Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 31/1/2010 when school resumes.

Points standings as at the end of Round 7 are:

U16’s
• White (1st), Red (5th), Blue (6th)

U15’s
• Blue (4th), White (7th), Red (8th), Green (11th)

U14’s
• Blue (3rd), Green (4th), Red (5th), White (11th)

U13’s
• Gold (1st), Green (3rd), Red (8th), Blue (12th), White (14th)

U12’s
• Red (3rd), Blue (4th), Gold (9th), Green (11th)

U11’s
• Gold (2nd), Blue (4th), Green (7th), Red (15th)

Under 10’s and 9’s do not play competition cricket.

Seniors
The Seniors started up again on the weekend and the results follow:

A1 190 defeated Vs Castle Hill RSL 100 – another good win – the team is playing very well at the moment. We scored 190 batting first despite a slow outfield. Nick Bennett held the innings together with 54 and was well supported with good contributions throughout the order. Bill Peterkin marked his return from injury by belting a quick-fire 35. Castle Hill were never in the hunt. Peter Stott was terrific with 3 for 11 off 8, and as usual Scott Henderson and Matt Spalding were too good for the batsmen. Simon Smyth also returned from injury with a quick-fire 18* and a miserly 1 for 16 off 5 overs.

A2 3/50 defeated Glenhaven 46 – after winning the toss on a grassy Turramurra wicket we put Glenhaven into bat. After a demolition show by our opening bowlers we had them struggling at the 15 over mark at 7/19. Darren Morrow finished with figures of 4/7 off 8 alongside Dylan Brogan with 4/11 after restricting Glenhaven to a mere 46 runs. We comfortably made the runs in the 16th over to secure a few early beers at the pub with Darren again in the act with a 15 not out to see out the victory. A few other fella’s chipped in but it was never in doubt after such a great bowling performance.

Colts Red defeated WPHC Blue – scores are not yet available but the result is available. Best batting for the Blues were Russell Ingram with 39, Taylor Paton 30 and Chris Milojevic an important 37 to set a competitive total. The Red’s fell short with scores to be updated shortly.

B1 9/147 defeated Ku-ring-gai Chase 9/142 – a big matchup between 1 Vs 2 and finally a chance for us to move into 1st place. Batting first we got a competitive score on a slow ground but had to bowl well. There were lots of 20’s but no one was able to push on. Best for us was Andrew Graham (24*) with his best score of the season.

In a close game Andrew Joyce fired again and got match winning figures of 5/21 of his allocated 8 overs. Ryan Cherrie chipped in with 2/24 to give us the valuable 6 points.

B2 7/184 defeated Pymble 113 – turning-up to the usually lightning fast Greenway Park only to find ankle deep grass covering the field was not what we were expecting, however the boys made the most of the uncharacteristic conditions to record a strong win. Winning the toss and batting first, the plan was to keep wickets in hand for the later stages to allow our longer than average batting lineup to give it a real crack at the death, and that is exactly how it went. Reaching the 20 over mark at 4/57, we had possibly lost too many wickets early, with Tim Starr (35) and James McBrien (14) the only ones to reach double figures. However, these wickets brought together Geoff Starr (72*) and Adam Walter (37) who shared in a 105 run partnership and saw our total up to a more than competitive mark.

With the ball we could not have had a better start, with Ben McNamara (4/26 off 8) clean bowling the opener with the first ball of the innings. We continued to chip away with the ball, and when their one run scorer was forced to retire on 53 (out of the team total of 68), the wickets began to tumble. Pymble retained a faint chance of victory until their last hope was run out by a James McBrien direct hit to put the result beyond doubt. The other wicket takers were Lachlan McBrien (1/17 off 5), Simon “Blocker” Roche (1/8) and Andrew “Acid” Percival (1/5), Acid taking a wicket with his first ball of the season.

Another solid all round performance from all the boys which sees us retain our 10 point buffer at the top of the table.

C1 174 defeated St Ives 135 – an important game to keep us in the chase for the Semi Finals. Batting first best for us was Bray Stoneham with 40, Nathan Fathers returned to form with 33 and a cameo 30* from Gamini Jayawardane gave us a good total. St Ives were never in the hunt with steady wickets falling to good bowling and fielding. Andrew watt 3/26 and Eric Junkkari 3/21 broke the back of St Ives but Craig Hutchinson was the star with 2/16 from 8 overs. How about Bray Stoneham who took 4 catches including a beauty on the boundary. We are sitting just out of the top 4 but once we get our full strength side on the field it will take a good team to beat us. With the holiday break now over results should start to flow again.

C2 9/122 defeated Berowra 118 – playing Berowra in this 1 Vs 2 match we knew that we were in for a tough game as we were playing the only undefeated team, who have won all their games this season, 4 of them outright. We bowled and fielded with great discipline to have Berowra all out for 118 in 31 overs. All the bowlers were outstanding with Nikunj Patel (3/9 in 6 overs) and Steve Baker (4/29 in 6 overs) and Chris Williamson (2/8 in 4 overs). We managed to reach their score in a nail biting finish with 9 wickets down in the 38th over to inflict a very satisfying first defeat on Berowra. Good contributions by Chris Williamson 29, Peter Lees 32 and Richie Cuskelly with a 24 not out to steer us home.

C3 White 5/161 defeated WPHC Blue – an unusual match-up between 2 WPHC teams who are running 1st and 2nd. The White team Young Bucks managed to prevail this time over the more experienced Warhorses from the Blues. White’s won the toss and bravely bowled on a scorching hot Annangrove Oval, hoping to restrict the Blues to a get-able total.

