Youlden Cricketer's Almanac 2016-17
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YOULDEN CRICKETER’S ALMANAC 2016-17 A STATISTICAL REVIEW OF YOULDEN PARKVILLE C.C. FOR THE SEASON 2016-17 FOREWORD After the success of 2015-16 where the 4th X1 won the premiership, the 1st and 2nd X1’s were beaten grand finalists and the 3rd X1 made the semi final, expectations for the 2016-17 season were high. Unfortunately the Club could not repeat that level of success with the only two sides making the finals this season. The David Pizzey 5th X1 bowed out in the preliminary final to eventual premiers Burnley CYMS and the Nicholas Demelis led 2nd X1 unfortunately lost their third straight grand final, this year against Parkville Districts. The 3rd and 4th X1’s both played in the grade above where they played last season and the 5th X1 moved into D Saturday, which meant that YPCC was the only club to field a side in all 5 levels of Saturday cricket in the MCA! The Powerful Owls program continued to build on their success from the previous year to again feature in the finals. The Club once again fielded 10 junior teams for the season. All of the teams that played for points played in the finals, unfortunately none of them won a grand final, which is the first time in 5 seasons that the juniors have not won a flag. The breeding ground for the junior teams, the In2Cricket program for 5 to 8 year olds, moved back to Saturday mornings, with a second session being run on Sunday mornings helping to dramatically increase the numbers doing the program. Overall there were more than 160 (up from about 130 last year) juniors involved in the Powerful Owls program, which is a great sign for the future of the Club. The interaction between the Junior and Senior sections of the Club continues to get better and suggests a great future lies ahead! There were 94 senior players who strutted their stuff for YPs (down from 106 from last season) and all of them are featured in this almanac. We had 25 players who made their YPCC debuts this season, including another 4 more from the junior program (Nicholas and William Madden, Jack Murphy and Samuel Rusjan), making it 24 in the last four seasons. We also had 4 visitors from overseas (Richie Woodburn, Warick Falconer, Vishal Khetia, and Freddie Perkins) who all contributed greatly to the Club. Some of the new players moved on immediately, however 19 of them played 4 games or more. Hopefully those remaining in Australia come back and build on this next year. Individual highlights occurred regularly throughout the season. There were five players who tonned (one in each grade) during the course of the season. Richie Woodburn started his YP career in style making 102 on debut against Maccabi Ajax in the 1st X1. In the 2nds Tom Watson made an unbeaten 101 to drag the seconds over the line against Royal Park Reds. Before making successive ducks Sam Crimmins made 108 not out against Sacred Heart in the 3rd X1. The 4th X1 just managed to avoid an outright defeat in a one day game against the Reds in the 4th X1 despite Silva knocking up 107. Finally in the 5ths David Pizzey smashed the highest score of the season with an unbeaten 165 against Power House. There were nine five or more wicket hauls with the ball by the bowlers with Warick Falconer’s 7/47 against the Royal Park Reds in the seconds the best figures of the season. Freddy Stringer also had a 7 wicket haul in the seconds when he took 7/57 from 20.3 overs bowled in succession against Parkville Districts. Interestingly Freddy’s figures were not the best for the game with Parkville Districts captain taking 7/29! Finally, in the 2nd X1 David Burley took a hat trick in the final round of the season to finish the innings against the top placed Middle Park to seal the team a finals berth that looked very doubtful before the game. President Paul Sinclair again led the Committee with aplomb. He was well supported by the Committee as we continue to push to sure- up our future both on and off the field. Returned coach Jessie McCartney continued to develop both juniors and senior sections of the Club fantastically well. It is a shame that Jessie will not be coaching or playing with us next season as he wants to spend time with his new family and concentrate on other areas of his coaching career. Jessie, your efforts have been greatly appreciated and you are always welcome at YPCC. There are so many more stories to come out of 2016-17, so read on to refresh your memory. – Barney YOULDEN RISING STAR – William Mott The Justin J. O’Connor Memorial Trophy This is a trophy to uphold youthful exuberance and talent, and at the same time pay our respects to an old friend who was taken from us so young. A member of YPCC’s first ever junior side back in 2010, William Mott has become the first player to graduate from our junior