SEVEN-wickets in his test cricket debut has earned Moama\u2019s spin bowling ace Todd Murphy the February nod in Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year award for 2023.<\/p>\n
Murphy captured 7-124 in the first match of the four-test series on Indian soil to decide the Border-Gavaskar trophy.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old is Australia\u2019s youngest spin bowler to capture five wickets on test debut.<\/p>\n
Despite his bowling feats, India won the clash in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs.<\/p>\n
After defeat in test two in Delhi, Murphy and his team-mates fought back for a nine-wicket victory at Indore.<\/p>\n
A great run by Murphy in which he captured 10 wickets in the opening three matches was the dismissal of Indian great Virat Kohli on three occasions.<\/p>\n
After a lean run with the bat, Murphy struck 41 off 61 deliveries in Australia\u2019s first innings of 480 at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
His brilliant knock included five fours as he teamed with Nathan Lyon for an eighth-wicket stand of 70.<\/p>\n
Murphy took 3-113 as India reached 571 in its first innings.<\/p>\n
The tour of India concludes with one-day matches on 17, 19 and 22 March.<\/p>\n
A first XI premiership winner with Sandhurst in the Bendigo District Cricket Association season of 2017-18, Murphy has gone on to star for Victoria in Sheffield Shield action, and for Sydney Sixers in Big Bash.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second monthly win for Murphy who was a Sports Star finalist in 2022 after he represented Australia \u2018A\u2019 in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
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Star award for young golfer<\/strong><\/p>\n CONSECUTIVE tournament victories in Tasmania have earned teenage golfing sensation Jazy Roberts the January award in Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year award.<\/p>\n Roberts, 18, was in hot form on the greens and fairways in a blistering start to the year.<\/p>\n The young gun from Belvoir Park Golf Club near Ravenswood starred at the Tasmania Junior Amateur and Tasmania Junior Masters.<\/p>\n Earlier in the month, Roberts was runner-up at the TPS Victoria Junior amateur tournament.<\/p>\n In February the teenager returned to Tasmania to win a sudden-death play-off to claim the Tasmanian Open at Launceston.<\/p>\n Just last week, Roberts marked her first international event when she teed off at the Women\u2019s Amateur Asia-Pacific tournament in Singapore.<\/p>\n An Australian team of six was in a field of 85 from which 22 countries were represented.<\/p>\n A big summer for Roberts included competing at the Australian Open and several PGA Tour of Australasia events.<\/p>\n In February, 2019, Roberts was awarded a Bendigo Sports Star of the Year scholarship and was in the running for the Maxine Crouch Trust Fund.<\/p>\n Golf has a long and proud record in Sports Star history.<\/p>\n The Basil Ashman Hall of Fame includes gun golfers Ann Howe, Len Prior and Trevor Tully.<\/p>\n Sports Star of the Year across 2020 and \u201921, Lucas Herbert is still excelling on courses around the world and a past recipient of the Cyril Michelsen Trust Fund award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SEVEN-wickets in his test cricket debut has earned Moama\u2019s spin bowling ace Todd Murphy the February nod in Bendigo\u2019s Sports Star of the Year award for 2023. Murphy captured 7-124 in the first match of the four-test series on Indian soil to decide the Border-Gavaskar trophy. The 22-year-old is Australia\u2019s youngest spin bowler to capture […]<\/p>\n