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HORNSBY-KU-RING-GAI AND HILLS DISTRICT CRICKET ASSOCIATION INC. 22nd annual fixture – Official Program Showcase of Emerging Local Cricket Talent Sunday, 23rd February 2020 – Turramurra Oval RTC Captains – Will McFadden (East) and Jack Nati (West) 2019-20 What is the Ross Turner Cup? The HK&HDCA Ross Turner Cup (RTC) was inaugurated in 1998-99 to promote an opportunity for the best of our U/15 players to appear in a ‘showcase’ game of high-level representative cricket. The idea developed from the work of the Northern Metropolitan Cricket Council (NMCC) in the 1990’s, which brought together representatives of grade, shires, district and local school cricket organisations to achieve mutual benefit by working in close collaboration. One of the objectives was to accelerate the ‘career paths’ of our outstanding young cricketers by the early identification of players with talent and commitment, in order to provide high level coaching and development opportunities for these players. It was hoped that many of these players would successfully progress through the HK&HDCA Shield junior representative teams; play AW Green Shield and Grade Cricket with Northern District CC; or A Grade within the HK&HDCA Senior Competition. An amazing 34 players have graduated from the RTC match to play First Grade cricket in Sydney. The RTC and Glenn Hourigan Cup (GHC) matches were the brainchild of Tom Richmond OAM, Patron and Life Member of HK&HDCA, who passed on the responsibility after 12 years to Bruce Wood, President, Coaches’ Association (HKHDCCA) in 2010-11, who has maintained the fine tradition and introduced some new initiatives, including appointing young RTC and GHC coaches; scheduling the main 50-over matches on adjacent ovals; and arranging preliminary GHC T20 matches, where possible. The NMCC recognised that cricket needs to be played in the true spirit of the game and enjoyed by all participants, in a competitive and healthy environment. The Council took proactive steps in conjunction with the local cricket bodies to achieve this objective. An emphasis on respect for the opposition, the umpires and the laws of the game became a feature of the annual RTC matches before the world’s governing body incorporated the spirit of cricket in the preamble to the MCC Laws of Cricket. Bruce Wood holds similar views on how cricket should be played and donated an impressive perpetual trophy in 2008-09 on behalf of the Umpires’ Association entitled ‘HKHDCUA Spirit of Cricket Award for representative cricket’ in order to promote excellent sportsmanship by our cricketers. The Cup is named in honour of Ross Turner (pictured above), one of our Association’s most famous products. As a young player, Ross was a brilliant all-rounder who bowled leg-spin, batted beautifully (left-handed) and was without peer in the field. He played for Pennant Hills CC, HK&HDCA rep. teams and later became a specialist batsman and Northern District’s most successful captain, winning two First Grade premierships. Ross worked for Cricket NSW and Cricket Australia, pioneering development activities, before continuing his magnificent contribution to cricket by working for the International Cricket Council (ICC) in the development of cricket in overseas countries such as Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Afghanistan and India. Ross currently heads up cricket at Newington College in Sydney and is the GPS Cricket Convenor. We were delighted that Ross attended the match to meet the players and coaches. It is important that HK&HDCA maintains close ties with its local grade club, Northern District CC at Waitara, as our Association is the main feeder of talented players to grade cricket. NDCC officials have attended every Ross Turner Cup match since its inception 22 years ago and they will be here again today. Significant steps have been taken over the years to improve the pathway from the HK&HDCA representative teams to NDCC’s U/16 AW Green Shield squad and lower grade teams. The Coaches’ Association’s U/15 overseas tours to Sri Lanka in 2015, West Indies / USA in 2017, and India in 2019, plus its popular junior cricket clinics at Mark Taylor Oval in the school holidays, were all undertaken in conjunction with Northern District CC, further fostering the strong link with our local grade club. The Coaches’ Association’s Secretary, Josh Miller (Level 2), is the current NDCC U/16 AW Green Shield coach, and he replaced Rod Hokin (Level 3 – HKHDCCA Head Coach) in the role 3 years ago. This year’s RTC (50 over) match brought together the leading U/15 and U/14 players in the district. We thank the HK&HDCA sponsors, Kookaburra Sport (Cameron Eve) for supplying the match balls and Player of the Match award. I’m sure the players and spectators enjoyed the 22nd RTC match. RTC TEAMS AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS This year’s Ross Turner Cup match at Turramurra Oval comprised the talented