Parnell Club

Incorporated - Established 1858

Update No. 208 –Our Cups Runneth Over – and not just the America’s Cup!

Jeff Crowe Cup Won by Prems & Reserves are One Day Champions And Individuals Andy Lane – 2 Stunning Centuries and 1,000+ Runs this Season Plus Superb Tons by Flynn McGregor-Sumpter and Ben Rae

Before reviewing the Weekend, first note your Diaries for Friday, 9 April:

Now the Weekend - First Saturday: Sat, 6 & 13/2 Hedley Howarth Trophy: Parnell vs Grafton United Shore Road 1. GRAFTON UNITED 221/8 dec. (52) A Edwards 32 (48), K Ruffell 31 (73), D Taylor 70 (74), J Dymond 46 (28), Ganesh Raynasabapathy 0/13 (4) Fanie de Villiers 0/20 (4), 1/25 (8o 1m), Josh Fisher 4/67 (16o 2m), Nikith Perera 1/53 (8o 1m) Jack Parsons 1/9 (3o 1m), Aniket Parikh 1/33 (9) PARNELL 340/4 (43.4) Flynn McGregor-Sumpter 110 (98 – 13x4s, 3x6s), Andy Lane 143 (115 – 15x4s, 8x6s), Fanie de Villiers 65 (22 – 3x4s, 7x6s) RESULT: Match Drawn – 1st innings points of 16 to Parnell Just one round left, Suburbs NL with 89 points leads from North Shore, 78 and Parnell 74 DAY 1. No play – Lockdown Level 2. Then on Day 2. The heroes of the day

Lockie – great to have you back on the field! Flynn – 110 off 98 balls & 3x6s Andy – 143 off 115 & 8xgs Fanie – 65 off 22 balls & 7x6s DAY 2. An astonishing day’s play! First, the Grafton openers weathered our pace attack including a fit again Lockie but Nikith, coming on for the 17th over, immediately had Edwards caught – 58/1 and then Josh struck twice – 64/3. The score crept to over 100, Jack removed Ruffell, the other opener, and Lockie came on for another spell and immediately yorked the newcomer. Nikith and Aniket had quietened the scoring and Josh came back, removed Taylor ( a very good 70) and Bhana and Aniket got a – 154/8 indicating an easy chase for us. Dymond had other ideas, smacked 46 off 28 balls and, with Duffy took the total to 221.

Our response was electrifying – Ben Rae was lbw at 21 but, much better than a run ball, Flynn and Andy took the Grafton attack apart. They added 221 off just 189 balls – just 30 short of the Club’s all time Premier 2nd wicket record held by Tim McIntosh and Akshay Reddy in 1999/2000. Then additional bonus points were secured by Fanie’s lightning knock of 65 off only 22 balls. 16 points earned for the second game in succession – superb work and truly exhilarating to watch! Great to welcome Lockie back after injury – even off 7 paces he was quicker than anyone else. We look forward to when he resumes his rightful place in the Black Caps. We also wish Lockie well when he turns out for Yorkshire in their white ball games this coming Northern season. Lockie will certainly soak up the wonderful traditions of Yorkshire cricket – one of the most successful of all English Counties. The Hedley Howarth - in the greater scheme of things, we are still 15 points behind Suburbs NL who trounced Takapuna outright. That leeway will be hard to make up with only a final game against Papatoetoe before the season ends on Saturday, 28 March. The game is at Papatoetoe but the lads will be trying!

