VSDCA clubs name 2024 JG Craig Shield squads

Hundreds of talented cricketers from across Melbourne will take part in the VSDCA’s JG Craig Shield this month. Here are the selected teams.

The 2024 JG Craig Shield teams have been confirmed.

The 2024 JG Craig Shield is just days away.

Thirty-two Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association clubs will compete in the annual under-15 series which is set to kick off on January 7.

Teams have been placed into four different groups based on their geographic location.

Here are the selected squads for each club.

EAST GROUP

Balwyn: Lucas Andreopoulos, Tanay Bhatkhande, Oliver Bond, Kye Davidson, Abhi Devarajan, Yanick Dobson, Ben Excell, Ned Gidley, Sharad Kulkarni, Will Mitchell, Will Newman, Jordan Plain, Charlie Singh, Charlie Wilks.

Bayswater: Riyansh Beniwal, Cooper Doughty, Rori Driscoll, Ethan Loy-Abrahams, Harith Patel, Jakey Pietz, Joshua Prest, Ethan Rea, Shanthan RS, Mahin Shah, Ansh Sharma, Cooper Thomson, Dhruv Valji, Zac Warburton.

Box Hill: Sandeep Ahuja, Sam Arthur, Oliver Davies, Lucas Field, Kanishk Gattu, Sanuk Herath, Thomas Johnson, James Matthews, Dhruv Nanda, Aarav Riar, Harjas Sethi, Luke Spencer, Vishal Vinod, Jack Zammit.

Croydon: Corey Ah-Mu, Toby Bickell, Connor Brisbane, Lucas Clausen, Nicholas Critchley, Charlie Dodd, Patrick Horan, Finn Huber, George Lyons, Ben Nicholls, Xavier Noonan, Noah Occhipinti, Yuvraj Sharma, Jobe Williams.

Donvale: Tarkyn Crooks, Chanmith De Silva, Aaron Fernando, Joshua Gill, Aditya Handa, Ish Kohli, Shevan Kohombanwickremage, Jehan Meewathurage, Thomas Moulton, Thomas Purcell, Daksh Saini, Sukhmanpreet Singh, Aayan Tanwar, Anujan Vijayarajan.

Endeavour Hills: Omid Rahman Ahmadzai, Archish Awasthi, Keerat Dhody, Nevon Eshwara, Zabiollah Faiazi, Armaan Singh Gill, Eli Halliday, Yashik Kakkar, Gurshan Khehra, Atal Mangal, Safwan Rashid, Dwarakh Sriram, Maheer Sutaria, Sahana Tarini.

Mt Waverley: Imeth Amarasekara, BenAustin, Jackson Chandra, Will Cummins, Yevin Kralege, Gesandu Marakallage, Savya Narasimha, Tavish Pogula, Manas Rana, Reshil Ravi, Daksh Sharma, Arish Surani, Ojas Taneja, Lachlan Wu.

Noble Park: Henry Allsop, Blake Ariens, Joel Baxter, Troyencey Fernandopulle, Daniel Guzzardi, Usman Hassan, Harjas Kaile, Logan Mercier, Noah Merifield, Harvey Mylius, Lachlan Taylor, Mitchell Varty, Jake Webster.

NORTH GROUP

Brunswick: Jacob Davidson, Rishi Desai, Charlie Hillard, Archie Huddart, Manuda Koku Hennedige, Max Mahoney, Nicanor Martel, Raghav Mittal, Ruben Powell, George Reinehr, Ali Saleemi, Theodore Skate Youlden, Jonty Yates.

Coburg: Logan Collins, Ashley Fernando, Daniel Jessup, Bailey Kennedy, Christian La Porta, Mitchell McCann, Harry Marr, Joshua Mullavey-Clark, Jake Mulqueen, Gus Newing, Darcy Parker, Issam Sami, Billy Thomas, Liam Welsh.

Ivanhoe: Liam Adair, Vindiya Bandara, Samuel Cormie, Dhanush Dahiya, Otto Dimitriadis, Mitchell Douglas, Dunitha Kalupahana, Aryan Mittal, Jack Patena McCarthy,

Pranjol Roy, Suvin Siriwardana, Ted Smith, Abraham Thomas, Thomas Wavish.

Kew: Edward Beauchamp, Oliver Crossland, Jack Evans, Leo Finlayson, James Finnin, Harvey Grant, Sidney Johns, Daniel Joshua, Kobi Lange, Sam O’Brien, Luca Rhodes, Navnith Satyan, Jacob Wellington.

Plenty Valley: Daud Ahmad, Ridham Attri, Abdulraheem Ehtsham, Kalan Ellis, Abhayvir Singh Gill, Parth Grover, Urvish Jagia, Mansukh Jhandi, Aryan Khatry, Pranav Lamba, Aarav Laxman, Rudra Parikh, Jaideep Sandhu, Anhad bir Singh.

Preston: Xavier Baldwin, Felix Cameron, Fabian Cimoli, Oscar Doyle, Merrick Gupta, Benjamin Head, Yohan Jees, Alexander Lyngcoln, Ryder McMurray, Shravan Nambiar, Jack Schembri, Syed Shayan Ahmad, Jot Sidhu, Eashan Deep Singh, Edison Waghorn.

St Bernard’s: Iian Ahmed, Tom Antonius, Medhansh Bhosle, Julian Borg, Aiden Brophy, Campbell Bryars, Naitik Doegar, Archie Dolence, Jack Gorman, Will Mooney, Hamish Mooney, Connor Portelli, Yaksh Ruhil, Joshua Soldani, Armann Virk.

