With the season only a month away Official Pre Season training for Seniors will commence from Tuesday 3rd September at the Gippsland Cricket Centre of Excellence Moe (Ted Summerton Reserve).
The Moe Cricket Club would like to welcome all current, past and new players for season 2024/25. Training from now and throughout the year will be each Tuesday & Thursday nights starting at 5pm to 6.30pm indoors until we move outdoors which will be confirmed at a later date.
The below sessions are non-compulsory with formal pre season sessions to commence from September.
The Moe Cricket Club are excited to announce the signing of Keenan Hughes to The Den for the 2024/25 & 2025/26 seasons.
Keenan did have a brief stint at the club in 2018/19 with an unbeaten half century and a few wickets to his name in just a handful of games.
Keenan now returns as a more accomplished bowling all-rounder in very good form. Season 2023/24 playing for Toongabbie, he took out the Cricket Latrobe Valley Premier A Grade bowling aggregate with 31 wickets and finished 6th in the league for batting aggregate with 361 runs.
Keenan will be a much-welcomed addition to complement our existing lineup and we can’t wait to see the results it could bring.
Welcome back Keenan!
Thanks to Moe Racing Club for hosting our presentation to cap off the season that was and start the build towards 2024/25.
Thank you to all of our new and continuing sponsors for their support in the 2023/24 season and we encourage all of our members & affiliates to support them in the off season.
MAJOR AWARDS :
Senior Club Champion – Andrew Philip (9th time)
Junior Club Champion – Jordan Shields
Terry Birch Best Clubperson – Steve Rennie
STATISTICAL AWARDS :
Prem A Batting Average – Andrew Philip
Prem A Bowling Average – Rob Phoenix
Prem A Captain Award: Jordan Shields
Prem B Batting Average – Ashley Savige
Prem B Bowling Average – Jarryd Atkinson
Prem B Captain Award: Braden Finn
Prem C Batting Average – Paul Cake
Prem C Bowling Average – Ron Whitney
Prem C Captain Award- Hayden Edwards
NOVELTY AWARDS :
Duck Award – Jarryd Atkinson & Jesse Pheeney
Driven to Drink – Josh Keyhoe
Yellow Jacket – Melinda Kane
Moe Award Winners –
Premier A Grade:
Cricket Latrobe Valley Team Of The Year – Andrew Philip
Cricket Latrobe Valley – Cox/Byrne/James Medal Runner Up – Andrew Philip
Premier B Grade:
Cricket Latrobe Valley Bowling Aggregate – Jarryd Atkinson (28 Wickets)
Cricket Latrobe Valley Team of the Year – Jarryd Atkinson
Premier C Grade:
Cricket Latrobe Valley Bowling Average – Ronnie Whitney (23 Wickets @ 6.00)
Cricket Latrobe Valley Team of the Year – Ronnie Whitney
Congratulations !!
Day 1: Moe – 10/173
Day 2: Ex-Students Innings
A cagey start for Students saw them go at a run an over for the first 8 overs before a couple of boundaries took the total to 23 off 13.1 overs.
Then Aaron Johnstone struck. Johnstone dismissed both openers (Robertson 20 & Pryde 4) then followed it up with the big wicket of Lee Stockdale (0) without scoring. Benn Zomer bowled Richards(0) & Johnstone snicked off Harris (4) to make it a collapse of 5 wickets for just 6 runs, and a scoreline of 5/29.
Matt Dyke & Rick Battista added 26 as a steadying 6th wicket before Rob Phoenix had Battista caught behind for 16, made up entirely by four boundaries. Callum Grant had 2/0 off of his first 4 overs, getting Trease (6) & Matthews (0 off 21) lbw to reduce the Sharks to 8/62 off 39 overs.
112 runs required with just 2 wickets in hand and 46 overs (276 deliveries) to play, the Sharks moved fully into defensive mode, but it would be a long time to survive to bat out a draw.
Johnstone was denied a 5-wicket haul when Michael Warne (2* off 32 at time) was dropped by Phoenix. It was the only chance they gave as Dyke (29* off 226) & Warne (6* off 115) put on an unbeaten partnership of just 25 runs off 275 balls, surviving everything the Lions threw at them, to draw the game and advance Ex-Students to next week’s Grand Final. A historic draw that will go in their record books as basically a victory. Moe’s bowling figures were phenomenal economically due to the nature of the innings, but critically for the match and unfortunately for the Lions, the wicket column only totalled 8.
A sad end to the season, with now back to back semi final exits.
Premier A Grade Grand Final – Ex Students v Glengarry – will be played on our Ted Summerton Reserve. Helpers will be appreciated.
Day 1 – vs Ex-Students
Moe won the toss and batted.
It was a slow grind to start the day, with Noah Kane (5) & Andrew Philip (8.) each falling for single digit scores on their 37th delivery faced. Moe were 2/26 at this point before Josh Keyhoe & Riley Baldi added 29 for the 3rd wicket. Baldi’s second run of his 11 scored was his 1500th in First Grade cricket.
Benn Zomer (15) & Keyhoe saw the Lions through to the lunch break. Zomer was next to go after the interval before the 5th wicket stand Lions was their biggest partnership for the day. Keyhoe notched up his first A Grade half century for the campaign (adding to 1 century & 2 unbeaten fifties in B’s) at a great time as he & Rob Phoenix put on 73 runs to get Moe to 4/152 from 73 overs.
With 12 overs to go and wickets in the shed, ideally at 4 an over, not unreasonable, the total would be a flat 200, so this surely was the target.
From overs 74-80 however, things got a bit ugly. Ball 73.1 saw Keyhoe dismissed for a stellar hard earned 81 off a whopping 209 deliveries. From there it was a capitulation of 5/5 from 7 overs, losing Keyhoe, Evan Sheekey (1), Callum Grant (0), Phoenix (33) and Aaron Johnstone (0).
Paddy Spiteri (8*) & Clint Taylor (7) added 16 for the last wicket from the remaining 5 overs, Taylor dismissed on the final ball of the day.
For the Sharks, Mitch Harris was phenomenal, taking 3/9 off 13 overs, ably supported by James Pryde (3/42 off 16), Michael Warne (1/19 off 10) and Lee Stockdale (1/47 off 28).
A big individual honour was also presented after Sunday’s Grand Final, with Blake Savige taking out the Cricket Latrobe Valley U14’s League Bowling Average and Aggregate.
Some of these numbers are just phenomenal. Congratulations Blake!!
Home & Away Season:
* Wickets: 16
* Average: 4.00
* Overs Bowled – 30.4
* Runs Against – 64
* Strike Rate (balls bowled per wicket) – 11.5
* Economy Rate (runs conceded per over) – 2.1
Including Finals :
19 Wickets @ 5.47 including finals
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