Page 19 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2016-17

We had to fight every game with both bat and ball, and had contributors right throughout the team all season, without having the superstars some other teams in the Grade had. Well done boys and a special congrats to the ‘retiring’ veterans – you know who you are!
T20 5th Grade Premiers (D1 & D2 Grade) @ Auluba Oval on 23October 2016
WPHC 4/157 defeated St Ives 57 – a convincing win after we set an imposing
score batting first in our 20 overs. Andrew Morris (63) and Brent Larkham (66*) were outstanding. In reply, St Ives struggled to be
all out in just 13 overs. Ian Williams was our best bowler with 3/8 from 2 overs. Also getting wickets was Roshan Withanage 2/19, Siby Joseph 1/0 and Cameron Bish 1/15.
John Hayne Cup
Back to back C1 Premiers 2016/17 - left to right: Rahul Mucherla, Michael Fiedler, Eric Junkkari, Aaron Hawkins, Ray Khamis, Rob Hitchcock, Nathan Fathers, Kyle Townsend. Front row: Rohit Ninan, Andrew Fiedler, Matt Marsden, Semonn Oleksyn, Stanton Tam.
Congratulations to our C2 Red side who are joint Premiers in this Competition.
Anecdotes
“I have never waited so long to bat...”
Michael Gunn (B2) bats at number 3 for B2s. Gunny is one of our young stars who just likes to bat and not hang around thinking about going into bat. At 0/97 with Aaron Carlini (46) and Chris Williamson (going on to get 58) well in control, Gunny commented on the sideline “I have never waited so long to bat” – famous last words – Aaron got out the next ball!
“One of the best days of my life”
Ian Digby (C3) is back playing cricket after a 16 year spell from the game. In our second T20 game a couple of weeks ago the big fella scored an impressive 16*. He was so stoked with getting runs after such
a long break he commented “...after my wedding and birth of children, this is the best day of my life” and justifiably so too. Fast forward to the following weekend and big things were on the agenda. Ian’s beautiful wife Nicole also came along with the video to capture the follow-up innings. One ball later it was over and Ian was heading back to the pavilion.
Leadership Plus
We have a great history with father / son combinations playing together going back to the 1940s / 50s
with the Donaldson family who had 5 members of the family playing together. In 2009 we also had the 4 members of the Creais family. This year we have another record with the Fiedler’s – Andrew Captains C1, his eldest son Daniel Captains B1 and Stu Fiedler is Vice Captain of C2 Red. With Mikey Fiedler next in line we not only have 4 family members playing but to have 3 in Team Leadership roles is a new Club record.
Add to this Daniel winning B1 and Andrew the C1 Premierships this is the first time for our Club and possibly the Association that a father / son combination has won Premierships in the same season – well done fellas.
As far as Family participation goes, this though has a long way to go from the early teams of the Association. The South Colah Cricket Club had 18 sons of Patrick and John Duffy (Duffy Ave) of Thornleigh, Dural CC was sustained by the seven sons of Thomas Best, Pennant Hills CC by the 10 sons of Arthur Thompson (Thompson Corner) and Castle Hill CC by the eleven sons of John James!
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