South Launceston's Angus Foster has unsurprisingly won Cricket North's player of the round following his breakthrough century.
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Coming to the crease at 4-58, the 18-year-old left at 8-256, scoring a mammoth 145 runs from just 109 balls during his two-hour stay.
The knock signified a remarkable change of form for the young star, who had recorded scores of 9, 4 and 4 in the first three rounds before returning to a 19 in second-grade.
Having made his first-grade debut in the first round of last season, Foster's previous highest score was a 49 not out against Riverside.
Outside of the shortest form, the keeper-batter had only made double figures once in his first-grade career before raising the bat on Saturday.
With the innings described "as good if not better" than many of coach Nathan Philip's centuries by his captain Sean Harris, Foster joins the former in adding to the Knights' award stranglehold.
Philip has won the award three times this season, with teammates Sisitha Jayasinghe and Graham Donaldson both winning it once, meaning South Launceston players have won six of the eight awarded rounds.
Other strong performers from the weekend were Westbury duo Matthew Battle (90) and Nathan Parkin (74), Launceston's Sam Elliston-Buckley (55, two catches and a run-out), Mowbray's Lachlan Dakin (58) and Riverside's Ramesh Sundra (51* and 2-19).
The next two rounds of play see the Northern sides stay in their regions to face each other, with the points still going towards the Greater Northern Cup.
The cup's ladder sees Westbury lead Burnie, Launceston and Riverside.
2021-22 winners
- Round 1: Nathan Philip (South L'ton)
- Round 2: Sisitha Jayasinghe (South L'ton)
- Round 3: Not awarded
- Round 4: Alistair Taylor (L'ton)
- Round 5: Nathan Philip (South L'ton)
- Round 6: Nathan Philip (South L'ton)
- Round 7: Graham Donaldson (South L'ton)
- Round 8: Peter New (Riverside)
- Round 9: Angus Foster (South L'ton)