Page 39 - WPHCC 2023-2024 Cricket Season Yearbook

Run machine
Photo: Bonnie Kathleen Maria Williamson – 15 March 2024
Going into this season Lakshya Rao didn’t play in 2022/23 but in the previous season (2021/22) he played C3 and scored 33 runs @ 11 in 7 innings. In 2020/21 he played D2 and scored 197 runs @ 22.
Going into the Grand Final he had scored 3 x tons (137*, 116 & 111). How did he go on the weekend? How about 96 not out of the Team total of 4/137. The only thing that stopped another ton was that we ran down their total. He finished the season with 763 runs @ 58.7!
Apart from being the highest aggregate in the whole Club this season he also achieved:
• Lakshya’s 763 runs is the 10th highest season run aggregate in our history (the best is 1,361 runs by Laurie Tuckerman in A1 back in 1951/52)
• It is also the 2nd highest for D1 (the best is 935 runs by Dave Meiziz in 2005/06)
• Had he finished with a century in the GF it would have made it 4 in the season – 2nd only to
Laurie Tuckerman who scored 7,
Photo: Lakshya being carried off the field by team mates after the D1 Grand Final – 17 March 2024.
James Makin (Seniors Director) & Ross Anderson (Secretary)