South Brisbane District Cricket Club 2nd Grade Premiers 2014-15

South Brisbane District Cricket Club | May 16, 2023

Back Row - U Samsudeen, D Lennox, H Jones, N Bischoff, J Eccles, A Hart (wicket keeper)), B O’Leary, S Henwood (Scorer)

Front Row - L Lunt, D Wilson, R Yorke, A Wilson, A Wells-Peris

 

Second Grade shone brightly, taking the 2014/15 Premiership, the first for Second grade since the mid 1990’s.

The Grand Final team consisted of 12 players, but the Skipper, Rhys Yorke, and the team acknowledge that it took 30 players to go through the season to win the Minor premiership and the Grand Final.

The combination of bowlers, including Rhys Yorke, Arlen Wells-Peris, Daniel Lennox, Brendan O’Leary and Uhmar Samsudeen took a combined 201 wickets in the regular season between them.

The Grand Final on Norm Gray oval was a classic match. University batted first for 252 runs in a rain affected first 2 days. On day 3 Souths were bowled out for 194 for a first innings deficit, but took 3 late wickets to stay in the game going into day 4.

After bowling Uni out early on Day 4 thanks to a 5 wicket haul by spinner Arlen Wells-Peris, Souths were left to chase 243 runs with only 60 overs left to play. Dan Wilson scored 57 to start the innings, and Harry Jones 85 to dominate the University bowling attack.

With 9 wickets down, 6 balls left to play, and only 1 run to get, the skipper and Wicketkeeper Adam Hart hit the winning run to start wild celebrations at the nest.

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