Strathmore: Seth Dharmawimala, Lisath Kandage, Upraj S Kaura, Darcy Mcnicholas, Veron Pantazis, Jackson Papagergiou, Archie Pearce, Ranveer Singh, Udhayjeet Singh, Harsh Sinha, Tanner Trounson, Abhayveer Uppal, Tex Wajntraub, Arnav Yadav.

SOUTH GROUP

Brighton: Will McKean (captain), Jock McKenzie (vice-captain), James Damiano, Parker Edmunds, Cruz Giovannini, Archie Grikis, Lachlan Harrop, Ben Huang, Darcy Kelson, Luke Lawrence, Jack O’Brien, Mitchell Powell, Spencer Ries, Jasper Tudor.

Caulfield: Ishaan Aggarwal, Kade Ashton, Rayaan Bhargava, Jonah Cunningham, Soham Deb, Thomas Enzinger, William Hammond, Noah Langham, Ruhaan Malhotra,

Navraj Sandhu, Avinav Deep Singh, Gurshaan Singh, Giorgi Tragomalas.

Elsternwick: Oscar Agg, Lachie Ashton, Alex Bridges, John Conway, James Crewdson, Kiran Elliot, Leo Gelfand, Archer Hankin, Mitchell Johnson, Campbell Moncrieff, Thomas Petschel, Charlie Peake, Ruben Retief, Harvey Weigall.

Malvern: Sean Darvell, Thomas Elliott, Hayden Goldberg, Jordan Katiforis, Patrick Kelly, Oscar Milton, Tyler Murray, George Reidy, Heath Ryan, Oliver Schleiger, Thomas Sherman, Louis Stevenson, Luke Suckling, William Wallis, Sash Yuvaraj.

Moorabbin: Sanithu Rajapaksha, James Savage, Beau Dickson, Kieron Mant, Caleb Gomez, Ishan Divakatti, Wilbur Waters, Milan Malwatta, Lenny Wilkins, Keshav Kaushik, Adam Abaiterman, Ayan Arya, Connor Sullivan, Tanish Singh, Toby Clarkson.

Oakleigh: Joel Ajani, Ned Cannington, Harry Cashman, Cameron Chapple, Finley Corrie, Tom Corrie, Cooper Dayley, Samuel Duckett, Matt Esposito, Ashen Hettinayaka, Kaiden Kilpatrick, Rishith Kumar, Rishaan Sandhu, Max Turner.

Ormond: Charlie Beggs, Toby Derrick, Arlo Douglas-Hines, Sam Dutton, Samuel Field, William Goldthorp, William Jamieson, Charlie Mahncke, Theodore Nikolich,

Alex Pillay, Ahmed Raza, Tom Scott, Henry Squire.

Port Melbourne: Aarav Gonsalev (captain), Edward Lane (vice-captain), Ajay Wood, Eddie Baker, Zac Griffin, Kai Hauenstein, Jack Elson, Max Johnston, Harry Johnson, Rafay Abbas, Rohit Panjwani, Lewis Nelson-Holliday, Sam Gillard, Xavier Gerden, Matty Lau.

WEST GROUP

Altona: Divyansh Awasthi, Max Glasic, Robert Graham, Akshaj Gupta, Aryan Kashid, Ali Maknojia, Rocco Marciello, Asad Mohammed, Aryan Singh, Haris Tarakhil, Naman Tiwari, Darcy Turcinovich, Aryan Verma.

Hoppers Crossing: Nayan Balla, Akhil Chowdary Dasari, Vyom Dave, Rohan Reddy Dereddy, Alexander Flower, Ishan Geddi, Azib Javed, Mason Maddern, Tanish Patankar, Muhammad Taha Rabbani, Sukhmeet Saini, Kanwalpreet Singh, Navtesh Singh, Heath Steinhoff.

Melton: Finn Watt, Shaayer Mostofa, George Martindale, Ky Lake, Artharv Sawant, Jujar Singh Tamber, Max Matheson, Euan Flood, Lueder De Polodlinsky, Harry Blanks, Whitioria Killmartin, Angad Singh Dhaliwal, Hayden Roshier.

Spotswood: Alan Luu, Olly Castro, Ollie Cassidy, Noah Harb, Thomas Wadden, Robbie Virk, Zac Webb, Hugo Wozniak, Curtis Lamont, Dillen Costa, Varish Chopra, Giulia Kopievsky, Lucas Evanson.

Taylors Lakes: Jasnoor Chatha, Eshaan Desai, Sandula Edirisinghe, Chase Fowler, Lewis Harrington, Aarush Kadam, Ram Mittal, Muhammad Saif Nayani, Niraj Prakash, Het Shah, Archie Shore, Ranjodh Singh Smagh, Seamus Sullivan, Tanish Taneja, Arjun Upadhyay.

Werribee: Ryder Scott, Yuvraj Lidder, Jesse Bode, Akshaj Ram, Zorawar Chohan, Shaurya Mondal, Noah Brooks, Riley McClure, Hugo Paic, Hassan Buttar, Nevaan Kataria, Jeshurun Chedalavada, Shenal Wattearachchige.

Williamstown: Jonathan Adani, Xavier Coutts, Wil Douglas, Lyndan Frazer, Finn Hoare, Zachary McKerrow, Riley McNeight, Riley Norton, Fynn Raco, Ritwik Rathour, Arshad Shaik, Uzair Shaik, Will Thomas, Onni Zdraveski.

Yarraville: Shashank Chander, Oliver Denning, Krishav Gupta, Shivesh Kalra, William Killeen, Kuber Malik, Mick McMahon, Henry Pasque, Kade Sheather, Japjot Singh,

Mitchell Slattery, Thomas Smith.