49th ANNUAL REPORT 2020/2021 SEASON SNLCC – NZC COMMUNITY CRICKET CLUB OF THE YEAR 2021 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PART ONE 2020-21 SEASON REVIEW 3 Chair’s Report 7 Season Highlights 10 Office Holders 11 Representative Honours 12 Sponsors and Community Partners PART TWO AWARDS AND PRIZEGIVINGS 13 ACA Special Awards 13 SNLCC Cricketer of the Year Awards 14 Senior Club Awards 14 Junior Club Awards PART THREE SEASON STATISTICS AND REPORTS 16 Premier Grade 18 Premier Women Reserve Grade 20 Premier Reserve Major Grade 23 Premier Reserve Minor Grade 25 Player Leader Boards PART FOUR CLUB HISTORY & STATISTICS 32 Introduction 33 Career Records – batting, bowling, wicket keeping, fielding. 39 Record Season Aggregates 41 All Time Record Performance 42 New Zealand and Auckland Representatives PART FIVE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 43 Treasurer’s Report 47 Financial Statements and Auditors Report 2 PART ONE 2020-21 SEASON REVIEW Chair and Club Manager Report It is our great pleasure to provide the Chair and Club Manager’s Report for the 2020-21 season. It would be fair to say that everyone approached the summer with great uncertainty and a sense of trepidation. Covid-19 had forced the country into lock down for a significant part of the winter and the general consensus was that there more lock downs were likely to follow over the summer. Suddenly running a cricket club was much more complicated with contingency and safety plans required before the season even started. No-one was sure what registrations would look like and the forecast was that traditional funding streams would not be available. As it turned out the season turned out to be one of the most successful in the club’s history with significant growth in membership, the Premiers winning the prestigious Hedley Howarth Two Day Championship and then in April the club being awarded the NZC Community Cricket ‘Club of the Year” award. Membership For the third year in a row we experienced considerable growth in our membership with playing numbers rising in both seniors and juniors. It is actually quite hard to capture exact playing numbers as there are now so many casual players in the One Day teams and a junior member will sometimes play in as many as three different competitions. Our official playing membership on CricHQ is now 910 players spread across 72 teams. Add in over 200 non- playing members (social members, coaches, managers, administrators, old boys) and we now boast a total membership of over 1000 which means we are now the third largest club in Auckland. The Senior section of the club fielded 31 teams this season which confirms us as the largest senior club in New Zealand. • 10 Men’s Two-Day teams • 11 Men’s One Day teams • 9 T20 Men’s teams • 1 Women’s Premier Reserve side The Junior section of the club fielded 50 junior teams • Midgets – 81 registrations • 8 Year 3 & 4 Action Cricket teams • 4 Under 10 teams • 9 Under 11 teams (7 boys and 22 girls) • 6 Under 12 teams • 7 Under 12 teams • 9 Under 15 teams 3 • 1 Under 16 teams (girls) • 5 Under 17 teams • 2 Under 23 team Playing Success As a club our main focus is on participation and giving as many cricketers in West Auckland as possible a great experience. But of course, the playing successes that come along the way are also important and Suburbs has always prided itself on developing young talent and providing a pathway through to higher representative honours. This season nine teams won their grade in Auckland Cricket competitions. Congratulations to: Premiers Hedley Howarth Two Day Champions Two Day 5th Grade Lions Two Day and Overall Championship One Day Fearless Falcons One Day 4B Minor Championship T20 Brown Caps One A Post-Christmas Championship T20 Challengers Central/West Pre-Christmas Championship T20 Knight Warriors Central/West Post-Christmas Championship Under 13 Jimmy Neesham U15 Mid-Week Post Xmas T20 (Ken Maunder Park Hub) Under 15 Sean Solia U15 T20 Summer Series Under 15 Sean Solia U15 Mid-Week Post Xmas T20 (Keith Hay Hub) The various winners of individual honours are recorded elsewhere in this report and we extend our congratulations to all of them on having such a successful season. Multi-award-winning players - SNLCC U15 Sean Solia team. Winners of the U15 T20 Summer Series Competition and the U15 T20 Post Xmas competition (Keith Hay Park Hub), semi-finalists for U15 LO40 Summer Series competition! 