Marrickville Cricket Club Season Report 2016-17 Thank you sponsors Financial report A word from our sponsors - Sydney Airport and Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL Marrickville Cricket Club is very grateful to have the support and sponsorship of Sydney Airport and Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL. The sponsorship helps young cricketers and their families with reduced player registration fees and basic cricket gear such as shirts, hats, balls and drink bottles. For the past seven years, Sydney Airport has Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL Club is very been a major sponsor of the Marrickville pleased to support Marrickville Cricket Club. Cricket Club. The MCC is an important We are proud of our investment in the local local sporting organisation providing training, community, especially when it supports grass- education and skills for the young cricket roots organisations doing great things with players in our community. Our organisation local children. is proud to support the parents, coaches and volunteers at the MCC who provide vital Whether it’s helping local cricket players skills such as leadership and teamwork to our with hats and shirts, funding educators for kids. after-school fitness sessions to help promote healthy lifestyles, or assisting with funding More than 29,000 people work at Sydney for sheet music, tuition and software, helping Airport across 800 businesses and many of schools run quality music ensembles, we’re these people live within our local community. thrilled to be ‘reinvesting for life’ in our As part of our community investment community. program, the airport prioritises working with local sporting organisations, businesses and Our relationship with Marrickville Cricket charities to support their objectives. Club recently grew as we work together to promote hospitality training for parents, We congratulate the Marrickville Cricket players and volunteers through our CHP Club on another successful cricket season and School of Hospitality. wish the teams, kids, parents and coaches all the best for the 2017/18 season. We’re extremely proud to have given more than $2.6 million to community groups over Sally Cummine the last 5 years, either directly (to schools, Manager, Community Engagement, sporting clubs and other community groups) Partnership and Events or indirectly through registered charities and Sydney Airport welfare service providers. We congratulate your Club on the season, and look forward to supporting you in years to come. Paul Kougias Community Sports and Grants Coordinator, Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL 2 | Marrickville Cricket Club Season Report 2016-17 President’s report 2016-17 was a good season for MCC It was the best of seasons, it was the wettest of seasons... Plenty of good cricket, but too much rain for my liking. Over 500 cricketers played with MCC this season – enjoying our great game across fields (and puddles) of the Inner West. We’re a strong club with good links to our local community. We have a great relationship with our local senior grade clubs Randwick Petersham CC and University Women’s CC. And MCC is fortunate to have two generous, solid sponsors in Sydney Airport and Canterbury Hurlstone Park RSL. We are grateful for their ongoing support. We had 25 teams in CWSCA and Sydney Thunder Girls comps, which is more than double the number of teams we had six years ago. We now have a record seven U9 MCC and Marrickville Council helped 16 parents get teams, with 80% of players coming from Milo or Level 1 Coaching Certificates – an investment in T20. Added to that, we had 120 Milo cricketers at player, team and coach confidence. Tempe and at our new centre in Erskineville, and 90 T20 blasters. Our Milo Cricket program owes a lot to the hard- working David Mason (Tempe) and Daniel Kicuroski That’s 25 teams and three large junior programs (Erko). The Milo Jedi and his Padawan. being run by volunteers – training, coordinating and managing. You guys are the arteries of our wonderful T20 Blast was a success. Many thanks to Nikki community club. Pitkethley and her crew for the work at Mackey Park in Feb/March, and to Ken Morrison for your help Congratulations to our one Premiership winning with the girls T20 at Petersham Oval. team – James Owens’ mighty U12 Simpson, who won second division in style. Girls cricket is moving forward at MCC – with programs now in place for girls from ages 5 in Milo For seven other teams, it was a tale of what could cricket, through club teams all the way to U15 have been … Rep teams and connections to Grade through • Dave Price’s Blues went down valiantly in the U14 the University Women’s CC. Great credit to Ken Div 1 Final. Morrison and Carla Stacey for their work. • Our U16, U14(2) Bats, U12(2) Bill Brown, U10 Sincere thanks