Walkerville Cats Newsletter
Issue 99 www.walkervillecc.com.au
21/01/2016
Presidents Report which is the Walkerville Cricket Club.
Good luck this weekend guys. Train hard, turn up Happy New year to everyone! to the game confident and with your mind focused on your role in the side and give Welcome to 2016. We have seen the temperatures rise everything that you can. Then come back to the both on and off the field so far in 2016. The A and C club and have a relaxing beer or two with your grades both coming back strongly after Christmas mates and family. whereas the B grade and one dayers must have eaten too much Christmas pudding and have started a little Craig Burford sluggish. We are on the home stretch now coming into the last four games (for the two day comp) and its time that we turned up the heat on our opposition. A term that Look a Like I started to use when captaining the one day side “it’s time to turn the screws”. Time to train that extra bit harder. Time to take our game to the next level if we are wanting to make the finals. I don’t mind using the F word in cricket. Finals. Footballers want to take it one game at a time. I say let’s strive to make the finals in all of our senior grades. The old cliché goes “to take it one game at a time” and yes that’s completely relevant, but looking forward and having a goal of making the finals isn’t such a bad thing. We play competitive sport to play and win finals. There is no hiding from that fact. I want this year to be a memorable one on the field for all of our cricketers who have worked their back sides off in the nets to finally get the rewards that are due.
Speaking of rewards, it was great to have the A grade Matt T20 trophy last season and let’s hope the B grade can replicate that this year. They are performing well on the Thorto when asked to bowl into the wind! big stage so far having another win on Tuesday night at Walkerville. It is great to see the B grade side gelling so Junior Quiz Night well together and performing this season as a complete team. I am very hopeful that the B’s can turn their last performance around quickly and sneak into the finals as Everybody Welcome to test their I am confident that they can perform well come March. Skills! On a final note, our junior cricket quiz night is being held When -Sat 13th Feb 7pm on Saturday February 13th at the club. $20 a ticket and Where- Walkerville Club Rooms please contact Daniel Giles on ph 0414 082 795 to book your spot. It will be a fun night with plenty of awesome Price – $20 per person prizes and auction items up for grabs. I would love to see Tables of 10 and BYO Nibbles a table or two of the seniors supporting the juniors as this Book through Daniel Giles shows that we are truly one club and are all playing cricket together under the one banner which is the 0414 082 795
Founded 1915 Walkervillecc.com.au A Grade Wrap up A Grade Ladder
Woodville Rechabites (H) With the Christmas cob webs being wiped away the A grade were ready to push for the top 4. With two people making their debuts it was a new look team as Knowlesy and the Woolshed were both still partying it up with car keys being thrown about left, right and centre. Tom ‘silent assassin’ Heathfield and Lewis ‘Bazza’
Barrington were new to the team and both contributed substantially to the witty banter in the field. Interim captain, Coxy, followed Knowlesy’s lead and lost the toss. The Cats were invited to field first. The silent assassin opened up with Diesel and the cats were on top after the first 10 overs. Restricting
Woodville to 18/2 from 10 really set the tone for a very professional bowling performance. Regular wickets Are you a Financial Cats Player? and excellent fielding managed to keep the visitors to just 84. Heathfield (2), Blackmore (2), Thornton (2) and Reminder to the following players that Subs are due Morena (1) were the wicket takers alongside 2 run outs. All bowlers bowled extremely well and with a bit and need to be paid asap please. more luck the final score could easily have been 64 Sytnyk instead of 84. Harriss With 35 overs to bat the Cats got off to a flyer with Gilo Cheary and the Prince seeing is across the line for a first Butcher innings victory in just 15 overs. Finally their partnership Grosvenor was broken with the score on 94 as Skinner fell for 31. Caldwell Gilo continued on his rampage and brought up his ton Mazure - from just 72 balls and the Cats finished day one on Johnsonte 198/4 with a lead of 114. Gilo was the star of the show Wigley Laube as his smashed Woodville’s attack to all parts and the small man hit some big bombs. A special mention must Sarson go to Scott ‘banter’ Blackmore who joined the bomb Bishop squad. Hooper The second week came with the rumours spreading Walker around the Walkerville streets about an early declaration from the skipper. As it happened the Cats Please talk to Andrew Malone for further details. batted for another 7 overs adding 42 runs for the loss of 4 more wickets. Blackmore (42) and Hutchinson (37) were given a licence to thrill the massive Walkerville crowd and they did just that! Pushing for the outright victory Diesel started extremely well and bowled 8 overs 1/19 as he strangled their scoring from one end. Similarly to the first innings, the Cats took regular wickets in a very patient bowling performance as 71/2 at tea became 128 all out very quickly with still 21 overs still to be bowled. Blackmore was once again the pick of the bowlers with 4. All bowlers bowled well and once again the fielding was excellent as Woodville were never allowed to release the pressure that was place d upon them. Final result: Walkerville win by an innings and 28 runs. Highlights: Two debuts, Pappa Jules’s banter, Thornton batting in a Walkerville cap. Santa visits Walkerville! Lowlights: Hutchinson’s chat, Coxy
Founded 1915 Walkervillecc.com.au B Grade Wrap Up C Grade Wrap up.