Now Sunday - the Jeff Crowe Cup Final Sunday, 14 March Parnell vs Howick Pakuranga Shore Road Reserve 1. An amazing gala day for the Club notwithstanding the overwhelming belief that the Jeff Crowe Final deserves to be played at , the home of Cricket. Another exceedingly special feature of the day was that, for the very first time, Jeff Crowe himself was present to present the Cup to the winner – special ind

The Jeff CroweCup Jeff Crowe explaining that this is the first time he had actually seen the Cup

The Final – (Scoresheets by Jocelyn Goodger who also scored on-line and kept an eagle eye on the manual scoreboard):

RESULT: Parnell Won by 109 Runs

A gloriously fine day, the ground a picture – Carol Keane, our Groundsman’s wife, mowed the outfield twice (necessary because of a heavy dew) and Dave had prepared a cracker of a pitch, 561 runs scored on it Saturday and a further 509 about to be scored, Test match quality! DoC Phil lead a team of volunteers from daybreak erecting the marquee, tents, putting out the pickets and readying the Clubroom. TEAMS: we without Lockie Ferguson, , Will Somerville, Ben Horne and Ollie Pringle (nor Corey Anderson this season) – Black Caps or Ace’ duties. Howick Pak. had back.

Skipper Brad Rodden, back at the helm, won the toss and elected to bat. Our openers Flynn McGregor-Sumpter (above left) and Ben Rae (right) started briskly and confidently but Munro had Flynn caught – 33/1. In the 9th over. Munro also took the next wicket – Ben’s, not not before he and Andy Lane had taken the score to 182 and 33 overs gone. A suberb start – Ben dominated the scoring and his 114 came off only 107 balls, a truly magnificent innings full of powerful shots all round the wicket. Andy was on 47 when Ben was caught. Heading to his second century of the weekend, Andy was scoring with a series of beautifully timed drives. Meantime Fanie de Villiers, Brad Rodden and Aniket all had quick but useful cameos, fell but Andy completed his brilliant ton and, at 50 overs, we had 309 on the board.

Ben Rae stroking one to leg and heading for, and the reaching of, his ton

Andy – one of those glorious raking drives and acknowledging applause on reaching 100 – his second for the wekend

Luncheon

Chairman Craig Presland welcoming our guests who included Councillor Desley Simpson, Iain Laxon, CEO of Auckland Cricket, Umpires Doug Cowie and Roger Woolmer, the Howick Pak. Board, Parnell CC Sponsors and our Life Members and Hon. Vice Presidents. Huge thanks to the volunteers who prepared the food and worked the kitchen, particularly Gill Lane, Donna Trott, Maryanne Fisher, Liz Hurdley and Tracey Presland. Thanks, too, to Andrew Hickman and his mates, Liam and Peter, who manned the canteen and bar so very ably through the afternoon and evening.

Back for Howick Pakuranga’s Innings – Set 310 to Win:

Skipper Brad leads Parnell onto the field to defend our 309 – great Junior support outside the boundary Fanie opened the attack to Bill Walsh – 5 dots and a 4 off the first over

2nd over from the seaward end – Ganesh to Colin Munro, the former Black Cap and T20 specialist – dot ball, 4, another dot then JOY OF JOYs, ‘keeper Harry Miller holds the catch! Exit Munro!

Colin Munro out – hugely important, the man who can tear an attack apart in no time. Andy Morrison joined Bill Walsh and the score reached 45 in the 12th over, Brad, with Harry’s help, ran out Morrison Howick Pak’s form batsman through the Club season. Dean had replaced Fanie and Josh had a short spell before Nikith, left arm orthodox, and Aniket came on whith his off spin.

21 overs gone and the total 80, well below the required rate. Aniket (left above) immediately struck having Walsh caught and bowled in his first over and D Winn caught by Josh Fisher in his second – 87/4. The spinners were dictating terms – Nikith (right above) was very tidily, too, and whilst Grobbelaar (46), L Winn (19) and Jones (20) all got started, Nikith winkled all 3 of them out. Never collared, Nikith, in his 10 overs, only had 2 boundaries hit off him – one 4 and one 6. Great support from Aniket but then Dean and Josh came back on to tidy up the rest:

From 140/4 Howick Pak. lost their last 6 wickets for 60 runs – Dean van Deventer (above left) picking up 2 before Josh Fisher (above right) took the last and the Jeff Crowe Cup was Parnell’s once more!