program to win the JOC! William played the entire season in the First X1 where he made 230 runs at 28.75 and took 10 wickets at 20.50. Despite not yet being 18, he was a constant at YP’s social functions. William continues the fine calibre of young player to win this award. Hopefully he can become YPCC’s first home grown Premier ones player if that is the path he chooses, otherwise we hope a long a successful playing career at YPCC is ahead of him. BEST CLUBPERSON – Sophie Newing The Tom Harrington Memorial Trophy After joining the Club committee a couple of seasons back in an assistant secretary capacity, this season Sophie took on the role of Junior Coordinator, arguably the most challenging position in the Club that involves countless hours of work organising teams, liaising with parents, team managers, the association, etc etc. Sophie also played a major role in a number of the social events, in particular the community ball where she drove ticket sales amongst the parents of the juniors and managed to drum up close to $4000 worth of items to auction off on the night. All her efforts are recognised with this award. Well done Sophie, thanks for all your efforts. Well deserved. CLUB CHAMPION – 468 POINTS The George Moloney Jnr. Trophy David Pizzey Proving that you are never too old to have a cracking season of cricket, Fifth X1 skipper David Pizzey has taken out his first Club Champion trophy at the age of 52! During the home and away season David racked up 673 runs, took 2 wickets, 14 catches, affected 4 run outs, and completed 3 stumpings. His efforts during the season went a long way to dragging the Fifth X1 into a Preliminary final. Bowling all rounder Irfan Azam took out 2nd place 50 points back, whilst part time player Ashley Medell rounded out the top three 38 points further back. Congratulations David. BATTING AND BOWLING WINNERS FIRST ELEVEN Brian O’Reilly Trophy Batting Richie Woodburn 41.75 Max Nicholls Trophy Bowling Irfan Azam 18.38 SECOND ELEVEN Armstrong Biggs & Co. Trophy Batting Tom R. Watson 39.50 John Wood Memorial Trophy Bowling Syed Rohail Akhtar 16.35 THIRD ELEVEN Bob Gration Snr. Trophy Batting Sam B. Crimmins 34.50 Ken Spargo Trophy Bowling John G. Pearce 10.88 FOURTH ELEVEN George Moloney Snr. Trophy Batting Matthew J. Perkins 13.58 Steven Carroll Trophy Bowling Stuart G. Herbert 16.27 FIFTH ELEVEN Gavin Down Snr. Trophy Batting David S Pizzey 41.00 Michael Stringer Trophy Bowling Kavirathna Silva 10.21 The JOHN T. RACKSTRAW MEDAL Voted by the Players for the Players David Pizzey – 140 votes David is going to have to back the truck up this season to take all his trophies home as he has also been awarded the John T. Rackstraw Medal as the Club’s most valuable player as voted by his teammates for the first time! David polled in sixteen of the twenty games he played in where votes were awarded, including the two where he doubled up for the weekend and played in the 3rds or the 4ths to fill a hole in the teams left by a late withdrawal! David won by a 34 votes from Ashley Medell and a further 4 from the up and coming speedster Jasper Paevere. Congratulations Pizz. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS - SEASON 2016-17 Last Last Rank Player Matches Points Season Rank Player Matches Points Season 1 Pizzey, David S 19 468 15 48 Phelps, Rohan J 12 115 21 2 Azam, Irfan 9 418 17 49 Pizzey, Eamon 15 113 66 3 Medell, Ashley 9 380 27 50 Burley, David L 8 106 22 4 Woodburn, Richie 9 365 51 Markwell, Clinton J 15 106 77 5 Miller, Elliott 10 355 6 52 Sehgal, Akshat 13 105 60 6 Mott, William 9 349 38 53 Perkins, Freddie P 7 103 7 Stringer, Michael A 9 341 7 54 Paleri, Sid 6 99 8 Pearce, John G 16 337 9 55 Sinclair, Paul G 8 92 86 9 Watson, Tom R 11 337 26 56 Kiran, Jai 7 91 31 10 Heddle, David 11 337 25 57 van Run, Matthew W 11 87 28 11 Silva, Kavirathna D 15 323 13 58 Jackson, David A 8 85 53 12 Ali, Shayan 11 319 35 59 Chapman, Albert 16 84 62 13 McCartney, Jessie 8 294 re 60 Peric, Mino 11 80 14 Falconer, Warick L 11 291 61 Khan, Imad 7 74 15 Diciero, George 12 285 49 62 Murphy, Vincent 8 69 16 Skate, Andrew N 12 280 2 63 Steward, Anthony J 8 67 5 17 Perkins, Matthew J 18 246 8 64 Corrigan, John R 15 62 45 18 Dewey, Derek J 10 239 10 65 Newlands, Harrison R 4 46 19 Akhtar, Syed Rohail 13 227 19 66 Clifford, Jason 2 46 re 20 Khan, Dewan S 16 219 67 Sagoe-Crentsil, Matthew 9 35 40 21 Herbert, Stuart G 16 217 20 68 Newing, Shaun 6 35 55 22 Cairnes, Colin M 12 212 32 69 Madden, William 6 34 23 Proud, Blake 11 210 14 70 Nizar, Sheryaar 8 33 24 Paevere, Jasper 15 202 42 71 Daniell, Wayne 4 33 59 25 Khetia, Vishal S 10 199 72 Madden, Nicholas 4 32 26 Crimmins, Sam B 10 198 51 73 Raut, Jayesh 7 30 27 Sadler, John 12 184 61 74 Nandury, Subramanyam 4 28 33 28 Demelis, Nicholas 10 181 3 75 Panjwani, Ninad 7 28 29 Shepherd, Darcy 10 166 50 76 Paulett,