Page 33 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2016-17

Another surprise this season was Caroline who took the wicket keeping gloves one day when one of our regular wicketkeepers got injured. Caroline had never kept wicket before but did such an amazing job that she was regularly handed the gloves at just about every match after that.
Anushka batted well through the spring and summer competitions and took out the team batting award. A talented player in all areas of the game who also took 6 catches. Lily in only her second year of playing cricket regularly opened the bowling and not surprisingly due to her friendly encouraging nature took out the team player award. Khushi and Minoli entertained the team with their antics at every opportunity and were always so much fun to be around.
A sad ending to the season with two long standing WPHCCC players, Jae and Christina, leaving the junior girls team due to their age. Both girls have promised to keep in touch and Christina has even offered to coach one of the junior teams next season.
A huge thank you to Mike who gave up his Thursday afternoons to coach the girls. Mike imparted great words of wisdom whenever he could get a word in amongst the laughter and chatter of eight very excitable girls.
Another season over, I’m sure everyone is already looking forward to the next summer of cricket.
Michelle Boccalatte (Manager) Under 17 White Team
This season the White team welcomed a couple of new players to the team. We followed on from last season with lots of fun and made stronger friendships. Everybody on the team improved over the previous season and we ended up some pleasing results on the competition ladders. Fourth in the spring and undefeated & equal first in the summer.
Lauren, Varsha, Amy H, Amy S, Jyothi, Shannon, Rhea and Ashlie all scored well in the MyCricket championship points. Each played some great cricket with bat, ball and in the field (some very good catches this year).
With only eight regular players and some absences we played short most weeks but did have some girls fill in, a very big thank you to Abigail, Aliya and Lily, you are all welcome with us any time.
Special congrats to Lauren who won the Lisa Sthalekar Award this year. She's very competitive, very well deserved award.
Despite winning lots of games this season some of our best bowling was in the nets at training, so next season should be lots more fun and maybe even more successful.
Anthony Hale (Coach) Under 17 Red Team
With a couple of wins, a couple of losses and three draws due to the extreme Sydney weather it was a mixed 2016/17 season. Results aside it was brilliant to see the improvements that the girls have made in their cricket skills and knowledge over the season. There were of course gains in batting, bowling and fielding but the most pleasing was their confidence on the field to captain themselves with some great field placements and bowling decisions. One unexpected area of coaching which I can say has never crossed my mind before was “appealing”. After a couple of stumpings and snicks which did not elicit any consideration from the umpire due to the deafening silence we had training on when and how to appeal. Now they appeal, but always “nicely”.
Before the first game I challenged the girls to try and better their own personal performances week on week whether batting, bowling or fielding. Whilst concentrating on their own personal goals they supported each other and had a great deal of fun. It's always great to see the genuine excitement when a wicket is taken or boundary scored and of course the team chants are always a highlight.
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