Page 18 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2017-18

Unfortunately we fell short of the total with 18 overs remaining in the day. A great effort shown by all with a ‘never say die’ attitude.
Personally I would like to thank my team for being committed each week and making sure we always had 11 on the Park. It has truly been a pleasure to captain this team, and I look forward to seeing the progress of each and every member of this squad into the future.
Thank you to the fantastic support we had over this weekend and also the Semi Final. It is very much appreciated by the whole team.
Congrats to D2 in their Premiership! It has been many years since we have had a D2 Premiership. Well done gents!
Team – Dean Carlin, Matt Digby, Ryan Gunn, Aaron Hawkins, Phil Hayes, Eric Junkkari, Ray Khamis, Rob Knapman (C), Brent Larkham, Andrew Morris, Zac Morris, Tony Mandile (12th)
D2 Grade
WPHC 162 defeated Hornsby 81 Day 1
WPHC 162 Vs Hornsby 2/24
We lost the toss and Hornsby sent us into bat at Thornleigh Oval. Hornsby is the leader in the D2 competition. The boundaries are fairly long and the outfield was slow. Two of our better batsmen and bowlers John Rose and Wanam Tamhankar sustained hand fractures in the semi-final match last week.
Both played today with casts and John had a surgical operation last Sunday and stitches as well. As well, another of our good batsmen Brent was suffering from blood poisoning and was on antibiotics. Another player Ian Williams has had only 4 hours sleep due to the arrival of his first newborn baby girl. So we were a team of walking wounded. The fortitude shown by these four players is extraordinary and shows the fantastic spirit in this team. Steve Quanborough and Tim Worthington played as substitute fielders and we were grateful for their kind assistance.
We lost our first wicket in the 13th over when Captain Mike was run-out trying for an ambitious second run in his 15 run score. Hornsby bowlers were very disciplined in the first and second sessions of play.
It was difficult to get anything other than ones or twos. Ben Kinchington hit 35 runs in his innings before being caught at first slip in the 24th over. That catch was taken by a fielder at mid off off his toes.
Ian Williams came to the crease and occupied it for the next 20 overs hitting 10 runs. Brent Van Wck then came in and proceeded to hit 58 runs with 4 sixes and 8 fours. That took our score to 128 for the loss of 3 wickets. We had a mini collapse with the next four batsmen out for only 4 runs.
Simon Rahmani, Parin Pillamarri and Wanam Tamhankar (who batted one handed) managed to scrounge another 17 runs plus a number of sundries to bring our total to 162 runs after batting 67 overs.
The umpires decided that we had to bowl another 10 overs but because our innings closed about 5.40 pm we ended up bowling 20 overs for the day. The first Hornsby opener who is the leading batter in the grade with about 800 runs to his name came in to bat. John Rose managed to get a edge off this batter and Ben Kinchington took a screamer of a catch one handed at first slip in the 14th over. That opener was out for 4 runs. Hornsby batsmen then decided to close down and just bat out the remainder of the overs.
We decided to surround the batters in close to try and pressure them. Captain Mike who bowled the last over of the day managed to bounce the ball up with sufficient rip that the batter hit it high to square leg and John Rose took the catch. That batter who has an average of about 35 was out for zero.
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