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LEADING EDGE
VICTORIAN TURF CRICKET ASSOCIATION (VTCA) - OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER / BOOKLET
Vol 23. No 6. April 2015.
Editor : Brian Quinn Issue 107.
Email : bjquinn@bigpond.net.au
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KINGSTON TROPHIES
WELCOME to the 107th issue of
Leading Edge, the official Newsletter
of the Victorian Turf Cricket
Association.
As per usual, I have included all 27
Grand Final Scorecards, plus match
reports from Premiership-winning
captains. Also, Best Player Medal
voting details are included for all 8
First Eleven Grades, as well as the
Final Ladders of every Grade.
The Kingston Trophies’ Senior
Division Team of the Year is
published, and there are the
obligatory statistics, from Most Runs
to Bowling Strike Rates, plus articles
on various players.
There is a fantastic article on
former Test player, Ken Eastwood,
currently a long-time Umpire in the
VTCA, by Brydon Coverdale,
Assistant Editor at ESPNcricinfo.
Also, there is an interview with Old
Mentonians Premiership captain,
Simon Cormie, who scored 979 runs
in a fantastic season.
This issue sees an increase from 48
pages to 64 pages, primarily to
reproduce more Newspaper articles
from various First X1 Grand Finals,
as well as articles from Blair
McFarlane (Doutta Stars), David
Zahorodni (Tullamarine) and Sven
Samild (Old Mentonians).
Finally, there are 2 pieces about
Peter Howarth, one from Gary
McInnes (long-time VTCA servant)
and the other from Glenn
Scarborough of VTCA Radio fame.
Peter was appointed as Secretary in
February 1991, and later became
Competition Manager. He has been
an integral part of the VJCA/VTCA
for 40 seasons.
Brian Quinn – Editor
Call Ian Mann on 9580 8440
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FROM THE DESK OF
THE PRESIDENT
KINGSTON
TROPHIES’
SENIOR DIVISION
TEAM of the YEAR
by Steve McNamara
To all of those in attendance at our
2015 Presentation Night, may I wish
you an enjoyable and rewarding
evening on behalf of all associated
within the Victorian Turf Cricket
Association. To those not in
attendance I hope you all have
enjoyed your season and are now
partaking in a well-earned rest before
strapping on the pads to do it all again
next summer.
I am sure all of you associated
within our Association would agree
what an amazing culmination to our
season this was with some finals
games extremely close and ending in
nail biting results. As we all know,
finals pressure is a different beast all
together. Some heavily favoured
sides such as Beaumaris in Senior
Division, Keilor and Keilor Park in
North Division, St. Albans in North
A, Murrumbeena in South A, West
Newport and Barkly St Uniting in
West B would all be bitterly
disappointed with having been
knocked out in Semi Finals,
particularly for some of those who
had dominated for a significant
proportion of the season.
Grand Finals also threw up their
share of surprises and close finishes.
What a remarkable effort by Kingsville Baptists in West B, having
finished a distant fourth overcoming
strong favourite West Newport in the
Semi and then outclassing Deer Park
in the Grand Final. The club should
be very proud of their efforts.
Other
notable
grand
final
encounters included (continued P2)
(as voted by captains)
Here is the 2014/15 composite
team, selected by all Senior Division
captains, in batting order:1.
Thilina MASMULLA (Sth Caulf)
549 runs @ 34.31
2. Dean PETER-BUDGE (Strathm)
522 runs @ 43.50
3. Ryan PRINGLE (Hampton)
536 runs @ 38.29; 11 wkts @ 36.09
4. Ash RUSSELL (Sth Caulfield)
657 runs @ 43.80; 22 wkts @ 19.86
5. Ian HEWETT (Beaumaris) Capt
518 runs @ 43.17; 12 wkts @ 21.50
6. Konrad KURTA (Yarrav Club)
632 runs @ 45.14; 30 wkts @ 17.43
7. David ZAHORODNI (Tulla)
531 runs @ 44.25; 31 wkts @ 15.10
8. Ben TUPPER (Yarrav Club) w/k
302 runs @ 25.17; 21 c & 1 st
9. Greg KENNEDY (Hopp Cross)
85 runs @ 14.17; 39 wkts @ 12.05
10. Sampath PERERA (Sth Caulf)
96 runs @ 8.73; 41 wkts @ 13.85
11. Chathura DARSHANA (Greenv)
64 runs @ 6.67; 42 wkts @ 18.14
Congratulations to all players upon
their selection in this, the 12th Senior
Division Team of the Year. Thanks,
as always, to Kingston Trophies for
their excellent ongoing support.
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GRAND FINAL Scores
Yarraville Club
140 & 1/222
def
South Caulfield 147 & 211
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Jacana and East Coburg in a low
scoring thriller in North B was a game
where the game could have gone
either way and culminated in a 55 run
win for Jacana, effectively their lead
from the first innings.
Sunshine United’s five wicket win
in West A over Willy CY’s was again
another low scoring encounter that
had plenty of twists effectively
decided by the Sunshine bats being
able to blunt the wily veteran Andrew
Leetet to get the 50 run target in the
fourth innings.
South A was also decided by only
54 runs with Old Mentonians second
innings of 215 getting them across the
line.
In North A the star studded line up
of Aberfeldie would be distraught
with the first innings capitulation for
just 75 which inevitably cost them the
game. After recruiting heavily in
recent years it’s back to the drawing
board for Abers again. I’m sure Haig
Fawkner are still celebrating their
first ever VTCA premiership and
deservedly so. Vishwaranga’s 7/28
for Haig in Aber’s first innings was a
match winning effort.
Bonbeach Promoted to Senior Div
Lasith
Fernando’s
century,
supported by a couple of 40’s from
Jason Chapple and Pathum de Mel,
were the catalyst for Chelsea getting
the chocolates in the South Division
final but to their credit Bonbeach
Tangy gave it a red hot crack with
Chris Williams 98 and skipper David
Fernandez’s 48 not enough to get
close to Chelsea’s 8/324.
Congratulations to Chelsea on their
win, the game possibly being a fitting
farewell to some of their veterans.
With Chelsea expecting some
retirements from their premiership
side they have elected to not be
promoted to Senior Division but to
their credit Bonbeach Tangy have
been thrilled to take up the
opportunity to be promoted at the
expense of Chelsea.
Bonbeach Tangy have a quality line
up and are a very well administered
club ably led by a quality person in
Michael Hogan and his board and we
are extremely confident they will
equip themselves very well in our
premier division.
In North Division, Doutta Stars’
exciting West Indian skipper Brenton
Parchment was the difference
between the two sides with a match
winning 6/50 in West Coburg’s first
innings followed up by a game high
68 with the bat in his side’s second
innings. Congratulations to Blair
McFarlane and his board, Brenton
and his team on a great win and
welcome them on their journey into
Senior Division. Much like Bonbeach
Tangy, I am confident they will be
competitive from the outset.
Senior Div Grand Final An Epic
The Senior Division Grand Final
proved to be an absolute classic
encounter by arguably the two best
sides in the competition for a number
of years. Much like their contest in
the corresponding final last season
Yarraville Club and South Caulfield
produced an epic.
With South Caulfield taking a
seven run lead after the completion of
a low scoring first innings by both
sides, what would happen next was
on everybody’s lips. When South
Caulfield completed day two at 5/50
odd it looked a forgone conclusion
that the Clubbers would again be way
too good. To think that though would
be to underestimate the fighting spirit
of the lads at South Caulfield. Day
three belonged to one man, Anthony
Grey, who produced an innings of
enormous grit and spirit with 129,
well supported by Shane Jeffree at the
end which gave Souths a fighting
chance by posting 211. Many would
have thought that a target above 180
would have been very competitive
with the possible exception of those
at Yarraville Club.
Few outside the four walls of those
at Hansen Reserve would have
thought they would come out on day
four and chase down the target of 219
with only one wicket down. Huge
credit to captain Anthony Cristofaro
with 106no and Benny Tupper 91no
totally ripping the game out of South
Caulfield’s grasp.
This game was one of the best
Grand Finals I have witnessed and is
a testament that VTCA Senior
Division is clearly a better standard
of cricket than any other
metropolitan cricket competition
with the exception of Premier
Cricket. The only downside from this
game was that there had to be a loser
and my commiserations to Jonathon
Restarick and the boys at South
Caulfield, you have much to be proud
of. Congratulations to Richie
Richardson and all at Yarraville you
have proved with your consistency
over the last decade that you are
arguably the best the VTCA have
ever seen. This however will not stop
South Caulfield and ten other clubs
looking for the formula to plot your
downfall next season.
Congratulations to all Premiership
sides across all grades, to all finalists
and to all award winners. I am sure
most would agree individual success
is not as important as team success
but to be named the best player in
your division or to be selected in
teams of the year is a wonderful
honour, something to be proud of and
no doubt very well deserved.
Our thanks must also go to those
clubs who made their grounds and
facilities available for Grand Finals.
Having toured around many venues
over the Grand Final weekends, I am
proud of our clubs for the amount of
effort put in to hosting of games. It
was really pleasing to hear competing
clubs praising and recognising the
efforts of neutral venues. I hope for
all of these clubs that hosted games,
your bar and canteen sales helped
compensate all the time and effort
you put in. Neutral venues are
becoming harder and harder each
season to source as councils are
increasingly wanting only local clubs
from within their own municipality to
play on their grounds.
Visiting Teams and BYO
The only negative issue to present
during this year’s finals has been a
couple of complaints by some
councils, some residents and some
host clubs of visiting teams
supporters disregarding VTCA rules
in relation to not bringing your own
alcohol to games. The VTCA is
working
closely
with
these
complainants in identifying the
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culprit clubs and all can rest assured
that far more stringent rules will be
forecast for the future. It is extremely
disappointing that a small minority of
ignorant, self-indulgent morons can
facilitate such changes in policy and
jeopardise what are very strong ties
between the VTCA, our constituent
councils and those clubs who have
the best interests of the Association at
heart in wishing to host games at their
grounds. Unsurprisingly some of the
clubs currently under investigation
are those that often refuse to host
neutral games themselves.
