Page 23 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2017-18

History repeating itself
Tony Mandile (B2) was umpiring in the B2 Round 4 game when Brent Larkham (200*) and Eric Junkkari (57*) put on their new Association 6th wicket record partnership of 248* runs.
What makes this amazing is that Tony was also umpiring the C1 game in 1991/92 when Rob Gailey scored 205 along with Eric Junkkari who was also playing in that game. In Tony’s case it was Umpiring both matches. In Eric’s case it was being a key partner in the record that was set last week.
To think that only 6 players have scored double tons in our 87 year History and that 2 players who were involved in that game 26 years ago were actively involved again is amazing.
Family members playing record
In Round 12 we had a record with 5 Hando family members playing in the same Round:
• A2 – Tom and Jack
• B2 – Phil, Sam and Harry (13 yrs old).
Pictured are: (left to right) Jack 16, Tom 18, Phill ( proud Dad), Sam 19, Harry 13.
Our previous family members playing record are the 5 Donaldson’s (Don Snr, Don Jnr, Jim and the twins John & Ken) who played in the 1960s, 70s & early 80s, and the 4 Creais family members (David, Marcus, Chris, James) who played in the same Round on 17 January 2009. This latest achievement is exactly 9 years after the previous record of the Creais family was set.
This still has a long way to go from the early teams of the Association though. The South Colah Cricket Club had the 18 sons of Patrick Duffy (Duffy Ave) of Thornleigh, Dural CC had the 7 sons of Thomas Best, Pennant Hills CC had the 10 sons of Arthur Thompson (Thompson’s Corner) and Castle Hill CC the 11 sons of John James.
Photo: (left to right) Jack 16, Tom 18, Phill ( proud Dad), Sam 19, Harry 13. This is the first time in our history that 5 family members have played in the same season, let alone the same Round.
Sleeping Beauty
After Richard Hughes (C1) lost 28 kilos in the off season his batting has gone from strength to strength scoring a ton in Round 3 and 33 the following game. The problem is that the big fella isn’t used to batting so long. Anyway, once he got out, for the next 40 overs he sat bolt upright with the Team with a cap over his eyes and fast asleep – oblivious to the game around him. After Hughesy eventually woke up he was wired and keen to know everything that happened in the preceding overs.
A big day out
How about the performance of Dylan Bish (U16 Blue & D1) in Round 5. In the morning, Dylan took 5/9 off 9.5 overs for the U16 Blues. He then backed up for D1 in the afternoon and scored his first ton – a massive 149. Great stuff Dylan.
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