Several Gisborne and District Cricket Association young guns have been selected in the Central Highlands team for the under-16 male Youth Premier League squad.
The squad contains the best players from the region and will compete against the best players in the state at the YPL in December in Hamilton.
The competition is a key competition in the Cricket Victoria pathway system.
The Highlanders will be looking to go back-to-back having won last season’s title, beating the Breakers in the grand final.
Woodend’s Callum Large, Macedon’s Joe Barham, Gisborne’s Riley Leedham, Bacchus Marsh’s Aussie McIlwaine and Wallan’s Hamish Mulavey-Clark have all been selected in the squad.
Large and McIIwaine were part of the Highlanders under-15 all star series last year, while all five are making their YPL under-16 debuts.
Former Gisborne player Lachlan Hay, who now plays with Footscray in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition, is also in the squad.
Hay was part of the winning YPL side last season taking four wickets and averaging 13 with the bat.
Ballan’s Jack Jarvis is another who has earned back-to-back selection in the squad. Jarvis took eight wickets in the championship run and will again we a keep player.
Delacombe VRI’s Zane Attard, Northcote’s Aaryan Sharma, Brown Hill’s Lincoln Koliba, Fitzroy’s Nirmana Fernando, Wendouree’s Cameron Jenkins and Golden Point’s Darcy Aitken round out the squad.
The under-15 girls YPL will be held in January with the team for that still to be announced.