Strong Majority Reject Model
Your Board of Management have
continued to work hard on developing
structures on the composition of our
Association moving forward. With a
strong majority of our clubs recently
rejecting the Cricket Victoria model
of Turf Cricket regions, the Board
without knowing which way our
clubs would fall in this matter had to
also look at what we could do for next
season and beyond regardless. This is
not to say that the VTCA have closed
the door on Cricket Victoria
completely moving forward, we have
continued strong dialogue in recent
weeks about other alternatives or
models that may present themselves.
We serve at the pleasure of our
clubs and we will continue to strive to
produce results that will be to the
benefit and satisfaction of the vast
majority of our clubs and not to a
handful who are the loudest and most
outspoken. By the same token clubs
that are not satisfied with the
direction or wishes of the majority
always have the option of exploring
other opportunities in their own right.
Whilst the VTCA are proud of our
cross town history, we will not forgo
all and sundry to continue to maintain
it if it becomes untenable and / or
unviable. As developments evolve in
the weeks ahead we will continue to
keep you all abreast.
Thanks to John Wheeler
My thanks to all representatives of
our Board of Management for their
time and commitment during the past
year. I am sure all clubs will join me
in
recognising
the
valuable
contribution that you all make, which
helps ensure a smooth running of this
organisation. May I single out John
Wheeler for special mention. John
has been a revelation in the role of
Ground Manager this year. With the
assistance of Len Robbins, they have
helped clubs with wicket issues to
improve the quality of their wickets.
Those clubs who have chosen to
undertake this exercise have been
most impressed and grateful.
Special mention must also go to
Zoran Havrenek who has been a
wonderful support to me as Vice
President. Zoran’s attitude as a glasshalf-full sort of person has made my
job so much easier in many aspects.
His availability to discuss and work
through difficult situations has made
him an invaluable component of our
board and my most trusted advisor.
Live Streaming of T20 Final
Similarly Satbir Singh is another
who has shown a wonderful measure
of maturity and leadership throughout
the season with initiatives such as the
live streaming of our T20 final. This
proved to be a sensational innovation
and again puts the VTCA at the
forefront of being the leaders in the
creation of new initiatives that will
undoubtedly be replicated by other
associations much the same as with
the introduction of our player points
system.
My sincerest gratitude to first year
Administrator Deanne Trewin.
Filling the big shoes left by Russell
Pollock’s retirement would have been
a difficult assignment for whoever
took on the role. Deanne to her credit
has grabbed the ball and ran with it
and has put her own stamp on this
most difficult of jobs. The time
required is all consuming and the
rewards are not commensurate with
the effort required and received.
Thanks must also go to our
Umpires for their contribution to our
game. This season has seen an
introduction of some new, younger
guys don the white hat and shirt and
most have acquitted themselves well,
some moving up the ranks at a rate of
knots. This has been a godsend as
clubs would recognise as the overall
standard of our umpiring should
continue to rise across the board.
Our collective thanks must also go
to our sponsorship partners for their
valuable
contribution to
our
Association again this year. Most
notably Major Sponsor Kookaburra
Sports who continue to provide
quality service and products and we
are proud to continue with them as
our naming rights partner. Thanks
also to Nathan at Kookaburra for
his assistance.
Thank you to Ian Mann at
Kingston Trophies for your
assistance in providing our awards
again this season. I know it is no easy
task but your service is exemplary.
Thanks to Peter and Phil
May I ask all clubs to join me in
thanking two wonderful contributors
to the VTCA over many, many years
in Peter Howarth and Phil Thomas,
who have decided to retire from the
Board. Both gentlemen have been
pillars of this Association. Peter, who
has unselfishly requested a very quiet
exit without fanfare, has been
arguably the most profound
contributor in the entire history of
the Association in a number of roles,
most notably as Secretary and as
Competition. He will be irreplaceable
for his knowledge and expertise. It
has been my absolute pleasure to
work with him in my time here, I have
enjoyed our debates and occasional
butting of heads and frequent late
night discussions on all matter of
things, no subject ignored.
A forewarning to the Victorian
Lacrosse Association that Cyclone
Peter is heading your way in his own
unique style!
Peter, like Russell has done this
year, will ween himself off the
association by contributing behind
the scenes next summer in an
advisory role.
As many club treasurers will
probably attest to, Phil has been
increasingly hard to get to given his
work situation has meant he has had
to travel on a weekly basis and Phil
will acknowledge that over the last
two years especially, this has made
his availability to the VTCA
infrequent. Family and work must
always take precedence over
voluntary contribution of time and as
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such that time is now for Phil. Again
it is disappointing to lose someone of
his standing but I am sure everyone
associated within the VTCA will join
the board in wishing both of these
guys all the best in the future.
Thank you to all of those people
who have contributed in some way to
the Association throughout the year
in many different avenues, be they
Life Members, Club Delegates, Sub
Committee Representatives, Tribunal
or Investigative Panel Members, club
curating and ground staff or in any
other field I have failed to mention,
your assistance is much appreciated
and I hope you can continue to
provide your valuable assistance.
Finally may I commend Brian
Quinn for the valuable contribution
he provides through his Leading
Edge Newsletter. I am sure all of you
enjoy reading his insightful and well
researched articles as much as I do.
Similarly may I say how much I
appreciate the work provided by
Glenn Scarborough with his weekly
VTCA radio show on North West fm.
Glenn has been doing this program
for something like a dozen years and
it is an entertaining way to complete
the cricket weekend with his
interminable style.
I take great amusement in hearing
Scatters take a deep breath and play a
straight bat when Peter winds up with
his “occasional” all punch editorials
he is renowned for.
Generally listening myself from
driving home from a Sunday
excursion, I have been known to
swerve off the road during some of
these “Peterism” moments. A bit like
Patrick Smith on SEN, love him or
not, it is entertaining.
Most of all thank you to my wife
Josie and our boys for their continued
support in allowing me the time to
continue to do this to the best of my
ability, quite often to the detriment of
our family time together.
I wish you all a safe “off” season
and look forward to coming together
again soon for another great season
ahead.
Yours in Cricket,
Steve McNamara
VTCA President
YARRAVILLE CLUB
STUART ANDERSON
by Brian Quinn
What can be written about
Yarraville Club that hasn’t been
written before?
They have just won their eighth
Senior Div flag in the past 10 seasons.
Has there ever been such a period of
sustained success at this level?
The great Michael O’Keefe retired
from playing to begin his coaching
career. Young recruit Konrad Kurta
spent a season in the Seconds because
of the points cap, but got his chance
this season. He was the ultimate
allrounder – opening the batting,
opening the bowling, then able to
bowl some slow offies as required.
Not long ago, gun opening bat
Justin Baker was Captain, and joint
Coach with big Emmett Bronca.
Bakes relinquished both roles and big
Emmett became Captain/Coach of a
Premiership team.
In last season’s Grand Final at
Altona Bronca did a hamstring.
Despite losing their Captain and gun
bowler, Yarraville Club rallied and
overcame South Caulfield.
This season, due to uncertainties
about Emmett’s employment (he had
applied to join the CFA), Anthony
Cristofaro was appointed Captain,
with Michael O’Keefe as Coach.
Finals time arrived and Emmett was
not able to get time off to play cricket.
But they still won the flag.
South Caulfield have been
magnificent during the past two
seasons. They have recruited class
Englishmen and Sri Lankans and
have gone very close to winning the
past two Grand Finals.
The fact that they are now
advertising for a playing Coach and
Professional players shows their
intent – they are “hell bent on taking
the next step” ie winning another
Senior Division Premiership.
Yarraville Club lost 3 Grand Finals
in a row before this current decade of
success began, so South Caulfield can
take some solace from that. Their run
of success is just around the corner.
Yarraville Club appear as hungry
for continued success as anyone, and
will be hard for South Caulfield to get
past.
Stuart Anderson played 61 AFL
games for North Melbourne between
1994-1997, with the highlight being
the 1996 AFL Premiership.
He was a midfielder/half forward
who was named on the Interchange
bench in the 1996 Grand Final where
North Melbourne defeated Sydney by
41 points. It was North’s 3rd
Premiership and Denis Pagan was the
successful Coach.
At the end of 1997 Stuart was
traded to Fremantle where he played
9 games.
Cricket-wise, he played for South
Caulfield in 2001/02. He was an
allrounder who won the South
Caulfield batting average that season,
and was equal second in the Roy
Paxino Medal (Best Player in Senior
Division).
In 2002/03 he made 381 runs at
42.33, and took 35 wickets at 15.20.
He finished 4th in the Paxino.
After many years playing cricket in
the Gippsland area, Stuart resumed at
South Caulfield this season aged 40.
He played all 13 matches in the
First X1, totalling 290 runs at 24.17,
and took 11 wickets at 30.09 with his
handy medium-pacers.
His Highest Score was 71 not out, a
valuable knock in the Semi-final
against Beaumaris.
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ANDREW LEETET
Big Andrew Leetet has been a
fantastic, ultra-consistent fast bowler
for Williamstown CYMS during the
past 11 seasons.
Here are his performances, seasonby-season from MyCricket.
