How GPS First XI round 1 unfolded, along with 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A and 11A highlights
How GPS First XI cricket round 1 action unfolded, along with 40 star players from the 7As, 8As, 9As, 10As and 11A matches.
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Ipswich Grammar School’s Luke Harper claimed a stunning 5-22 while premiers The Southport School fired a shot across the bow of its eight challengers in relentless heat in GPS First XI cricket today.
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In an Ipswich hothouse, Ipswich Grammar School (9-210) recovered from some early batting glitches against Nudgee, and then dismissed the visitors for just 107 after Harper’s five-wicket haul.
What a performance it was from the off spinner Harper who lowered Nudgee’s mast early, and then kept the pressure on as the match progressed. Take a bow Luke Harper and his fellow bowlers.
On the Gold Coast a warm sea breeze offered some respite at the TSS’s Village Green where Cameron Sinfield (42, 68 balls), Ishaan Sandhu (82, 93 balls) and Jacob Bath (70, 79 balls) carried TSS to a winning 282 against Terrace (101).
Sinfield then contributed with the ball - he took 3-9 - but only after Luke Franks (2-17), Ryan Summers (1-16) and Ted Waterman (2-16) did the hard yards early.
On a sun drenched Mills Oval, TGS (176) had a wonderful win over BSHS (137), with Gurnoor Singh Randhawa and Dom Black claiming six wickets between them.
And with Churchie’s No.1 oval resembling an Irish meadow, so green was the outfield, Churchie (8-162) had a big win against BGS (85) on the back of steady batting and even better bowling.
More on all the First XI matches further down in this story.
In 11As action, IGS’s Oscar Dioth claimed a cherished five wicket haul while BGS’s 10As all-rounder Oliver Dauber produced the all around performance of the weekend with runs and wickets.
The As were eagerly contested across all the age groups.
In Year 8As matches, BGS’s Oliver Grigg claimed 3-18 and then watched Lewis Carroll (43, 44 balls) star in a thrilling two wicket win over Churchie. This was despite Churchie captain Shoubhit Jain producing a rousing performance with the ball to snare 3-19.
In other 8As highlights:
+ TSS’s Myles Massey (3-21) took vital wickets in his team’s win over Terrace. TSS’s Zander Philp then top scored with 46.
+ IGS’s Louis Seymour (52) was the pillar of his team’s successful run chase against Nudgee. When Nudgee batted, Marcus Strelow (50) shone, while Kirat Athwal claimed 3-15 (eight overs) for IGS.
The 7As saw Churchie’s James Turley (50) hit eight fours and one six, while vice-captain Alex Ramage (40 not out) was not far behind.
BGS’s Henry Serisier (2-21) held firm at the bowling crease for his side.
IGS’s Samar pratap Virk (3-7), Jaiveer Ballaggan (2-5) and Liam Pollard (2-11) took wickets for Ipswich, and then IGS’s Sohind Singh Rauke (25 not out) was steady at the batting crease.
Terrace’s captain George Walker (2-9) bowled nicely for his return again TSS.
In Year 9As games, Ollie White (3-21) claimed wickets for Churchie, but not even he could dismiss Lachlan Szumowski (48 not out) who carried his bat through the innings for BGS.
The foundation of Churchie’s 6-228 came from Banjo Jenkins (64), Angus Peters (49) and Rafa Schroor (36 not out) who claimed six fours late.
Other 9As highlights included:
+ Cooper Brown was a class above for TSS with 82, his innings including five fours and four sixes.
Terrace’s Hugh Clementson (4-42) fought hard at the bowling crease after Leo Crombie and Kobe Todman had bowled tightly at the start of the TSS innings. Clementson then hit 40 from just 57 balls while Jackson McDonald made a run-a-ball 56 for Terrace The Brave.
+ Jack Jellicoe (25, 59 balls) batted bravely for TGS against BSHS while Charlie Jensen (44) top scored for IGS in its clash with Nudgee. Byron Kratzmann was excellent for Nudgee with the ball.
In the Year 10As, as mentioned earlier, BGS’s Oliver Dauber produced the goods.
He took 3-22 from eight overs after top scoring with 44 opening his team’s innings. What a performance.