4 Coaching and Player Development Suburbs has always placed great importance on coaching and player development. This season we expanded Jonny Bassett-Graham’s role further to include Premier, Club Coach Development Manager and Youth Academy Director. He was ably supported in these roles by Trevor Payle (3rd & 4th grades, women, and Midgets), and Sahil Mehta (Juniors) as our staff coaches. We also employed another five casual coaches over the season, and they all did a great job. With the growth in junior cricket the volunteer parent coaches and managers are increasingly important. We supported these coaches with two practical training sessions this season, combined with access to the NZ Cricket online coaching qualifications. While we have made some good progress in this area there is still much to be done and this will be a key focus area over the next few years. Community Engagement As a club we want to be the focal point for our local community. We made some good progress in this regard this season with better engagement with local primary and secondary schools - we had engagement with more than 15 schools over the last year. This was done in a number of ways. In primary schools we conducted pre-season awareness sessions using club coach Sahil Mehta and then during the season we also held special Auckland Cricket ‘Bat First’ promotional sessions in primary schools. For secondary schools we ran special youth coaching clinics for both girls and boys during the winter and then provided targeted coaching and advice to several secondary schools over the summer. We have a fantastic facility in our Indoor Training Centre and the plan is to use this more over the coming seasons to connect with the local business community. Sponsorship is becoming more and more important as the club grows and we were fortunate again to be supported by a small group of dedicated sponsors and funders – please see the dedicated SNLCC Partner page for details. We would encourage you to support our sponsors whenever possible. Obituary - John Reid It was with great sadness that we all learned in January of the passing of Club Patron John Reid. John was one of the greatest cricketers to ever represent Suburbs New Lynn and had an illustrious career for the Black Caps. He also served as Chief Executive for Auckland Cricket, High Performance Manager for NZC and General Manager – Community Sport for Sport NZ. The club was always very important to John and even though he had lived for many years in Christchurch he was always supportive of club activities. He will be sadly missed. 5 Administration In April 2020 the fixed term contract of our current Club Manager Joanne Thornber came to an end. After taking some time to consider the best management options going forward bearing in mind the Covid-19 situation, the management committee decided to advertise the position and in June were able to appoint Kate Hillier-Cook as the new Club Manager. We were very lucky to secure someone with event management experience and a strong connection to the club. As a result of the off-field management of the club was very ably handled by the Executive Committee, the Junior Committee and Kate. It is no small task running a club of our size and we are delighted to report that in addition to the membership growth and playing success outlined above, the club also returned a healthy financial surplus for the third year in a row. We now have a small reserve fund which we have decided to use to assist the Ken Maunder Park Community Trust to complete a range of renovations to the clubrooms over the winter of 2021. Enjoy the winter and we look forward to seeing everyone again next summer. Andrew Eade Kate Hillier-Cook Chair Club Manager Club regulars KB, Donners, Kate and Bill celebrate the epic Premier comeback on the final day of the season 6 Season Highlights NZC Club of the Year In April NZ Cricket contacted the club to announce that Suburbs New Lynn had been awarded the NZ Cricket Club of the Year Award. This award is part of the Community Cricket Awards presented each year by New Zealand Cricket. The award was only created in 2015 and Suburbs became just the sixth winner. When presenting the award at the Suburbs Cricketer of the Year Dinner on 9 April, Kent Stead from NZC noted “We had identified seven key areas that we would use to assess the award. Suburbs had performed so well in all these areas that it was a clear winner. We could see significant growth in membership and most pleasingly the women and girl’s section of the club had grown from one to four teams. The connection to the local schools was also strong with relationships in place with over 10 primary schools. Suburbs also had great ethnic diversity in its membership and in many ways reflected the modern New Zealand. Finally, there was no doubt that the player development programme was first class having produced so many Black Caps over the last decade and this also highlighted the exceptional leadership and governance that was in place at the club.