2004/05 – Nth B: 10 wkts at 18.40
2005/06 – Nth A: 5 wkts at 32.80
2006/07 – Nth A: 51 wkts at 15.84
2007/08 – Sen A1: 26 wkts at 19.23
2008/09 – Sen A1: 35 wkts at 16.14
2009/10 – Senior: 28 wkts at 22.68
2010/11 – Senior: 31 wkts at 15.68
2011/12 – Senior: 32 wkts at 18.88
2012/13 – North: 31 wkts at 19.55
2013/14 – North: 24 wkts at 24.46
2014/15 – West A: 46 wkts at 13.13
Please also see article on Andrew’s
retirement by Lance Jenkinson,
published on Page 19 of this Leading
Edge.
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FINAL LADDER
- SENIOR DIVISION Yarraville Club (P) 106.75
Beaumaris
102.91
South Caulfield
96.69
Hoppers Crossing
88.65
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Strathmore
Bentleigh
St Bernard’s OC
Hampton
McKinnon
Greenvale
A W St C
Tullamarine
87.54
80.29
79.56
66.84
66.73
64.82
60.62
59.33
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TULLAMARINE
ALLROUNDER
WINS PAXINO
SENIOR DIVISION’S
PLAYER of the YEAR
Tullamarine allrounder David
Zahorodni has won the prestigous
Paxino Medal for the Player of the
Year in Senior Division, as voted by
the umpires. His total of 37 votes saw
him win by 15 votes.
The winning margin of 15 votes is
the widest since gun leg-spinner
Fawad Ahmed of Hoppers Crossing
won by 15 votes from Spotswood’s
Matt Leddin in 2011/12.
David Zahorodni has played in the
VTCA in 8 of the past 9 seasons,
since crossing from Essendon in
Premier Cricket. He is a proven votewinner, as these statistics will attest:2006/07 in North B1
590 runs at 42.14; 41wkts at 10.49
Winner of Jim Calthorpe Medal
2007/08 in North A1
369 runs at 33.55; 26 wkts at 15.73
Winner of Ray Scriven Medal
2008/09 in North A1
271 runs at 24.64; 51 wkts at 11.75
Winner of Ray Scriven Medal
2009/10 – no appearance
2010/11 in North A
66 runs at 7.33; 40 wkts at 9.98
Fourth in Ray Scriven Medal
2011/12 in North Div
277 runs at 34.63; 21 wkts at 15.19
Winner of Tony Isaacs Medal
2012/13 in North Div
305 runs at 21.79; 41 wkts at 11.00
Third in Tony Isaacs Medal
2013/14 in North Div
326 runs at 27.17; 27 wkts at 11.26
Unplaced in Tony Isaacs Medal
2014/15 in Senior Division
531 runs at 44.25; 31 wkts at 15.10
Winner of Roy Paxino Medal
It is a fair assumption that no-one in
the VTCA has ever won ALL of
these Medals:
North B Medal (Jim Calthorpe)
North A Medal x 2 (Ray Scriven)
North Div Medal (Tony Isaacs)
Senior Div Medal (Roy Paxino)
David has played in 4 Grand Finals
for Tullamarine, for 2 wins and 2
losses. In these games, he has made
278 runs at 55.60, and taken 23
wickets at 8.56 runs each. His
Economy Rate from 175 overs is an
incredible 1.1 runs per over in these
Grand Finals!
This season, polling in 9 games, he
was a runaway winner of the Paxino
Medal. Equal second was Ash
Russell with 514 runs at 42.83, and 19
wkts at 19.05 with his offies (home
and away figures only), and English
middle order bat and opening bowler,
Chris Williams, who scored 464 runs
at 58.00, and took 18 wickets at 26.56
for Bentleigh.
PAXINO MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
37 David Zahorodni (Tulla) 1st
22 Ashley Russell (Sth Caulfd) eq 2nd
22 Chris Williams (Bentleigh) eq 2nd
17 Luke Russell (South Caulfield)
17 Gregory Kennedy (Hopp Cross)
17 Asif Jan (A W St C)
16 Tawalampolage Darshanapriya
(Hoppers Crossing)
14 Joe Dawborn (Hampton)
14 Tristan Kassis (St Bernard’s OC)
14 Andrew Powell (Beaumaris)
13 Adam Contessa (Yarrav Club)
13 Craig Osborne (St Bernard’s OC)
13 Romain Grenville (Beaumaris)
13 Konrad Kurta (Yarraville Club)
12 Sampath Perera (South Caulfield)
12 Lucas Kennedy (Strathmore)
12 Ian Hewett (Beaumaris)
11 Andrew Cullen (Yarraville Club)
11 Kanishka Alvitigala (Sth Caulf)
11 Ed Young (McKinnon)
FINAL LADDER
- NORTH DIV Keilor
Keilor Park
Doutta Stars (P)
West Coburg
115.15
98.79
95.11
88.84
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Spotswood
PEGS
Laverton
Seddon
Sunshine Druids
Altona North
Westmeadows
Royal Pk Brunsw
82.38
82.32
78.03
72.06
66.31
63.38
56.63
51.74
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TONY ISAACS
MEDAL
- NORTH DIV Former West Indies opening
batsman, Brenton Parchment, has
won the Tony Isaacs Medal for the
second successive season in his third
season with Doutta Stars.
He played 2 Tests and 7 One Day
Internationals for the Windies.
This season, in the home and away
games, Parchment scored 557 runs at
42.85, and took 36 wickets at 12.03.
In his 3 seasons in North Div with
Douttas, Parchment has scored 1,500
runs at 37.50, with 2 centuries, and
taken 112 wickets at 14.70, with 5 x
“5 fors”.
Last season’s Paxino medallist,
Jeremy Brown, was runner-up, after
465 runs at 31.00 and 27 wickets at
16.26, whilst third was Keilor Park’s
Jamie Manning with 350 runs at
29.17, and 15 wickets at 20.80.
ISAACS MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
29 Brenton Parchment (Doutta) 1st
23 Jeremy Brown (Spotswood) 2nd
19 Jamie Manning (Keilor Park) 3rd
18 Ben Tankard (Doutta Stars)
18 Robert Jones (Keilor Park)
17 Tharindu Weerasinghe (Seddon)
17 Shaun Guerra (Keilor)
15 Matt Saunders (Altona North)
15 Rasika Batepola (PEGS)
14 Callum Appleyard (West Coburg)
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FINAL LADDER
- SOUTH DIV Chelsea (P)
Bonbeach Tangy
Port Melbourne
Moorabbin Park
124.10
113.06
110.08
83.49
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Brighton District
Clayton District
Cheltenham
80.68
74.98
67.96
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FRED JAMIESON
MEDAL
- SOUTH DIV For the second successive season, a
tie has occurred for the Fred Jamieson
Medal. This season, champion Port
Melbourne allrounder Matt Daykin
has shared the Medal with Bonbeach
Tangy allrounder Waqas Hussain.
Both polled in 7 games.
Matt Daykin has been a star in the
South for the past 7 seasons, never
finishing further back than fourth in
South A or South Divisions. This is
his third win, after scoring 566 runs at
56.60.
Bonbeach’s Hussain scored 443
runs at 29.53, and took 33 wickets at
10.45. Aged 22, he is a right handedbat and right-arm pace bowler. He
lives in England and represents
Slough CC and Berkshire CC. He has
also represented Gloucestershire 2nd
XI and is aiming to secure a County
contract this up-coming season.
Port Melbourne leggie Justin Snow
was third, after a fine season: 442
runs at 44.20 and 28 wickets at 14.14.
JAMIESON MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
26 Matt Daykin (Port Melb) eq 1st
26 Waqas Hussain (Bonb T) eq 1st
24 Justin Snow (Port Melb) 3rd
19 David Fernandez (Bonb Tangy)
19 Pathum de Mel (Chelsea)
16 Kasun Perera (Moorab Park)
15 Jason Oldfield (Brighton District)
15 Shamith Kannangara (Chelsea)
14 Mathew Campbell (Moorab Park)
14 Rob Lancaster (Chelsea)
14 Chris Williams (Bonbeach Tangy)
12 Andrew MacKessack (Bonb T)
12 Arron McKenzie (Cheltenham)
12 Calvin Barlow (Clayton Districts)
FINAL LADDER
- NORTH A DIV Aberfeldie
St Albans
Haig Fawkner (P)
Merlynston Hadfield
97.90
92.47
91.30
90.28
FINAL LADDER
- SOUTH A DIV Murrumbeena
126.37
Old Mentonians (P) 118.77
Mentone
94.86
Carnegie
89.91
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Glenroy
Craigieburn
Taylors Lakes
St Francis de Sales
Avondale Heights
St Andrews Pasc Vale
Parkdale Utd
82.43
Middle Park
75.37
Caulfield Gram/NCG 40.67
89.96
88.36
82.29
68.46
63.77
37.74
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RAY SCRIVEN
MEDAL
- NORTH A1 DIV Aberfeldie allrounder Ravindra
Karunaratne has won the Ray
Scriven Medal. He polled in 6 games,
and scored 465 runs at 38.75 and took
28 wickets at 11.50 in the home and
away games. He finished the losing
Grand Final with 511 runs at 34.07,
and took 36 wickets at 12.64.
Ravi has represented Aberfeldie in
the last 4 seasons. He has 1,535 runs
at 30.10 and snared 107 wickets at
just 14.54 each.
Tom Langley-Dunn of St Albans
has finished second in the Scriven in
successive seasons. He starred with
the ball, with 41 wickets at 12.49. He
has been a star at St Albans since
2006/07, totalling 271 wickets.
Third was Warren Parker, a longtime batting star for Glenroy before
joining Haig Fawkner 3 seasons ago.
This season, he topped the North A
run aggregates with 665 runs at
41.56.
