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ANECDOTES
Tossers
Simon ‘Couldn’t toss a salad’ Smyth (A2 Red) and Rick ‘Couldn’t call a cab’ Turner (A2 Blue) rank up there with the most unsuccessful tossers in our history – coin tossers that is. Anyway, the boys played each other in Round 1 and the challenge was to see who would win the toss. Both Captains dressed the part with Simon resplendent in his Naval Captains cap and blazer and Rick in his dress jacket – not a bad effort considering it was 40 degrees in the shade.
Ladbrokes put out special odds and had them both at $1.05 favourites to both lose the toss for the Sheep Station Trophy.
Rick won the toss but lost the game so it looks like Ladbrokes got the odds pretty right.
Like father, like son
The Morris boys (Andrew and Zac) had a day to remember on 23 September 2017. In the morning Zac, who plays in the U16 Blues scored his first ton – 100 retired, beating his previous best of 83 in the U15s. Not to be outdone, his dad, Andrew was playing for the B2 Reds scored 101. So a father and son ton on the same day is very rare and one for the records. While our records on this type of achievement are not available, long term memory sees it as being a first. Anyway, it will now be recorded as the first known combined ton – great stuff boys.
Space Cadets
Cameron McBrien
Photo: Rick ‘Couldn’t call
a cab’ Turner (A2 Blue) and Simon ‘Couldn’t toss a salad’ Smyth (A2 Red) at the start of the A2 Sheep Station Trophy For the record Rick won the toss but lost the match - Dural Park 16 December 2017.
Cam (A1) is rapidly taking over from Lachlan Vile as the Space Cadet champion in A1. When the boys were taking off the covers after rain during Round 4, Cam commented how dry the wicket was. The big fella
had to be reminded that the covers had been on since Thursday and they are actually meant to protect the wicket.
Eric Junkkari (B2)
What would a season be if Eric didn’t figure in the Space Cadet entries and he didn’t disappoint. With our boys in the field with temperatures around 40 degrees the fielding started to struggle. Enter Eric. With 10 overs to go, Eric offered his encouragement “...we need to improve our fielding for the rest of the year”. The only problem was that there were only 10 overs to go in 2017.
Ray Khamis
Ray Khamis was umpiring at the bowlers end when Andrew Morris was stumped in the Round 5 game against SKLPS. The only problem was that when Andrew was out stumped it was Ray who gave him out rather than the square leg umpire. Unfortunately for the big fella we have lost count of the number of times he has won this prestigious Award but it is well deserved on this occasion.
B2 Blue
This is a story of a Team (B2 Blue) who all figure in some capacity in the case of the ‘Heinz & Lows’. Ollie Maybury apparently comes to games with not one but 2 cans of Baked Beans for sustenance. The problems started when Ollie managed to pull-off the ring tabs off both cans. Now, how to open the cans?
Ollie tried first to open the cans by bashing it with a stump – no joy other than a battered can.
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