First game back after Christmas the Walkerville B Walkerville v Fulham graders were looking to chalk up a win against the top side Kilburn. The day started well, short distance to This was a bigger Saturday than usual, it was 3 v 4 travel to an away game, won the toss on a flat deck and and a highly important game that would determine chose to have a bat. Unfortunately they were the only each teams run to chasing finals. positives for the day, Jack and Yash looked good early The pitch looked a belter and the outfield was dry and until Yash was dismissed by a great catch at gully. Jack hard, looked for certain like a bat first type of setup, battled hard at the top of the order before he was however having the stronger bowling side available dismissed for 28 from there the wickets fell consistently first week skip won the toss and to the surprise of every couple of overs with no one hanging around long enough to build a partnership. The B graders went from Fulham we had a bowl first. being 4/57 to all out for 67 at tea time in what could be Harry Sytnyk's promotion back into the grade was called an embarrassing performance. welcomed with the new cherry and a lovely, tight After tea we had 42 overs to bowl at Kilburn and try get opening bowling partnership between himself and ourselves back into the game. Kilburn come out Mal got us off to a good start with an early wicket. swinging and got a few away to the boundary until The pressure was let off somewhat with the bowling Norton struck with the first wicket. Cooper then followed change with will and Panz unable to back up the not long after with a fantastic catch by Quigley in the openers , on came the 2 best bowlers on the day for gully. Kilburn still came out swinging and chanced their me Max "big show" Bentley and ginger ninja Declan arm, they piled on runs and hit some clean balls to all and combined in a bowling partnership which started parts of the ground. Hyphen was able to restrict the big with Declan taking a wicket his first ball. hitters but it really was their day. Kilburn finished on Max ended up taking 5/44 and Declan snared 2 at the 2/235 at the end of the days play. other end. Second week: The fielding really backed up this bowling partnership We knew Kilburn were going to come out swinging and with Harriss taking two catches although he was try push for an outright. The bowlers were set a task to looking a bit shaky under the high balls, however was bowl tight lines and for the fielders to back the bowlers nothing but confident and aggressive fielding up. Tommy Ahern bowled a fantastic spell and anything and everything on the ground. dismissed their captain on 101. The other batsman who Also skip held 3 smart catches which made it 7/7 for was piling on the runs the previous week, picked up the team. from where he left off until one ball wonder (jack) came We bowled out Fulham for 156 and left ourselves 17 on and bowled his only ball on the stumps for the season , clean bowling the batsman who was dismissed overs to see out on the end of day 1 for 173. Kilburn then declared on 4/316 and we were Enter Hutchie, 40 runs later and a catch on the set 62 overs to bat out the day. boundary, exit Hutchie, this brought Harriss to the The second innings followed suit of the first innings with crease who didn't stick it out till the end of play which us consistently losing wickets. The only person who left Harry high pants and Jordan the trigger to see out hung around was Harry who made 28, Hyphen and the last few overs of the day. Cooper who showed a bit of value on their wickets and Day two with both young guns looking good scoring made it tough for Kilburn to get the final wicket for an constant boundaries while rotating the strike before outright. In the second innings Walkerville were trigger departed which brought Cheary in who made eventually dismissed for 84 in what could be described a 130 run stand with Sytnyk before he too was caught as an embarrassing defeat. The B grade have Grange on the boundry for a lovely 77. Panz came in and got at home this week which is now a must win game. It is a start (13) but failed to build on it. important be get back to basics, bowl tight lines, field In came skip and for the second time in a day worked well and never give away your wicket cheaply so we with high pants to put together another 101 can continue to push top 4 sides. partnership which saw Harry reach his milestone even if the skipper at the other end stole the spot light Lachlan Nance in his terrible attempt of running then falling then
crawling and finally a dive all of which contributed to
the run in which Harry brought up a fantastic century.
