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Premierships
4th Grade T20 Grand Final
WPHC (C3) 8/108 defeated Sydney Lions 107 – what a hard fought, exciting game! Lions won the toss and decided to bat. Our bowling was tight and aggressive backed up by excellent fielding to never let the opposition take control. Nikki O’Meara bowled his first 3 overs conceding only 9 runs whilst Aaron Hawkins picked up the first wicket at the other end to finish with 1/21.
The following bowlers all bowled tightly and frustrated the batsmen forcing them into errors with Nathaniel Chidgey 1/16, Harry Miedler 1/28 and Rahul Sabherwal 1/19 all playing a role in keeping the scoring in check, but the spell of the game came from Semonn Oleksyn with a seriously quick spell to blast out 2/10 off his 4 overs. At the end of their 20 overs we were set 108 to win.
Ray Khamis set about the chase in his inimitable style smashing 19 off the first 2 and a bit overs including two 6’s before falling attempting a third. Aaron Carlini worked hard for his 13, but tight bowling led to a mini collapse to leave us 5/51 at the halfway point. There’s a lot of talent lurking in our lower order and today they stepped up! Cool cricket heads from Aaron Hawkins and Semonn steadied the chase and clever placement and running between wickets kept us in the game, but it was in over 15 that the game was turned on its head. Again Semonn stepped up and smashed 17 off the over! Then with Aaron took 7 an over off the next two to put us ahead when he was eventually out for a game changing 31.
3 overs to go, 18 more needed and only 2 wickets left in the shed, it doesn’t get too much more thrilling! Aaron was joined by Nathaniel and the pair pushed the total up under immense pressure to leave us 3 to win in the last over. Ball 1 went for two, game tied - then the much anticipated winning run followed next ball! Aaron with one of the best finishing innings you could see (15) and fantastic support from Nathaniel (8*).
Photo – Our 4th Grade (C3) T20 Premiers Vs Sydney Lions @ Kenthurst Park 25 October 2015. We won the game 8/107 against
the Lions 6/107 in 20 overs. Our Team members are (from left to right - back row): Nathaniel Chidgey, Rahul Sabherwal, Narendra Kulkarni, Aaron Hawkins, Steve ‘Buzz’ Burrows (with trophy), Harry Miedler, Nikki O’Meara, Ray Khamis, Front row: Aaron Carlini, Peter Lees, Semonn Oleksyn.
C1 Grade
WPHC 214 defeated SKLPS 64
Day 1 (5/175 stumps)
After a couple of storms hit Kenthurst Park on Friday the game was moved to Les Shore on the hard wicket.
Having won the Minor Premiership our objective is simple – bat for as long as possible, score as many runs as possible and shut the opposition out of the game. So far so good. The day started well with us winning the toss and everything fell into place from there with the only blip being the loss of 2 wickets towards to end of the day. We batted for 89 overs and put on good partnerships throughout the innings. Aaron Carlini (27) and Stanton Tam (37) put on 55 for the 2nd wicket and this was followed by a 94 run partnership by Michael Gunn (50) and Eric Junkkari (42). With runs on the board and good batting depth the aim is to keep
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