Bradman Oval match
As one of the ‘events’ to celebrate our 60th Anniversary coming up this season we have booked Bradman Oval for Sunday 3rd December as a Club Day. We are now going through an invitation selection list with the main criteria being those who have given service to our Club.

Girls update
Our Girls are also tracking very well. We have 2 teams this year (a B and C grade side). The first round has now finished with WPHC getting an easy win – 0/80 (J Ridley 25*) over Gordon 9/79 with d Gosper 2/10. In C Grade our 4/62 wasn’t enough to beat Hornsby 5/89.

Juniors
Round 4 result highlights will be available when to hand.

Points table
As at the end of Round 3 the standings are:

U16 – WPHC White 2nd , Blues 2nd (equal)
U15 – White 7th, Blue 8th and Red 13th
U14 – Red 3rd, Blue 4th, White 10th
U13 – White = 2nd, Blue 5th, Red 8th
U12 – Gold 1st, Blue =7th, White and Green = 10th
U11 – Green 1st, Blue = 4th, Red and White =8th.

No competition for U9 and U10s.

Seniors

Weekend games

Round 5 day 2 started on the weekend. Results are:

A1 7/216 defeated Vs Kissing Point 215 – what a great game with a win we had to have. Chasing 215 after 40 overs this was going to an ask. At 7/127 we were all but gone but enter Smokey Dawson 62* and Snumpty Smyth 41*, add a 97 run partnership in 14 overs, a 4 off the 2nd last ball to win and we got there – just. Well done to Amir with 55. After a slow start to the season let’s hope this is a turnaround.
Colts 98lost to Castle Hill– 118. The scores tell the story. Nick Bennett bowled well 3-21 off 8 overs. Promising signs in the chase against the strongest Colts team we have played but needing 33 of the last 66 balls with 4 wickets in hand we fellshort again.
A2 119 lost to Berowra 6/119 – just not enough runs in this one-dayer after the washout last week. Mike Banner with 24, Tim Leyshon 28 and Greg Laing 20 all got good starts but no big ones. In the bowling, Matt Jobson with 4 and James Makin 2 were very good.
B1 Red 7/157 defeated B1 Blue – 154. One of those games it great to get a win but…..always tough when our 2 sides play each other. For the Blues Dan Moye continued his super form with 72 in the 1-dayer before he was brilliantly runout. For the Reds, Tim Millington 43, Dave Matthews 36* plus his 2/24 was the difference. The overall highlight was Dan bringing up his 2,000 career runs - a fabulous effort mate.
B1 Blue Vs – as above
B2 161 defeated CHRSL 100. Another comprehensive win defending a score worth a lot more on a slow outfield. Tim Connell just keeps doing it with yet another 4 wickets. It would take a disaster to miss the Finals even at this early stage of the season.
C1 83 and 5/176 defeated outright Hornsby Gold 172 and 5/83 declared. What an amazing game. After playing in could, damp and windy conditions this week was the complete opposite. After failing to avoid the follow-on Hornsby batted again. On a slow outfield they set us 175 in 40 overs. Kishore was great with 44 and Bryce Morley with 57* scored his first ever 50 in style. With good partnerships throughout we got there on the 2nd last ball. In the bowling, Pat Nesbitt collected 3 to bring his match haul to 10 – only the 43rd time this has been achieved in our 60 year history.
C2 9/338 defeated Pennant Hills 174 – we absolutely smashed them. Mark Carnerio scored our 320th century with 118. With Ben O’Sullivan 49 they put on 140 for the 6th wicket. This is one partnership we don’t have a record for so it becomes our recorded benchmark. Phil Hando also got a good 60. This will keep us in 1st spot.
C3 150 and 5/134 lost to Wahroonga 266 – after being 1 for 67 overnight, 2 for 106 we stumbled with a middle order collapse. In the 2nd innings it was a different game, thanks to good partnerships between Faisal Shamsi & Rama Ramachandran and Marco Delgado & Jaques Visser, together with a fine innings of 42 from an injured but undaunted James Fox boosted our morale, showed what this team is capable of doing. Given that we played two men short today and were missing several of our best batsmen, this was not such a bad result.
D2 238 defeated outright Normanhurst 79 and 91. Our first outright of the season. All of our bowlers took wickets, Geoff Starr the most successful, claiming 4 for 16 in the first innings and finishing with 6 for 48 for the day. Other good bowling performances were Mark Bell (3 for 17 in the first innings) and Tim Starr claiming 3 for 6 in just three overs bowled in the day (both innings). Congratulations, D2s, on a great win!

Groundhog day – revisited
Last week we reported that a couple of legends – John Coulthard and Barry McDonald spent 90 at the Club nets getting ready for the big game at Bradman Oval. We now have the aftermath of this effort direct from our Club Chairman (Barry).
“Cannot speak for John but I had no difficulty whatever in getting out of bed on Friday. In fact my shoulder was not even sore from bowling a few down. John did however indicate when I left him that he was going home to have a cup of tea and a good lie down, after administering voltarin."

Not a Tooheys or two
Got to hand it to emerging Club icon Bryce Morley (C1). Bryce has put down the odd catch recently and after an easy one on Saturday he was asked (sympathetically of course) how he felt. The answer ‘not like a Tooheys or two’. The big fella bounced back with 2 good ones and a match winning 57*.

Points table
While the points table is available team by team through the DCA website http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca/ the summary position follows:

So far it is early days but of our 10 teams, 9 are in the top 4. Only A1 is outside the pack but they are a good side and will be there at the end. The table for Round 5 will be uapdetd later this week.

A1 – 5 points (7th position)
A2 – 11 (4th)
Colts – 9 (4th)
B1 Red – 24 (1st)
B1 Blue – 9 (6th )
B2 – 32 (1st) – 13 points clear of 2nd spot!
C1 – 9 (6th)
C2 – 19 (=1st )
C3 – 14 (=3rd )
D2 – 14 (=3rd)

Personal achievements
All teams now have updated scorecards so our personal achievements are up to date as at the end of Round 4.

We have now had 1 major milestone coming up:
• James Mielnik is just 35 off his 1,000 career runs

Name Grade Achievement
Ben Nolan B1 200 wickets Vs Kissing Point 21/10

Michael Banner A2 3,000 runs Vs Kenthurst 21/10

Eric Junkkari B1 300 wickets Vs Kenthurst 21/10

Gavan Hassett B1 3,000 runs Vs Kissing Point 28/10

Matt Spalding A1 100 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 28/10

Daniel Moye B1 2,000 runs Vs B1 Red @ Greenway 11/11

Martin Boon B1 1,834 – 166 runs to 2,000 career runs

Ryan Cherrie B1 141 wickets – 9 to 150 career wickets

Matt Dawson A1 177 wickets – 23 to 200

Lachlan Gill B1 914 runs – 76 from 1,000 career runs

Tim Leyshon B1 1,901 runs – 99 runs to 2,000

Amir Marzouk A1 2,835 runs – 165 to 3,000

James Meilnik B1 965 runs – 35 to 1,000

Matt Nolan B1 800 runs – 200 to 1,000

Simon Smyth A1 185 wickets – 15 from 200

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 1,912 runs – 88 to 2,000

Craig Willmott C2 1,774 runs – 226 runs to 2,000

Posted by Ross Anderson on November 12, 2006 04:44 AM