SCRIVEN MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
30 Ravi Karunaratne (Aberf) 1st
20 Tom Langley-Dunn (St Alb) 2nd
18 Warren Parker (Haig Fawkner) 3rd
16 Daniel English (Craigieburn)
16 Michael Fabris (Glenroy)
14 Levi Wolfenden (Merl Hadfield)
13 Michael Young (Glenroy)
13 Matthew Costello (St F de S)
12 Sangaran Nandhalal (Aberfeldie)
12 Nayana Palamandadige (Glenroy)
12 Damith Ginimala Dewage (HaigF)
12 Sameera Vishwaranga (Haig F)
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GARY MCINNES
MEDAL
- SOUTH A1 DIV Englishman Daniel Davies has
won the McInnes Medal for
Carnegie, after crossing from South
Caulfield in the off season.
Polling in 6 games, he scored 650
runs at 40.63, and took 27 wickets at
12.00 each. Including Finals, he
totalled 757 runs and took 27 wickets,
although he didn’t bowl much
towards the end of the season.
Second place went to hard-hitting
bat Troy Lamb who did well with the
bat (480 runs at 40.00), and a little
surprisingly with the ball (29 wickets
at 13.10) as he bowled his accurate
slow mediums a lot more than
previously. Troy polled in 7 games.
Third went to Old Mentonians firsttime captain, Simon Cormie, who
scored 846 runs at 70.50 during the
home and away season. Polling in 6
games, he was obviously hurt in a
voting sense by a slow start with the
bat – 4 single figures before charging
home with 3 hundreds and 5 fifties in
his last 9 innings before the finals.
McINNES MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
31 Daniel Davies (Carnegie) 1st
28 Troy Lamb (Murrumbeena) 2nd
23 Simon Cormie (Old Ments) 3rd
15 Brett Hardham (Murrumbeena)
14 Matthew Tonkin (Mentone)
13 Adam Ray (Middle Park)
12 Darcy Brown (Old Mentonians)
12 Jake Bloomer (Old Mentonians)
12 Nicholas Hardman (Old Ments)
11 Michael Littler (Middle Park)
11 Aaron Fenton (Carnegie)
11 Zane Goold (Murrumbeena)
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FINAL LADDER
- WEST A DIV Williamstown CYMS
Sunshine United (P)
St Andrews Footscray
Wyndhamvale
108.95
107.99
102.83
92.49
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Altona Roosters
Footscray United
Werribee Centrals
Sunshine Heights
Newport – Digman
Point Cook
85.60
81.01
63.15
62.52
57.41
55.36
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LINDSAY HOWARTH
MEDAL
- WEST A DIV –
(Recently named in honour of
much-loved VTCA identity, Lindsay
Howarth).
St Andrews Footscray must be
thankful to have gained such a
successful Sri Lankan recruit in
Gihan Kankanamge. In home and
away games, he scored 597 runs at
49.78, and took 24 wickets at 8.42
with his off-spinners. Gihan polled in
6 games.
Veteran Sunshine United batting
star Daniel Pace finished second.
Daniel has been a stalwart at United
for many, many years. This season,
he scored 485 runs at 37.31 in the
home and away games.
Dadimuni GC Silva was a close
third after a fine season with
Footscray United. He scored 550 runs
at 45.83 to accompany his 26 wickets
at 19.00.
WEST A MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
25 Gihan Kankanamge
(St Andrews Footscray) 1st
22 Daniel Pace (Sunshine Utd) 2nd
21 Dadimuni Silva (FootscrayUtd)3rd
19 Damitha Hunukumbura (WilliCY)
18 Saman Gonawala (Sunshine Hts)
15 Aaron Edrich (Werribee Centrals)
14 Agha Adeel (Sunshine Hts)
14 Adam Moscatiello (Wyndhamv)
14 Paul Russ (Willi CYMS)
14 Matthew Shiell (Newp Digman)
13 Michael Glowacki (Sunsh Utd)
13 Ashleigh Peters (Altona Roosters)
13 Andrew Ford (Wyndhamvale)
FINAL LADDER
- NORTH B DIV -
FINAL LADDER
- WEST B DIV -
East Coburg
130.30
Jacana (P)
115.21
Flemington
96.29
PascoeVale Sports Club 94.72
West Newport
116.02
Barkly Street Uniting 100.66
Deer Park
100.50
Kingsville Baptists (P) 93.87
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Moonee Valley
RMIT
Marby Park St Marys
Aberfeldie Park
92.16
81.31
67.50
60.34
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Footscray ANA
90.29
Seabrook
73.63
Sunshine YCW
72.62
Williamstown Imperials 70.21
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JIM CALTHORPE
MEDAL
- NORTH B1 DIV -
ROY PICONE
MEDAL
- WEST B1 DIV -
Jacana’s Praneeth Jayasundera
was a runaway winner of the
Calthorpe Medal in North B. He
polled in 9 games and won by a
convincing 22 votes.
In his fifth season with Jacana,
Jayasundera scored 515 runs in the
home and away season at 42.92, and
took 40 wickets at 11.38. Although he
finished the season poorly with the
bat, he did make 1 century and 3 x
70s, all before Christmas. He was to
finish the season on top of the
Wickets Aggregate.
Jayasundera’s Jacana team-mate,
Telge Peiris, was equal second with
Siddamarakkalage de Silva from East
Coburg.
Peiris scored 502 runs at 35.86
before a good finals series saw him
head the North B Run Aggregate with
653, while de Silva amassed 531 runs
at 44.25.
Another runaway winner, with
Deer Park bowling allrounder, Ricky
Suvada, 16 votes ahead of secondplaced Daniel Nightingale.
Suvada finished third in the West B
Run Aggregate, but a clear winner of
Most Wickets. In the home and away
season, Suvada made 426 runs at
32.77, and took 39 wickets at just
11.69. He polled in 9 games, and
managed at least 3 wickets in an
innings on 9 occasions. He has been a
long-time stalwart at Deer Park.
Second place went to young
Footscray ANA captain and
wicketkeeper Daniel Nightingale
who scored 613 runs at 55.73 in a
magnificent season. Daniel polled in
7 games. His highest score was 116,
and he also managed 5 fifties,
including a 97 and a 96. He also
caught 18 and made 5 stumpings.
CALTHORPE
MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
43 Praneeth Jayasundera (Jac) 1st
21 Telge Peiris (Jacana) eq 2nd
21 Siddamar de Silva (E Cob) eq 2nd
18 Mick Kenny (Pasc Vale Sp C)
16 Jason McGowan (Pasc Vale Sp C)
16 Rushith Kundavaram (RMIT)
15 Matthew Thomas (Moon Vall)
14 Peter Brown (Marby Pk St Marys)
13 Suhaib Jilani (East Coburg)
12 Pat Felmingham (Moon Vall)
12 Andrew Mitchell (Flemington)
12 Jack Ottaway (Jacana)
11 Phillip Congues (Flemington)
PICONE MEDAL
VOTING DETAILS
42 Ricky Suvada (Deer Park) 1st
26 Daniel Nightingale (Foot ANA)2nd
16 Dilshan Kankanamage
(Kingsville Baptists) 3rd
15 Trent Jones (West Newport)
14 Senad Levic (Kingsv Bapts)
13 Chris Armstrong (Sunsh YCW)
12 Dale Williams (Barkley St Utg)
12 Sam Kukucka (Footscray ANA)
12 Aaron Floyd (West Newport)
11 Clayton Pettigrew (Willi Imps)
11 Josh MacDonald (West Newport)
11 Joshua Eason-Jones (West Newp)
10 John Hillis (Kingsv Bapts)
10 Shane Jones (Deer Park)
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OLD MENTONIANS
Past, Present and Future
by Sven Samild
(President)
In season 2004/05, Old Mentonians
Cricket Club had made some hard
decisions on its future. The Club had
only fielded 3 sides and the 1st XI had
finished last in the South B1 Grade
which had 8 teams playing in it.
The OMCC had appointed then 22
year old Darryl Stevens as Coach and
Craig Gourlay 24 year old as 1st XI
Captain, both former Mentone
Grammar students. They worked hard
to rebuild the Club and inspire
positive change. Training was the
key, new balls each Tuesday and
Thursday inspired bowlers to want to
bowl fast and prompted batsmen to
concentrate and work hard or be hurt.
The Second XI won the South B2
Premiership versus East Malvern that
season. Two players who played in
that Flag, Lewis Mitchell (then 15)
and Darryl Stevens would go on to
play in 4 First XI Premierships in the
next 7 seasons, including the Senior
Division Premiership. The Club’s
culture changed, it was inclusive and
the players drove the Club via the
Committee, not the Committee
directing players.
In season 2005/06, the OMCC had
5 Teams. They won the South B1
Premiership with no paid players.
This started to get the ball rolling!
The
OMCC
had
multiple
Premiership success in the lower
Grades but it had stalled in South A1
in 2006/07, but in 2007/08 on the
arrival of former classmates of Coach
Darryl Stevens, John Seeary who
became 1st XI Captain, James Woite,
Dan Russo and Jarrod Bainbridge, the
First XI played Cheltenham in a
memorable
Semi-Final
that
Cheltenham won.
The 2008/09 season had the OMCC
again
winning
lower
Grade
Premierships but was defeated by
Chelsea in the South A1 Semi-Final.
In the 2009/10 season Joly Leaver
returned to OMCC after a stint at
Casey South Melbourne. This was the
fifth Classmate of Coach Darryl
Stevens, and the First XI defeated
Mentone in the South A1 Grand Final
and the Second XI also won the Flag
in South A2 and the Club was firing
on all cylinders.
Season 2010/11 came and Joly
Leaver opted to have another crack at
Premier Cricket and actually ended
up going forward to become First XI
Captain of Casey South Melbourne.
For the first time, still with Stevens as
Coach and Seeary as Captain, the
Club had a paid player. Englishman
Josh Tolley came to play and it
resulted in a Grand Final loss to
Beaumaris in South Division.
