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UNDER 16 – AGE CO-ORDINATOR’S REPORT U16 Gold
Well my last season in Junior cricket with the mighty Gold’s has come & gone. It took me a long while to write my year in review because I wasn’t focussing on the right stuff. Our season was chock full of fantastic highlights.
I was privileged to see Riley Behlevanas smash a century off only 77 balls. It was a great display of clean hard hitting.
I also got to see Josh Banner basically bat through an innings, scoring his first junior century and in turn saving our bacon. He got us across the line in the match against our mates from the Green’s. It was an innings of both patience & determination. Josh would at seasons end be presented with our clubs John Coulthard Award, as Junior Player of the Year. Well done Josh, it was so well deserved.
We also had some great lower order cameos some weeks with Nic Clegg blasting 44 off 42 balls. As well as Kyle Townsend showing he can throw the bat with the best of them with a quick fire innings of 25 off 22 balls one match.
Our bowlers also stood up this year. One match against Berowra, Ben Cutler ripped through taking 3 for 3 from 4 overs. He had it really hooping that day & it was great to watch.
Kyle Townsend showed what a top class opening bowler he is game after game. He captured 8 wickets for the year (with about the same again lost in dropped catches). On behalf your team mates, I say sorry Kyle. (lol)
Our spin bowling ranks this year got a huge boost with Yash Mankad joining us. He spun his way to 12 wickets for the year, including 4/33 to turn a match our way. Not to mention a superb 3/24 on turf in the Grand Final.
His partner in crime in the Grand Final was Josh Elliott. I’ve known Josh since he started in Kanga ( that makes me feel so old ). He took 4/20 in the Grand Final in a great display of ‘Malinga ‘ type bowling. As his original Kanga coach, I couldn’t have been prouder.
A huge thank you to our Manager, Grahame Clegg for everything he did in managing the team. Scoring every week was a terrific help, not to mention the spread sheet stats. Thanks also to Alan Townsend, Graeme Cutler, Dave Behlevanas, Harshendu Mankad & Mark Bloom for doing the umpiring for us this year. Not having to worry about that each week was a tremendous help.
To all the Parents, many thanks for trusting me with your boys not only this year but the previous seasons as well.. They are a brilliant bunch of young men, who I have loved coaching. Even when I thought my head would explode from them not listening to me. I hope they all continue with our club in the senior ranks.
Although we didn’t get the result we wanted in the Grand Final, it was in reality just one days cricket. I firmly believe though we have had so many more of our own victories throughout the seasons.
Over and Out
Brendan Flynn U16 Gold Coach
U16 Gold at their Grand Final
Together (Same team, same coach) from Kanga to U16’s. (Cam Bish, Rhys Flynn, Josh Elliott and Coach Brendan Flynn)
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