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We name our top 15 performances from round 2 of the TCI two-day season

The second round of the Toowoomba cricket two-day season provided plenty of thrills and stunning individual performances. Check out our top 15 performances ranked from A-grade, Reserve grade and B-grade.

Jordan Sondergeld bats for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Nev Madsen.
Jordan Sondergeld bats for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Nev Madsen.

After two rounds, the Toowoomba cricket two-day season is starting to take shape and there some brilliant individual efforts across A-grade, Reserve grade and B-grade over the last two week.

We have run the rule over ever game and ranked our top 15 individual performers from the last two weeks, check out the list below.

15. Shoeb Harun (Met-Easts Blue, B-grade)

Harun kicks off this list after an impressive spell where he took against a strong Northern Brothers Diggers line-up.

Ultimately his efforts were not enough for victory as Northern Brothers held on for a 16-run first innings victory.

Brian May bats for Western Districts. Picture: Kevin Farmer
Brian May bats for Western Districts. Picture: Kevin Farmer

14. Brian May (Western Districts, A-grade)

May showed his class with the bat once again as he scored an unbeaten 60 off 116 balls in Wests’ second innings.

13. Adam Armstrong (Wests Wolves, B-grade)

Armstrong impressed with both bat and ball as he scored a handy 46 runs and claimed 3-21 with the ball.

12. Ajay Kumar (Souths, Reserve grade)

Kumar was at his unplayable best with the ball across two innings as the Highfields batters had no answer for him.

In the first innings he took 1-14 off nine overs at an incredibly tidy run-rate of just 1.55 runs per over.

He then backed it up in the third innings, claiming 4-12 to bowl the Bulldogs out for just 37 runs and help his side to an emphatic outright win.

Jacob Fry bats for Metropolitan-Easts. Picture: Kevin Farmer
Jacob Fry bats for Metropolitan-Easts. Picture: Kevin Farmer

11. Jacob Fry (Met-Easts, A-grade)

Fry chipped in with a solid all-round performance against Northern Brothers Diggers but it was not enough for his side to claim the victory.

Fry started the game off strongly taking 4-47 in the first innings and then scored a team-high 26 runs in the second innings when the Trojans were bowled out for 69.

10. Scott Farquharson (Met-Easts Blue, B-grade)

Farquharson put in a brave performance with the bat as he came in at 5-70 with his side trailing by more than 140 runs, but refused to go down without a fight.

Farquharson scored 77 runs from 156 balls and had his side within 27 runs of Northern Brothers’ first innings total with two wickets in hand.

However, he couldn’t get the Trojans over the line as they lost the final two wickets for 11 runs.

Jacob Jeans bowls for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Kevin Farmer
Jacob Jeans bowls for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Kevin Farmer

9. Jacob Jeans (Northern Brothers Diggers, B-grade)

Jeans had another impressive all-round game as he displayed his prowess scoring 108 runs across two innings, including an unbeaten 78 off 64 balls in his second dig.

He also chipped in with two wickets, including the vital scalp of Farquharson.

8. Patrick Turner (Highfields, A-grade)

It what has been a difficult summer for Highfields, Turner stepped up when his team needed him most to help the Bulldogs down Souths Magpies in a major upset.

Batting at number 10, Turner scored a heroic unbeaten 67 off 98 balls to help his team to a competitive first innings total of 8-229.

He then chipped in with two vital wickets to help his side claim an unlikely victory.

7. Ryan Ward (Wests, A-grade)

Ward’s stellar run with the ball continued as he claimed 5-50 from 19 overs against University.

6. Aidan Watterson (Northern Brothers Diggers, A-grade)

Watterson continues to shine with bat in ball in his first season back in Toowoomba as he scored 52 runs and claimed four wickets across two innings.

5. David Callick (Souths, Reserve grade)

Callick put in a scintillating performance with the bat as he scored a blistering 92 runs off 97 balls.

However, he will be left to rue what could have been as he was run-out just eight runs shy of what would have been a superb century.

Jordan Sondergeld bats for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Nev Madsen.
Jordan Sondergeld bats for Northern Brothers Diggers. Picture: Nev Madsen.

4. Jordan Sondergeld (Northern Brothers Diggers, A-grade)

Sondergeld was involved in almost everything as he made his presence felt across three innings.

In the first innings, he provided some handy lower-order runs with an unbeaten 36 off 88 balls, before tearing through the Met-Easts top order with a stunning five-wicket haul.

After bowling the Trojans out for 67, Sondergeld took another wicket in the third innings to end the game with match figures of 6-64.

3. Lachlan Glenn (Met-Easts Gold, B-grade)

In most weeks, Glenn’s performance would have been more than enough for him to take out top spot on this list, however, he has fallen down to third after an incredible week of individual performances.

Glenn scored an unbeaten 115 runs off just 120 balls in his second innings which included 12 fours and four sixes.

He also chipped in with a wicket in a strong performance with bat and ball.

2. Blake Murray (Met-Easts Gold, B-grade)

After the Trojans were bowled out for just 79 runs in the first innings, they were in need of something special to come close to claiming the first innings victory and Murray showed he wasn’t going down without a fight.

Murray left University shell-shocked as he blitzed through their batting line-up taking 7-50 from 26.1 overs in an incredible spell that will be remembered for quite some time.

Unfortunately for Murray, his performance wasn’t enough for his side to claim the first innings points as Uni made its way to 130 before being bowled out.

1. Todd Hamlet (Northern Brothers Diggers, B-grade)

Hamlet finishes off a B-grade sweep of the top three performances of the round after an exception display with bat and ball.

With the bat, he scored a game-changing 58 runs from just 35 balls to take his side from 6-128 to 7-202.

He then backed it up with an impressive five-wicket haul, taking 5-26 off 18.4 overs at an amazing economy rate of 1.39 runs per over.

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