2010/2011 Annual Report
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SYDENHAM CRICKET CLUB INC. ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011 PRESENTED AT THE 116TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING SYDENHAM BOWLING CLUB TUESDAY 30 AUGUST 2011 SYDENHAM CRICKET CLUB OFFICE BEARERS 2010 /2011 SEASON PATRON Mr J Harliwich PRESIDENT Mr G Harris PAST PRESIDENT Mr I Thomson VICE PRESIDENT CLUBCAPTAIN MrBLarter WOMENS CLUB CAPTAIN Mr A Chisnall HONORARY SECRETARY Mr G Thin HONORARY TREASURER Mr K Congdon HONORARY AUDITOR JUNIOR CLUB Mr R McCracken HONORARY SOLICITOR Mr P Hartland COMMITTEE Mr W Pluck, Mr D Sainsbury, Mr J Robinson, Mr N Smithson, Mr T Nation, DELEGATES TO THE CCA LIFE MEMBERS (Men) Messrs S Burns, D Gallop, J Harliwich, G Harris, T Kerr, J O’Sullivan, K Prusas, F Rice, B Salt, R Thomas, W Thomson, B Walker, D Heard, JP McKenzie, R Dann, T White, A Chisnall, M Pearcy, T Danenberg, I Thomson. LIFE MEMBERS (Women) Mesdames R Martin, T McDonald, P Quickenden, P Carrick PRESIDENTS REPORT It is my pleasure to present the 116th Annual Report of the Sydenham Cricket Club. The 10/11 season has indeed been a harrowing one. We in Canterbury have been part of a once in 500 year event—a series of major earthquakes in September , December, February, and then June—with 1000’s of aftershocks in between. These events have affected us all, through tragic loss of life of loved ones, friends, and even a cricket club member. Our thoughts and sympathies have already been expressed to the family of Normand Lee. All of us have suffered damage to some degree with our homes, businesses, and jobs. Our City will take many years to recover from this. Our season, as we all know was cut short after the Feb 22nd Earthquake. After that our season was effectively over. I was very pleased to see a strong turnout for our prize giving, particularly when our lives were still in a state of upheaval. Our newly appointed committee from our last AGM was starting to get to grips with how our club can function and grow in a new tighter funding era. Also during the off-season a number of our committee and club members attended strategic planning workshops facilitated by Sport Canterbury. We identified 4 key areas where we as a club need to focus to ensure our club is secure and forward focused. I believe that this exercise was crucial in getting us all on the same page. In terms of the work we need to do to be the “club of Choice” as outlined in our new mission statement. A copy of our 2011-2014 Strategic Plan is available on our website. We are in the process of appointing project leaders to drive those key areas, and I look forward to the positive results which will surely follow, as we implement key action plans. Our club room’s improvements programme continues to be a long process. The earthquakes have certainly not helped in that regard. The lack of availability of qualified contractors willing to do our job has been incredibly frustrating. By the time this goes to print I am confident we will have contractors engaged and underway with our refurbishment. The earthquakes have also caused us major damage to our astro turf facilities, and whilst the facility is insured, it is a major job to rip up, excavate and repair, and we will need to plan carefully, how and when we do this. Our grounds have also suffered major damage. We had major liquefaction, and now there are a lot of undulations on the ground, and the poor drainage would suggest the drainage system is severely damaged. We are in discussions with Council and Canterbury Cricket as to what this might mean for pre-season match venues. The SPC—Sydenham Sports Complex—which currently includes the Hockey and Cricket Clubs is delighted to announce that Sydenham Bowls will join us officially from Oct 1st. The SPC will now effectively manage the properties of our astro turf, Sydenham Pavilion and Sydenham Bowl’s rooms, and are available for all members to use and enjoy. It is intended that we step up the use of the Bowls rooms for after match functions and of course we have 2 sky TVs available, plus pokies, and pool table, and of course, the bar. There are a number of personnel changes this upcoming year. We have lost our long serving coach Mike Shrimpton. Shrimpo and his family lost their business premises twice after both major earthquakes of September and February. Their home was also badly damaged, and at the end of all this, Mike decided he needed to relocate his family to the peaceful environs of