What a fantastic weekend of achievement. Here goes:
+ Mark Taylor became only the 3rd player to pass 5,000 career runs for the Club on the weekend. He brought up the runs with a 4 that was a dropped catch going through the hands of fieldsman on the boundary. He now joins the great Greg Fiedler (5,000 last season) and Ross Anderson (6,000) as the only players to achieve this mountain. Will Peter Harriosn (also a B1 player this season) be the next to pass the milestone - at the season start he was next in line with 4,328 runs.
+ With regard to the B1 match, they boys clocked up another comfortable win. Mark Taylor scored 72 (to bring up his 5,000 runs) Matt Davidson with 45 and Luke Quinlivan with 50 starred with the bat.
+ Our mighty C3 team set a new Association C3 7th wicket record with an unbroken partnership of 135 against Normanhurst - beating the previous record of 126. Our bowlers, Joshua Lovell scored 87* and Steve Quanborough 29*. What makes this even more remarkable is that Steve is fine slow bowler but as a batsman has scored 166 runs in 49 previous innings - a fantastic achievement.
+ Eric Junkkari, star opening bowler for C1 Blue took the 26th hattrick in our Club's history in a superb bowling exhibition. Eric has now taken 19 wickets in 3 games and is getting better.
+ In A1, Peter Whitehead scored 93 and Matt Barr 53 to give us a comfortable win. Peter just missed scoring his 3rd century for the Club. Peter with an A Grade career average of 39.00 and Matt Barr with 42.7 rank among our best.
+ The strong run by C2 Blue came to an end with a loss. After crashing to be all out for 71 in the first innings the came back strongly in the second innings with Alistair Rayment scoring 82* and Ryan Cherrie 39* - well done folks.
+ Our young D1 side continued their super form with another stunning outright win taking them to 30 points after 3 games. Performances have been well spread with no individual starring.
+ Also in D1, Nathan Smith took match figures of 9/26 (4/14 and 5/12) against Galston Glenorie. With one more wicket he would have been the 40th player in our history to take 10 wickets in a match.
+ A final welcome to Richard Stonier. Richard has just arrived from the UK and will be playing A2's. He starts his Australian career next weekend - good luck Richard.
+ D2 also continue their super form with another solid win. The undisputed star was 13 year old Troy Newman with 41 before he was tragically run out by his farther attempting a suicide run (sorry Geoff but the truth must be told!)

Posted by Ross Anderson on October 19, 2003 07:33 AM