North Sydney Oval Big Bash - this Sunday
The North Sydney District Cricket Club has invited our Club members to come along to North Sydney Oval on November 22, 2009 for Round 3 of the Sydney Cricket Association Twenty20 competition.

Commencing with the U21 (Poidevin Gray) at 11am, followed by First Grade at 2:30pm a great day's cricket is promised featuring NSW Representatives Grant Lambert & Doug Bollinger(depending on Test duties) & ACT Comets all – rounder Josh Kentwell high quality cricket will be a highlight.

Admission is free & a BBQ will be operating.

Bring the family along for a great day of local cricket!

Seniors Results
A1 Vs Kissing Point – results to come.

A2 7/299 defeated Wahroonga 184 and 5/89 – we managed to pass their score only 3 wickets down, and upped the ante to push ourselves to around 115 ahead. Michael McGregor and James Fiedler put on 120 and batted very sensibly with scores of 78 and 63 respectively. Great support from our debutant Michael Quieros who added 48 in no time, along with some handy runs down the order. This gave us 23 overs to have a crack, Jobbo ended up with 2 wickets along with Rowee Dixit - unfortunately not getting the outright points but improving our quotient all the same. A top effort, still undefeated so far this season.

Colts Red 236 defeated WPHC Blue 129 – after being 3/19 the reds posted an impressive score with Tom Blissenden top scoring with 64. In the bowling, Tim Scoular struck early for the Red team and took his wicket tally for the match to an impressive 5 for just 32. The game opened up before Adam Hutchings 25 and Isaac Malamel 18 took the total to a point where both teams decided that getting out of the heat was the best decision to make with an outright result for either side looking improbable.

B1 181 defeated Kissing Point 136 – resuming at 5/96 against the team coming 2nd this a great effort from the boys. Our day started badly losing Matt Scoular for 40 in the 3rd over of the day. Enter Josh "Cinderella" Kleinhans and Andrew "Pat" Graham. These guys combined for a vital 30 run partnership to get us within 7 runs of victory. Both managed to be dismissed with 7 runs needed to poor shots. Andrew Joyce pulled the team over the line with a 6 to pass KP's score. He continued some entertaining stroke-play and ended up on 37 runs as the innings closed with us on 181. In the heat and with around 50 overs left in the game we called it a day.

B2 430 defeated outright Castle Hill 73 & 113 – a massive win by an innings and 244 – one of our biggest wins which will give us a bit of breathing space on top of the table. Castle Hill (with only 10 players) was never in the hunt, being reduced to 4/16 from 9 overs in the first innings before being bowled out for 73 in just 22.3 overs. Wickets were fairly evenly shared, with Geoff Richards (3/10), Tim Starr (3/17), Mark Bennett (2/27) and Ben McNamara (1/21) the only bowlers required, with 6 of the 9 wickets to fall being bowled.

Come the second innings, and there was little more resistance from the batsmen, as they were again rolled in 22.4 overs for 113, with some good catches By James McBrien and Tim Starr, coupled with brilliant bowling from Lachlan McBrien (4/13), Mark Bennett (2/13), Geoff Richards, Duncan Moore and Ben McNamara (1 each) saw the game over well before 5pm, in what is likely to be one of the most dominant performances of the season.

C1 142 lost to Kissing Point 188– starting the day with 5 wickets in hand to 107 runs on a small fast ground was well within our range but we fell short in a game we should have won. In the batting, Wayne Seabrook gave a Masterclass of 32 before reaching his retirement score and there were a few other cameo’s with Nathan Fathers 32 and a couple of 20’s but just too many soft dismissals. The season starts again next week when we can perform to the level that we know we can in the batting stakes.

C2 6/123 defeated Castle Hill 121 a one day game following last weeks wash out. Lost the toss and bowled first. After twenty over’s CH were 2/71, enter Fergus Waterson 3/17 and Narendra Kulkarni 2/21 who turned the innings around for us, supported by great fielding from all but especially Mark Bell with two great catches and a run-out. Our turn to bat and a slow start and the loss of 4 wickets inside the first twenty over’s had us behind on the run chase. Up steps Steve Baker (29) who guided the innings to a successful end with support from Chris Williamson (20), Nikunj Patel (18) and Fergus Waterson(16*). A great team effort today that will put us into the top 4.

C3
White 8/192 drew with Mt Colah 8/303 – we scraped through with a draw today against top of the table Mt Colah who resumed at 7/255 today & took their score to 8 dec 303 via a quick 6-over slog-a-thon. Best bowler was Taki Manolelis with 3/56. We were a player short today, so needing 304 off 66 overs with 9 wickets in hand was always going to be tough. We were off to a great start with Pratah Sinnetamby (26), Gareth Linaker (54) & Dave Creais (34) all batting well, seeing us through to Tea at 1/110. Our plan was to have wickets in hand for a strong push at the target in the final 20-overs, however that didn't eventuate. We lost regular wickets through the afternoon session, and found ourselves struggling to hang on. In the end, Riley Miedler & Brett Hawkins held off the opposition and we finished at 8/192.