Taradale in the Hawke’s Bay. We are really sad to see Mike go, but fully understand what he has been through. Mike wants to continue as our Sydenham ambassador, and I am sure that any players moving south from Mike area—will surely end up in Sydenham! We were fortunate to be able to appoint Phil Robinson the role of club coach. Many of you will have read from the recent Press release that Phil was a very successful County Cricket player, and more recently a coach at Leicester. Phil had a number of coaching offers from clubs in the Canterbury region, and we were delighted that he chose to join us here at Sydenham. I am also pleased to announce that Sunjay Ganda has accepted the new role of Senior Manager. This new role will enable us as a club to focus on a strong player recruitment campaign and also continue on with our player development programmes. Sunjay will be relinquishing his player role to focus on the key objectives as well as providing Phil with assistance with team selections and player assessments. We have also lost our senior scorer, Brent Whear, who has decided to relocate to Dunedin for the foreseeable future. On behalf of the Committee I would like to pass on my thanks to Brent for his diligence and hard work in past seasons and wish him all of the best for the future. We will be actively recruiting a replacement for Brent in the near future. Our Club Captain Ben Larter has signalled to the committee that he will not be available in this role this season. Ben, and his family, like a lot of us, has been severely affected by the earthquakes, and also his current role, working in the City re-build, means long hour at work. On behalf of the committee I would like to express our sincere thanks to Ben for his past efforts, and hope that he can at least front up on most Saturdays for a relaxing game of cricket!. Finally I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Committee. We have some serious experience and ability within our current committee and I thank you all for your input into what has been a very very difficult year. I trust I can persuade you all to re-stand, to continue with the work and plans we have started. We have unfinished business!! Thanks also to our ever-serving Bert Walker for his quiz night, (we did have another one planned for 22nd Feb, but another major earthquake took care of that) and Also the very successful golf day. Also thanks to Jon Bennett who is our raffles organizer at Becks on Friday night—great effort Jon, and the revenue from this weekly raffle is very welcome and needed! Thanks again to Andrew Chisnall for his sterling work organizing the prize giving, and of course the preparation of this annual report. I would also like to acknowledge our sponsors. Becks Southern Alehouse Air Rescue Trust Pub Charity Canterbury Community Trust New Zealand Community Trust Southern Community Trust Without their ongoing support we would not be able to function as a successful, viable club. Graham Harris President MEN’S CLUB CAPTAINS REPORT Welcome to the end of another season here at the mighty SCC. Unfortunately this is a season that will be remembered for the terrible events on Feb 22. On Feb 22 Sydenham CC lost one of its members Normand Lee from the Suddenly Sydenham cricket team. The season was also brought to a premature close 6 weeks early as cricket was the last thing on the minds of us all. Next season will have a very new look for many reasons: After the devastation of Feb 22 many the cities cricket grounds will not be ready in time for the start of the season including our own beloved Sydenham Park. As a result (at the time of writing this) Sydenham Premiers will possibly be based at Lincoln University. Ours isn’t the only club in this position with Lancaster Park and possibly East Shirley in a similar position. Many grounds not normally used will have to utilised to accommodate all of the various grades. Sydenham CC is likely to have less teams on the park. Last season we had the most of any club in Christchurch with 12. Next season we will possibly have 3 less teams due to the flow on effects of Feb 22, as people have moved away and priorities have changed. As of 1 Oct the merger of Cricket, Bowls & Hockey under the Sydenham Park Complex banner becomes official. After a hugely successful trial this season, a huge calendar events tied into the Rugby World Cup are in the pipeline. Due to work commitments I will be not be standing for the club captain role or the committee, and won’t be captaining the new 2020 side.