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2 PARRAMATTA DISTRICT CRICKET CLUB INC 1843 – 2018 You are cordially invited to attend the ANNUAL MEETING of the above Club to be held at the Viking Sports Club, (Scandia Room) 35 Quarry Road (opposite Curtis Oval) Dundas Valley NSW 2117 On Friday 27th July 2018 at 6.30 pm. BUSINESS 1. To receive the 121st Annual Report 2. Any Notices of Motion According to Rules 3. Life Membership Award 4. To elect Officers and Committee 5. Election of Vice Presidents 6. To transact any business which may be introduced to Rule Only Financial Members of the previous season shall be entitled to vote (vide by laws) R. Wright OAM P O Box 143 Honorary Secretary PARRAMATTA NSW 2124 Phone: 0416 056 038 www.parracricket.com.au [email protected] 3 PARRAMATTA DISTRICT CRICKET CLUB INC. PO Box 143, PARRAMATTA 2124 OFFICE BEARERS 2017-2018 JOINT PATRONS Federal Member for Parramatta Ms. Julie Owens State Member for Parramatta Geoff Lee City of Parramatta Council Cumberland Council K.D. Walters MBE Parramatta Leagues Club President Parramatta District Cricket Association Alan Overton AM PRESIDENT Mr. Greg Monaghan DEPUTY PRESIDENT Mr. P West HONORARY SECRETARY Mr. R Wright OAM HONORARY TREASURER Mr. T Wood MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE P Sullivan R Cherry B Cherry P Calvert P Copperfield SELECTION COMMITTEE Chairman Paul Sullivan 1st Grade: Nick Bertus Jason Coleman Paul Sullivan 2nd Grade: Adam Turrell Jason Coleman Paul Sullivan 3rd Grade: Jason Coleman Jason Coleman Paul Sullivan 4th Grade: Paul Calvert Jason Coleman Paul Sullivan 5th Grade: Mark McLeod Jason Coleman Paul Sullivan PROVISIONAL SELECTION COMMITTEE Chairman Paul Sullivan Nick Bertus B. Cherry P. Calvert M. McLeod PUBLICITY AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Greg Monaghan DELEGATES TO S.C.A. G. Monaghan R. Wright OAM DELEGATE TO CRICKET NSW Greg Monaghan 4 LIFE MEMBERS J Aitken A H Alderson *W N Anderson *T Arundell *G T Barry *L Benaud *R Benaud OBE M/s C Bennison *F Bloxham *W W Bodenham *Dr. R Bowman *W A Brodie *L R Cadden *W Cornock A J Cramond *G Cranney *H Cranney *T Cranney Snr G Davidson *L J Deeth J Dwyer Dr Wilf Ewens Bruce Ferguson D Ferguson *H J Goodwin *E Gould *W Gould D Jackson *PH Jeffery OBE * D Kennedy *T D Little *J J Miller G Monaghan *L W Pye *R Rowe R Shepherd * S Stone S Teale Allen Turrell * Rev E F Waddy * E L Waddy K D Walters MBE M C Ward Mrs. T Ward *F Watsford M A Wood T J Wood R Wright OAM *Deceased VICE PRESIDENTS Bob Anderson John Benaud Bob Cadden Graham Chudleigh Warwick Dunn Bob Dwyer John Gall OAM Paul Garrard Des Hartmann Colin Hoschke Bill Jocelyn Gary Johnston Robert McMillan E Myatt (OAM) Bruce Neill Geoff Newton John Parkinson Daryl Smith Ray Smith Doug Timmins Jake Wholohan Michael J Wood FINANCIAL MEMBERS (PLAYERS) Abbott B Charles T Joseph G Ryder B Abbott S Cherry B Kaul A Simonsen O Affleck T Clinton J King H Sullivan M Affleck W Coleman J Kumanan A Sylvester A Bateup N Copperfield S Liyanage T Talwar A Beattie D Crittenden T Lofts L Taylor B Bellam M D’Angelo G Maitra A Thushyanthan S Bensemann T Dempsey L Marquez J Turrell Adam Bentvelzen J Drinnan M Martin B Tyler K Bertus Nick Elliott J McLeod M Verma A Blue C Emran M McNaught L Ward M Blue L Gillies L O’Farrell L Ward T Brar T Giumelli M Patel A Workman J Brown Y Goulstone H Philip A Burge A Graham A Pike J Calvert A Greig J Pitt E Calvert P Jesuthasan D Ripps B Cassel S Johns R Roughan B FINANCIAL MEMBERS (TRUE BLUE) Gold Members: Monaghan G Neill B Jurd C R Mackander Affleck J Drinnan W Maitra P Alagarsamy M Dr Wilf Ewens McMillan B (Honorary) Atkins T Ferguson B Portlock G *Bertus Nigel Gall John OAM Rees N Bertus Mercedes Herd T Roughan M Chant G Jarman W Ryder A Cherry R King G Sewell J Cockburn C Mackander B Simonsen T Copperfield P Mackander W Ward P West P 5 6 7 President’s Report Wow! What a year! A hat trick of premierships! Our first men’s First Grade Premiership since Richie Benaud, Doug Walters, John Benaud and friends back in 1964/65. Our first ever Women’s Grade Premiership, our top team, the Second Grade, winning convincingly by 10 wickets. And our outstanding Green Shield team pulling off their Premiership undefeated, our first win for 10 years since Sean Abbott and Nick Bertus were in the side! Our club has grown and expanded, and now has three strong and successful arms. Our Men’s teams, Women’s teams, and Academy – each one producing a premiership this year. Who could ask for more? Well okay, our second place in the Club Championships where with just a handful of points, it could so easily have been