FINEST SEASON
Season 2011/12 was arguably the
Club’s finest season in the history of
the OMCC with every XI in a Grand
Final. The First XI defeated Port
Melbourne in South Division, and all
other XI's apart from the Second XI
had won Premiership flags.
For the first time since the 2004/05
season,
the
2012/13
OMCC
Committee made a decision that
wasn't driven by the playing group,
although in many ways it did bring a
Senior Division Premiership with the
First XI defeating Greenvale and the
Second XI losing to McKinnon in the
Senior 2nds Grand Final.
But the split had caused damage.
The playing group had voiced their
dislike at the points system (they
wanted it lowered to 24), the travel,
as most of the players were young and
worked Saturdays, the time factor
involved in playing. They wanted the
abolition of Bonus Points so that once
you won or lost you could finish the
game, that cricket was something
they played with their mates and they
were not fussed in what competition
or format that it was, they wanted it to
be fun, the quote that stuck out at the
time was "we had more fun and
enjoyment winning South A1 than we
did wining Senior Division!"
The players loved the Local Rivalry
of playing Cheltenham, Chelsea,
Parkdale, Mentone and the like.
The VTCA, in particular Russell
Pollock and Steve McNamara, were
sympathetic to the situation the Club
now found itself in. Russell Pollock
met with myself and other South
VTCA Clubs who had ongoing issues
with the Competition in general, but
no resolution was ideal, so Parkdale
and Dingley headed to the DDCA.
In 2013/14 the First XI played in
Senior Division and the OMCC
missed out on playing Finals by 38
runs which was a brilliant
achievement as the team was made up
of young players and no paid players.
The OMCC Second XI played in
South A1 in an effort to try and
appease the playing group and went
through the season without a win!
During the season the playing
group again voiced their frustration at
the Committee and brought options to
the table including the MCC Club XI
Competition and the DDCA. The
players wanted flexible cricket, with
One Day Turf cricket their preference
on good grounds and with
professional umpires and a high
quality standard was preferable.
ONE TWO-DAY TEAM ONLY
With Aspendale heading to the
DDCA, the Club contacted the
VTCA to let them know that we
would only be nominating one Two
Day XI and perhaps a One Day
Sunday XI, which both came to
fruition for the 2014/15 season.
The Club also entered two XI's in
the MCC Club XI and one XI in the
DDCA Competition. All One Day
Competitions played on Turf.
The VTCA changed the rules
(E22.2) prior to the 2014/15 season to
state that if your Club’s Second XI
didn't play in the same Grade as your
First XI you were to play in the lowest
First XI Grade which is South A1.
SOUTH A FLAG
So this season (2014/15) with eight
players under the age of 23, the
OMCC First X1 won the South A1
Premiership. But little will change for
the Old Mentonians Cricket Club
going forward. We may add a third
XI to the MCC Club XI Competition,
we will continue to have a team in the
DDCA and we will definitely have
two Teams in the VTCA.
I understand from the outside
looking in that this isn't ideal, but we
are growing to 6 XI's that all play on
Turf and more importantly the
players are happy and the Club is a
great place to be!
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Stevens is still the Club Coach,
Seeary, Russo, Bainbridge and Woite
all still play at the Club, they have and
continue to set the high standards the
younger players aspire to reach and
we still use new balls at training.
In a perfect world we would have
all of Old Mentonians’ XI's playing
flexible Turf Cricket of a high
standard with quality umpires on
great grounds in the same
Competition but we can't. I feel that
the VTCA helped our Club as much
as it could under its current playing
format.
We have thoroughly loved the
VTCA but the world has changed,
society has changed, work is now 24
hours 7 days a week, adolescents
work far more than ever before,
children have access to a variety of
sports which are hungry for their
involvement, young cricketers are
either keen to play or they are not.
Councils demand use of facilities,
parents juggling family time as
players or parents are time poor ....
OLD MENTS - THOUGHTS
Our Club feels that apart from First
XI Cricket, all Grades should play
One Day Cricket in 8 Team
Competitions, that fixtures should be
flexible to accommodate the season
starting in the second week of
October, that no cricket should be
played on Cup Weekend or return
until the third Saturday in January,
that you should be able in all Grades
to wear Coloured Clothing and
common sense should be applied to
fixturing if Clubs have ground
clashes so you can play in a particular
Grade and have games on either
Saturday or Sunday.
For First XI Cricket - that Grand
Finals should be two-day not fourday, that lean points caps ensure
Clubs must develop players and build
a great environment for them to want
to stay than leave, that they should
play in 8 team Grades that start with
7 one-dayers during the notorious
early part of the season, that Visa
Players are capped in the First XI to
one or two and that Coloured
Clothing can be worn in all matches.
Thanks to passionate and
outspoken President, Sven Samild.
INTERVIEW
with
SIMON CORMIE
Premiership Captain,
Old Mentonians CC
Aged 24, Simon Cormie was
appointed First X1 Captain of Old
Mentonians at the beginning of the
2014/15 season.
As detailed elsewhere (in article by
Sven Samild), Old Mentonians were
Premiers in Senior Division in
2012/13, defeating Greenvale in the
Grand Final. In 2013/14, Old
Mentonians finished fifth, just 0.54
points away from fourth.
In 2014/15, they played in South A,
winning the Premiership despite
conceding a first innings lead to
Carnegie in the Grand Final.
Simon began his junior cricket at
Mentone CC, before moving to
Kingston Saints as it was closer to
home. He played Seconds at school
(Mentone Grammar) until a mate got
him down for a game at Old
Mentonians CC in the Thirds.
Between 2008/09 and 2013/14,
Simon had played in 45 First X1
matches, including 2 seasons each in
South A, South and Senior Divisions,
for a total of 645 runs at an average of
just 14.33 each.
This season, a poor start was
followed by mountains of runs. Here
are his game-by-game figures.
Rd 1 v Middle Pk : no play
Rd 2 v Carnegie : 0
Rd 3 v Bonbeach T : 9
Rd 4 v Parkd Utd : 7
Rd 5 v Mentone : 4
Rd 6 v Murrumb : 59
Rd 7 v CG/NCG : 60
Rd 8 v Bonbeach T : 84
Rd 9 v Murrumb : 20
Rd 10 v Mentone : 108
Rd 11 v Carnegie : 56
Rd 12 v Middle Pk : 92
Rd 13 v CG/NCG : 237no
Rd 14 v Parkd Utd : 110
S/F v Mentone : 86
GF v Carnegie : 44 + 3
Total : 979 runs at 65.27,
with 3 hundreds and 6 fifties.
He needed just 24 in his last innings
to reach 1,000 runs for the season.
Off the field, Simon was a Business
Sales Executive at Commander, a
Telecommunications
company,
before leaving for a season of cricket
in England.
BQ - Where are you headed in the
off-season? I believe England?
SC - Yes, heading over for a season
in Manchester, UK.
BQ - Have you arranged to play for
a club over there?
SC - Woodhouses Cricket Club. I will
be based out of Lancashire. We have
a great relationship with Woodhouses
Cricket Club, and regularly exchange
players, I'll be staying with Nick
Hardman, who just finished playing a
season over here with us.
BQ - Do you intend going to an
Ashes Test while you are over
there?
SC - I'll be heading to a couple
probably, with my main man Lewis
Oliver (Mentone First X1 vicecaptain) who is heading over for
some cricket as well.
BQ - How exciting would that be?
SC – I got to experience Day 1 at
Manchester two years ago and
watching Michael Clarke peel off
180, a great day.
BQ - What do you expect from a
cricket-playing sense, eg slower
pitches, suiting your back-foot
play, lots of rain, gaining
experience etc?
SC – Yeah, I expect to just improve
my game really, keep hitting balls; it's
more front foot over there unless it's
really short, it stays fairly low, so a
good chance to work on the front foot
part of my game. I've been there
before so to churn out some more
runs is also a top priority.
BQ - When do you return to
Australia?
SC - I'll be back the week before the
AFL Grand Final.
BQ - Do you play any other sports
other than cricket?
SC - Footy for Old Mentonians
Football Club as well, but I am fairly
injury prone, and with my body type
I am not sure how much longer I will
play for!
BQ - Which team do you follow in
AFL, and why?
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SC - St.Kilda. Dad whacked a Saints
jumper on me really quickly, and I
loved “Banger” Harvey, Stuey Loewe
and “Plugger” Lockett from a very
early age.
BQ - Congratulations on the Grand
Final win. Tell me about the first
weekend’s play.
SC - Thanks, it went to plan by
obviously winning the toss and
getting the opportunity to bat first on
a good wicket and a rapid outfield.
We always believe runs on the board
is important and that our bowling can
defend any total we put up. We
posted 170, after being 4/58 I think,
so we grinded away. We felt 170 was
competitive, but maybe 20-30 short
of where we would have liked to be.
BQ - What were your thoughts at
stumps on Day 2, having lost on the
first innings?
SC - We sat down as a group and
realised we didn't play particularly
well for most of the first weekend,
and we knew if we turned up the next
weekend we could put ourselves in a
winning position. The culture at our
club is that we can win from any
position, at any time, at any venue so
we re-grouped during the week and
we were ready for a dog fight.
BQ - From a personal point of view,
you had scored 44 in the first
innings (out of 60). How did you get
out?
SC - Yeah, look, it was not my
greatest dismissal. I walked at the
bowler who had just come on and
tried to put him over midwicket. It got
onto me a bit quicker than I thought
and I skied it. I had just started to
middle a few too, so I walked off
pretty annoyed.
BQ - Before the second weekend,
you would have been thinking
about your task of scoring runs
(just 24 needed for the magical
1,000 for the season run tally) for
the team, as well as leading your
team as they attempted the reverse
outright?
SC – 1,000 runs was really irrelevant;
it was about putting the team into a
good position, have a decent lead so
we have something to bowl at, and
winning a premiership.
