Queensland Premier Cricket’s top run scorers and wicket takers revealed from Premier Women and grade cricket competitions
Who were the stat’s kings and queens of Queensland Premier cricket this season? Revealed here, including the amazing numbers of young and old local cricketers.
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Toombul veteran Preston White is the finest Queensland Premier all-rounder this season. Don’t just take our word, it is all there in black and white.
The 33-year-old Rockhampton right handed batsman blasted 1054 runs at an average of 50.19, with a season high 40 sixes sailing over the boundary ropes. No one scored more runs than him.
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Then, bowling his left arm medium pace, White also claimed 43 wickets at just 22.86 in yet another summer to remember for the Bulls.
It was a case of the old and the new impacting the bowling ranks, with young guns Noah McFadyen (Norths), Jem Ryan (Ipswich), Tom Balkin (Toombul) and Charlie Thomas (Valley) all featuring in the top eight bowlers of the season.
Nudgee College old boy McFadyen, the premiership winning swing bowler from Norths, claimed a season high 67 scalps at 25.01.
Tall Ipswich quick Ryan, who played First XI from Toowoomba Grammar School, claimed an eye-catching 55 victims at just 15.13 to be second behind McFadyen.
McFadyen’s old Nudgee school mate, fast bowler Balkin, rushed out 46 batsmen this season (average 21.83) to be ranked No.5.
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Former Brisbane Grammar School premiership winning bowler Charlie Thomas finished a fine season ranked eight on the bowling list, claiming 43 wickets at 19.44. Impressively Thomas’ economy rate was just 2.95 runs per over.
Valley’s young veteran Benji Floros, who seems to have packed a lot of cricket into his 26 years, was an elite out swing bowler for Valley finished third on the bowling list, taking 55 at 14.13.
Fourth on the statistics front was Gold Coast quick Jackson Smith (49 wickets at 23.18).
Ever reliable Callum Handerson of University captured 43 wickets while Sam Neale snared 42 wickets.
In Premier grade batting, emerging Toombul talent, NSW native Lachlan Hearne, continued to enhance his reputation.
His left handed batted yielded 931 runs at 46.55, with a top score of 202. He hit a season high 101 boundaries.
Scott Palombo, yet another elite player to come out of the amazing The Southport School production line, was third on the averages list (888 runs at 37) while another TSS product, Hugo Burdon, was fourth with 888 runs in just 22 innings (average 46.58).
Valley’s Christina Coulson was unmatched at the bowling crease in the Raymont Shield (40 wickets at 12.2), but it was a near dead heat with Uni’s Jessica Daldy (39 wickets) and Sunshine Coast’s Ruby Orchard (38 wickets) hot on her heels.
Valley’s Harini Paranavithana, who learned her craft playing junior cricket at Albany Creek, snared 36 wickets at 10.06. Her outstanding season was garnished by a fabulous economy rate of 3.32.
Two of Wynnum Manly’s best rising female players, Clodagh Ryall and Amreen Kahlon bowled 363 overs between them to be fifth (Ryall) and seventh (Kahlon) on the bowling rankings. Ryall took 35 wickets from her 135 over effort, while Kahlon claimed 34 wickets from her 128 overs.
Also claiming 34 wickets was University’s Charni Bloxsom, a Mackay product, while Melissa Lewis, who coached the Ipswich under-16 girls to its premiership earlier this year, was also a top performer at the bowling crease.
When it came to batting, Valley’s Sianna Ginger was the competition’s best with 605 runs from just 14 innings.
She averaged 55, while across the season Western Suburbs Ruby Strange was the best in the business (859 runs at 40.9).
She was ruthless against the loose ball, lofting a season high 15 sixes and an unmatched striking 88 fours.
There was ample competition, particularly from Uni’s Tara Wheeler, Sunshine Coast’s Mikayla Wrigley and Sandgate-Redcliffe’s Tess Cooper.
Valley were also represented in the top 10 by Kira Holmes (605 at 24.20) and Ginger (506 at 55).
Originally published as Queensland Premier Cricket’s top run scorers and wicket takers revealed from Premier Women and grade cricket competitions
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