Southeast Queensland’s top cricketers: Batting and bowling ranks across the grades

A mammoth 9305 batters and 7723 bowlers have taken to local cricket pitches this season, we’ve sorted the stats in every grade. See where you rank as the season reaches its closing stages.

The Queensland Cricket season is reaching its final stages and The Courier-Mail has revealed the top performers so far with the bat and ball as players return to the field.

More than 16,000 cricketers have taken to the field across southeast Queensland this season and we have compiled a list ranking every batter, by runs scored, and every bowler, by wickets taken.

The list features every male and female senior and junior players across the region from the Sci-Fleet Motors First Grade, the women’s top division in the Katherine Raymont Shield, all the way to the Lord Taverner’s and Under-19s leagues as well as the Sub Districts competitions and all junior grades in Brisbane North and BEARS (Bayside, Easts and Redlands).

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Western Suburbs star Sam Truloff takes over top spot in the batting rankings

Gold Coast’s Tara Wheeler batting in the Katherine Raymont Shield. Picture: Mike Batterham

Wests batsman Sam Truloff. Picture: John Gass

Western Suburbs star and recent Queensland Bulls call-up Sam Truloff remains in top spot in the batter rankings as his team has also climbed to the top of the ladder in the Sci-Fleet Motors First Grade two-day competition.

Truloff has hit a total of 1081 runs in just 16 innings this season at an impressive average of more than 77 and recorded a high score of 219.

He sits 186 runs ahead of Burdon, who still sits in second spot with 895 runs from 21 innings at an average of 49.7.

University of Queensland’s Jack Clayton holds third spot in the rankings with 889 runs while Ipswich’s Harrison Wood keeps fourth spot with 843 runs.

Gold Coast women’s star Tara Wheeler’s impressive season has continued as she sits in fifth spot with 813 runs.

WPC Cricket Club’s Matthew Kroehnert is the highest ranked Sub-Districts batter at 22nd with 603 runs in the C4 competition while under-13s St Paul’s player Luka King is the top ranked junior.

Simon Milenko bowls for Redlands. Picture: John Gass

University of Queensland’s Ben Davis. Picture: Richard Gosling

Tigers all-rounder in clear top spot in bowling rankings

Having returned home last year to play for his favourite Redlands Tigers, all-rounder Simon Milenko is in arguably career-best form with the ball.

The former Queensland Bulls and Tasmanian domestic competition player has toiled away for the Tigers with his medium pace bowling, putting together 386 overs across the season so far.

Milenko hasn’t gone without reward for his hard work though, taking 52 wickets to sit in first place among the list of more than 7700 bowlers.

The 33-year-old has done it at a strike rate of 44.5, with an average of 23.5 and batsmen have found it challenging to get him away with Milenko boasting an economy rate of just 3.1 runs per over.

Milenko is eight wickets clear of the University of Queensland’s Ben Davis, who was previously tied with the Redlands star in early December.

Davis, who has claimed 44 wickets at a better strike rate (27) and average (13.5) than Milenko, still sits in outright second.

Moggill Cricket Club Sub Districts star Luke Bartholomew from the C1 competition takes third spot with 43 wickets to be within reach of the top first grade bowlers.

University of Queensland’s Katherine Raymont Shield star Emmie Blamey is in fourth with 38 wickets and Noah McFadyen has dropped to fifth with 37 wickets.

Junior cricketer Joshua Pope. . Picture: John Gass

JUNIOR CRICKET GIANTS

Two junior cricket giants are under 12 St Paul’s School player Patrick Hughes and Year 7 Marist College Ashgrove wrist spinner Joshua Pope.

Hughes, 11, is ranked high on our batting statistics after scoring a century earlier in the season, but he is actually a representative opening fast bowler.

Indeed he took the new for the Brisbane North under 12 Maroon in representative cricket. claiming crucial wickets in Ian Healy Cup Finals Day which helped Brisbane North Maroon onto the podium in that rep competition.

Pope, 12, is Hughes’ captain at the Brisbane North representative side.

Both boys bat in the lower middle order in that team, but like Hughes, Pope’s is a bowler first, and a batsman second.

A left-arm wrist spinner, Pope plays with the Valley club where sometimes plays in the senior junior age groups - under 13s and 14s - while also training with the Valley fourth, fifth and sixth grade teams.

Then earlier this year, aged 12 years and 159 days, he made his senior men’s debut for Valley in the Mel Lowings 50-50 Cup against Mansfield Lions.

He took 3-33 off 8 overs in that debut game, getting out Mansfield’s opener, No.5 and No.7. They were the best bowling figures in the team.

Pope then dug in with the bat, coming to the wicket with Valley 8-34 chasing 180 to win.

He batted with Kade Horan, a Valley’s third grade captain who is a development officer for Qld Cricket, putting on 75 for the 10th wicket. Pope’s contribution was two runs from 59 balls.

At one point Mansfied had eight around the bat but Pope continued on, head down, to help Horan raise his team’s score.

Originally published as Southeast Queensland’s top cricketers: Batting and bowling ranks across the grades