Page 23 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2016-17

Toilet stop – Ray Khamis
Ray Khamis (C1) is becoming the human headline. Earlier this season he tempted fate whilst relieving himself behind a soccer goal post at Gilroy College in full sight of a greyhound no doubt trained on live baiting. The big fella was at it again last weekend and was padded up to go into bat but this time the urge came to do a more substantial job. Fortunately the toilets were open and the Ray got back just in time for the fall of the next wicket.
Sniper got 2 of them
In B1, one of the Glenorie batsmen retired hurt early in the game with a hamstring problem, only to return at number 11 with a runner. Two runs later, after the batsmen played a shot and fell over, the runner took off for the quick run. He fell down like he was shot by a sniper and tore his hamstring in the process. Half of our team fell on the ground in laughter as both the runner and the hammy injured batsmen were both on the ground struggling to get up. They decided they would not get another runner and finished the last over trying to not run at all.
“They thought I was a God”
Taki “The Psychologist” Manolelis (B1) has recently moved north-west to Singleton for work, and in turn has decided to play some cricket up there and betray West Penno. Anyway, he got what’s coming to him when the first game he played was a T20 in their comps 3rd grade which he declared was “the most boring game of T20 ever.” He said “we bowled 10 overs consecutively from one end. Then the next 10 from the other. So we just stood there in the same spot the whole time.”
He continued rambling about the most boring game ever and mentioned that the “square leg umpire is just the next batsmen in. I opened the bowling and they couldn’t play me. They thought I was a God.” Even worse for poor Taki is that they have a 13 man squad who plays on the day, so 2 people don’t bat. Of course Taki has ended up as one of the players that is a “non-batter”.
Do you want Fries with that?
The A1 game, that we ended up winning was getting tight with our boys 6/42 chasing 115 so the boys were a bit nervous and were quiet. Enter Phil Wurth – the same Philthy who ‘accidentally’ left 2 packs of frozen fish bait in Lachie Vile’s kit bag that he found a few days later. This time he was having a bread roll while watching the game. Disappearing for a short time, Phil managed to rip out some underarm hair and put it in the bread roll. Rather than eat it himself he kindly offered it around the Team.
Enter Justin Paterson, who was feeling a bit peckish and was next man in. After finishing the roll Justin had a coughing bout caused by hair stuck in his throat and needed copious amounts of water to wash it down. Fortunately Justin didn’t need to bat but if he comes down with some obscure disease we know the reason.
You know you have been around when....
Andrew Fiedler (C1) was still in a state of shock at the Club after their game against Berowra. The boys were playing the Grand child of someone Andrew played against many years ago. The thought of playing against a 3rd generation was too much to bear as he settled into his next cold one.
A performance to remember
Louis Madison-Hanlon (U15 White) had a game to remember. Playing for the Association in the IDCA President’s Cup Representative U14 side in the Round 3 game against Newcastle at Dural Park on 11 December, Louis took the amazing figures of 9/14 (9 overs) – the best Junior bowling performance, either in Reps or at Club level in our long History. Five wickets were clean bowled. Prior to that he had taken 1/40 in the Reps. Well done Louis.
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