BQ - Were you conscious of the 24
needed for the 1,000? Be honest,
now.
SC - I'm a bit of a stats man. I knew
from a fair way out what was required
to get that done. But when you're out
there, it didn't cross my mind once.
BQ - Please talk us through your
second innings dismissal, bowled
for 3?
SC - Inside edge, onto pad, onto foot,
onto leg stump. Probably used up all
my luck!
BQ - After your dismissal, did you
think deep down, with a first
innings deficit of 50, that your team
were in dire trouble?
SC - The club is full of big game
players. The only thing that I was
thinking, deep down, was how
shattered I was to be out. After a
couple of minutes you get over it
quickly and move onto supporting the
boys out there. At no moment did I
think “dire trouble”. We picked a side
we thought could get it done in a 4
day marathon battle.
BQ - Did you enjoy being Captain,
during the season, and of course in
the Grand Final?
SC - It's mentally draining, that's for
sure, but I've always wanted to hold a
leadership role at the club so very
enjoyable.
BQ - How did you cope with the
pressure?
SC - I wasn't too bad. Obviously it got
tight, but we've got a pretty good
group who have plenty of belief.
BQ - Once the batting began to
recover, did you have a target of
runs in front to declare or simply a
time thing, forcing Carnegie to bat
late on the Saturday afternoon?
SC - Yeah we were going to declare
with 9 overs to go and have a crack at
getting Aaron Fenton (Carnegie
captain) out. Then Darcy Brown hit a
boundary and I thought to give them
1 more over, then we lost two wickets
so the decision was made for me.
BQ - It was known that your
leading fastie Darcy Brown would
be late for play on Day 4. Did you
and Carnegie skipper Aaron
Fenton talk to the umpires about
whether Brown could bowl as soon
as he arrived?
SC - I spoke to the Umpires before the
game and told them the situation. I
was told by the Umpires that he could
bowl as soon as he got there. End of
story.
BQ - Were you always confident on
Day 4 that you could bowl out
Carnegie, mostly without Darcy?
SC - We knew without him it was
going to be tougher I guess, but I
thought the deck would take spin on
day 4, and I was proven right.
Hardman bowled the best spell of his
season when we needed it. We knew
that we could create 10 opportunties
in a day of bowling so we just needed
to take all of them.
BQ - After the win, what were the
celebrations like?
SC – The celebrations were good.
There was a feeling of real
contentment.
BQ - Was it your first First X1
Premiership?
SC - Yeah, I had lost one to
Beaumaris, I didn't play in two others
due to sickness and was playing Twos
in the other, so it was brilliant to
finally get one.
BQ - What was it like following the
great John Seeary as First X1
Captain?
SC - We've had two other great
captains since John in Darryl Stevens
and Josh Tolley in Senior Division.
Some club legends there. I don't quite
fit in that category.
BQ - What was John like as a
bowler and captain? I only ever
watched him bowl from the
boundary line?
SC - Ruthless, relentless, reliable.
How Old Mentonians CC play their
cricket. I learnt a lot really quickly
from him.
BQ - You had the disappointment
of missing out on the South Div
Premiership team in 2011/12, but
you did top-score in the Seconds
loss to Port Melbourne? That must
have been a tough time after
playing half the season in the Firsts
and half in the Seconds?
SC – It was the correct decision. I'd
done nothing during the year and was
a passenger. I just concentrated on
trying to make runs in the Twos and
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was pumped for the boys to win
South Div and give ourselves a
chance to play Senior Division.
BQ - The following season, in
Senior Division, you played all
season, mostly in the middle order,
including the Semi-final win
against Beaumaris, but you didn’t
play in either the First X1 win
against Greenvale or the Seconds’
loss to McKinnon? Were you
injured or unavailable?
SC - Yeah, I had emergency surgery
on the Wednesday night before the
Grand Final, removing an appendix
that was about to burst. There were
some complications so was in
hospital for 6 days.
BQ - How disappointing was it to
miss a Premiership again?
SC - The same as the previous one. I
told the skipper to pick Jake
"Nibbles" Bloomer and he went out
there and scored a match winning 50.
Ask him about it one day. He'll walk
you through it ball by ball. I was so
pumped for the boys to be Senior
Division Premiers in our first season
up there.
BQ - As a batsman, how did you
find the standard of cricket in
Senior Division?
SC – Yeah, it's a cracking
competition with some very, very
good players at every club.
BQ - On to the start of this season,
where you are back into South A.
You started 0, 9, 7 and 4, all caught
in One-dayers. Then another lowscore, 6, in a T-20 game. What were
you thinking about then? Where
was your next score coming from?
SC - After the T20 I jokingly placed
my bat in the bin. I changed a couple
of things technically, went back to
opening where I was most
comfortable and went back to
grinding away instead of trying to
whack everything.
BQ - Then of course two good
scores in the last of the One-dayers.
Were you consciously waiting for
the two-dayers?
SC - I prefer two-day games, there's
no doubt about it. I went back to
grinding for runs and watching the
ball harder.
BQ - What was the turn-around for
you with the bat? What were you
doing differently, now that you
were scoring so many runs?
SC - Batting to my strengths, staying
patient. Confidence has a lot to do
with it. When you're confident,
everything seems to go where you
want it to.
BQ - Compared to your previous
seasons, this was remarkable
scoring. Ignoring the T20s and the
MCC comps, your sequence of runs
from Round 6 onwards was
incredible. Was there chatter
around the club about the 1,000
target?
SC - The only chat was from my
mouth, and some replies from the
boys I probably can't say.
BQ - Tell us about the 237no,
especially where NCG walked off
the field?
SC - Nothing much to tell to be
honest. They went to Adelaide to
watch India vs Pakistan instead of
finishing our game.
BQ - You personally - would you
prefer to play locally-based, or
travel and play at the highest level?
So I suppose South/South A or
Senior Division for you?
SC - I would prefer to play the highest
level we as a club are able to play.
BQ - Who are your current
favourites among the Australian
players?
SC - Steve Smith and Michael Clarke.
BQ - Are you a fan of the Tests, 50over or T20 games? Which do you
prefer to watch?
SC - Big fan of Test match cricket.
T20 is obviously for the Peanut
Gallery and good viewing, but Test
match cricket for me.
BQ - Best 3 or 4 bowlers you have
faced in your years at Old
Mentonians, and why?
SC - Ian Hewett of Beauy, he would
be one, he got me a few times, that's
for sure. Jordan Clarke from South
Caulfield in Senior Division, Jeremy
Brown when he was at Greenvale was
quick, and lastly Wayne White when
he played at McKinnon, he scared me
one day out at Keysborough
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JUSTIN BAKER
Yarraville Club star, Justin Baker,
has had a magnificent career since
moving from Essendon in Premier
Cricket in 2003/04.
The Kingston Trophies’ Senior
Division Team of the Year began in
2003/04. In the 12 years of the team’s
existence, Baker has been selected in
the team, by his peers, on 10
occasions.
His only misses have been in
2010/11 and again this season
Only 3 players have been named
Captain twice in the Kingston
Trophies Senior Division Team of the
Year, as follows:Adam Contessa (Royal Park
Brunswick) in 2006/07 and 2007/08;
Justin Baker (Yarraville Club) in
2009/10 and 2011/12;
Ian Hewett (Beaumaris) in
2012/13 and this season, 2014/15.
In 11 of his 12 seasons in the
VTCA’s Senior Division, he passed
400 runs in a season, and after seeing
his 52 (top-score) for Yarraville Club
in the first innings of the recent Grand
Final, it would be folly to say that
next season he won’t do so again.
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MICHAEL GLOWACKI
23 year old fast bowler, Michael
Glowacki, has been at Sunshine
United since early in his Junior days.
After a two-year stint at Footscray
Edgewater in Premier Cricket in
2010/11 and 2011/12, in Thirds and
Fourths, he resumed at Sunshine
United in 2012/13.
That season he took 33 wickets at
13.88 in North A1. Then in 2013/14
in West B he claimed 34 wickets at
12.44, before going to another level
this season, taking 48 wickets at 7.56.
Glowacki’s Grand Final was
exceptional, with 3/24 and 7/39
against Williamstown CYMS.
His Economy Rate in 2014/15 was
just 1.76 runs per over which is
exceptional. In the VTCA-wide
Economy Rates listed on Page 28 of
this publication, Michael Glowacki is
Number 1, the most economical First
X1 bowler in the VTCA this season.
Adding his economy to his strike
rate of a wicket every 4 overs makes
him a formidable fast bowler.
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ONE TEST, TWO CAPS
by Brydon Coverdale,
Assistant Editor at ESPNcricinfo
Opener Ken Eastwood got to play
only one Test for Australia - under
unusual circumstances - but he
continues his association with the
game even as he nears 80.
Ken Eastwood made his Test debut
at 35, played club cricket till 54, and
continues umpiring at the age of 79.
"The ABC won't come and take one
back, will they?" Ken Eastwood jokes
as he unpacks his two baggy green
caps from their protective plastic
wrap.
He should be pretty safe. The
Australian Board of Control for
International Cricket has been
through a couple of name changes
since Eastwood played his only Test
in 1971. If the ABC didn't, and then
the ACB didn't, then Cricket
Australia won't worry too much about
the oversight.
"They gave me two caps to try on
for size, and nobody asked for the
other one back, so it stayed in my
bag," Eastwood says. "I finished up
with two caps for one Test. No sweat
marks on them, they're in pristine
condition."
Frankly, so is Eastwood himself.
This is a man who turns 80 later this
year, but still takes an active part in
club cricket every weekend. He
played for Footscray until he was 54,
got bored during a season of
retirement, and took up umpiring in
the
Victorian
Turf
Cricket
Association, which he still does more
than 20 years later.
