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MARIST BROTHERS CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 2015/16 98th Season President’s Report Another season has come and gone and yet again the club has again enjoyed various successes both on and off the field. The season kicked off with the club hosting the inaugural 16.8 tournament on the October long weekend to give players a hit before the season commenced. This weekend was a tremendous success for the club with all feedback from competing sides being positive. It would be remiss of me to mention the success of the weekend without acknowledging the hours of work put in by Luke Collings and Brad Cleaver along with various other volunteers who made sure the weekend went off without a hitch (also to Gabs who’s house became one of the main meeting points for a few months there). It’s looking like being back even bigger and better this year so get involved, as a player or volunteer, and enjoy the weekend. Unconfirmed rumours suggest there may even be a DJ this year?!?! 4th grade entered the season with a whole lot of enthusiasm with strong attendance at pre-season training, looking to go one better than last year. Unfortunately for the lads the season didn’t quite go as planned with inconsistent player availability through the club often meaning they were the worst hit. It’s a credit to the guys who turned up every week and our junior strength that they remained competitive and only just missed the finals (through some suspect dealings from Norths). Again trying to keep our wealth of junior numbers involved and progressing through the senior ranks, we decided to enter two teams into the 3rd grade competition. Both achieved successful seasons with Blue edging out Gold in the T20 final, the only T20 success for the club, before Gold went through to take out the Major Premiership in bizarre circumstances. Thanks to Andrew Maslen for his leadership of many juniors and Danny Parsons for again organising the Blue side this season. Our 2nd grade side were another to be hit by the player unavailability epidemic this year, even losing their skipper half way through the year. With the side using in excess of 30 players for the year consistency was always going to be hard to find, which proved to be the case. They eventually only missed out on 4th place by 2 points, to the eventual premiers, which shows how closely contested the comp was. It wasn’t all bad for the guys, with many of the young 2nd graders making successful appearances in 1st grade causing many selection headaches. LDCA 1st grade were taken on this year by Pat Martin, whose leadership from the top of the order and expert management of the many juniors proved a recipe for success and saw the side claim their 3rd straight Major Premiership. Well done to all the guys involved, especially the glut of junior talent who will be pushing for Hooker League places in the very near future. And finally to our Hooker League, who also saw a new captain in Brad Cleaver take the helm of a relatively young and inexperienced side at the start of the season. With many writing the side off before the season had begun the side were freed up to express themselves and did so expertly in the first half of the season, which saw them with a One Day final berth after finishing equal first through the round games. The side also made it back into the 2 day finals for the first time in a number of years before weather cruelled their chances of making a heroic chase in the semi-final. Well done to all who played this year and hopefully we’ll be back ready to take another step forward next season. Thanks to the continued efforts of all club members who volunteer throughout the season in various capacities, whether it be doing the covers or running the raffle, it’s these things that help our club remain the strong club we are. Special thanks also must go to Glen Lees for his continued masses of time and effort he puts into the club, Brad Cleaver for stepping up as HL captain and secretary, Craig Hamshaw for taking on the roles of club coach & selector (spending countless hours on the phone every week organising teams) and Luke Collings again for the enormous effort put in to organise the 16.8 weekend. Thanks must also go to our many sponsors, especially major sponsor the Rous Hotel, for their continued support this year. Hopefully you all enjoyed your summer of cricket and I look forward to seeing you all at pre-season training in a few months ready to rip into the 2016-17 season. Thanks again to Leesy for compiling the yearbook. Yours in