Congratulations
The AW Green Shield is the elite U16 Grade Cricket Representative competition in Metropolitan Sydney, rated by Wikipedia as being the best U16 competition in the world. We had the following Junior players playing in this competition over the Christmas / New Year period and performing well:
• Daniel Anderson (Northern District) – U15 Blue
• James Madden(Northern District) - U15 Blue
• Bhavya Nanda (Gordon) – U15 White
• Alex Rashleigh (Sydney) – U16 Blue.

To be selected in the combined Green Shield Representative team to play the NSW Country champions is something really special. Congratulations to Alex Rashleigh who was selected in the 1st XII – the best of the best! This is outstanding and an achievement we are all very proud of Alex achieving.

Net repairs
The nets at the WPH Sports Club are being repaired next week. We are having the torn surface where the batter takes guard replaced in all 3 nets. This will happen on Wednesday 3rd February so the nets will be out of action all day Wednesday.

Thank you
A big acknowledgement to the Commonwealth Bank who has provided us with a $1,500 sponsorship to assist with the repairs to the nets. This is part of their ‘Grass Roots’ cricket program. We are very appreciative of this support and this has allowed us to repair the nets. Thanks CBA.

Level 2 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is also running an elite Level 2 Course. The selection criteria is stringent but is sort after. The Australian Coach for example has a Level 3 certificate. Details are:
• When: Saturday 5th June to Sunday 6th June (residential)
Saturday 19th June to Sunday 20th June (residential)
Wednesday 7th July to Sunday 11th July (residential)
• Where: Sydney Academy of Sport at Narrabeen & Orange
• Time: 8 days residential
• Cost: $600

If you need more information then please let Ross Anderson know asap. If you complete this course and take an active role in the Club’s Coaching program we will subsidise the cost.

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 30/1/2010 when school resumes.

Seniors
The weekend Round results follow:

A1 9/297 Vs Kenthurst – batting first we wanted to get a big score against 4th placed St Ives. At 3/16b we were looking down the barrel as we have relied heavily on the top order to score so far this season. In a good workout for the Semi’s we powered to an impressive 1st innings total. Smokey Dawson was superb with 79, Peter Whitehead got his best score of the season and Nick Bennett is starting to deliver on his great potential with 60. Added to this a 33* from in-form all-rounder Simon Smyth we turned the game around. While the result is important the batting depth is more so with the big games coming up.

A2 179 Vs Kenthurst 2/33 – after a series of good games we had an off day against 1st placed Kenthurst but it could have been a lot worse. At 9/110 we were struggling. Apart for the 47 from Tim Rae who opened 6 players scored a combined 12 runs in aggregate. Well done Leigh van denBroeke who turned the corner with his batting with 20 in tough circumstances. Then enter Daniel Brain 20 and Dylan Brogan 44* batting at 9 and 10 who put on a 9th wicket partnership of 74. When we had them at 2/9 in reply momentum was going our way. With early wickets this game is still alive.

Colts
Red Vs Kissing Point – a shame but Kissing Point forfeited so no game for the next 2 weeks.

Blue Vs Berowra – a big match for us (4 Vs 2) but due to an Association mix-up with grounds this will now be played as a 1-dayer next Sunday.

B1 Vs Kissing Point 9/234 – a big match against 1st placed Kissing Point.With two key bowlers playing as Week 2 players who have taken a combined 40 wickets this season, it was a bad toss to lose. In a long day in the field we have kept Kissing Point to a par score of 9/234 at a fast Thornleigh Park. Scott Jobson was again superb taking 4/73 off 23 overs, including a 20 over opening spell, while Rowan Keating bowled a marathon 29 overs picking up 3/80 and was unlucky not to have a few more. We have one last wicket to take next week and with our strong batting line up are more than capable of chasing this total.

B2 180 Vs Castle Hill RSL 1/12 – sent into bat on a painfully slow Fred Caterson 2 oval the boys put together a very competitive total, which was probably worth another 100 runs on any other ground. The only way to score was to go aerial. Best with the bat was Geoff Richards with 50 and Geoff Starr 31. Solid contributions also from Tim Starr 20, Alex Connell & Duncan Moore 17 each and Mark Bennett 13. We had 15 overs at them before stumps with some excellent disciplined bowling from Ben McNamara, Mark Bennett & Geoff Richards (1/3) all combining well to create the pressure for a break through which resulted in a superb catch behind by Alex Connell. We are well positioned to convert this next week.