Jeff Crowe Cup Presentation

Andy Morrison, HP Skipper congratulating Parnell & thanking ACA Umpires Phil Jones & Jim Birchell honoured Iain Laxon, CEO Auckland Cricket watches as Jeff Crowe presents Brad with the Cup

Jeff Crowe & full Parnell Team including Coach Ian West, Scorer Jocelyn Goodger & Manager John Fisher And the corks are popped!

The Finale – Two Victorious Teams Our Prems with the Jeff Crowe Cup and our Premier Reserves, One Champions of Their Grade

Huge Thanks To Our Supporters and Volunteers!

Andy with his admirers The Rose Garden and Hospitality Tents

Gill Lane and Donna Trott who worked so hard in the kitchen Our Prem Reserves, back from winning their Final vs Eden Roskill at Keith Hay Park

Nathan Robinson who flew from to play in the Reserves’ Final and top scored with 78 Lorraine and Roger Woolmer

And three Black Caps – , Jeff Crowe and Lockie Ferguson

And so ended a superb gala day at Shore Road

Auckland Cricket Premier Reserve Grade One Day Final

An exceedingly decisive win to our Team led by Giacomo Lamplough. Very good to see our top order all had some success with the bat though only Nathan Robinson went on to better 50. Special mention of Nathan, now at Victoria University, he had flown up at his own cost to play in this game and your Editor has been told that Nathan batted exceptionally well. Having set Eden Roskill a competitive 224 to chase, Jack Parsons then utterly demolished their line up. Pankaj, KV, Prashant and Kartikey all chimed in with top support and the innings was over in less than 27 overs. A clear case of the better side having won! With that Championship in the bag, the Team headed to support the Prems back at Shore Road and to celebrate appropriately!

Parnell Premier Reserve Team – One Day Grade Champions Back – L-R: Josh Milne (Manager), Prashant Dhanjee, Pankaj Kumar, Giacomo Lamplough (), Eddie Commons, Will Ormiston, Jack Parsons, Quin Sorensen Front – L-R: Vatsal Desai, Nathan Robinson, Callum McCarthy (Coach), Kartik Trivedi, KV Prakash, Ashwin Haran (12th Man)

And The Juniors Had Their Day, Too

JT Sparling Tournament – Parnell vs Howick Pakuranga

Another exceptional result for Parnell – congratulations to all the youngsters who took part. The weather was wonderfully kind to us and, hopefully, you all had a most enjoyable day. Looking at the result it seems that the two bats will be held by Parnell until the next encounter in 2021/22 Season. An outcome that seems to have got the wag of approval!

Chairman of our Junior Section, Jeremy Boucher, holding the two Trophy Bats at the Prizegiving that followed the games against Howick Pakuranga. The lads that stayed for the Prizegiving then enjoyed the BBQ arranged by Manager Steve and Mrs Liz Hurdley

Other Senior Grades – Two Day Games 6 & 13 March But note that there was no play on the 6th due to Lockdown Women’s Premier No game scheduled

Men’s Premier Reserves - President’s Cup: vs Grafton United GRAFTON UNITED 145/10 (46.4) Kartik Trivedi 4/30, Pankaj Kumar 2/18, Josh Milne 2/36 PARNELL 139/10 (51.1) Will Ormiston 38, Will Hay RESULT: Match Drawn, 1st Innings points to Grafton United

Women’s Premier Reserves vs Waitakere No details recorded

Men’s Third Grade vs Birkenhead PARNELL 188/10 `` (45.5) Matt James 82 (72), Luke O’Toole 21 (32), Simon Walker 24 (20) BIRKENHEAD 104/10 (32.1) Simon Walker 4/21 (7), Mehul Chhagan 3/34 (9) RESULT: Match Drawn, 1st innings points to Parnell

