Page 28 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

Buzz and Eric
Eric Junkkari (C1) and Stephen Buzz Burrows (Captain C2) had a brush with history recently. Picture this, Buzz found an old scorebook that had the match details of a game between WPHC and Hornsby (Buzz’s Club at the time). The scorebook showed that Eric got Buzz out but not to be out-done Buzz responded by clean bowling Eric in the same match – one of our all-time Greats. 20 years on and the boys are still doing great things but for the same Club.
The Divide
During a the C3 game (Vs Kissing Point 10th October 2015), our astute skipper, Buzz Burrows, thought long and hard about the field placements. Playing on a lightning fast Auluba Oval with the opposition scoring quickly on the offside Buzz came up with the solution – set the field based on an age division – those under 20 on the leg side and those 50+ (or thereabouts) on the offside. As it turned out the young at heart threw themselves around in the field (fell over actually) and kept the free scoring opposition down to just a single.
Rocket scientist
Most of us are aware that A1 Superstar Scott (Henderson), as he likes to be called, is a wizard with ball in hand. However the same can’t be said for his scoring prowess. After our innings the umpires needed to spend close to 30 minutes reconciling Superstar Scott’s errors and are quoted saying “I’ve never seen so many mistakes in one book”. We eagerly await his bowling performance next week but his days as scorer could be numbered.
Sharp as a bowling ball
Lachie Vile (A1)
Our bowlers were causing carnage to the Castle Hill batting with Ash Moeller taking 5/6. After giving
this one great thought, Lachie pondered whether this bowling performance was actually achieved with a negative economy rate. We all know our A1 Team are good but one thing we haven’t achieved yet is to have bowlers reduce the runs scored.
Eric Junkkari (C1)
Eric has seen a bit of cricket (4,500 runs and 430 wickets) but hasn’t yet worked out what a cricket ball looks like. With the C1 boys chasing a tough victory out came the new ball to get the final wicket. Enter Eric. When Skipper Andrew Fiedler handed Eric the brand new ‘Tuf Pitch’ ball, Eric decided to bounce it on the ground and complain about it being one of those cheap practice balls. He then decided to rough it up and complain about the ball. Fortunately the once new ball was in good enough condition to get the break- through. You’d think that after almost 2,600 overs Eric would know what a cricket ball looks like.
Nikki O’Meara
In Round 10 (16th January 2016), Nikki O’Meara (C3) who plays with Nathaniel Chidgey and his brother Alex commented “I didn’t know you were twins”.
Our A1 side
As a Club we have a long history of players who do things that make you scratch your head. The winner, and a possible grand finalist for this season’s entries, is our mighty A1 side. Picture this, (Round 12, 30th January 2016 Vs Hornsby) we had a massive thunderstorm with lightening that washed out all games. Our boys though saw it as an opportunity to play football in the rain and do a bit of puddle sliding on the flooded Storey Park. While no one was hit by lightening, Club Pro, Sol Tomlinson popped his ankle and missed the rest of the season.
Back to the future
In the year 2000 our U14s had a few handy players – Scott Henderson, Alex Connell and Justin Peterson. Between them they have scored 7,300 runs and taken 417 wickets in Seniors. Fast forward to the 1st Grade T20 Final (12th October 2015) and all 3 players took the field for the first time together since their U14 days way back in 2000.
The Hayne plane is back
Buzz Burrows (C3) picked up our 43rd Hat-trick on 31 October 2015. What happened before though was the story. Earlier in the innings Matt Rashleigh was on a hat-trick after an inspired spell. After the fall of the 2nd wicket Buzz was telling the boys that he has taken between 500 and 600 wickets in his career and never taken a hat-trick. Before the innings was finished Buzz got his hat-trick (bowled, LBW and bowled) and celebrated with his own version of the Hayne Plane.
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