The Garvoc-based teenager is working on his leg spin craft ahead of Allansford-Panmure's first season as a merged entity.

Lenehan, 15, will play juniors for the Warrnambool and District Cricket Association club and also plans to play division three and, if form warrants, push for division two opportunities.

"I'd be happy to play div three but if I could push for a twos spot that would be good too," he said.

"There will be more numbers and the players who played div one at Panmure (in the Grassmere competition) will probably get dropped back to the twos so it will be harder (for me to get a spot)."

Lenehan, who has played for Panmure and Wesley-CBC, started as a pace bowler.

But advice encouraged him to make a change.

"I was bowling pace for a bit and wasn't that good at it and when I was at Wesley-CBC Nick Bolden told me to have a go at spin and I ended up going all right at it so stuck to it," he said.

"I like it because it's not just your ordinary pace, you can turn the ball in different ways and the batsmen have to think a bit."

The Emmanuel College student is eager for cricket in late October after the coronavirus pandemic wiped out his 2020 junior football campaign with Panmure.

Cricket is his preferred sport.

"I am a bit better at it and I have leg problems so it's a bit easier with cricket," he said.

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"It was at birth (when it started). I've had stress fractures and was in a moon boot for a while so that stopped me playing footy and I've just had heaps of other troubles with it so it's causing knee problems.

"It is manageable but since we played (a cricket) practice match on the weekend I pulled up a bit sore because it was the first sport I'd played in a while."

Lenehan, who follows Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League and Sydney Swans in the AFL, is passionate about life on the land too.

"I like getting out on the farm with dad (Simon) and doing tractor work," he said.