C1 226 Vs Kissing Point – the only game Kissing Point have won this season was the 1st round game against us so this was an important one to move solidly into the top 4. We got off to a very good start with 35 to take the edge off the opening bowlers. The next partnership between Kishore Rampersad (72) and Daniel Anderson (77) was 132 and took the game away Point. At 1/170 we were cruising. When this partnership was broken we lost a succession of wickets and finished with a par score that is worth around 250. The batting depth is strong but we probably took the bowling for granted after this big partnership and got out to a few soft dismissals that would not have happened in other games. If we bowl and field to our potential this should be enough to get us across the line.

C2 130 Vs Castle Hill RSL – after finding our field (Fred Caterson 2) occupied by squatters – who claimed to have Council approval for their game – we had to find an alternative ground. Glenhaven was available, so we all moved en masse to the lush and overgrown garden know as Glenhaven Oval. After searching for 5 minutes we found the tossed coin in the long grass. Unfortunately we lost the toss (apparently "tails never fails" - except when called by our C2 captain) and were put in to bat on a hot and very humid day. The bowling from Castle Hill was accurate and disciplined and with the ball swinging profusely we struggled our way to 130 all out in 60 overs.

Less than a handful of boundaries were scored and the total is certainly not un-defendable. Good contributions came from Narendra Kulkarni 42, Richard Cuskelly 30 not out and Peter Lees with 20. We then had a bowl at Castle Hill who finished the day on 17 without loss off their 12 overs. We look forward to significant lawn-mover problems occurring at Glenhaven council this week.

C3
White 8/343 Vs Mt Colah –a top 4 clash with us (1st) playing 4th placed Mt Colah. We had a good day at the office. Winning the toss and batting on a fast Annangrove oval, we took full advantage to finish 8/343 dec at stumps. There were many good contributions, with 2 major partnerships - 121 for the 2nd wicket between run-machines Pratah Sinnetamby (69) and Brendan Harkin (78) and 93 for the 6th wicket between Andrew Fiedler (72) & Daniel Fiedler (51 no). This was 16 yo Daniel's first 50 in seniors. We look forward to pressing home our advantage next week.

Blue Vs Kissing Point 112 – we on the toss (amazing!) and felt that weather conditions were best suited to field although this ground is a batters paradise. Kissing Point came with a very determined side and really dug deep from the outset. However, we were also up for the challenge. From the very first to the very last ball Kissing Point was subjected to "Shock & Awe". The bowling attack was disciplined and controlled throughout the game and gave the batsmen nothing all day. Kissing Point eventually waved their white flag after 72 overs were all out for 112. Although the job is only half done and a good performance is needed with the bat to secure the points, this fantastic display of bowling would have had the great Glen McGrath raising his eyebrows. Wicket takers were, Claudio van Blerk 3/16; Arun Kumar 3/42; Ian Nichol 2/5; Rahul Saberwhal 2/21.

D1 7/248 defeated on 1st inningsKissing Point 113 & 2/8 – after losing to Hornsby last week this is one we needed to get back on track against last placed Point. We lost the toss against Kissing Point who opted to bat first. Chris Grima was on fire today with bowling figures of 7/43 which ensured that we dismissed Kissing Point for 113. This was only the 30th time in our history that a bowler has taken 7 wickets or better in a game – great stuff Chris. With the bat, Allan Raffel 104* (our 350th century), ensured that we have a good lead heading into week 2. Other notable performances with the bat were Lachlan Vile 34 and Faisal Shamsi 30. A top effort from everyone in the field provided a satisfying performance and if we can repeat this next week, we should get an outright win that will cement our 2nd place position, and if other results go our way, we have a chance of creeping into first.

D2 181 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 0/2 – a big game for us against 1st placed Normo. Match results will be updated once the report is to hand.

400 wickets
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham who took his 400th wicket (349 of these have been taken in A1 grade). This is a rare achievement. How about this for career stats:
• 2,032.5 overs with 379 maidens
• 401 wickets @ 17.18
• Plus 3486 runs @ 22.49 including a double century

In our 60 year history only 4 other players have taken more wickets:
• 623 – David Carey
• 543 – Ray McDonald
• 497 – Ken Donaldson
• 461 – Mark Taylor

Well done Greg who ranks as one of our finest ever players.

