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). Round 3 is now complete. Scores will be updated when they come to hand.

Juniors
Round 5 day 2 result highlights are now to hand. Major achievements:
• Tim Starr (100*) and Daniel Brain (91) put on 182 for the 3rd wicket playing in the U15’s against our Red side. Junior records are a lacking post 1980 but certainly since this time it is a Club record for the U15’s. Great effort fellas
• Another big partnership in the U14’s with S Wray 75* and J Joseph 69 putting on 152 runs, just not sure of the wicket yet. This is another big partnership that is being checked out for records.
• Tim Starr had one of those games worth bottling. In addition to his batting he comes out and takes 3/8 – a hat-trick.

Points table
As at the end of Round 5 the standings are:

U16 – WPHC White 2nd,, Blues 3rd
U15 – Blue 2nd, White =3rd, Red 13th
U14 – Blue 2nd, Red =6th, White =8th
U13 – White 2nd, Blue 3rd, Red =7th
U12 – Gold 1st, Blue 8th, White and Green = 12th
U11 – Blue 3rd, Green 5th, White 6th, Red 10th

No competition for U9 and U10s.

Seniors
Round 6 day 1 started on the weekend. Results are:

A1 198 lost to Berowra 248. We lost the game but took a lot out of the match. After having them 4/210 at Tea we came back strongly and took the last 6 wickets for 30 runs. The stars were Simon Smyth with 6/47 off 10 – his 2nd best ever bowling figures backed up by Smokey Dawson with 3/50.
Colts Vs Hornsby – a bye this match.
A2 7/300 dec defeated Beecroft 150. An important win against 2nd placed Beecroft. A comprehensive win in all facets. After batting on, we spanked an extra 60 runs in 7 overs with Brad Hingle 81* and Scott Henderson 41*. In the bowling, Ranga took 3/29, Brad 2/12 off 6 overs and Steve Q took 3 for. Against a strong Beecroft team this is a good outcome and consolidates our top 4 position.
B1 Red 205 defeated St Ives 111. We smashed 3rd placed St Ives. Stars wth the ball were Eric Junkkari with 3 wickets and Dave Matthews 3/35 for 18. The boys finished them off at 3.15pm and decided it was too hot to go for the outright but not hot enough to complete a 70 sprint race – more about this later!
B1 Blue 304 defeated Normanhurst 245. An important win to get us back in touch with the top 4. We made it tough on ourselves. fielding with 8 and a half players (2 late withdrawals plus a hamstring injury to Alistair) we showed heaps of guts. Iain Ryan was the standout bowler with 4/42. The big difference was the catching – we took 5 screamers whereas last game we put down 5 sitters. The boys are on a roll.
B2 248 defeated outright Nth Wahroonga 143 and 3/96 declared. An easy win but ruined by a second innings declaration because a number of players had to go after Tea – not good enough. Our boys though were super. Ben Nolan with 5/40 and Tim Millington 3/49 were just too good.
C1 240 defeated Normanhurst 173. Our 2nd win on the trot and it was almost the perfect game – everything went right, strong batting, good bowling and super caching. All the bowlers performed well. Pat Nesbitt got another 4/34 this time opening the bowling, Mark Twohig finally had some catches held to get a good 2 wickets and finished with 2/37. Andrew Watt also gpot 2 good ones. We are now just out of the top 4 but are building a team capable of causing some damage in the competition.
C2 264 defeated Kissing Point 202 – we did our best to lose this one but got there. After being 0/88 overnight and then 8/180 we were on the brink. Enter Senthu and Jeremy Foley (78) who belted 80 under pressure. Star with the bat was James Fiedler who scored his 1st ton with 102 – great stuff mate – our 321st century.
C3 208 drew with Glenhaven 8/191 – this was Chris Williamson’s match. He batted all 89.2 overs of our innings of 208, being the last man out for 83 on a very slow ground. Roger reckons he was tempted to get out the XXXX beach cricket. A few early dropped catches cost us. With 10 overs to go Glenhaven and only needed 48 runs with 6 wickets in hand they decided to play for the draw. A tribute to the accuracy of our bowlers particularly in the late stages of this game.
D2 7/219 defeated Kenthurst 147. Another good win from a team that is going places. The guys made it look easy today, especially opener Mark Bell (another fine, patient innings of 58, retired - not out), James McBrien (46) and Nigel Moore (32), while two of our tail-enders, George Petridis (19) and Greg Bell (10) fired up to rub salt into Kenthurst's wounds late in the day. The match next week will be a real test – bring them on.

The sprint that cost us
You have to hand it to the B1 Red boys. After smashing St Ives before Tea it was just too hot to play on so we called the game. But….why not have a 70 metre sprint and they did. Unfortunately our star opening bowler, Dave Matthews tore a quad muscle and puts him in big doubt for the future. The good news is that Nathan Orton won the race by 10 metres. Good one fella’s – sharp as a bunch of bowling balls.

Mental turnaround
Got to hand it to Eric Junkkari (B1) last week he had no idea of what happened in the game he just played. This week he remembered every detail – nothing like a bit of public humiliation for our aspiring Club icon.

Enter Tim Leyshon (A2). Not to be out done by Eric last week, the big fella had exactly the same problem even remembering he played the game. The big fella even had to go home and get the pants he also forgot to bring for the game. Lucky these blokes are great cricketers.

They’er following you
Just like a script from an Alfred Hitchcock film they came again – the bees at Bannockburn. Given Eric’s quick exist from the game to ‘hold up a chemist’ last week for preventive bee sting treatment he recounted with passion how the swarm approached – this time targeting Peter Taylor who did the right thing and hit the deck. Added to this, young Gav Taylor took delight in reminding everyone that he always get stung at the ground. Haven’t told the lads yet, but this is the likely venue for the Final.

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:

The points table as at the end of Round 5 follows:

A1 – 11 points (6th)
A2 – 12 (4th)
Colts – 10 (5th)
B1 Red – 30 (1st)
B1 Blue – 10 (7th )
B2 – 38 (1st)
C1 – 15 (=7th )
C2 – 25 (=1st )
C3 – 15 (6th )
D2 – 24 (2nd)

Personal achievements
All teams now have updated scorecards so our personal achievements are up to date as at the end of Round 5.

We have now had some major milestones coming up:
• Ryan Cherrie is just 8 wickets off his 150 career wickets
• Tim Leyshon needs 71 for his 2,000 runs
• Nathan Orton is just 5 wickets from his 100 wickets

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 28/10

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

James Meilnik B1 1,000 runs Vs St Ives 18/11

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

Ryan Cherrie B1 142 wickets – 8 to 150 career wickets

Matt Dawson A1 177 wickets – 23 to 200

Lachlan Gill B1 873 runs – 127 from 1,000 career runs

Tim Leyshon B1 1,929 runs – 71 runs to 2,000

Amir Marzouk A1 2,890 runs – 110 to 3,000

Matt Nolan B1 802 runs – 198 to 1,000

Nathan Orton B1 95 wickets – 5 from 100

Simon Smyth A1 185 wickets – 15 from 200

Tim Rae A1 77 wickets – 23 to 100

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

Craig Willmott C2 1,803 runs – 197 runs to 2,000

Posted by Ross Anderson on November 26, 2006 04:59 AM