Cricket, Luke Hamshaw MBCC President Life Members Bob Toshak Herb Gahan Pat Leadbeatter Greg Youngberry Pat Milgate Michael J Gahan John Nielson Craig Hamshaw Stuart Fiedler Paul Gahan Club and Player Honours 2015/16 G B SHARPE CUP 1ST GRADE MAJOR PREMIERSHIP TRADES AND LABOUR CUP 3RD GRADE MAJOR PREMIERSHIP – MBCC Gold LDCA 3rd Grade T20 Winners – MBCC Blue JIM SEMMENS SHIELD – HIGHEST IND.SCORE Greg Huxtable 169 WOOLWORTHS CUP MOST RUNS– 1ST to 2ND GRADE: Patrick Martin 430 1ST GRADE BATTING AGGREGATE: Patrick Martin 430 1ST GRADE BATTING AVERAGE: Patrick Martin 47.78 3RD GRADE BATTING AGGREGATE: Rodney Lees 572 4TH GRADE BOWLING AVERAGE: Darryl Rose 7.87 Centuries Brad Cleaver 102 n.o. LJ Hooker League v Ballina Bears Greg Huxtable 169 3rd Grade v Norths Rodney Lees 108 3rd Grade v Workers White Peter Everingham 109 n.o. 4th Grade v Norths Blue 5 or more wickets in an innings Brendan Mitchell 5/12 LJ Hooker League v Alstonville Kadan Ford 8/25 LDCA 1st Grade v Northern Districts Ryan Duyker 6/13 LDCA 1st Grade v Southern Districts Ryan Duyker 5/36 LDCA 1st Grade v G’bah Workers James Fennamore 7/25 LDCA 2nd Grade v Evans Head Oscar Stahl 5/37 LDCA 2nd Grade v Southern Districts Jamie Walsh 5/34 LDCA 3rd Grade v Southern Districts Darryl Rose 5/6 LDCA 4th Grade v Northern Districts Pete Everingham 5/16 LDCA 4th Grade v Lismore Workers Luke Davis 5/10 (T20) LDCA 4TH Grade v Evans Head MBCC Perpetual Trophy Winners 2015/16 Toshak Trophy Club Champion Kaleb Auld Balkin Trophy Most Valuable Club Member Brad Cleaver Lance Perry Trophy Most valuable on & off field Luke Collings Frank Harmon Trophy Best & Fairest Andrew Maslen Betty Milgate Club Batting Aggregate Rodney Lees 683 Memorial Trophy Herb Gahan Memorial Club Batting Average Rodney Lees 48.8 Trophy John & Lola Nielson Club Bowling Average Darryl Rose 8.7 Trophy Pat Milgate Trophy Club Bowling Aggregate Brendan Mitchell 28 Brendan Coffey 28 John & Pat Beasley 1st Grade Best & Fairest Brendan Mitchell Trophy Les Hamshaw Memorial Most improved Lachlan Barnesly Trophy Most Valuable Junior Kaleb Auld The Daffy Trophy Most Ducks Doug Rose 6 Stirrers Spoon Simon Morrison MBCC SEASONS BEST AVERAGES AND AGGREGATES Hooker League Batting Aggregate Ashley Simes 414 runs Batting Average Ashley Simes 27.6 Bowling Aggregate Brendan Mitchell 28 wickets Bowling Average Kaleb Auld 14.6 LDCA 1st Grade Batting Aggregate Pat Martin 430 runs Batting Average Pat Martin 47.8 Bowling Aggregate Ryan Duyker 22 wickets Bowling Average Kadan Ford 10.8 2nd Grade Batting Aggregate Matt Cleaver 125 runs Batting Average Craig Hamshaw 19.50 Bowling Aggregate Brendan Coffey 14 wickets Bowling Average Ryan Lee 11.5 3rd Grade Blue Batting Aggregate Rodney Lees 572 runs Batting Average Rodney Lees 52 Bowling Aggregate David Parsons 14 wickets Danny Parsons 14 wickets Bowling Average John O’Brien 13.3 3rd Grade Gold Batting Aggregate Andrew Maslen 430 Batting Average Andrew Maslen 43 Bowling Aggregate Jamie Walsh 16 wickets Bowling Average Jason Hughes 10.5 4th Grade Batting Aggregate Darryl Rose 178 runs Batting Average Darryl Rose 44.5 Bowling Aggregate Pete Everingham 17 wickets Bowling Average Darryl Rose 7.9 Hooker League The 2015/16 season saw Marist Brothers Hooker League team field a mix of youth and experience amongst the ranks, with some young new faces stepping up for their first full season in the top grade, accompanied by seasoned veterans . Hooker League had a fairly successful season, making the one day grand final, and the Two day semis, only to lose on both occasions to Cudgen who went on become the eventual competition winners. The season can be summarised in two halves, before Christmas and after Christmas. Before Christmas the team was on a roll sitting 2nd in the competition, and looking like the team to beat. After Christmas the team seemed to fall in a bit of a slump and only managed to win one game, however still managed to hold on to a semi-finals birth after holding off a fast finishing Alstonville in the last round. In the semis we were unfortunate that rain forced the game to be abandoned on the second day as we were sitting pretty at 0/11 chasing a mere 392 for victory. Well done to the guys on a great season, with each player during the season making their mark and proving that it truly was a good all round team effort. I’m sure the guys will come back bigger and better next season and make another push towards a premiership. Brad ‘Skip’ Cleaver: Brad assumed the captaincy role at the start of the season and started solid with the bat scoring a 50 and an unbeaten 102 in the first few rounds.