Blue defeated Kissing Point 127 – playing a team that really made it hard to enjoy the game we reached the required score to win the game and just to give them some more reasons to complain, we commenced with some batting
practice, Claudio finished on 37 runs, Vishnu retired on 51, Gary Robinson end not out with a well earned 30 and as quick as Arun arrived, he hit a quick 28 runs before being caught.

D1 6/248 defeated Kissing Point 197 – our team is starting to find form, and most pleasing is that the good performances have come from different players across the entire team. The players are getting better every week and the depth that we are beginning to develop will stand us in good stead for the remainder of the season. All honours for this game go to Graham Auld for a memorable bowling performance where he took 4 wickets when we needed them the most, supported by good batting performances that included Faisal’s 84 and Allan Raffel’s 57.

D2 8/237 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee 9/238 – our injury-depleted bowling attack had to dig deep against some strong batting from Normanhurst in the final day of this match. A great, sustained effort from Niranjan Sundararaj (3-46), Ankit Grover (2-45), Joshua Murray-Howard (1-31) and Nikhil Suresh (1-54) kept us fighting right down to the wire in a truly thrilling finish. Sam Thariani put in another great day behind the stumps, unlucky not to be credited with a third caught-behind, while our fielders in the deep performed prodigies.

Cinderella's Day at the Cricket
After turning up to Howson oval this week without his cricket shoes, Josh Kleinhans (B1) decided to make a dash home to retrieve his shoes. He left the ground at 12:40pm and after 2 minutes of driving decided , thankfully, to return back to the ground as he was not going to make it there and back in time to bat, as he was not out from last week.

During his short journey the Captain Matt Thorndyke discovered what Josh had done and stated "if he doesn’t come back in time he’s not playing ever again." After returning to the ground, where he received a round of applause from the boys for common sense, he trialled several of the boys shoes and he put on the Captains and decided to use them.

The shoes which must be magical, allowed Josh to finally score some runs and he ended up with 34, a crucial innings. After returning to the sheds he discovered that he had been renamed Cinderella in the scorebook a name he will surely have to endure for the rest of the season.

When things go against you....
Spare a thought (just a small one) for Castle Hill B2 playing our imposing unit. After we score a near record 430 last week they turn up to Greenway Park that was now top dressed. In the words of Adam Walter, our 430 “was like chasing 600”. Not hard to understand that we ended up winning outright before 5.00 pm on day 2.

The Bruise Brother – or ‘a Pom never learns’
After infamously displaying his bruises last season to the boys and some people walking their dogs at Greenway, Paul Tilley (B1) was at it again showing his bruises from last week to the boys. Hopefully none of the juniors still at Howson were watching as PT took off his shirt and proudly showed everyone his bruises and talked everyone through how he got them batting last week. Maybe someone should tell Paul that the thing he has in his hand while batting is a bat that is meant for hitting the ball.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 4 are:
• 9 Points:
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 7 points:
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
• 6 points:
o Russell Smith (C3 Blue)
o Rowan Keating (B1)
o Russell Ingram (C2)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3 White)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamsom (C2)
o Chris Milojevic (Colts Blue)
o Alan Raffel (D1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 4 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 322 @ 107.33 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 288 @ 441.40 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 246 @ 82.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
4. 226 @ 56.50 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 216 @ 43.20 – Ankit Grover (D2)
6. 214 @ 71.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
7. 161 @ 40.25 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
8. 160 @ 40.00 – Michael McGregor (A2)
9. 148 @ 37.00 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 141 @ 141.00 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 15 @ 9.33 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 13 @ 8.08 – Matt Dawson (A1)
3. 13 @ 14.23 – John Steel (C1)
4. 11 @ 6.82 – Tim Starr (B2)
5. 11 @ 11.36 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
6. 11 @ 17.45 – Rowan Dixit (A2)
7. 10 @ 16.90 – Chris Williamson (C2)
8. 10 @ 8.10 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
9. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
10. 10 @ 15.00 – Ben Pilipowski (D2)
11. 10 @ 13.20 – Arkit Grover (D2)
12. 10 @ 12.30 – Dylan Brogan (Colts & A1)
13. 10 @ 11.60 – Scott Henderson (A1)
14. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
15. 10 @ 15.00 – Ben Pilopowski (D2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 4 – Mark Bell (C2)
4. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Competition table
After 4 rounds you start to get a feel for how Teams are landing. We are going very well with standings are;
• A1: 2nd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 4th
• B2: =1st
• C1: 4th
• C2: =4th
• C3; 4th
• D1: 4th
• D2: 3rd

To have 11 of our 12 teams in the top 4 with Colts just out of the top group is an amazing effort.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
John Mitchell who took his 50th career wicket for our Club.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 7 to his 1,000
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09
Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,926 runs – 74 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,816 runs – 184 runs to 2,000

Eric Junkkari
C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 87 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 993 runs – 7 to 1,000 career runs

Posted by Ross Anderson on November 15, 2009 05:43 AM