players from the HK&HDCA U/15 Weblin Shield and U/14 Moore Shield premiership teams. The initial date of 9-Feb-20 was washed out, so the match was rescheduled to 23-Feb-20. The cover photo shows the captains, Will McFadden (East) and Jack Nati (West) holding the historic Ross Turner Cup. Cameron Tunks was initially chosen as the West team captain, however he was unavailable on 23-Feb-20, as he was in Ballarat, Victoria, representing the NSW U/15 team in the national championships. Bruce Wood and Scott Reid were appointed to umpire this 22nd RTC match. This was Bruce’s 14th consecutive year as one of the RTC umpires. The Coaches’ Association appointed two outstanding young coaches to take charge of this year’s RTC teams – Joe Hiley and Jayden Camp. Both young men came on the Coaches’ Association’s Barbados Tour in 2017. Some distinguished guests attended the RTC & GHC matches, including: • HKHDCA Life Members – Glenn Hourigan, Bruce Kimberley OAM, Alf. James OAM and Nathan Tilbury • Ross Turner – Life Member – Northern District CC and Coaches’ Association • Bruce Wood - President (& Life Member) Coaches’ Association; RTC & GHC Convenor; HK&HDCA Life Member • Scott Reid – President – Umpires’ Association; HK&HDCA Executive Officer (& Life Member) • Andrew Miedler – President, HK&HDCA • Jeremy Hook – President (and Life Member), Northern District CC • Daniel Anderson - Cricket Manager, North Shore - Cricket NSW (Sydney Sixers) - former RTC captain & coach We sincerely thank Iain Bailey for undertaking the role of official RTC photographer this year. Some of his best photos are featured in this program, however the full gallery can be seen via this link: bit.ly/RTC-photos-23-Feb EAST Name Club Rep. team (2019-20) Jayden Camp Northern District CC (Coach) Will McFadden (C) Pennant Hills Weblin Shield Anthony Bartlett (v-c) Kissing Point Weblin Shield Avi Lath Pennant Hills Weblin Shield Elijah Stead Pennant Hills Weblin Shield Reuben Kapoor (w-k) Kissing Point Weblin Shield Aden Clark Kenthurst Upper-Hills Weblin Shield Dylan Bailey Hornsby Moore Shield Lachlan Bailey Normanhurst-Warrawee Moore Shield Jehan Polwaththe WPHC Moore Shield Dylan Ranjan WPHC Moore Shield Sidhant Singh WPHC Moore Shield Luke Sylvester Normanhurst-Warrawee Moore Shield WEST Name Club Rep. team (2019-20) Joe Hiley Northern District CC (Coach) Jack Nati (C) Kenthurst Upper-Hills Weblin Shield Oscar Keyes (v-c) Kenthurst Upper-Hills / WPHC Weblin Shield Jamieson Hedges Kenthurst Upper-Hills Weblin Shield Kye Thornley Castle Hill RSL Weblin Shield Manas Bansal Kissing Point Weblin Shield Vansh Bhatia Hornsby Weblin Shield Jordan Netto (w-k) WPHC Moore Shield Sebastian Akle Castle Hill RSL Moore Shield Riley Mackay Castle Hill RSL Moore Shield Peter Murray Castle Hill RSL Moore Shield Nicholas Fischer Castle Hill RSL Moore Shield Ned Currie Normanhurst-Warrawee RTC East team – 2019/20 Back: Bruce Wood (Umpire), Sidhant Singh, Elijah Stead, Jayden Camp (Coach), Ross Turner, Bruce Kimberley OAM, Lachlan Bailey, Dylan Bailey, Scott Reid (Umpire). Front: Avi Lath, Dylan Ranjan, Reuben Kapoor (w-k), Will McFadden (Captain), Anthony Bartlett (v-c), Luke Sylvester, Jehan Polwaththe, Aden Clark. RTC West team – 2019/20 Back: Bruce Wood (Umpire), Joe Hiley (Coach), Jamieson Hedges, Ross Turner, Bruce Kimberley OAM, Manas Bansal, Kye Thornley, Nick Fischer, Scott Reid (Umpire). Front: Sebastian Akle, Vansh Bhatia, Riley Mackay, Oscar Keyes (v-c), Jack Nati (Captain), Jordan Netto (w-k), Peter Murray, Ned Currie RTC CAPTAINS, VICE-CAPTAINS, COACHES, UMPIRES AND SPECIAL GUESTS – 2019-20 Back row: Bruce Wood, Ross Turner, Jayden Camp, Joe Hiley, Bruce Kimberley OAM, Scott Reid Front row: Anthony Bartlett, Will McFadden, Jack Nati, Oscar Keyes UMPIRES FOR ROSS TURNER CUP MATCH IN 2019-20 Bruce Wood is a Life Member and Executive Member of HK&HDCA; President (and Life Member) of the Coaches’ Association (HKHDCCA); Assistant Secretary / Executive Member of the Umpires’ Association (HKHDCUA); Umpires’ Co-ordinator for the Associated Schools of NSW (CAS); and the RTC / GHC Convenor since 2010-11. He has umpired 300 club and/or representative matches for HKHDCUA since 2001-02, and a total of 500 matches in all competitions. Bruce has umpired 14 RTC fixtures; 17 NSWDCA Shield Finals; two Cricket NSW U/14 State Challenge Finals (SCG in 2013, and Bradman Oval, Bowral in 2015). He has umpired overseas in Sri Lanka in 2015, Barbados in 2017 and India in 2019 on the Coaches’ Association / Northern District CC U/15 representative cricket tours. He is also a Life Member of Normanhurst-Warrawee CC and Barker College CC. Bruce jointly holds (with Bryan Whitlock – 178 no) the HK&HDCA record for the highest partnership for the 5th wicket in any Senior grade – 320* runs set in 2000-01 for Normanhurst-Warrawee CC at Normanhurst Oval (Bruce scored 138 no). Scott Reid is President of the Umpires’ Association (HKHDCUA); and Executive Officer (and Life Member) of HK&HDCA.