Two stalwarts of the Cricket Tasmania Premier League will notch up significant milestones this Saturday when Clarence hosts University at Kangaroo Bay.
Two stalwarts of the Cricket Tasmania Premier League (CTPL) will notch up significant milestones this Saturday when Clarence hosts University at Kangaroo Bay.
Roos playing-coach Harry Allanby and captain Michael Jones will both don the whites for game 250 as the Roos look to celebrate the milestone with an upset win over the ladder-leading Lions.
“To reach 250 in the same game is pretty special,” Allanby said.
“We have played together since we were 15 or 16, won a couple of flags together and are really close mates so hopefully it’s a really good day for the club.”
One of the CTPL’s most highly-celebrated players, Allanby is a former two-time Emerson Rodwell Medal winner with the veteran being judged the men’s first grade player of the season in both 2017-18 (with Caleb Jewell) and 2018-19.
The all-rounder has amassed 5,269 runs and taken 299 wickets thus far in his CTPL career, and has also been a part of four premierships for the Roos; the two-day premierships in 2011-12 and 2017-18, and the one-day flags in 2011-12 and 2016-17.
Jones has had just as big an impact on the premier league since making the move from the state’s north as an 18-year-old.
The Roos captain has gone onto score 5,575 runs and holds the title of the competition’s second most successful wicketkeeper in history, totalling 390 dismissals to date.
Recognised as the competition’s best keeper in five of the last nine seasons, the three-time premiership player says the club has given him much more than just on-field accolades.
“I came down from South Launceston and this club has just treated me like a family,” Jones said.
“I’m really thankful for this cricket club, they have taught me a few good life lessons along the way.”
The Roos will welcome back paceman Riley Meredith with the Tasmanian Tigers quick rested for Shield duties while the Lions will be without captain Tim Paine, opener Tim Ward and Jake Doran for the match.
Paine and Ward will be on state duties in Sydney while Doran is unavailable through injury with the gloveman recovering from split webbing in his fingers.
In other round 26 games, second-place Lindisfarne will travel to Queenborough Oval to face South Hobart-Sandy Bay without skipper Charlie Wakim with ‘Chuck’ named in the Tigers 12-man squad for the first time this season.
Leading competition runs scorer Mac Wright will take the reigns against the Sharks who will also be without spinner Jarrod Freeman and quick Nathan Ellis.
Kingborough will host North Hobart at the Twin Ovals and New Town will head to KGV to face Glenorchy in a must-win clash for the Bucks.
Greater Northern has the bye.
Originally published as Clarence’s Harry Allanby and Michael Jones to play games 250
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