Page 26 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

Our C4 Premiers (192) after beating the Lankan Islanders (163) at
Dural Park on 20th March 2016. Our players from let to right are: Back row - Kyle Townsend, Cameron Bish, Ryan Gunn, Matt Digby, Riley Behlevanas, Ian Paterson Front row - Aaron Hawkins, Dave Behlevanas, Rob Knapman (C), Stuart Fiedler, Steve Quanborough, Alex Chidgey, Pratah Sinnetamby Front - Ray Khamis
Sunday Premier League – Grand Final Sunday 28 February 2016
WPHC Red 1/103 defeated ARL 8/102 – the big one against long-term rivals was played at Les Shore and the boys had a convincing win. We were playing against a core of the ARL boys who have only recently stopped playing A1 so were a formidable side.
Our bowling and fielding was superb and while we were expecting to contain them to around 220 from their 36 overs to dismiss them for 108 was an amazing effort. Dale van Den Boogaard was the star with 5/11 from just 5 overs. Wickets also to Andrew Driscoll (1/19), Andrew Watts (1/22) were also important. The big one though came from Simon Smyth who took 1/12 and this was also his 350th career wicket settling him at number 8 in the all-time wicket takers list!
As ARL had so many A1 players we started with a 54 run bonus and we did it easily with Michael Banner top scoring with 30*.
The boys have now achieved back to back SPL Premierships – 3 out of 4 and the only one we lost was due to a washout back in 2013/14. Well done boys.
Our SPL back to back Premiership winners Vs ARL @ Les Shore Oval, Sunday 28th February 2016. From left to right, Back row – Tim Leyshon, Andrew Watt 2nd back row – Ryan Francis, James McBrien, Allan Raffel, Matt Davidson, Dale Van den Boogaard Front row – Alf James (Umpire), Simon Paris, Simon Smyth (C), Michael Banner (with Sophie), Tim Coverdale, Scott Reid (Umpire)
SPL Skipper, Simon ‘Snumpty’ Smyth with ‘Sophie’ - the Sunday Premier League little brother of the T E Rofe (Rofie) Shield for A1 Grade. Sophie was won by Simon’s Team in February 2016. This was Simon’s 4th Premiership win (3 SPL & 1 A2). Simon is also our 20th A1 Grade Captain and is one of our all-time greats with 350 wickets (9th of all time) and 2,400 career runs - 28 February 2016.
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