Wow, what a season! The T20 Blast certainly It was amazing to see the children’s ability grow The success of the season would not have hit the Kincumber-Avoca Cricket Club with a each week and by the end of the season there been possible without the help of a number of bang! With 105 children spread over 12 teams was some terrii c cricket played. The speed of people. We had Steve Sullivan helping to set Erina Oval certainly had a festival feel to it on the T20 Blast game kept the players interested up and pack away the i elds each Saturday, Saturday mornings this summer. and the parents on their toes. The Grifi ns will as well as Cath and Dave Robertson looking be blessed with a huge number of talented after the canteen and barbeque. All three are The T20 Blast was introduced to the Central players making there way through the ranks in great club people and I am sure their work is Coast this season as a 12 week program seasons to come. greatly appreciated by everyone. Trent Walters for kids aged 7 – 10 years of age. Our club was also there every week representing Cricket decided to expand that to include mid week One of the many highlights of the season was NSW. He i tted in so well we are thinking about training, club playing shirts and caps, 5 the opportunity for two of our teams to represent making him an honorary Grifi n! additional games, barbeques, a Christmas our club by playing a T20 Blast game during the party and Presentation. This certainly proved lunch break of this season’s Sydney test match. Special thanks must go to our parents who popular attracting players from our area and The Stars and Heat did the Grifi ns proud and once again stepped up to ensure a wonderful beyond! will take life long memories from that day. season. Our parents coached, managed, scored and umpired as well as cheered and We must also congratulate our “T20 Blast and 11B teams have dominated their comps encouraged the children from the sidelines. We Player of the Year” Lewis Gifford-Cock. Lewis and this is thanks to the club’s strong emphasis must also thank our four young coaches, Isaac is an exceptional young cricketer and fully on our T20 Blast (previously u9) centre. Read and Eden Homan-Corless, and two of deserved the award. Having said that there our senior club cricketers Jesse da Silva and were plenty of other children I watched this Finally I look forward to seeing the rest of the Ronan Marks. Both Jesse and Ronan started season that were not far behind Lewis in ability, players and families back again next season for in the U9’s with the Grifins and it is fantastic and I am expecting big things from these what promises to be another bumper season. to see them helping out the club now they are players in years to come. young adults. Rod Ursem Now this season is inished we look towards Kincumber-Avoca CC T20 Blast Coordinator I would also like to thank Andrew McCrae next summer and I would like to wish good luck for being our oficial T20 Blast photographer! to all the players graduating to hard ball cricket. This yearbook is full of Andrew’s handy work It’s a big step up but the T20 Blast would have and his photos will be great to look back on in prepared them and I am sure the kids will thrive years to come. with the new challenge. This season’s U11A It has been a pleasure managing the Hurricanes Lucas Horsnell - good with both bat and ball. Able Ayres - the pocket rocket is another who T20 team this year with Rod Pitstock coaching. Will be another who will love the longer form of has improved all season with both bat and ball. We have won more games than we have lost, the game. Great work. and with most of the boys being 7 or 8 they will get another season together. Rory Pitstock - been a great help for his dad Thanks again and see you for 2016-2017 who is the coach. Listens and always trying to season. We have seen the kids have plenty of fun this improve. season and develop some ine skills. Rod and Rod Pitstock - Coach I have both relied a lot on the parents to help Oliver Lawson - has excellent bowling and with umpiring and scoring when we have been batting techniques. Credit to his father who has Ben Campbell - Manager unavailable so thanks a lot. put some effort in on the side. Rod - the coach - Thanks for the season mate. Aiden Rivard - improved throughout the The kids have appreciated everything you have season, always listens and concentrates. done for them this season. Morgan Campbell - another great competitor. Lewis Gifford-Cock - has been a standout Has waited to play for years and has loved all for the team and always competitive. Will look aspects of the game. forward to the longer form next season. Ramsay Gifford-Cock - took one of the best Braith Bright - try’s hard each week and has catches all season on the boundary and tries been a great help with the younger kids at hard to do better than his older brothers where training and weekend games. he can. Loves the big hits too. This was a big irst season of cricket for most of our Beau Heinzel - Beau loves his cricket and always Titans players. Only Byron had played before so our wants to be involved. His batting has come on team (and their families!) had a lot to learn about immensely and his bowling has been one of the playing T20 Blast. It’s been really amazing to see biggest improvements overall in the team. everyone pick up new skills and really get into the spirit of the game. Oliver Speed - Oliver brings his free spirit and a great sense of fun to the team, always providing a Riley Beaumont - Riley’s bowling has gone from laugh. We’ve seen him come a very long way with struggle street to being one of the most accurate both batting and bowling. on the team. His batting has come along way and promises to keep improving if he keeps playing next Neo Thompson - Neo leads from the front and is season. always trying to help others improve. His batting is getting better and better and his bowling has come Tayla Beaumont - Tayla shows great composure an extremely long way. You can always expect and always keeps the team in line. She has quickly something amazing from him in the ield become a really promising player who is 100% committed at training and during games. Tom Wegener - From day one, Tom has shown he has a talent for cricket. He bowls accurately, bats Caelan DeLacy - Caelan is extremely passionate with a straight bat and has a very good throwing about cricket and loves to have a go. His batting arm. He has improved his skills in every area of the has improved incredibly and his leg spin bowling is game. a very rare talent for a kid of his age. Jesse Da Silva - Coach Byron Dicks - As our experienced player, Byron shone from the beginning of the season. He has Miriam DeLacy - Manager improved his skills and shown himself to be a naturally talented cricketer with a bright future As manager of the Giants I can’t express how proud Lucas Ableson - Lucas has the most graceful I am of how the boys performed this year. We have batting style that I have seen since the great AB. a few kids that had not played cricket before and He is a master with the bat. seeing their skills, teamwork and sportsmanship develop over the season was a pleasure to watch. Max Hooton - Max has developed into a great Also the ones who had played before progressed to allrounder. His consistency is outstanding. a new level. The T20 Blast format was such fun for all the kids. I never thought I would get to witness Isaac Gale - Isaac is an impressive player. He can such great cricket combined with some great be relied upon to perform with the bat or ball every performances of the Macarena. time. The Giants were very privileged to have Ronan Jonah Mills - Jonah seems to have a knack for Marks, a young local rep player, devote his time taking caught and bowled wickets. With the bat his to train the kids. I have no doubt that the boys shot down to ine leg is feared by bowlers far and developed so much faster under his coaching. wide. On behalf of the parents of the Giants I would like to say a big thank you to Ronan, we really Ben Hooton - Ben has one consistent batting shot appreciate your effort. that he likes to use, but what a shot it is. “6 over mid wicket again”. Ben is a great batsman. Ben Sapford - Ben is a master with the bat. He has come on strong this year. He also has a great Ronan Marks – Coach consistent bowling action. Andrew Mills - Manager Dean Hogger - Dean has improved out of sight this year. He has become quite an allrounder. His boundary count is growing exponentially. Arian Dewan - Arian’s bowling can be described simply as: consistent line and length. The type of bowling that pins batsman down and wins matches. Team Heat had a great season in 2015/16.