Gerard Cricket Club

Happy birthday to our youngest player at Gerard Cricket Club LeBron Eyles who turns 15 today.

LeBron played his first game for the club two years ago against Barmera Pelicans and has since featured in a number of games.

LeBron also played in his first SA Aboriginal Cricket Carnival last year, and backed it up again this year.

LeBron’s confidence with the bat is growing and we can’t wait to see what this season brings for him.

Have a deadly day with family and hope Dad buys you a new bat like he said he was going to two years ago🏏❤️🤍🖤

2026 Riverland NAIDOC Week Celebrations have kicked off this morning with the BBQ Breakfast, March & Awards Ceremony in Berri today.

Head over to Riverland NAIDOC page for more events throughout the week.

Unfortunately we will not be holding the Abdulla Rankine Shield Cricket Match this year ❤️🤍🖤

The Riverland is celebrating 50 Years of Deadly for NAIDOC Week. 🖤💛❤️💚🤍💙

Crowds turned out for the march in Berri, which was followed by the local NAIDOC awards, which recognised the amazing work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community members.

Chair of the Riverland NAIDOC committee Daniel Giles said it's great to see the event get bigger and bigger each year.👏

"We always want to get people to try and understand our culture a little bit more, and events like this are a great stepping stone for people to see part of our culture and live it for a day or two," he said.

We wrapped up the 2025/2026 RTCA Season a bit later than usual, today we had it club presentation & BBQ down at the Berri Marina (little bit cold 🥶) but got in before it got too cold.

We added and acknowledged a few other awards this year with the RTCA 20/20 as well as the 2026 SA Aboriginal Carnival.

We celebrated some improvements from last season but looking at the 2025/2026 ladder may not look like it but it’s the small things that matter and we have already tuned our attention to a more successful 2026/2027 season with a few added extra initiatives to both retain and attract players to our club.

❤️ Finishing two and half games from finals.

🤍 Fourth most runs in the ‘B’ grade competition (mainly all Jimmy Ducks) 🤷🏾‍♂️🤣.

🖤 Jimmy Duck - Most Runs 490 & ‘B’ Grade team of the year.

🏏Gerard CC 2025/2026 RTCA Season Award Winners below 👇🏾 ❤️🤍🖤

⚫️ Most Runs - 490 Runs - James Abdulla.

⚪️ Most Wickets - 9 Wicket - Jason Smedley.
Sam Mitchell.
Adrian Abdulla Sr.

🔴 Fielding/ Most Catches -7 catches: George Halls.

⚪️ Most Improved - Jackson Halls.

⚫️ Most Consistent - George Halls.

🔴 Spirit of Cricket/Founders Award - W***y Motto.

🏏 2025/2026 RTCA 20/20 Competition
⚫️ Most Runs - 43 runs: Jason Smedley

⚪️ Most Wickets - 5 wickets: Timmy Abdulla

🔴 Fielding/ Most Catches - 4 catches: Adrian Abdulla Sr.

🏏 2026 SA Aboriginal Carnival

⚫️ Most Runs - 95 runs: Jason Smedley

⚪️ Most Wickets - 7 wickets: Sam Mitchell

🔴 Fielding/ Most Catches - 2 catches:
Alec Cole.
Ronnie Mitchell.

Players who couldn’t make it down to the 2026 SA Aboriginal Carnival were also presented with their 2026 Gerard Cricket Carnival top.

📸 Credit Kelly Eyles

One Team, One Club, One Community ❤️🤍🖤

Happy birthday to one of our longest standing current players W***y Motto hope you had a deadly day and enjoying your night brother.

W***y has played for our club at all levels of Riverland Cricket, with several premierships as well numerous South Australian Aboriginal Carnivals.

❤️🤍🖤 #23 W. Motto 🙌🏾🔥

Happy birthday to Gerard CC players Marlon Abdulla and Gilly Taylor aka G. Bolt ⚡️ who both share a birthday today 🎁❤️🤍🖤

Looking forward to seeing you both back on the field next year 🙌🏾

Hope you both had a deadly day ❤️🤍🖤🙌🏾🔥

Happy birthday to the great man that captures all of the amazing photos 📸 for our club Grant Schwartzkopff 🙌🏾

We tried to find a photo of you and our guys together and all we call find were photos of the Goat 🐐 🤣

Enjoy your day Grant - our club appreciates all the work you do 💯❤️🤍🖤

One Team, One Club, One Community ❤️🤍🖤