Wynnum Manly 2024-25 T20 Trial
10 August 2024 at Elizabeth Daniels Park, Buderim
Game 1: v Sunshine Coast at Kerry Emery Oval
The season is upon us with T20 Max set to kick off in less than a fortnight, so the Sea Eagles journeyed to the Sunshine Coast for a couple of practice games.
Batting first, Wynnum lost Bradford in the first over, but hit back with a quick fire partnership of 30 from 18 between Jed Wilson and Claye Beams (13). The Scorchers restricted Wilson and Jackson Steinhardt to singles over the next 4 overs, but in the 9th, Wilson cut loose, clubbing 24, including three sixes in four balls. Another 6 in the 10th over brought up Wilson’s 50 from 32 balls. The brakes were re-applied by Zac Murray who gave up just a single from the 11th and Ben Gordon whose 12th over maiden included the wickets of Wilson, first ball, then Jehan Daniel two balls later, to take his tally to three wickets for the innings. With Steinhardt departing a couple of overs later and Liam Guthrie hot on his heels, the task was left to Rueben Burger and Sukhveer Singh to manufacture a competitive total. The 7th wicket partnership of 55 from 32 featured some good running between wickets and innovative batting, taking the Wynnum total to 6/146.
The Scorcher’s start was no better than the opposition with Selman out second ball, caught at short cover, by Singh off Guthrie. Harry Clarke-Burnham and Brendon Schulz had just ticked over a 50 partnership for the second wicket, when a sensational direct hit by Singh from mid-off, found Clarke-Burnham (25) short of his ground. A few overs later, Schulz, having just brought up 50 from 35 balls, attempted to loft Scott Reberger out of the ground and was well caught by Singh (he’s everywhere) on the boundary. Three balls later, Amitoj Sidhu, took the edge of Alex Maidment’s bat and Burger completed to make it 4/103. It was a “sniff” but Jason Grosvenor (24) and Tayden Smit (28) shepherded the Scorchers home in the 19th over, with an unbeaten 45-run partnership.
Game 2: v Ipswich at John Blanck Oval
A spot of lunch and then over to John Blanck Oval for a clash against Ipswich. Jack Wood and Harry Sheppard turned a good start for Ipswich into a fantastic one, when Rohit Haldar ran into some front foot issues in the 5th over. Wood (40) savaged Haldar for 27 from the over, but went no further as Jehan Daniel clean bowled him on the first ball of the 6th. Grayson Jones and Daniel pegged Ipswich back over the next few overs, but Sheppard and Ben Newton then put the foot down, advancing the score from 74 to 119 from the 9th to the 12th overs. Harry Sheppard’s retirement on 49 (!) at the start of the 14th precipitated a collapse. Haldar got some revenge as he snuck one through Ben Newton’s defence in the 14th; Henry Taylor was well positioned to take a boundary catch off Harmon Sandhu to dismiss Jem Ryan 13 balls later; Liam Guthrie got under one at mid-off from the bowling of Tom Eyley in the 17th; Dakota Rodgers took a good catch at mid-wicket coming forward, to give Daniel his second wicket in the 18th and Harmon Sandhu rattled the stumps with the first ball of the 19th to make it 5/39 off 31 balls for Ipswich. Rowan Lutter and Tom Sippel recovered to add 15 from the last two overs to set a target of 176.
The chase did not start well. Lutter picked up two and Wood one in the power-play; Wynnum 3/22 in the 4th. Tom Sippel picked up a wicket with his first ball in the 6th; 4/34. Daniel and Jones fought back in a 36 run partnership over the next 4 overs, but Daniel was well caught by Lutter on the long-on boundary in the 10th and it was 5/70. Jones and Guthrie exploded into action smashing four 4s and seven 6s in a partnership of 74 from 38; reducing the task to 32 from 28 balls. Having reached 50 with a six at the end of the 15th, Jones was bowled by a Noah Emmerson quicker ball a few balls later and Guthrie became Lutter’s 3rd wicket, caught by Jett Emmerson on the cover boundary in the next over. Sandhu smashed a six of Noah Emmerson in the 18th, but was bowled next ball leaving Wynnum 20 to get from 13 balls. 10 of those 13 balls were dots as Khatree and Haldar struggled to get a hold of some very good bowling by Jack Wood and Tom Sippel at the death. Ipswich up by 12 runs.