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Quote of the week
When discussing his cricket background Marcus Exton (D1 Red) made the brutal, but fair, assessment to his Teammates “...I have never played in a good side.”
Dual record holder
Billy Gaunt (A1 or is it A2) set a record when he became just the 2nd player in our 62 years of A1 Grade History to be selected as A1 Vice-Captain on debut. He may well have set another record and this assessment by Gunny (A2 Skipper) puts up a strong case:
“Also shout-out to Billy ‘dropped’ Gaunt, who before even setting foot on the field has been dropped from A Grade back to A2’s. A truly remarkable achievement, surely a record. Might need to check the books on that one Rosco.”
Try as we can do put a positive spin on this one, the facts speak for themselves.
Safe scoring
The photo shows Dave Larkham (left) and Marcus Exton scoring. The new Covid-19 rules about social distancing also applies to scorers. In this case Marcus is taking it to another level.
Dave Larkham and Marcus Exton (right) practicing safe scoring for the D1 Red 7/147 dec Vs Castle Hill 2/47 before rain washed out play – Arcadia Oval(31 October 2020).
Reelin in the years
For the many of us who have come through our Juniors, the U13’s have our longest standing Award, the prestigious ‘Charles Booth Memorial Award’ that was first presented in 1969/70 to recognise the amazing work that Charles Booth did as a pioneer in developing Juniors in our Club. Charles was the Manager / Coach and unfortunately died in 1969.
This photo is of Charles’ U10 Team in 1967/68. A number of these players went on to be very good players: Graeme Ellerton (back row 2nd from right) who regularly took 50+ wickets in a season, Phillip Kneale (centre with bat) who was one of the best bats in the Association and Phillip Smith (far right, front row) who played A1 between 1974/75 and 75/76.
It is awarded on the criteria always emphasised by Charles: the player must show the highest standards of sportsmanship, fair play and commitment to the team. The player does not have to be the best player but this is not a condition. Indeed, many of the winners are among our most outstanding junior and later senior players.
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