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Harry made his intentions clear that he wasn't going to be there for a long time more a good time, I think it was probably because the young guy was stuffed but he accelerated to 141 before a smart catch at gully ended his day. And in the middle of this high pants aggression skip knocked up his first 50 for the cats and soon found himself out on 58. The tail failed to stick around unlike previous weeks which led to us being bowled out for 369 Great win boys against another final contending team, sends a good message to others in the league and those we are chasing. Will "skip" Raynhan
Harry hits out on his way to his big hundred
Harry raises his bat and mug for 100. Round 8 games
A GRADE v Grange – Away B GRADE v Grange - Walkerville C GRADE v Port Districts – Away LOD v Goodwood – Hooper
Founded 1915 Walkervillecc.com.au Around the Grounds
The two quicks talking tactics.
Lachy talking up his batting again…. Love a short story.
Phil telling Paul about his Australian career.
Monty sipping on his BOG mug like a cup of tea.
The boys trying to look cool – Fail!
Norts with his twin brother?
Founded 1915 Walkervillecc.com.au Cricket Talk with Hyphen B Grade 20/20 Quarter Final 2nd February at Walkerville Oval – 5.20 kick off
One word – Big Bash cricket How good has it been watching the Strikers in action: Head with his New Year’s Eve hundred Fashion with Nancy Boy
Jules cuts to the boundary.
I think the dirty grunge and tank tops look are back. That’s all I wear now, I went to a wedding last week and I thought I stood out – cool that’s what you want…to be noticed!!! Clothing
Player Shirt - $50 Training Shirt - $20 Training Shorts - $25 Player Vest - $60
Club Jacket - $60 Club Hoodie - $45 Tom in full flight. Baggy Blue Cap - $60 (compulsory for A/B grade players) Baseball Cap - $15 Broad Brim hat - $20 Bucket hat - $20
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Founded 1915 Walkervillecc.com.au Around the grounds
The crowd could not be controlled!!
Jules picks up a wicket in the T 20
The good Panzarino with her win at the coin toss at the Christmas Show. Walkerville Boy Band – Its Over! Jack Caldwell chucks another ball down. Quiz question was this a legal ball or a wide? Well I have bad news with the band, we broke up. Yes before the band was even confirmed there was a fight and everyone stormed out. I mean Paul Reid keeps turning up and we have sacked him every time. Hyphen insisted on wearing short shorts, Norton wanted to play a harmonic and Coxy wanted to a lycra bike outfit – why? It was too hard, so I’m going solo!!! The Colonel has decided to start up a girl’s band, he thinks they are easier to work with!
Young Gun Barrington in action
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Batting Averages
Bowling Performances
Club Champion Ladder
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Talking Australian Test Cricket with Aussie Gareth Cox
The Aussie selectors have finally selected a player to match the playing conditions. With Chadd Sayers the swing king getting the nod for the return tests series in New Zealand.
With the swinging conditions fingers crossed he runs through the Kiwis. Good luck to Sayers and the other South Aussie boys (Tait, Head and Richardson) who have been picked in the T-20 team. “Go Australia!”
The Tests will be played in Wellington (12 – 16 February) and Christchurch (20 – 24 February).
The 14-man squad is as follows:
STEVE SMITH (C) NSW DAVID WARNER (VC) NSW JACKSON BIRD TAS JOE BURNS QLD JOSH HAZLEWOOD NSW USMAN KHAWAJA QLD NATHAN LYON NSW MITCHELL MARSH WA SHAUN MARSH WA PETER NEVILL NSW JAMES PATTINSON VIC
CHADD SAYERS SA PETER SIDDLE VIC
ADAM VOGES WA
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