Experience plus
Think about this one. The C1 side that played almost the perfect game last weekend had an attack with the following experience levels:
• Greg Stoneham – 401 wickets
• Eric Junkkari – 329 wickets
• John Steel – 91wickets
• Kishore Rampersad – 282 wickets
• John Mitchell – 54 wickets

A total of 1,157 wickets in experience – wow! We don’t have records of this type of info but it would take a lot of beating. Missing from the side was Craig Hutchinson who has 118 wickets.

In summary, the team that took the field last Saturday (Craig Hutchinson is to come back) had:
• A combined age of 512 years (including a 14 year old!)
• 1,320 aggregate wickets (including those players who did not bowl)
• 22,900 aggregate runs.

Brother’s in arms
Great performance from Matt (A2) and Scott (B1) Jobson who put in match winning bowling performances last weekend. Matt took 5/15 and Scott 5/29 in outstanding performances. Well done fella’s.

Dropping like flies
In a C3 Round 9 game between our White and Blue Teams 3 players managed to get injured – all self-inflicted injuries:
• Marcus Creais (White’s) after bowling 9 balls went down with a crook back & couldn't bowl any further in the match
• Michael Mahinthin (Blue’s) managed to pull a low full toss into his mouth & retired hurt. Went to hospital to get a mouthful of stitches
• Felix Quah (Blue’s) when going for a quick single slid his bat in, got it caught in the ground as he dived, and had the handle wedge in his ribs and was carried off injured – all this during the Blues 1st innings.
But….all 3 players resumed the game in the second innings to either field (very sore Michael & Felix) or bat (Marcus (hit winning runs). We might ne clumsy but we breed them tough.

The ‘Great Converter’
Spare a thought for Kishore Rampersad (C1) who batted for around 50 overs to score 72 in hot conditions. Kishore is one of our more ‘experienced’ players and as the innings went along the running between wickets became progressively slower. Towards the end of this marathon innings and with possible all run fours being turned into ‘sharp’ two’s the comment was made about the conversion factor.

‘I’ve been everywhere’
Rowan Keating (B1) bowled 29 overs of pace on the weekend in hot conditions due to the absence of 2 of our top wicket takers from this game. There was some slight compensation though as he fielded at mid-on / mid-off / fine-leg all day. In fact he spent 37 overs at fine Leg, 4 at deep mid-off and 5 at mid-on. Add to this the 29 overs Rowan bowled the only running he had to do was in his bowling delivery – a small compensation for this huge effort.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night. As one last look, the top ranked players as at the end of Round 10 follow. Given that points are allocated 3-2-1 anyone can win including a number of players not on the list.

14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)

• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)

• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Riley Miedler (C3 White)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Caludio van Blerk (C3 Blue)

• 11 points
o Nirinjan. Sundararaj (D2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)

• 10 points
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3 Blue)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Lachlan Vile (D1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Day 1 of Round 12 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
4. 25 @ 13.20 – Nik Patel (C2)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
7. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
8. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
9. 20 @ 12.55 – Dylan Brogan (A2)
10. 20 @ 13.45 – Scott Henderson (A1)
11. 20 @ 14.00 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
12. 20 @ 14.80 – Ryan Cherrie (B1)
13. 20 @ 15.00 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player
Just before Christmas we updated the ‘Champion Player’ stats from MyCricket. The standings by Grade as at the end of day 1 of Round 12 are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor with 56.80 points and 8th overall in A Grade
• A2 – Matt Jobson 79.60 (1st in A2 Grade)
• Colts – Michael Dale 48.70 (2nd)
• B1 – Andrew Joyce 79.40 (2nd)
• B2 – Tim Starr 67.50 (4th)
• C1 – John Steel 81.20 (2nd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram 101.60 (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler 72.90 (4th)
• D1 – Allan Raffel 78.40 (2nd)
• D2 – Sam Thariani (81.00)

Competition table
Standings after Round 11 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 5th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 2nd
• D2: 7th

With 3 Rounds to go we have 10 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham (400 wickets) and Mark Bell (50 wickets) on their outstanding achievement in Round 11.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating - 5 wickets to 100

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

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

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 95 wickets - 5 to 100 career wickets

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,869 runs – 131 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,912 runs – 88 to 2,000 career runs

239 wickets – 11 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 966 runs – 34 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Posted by Ross Anderson on January 31, 2010 06:39 AM