a club championship win as well. Something to aim for next year! Brenton Cherry and Nick Bertus Scott Copperfield takes the final wicket in the Final breaking records against Bankstown. After making the semi-finals of the Belvidere Cup last year and being regular finalists in T20 and One Day competitions in recent years, our Men’s First Grade made it in to the final of the one-day cup, narrowly missing pulling off that title by just five runs in an agonizing defeat by Sydney University. The experience galvanized the team and the lads extracted revenge with a comprehensive victory in the Major trophy, the three-day Belvidere Cup final. On the back of gutsy batting led by skipper Bertus with 85, and a determined half century from Adam Turrell, a great all-round performance from Sean Abbott with a half century and three wickets, and a man of the match performance from outstanding pace man Scott Copperfield surely the quickest in Sydney, with six intimidating wickets. In the lower grades Jason Coleman lead to third-grade to the minor premiership and Josh Marquez and Mark McLeod lead the fifth-grade all the way to the final highlighting the depth the club currently has. Our Poidevin Gray, the defending premiers, played well only to bow out in the quarter-finals. Our Women’s Second Grade side has improved each year. Three years ago, it was soundly beaten by 10 wickets in the final. Two years ago, it made the final again and narrowly lost a very evenly contested rain affected match. This season, the girls again made the final and produced a comprehensive victory by 10 wickets, courtesy of a spectacular unbeaten opening partnership between centurion Kelsey Miller (124 not out) and Elise Noble (36 not out). An amazing development of the women’s group over this period and culminating in the announcement that next year will see the club fielding its first ever Women’s First Grade side. 8 Our Parramatta Cricket Academy produced a brilliant victory in the Green Shield through a side well led by the impressive Harry King, through what was ultimately a comfortable victory by 4 wickets in the final at the outstanding Merrylands Oval. Harry led from the front with 63 runs and 2 wickets, well supported by Ryan Johns with an even 50. They were pipped for man of the match honours by a brilliant bowling performance from Tyrone Hargreaves with 5/25, showcasing a bright future for this promising left arm quick. Harry King and Tyrone Hargreaves Representative selectors took great note of the young emerging female stars and selected an amazing number of players from the Parramatta squad, led by young Hayley Silver-Holmes who earned a Thunder Rookie contract. Amongst the male players, Jacob workmen and Harry King were recognised by selectors in their age groups. But in probably the only sour note for the season, the New South Wales selectors overlooked staff first graders apart from renewing Sean Abbott’s contracts. Surely Nick versus consistent only outstanding performances with the bat, with the gloves and with his brilliant leadership deserve recognition. As did the 9 outstanding bowling Scott Copperfield and the tremendous first four seasons in first grade of young Tim Ward opening the batting. To what do we owe this great success in 2017–18. People who have not followed our progress closely ask what has happened, what’s changed? To that I say this club has been on the rise for number of years. The core of the men’s first grade side was the same group that won the Green Shield 10 years ago, followed by the Poidevin Gray Shield five years ago. They have consistently made finals in the short forms of cricket and last year semi-finals of the Belvidere Cup. So, it should be no surprise that the boys have finally broken through. I have already reflected on the tremendous year on year improvement in our Second-Grade women’s side. And our Academy goes from strength to strength. It gives young players their best opportunity to succeed in Grade and to achieve representative selection. Our successful Green Shield Squad Tribute must be paid to our captaincy group, each of the team captains has done an outstanding job – probably the best captaincy group we have had for some years. Our coaching staff deserve a tremendous amount of credit with Jason Coleman and Paul Sullivan leading a strong men’s program. Mr. Enthusiasm Ron Tiger Woods leading the women’s program and with the outstanding team of Paul Calvert with Matt Roughan leading the Academy. Our administration is top shelf in each of the Men’s, Women’s and Academy team departments.

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