St Agatha's School Fete
Come along and support the St Agatha’s School fete. St Agatha’s are great supporters of our Club so let’s support them in their major fund raiser of the year.

Details are:

• When: Sunday 21st March
• Time: 10 - 3pm
• Where: GREENWAY OVAL, CHERRYBROOK

Don’t miss the opportunity to pre-purchase tickets to the rides - 5 hour unlimited rides wristband plus FREE unlimited Animal farm pass per person. (pre purchase tickets only)

Individual tickets - $30
Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) - $65. Each additional child $10 per child.

To take up this discounted ride and kindi farm offer see the St Agatha's volunteers outside the Greenway Giants Canteen this weekend - Saturday 27 Feb between 9am and 1pm or next Saturday 6 March between 9am and 1pm.

Pre sold wristbands are collected on the day of the fete from the Rides ticket stall.

(Note family passes are unavailable to purchased on fete day only individual ride passes for $30 plus $5 for kindifarm passes)

Cricket Carnival Day for people with disabilities
CNSW is again running its successful Carnival for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. This is very successful and participation is open to everyone who fits this description. Details are;
• When: Saturday 13th March 2010
• Where: Queens Park cricket fields 20 & 23, Darley Road, Queens Park
• Time: 11.00 am or 3.00 pm
• Cost: $30 / person

If you are interested in a family member giving this a go then please contact Donna Little at CNSW on donna.little@cricketnsw.com.au or call 8302-6033.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The Juniors completed their last round of the Competition on Saturday before the Finals start next week. Final standings of our Teams are:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 4th (Blue) and 6th (Red)
• U15’s - 5th (Blue), 6th (White), 8th (Red), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 7th (Red), 12th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 10th (Green), 8th (Gold)
• U11’s - 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 7th (Green), 16th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Seniors
The end of Round 13 and the final round coming up before the Semi Finals in 2 weeks. The results are:

A1 132 lost to ARL 152 – we went down today…Bowling first against the top team we got off to a great start. Matt Spalding (0/17) and Simon Smyth (3/22) restricted them to 2/28 off the first 13 overs on a good batting deck. ARL recovered during the middle overs, then the breaks were put on again at the end by Peter Stott (3/27). ARL were all out for 152 in the 39th over.

Leigh Van den Brooke and Gav Taylor (50) got us off to a solid start. This was converted to 2 for 82 in the 25th over, but then things started to go wrong. A steady run of wickets saw us bowled out in the 39th over for 132. It was a typically tough low scoring game against the champions of the last four years. We can’t miss the top 4 but would like to beat 6th placed Hornsby next week.

A2 195 lost to St Ives 3/198 – match report to follow but a big loss to St Ives that will see us move to 3rd spot in the table.

Colts
Red 8/172 lost to Vs Hornsby – certainly one that got away. In a really solid batting display we set the foundations for a victory with a good score. Rob Aitken continued his great form with 52, Tom Blissenden contributed with 26 and Daniel Brain 18. Hornsby attacked from the beginning. However, work commitments and fortunate AC/DC ticketholders meant that we defended with only 9 fielders for most of the innings. Notwithstanding victory still looked probable but a dubious rejection of a stumping appeal proved decisive. It's been a disrupted season but if we can build momentum leading into the Finals we might cause some damage. Finally, thanks to Taki Manolelis for helping us out. He was a dynamo in the field, covering enormous territory for our numerically depleted team, executed an excellent direct hit run out and took two wickets.

Blue 126 lost to Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 9/156 – details to come.

B1 138 lost to Berowra 9/139 – an important match for us to stay in contention for the minor premiership. Chris won his first toss in five attempts this season and elected to bat. It was our first hit in a month and it showed. We struggled to build any partnerships and gave our wickets away too easily. We eventually fell for a disappointing 138 in the 39th over, our worst batting performance of the season. Best with the bat were Tim Millington (37), Matt Scoular (25) and Scott Jobson (20).

Missing key bowlers again we had it all to do in the field. We fought hard and only just came up short with Berowra passing our total with one wicket in hand. Best with the ball were Chris Thorndyke (3/34), Matt Thorndyke (2/20) and James Kealy (2/26). It was promising to be far from our best and almost come away with the points. We have second place secured, but will need some results go our way to sneak into first place.

B2 8/188 lost to Berowra 211 – playing a one dayer this week because of no play being possible last week due to the wet weather, we probably put up our worst performance of the year in the field. The bowling was way too short, we dropped 6 or 7 catches and were just generally flat in all aspects. Best of our bowlers was Geoff Richards with 2/18 with Pete Flook and James McBrien (both 2/44) the only other multiple wicket takers.

Chasing down 211 in 35 overs was always going to be a huge ask, and our fortunate position well clear on top of the ladder allowed us the luxury of experimenting with the order before the finals. As a consequence however, this resulted in us needing around 140 from the last 16 overs, but we went out there gave it a shake. Geoff Richards scored 32 up the top before Lachlan McBrien (25) and Adam Walter (26) belted a 50 partnership in just 5 overs, but when they were both dismissed with consecutive balls, our task became that much harder. The changing of the order almost worked when James McBrien came in and smashed 37* in the last 5 overs, but it was too little too late. If there is one silver lining, it is how close we did get in a game that we never deserved to win, giving us confidence that our best cricket will beat these guys in a likely semi final showdown. The boys now know that nearing the business end of the season, we can’t just turn up and expect to win, and will be raring to go next week to get back in the winner’s circle before the finals.