to our Committee for their work. Simpson and U10 Toshack teams finished their I’m indebted to Treasurer Kathryn Higgs, Secretary season with washed out semi-finals. Jason Withers and Emma Price. And thanks to Carla • And MCC’s 3rd Grade senior team lost a tight Stacey and John Skinner for coordinating the U9s semi-final. and U10s and James Owens and Jason Withers for Congrats to all MCC players in CWSCA Rep looking after the U12s. Well done! teams, and special commendation to the five MCC players chosen in Cricket NSW Academy squads: A final, big thank you to all volunteers. The Club can • Emmanuel Grogan, Darcy Mooney and Reuben always use more assistance – so please let us know if Sachs in the U14 squad, you would like to be involved. • Harry Brooks in the U15 squad. This is my last President’s report. I’m proud of the • And Nivi Radhakrishnan promoted up the order to work I’ve done and am grateful for the opportunities the U16 squad. the Club has given me and also to my family for all its I salute MCC players Emmanuel Grogan and help. I’m not walking away, just stepping back … so Nivi Radhakrishnan – NSW DCA players I’ll be around. of the Gee Shield and Moore Shield We hope to see all players, parents and friends competitions. What a huge honour for the back for the 2017-18 season. players, their families and our Club. Antony Sachs, President Marrickville Cricket Club Season Report 2016-17 | 3 Messages from our local grade club - Randwick Petersham 4 | Marrickville Cricket Club Season Report 2016-17 Milo In2Cricket Milo in2CRICKET The best way to develop a love of cricket is to start with MILO in2CRICKET. At MILO, every girl and boy gets a chance to – Samantha Robinson for Tempe and Amy bowl, bat, run, catch and throw. They do this McKay for Erskineville – provide support at in bright colours, through skill-based games led the Centres. They gave the volunteer coaches by enthusiastic parents. So many of our future assistance and provided individual attention to the players start their cricket ‘careers’ like this. players for skill development. We love that MILO brings families together from Our traditional celebrations to mark Christmas across the area and new friendships are formed. break and the end-of-season were again enjoyed The last few seasons our MILO Centre at Gough with water balloon fights and Alpino Gelato Whitlam Reserve, Tempe rapidly grew. In fact, banana sticks. because it had gotten so large and was attracting Thanks to Cooks River Café at Tempe and people from well beyond the local area, this Bitton Café at Erskineville for keeping adults well season we opened a second centre in Erskineville. caffeinated each Saturday and giving us freezer Newtown resident and MCC MILO dad Daniel space for our parties. Kicuroski started the Erskineville Centre to This season we aren’t listing all the coaches by name provide families a closer venue. Situated at because so many people who weren’t wearing the Harry Noble Reserve on Swanson Street, our Official White Shirt of Authority were important in Erskineville Centre gave the same great Saturday making MILO happen. We are so proud at the level morning experience MCC has become known for. of parental participation and commitment involved. Across both Centres we had 115 players in 9 You know who you are, thank you. groups led by over 20 parent volunteer coaches We look forward to seeing you next season at and with great parent participation support. MILO or in our U9 teams. This season we also had two Universities of David Mason, Daniel Kicuroski & Carla Women’s Cricket Club (UWCC) grade players Stacey Marrickville Cricket Club Season Report 2016-17 | 5 T20 Blast T20 Blast The weather couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm for our 3rd season of Milo T20 Blast. Our eight-week season was cut a little short with the appalling wet weather we had during March. From heat waves to thunder storms, we experienced it all in 2017. MCC had 84 players registered, which is down on the last two years, but there were plenty of keen players who brought lots of personality. It was pleasing to see returning MCC players, some whom had come from Milo In2Cricket, and others who were augmenting their club duties with a bit of fun on a Friday. We also had a good handful of girls playing, many of whom I hope will play club for MCC during 2017-2018. Even with a shortened season, skills were learnt, practiced and it is surprising how quickly some children improve. We were joined in the Skill Zone by Jed and Chloe, who work with Cricket NSW to deliver and carers of MCC players. Most people were programs through schools, camps and clubs. They quite willing to help out by umpiring, scoring, brought a good deal of enthusiasm to our Friday helping to coordinate the batting side and packing evenings and certainly made some friends within up.