Standout stand shatters record
CRICKET: Who were club cricket’s standout players from the weekend’s action? We have no shortage.
Here we name our KFC T20 Max women’s Sci-Fleet Motors Men’s First Grade Two Day competition Team of the Week and reveal the best youngsters from Lord’s Taverners action.
The best performance of the weekend was taken out by Marist College Ashgrove Old Boy Tom Collier and it was not even close.
The right handed batsmen who tends to score better after a big night, scorched his way to 194 runs as Valley second grade piled on 5-441 against Toombul. The 19-year-old played four years in the First XI at Ashgrove and it is a knock of this calibre that the Ashgrove supporters were itching for in his time fighting for a premiership.
On Saturday, the best of young Collier was on show at Yoku road and perhaps it is a sign of more to come from the second grade battler sure to get a run in first grade soon enough.
See below for the rundown.
THE PREMIER WRAP
A string of remarkable batting partnerships saw records tumble in the KFC Queensland Premier Cricket, resulting in some tough choices for the Team of the Week.
Valley captain Justin O’Neill and rising batsman Dylan McLachlan produced a standout performance against Toombul, with their stand of 324 breaking the record for the highest third wicket partnership of 249 previously held by Test great Matthew Hayden and Queensland allrounder Brett Henschell in 1992-93.
Opener O’Neill finished 140 not out while McLachlan, who has represented the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander team along with brother Brock, hit a superb 188 as Valley powered to 3-365 declared.
It was one of four matchdefining partnerships in the Sci-Fleet Motors First Grade competition.
Regional Queensland products Mitchell Doolan (Mackay) and Sam Neale (Toowoomba) produced a stirring eighth wicket stand that rescued Norths against Ipswich.
The Vikings were 7-102 before Doolan (129) and Neale (137) combined for a 260-run partnership that saw them each register their maiden first grade centuries.
Norths finished with a sizeable total of 424.
For the full wrap head to thechronicle.com.au/sport TEAM OF THE WEEK Justin O’Neill (Valley, 140no, 1st grade)
Tom Collier (Valley, 194, 2nd grade)
Sam Truloff (Wests, 109, 1st grade)
Dylan McLachlan (Valley, 188, 1st grade)
Tess Cooper (Sandgate-Redcliffe, 92, 1st grade) T20 James Rosewarne (Souths, 101, 1st grade)
Sam Neale (Norths, 137, 1st grade)
Sienna Ginger (Valley, 3-6, 1st grade T20)
James Bazley (Redlands, 4-11, 1st grade)
Ashton Gumm (Gold Coast, 6-82, 2nd grade)
Hayden Guse (Norths, 7-19, 5th grade)
Nic Purser (Wests, 5-41, 6th grade)
Mikayla Wrigley (Sunshine Coast, 75no, 1st grade T20)
■ His team lost but Darling Downs and SWQ’s Dominic Black did enough to earn a Lord’s Taverners Team of the Week spot
Dominic Black (Darling Downs & SW Queensland)
A 262 run target is no easy task, with the Western Suburbs winning by 72 runs. Charlie Bignell hit a valiant 40 opening, as did Black scoring an unbeaten 51 off 74. But, Black just needed his teammates to score a bit quicker and a nail biting game would’ve been on the cards.