The total would have been heaps more gettable if the White’s didn't bowl 30 no balls & wides, but they managed to restrict the Blues to 7-153 (+ 2 ret hurt). The Blues started to gain some momentum & had Michael Mahinthan retire on 25 due to an edge hitting him on the lip & he went off to get stitched up. The second retirement was Felix Quah who will be out for a while with a possible cracked rib. Rahul Sabherwal , got stuck in before being caught on 25.
Best performers with the ball for the Whites were James Creais & Taki Manolelis each with 2 wickets.

The White’s turn to bat and they banked on the strong opening pair of Brendan Harkin (48) & Riley Miedler (56) to knock off the majority of the total themselves, which they did putting on 90 for the 1st wicket. The Blues bowlers kept posing plenty of questions to us, but a cameo of 29 by Andrew Fiedler helped get the White’s home with 10 balls and 5 wickets in hand.

D1 5/91 defeated Berowra 71 – after winning the toss and sending Berowra in to bat in really hot conditions, our bowlers performed superbly, limiting Berowra to 71 all out. The pick of the bowlers were Chris Grima 2/10, David Behelevanas 2/13 and Lachlan Vile 2/20.

Always tricky chasing a low total in that at one stage we found ourselves at 3/8 but steady partnership between Tom Considine 49 and Chris Grima 20no got us there in the end with overs to spare

This is a good win against the 1st placed side, were 3 points adrift from 1st and 2nd and happy with the state of commitment and levels of depth available for the business end of the season.

D2 82 lost to Galston-Glenorie 110 – a big game for us against 3rd placed Galston. We needed to win to push back into the top 4. After bowling them out for a low score in 36 overs we had our chance to run them down. Not to be this match as could only make 82. Individual scores will be available shortly.

The long way home
We have a long history of players travelling long distances to play on the weekend. The most famous is Mark Taylor (1998/99) travelling from New Noumea to play before flying to London that night and Tony Hadley’s regular visits from Perth (2005-06) and back to play.

Two standout though. Bill Peterkin drove down from the Gold Coast (16/12/2006) to play an A1 game and got a golden duck. The latest is Peter Heidegger (C2 Captain). Peter was coaching the U12 Rep Team at Lismore and drove home straight after the game on Friday afternoon. After the 10 hour drive he got his chance to bat and kept the tradition alive by scoring a golden. Must be something about these trips from the Far North Coast.

Unusual catch
Eric Junkkari (C1) is now approaching his 350th wicket but got an unusual one on Saturday. Bowling a leg-side full toss the batsman managed to get it off the back of the back, ricochet off is head (no helmet) and then have the ball lob out to a standard cover. The player must have a hard head as he showed no reaction.

A tight finish – the inside story
Well done to Chris Thorndyke who provided this ball by ball insight into the B1 thriller on the weekend:

“Five overs remain in the match with Ku-ring-gai Chase needing 20 runs with three wickets in hand.
• The next three balls go for 9 runs before James Kealy takes a big wicket, with the batsman hitting it straight to Andrew Joyce at point.
• The next two balls are dots leaving 11 runs to win off 24 balls with two wickets in hand.
• Ryan 'Rhino' Cherrie comes back into the attack. The first four balls concede three runs including two hit in the air just out of catching range.
• The next ball cleans up their number 10 and the last ball is a dot.8 runs to win off 18 balls with only one wicket in hand.
• Matt Thorndyke is in the pressure situation of bowling the next over – a crucial one. Two runs are hit off the first three balls...tension is building, only 6 runs to win off 15 balls.
• With the field back, their gun bat doesn't want a single and attempts to belt Matt out of the park. The ball is hit long and high towards cow corner, looking like it might go for six to win the match for Ku-ring-gai Chase. The player of the match Andrew Joyce had other ideas running faster than Usman Bolt along the boundary before diving and taking a screamer just cm's off the ground. We win by 5 runs. AJ takes two catches and five wickets.”

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 9 are:

• 14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
• 11 points
o Nirinjan Sundararaj (D2)
• 10 points
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Riley Miedler (C3)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o John Steel (C1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the current Round 9 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 92.71 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 457 @ 41.55 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 336 @ 48.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 325 @ 36.11 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
5. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 294 @ 42.00 – Alex Connell (B1)
8. 282 @ 35.25 – Rowan Keating (B1)
9. 281 @ 35.13 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
10. 274 @ 68.50 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 27 @ 11.04 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 23 @ 10.26 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
3. 23 @ 12.57 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 21 @ 15.57 – John Steel (C1)
5. 20 @ 9.65 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 20 @ 10.20 – Matt Dawson (A1)
7. 19 @ 13.10 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
8. 18 @ 12.28 – Dylan Brogan (A2)
9. 18 @ 13.30 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
10. 18 @ 14.22 – Scott Henderson (A1)
11. 18 @ 14.61 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 7 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 7 – Allan Raffel (D1)
3. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
4. 6 – John Steel (C1)
5. 6 – Chris Grima (D2)

Competition table
Standings after Round 9 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts Red: 4th
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 1st
• B2: 1st
• C1: 5th
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 5th

With 5 Rounds to go this is a fantastic achievement with 9 of our 12 teams in the top 4. Colts Blue and C1 are 1 win out, and D2 are 2 wins away.

Personal achievements
A couple of big ones are coming up and these will also be updated once results are fully loaded:
• Peter Westerberg – just 12 for his 100 runs before his 100th innings (88 innings and counting)
• Simon Davies – 42 to 5,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

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

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,960 runs – 40 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,888 runs – 112 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 887 runs – 113 to 1,000

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,774 runs – 228 to 3,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Posted by Ross Anderson on January 12, 2010 06:31 AM