The footy codes draw near to the end of their incredible seasons and players now start to swap the jerseys for willow and leather as Gold Coast’s cricket seasons begin.
Saturday was the opening day of the All Ballsports T20 Cup for the Gold Coast Seniors competition.
There was plenty of big hitting, eight players passed the 50 mark during the double header rounds on Saturday.
We took a look at some of the stand outs for the first weekend of the season.
James Kleinschmidt
Coomera Hope Island Cricket Club
Round 2, 66 from 39 balls against Palm Beach.
After two rounds, Kleinschmidt is the leading run scorer with a solid 34 in game one, followed up with a cracking 66 in round two.
Smashing the ball all around the field, Kleinschmidt sent the ball over the rope four times in his 66, plus also seven boundaries.
Jack Lickiss
Helensvale-Pacific Pines Cricket Club
Round 2, 84 from 52 balls against Surfers Paradise.
Didn’t have the greatest start to the season Lickiss, getting caught for eight in the first game of the season.
But it was his dominant display in the round two which has everyone talking of the number three for Helensvale.
Lickiss smashed four 6’s and 10 4’s on his way to an incredible 84 from 52 to help his side to back-to-back wins on Saturday.
Jared Spies
Coomera Hope Island Cricket Club
Round 2, 54* from 44 balls against Palm Beach.
Captain Jared Spies has had an incredible start to the T20 season which has included him yet to be dismissed in both games on Saturday.
Just over a run a ball 37 not out from 31 in game one against Broadbeach, Spies backed it up with a brilliant 54 not out against Palm Beach to put together a 83 run partnership with opening batsmen James Kleinschmidt.
Michael Narracot
Runaway Bay Cricket Club
Round 2, 73* from 43 balls against Broadbeach Robina
A golden duck in round one for Narracot, not the start he would have been looking for to start the season off.
But bouncing back to form in the best possible way, Narracot smashed the kookaburra to all parts of the ground on Saturday afternoon, dominating his way to a 73 not out, helping the Bay reach 3/202 in round two.
Joel Smith
Southport Labrador Cricket Club
Round 2, 55 from 46 balls against Gold Coast Dolphins.
Smith looked like he was going to start the season brilliantly as he was going at almost a run a ball 16 from 18 balls in game one before he was caught.
It was his second game where he found his form, but was run out on 55, helping his side to a comfortable 19 run win.
Michael Daffy
Coomera Hope Island Cricket Club
Round 1, 6/17 from 3.5 overs against Broadbeach Robina.
With a total of 155 to defend, Broadbeach were in the box seat at 4/82 before Daffy came on a destroyed the middle and lower order.
Daffy took the final six wickets of the game to claim figures of 6/17 which included being on a hat trick twice.
He took two wickets in the first two balls of his second over, before Jackson Robson came out to face the hat trick ball, working it for a single.
It brought Steven Timms on strike, who kept out the fourth ball of the over, only to get dismissed the very next ball, giving Daffy his third wicket in five balls.