Two of seven Battle siblings, the pair grew up playing backyard sport with their parents, brothers and sisters before moving to Launceston in 2004.

Since their arrival, Matthew has established himself as one Cricket North's top 10 batters and bowlers of the past two decades while Lisa shares the record for most women's scalps (63) with Riverside's Nicola Dusautoy.

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"We always played - Matthew would never get out apparently," Lisa said of the family's backyard battles.

"He would never let anyone else bat - Dad would have to take the bat from him to let us have a go."

That same grit at the crease has served the elder of the two siblings well since joining Westbury in 2004 - and particularly last weekend, where he brought up his fifth Cricket North ton with a glorious six over square leg.

The knock pushed his season average to a career-high 49.25 and comes at a time when the 31-year-old Kings Meadows High School teacher is enjoying batting more than ever.

"I've always tried to be as consistent as possible in all my seasons, but now as I'm getting a bit older I'm just trying to have a bit more fun with it and not lower my expectations, but just enjoy it a bit more," the Shamrocks coach of three years said.

"My wife and I are having a baby this year so I might be missing a bit of cricket moving forward so I'm just trying to enjoy it.

"I've been getting a lot of starts - a lot of 20s and 30s - and I just thought it's really time to try to knuckle down and put a few scores on the board, so it was nice to get 70-odd against South and a hundred last weekend was a bit of reward for effort.

"That's the message we're trying to get through the whole club going into finals - you've got to make the most of your consistency and turn it into bigger scores."

ELSEWHERE IN SPORT

Last weekend's first-innings rout of Launceston also saw Matthew bring up another impressive milestone - 200 A-grade wickets.

"That's a been a long time coming because I usually play half the season and my back breaks down and I stop bowling and just bat," he said.

"Dad always said to have a crack at batting and bowling so if you don't do well at one you can have a crack at the other, so that's what I've always done.

"I enjoy doing either as much when I can stay on the park."

While Matthew plots how to complete an outright win over Launceston on Saturday, Lisa is preparing to meet the same opponent in the women's grand final.

A member of the past four South Launceston premiership teams and an inaugural Greater Northern Raider, the 25-year-old will take the new ball against an improving Lions outfit.

"Just to bowl a really good line and length hopefully take some wickets [is the plan]," she said.

"And hopefully bat and make some runs would be nice - I don't get to bat a lot which is ok, they can give me the bat if they want to.

"Our team's got really good depth so if we do make some mistakes there's lots of us down the order that can help the game along."

And with any luck, the other half of Cricket North's leading brother-sister combo will be there to cheer her on.

"We're usually playing right next to each other since our games were moved to a Saturday," Lisa said.

"Last week he was playing over there [NTCA No.2] and I was playing here [NTCA No.1] so we could watch each other."

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