Men’s Sixth Grade - Fourths or Prunes vs Papatoetoe PAPATOETOE 108/10 (33) Jacob Penrose 5/22 (7) PARNELL 109/4 (31) Jack Dohnt 29 (66) RESULT: Match Drawn, 1st innings points to Parnell

Presidents Grade – Chris Laycock’s Report vs Ellerslie at Shore Road Our seasons sins see us competing for the bowl in the Presidents championships rounds. As is the case most years we struggle for fit players towards the end of the season, luckily our loyal and talented Director of Cricket pulled his whites out of the bottom draw to make up our 11 (we got this across the line by telling the Ellerslie captain that we’d rung in the old boy from the office!!) Another catastrophic top order collapse saw Phil and I having to stage a careful rebuild against a disciplined swing attack. From 68/3 after 18 overs we put on a solid 103 for the 4th wicket (Phil 76 from 65 and myself 46 from 73) which gave a platform for Jonny (35 from 30) and Greg (12 from 14) to finish strongly with a defendable total of 197/7 after 35. One of our better bowling and performances paired nicely with a very careful batting effort from the Ellerslie boys, they were 46-3 at drinks, well behind the required run rate. Robbo had a good head of steam up to open and close the bowling with his 3 wickets costing only 9 runs from 7 overs, Captain Flash had the gloves on and helped Robbo into presumably his first stumping victim. Gareth raised the bar bowling his 7 overs in one spell taking out Ellerslie’s best batsman and giving up only 15 runs. Greg took 1-17 off his 6 overs capping off a great day for him and Ev, Jonny and Gormo took a wicket each at a good rate. Ellerslie staggered to 130 for 8 as they were truely out played by the Parnell boys which turned out to be the theme for the weekend.

P.S Despite Phil’s description of his own innings deteriorating every time he was forced to speak about it, I was at the other end for most of it...you can’t hide class mate!

Whilst The Jeff Crowe Cup Again Became Parnell’s Cup,

The America’s Cup Remains ’s Cup – Congratulations Team NZ!!

Our Parnell President Rod Smith missed our Final at Shore Road as he was out on the water watching the sailing. Rod (above in blue) was sighted on TV 3 by some sharp eyed members of our Pressies Team.

Our Professional Coaches are Available To Coach

Ian West - Henry Cameron - Callum McCarthy

IAN WEST (NZC High Performance Coach) 021 142 5142 [email protected] Our Head Coach, Ian has a strong history of coaching and developing high performing players and successful teams in England, Samoa, Australia and New Zealand. Since 2017/18 he has been Head Coach for Auckland A team and the U19s and has been EDCA’s Director of Cricket. He also had stints at Gloucestershire CCC. Ian played Premier cricket in the North Yorkshire and Durham League plus in Victoria, Australia, and for several Auckland clubs..

HENRY CAMERON (Level 2. Australia) 027 605 1016 [email protected] Welcome to Henry, Parnell’s newly appointed Head Women’s Coach. Henry grew up in the Wairarapa but has spent the last four years in coaching premier cricket including women’s teams. Now living in Remuera, Henry also runs his own personal training business.

CALLUM McCARTHY (ECB Level 2.) 027 297 0511 [email protected] In his second season at Parnell having come to us from the UK to play in 2019/20. Callum is an experienced coach – coaching in Warwickshire and he also had a season in Australia with the Trafalgar CC in Victoria. Callum presently Coach to our Men’s Premier Reserve team.

PLUS PARTIME PLAYER COACHES:

Ollie Pringle – Aniket Parikh OLLIE PRINGLE (Level 2. NZ) 022 303 2544 [email protected] Ollie is an outstanding player for our Prems – opening bowler and top order bat. On the fringe of greater playing honours for some seasons, Ollie is now contracted to Auckland Aces and made his 1st Class debut this season– long overdue recognition! He also coaches at Saint Kentigern College plus EDCA teams and has trained our Premier Women.

