Page 19 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

SENIOR’S REPORT
Another big season that saw:
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For the 5th successive season we entered 12 Senior Teams and in the process entered our 400th Team – we now sit at 401 Senior Teams in our history
Our Finalists this season were:
• 9 Teams made the Semi Finals – the same number as last season
• 5 Teams played in the Grand Final (C1, C4, D1, D2 and Sunday Premier League Red) • 3 Teams won the Premiership (C1, C4 and SPL Red)
• Our 4th Grade T/20 also won the Pre-season competition
Our Captains
Thank you to our Captains who do so much work:
A1 James Makin
A2 Julian Raffel
B1 Allan Raffel
B2 Rick Turner
C1 Andrew Fiedler
C2 Tarun Lath
C3 Steve ‘Buzz’ Burrows
C4 Rob Knapman
D1 Brendan Harkin
D2 Peter Westerberg
SPL Red Simon Smyth SP Blue Rob Aitken
A1 Grade – a moment to reflect
The A1 boys went down in the Semi Final and broke a Club record sequence of 4 consecutive A1 Grade Premierships. With a full complement of players they were far and away the best Team in the Comp but on the day missed out.
While the boys lost a game through just 1 poor innings in a 4 innings game, they showed their class and why they will go down as our greatest. Just a couple of things worth calling out:
• From a community perspective, the boys sponsored 3 children with intellectual disability in Blowfly cricket who otherwise couldn’t play because of their family financial position
• In the Semi Final, as the match was slipping away, despite a fantastic fight-back, they stayed positive until the last ball, supportive of each other and didn’t resort to sledging or critical comments
• When the game finished, without direction from anyone, they stood at the gate, let Hornsby leave the ground first and clapped the winners off the field.
Most Teams are good winners. The measure of true class is how you lose. These boys are an absolute credit to our Club and with the majority backing up again next season don’t be surprised if they come back stronger and show why they are true champions and perhaps our greatest ever A1 Grade side.
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