The Moe Cricket Club are happy to announce that Noah Kane will continue on as the club’s Premier A Grade Captain for season 23/24. This will be Noah’s second season in charge and will hope to go one better and make a Grand Final after falling short in the Semi Final last season. Noah is very excited with new recruit Benn Zoomer from Latrobe Cricket Club and the return of Joel Mitchell.
The Club would like to wish Noah all the best for the up coming season.
The Moe Cricket Club are happy to announce that experienced senior player Evan Sheekey will captain the club’s Premier B Grade for season 23/24. Evan will hope to have a blend of experienced senior players along with promoting as many juniors as possible again this season.
The Club would like to wish Evan all the best for the up coming season.
The Moe Cricket Club are happy to announce that Shannon Murphy will continue on as the club’s Premier C Grade Captain for season 23/24. This will be Shannon’s second season in charge, he hopes that they can go on to make the finals this season after narrowly missing out last season. Shannon will look at promoting as many juniors as possible again this season.
The Club would like to wish Shannon all the best for the up coming season.
All juniors must register before the start of the season via Play HQ below-
Please complete registrations via this link https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/moe-cricket-club/63be37be/register
The Moe Cricket Club is proud to announce Andrew Philip as the club’s new senior coach for the upcoming season. A familiar face around the club for many years, Andrew brings a wealth of experience and success to the job.
We thank outgoing coach Paddy Spiteri once more for the outstanding efforts the past few years and can’t wait to see what Andrew can bring to build on the platform set.
Unfortunately, with no games in Grand Final week, our final Workways Australia Transition to Work award for the 2022/23 season went to the “Volunteer of the Week”.
C Grade skipper Shannon Murphy received the award from Kaney for his help around TSR hosting the Premier A Grade Grand Final.
Our other volunteer’s help doesn’t go unnoticed and we appreciate everyone who assisted over the weekend.
A reminder Presentation Night is on the 31st March to officially bring the season to a close.
The Latrobe Valley & District Cricket League held its ‘league’ presentation night last night with 3 award winners from the Moe Cricket Club recognised.
CALLUM GRANT
– LVDCL Premier A Grade Bowling Aggregate
– LVDCL Premier A Grade Team of the Year
ANDREW PHILIP
– LVDCL Premier A Grade Team of the Year
RONNIE WHITNEY
– LVDCL Premier C Grade Bowling Average
Congratulations!!!!
The Moe CC Senior Presentation takes place on March 31st
MOE 1ST INN: 10/137
MORWELL 1ST INN: Resuming at 6/42
Blake Mills & Jordan Campbell started Day 2 and in the first hour of play appeared to take the game away from the Lions. Mills (33) was adjudged lbw to Grant as drinks were taken at 7/79.
Campbell and Brincat steadied to add 24 for the 8th wicket before Campbell (25) hit a short ball straight down Andrew Philip’s throat at mid wicket.
Harvey 
was lbw to Johnstone and Brincat (12) bowled by Grant with no further score as Morwell lost their last 3 wickets for 0 runs, all out for 103. Grant finished with 5/31 (20.1), Taylor 2/14 (8.), Johnstone 2/5 (3) & Phoenix 1/26 (22).
MOE 2ND INNINGS – Lead of 34
59 overs left in the day, Moe led by 34 runs. Morwell had to go for the reverse outright and needed to take 10 wickets then make that score plus 35 runs, all in just 59 overs.
Four balls into the innings and Brincat had made it 2/0 (Robinson , Philip ) to make any result look possible. Noah Kane & Riley Baldi added 19 before Kane (7) fell lbw to Brincat. Sean Spiteri (3) was bowled upon the lunch break at 4/32, a lead of 66 and 43 overs still remaining.
3 overs after lunch and Whelpdale struck twice, Baldi (20) lbw not playing a shot and Grant caught behind two balls later. Harvey claimed his second scalp with Paddy Spiteri (5) caught and bowled. Phoenix (10*) added 6 runs in the 23rd over to extend the lead to 83 at 7/49. The 24th over was a killer blow with Johnstone , Colgrave & Taylor all given lbw in the same over, to make it 5 lbw’s in the inning and 8 for day 2 alone. Harvey finished with 5/10 from 7.5, Brincat 3/14 from 8 & Whelpdale 2/9 off 4.
Moe also lost their last 3 wickets for 0 as part of losing 7/17 to close.
MORWELL 2ND INNING – 84 runs required, 35 overs left to play.
Cukier & Mooney got off to a comfortable start, putting 24 for the first wicket, before Cukier (16) fell lbw to Johnstone. Mooney (9) was the 13th lbw of the match and 10th for the day, dismissed by Grant at 2/33. Mason (9 off 7) blasted a six then fell moments later at 3/44, caught behind off Grant.
Blake Mills (31* off 34) brought up the win with a six as he and Blair Clymo (15* off 26) finished off the game in attacking style to pull off a remarkable reverse outright semi final win.
