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Souths march into cricket grand

TIM HOWARD

A dominant batting display from South Services batsman Brendan Cleaver has propelled his team into the GDSC Premier League cricket grand

Cleaver dominated the scorecard in both innings of the match at Ellem Oval Grafton, to ensure

Souths piled on 174 Brendan leading the Cleaver brothers on a

Brother and skipper and middle brother Chris through nearly 68 overs Nathan Blanch left

He backed this up in the Souths second innings an outstanding haul of looked threatening taking

But the star of the day

He produced shots around the ground, the ball off his pads and also unleashing a couple

Teammates said on a faster ground he might might normally have been boundaries only came to bat only openers Brenden Cotten and apiece, reached double shared after opening made the initial breakthroughs dismissing drop Chris Chamberlain

Dylan Cleaver snared a couple and brother Chris Brendan Cleaver in command as works this ball into the leg side off his pads during his innings of 68 on Saturday. Photo: Tim Howard

order Souths back out to see if his team could pull innings effort, but once tumbling regularly Cleaver looked in little trouble picking up runs he attempted to loft ground only to mishit Jordan Gallagher and Joe Pigg put together the top partnership of the innings, taking the score

They began a hectic before time and overs

South skipper Dylan get some cricket into his players after a series disrupted an already

He said the team for the Saturday, could include all rounder Matt Dalton, so I’ll be on the phone to him as soon as this is stubborn batsman has been a regular in Souths him to move up the be held on Saturday and Sunday at Ellem Oval

DANIEL COHEN

The LJ Hooker League Goonellabah Workers

With the competition poised for a thrilling of the LJ Hooker League

of the competition

In the 1st vs 4th Semi, the heavily fancied Cudgen hosted

Tintenbar made a at 4/77 things looked a competitive total, turning the game in the Goonellabah Workers Sports hosting Lennox Head at John Rabjones starting positively, aided leaving Lennox Head a modest target of a touch

The results set up a Cudgen to host the LJ Hooker League Dalton Oval in the Final