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U9 Red Team Report
By Simon Joyce (Coach)
The team had an outstanding season!! While U9’s is a non-competitive age group, the boys had a sneaky look at the scorecard at the end of each game and knew that they finished the season undefeated – an extremely rare achievement for any team, at any level.
Even more pleasing than the results, was the way the boys applied themselves each and every week – they always brought the right attitude to training, the level of improvement in cricketing ability and awareness over the season was amazing, played each match in the correct spirit and all contributed equally to the team’s success.
One of the hardest jobs was figuring out who to give what award, but in the end, we settled for the following:
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Best Batsman – Raghav Sharma
Best Bowler – Angus Madigan
Best All-Rounder – Henry Byrom Best Spinner – Jeremy Palmer
Most Improved – Oliver Katsikogianis Most Catches – Sebastian Bale
Run Out King – Blake Erdmanis
Running Between Wickets Master – Billy Joyce
field, one of the highlights involved the team (and their siblings) being lucky enough to win a
Off the
competition to train with the Sixers. The opportunity to receive some tips from their cricketing idols including Nathan Lyon, Moises Henriques and Ben Dwarshuis, is something they will cherish for the rest of their lives.
Well done again boys and hopefully we can keep the team together for many years to come!!
WPHCC U9 White Season Report Coach: Animesh Raparia
The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore, thanks to Cricket Australia and their local partners the youngsters now get opportunity to train and play matches together to hone their skills.
2020 started with devastating bushfire and as the first half of the year passed under COVID, starting of cricket season was like a breath of fresh air. Most of the U8 team was back along with couple of new players in the team. Majority of the team had played at least one year of cricket and the aim for this year was to learn new skills, get introduced to cricketing sense and have a continuous improvement of one’s abilities by identifying short comings in a match and work on those in next training session.
Over the course of summer, the team started coming together and supporting each other. Saturday mornings became a festival of fun and excitement with a lot of energy and passion.
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