Congratulations to Morwell who will face Raiders at Ted Summerton next week and bad luck to our A Grader’s where the season has now unfortunately come to a close.
A GRADE SEMI – Morwell v Moe
MOE INNING
Moe’s batting woes in the two day format brought a changed order as Chris Robinson switched places with Riley Baldi at opening & number 4. But the early woes continued, Robinson (1) undone by a cracking delivery from Seymour clipping the bail. Seymour struck again with Andrew Philip lbw to make it 2/11. This brought the regular opening pair of Noah Kane & Baldi back together after just 10 overs.
The pair put on 69 for the third wicket, Baldi with the vast majority going close a run a ball throughout his inning. His knock of 50 runs included 4 fours and a six, the latter being hit to bring up the half century. Unfortunately two balls later, he lost his head and a rash shot saw him back in the pavilion at 3/80. Kane (35 off 116) didn’t last much longer, next to fall, run out at 4/89. The middle order collapse became 4/15 (total 6/95) when Phoenix (1) & Grant both fell to Mills (2/1 off 3.3). The innings sort of stumbled towards the finish with the last 4 wickets putting on 42 runs with cameos from Sean Spiteri (12), Paddy Spiteri (14) & Royce Colgrave (14*) whilst Johnstone (4) & Taylor (2) didn’t cause the scorers much issue. Moe all out for 137 from 59.4 overs. Seymour 3/27, Harvey 2/24 & Mills took multiple wickets for the Tigers.
MORWELL INNING
With a minimum 26 overs to face, Morwell looked to knock off a chunk of the total by stumps. Mooney (
& Cukier (13) managed to rack up 18 off of Colgrave’s 3 overs but the free flowing nature at one end actually spelt trouble at the other as Clint Taylor collected the scalps of both of the openers in a fiery spell of 2/3 from 5 overs.
Rob Phoenix replaced Colgrave at the club room end and struck with his 2nd ball (Whelpdale ). Phoenix had the figures of 1/0 off his first 7 overs, which worked perfectly in tandem with Callum Grant at the other end. Grant had Day ( off 23) caught superbly by Andrew Philip to make it 4/24 and a frantic three ball inning saw Mason stumped in the same over. Four overs later, Grant had 3 wickets with Clymo (3 off 51) lbw to make it 6/25 and the Lions were in dreamland.
Jordan Campbell (6* off 33) & Blake Mills (8* off 19) saw Morwell through to stumps at 6/42 with 96 runs still required. Moe need 4 wickets. Play resumes 12/3.
B GRADE SEMI – Thorpdale v Moe
MOE INNING
Moe won the toss and batted. It was slow going from the outset with 5 runs from the first 7 overs as Jesse Pheeney & Mark Micallef saw off the new ball. They fell for 14 (39) & 9 (34) respectively in the 12th & 13th overs. Ash Savige 2 (4) fell in the 15th over to make it a 3/5 collapse and 3/28 total. The slow run rate continued with Jarryd Atkinson (4 off 29) & Evan Sheekey (18 off 53) unable to get the bowling of Zac O’Connell & Ken Dron away. Dron collected both of their wickets on the way to 2/13 from his allotted 9 overs. The scoreline was just 51 runs for the loss of 5 wickets from 30 overs.
Randy Straughair (24 off 42) threw the bat around to try to muster up some sort of total, but he and Troy Oakley (8 off 43) fell in consecutive overs to make it 7/83 with just 4 overs left. Josh Pickering (22 off 19) swung for the fences and connected with a couple (2 fours and a six) to push the total to 9/110 from 45 overs. Pickering and Blandford 
fell the last two balls of the innings to give Kayne O’Connell 3/13 from 8 overs. Dron & Powell (2/16) took multiple wickets whilst Shannon Pickering (1/15 off 9) & Zac O’Connell (0/22 off 9) were economical. Bradshaw (1/28 off 4) felt the wrath of Straughair & Pickering but scalped the former for his troubles.
THORPDALE INNING
The match was settled with the first partnership. Kayne O’Connell & James Durkin put on 77 with none of the Moe attack able to get a breakthrough early. A few chances close to fielders but nothing going to hand. Blunt & Savige who played all (11) and all but two (9) of A Grade’s home & away games respectively this season were unable to influence the result with their experience, going for 0/40 from 13 overs between them. Pickering was Moe’s best bowler with 0/5 off 6 but unable to claim a wicket either.
Jarryd Atkinson’s second spell finally brought an end to the partnership with O’Connell (38 off 81) picking out Blunt at mid on. The ball was thrown around late and Jesse Pheeney snagged a wicket when Powell (11) also picked out Blunt in the field. Bailey Wilson bowled tight at the end of innings with 0/7 from 4. Durkin (47* off 111) & Z.O’Connell (1*) at crease to finish 2/111 off 36.3 overs, 51 balls to spare.
B Grade’s season comes to a close as Thorpdale make it 4 from 4 vs Moe this season.
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