Page 30 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

Just good friends
When a wicket falls most Teams get together and have a bit of a pep talk. In Round 12, 30th January 2016 (Dural Park), around the fall of the 4th wicket, Skipper Andrew Fiedler came in to provide his usual pep talk to keep the boys motivated. As he was coming into the huddle, Eric Junkkari “accidently” handled him in the “biscuit and crackers” that took him out. Nathan Fathers, our previous Captain, noticed Andrew wasn’t feeling the best and seamlessly took over the Team talk as though nothing had happened. Andrew has now recovered but not sure about Eric’s lingering hand that caused the problem!
Lightning strikes twice
Check out the Photo gallery photo of Ben Meikle (B1) getting the stumps as a thunderstorm breaks over Bannockburn Oval. The photos show Ben strolling out to collect the stumps after rain washed out the game. What it doesn’t show is the lightning bolt that struck about 50 metres away from Ben as he was taking out the stumps. Ben’s return to the sideline was a lot quicker than the trip out to the middle.
Attack of the bees
A story that brought back memories of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” is our own Steve Quanborough and “The Bees” at Northholm Oval (Vs St Ives on 6th February 2016). After taking an important wicket Steve went down to fine leg and was stung twice by these attack bees. It was a funny sight, seeing Steve swatting bees but his skipper Rob Knapman, from the old School kept him down there.
This brings back memories of Eric Junkkari (C1) back in the early 1990s when a swarm of bees that sounded like an aircraft coming invaded Bannockburn Oval. To see Eric lying face down on the ground was a funny sight. None of this for Steve who just kept swatting the pests away.
Keep them on Raffa
One of our celebrated efforts of a player with his pants falling down was Matt Spalding on his A1 debut trying to bowl with pants around his ankles. Fast forward Round 14, 22nd February 2016 with B1 skipper Allan Raffel. Before the game started Raffa was bending over and the stress of his sculptured form was too much and after 7 years of service the belt tie-rope snapped. Scheduled to bat at number 4 the big fella had to race off from Warrina Street Berowra to Hornsby to get a new pair of pants. He got back after 2 hours and with the boys struggling he eventually made it out to bat.
Photo – Allan Raffel (B1 Captain) on his way to 113* Vs the Sydney Lions at Annangrove Oval 10 October 2015.
A pie-a-day
Ray Khamis (C4) set a record for the most number of consecutive 6s in an over 5 earlier this year. We now know why. Part of Ray’s routine is to take-off during the Tea break to get a pie or some other fast food favourite. In Round 14, 22nd February 2016
it came undone with the big fella still batting at the break. To the rescue was his dad who got the pie and down it went in rapid time with digestion a secondary consideration. Back on the field and Ray still tasting the pie multiple times he holed out 1st over back – an innings brought to an end by a pie.
Awesome
Our A1 side, has far and away the strongest bowling side in the Competition and they have been for a number of years. This dynasty of bowlers is also the best combination we have had in our 57 years in A1. It isn’t hard to see why. How about this for a frightening prospect for Opposition batsmen:
• Matt Jobson – 275 wickets @ 14.3 plus our youngest player to reach 250 in our history
• Scott Henderson – 238 wickets @ 14.5
• Riley Miedler – 222 wickets @ 12.8 plus the youngest player in our history to take 200 wickets at 21 years of age
• Tim Scoular – 160 wickets @ 14.3
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