Twenty four young cricketers from the region have been selected for the Northern Rivers representative side, with the male Victorian Country Cricket League season getting underway on Sunday, November 30.<\/p>\n
The two sides are composed of Cricket Shepparton, Goulburn Murray and Bendigo District guns aged either under 21 or under 18, featuring some of the best local and imported talent seen this season.<\/p>\n
The Northern Rivers outfits will play two matches across the next fortnight, and should the teams place inside the top two of the five-team ladder, a one-day grand final will be played on a date still to be concluded.<\/p>\n
The Northern Rivers under-21 side will play the Western Waves in Stawell this weekend, before hosting the Barwon Rockets at a venue yet to be determined, while the under-18s face Mallee Murray in Kerang, before playing Central Highlands out in Castlemaine.<\/p>\n
The under-21s 12-man squad features four Haisman Shield players – Pine Lodge import Dylan Hardy, Karramomus\u2019 Declan Newbound and Bailey Simpson and Mooroopna\u2019s Ben Woods as well as former Lodger Emile Haratbar (Nathalia).<\/p>\n
Hardy has scored the third-most runs in the Haisman Shield this season despite the Lodgers\u2019 winless record, while Newbound and Simpson have been consistently on the mark for the Bloods in the strong start to their campaign.<\/p>\n
Former Central Park-St Brendan\u2019s all-rounder Keiran Hogeboom, now at Bendigo Cricket Club, also makes the list as skipper.<\/p>\n
The under-18s side holds three Cricket Shepparton names – Central Park-St Brendan\u2019s\u2019 Alexander Robertson, Shepparton Youth Club United\u2019s Rayyan Mirza, and Karramomus\u2019 Zavier Davidson, who has been named as skipper for the XI.<\/p>\n
Davidson has impressed at Haisman Shield level in between stints for Essendon\u2019s Premier cricket under-18s side, while Mirza and Robertson have enjoyed fruitful performances in the Clyde Young Shield, with the latter also cracking the Tigers\u2019 A-grade outfit in between under-18 games for Premier cricket club Prahan.<\/p>\n
Full Northern Rivers line-up<\/p>\n
Under-18s: Zavier Davidson (captain), Xavier Grant, Alexander Robertson, Cale James, Rayyan Mirza, Angus O\u2019Brien, Jonty Yates, Miller Armstrong, Oliver McKenzie, Hamish Baker, Thomas Seipolt, Harry Purcell (12th man)<\/p>\n
Under-21s: Judd Gilchrist, Dylan Hardy, Keiran Hogeboom (captain), Jasper Irwin, Declan Newbound, Bailey Simpson, Jack Spencer, Tristan Watson, Ben Woods, Emile Haratbar, Lachie Nicholson, Jett Grundy (12th man)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty four young cricketers from the region have been selected for the Northern Rivers representative side, with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-311362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}