In other 10As action
+ Corey Stroud (2-8) and Nate Smith (2-22) each claimed two wickets for Nudgee
+ Terrace’s Daniel Keane (42) was brilliant with the bat before being run out by TSS’ Brett Summers, while TSS’s Tom Robertson claimed three wickets.
+ Montgomery Bignall (3-17) took plenty of wickets for Churchie
In the 11As IGS’s Oscar Dioth was on fire with the ball, snaring 5-9 from 5.3 overs.
He then sat back and watched Colby Rudd (50 not out, 42 balls) rush his side to victory.
In other 11As action, BGS’s Alistair Langdon sparkled with 54 from just 68 balls, including four sixes, before he became one of Alister Hillier’s three wickets. Hillier claimed 3-14 (5.2 overs) for Churchie, while his teammate Harry Johnson (3-17) was equally impressive for Churchie.
First XI action saw IGS’s lay down the gauntlet against Nudgee with a rousing recovery to post 9-210, and then Luke Harper inspire the home side to great bowling performance.
Harper took five or the first seven wickets to fall, ensuring there was no comeback from Nudgee.
While Harper did the damage, he had plenty of helpers, including William Pamenter (2-24), Joshua Lossberg (1-18), Jettison Emmerson (1-17) and Jacob Cibulka who was outstanding with 1-25 from 9.2 overs.
Earlier, IGS lost three early wickets batting before a brisk counter attack from Rushi Kakkad (42) and a hard earned 58 not out by Noah Plater (111 balls) put their side slightly ahead in blazing heat.
Karmichael Dee (2-23, 10 overs) and Spencer Green (0-24, 10 overs) toiled away for Nudgee to keep the pressure on.
Matthew Fielding (29) top scored for Nudgee.
At Southport, TSS pair Ishaan Sandhu (82, six fours and two sixes) and Jacob Bath (70, six fours, two sixes) took the game away from Terrace early.
TSS then came home with around 130 in the last 20 overs to post 282
Momentum continued into the Terrace batting innings where Terrace slumped to 4-25 before being dismissed for 101
TSS new ball bowler Franks struck twice first up, and seasoned campaigners Ted Waterman and Ryan Summers also stifled Terrace. There was no coming back there.
Cameron Sinfield was also outstanding with the bat, ball and in the field.
Up on the Range, Mills Oval was a splendid setting for a tense TGS v BSHS clash.
TGS started well with the bat - Charlie Bignell (64) found support from Joshua Cranston (28) and captain Cooper Webster (23) - but BSHS wore the innings down thanks to bowling trio Du, Dave and Rajendraprasad.
Jem Du (3-43), Pranshu Dave (3-21) and Nithin Rajendraprasad (2-0) claimed eight wickets between them to dismiss TGS for 176, only for the TGS bowlers to fight back hard and claim victory for the home side
TGS’ bowlers then kept a lid on the BSHS batting innings, with BSHS chewing up half their overs to reach 2-50.
Gurnoor Singh Randhawa claimed three early wickets for TGS, but Jacob Orbell (41) kept punching for BSHS to give them a fighting chance. With nine overs remaining and six wickets in hand, BSHS needed 64 runs.
It was a great contest won by TGS when Dom Black claimed three wickets, while Alistair McKay kept things tight with 2-23. Great effort TGS.
AtChurchie, the BGS bowlers produced a fine team performance to restrict the home side to 8-162, but it was the Churchie bowlers who had the final say, dismissing BGS for 85.
Left arm spinner Henry Hillier (3-12, 8.4 overs) led the way again with an opening spell of 6-2-10-2, and around him fast bowling enforcer Daniel Boreham and allrounder Sam Drinnen (2-12) also struck.
Later Rupert Bignall rounded BGS up with 2-10.
During the morning BGS’s bowling unit of Harry Langdon, Isaac Lutz, Nicholas Scott, Hayden Dalmazzo, Rishi Mehta, Henry Mercer and Eli Brain all combined splendidly for BGS, with Dalmazzo (1-12) and Rishi Mehta (1-25) tying down the middle order.
But Churchie batting trio Daniel Desmet (31), Tighe Morris (45) and Jayden Draper (28) managed to give their side something to defend.
Round 2:
BBC v BSHS
Terrace v Churchie
TGS v IGS
Nudgee v TSS
Bye: BGS
Originally published as How GPS First XI round 1 unfolded, along with 7A, 8A, 9A, 10A and 11A highlights
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