Page 33 - WPHCC 2023-2024 Cricket Season Yearbook

Photo – Nathan Fathers, Andrew Fiedler, Dinesh De Silva, Andrew Fiedler & Eric Junkkari playing for C3 Red at Caddies Creek 5th November 2023
Getting your priorities right
With so many demands on us all it is great to see one of our players get it right. Just sharing this comment about Ram Brahadesh (C4 Red). To quote his Skipper:
“...turns up 10 minutes after the start of play, we are batting .... ...”.I’m in trouble with my wife......
we are moving house this weekend from Cherrybrook to Stanhope gardens, I’ve got a mate helping with the move....
Ram leaving in his whites....mate says where are you going...
Ram says I’m going to cricket....
mate not happy, wife not happy......
Side note. We finished early with Ram padded up but no need to bat, so hopefully he got home to “help” with the move and not in too much trouble.
Brothers in Arms
During a Round 4 an achievement that will take a lot of beating.
In this game, brother’s Tom (Club Player of the Year 2020/21), Sam and Harry Hando (Club Outstanding Prospect 2022/23) all played – if Jack (Club Player of the Year 2021/22) wasn’t injured, it could well have been 4 brothers playing!
In our 92-year history only once before have 3 x family members played A1 Grade in the same season. Way back in 1963/64, 3 members of the Donaldson family played A1 but this included the father (Don) and twin sons (John & Ken) so this is a first for 3 x brothers and later this season when Jack is fit it could well be 4 brothers.
This isn’t the highest number of brothers playing in our Association A1 though.
In the early days of cricket within our Shire (1890’s), family teams were common. The South Colah Cricket Club had 18 sons of Patrick and John Duffy of Thornleigh, Dural CC was sustained by the seven sons of Thomas Best, Pennant Hills CC by the 10 sons of Arthur Thompson and Castle Hill CC by the eleven sons of John James (source: Claire Schofield: The Shaping of Hornsby Shire 1988 p86).