ANIKET PARIKH (Level 2. NZ) 021 112 7163 [email protected] Aniket is a spin bowling all-rounder in our Premier team. A great addition to the Club since his move here in 2018/19. He represented New Zealand U19s at the 2016 Junior World Cup and in 2017/18 had an Auckland Aces contract.Part of the EDCA/Parnell Pro Coaching Program & runs his own private sessions specialising in batting and spin bowling coaching.

OUR AFFILIATED COACHES: IAN TROTT (Level 3. ECB) 021 025 92441 [email protected] Ian, Parnell’s Head Coach for 11 seasons, is now Auckland Grammar’s Head Coach. Ian’s successes at Parnell, for EDCA and overseas – South Africa, England, Dubai – are legendary. Ian is still seen frequently at the TJC taking Grammar practices and taking ‘one on ones’ which can be arranged by appointment.

JONATHAN McINROY (Level 3. Sth Africa) 022 023 6496 [email protected] Jonathan came to Parnell from Port Shepstone High and had considerable success with Parnell youngsters and EDCA Girls in District Age Group Tournaments. Jonathan has moved on from full time coaching but is still available for ‘one on ones’.

ROY GOODYEAR (Level 3. Accredited NZ, BCCI, Aust.) 027 222 3433 [email protected] Roy played 1st Class cricket in Zimbabwe and for Natal. An umpire of international standing, Roy has coached at St Kentigern and King’s Colleges. A wealth of experience – Roy is available for ‘one on ones’ and for mentoring.

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Henry Cameron Training

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Urgent Message From Mike Wood, Player Sports Hi all, Things are getting real with Hollie’s fundraising drive. It’s off to a great start but we have a long way to go.

Please see below and attached. • Please print off and throw them up in sports clubs, workplaces, schools, anywhere you think might be beneficial to the cause. • Obviously any digital sharing of these flyers is welcomed also. • Consistent high volume traffic to the Givealittle page over the next 6 weeks will be the key to success. • Hope for Hollie’ Givealittle: https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/helping-hollie-fund • Hope for Hollie’ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/hopeforhollie Thanks in advance, Mike. (For those not aware – Hollie’s Dad John works at Players Sports)

Mike Wood Managing Director 021 979 222 / 09 522 8170 14 Melrose Street, Newmarket, Auckland 1023

Brad Rodden asks that we all support his mate Paddy at The Corner! And you all know where The Corner is!

Dr Simon Kelly Mt Eden Chiropractic www.mtedenchiro.co.nz 096388266

Personal recommendations from: PHIL HORNE: “Simon Kelly provided outstanding care for our Premier Men’s squad in 2018/19, and this season Simon has also worked with our Premier Women’s squad. I can personally recommend Simon’s expertise and his involvement played a very significant role in ensuring our players were in improved shape through the season.”

BRAD RODDEN PCC Premier Captain concurs –“Simon and Mt Eden Chiropractic were a fantastic addition to Parnell Cricket Club last season and we very much appreciate their working with us again this summer. Simon and his team have given their time selflessly to us and provided an excellent service that gives our players every opportunity to stay fit and on the field all season. Simon gets a glowing review from every one of the players that goes in to see his team and his involvement again this season gives us an edge not many teams would be lucky enough to get. On behalf of PCC, thank you very much Simon.” Brad”

Phil also adds that Simon plays for our Presidents team and his young son, Riley, also plays for the Club

Players Sports

Players Sports Newmarket and Scarbro Tennis Centre stores are now open again to the public. You can shop in store, buy online or collect and collect. Visit www.playerssports.co.nz As you would assume extra health and safety measures are in place at both locations, however none of these measures will prevent the Players team providing you the best in store customer service they can as you seek to gear up for the sporting year ahead.

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10 Years major Sponsor of Parnell Cricket Club!! Many, many thanks Ascot!!!

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