"I can see, I can get to position
quick
enough
for
run-outs,"
Eastwood says. "I pull up all right.
Sunday mornings I'm not too stiff,
just the legs are a little bit tired. I
think back and I'm 79, I started
playing cricket on a Saturday when I
was 11... I've been getting up on a
Saturday morning to go to cricket for
nearly all that time."
One morning sticks in his memory
more than most, though it was a
Friday, not a Saturday. It was the
morning of Eastwood's Test debut,
February 12, 1971. The circumstances of his call-up were unusual
enough - more on that shortly - but he
must surely be the only cricketer who
had to hitchhike to his Test debut.
Staying at a motel not too far from
the SCG, Eastwood and his teammates were waiting for the taxis that
captain Ian Chappell had ordered for
8.30am. By 8.45 the taxis hadn’t
arrived. Another ten minutes – still no
taxis. They had been sent to the
wrong motel.
"Imagine how toey I was getting,"
Eastwood says. "Terry Jenner says,
'Come with me, we'll get our own
taxi.' He gets out there and sticks the
thumb out. A bloke pulls up and we
get a lift with him and get him into the
members' car park."
It was far from the only unusual
thing about Eastwood's debut. For
one, it was the seventh Test in an
Ashes series, the third having been
washed out without a ball bowled.
For another, Eastwood was 35
years old and had not even been in the
Victoria team at the start of the
summer.
For yet another, Eastwood replaced
the captain, Bill Lawry, who was
averaging 40.50 in the series and
found out about his axing via a radio
report. Eastwood learnt the news of
his call-up from journalist Rod
Nicholson, who phoned him at work
for a comment. You could say he
made Eastwood's day.
"I said, 'Are you fair dinkum?'
because I was basically battling to
cement my place in the Victorian
side," Eastwood says. "It was a
pleasant surprise, let me tell you,
especially at 35."
"It's surprising what one Test does
for you. I always get an invite to at
least one function during the
Melbourne Test, and I'll never knock
back a free lunch. You catch up with
the blokes you played with and
against"
Only a series of fortunate events led
to him becoming the 256th man in the
baggy green. Having played every
game for Victoria the previous
summer and topped their run tally,
Eastwood was left out of the first
match in the summer of his debut. For
the first time in his life, he felt
bitterness towards the selectors.
Then came a stroke of good luck: he
was dismissed cheaply ten minutes
before stumps in a club game for
Footscray one Saturday afternoon.
Why was that lucky? Because
Victoria suddenly needed a 12th man
for a match the following weekend,
after Jim Higgs withdrew late due to
a university exam. The selectors
didn't want to pick anyone who had to
bat or bowl on the second Saturday of
the club round, so Eastwood was
called up.
And as the incumbent 12th man, he
kept the job for the next game, a home
fixture against South Australia. Then
came the next fortuitous event: Lawry
retired hurt in that match with a thigh
strain. After the game, Lawry and
selector Sam Loxton were in the
rooms discussing the situation. The
injury was not bad, but there was an
Ashes series coming up, and Lawry
was captain. Was it worth him
playing the next Shield game against
New South Wales?
"Bill says he'll be okay, Sam says if
you do more damage you could miss
the Test," Eastwood recalls. "I'm
sitting there listening. I want to put
my two bobs' worth in and say,
'Phantom, I think you should save
yourself for the Test.' But I kept quiet.
Anyway, he sees the logic of it and
sits out. They couldn't pick anyone
but me to replace him because I'm
already in the dressing room."
So Eastwood played his first state
match of the season the following
weekend. And he scored 201.
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Naturally, he kept his place, and two
games later made 177.
It meant that when the seventh Test
came around in early February and
the selectors decided it was time for
Lawry to go, Eastwood was the man
they called upon. Lawry's axing was
not so much a matter of form as the
culmination of a lingering displeasure
that began on the previous summer's
tour of South Africa.
Back-to-back tours of India and
South Africa had taken their toll on
the Australians, but the boards
wanted to add a fifth Test to the fourTest series in South Africa. Lawry
stood up for his exhausted players
and said they would only play for an
extra $500 per man. The board
refused, the fifth Test was not added
to the schedule, and Lawry's cards
were marked. "Obviously it was
political, although I didn't find that
out until years after," Eastwood says.
For him, it was an opportunity he
never expected to receive, and one for
which he was not exactly ready. A
wet summer meant that in the six
weeks before his Test debut, he had
barely trained, had played no state
cricket and only one shortened club
match. He flew in to Sydney for his
debut with the series on the line, and
it rained until the afternoon before the
Test.
A lack of off-field support also
irked him. No officials met him at the
Sydney airport when he arrived. He
had to make his way into a city sports
store to find a jumper himself. His
Test blazer turned up six months
later. And he had to hitchhike to the
SCG on the morning of his debut, his
first glimpse of the ground that week
due to the wet weather. All the same,
he had a spring in his step.
Chappell, in his first Test as
captain, sent England in on a pitch
with a little bit of juice in it. England
were bowled out in 76 overs and
Eastwood had to bat late on the first
day. He scored 5, his only runs in Test
cricket, before he was caught behind
off Peter Lever.
"I can't remember the runs I scored
or how I got them," he says. "I
remember getting out - a big
inswinger and I was caught down the
leg side. This one started on middle
stump and started swinging on to my
legs. I thought, 'Thank you very
much' and tried to help it on its way,
and it just kept going."
There had been no team meetings,
no plans discussed to handle certain
bowlers. Nobody warned Eastwood
that Lever was known for bowling
big inswingers, which caught him by
surprise.
There was more surprise to come
later in Australia's first innings, when
Terry Jenner was struck by a delivery
from John Snow. The umpire Lou
Rowan took issue with the delivery,
and the upshot was the crowd hurling
bottles over the fence in protest and
England captain Ray Illingworth
leading his players off the field until
it was safe to resume.
"I don't blame John Snow for it,"
Eastwood says. "Terry ducked into it.
He was a pretty handy bat but didn't
like quicks. It was common
knowledge you could bounce him and
he wouldn't want to hang around."
Eastwood's own occasional leftarm wristspin was far from
intimidatory, but it did bring success
when Chappell called on him in the
second innings. He took 1 for 21 from
five overs, one of only six first-class
wickets of his career.
"I had a wrong'un that if it landed,
it turned," Eastwood says. "A very
high percentage of batsmen in firstclass cricket can't pick wrong'uns
from the hand, which is surprising.
The Poms are very much like that
because they don't see many
wristspinners. Anyway, the wicket I
got was a well-flighted full toss. K
Fletcher caught K Stackpole bowled
K Eastwood, caught at midwicket."
In their second innings, Australia
needed 223 for victory, which would
have meant a drawn series, and
Australia would have retained the
Ashes. As it was, they were bowled
out for 160, England won the urn, and
Eastwood added a duck to his firstinnings five, bowled by a yorker on
the pads from Snow in the first over
of the chase.
"We had to get about 220 in four
sessions on a wicket that was still
pretty good for a fourth and fifth-day
wicket," he says. "It would have
suited Bill right down to the ground.
He'd handled those blokes, he'd got
runs against them. He couldn't have
done any worse than me."
So where did that leave Eastwood?
He made 221 in his next Shield game,
at Adelaide Oval, and would have
considered himself a chance to make
Australia's next tour, to South Africa
the following summer. But that tour
was cancelled, Eastwood had a
disappointing 1971-72 for Victoria,
and he was resigned to being a oneTest player. One was enough.
"What is there - 200 or 250 living
Australian Test cricketers? What's the
population of Australia, 23 million?
What's that - .001% of the
population? It's a pretty elite group!"
"It's surprising what one Test does
for you. I always get an invite to at
least one function during the
Melbourne Test, and I'll never knock
back a free lunch. The Australian
Cricketers' Association have a
function each Test. You catch up with
the blokes you played with and
against. I enjoy it, it's about the only
time I see them these days.
"Ian Chappell amazed me - about
20 years after that Test I ran into him
at the MCG coming down the stairs,
and he said, 'G'day Ken, how you
going?' I felt great that he still
recognised me."
Eastwood admits he wasn't a walker
as a batsman - "what you lose on the
hurdy-gurdy you make on the merrygo-round," he says - and as an umpire
gives his decisions quickly, on
instinct. He long ago stopped trying
to memorise all the exotic rules that
never come up in a match.
Do the young club players have any
idea the man adjudicating their
appeals is a former Test cricketer?
"Word does get around," Eastwood
says. "I generally tell them, 'Google
me, you'll find everything there!'"
Now they'll find a little more.
Published originally on 9th
March 2015. Reproduced with
kind permission of Brydon
Coverdale, an assistant editor at
ESPNcricinfo.
@brydoncoverdale
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
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TULLAMARINE’S
DEBUT in SENIOR DIV
by David Zahorodni
In our 15th year of playing turf,
Tullamarine Cricket Club was proud
that it was able to finally make it to
Senior Division. It has been a tough
process from beginning in North B all
those years ago to be playing the top
level of this Association. I am proud
of the guys in the way we competed
against the best sides in this grade and
were able to put up a good fight
especially to both of this year’s Grand
Finalists. Our goal at the beginning
of the season was to avoid relegation
which we achieved (just) and we
couldn’t be happier.
After playing with the club for 7
seasons before this one it was a great
challenge for the whole club to put
ourselves up against the best this
competition has to offer. It was
disappointing losing a few players
from the grand final side last season
and without them being replaced it
definitely was challenging and tested
our depth. However I am sure other
clubs go through the same issues as
well and in the end it is 11 v 11 on the
day. For a club that is struggling to
field 2 teams each week to come up
and compete against clubs that have
up to 7 sides was a testament to all
players who are part of the club.
