Page 21 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2016-17

Zac Morris (C2 Red)
During a C2 game Gunny was scoring and discussion went to International cricket and Bangladesh in particular. From out of no-where Zac asked “Are there are any trees in Bangladesh”.
Losing count of runs scored
Stu was commenting on how difficult it is to keep count of the personal runs scored in an innings – something a lot of us experience typically once the score mounts over 20. Not in Stu’s case where he made the observation that in one innings he lost count of his runs where he got 0 runs.
Is he still batting?
Andrew Morris was powering towards his ton and it was here that Stu wanted to know how many runs Andrew was on. His score was 86* and Stu asked whether he was still batting.
Prat Datar
Another outstanding nomination – this time Prat Datar (B2). Getting ready to come to the ground Prat realised that his cricket clothing from the previous weekend was still in the wash. Rather than rocking up in dirty
gear, Prat did the next best thing – he went up to the shops and bought himself new cricket pants and a shirt – arriving at the game at 1.45 pm. So Prat gets 2 Awards – the Space Cadet Award for having to buy new clothing while he should have been playing and the Catwalk Award for sartorial elegance.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes (C2 Red) is enthusiastic about playing. After making multiple calls to his Skipper and Steve Quanborough about gaps in any Teams, Richie turned up to the C2 game to support and see if there were any gaps at short notice – there were none. Anyway, at the coin toss, Richie then asked the opposing Captain if they needed a player because he was available. The St Ives Skipper commented that it “...would cost you a bit”. Richie, thinking there was a possibility asked “How much?”.
Alex Chidgey and Ryan Gunn
Alex Chidgey and Ryan Gunn (C2 Red) are genuine Team players. When a massive rain and hail storm that washed out all Seniors games, hit Mimosa Oval they were prepared to race out to the wicket to get the stumps. Rather than wait for the hail to stop they took off while the storm was at its most intense. Alex though thought it through and put a boundary marker on his head as a hail protector. A little while later the storm passed and the sun shone.
“Watch the.....”
Adrian Chau (C2 Blue) is one of our keen fielders who will run down anything but he put in a Forrest Gump performance. Playing at Thornleigh Oval, Adrian chased a ball down to fine leg and just kept going, smashing into the fence head first to try and save a boundary – fortunately the fence was undamaged. But wait, there is more. Not to be outdone, Adrian chased another ball to the boundary. Like watching a train wreck unfold, no fence was going to stop Adrian and he just ran into it and somersaulted over the fence head first.
The warm-up
The A2 boys turned up to Les Shore 2 and had a 45 minute Team warm-up. Skipper, Simon Smyth was the most active putting in a big effort before his bowling effort. Come the game and it was all over in 40 minutes with the boys getting the last 6 wickets in 8 overs to get 10 points for the match.
The shortest path to a Premiership
Paul Vink, 5th Grade T20 made a comeback to playing cricket after an 18-year break. He played just 2 T20 games and the boys made the Final and won the game with Paul being the opening bowler. We don’t have records on this one but it would have to be the fastest of fast tracks to winning a premiership in our history – 2 games, especially considering that the qualification to play a Final in the Saturday comp is a minimum of 4 games.
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