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Current day Seniors Players to have won this Award are: Michael Richards (2005/06 now in A1), Lachlan McBrien (2006/07 also in A1), Cameron Bish (2012/13 in C2), Connor Hindmarsh (2014/15 in C2) and Shaan Bakshi (2016/17 playing B1).
Spirit of Cricket
Ben Burrows (U14 Blue)
This one is going to be hard to beat – Ben Burrows from our U14’s. Many of our Readers may know Ben’s Dad – ‘Buzz’ Burrows – Juniors Director, C2 Blue Captain & multiple Premiership winning Captain. Anyway, Ben is an outstanding left arm quick who had 2 overs to make an impact.
After taking 2 wickets in successive deliveries he was sitting on a hat-trick. With everyone around the bat for the hat-trick ball Ben comes pounding in. The ball hits the pads and everyone goes up for a great shout. Ben then makes the call:
‘Not out – it pitched outside leg’.
This would most likely be the first time in our history that a bowler gave a batsman not out on a hat-trick.
Seriously though, while Ben may never get another opportunity – this is a rarer achievement, he walked away with a whole lot more and gave a great example to everyone at the game what true sportsmanship is all about – something even rarer that a hat-trick.
Tim Worthington (B2)
A good news story about B2 that typifies the way we play the game. In the Round 2 B2 game, our stand-in Captain, Tim Worthington, made the call of the season, although it was pretty much a Team decision.
Playing against Hornsby, one of the top order bats went to play a shot and damaged his knee badly enough to be out of his crease and not be able to get back. The boys fielded the ball and rather than run him out they instantly decided not to take the wicket but rather look after the batsman.
So while Wortho was the Captain and made the call, every player in this Team had the same view and put duty of care above a wicket. As it turned out the player couldn’t bat again anyway but no one knew this at the time.
The most exciting Sheep Station result – ever!
The Sheep Station trophy was started on 16th December 2017 by Simon Smyth & Rick Turner when for the first time in Club & Association history, 2 x West Penno A2 teams clashed in the same Grade. The Captains that day were the 2 worst tossers (coin that is) in our history: Simon ‘couldn’t toss a salad’ Smyth & Rick ‘couldn’t catch a cab’ Turner.
The B1 Red & Blue Teams in the famous game
The Sheep Station Cups are traditionally tough Sheep Station Cups are always tough but good run. The Round 2 game played between the B1 Reds (Rick) & Blues (Knapper) was played on steroids. Excerpts from Snumpty Smyth’s Match Report are priceless. Read and enjoy:
“...A cracking game with a few twists and turns. It’s very hard to get too excited when you play against your own club. Credit to Snumpty and Rick as they weren’t real keen on pushing for an outright against their own club, but at the start of today’s play I asked them to take it like it was any other club. They could use 10 points and we needed to battle it out and toughen up if we were to step up to B1.
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