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Cricket - GPS

Term 1

OVERVIEW

An annual GPS Cricket Premiership has been held since 1919. These days over 3,000 cricketers in 280 teams compete in Year levels and divisions in a nine round home and away season.

The GPS is a proud partner with Queensland Cricket. GPS uses the PlayCricket App to provide quick and easy access to the full season's scorecards and ladders. Download the PlayCricket App on iPhone or Android to stay in touch with the information that matters to you.

1918
GPS Cricket commenced with Toowoomba Grammar School winning the first Premiership
1919
Brisbane Grammar School win their first Premiership
1920
The Southport School win their first Premiership tied with BGS
1922
Ipswich Grammar School and St Joseph Nudgee College tied to win their first Premierships
1925
St Joseph Nudgee College win their first stand-alone Premiership
1926
The Southport School win their first stand-alone Premiership
1929
Church of England Grammar School win their first Premiership tied with TSS
1934
Church of England Grammar School win their first stand-alone Premiership
1937
Ipswich Grammar School win their first Premiership
1942-1945
No competition due to World War II
1947
Brisbane Boys' College win their first Premiership
1949
Brisbane State High School win their first Premiership
1952
St Joseph College, Gregory Terrace win their first Premiership
2020
Brisbane Boys' College and St Joseph College, Gregory Terrace tie for the Premiership in a truncated year due to the International Health Pandemic (COVID-19), resulting in school closures in term 2, social distancing, no sport being played and movement of all term 2 sport and activities into term 3. 
 

GPS CRICKET RULES & FORMS

GPS Cricket By-laws
 

SEASON DRAW

2024 GPS T1 - Cricket
 

RESULTS & ARCHIVES

2008 GPS Cricket – Full Season Results and 1st XI Points Table
2007 GPS Cricket Full Season Results and 1st XI Points Table
 

HISTORY

The Earle Williams Cricket Trophy
The Earle Williams Trophy is named after a man who made his first appearance on the GPS scene as a member of the Ipswich Grammar School’s First XI which won the Premiership in 1937 – the school’s second success.
After some years without a trophy following the loss of the original, a meeting of the GPS Sportsmasters’ (now called the GPS Sports and Activities Committee), held in the 1980’s, decided to provide a new trophy. Earle Williams was proposed as representing a person who had made the greatest impact on GPS Cricket as a player and a coach. The proposal was unanimously adopted and the trophy was presented to The Southport School in 1982 personally by the honoured nominee. With characteristic modesty, this event passed unnoticed, even to his sons.
As a player, Earle Williams has by far the most imposing record of any IGS cricketer. A member of the First XI for five years (1937-1941) and Captain in 1940 and 1941, he scored five centuries including a double century. His 217 not out in 1941 is recorded in the school’s Centenary History of the School. He was selected in the GPS Combined XI’s in 1940 and 1941 and in the latter year was Captain of the side.
There is no doubt that World War II in which he served in the RAAF from 1942 curtailed a promising cricketing career. After the war he trained as a teacher and spent several years in the state education system before returning to Ipswich Grammar School in 1957, assisting Alan Ware with coaching of the First XI to a Premiership win that year. His astute advice had gained the respect of the team, and when he took over as coach the next year, the returning members provided a solid basis for him to guide the 1958 team to another Premiership.
He was to wait until 1968 for another Premiership win and with the team composed of mainly Year 11 students, was again able to coach them to a win in 1969. Further success ensued in 1975. In between there were many memorable years of experiences of which Earle and the team members had vivid memories – his approach to coaching was psychological as well as technical. He strived to mould a team which could handle all circumstances and conditions.
The Premiership for the Champion School is awarded to the First XI team only, and is based on an accumulation of competition points over the season.
 

YEAR

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  • 1945 to 1942
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PREMIERS

  • The Southport School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • The Southport School
  • Brisbane Boys’ College* & St Joseph College Gregory Terrace* (Truncated - COVID-19)
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Anglican Church Grammar School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
  • Brisbane Boys’ College
  • Brisbane State High School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Anglican Church Grammar School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Anglican Church Grammar School
  • Anglican Church Grammar School
  • Brisbane Boys’ College
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Brisbane State High School
  • Brisbane State High School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Brisbane Boys’ College
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • Brisbane State High School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Brisbane State High School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School & Brisbane Grammar School (TIE)
  • The Southport School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Brisbane State High School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Brisbane Boys’ College & Church of England Grammar School (TIE)
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School & Church of England Grammar School (TIE)
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Brisbane State High School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Brisbane Boys’ College
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • No Competitions (World War II)
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Ipswich Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Church of England Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School & Church of England Grammar School (TIE)
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • The Southport School & Church of England Grammar School (TIE)
  • Toowoomba Grammar School & The Southport School (TIE)
  • The Southport School
  • The Southport School
  • St Joseph’s Nudgee College
  • Toowoomba Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School & The Southport School (TIE)
  • Ipswich Grammar School & St Joseph's Nudgee College (TIE)
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Brisbane Grammar School & The Southport School (TIE)
  • Brisbane Grammar School
  • Toowoomba Grammar School