Page 25 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2016-17

A long time between drinks
Matt Marsden (C1) scored our 459th ton and our 14th this season. Matt’s last ton was 125* in B1 Grade way back in 1995. What makes this amazing is that it is 22 years to the day that he scored his first ton – our 202nd ton. So after 22 years, 8,036 days and 257 Club tons, history has been repeated with a not out ton.
“Isn’t it good to get out”
Steve Burrows (C2 Blue Captain and U10s Juniors Age Convenor) shared a story the other night about how much the boys in the U10s are looking forward to getting out. Up until the first game after the Christmas / New Year break the boys played ‘Average’ cricket from Kanga days to U8s, U9 and the first part of U10s – playing with soft cricket balls and batting for overs in partnership. Now they are playing ‘Real’ cricket with a hard ball and where you can get out. We think that in a very short period the days of batting on when you are out will seem like heaven.
“I thought I saw lightning”
In the B1 game against Glenorie, Kyle Faber was on 92 and powering towards a ton. With a storm approaching, Josh Banner was umpiring and stopped the game because he thought he saw lightning “a while ago”. Anyway the rain and hail came down and the match was abandoned with Kyle stuck on 92. To be fair to Josh you don’t take chances with lightning but the boys would have been a bit more forgiving if the sighting was more than ‘a while ago’.
The thinking man’s cricketer
Ray Khamis (C1) opened the batting with storm clouds approaching in our 2nd innings run chase. The opposition only had 9 players and as the games finish was close they set a field that had 5 slips, gully and a mid wicket. Second ball of the innings Ray’s saw the odd gap in the field and went for a big hit. With great skill he managed to lob it to 5th slip and was out.
Hat-trick plus
Hat-tricks are rare. In our long history there have only been 46. To get 2 is even rarer with only 4 players getting 2 or better. Dean Carlin (C3) went one better. In the Semi Final defending a modest 146 he opened the bowling and took a hat-trick in the first over – all wickets bowled. What is remarkable about this hat- trick:
• This is just the 2nd time a Hat-trick has been taken in a semi final
• It is the 2nd time a hat-trick has been taken in the 1st over of an innings – the first is by Riley Miedler (A2 Vs Castle Hill 15/10/2011) when Riley took 5/9
• Dean’s 2nd in Seniors and 3rd when Juniors are included
• The first wicket in the hat-trick was Dean’s 100th career wicket
• An even more amazing coincidence is that Dean brought up his 50th wicket last season with his first hat- trick.
U13s Finals run
Our U13s have had an amazing run in the Finals. The boys have played in every Grand Final since 2003/04 – the exceptions being in 2011/12 and 2012/13 – 12 out of 14 seasons! Our win/loss ratio though is just 3 wins and 10 Runners up. In 2008/09 we had both the Premier and runner-up.
Ross Anderson Secretary
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