Cricket

GPS CRICKET | ROUND 7 | SATURDAY 10 MARCH

Round 7 of GPS Cricket was the Terrace Cricket ‘Mates Round’, celebrating the mateship shaped by cricket and formed through teamwork and a willingness to compete on the field. The GPS ‘Bye’ provided the program an opportunity to play a number of internal matches, which brought out a great sense of mateship, community and competitiveness, highlighted by the 2nd XI v 3rd XI match under lights on Friday Night. The competition for the inaugural Spring Hill Cup was between a handful of Years 5 and 6 sides, with Terrace winning the day with six from six matches.  Despite fields becoming unavailable at a number of venues across Brisbane on Friday, all but four of the 47 teams were able to play this round. The Mates Round provided the Terrace Cricket program with some much-needed game play as some momentum begins to build heading into the final two rounds of the GPS Cricket Season. 

GPS CRICKET | ROUND 8 | SATURDAY 17 MARCH

Round 8 of GPS Cricket once again sees the majority of the program play supplementary matches versus various colleges, while the A/B program and the 1st XI compete against the strong cricketing college Ipswich Grammar School. Terrace Cricket has always been reliant on the collective effort of the team as opposed to individual efforts and it is this ‘team first’ ethos combined with the competitive spirit that will ensure our teams finish strongly over the final two rounds. Regardless of the result, it is important that Terrace Cricketers play a positive brand of cricket, playing in the right spirit of the game and enjoy their time playing alongside their school mates.

1st XI MATCH REPORT

GT 9/351 (50 overs) defeated Downlands 9/72 (27 overs)

Round 7 of the GPS season saw Terrace have the bye, which meant a trip up the range to Toowoomba to contest the annual fixture against Downlands College. Terrace won the toss and elected to bat on a good cricket wicket despite the persistent rain during the week.

Ed Backstrom was promoted to open the innings alongside Nick McGill and the pair made a bright start, progressing the score to 82 in the 12th over before McGill was run out for 25. The Terrace middle order pushed hard to continue the momentum; however failed to capitalise on their starts with Tom Pappalardo, Will Kirk and James Hurst all falling in the 20s. Backstrom was the exception to the rule as he struck the ball cleanly throughout his innings, including three consecutive sixes to bring up his century. He eventually fell for a sublime 134 off just 72 balls; however the lower order did well to continue the momentum. Riley Sela (28 not out), Max Law (39) and Cooper Simmonds (16) all played valuable cameos towards the back end to push Terrace to a sizeable score of 9/351 after 50 overs. Terrace took to the field knowing that a disciplined bowling and fielding effort was expected of them despite posting a big score. Law (3/10 off 6) and Nick Morton (3/9 off 10) set the tone well as Downlands were reduced to 6/40 in quick time. With weather closing in Simmonds (2/21 off 6) picked up two breakthroughs whilst Backstrom (1/9 off 3) capped his day with a wicket as Downlands struggled to 9/72 when rain eventually intervened, handing Terrace a convincing win on run rate.

Despite the scoreboard showing a big Terrace victory and some big contributions on the day, the team faces a sterner test as they return to GPS competition with a tricky away trip to Ipswich this Saturday. The batsmen in particular will be looking to convert their starts into big scores as Terrace look to finish their season on a high with plenty still to play for in the final two rounds of competition.