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Beyond the Boundary Sydenham Cricket Club April 2012 issue Established in 1896 Our stand out team from afternoon grades was President’s Report Jamie's Cardinals side who won the grade – due recognition at last. Our other afternoon grade Another season has concluded sides preformed creditably, and I know enjoyed – and it has been largely a their cricket. Our one area of concern is our two successful one. Despite our other morning grade sides. We have struggled to difficulties getting underway – build strength in these teams and also getting particularly with pitch players to turn up reliably was a huge problem for preparation, our season has Sunjay our Senior Manager. We will be addressing gone well. On the field, our Prem Mens side has this in the off-season as this cannot continue. We gone from strength to strength. From my must have a strong 2A side at least, to provide a perspective it has been great to see, under Phil feeder for our prems side. Robinsons coaching and on field playing abilities, our team gel into a very competitive unit. At the It is also worth mentioning that our Junior club recent CCA awards night Ben Rapson was named had another strong year fielding 35 teams, and a Premier Mens Player of the year in Canterbury, very strong young girls representation in those Braden Gardner was named Canterbury under 20 teams which hopefully bodes well for the future of bowler of the year and Ben, Braden and Sean womens cricket which is struggling at the higher Heather were named in the CCA team of the year. grades. This is a fantastic achievement, and bodes well for our Premier side in the coming seasons. Off the field, our biggest issue remains funding our club. We know the various community trusts from The one downside at this stage is the loss of our whom we rely heavily for funding ,are under Prems Captain Sean Heather. After a number of increasing pressure to spread their funds across seasons in Christchurch Sean has decide to move wider areas beyond just sport in our community. back to England. Sean will be really missed. He is The sinking lid on gaming machines in the city is an astute Captain and leads from the front, and all hurting us all. Given this state of affairs your round great guy. We wish him well in his life back committee is looking at other areas of possible in the UK. funding, and more on that will be forthcoming in the next few months. The SWYC youth grade has also been an outstanding success in the secondary schools I would also like to say that our offer to our club competition, but also as a feeder into our senior members to pay-as-you go with subs has been club squads which was always going to be an disappointing. We have had not collected our subs outcome of this concept. Nick Kraiger and Matt well under this concept, and it clearly Day are two players who have taken this pathway disadvantages those teams who pay in full at the from SWYC and already we can see very talented start of the season. If you are a pay-as you go young players coming through the ranks of SWYC player, and your payments are in arrears, please for future development into senior players and forward your money to your Captain or contact a perhaps even beyond. member of your committee who will gladly receive your subs arrears. I note also that this year one of our own – Rob Nichol became our newest New Zealand Black Cap Our Astroturf is being replaced in the off-season Representative – and straight into a baptism of as a result of earthquake damage, and we fire against the South Africans! Well done Rob we continue to make slow steady progress on the are proud of your achievements. PO Box 7073, Sydenham, Christchurch 8240, http://www.sydenhamcricket.com/Joomla Beyond the Boundary April 2012 renovations of our clubrooms. That project, Heather and Ben Rapson both scoring centuries in subject to council consents, should be underway the first innings of the final round of competition in the next month or so, and completed well for seniors to set up the win on the final day. I’m before next season’s opening day. sure it’s been a while since the seniors have had two centuries in the same innings and both in an At this point I would like to extend to the Bowls opening stand. A look at the trophy winners will Club our heartfelt thanks for the generosity and show that it was a good season with bat and ball hospitality in the use of their clubrooms and with a large number of centuries and five wicket facilities. It has been fantastic to enjoy some great bags. The club prize giving was a popular night after match facilities, and we are very grateful to with a good turnout by members. As like many be invited in. We hope we have been able to swell years it was a close race for many of the trophies. the bar coffers at least a little for you!! In fact this year was the tightest race seen in a long time with up to half the trophies still not Last but not least a special thanks to my decided going into the final day of the season. committee. It is hugely time consuming to Congratulations to Ben Rapson for being named administer a sports club these days, and my Sydenham Cricket Club player of the year. A full thanks go to the committee who work tirelessly at list of winners is later in this newsletter and on the our endeavours to make our club the club of club website. choice for our members. This was followed up a few days later by the Enjoy the Winter break and we look forward to Canterbury Cricket prize giving where the club was meeting you all again in the Spring! well represented. Here the 3C Cardinals picked up their trophy for winning there grade, and Braden Graham Harris Gardner his trophy for Under 20 bowler of the President year. Ben Rapson finished off his great season by being named Player of the Year with his all-round season. Furthermore, the club had three players Club Captains named in the CCA team of the year. Well done to Report Sean Heather, Ben Rapson and Braden Gardner. A great achievement by the club to pick up these Well the season has come top awards. to an end and on a high note for the club. Firstly, Using the Bowling clubrooms has again proved to Congratulations to be very popular with the cricket club with social Jamie’s 3C Cardinals who won their final against events, mainly Bert’s quiz nights, the Christmas the Miller Bar to win the grade. A great effort by Party and prize giving. A game of bowls after a the team who are very popular both on and off day’s cricket has also become very popular. We the field. The introduction by the CCA of splitting must thank the Bowls Club for the use of their each one day grade and creating semi-finals and clubrooms, greens, and for running the bar over finals certainly added some spice to the last the season. It was unfortunate that the First couple of weeks of the season. This format saw a Annual Bowls Competition was cancelled due to middle of the table local derby match in 3B the weather. There is hope that maybe we could between the Goats and the Allstars, won narrowly look to hold it over the coming months but that is by the Goats. And secondly the seniors won their yet to be confirmed. And hopefully sometime over final two day match of the season to finish middle the winter months our old clubrooms will be of the table. An excellent effort by the young side. renovated!! There were many highlights as the season came to And a big thanks must go out to everyone who an end. To add to the hat trick before Christmas, helped in some way over the last season. two more have been recorded. Joe Potter-Butler Club coach Phil Robinson and manager Sunjay (3B Allstars) and Ben Larter (3C Cardinals). Sean Ganda for their efforts with the higher grades. Beyond the Boundary April 2012 Graham Harris, Kevin Congdon, Geoff Thin and 1. We started to win. From a culture of losing, committee for their hard work through the going out on Saturday night after not caring season. about the result, to being gutted after losing was an immense transformation. Playing for Jon Bennet and Vicki for running the raffles each other and playing as a team. down at the Beck’s every Friday night. I hope you are all able to give a hand with the raffles 2. Sean Heather. Captain fantastic, his thru the winter months. enthusiasm, team ethic, and not little skill with bat and ball will be missed a great deal All the captains for their help through the and his contribution should not be season. The communication has been undervalued. excellent and any issues resolved quickly. 3. Our bowling attack. Time and time again they And we must not forget Bert for his quiz came up with the goods. Chris Cooper, Braden nights during the season. Where would we be Gardener and Ben Rapson did a magnificent without them? Again they were well job week in week out with great support from supported this season.