Darwin Cricket have resumed the 2020 Mid Premier League season with the 50-overs competition, after successfully hosting CDU Top End T20 event a fortnight earlier. The tournament will feature the seven Darwin Premier Grade clubs (Tracy Village Cricket Club, Waratah Cricket Club, PINT Cricket Club, Palmerston Cricket Club, Darwin Cricket Club, Nightcliff Cricket Club and Southern Districts Cricket Club) in the 50-overs format, with each match day featuring three games across various venues on every Saturdays during the weekends until Sep 2020.
All the teams will play each other in a double round-robin league format, followed by the knock-out stages of the competition. The first round of group stage matches were held on 13th Jun 2020, with the next round of matches to be played on 20th Jun 2020. Waratah Cricket Club, the winners of the Top End T20 tournament, will look forward to continuing their form into the 50-overs format as well. Southern Districts are the defending Champions from the 2019 edition of the tournament, where they were victorious over Darwin Cricket Club in the final.
Player stats from the 2019 Mid Premier League season for all the clubs participating in the tournament can be found here. All matches in 2020 Mid Premier League will be live streamed on Interactsport’s YouTube channel.
2020 Mid Premier League Squads
Waratah Cricket Club
Isaac Conway (Captain), James Seymour, Arslan Tahir, Riley Vernon, Madura Weerasinghe, Udara Weerasinghe, Sanka Wijegunarathne, Chris Campbell, Dean Enniss, Ishara Gange, Tristan Glover, Friday Kasteni, Samindra Madushan, Pasindu Sandanayake and Himesh Sandaradura
PINT Cricket Club
Tim Garner (Captain), Simon Lavers, Martin Brown, Jack Flynn, Ash Norman, Joel Logan, Bilal Abbas, Tom Grose, Nick Glinatsis, Daniel Lang, Ben May, Shishir Ramakrishna, Jonathon Hewitson and Anthony Harrison
Darwin Cricket Club
Kym Lawrence, Jacob Dickman, Luke Shelton (Captain), Luke Timms, Tom Briggs, William Andrews, William Anstey, Dion Meta, Luke Zanchetta, Kristopher Denby, Connor Hawkins and Ethan Anderson
Nightcliff Cricket Club
Phillip Hull, Coen McKinnon, Bevan O’Reilly, Charlie Smith, Cameron Tonkin, Adi Dave (Captain), Michael Kudra, Taj Glenn, Jack Giacomo, Jhiah Baxter, James Dix, Bradley Baptist, Nachiket Sant, Ryan Dennis, Lachlan Baird and Andrew Richards
Tracy Village Cricket Club
Darren Treumer, Jackson Edmondstone, Jaxon Truemer, Coby Edmondstone (Captain), Tahir Abbas, Samuel Bammant, Harsh Shah, Wilson Ryan, Kyle Scrimegour, Mariyatharshan Shanthakumar, Waseem Akram, Mateo Charlton, Nitesh Panchal, Lachlan Dumigan, Ritesh Patel, Hayden Scrimegour and Rohan Philip
Palmerston Cricket Club
Alex Bleakey (Captain), Kieran Toner, Hamish Martin, Robert Vandermuelen, Matthew Robertson, Stephen Regan, Dean McArthur, Michael Richardson, Darryl Lowe, Daniel Fett, Todd McAnn, Aiden Allen, Lucas Nitschke, Jake Baker, Cameron Hyde, Harshtik Bimbral, Shane Buttfield and Sunny Singh
Southern Districts Cricket Club
Nicholas Akers, Nathan Boyd, Corey Kelly, Michael Ninneman, Dylan Mullen, Ryan Harvey, Nathan Hangan, Mitchell Townsend, Matthew Hammond, Dean Fry, Kierran Voelkl (Captain), Todd Pemble, Christopher McEvoy, Lachlan Markey and Daniel Mylius
Brief Match Scores
PINT 199/6 in 50 overs (Tim Garner 82 n.o, Martin Brown 42, Jack Flynn 17, Bilal Abbas 16, Udara Weerasinghe 2/36, Madura Weerasinghe 2/46, Himesh Sandaradura 1/19, Ishara Gange 1/27) lost to Waratah 200/9 in 47 overs (Isaac Conway 52, Tristan Glover 34, Udara Weerasinghe 22, Arslan Tahir 20, Samindra Madushan 17 n.o, Joel Logan 3/42, Tim Garner 1/12, Nick Glinatsis 1/23, Tom Grose 1/38, Ben May 1/34) by 1 wicket
Nightcliff 170 all out in 40.5 overs (Bradley Baptist 59, Jhiah Baxter 39, Andrew Richards 17, Mariyatharshan Shanthakumar 2/27, Kyle Scrimegour 2/32, Samuel Bammant 1/19, Harsh Shah 1/21, Coby Edmondstone 1/31) beat Tracy Village 129 all out in 42.1 overs (Kyle Scrimegour 43, Lachlan Dumigan 40, Adi Dave 4/22, Phillip Hull 2/18, Nachiket Sant 2/27) by 41 runs
Palmerston 96 all out in 38 overs (Harshtik Bimbral 22, Alex Bleakey 17, Robert Vandermuelen 17, Connor Hawkins 3/13, Luke Shelton 2/11, Luke Zanchetta 2/18, Dion Meta 1/23) beat Darwin 85 all out in 36.1 overs (Luke Shelton 28, Tom Briggs 22, Cameron Hyde 3/11, Alex Bleakey 3/13, Kieran Toner 3/25, Hamish Martin 1/15) by 11 runs