C1 4/120 defeated Castle Hill RSL 117 – a big game for us to consolidate a place in the Finals and we did it in style. Playing on a slow Northholm runs were only going to be scored with lofted shots and we did this better than Castle hill. In the bowling John Steel took 2/12, Chris Ireland 2/21 and Andrew Watt 2/22 with other wickets spread. The good bowling was matched by generally very good fielding that took almost everything hit in the air – none better thjan Eric Junkkari who was brilliant. Our turn to bat and we cruised past them with 5 overs to go. Eric (46*) and Andrew Ireland (40) dominated in every aspect to deliver one of our more comprehensive wins of the season against a team that needed to win grab a spot in the top 4.

C2 84 and 2/47 defeated Kissing Point 48 and 160 – after winning on first innings last week we were trying for an outright. We continued batting from last week, and were dismissed in our first innings for 84 – a 36 run lead. We had Kissing Point on the ropes at 6/36 but then took the foot off the pedal and were punished with a 90 run 7th wicket partnership. We finally dismissed Kissing Point for 160 on a perfect batting day. Best bowling was by Jacques Visser with 4/28 in 18 overs and Chris Williamson with 3/32 in 12 overs. With only 9 overs available to chase down a 124 run lead we decided to get some batting practice, in the lead up to the semis, and managed to score 2/47 (P. Heidegger 38 no) before wrapping up the day.

C3
White 3/106 defeated St Ives 97 – St Ives - in a match we had to win to ensure the minor premiership, we were obliged by an understrength St Ives side who would only be able to have 9 players for the day (4 of whom would be 45 mins late). So we obliged them - won the toss & sent them in. After a few early problems with their top order, Chris Creais bowled superbly to block up one end (1/2 off 5 overs). He was well supported by Kramer Richards who after taking some early stick, came back strongly to finish with 4/36. We took some excellent catches to dismiss St Ives for 97. We were never troubled in our run chase, with all the top 5 making double-figures. Best as usual was Brendan Harkin with 33 not out, taking his season aggregate to over 400 runs. We passed them with 13 overs and 7 wickets up our sleeve.

Blue 301 defeated Berowra – we picked up where we left off last week, with Gary Robinson once again supporting the batsmen in the middle with him. We were able to add onto last weeks score & ended the day on 301. Gary finished with another not out on 27 & Jon van Blerk on 43. The bowling got off to a great start with Vishnu diving to take a great catch. Arun Kumar was in devastating form today by bagging the first 4 wickets. We had some spectacular catches by, Vikas, Claudio, Nat & Chetan, but at the same time we dropped quite a few catches as well. Ian was not going to be out done & took the next 3 wickets. Arun finished with 4/27, Ian on 3/47, followed by Vikas & Nat finishing with a wicket each.

D1 89 and 3/149 lost to St Ives 96 and 8/181 dec – we got close today but it was always going to be miracle, chasing 186 to win outright in 24 overs. We lost first innings after suffering 2 injuries, which in the end could have been the difference between a win and the 6 runs needed. A top class effort by Allan Raffel 94 and Lachlan Vile 27 with the bat and with the ball, Manod Wickramasinghe 2/6 and Lachlan Vile 2/44 were the pick of the bowlers. We are up against 6th placed team next week and will hope to put this game behind us and look to build some momentum heading into the finals.

D2 79 and 40 lost outright to Kissing Point –8/336 dec – match report to follow but a comprehensive loss to one of the top teams.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

So long, farewell and thanks a million
Our Club is fortunate to have very many special people who contribute so much to making the Club what it is today. A standout is Geoff Starr (B2 and U16 Red Coach) and one of the 'good guys' in our Club. At the end of this season Geoff will hang up his coach’s hat for the last time.

This will bring to an end a very long standing commitment to our Club. Geoff has been coaching since his oldest son Tim started playing Kanga back in 1998-1999 season. He has coached both his boys’ teams continuously since then to now, that’s 12 years! Most of the time coaching two teams! A better achievement still is that all the boys in the Team’s he coaches keep coming back year after year – a far more important result than looking at win/loss ratio’s.

A very special effort Geoff.

The joys of Managing a Colts Team
Spare a thought for Evan Hutchings who manages our Colts Red team. Faced with a must win game we ended up fielding with 9 players due to a combination of work and AC/DC commitments that saw the opposition run down our competitive score. That’s the way it goes.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 12 follow. This will be updated during the week as updated scores come through.

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 @ 13.88 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 25 @ 15.44 – Jacques Viser (C2)
7. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
8. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
9. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 21 @ 15.71 – 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)

Competition table
Standings after Round 12 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: = 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: = 1st
• D2: 7th

With 2 Rounds to go we have 11 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
This is current up to the end of Round 12 and will be updated to include the latest Round once scores are in. A couple of big ones are coming up:

• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 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

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

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

Peter Lees
C2 2,926 runs – 74 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Posted by Ross Anderson on February 21, 2010 06:27 AM