Lamers named Gippsland Player of the Year

LEONGATHA cricketer Ethan Lamers was named Player of the Year for the Gippsland Cricket League at the weekend.

Lamers took the honour after scoring all but 200 runs at an average of all but 50 this season, to go with a handful of wickets for Leongatha District.

The all-rounder put together a consistent GCL campaign across four games, scoring three half centuries and twice taking three wickets in an innings.

He showed his class with a fine 62 against eventual grand finalists Sale-Maffra in Round 2, while his match against Warragul in Round 4 saw him take 3/30 and smash 72 off 80 balls.

That innings featured five sixes at Korumburra Recreation Reserve.

His home club, Outtrim Moyarra Kongwak, will be hoping some of this form translates to regular Saturday cricket, as OMK are 12 points outside the top four in the Leongatha District Cricket Association.

He scored a mighty 144 out of 236 for OMK in November, but the runs seem to have dried up since then. As GCL Player of the Year, Lamers received the Alan Rankin Memorial, named after the

Gippsland cricket legend, as well as an All-Gippsland Cap for making Team of the Year.

Rankin is generally regarded as one of the greatest cricketers ever seen in Gippsland.

He scored in excess of 60 centuries at club and representative level, playing for Trafalgar and Warragul District.