack Hartigan and Penrith’s Liam Doddrell – raised the bat after scoring speedy half centuries as UNSW’s Ethan Jamieson and Sydney University’s Hugo Ikeda celebrated five wicket hauls.

Last season’s joint premiers Gordon suffered a round one defeat after a spirited batting performance by St George proved to be too difficult to chase down at Hurstville Oval.

Parramatta, the other 2020/21 premiership-winning team, had no trouble maintaining their winning ways with a bowling demolition job seeing Fairfield-Liverpool all out for 57 runs. The total was chased down inside 11 overs for the loss of one wicket.

The round one winners were Manly-Warringah, Sutherland, St George, Mosman and UNSW in the Sixers Conference and Penrith, Campbelltown-Camden, Parramatta, Blacktown Mounties and Western Suburbs.

A Team of the Round has been selected based off the individual performances in the opening round.

TEAM OF THE ROUND

Finn Gray (Western Suburbs) – 70 runs off 43 balls

Stirling McAvoy (Mosman) – 49 runs off 21 balls

Thomas Byrnes (UNSW) – 62 runs off 48 balls and two stumpings

Dylan Holdstock (Sutherland) 49 runs off 29 balls

Kaleb Phillips (St George) – 46 runs off 35 balls

Jack Hartigan (St George) – 52 runs off 35 balls

Liam Doddrell (Penrith) – 50* runs off 42 balls

Jackson Isaaka (Campbelltown-Camden) – 4/8 off four overs and 27* off 55 balls

Hugo Ikeda (Sydney University) – 5/18 off 4 overs

Ethan Jamieson (UNSW) – 5/23 off 3.4 overs

Andrew Calvert (Parramatta) – 3/15 off four overs