GREAT CHALLENGE
This season was a great challenge
playing against some absolute greats
of the VTCA and some quality sides.
I did notice the step up in standard
and competitiveness in all of the
teams. If you weren’t on your game
you would get beaten, as simple as
that. The depth in sides is a lot
stronger with sides batting well down
the order and bowling a side out is
much tougher with bigger scores
being posted week in week out.
The biggest difference between
Senior Division and North Division I
noticed was that there were no weak
teams at all. Also any side if they
played well would be competitive and
upsets are common. In North the top
6-7 sides are similar then the weaker
sides seem to drop away and you are
expected to win those games.
With travelling, I didn’t mind too
much as we got to play at different
grounds with good facilities. It was
also good to meet players and
umpires from the South as we
normally wouldn’t get such an
opportunity. Only issue was after a
loss it seemed like a long drive back!
SECONDS ENJOY THE TRIP
Our Seconds didn’t complain too
much with the travel as we had a bus
for most South games and they
seemed to take the scenic route back
via a few pubs and bottle shops! So I
guess they decided to make the travel
as enjoyable as they possibly could.
Personally I was able to have my
best all round season so far in the
VTCA. It was good to get amongst
the runs (disappointed I wasn’t able
to get a triple figure score) along with
taking a few wickets too. Obviously
you need a bit of luck throughout the
season and I must admit I did have my
fair share too which helps.
I was happy that I was able to
compete in this grade and in some
games even do well which gives you
a confidence boost. It helps you
believe that you can actually play at
this level and gives you confidence in
your ability. I am not done yet and
hopefully I am able to produce a
similar season next year and that the
team can win a few more games as the
ultimate would be to play finals and
premiership success would be a
dream come true.
OPPOSITION BOWLERS
There are some great bowlers in
this grade and I was lucky enough to
face a few of them and a lot did get
the better of me I must admit.
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to face all
of the bowlers as I was most likely
already out. The ones I did face here
are the bowlers that I found really
tough to get on top of as they bowled
great areas and any loose balls were
at a minimum if any at all. Here are
the 5 bowlers in no particular order
that I found hardest to face this
season.
Greg Kennedy (Hoppers Crossing)
Sampath Perera (South Caulfield)
Joe Dawborn (Hampton)
Emmett Bronca (Yarraville Club)
Malan Madusanka (McKinnon)
BATSMEN I BOWLED TO
Now onto the batsmen that I was
lucky enough to bowl to this season.
I have always wondered how I would
fare against the batsmen in Senior
Division and some did get a hold of
me while others I was lucky enough
to dismiss. There are some amazing
batsmen in the competition and lucky
for us a few of them didn’t get going
against us but we could tell they were
classy players. There are a few guys
that I would have liked to add into this
list but here are 5 batsmen that I found
quite challenging to bowl to and try to
contain.
Ashley Russell (Sth Caulfield)
Konrad Kurta (Yarraville Club)
Dean Peter-Budge (Strathmore)
Ryan Pringle (Hampton)
James Ford (Strathmore)
Coming from North Division I
definitely think there are teams and
players that could come up and be
very competitive right away. Seeing
both Grand Final sides in West
Coburg and Doutta Stars, I believe
both would handle themselves fine in
this Division. Both have some top
quality players that would handle the
transition fine and I can see make a
load of runs and take wickets too.
Fingers crossed Senior Division
stays around for a little while longer
as I have found this season quite
enjoyable. It can be testing at times
and not much fun when you lose but
the challenge is there and we all want
to improve as individuals and as a
club. Let’s hope Tullamarine can
have a better season next year and
hopefully challenge for a finals berth.
--------------------------------------DAVID ZAHORODNI is a
champion allrounder, opening the
bowling, and batting at number 6.
In his first season in Senior
Division, he scored 531 runs at 44.25
with a highest score of 99 (out, lbw).
With the ball, he took 31 wickets at
15.10 with a best of 5/29 v eventual
Premier, Yarraville Club, including
the prized scalp of Justin Baker.
In his debut season in Senior
Division, he won the Paxino Medal,
awarded by the Umpires to the Best
Player in Senior Division, a fine
achievement.
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DOUTTA STARS
2014/15
by Blair McFarlane, President
Entering season 2014/15, the aim of
Doutta Stars CC was naturally to give
the club every opportunity to make
our way back to Senior Division
where our players and club could
once again challenge ourselves
against the best in the VTCA.
After five seasons in North
Division since relegation in 2008/09,
we had consistently put ourselves in a
position to win our way back up,
however two grand final and two
semi-final losses had shown how
difficult it is to progress up the ranks.
The standard of cricket in North
Division is highly competitive, with
many very talented players and some
extremely professional off-field set
ups, and with all 12 clubs staking
realistic claims to make their way up,
this season appeared to be a very even
one, which was how it eventually
panned out.
Over the off-season our club made
a couple of significant changes to our
on-field structure. Brenton Parchment was appointed as club captain.
Brenton is a Jamaican who played
two Tests and seven ODIs as an
opening batsman for the West Indies,
and returning for his third season with
us we knew he was a very talented
player and a strong leader, and felt he
now had the local knowledge of the
VTCA to allow him to lead the side.
The way he handled the leadership
of the club and his individual
performance for the season that saw
him finish with 702 runs and 49
wickets was obviously a huge key to
our
eventual
success.
The
responsibility of captaincy made him
a lot more focussed and determined,
and whilst his figures from the year
prior were solid with 432 runs and 28
wickets, his personal tally increase
was the equivalent of an extra player.
We also made the decision to try to
attract a highly qualified coach to the
club, someone who could assist every
player at the club throughout all
grades to improve. We were very
fortunate to be able to appoint a Level
3 qualified coach in Liam Castellas,
an ex-junior player at our club who
had coaching qualifications rarely
seen at our level. Liam's impact was
probably best seen in our grand final
when our two young opening
batsmen both made season-high
scores and showed the benefit of his
input.
The season itself was one of
extremely tight and hard fought
matches most weeks between all 12
teams. We managed to finish third at
the end of the home-and-away
season.
TIGHT DIVISION
Our round nine match against
Westmeadows I believe was our
toughest match of the year, and we
managed to sneak past them nine
wickets down to set ourselves up for
finals. To think six weeks later we
would go on to win the flag whilst
Westmeadows would end up 11th and
be relegated shows how extremely
close all teams were.
We
were
comprehensively
outplayed by both Spotswood and
PEGS late in the season, sides that
would finish just outside the finals,
and with the semi-finals being won
by the teams finishing third and
fourth, it showed how little was
between all teams and that anyone
could beat anyone on any given day.
Winning the premiership and
making our way back to Senior
Division is very satisfying for
everyone at our club. With that
though comes the knowledge that
whilst we managed to perform well at
key times this season, we have a lot
of work to do to be able to compete
against the best of the best in the
highest grade.
Of course we want to give our
players the chance to compete at this
level, but there is always the concern
as to whether we are ready to do so.
The likes of Yarraville Club and
South Caulfield don't rely on any one
player the likes of what we did this
season on Brenton.
TRAVEL QUESTION
The issue of travel comes back into
play, not so much for our First XI
players who will be keen to travel to
play the best standard they can, but
for our Second XI it can be difficult
to justify the need to travel an hour
across town to play a game when they
don't have any great desire to do so,
and could most likely get as good a
game close to home.
The impact of travel socially on the
club by not having all senior players
back at the clubrooms at a reasonable
time is something else to manage.
Providing we can have players like
club legend Ben Tankard stay fit for
one more season, Liam Castellas
returns from his winter in England,
our young guys keep improving and
we get Parchy's visa locked in nice
and early, these are all challenges that
all at Doutta Stars eagerly look
forward to.
Thanks to President (and former
gun bat), Blair McFarlane.
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DOUTTA STARS 3RDS
by Brian Quinn
In a 10-team competition in North
C4, a Saturday 1-day Grade, Doutta
Stars fielded 2 teams, 1 Blue and 1
Gold. The Gold team finished 9th,
while the Blue team lost just 1 game
(to Altona North in Round 20).
Amazingly. 5 of the top 8
Rungetters in North C4 were from the
Blue team.
Mark Anderson 483 runs at 34.50
Brandon Thomas 426 at 53.25
Jordan Rogers 304 at 21.71
Marcus Calvaresi 287 at 26.09, and
Nicholas Ciampa 275 at 30.56.
Throw in the bowling of Marcus
Calvaresi (27 wickets at 8.44) and
Jake Brown (23 wickets at 9.70), and
it is little wonder Doutta Blue won the
North C4 Premiership.
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TOM LANGLEY-DUNN
St Albans bowling allrounder, Tom
Langley-Dunn, has now finished
second in the Ray Scriven Medal in
North A1 in successive seasons.
He starred with the ball, finishing
the season with 45 wickets at 12.87,
to go with his 259 runs at 23.54.
Tom has been a star at St Albans
since 2006/07, totalling 271 wickets
in those 9 seasons at 14.00 each, and
giving away just 2.45 runs per over.
In that time he has taken 14 “5
fors”, and averages 270 runs and 30
wickets per season.
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Yarraville Club players celebrate
their Premiership victory.
YARRAVILLE CLUB REVELS
IN GRAND FINAL TEST
AGAINST SOUTH CAULFIELD
by Lance Jenkinson
(Days 1 & 2)
It is local cricket’s version of a Test
match – a four-day Grand Final in
which a batting side can stay at the
crease the whole weekend if it so
desires.
But bowlers want time in the
spotlight, too.
They pretty much stole all of the
limelight on the opening weekend of
the VTCA Senior Division decider
between Yarraville Club and South
Caulfield at Peter Robertson Oval in
Murrumbeena.
Batsmen dropped like flies with a
massive 25 wickets falling on the first
two days.
Five late wickets for the Clubbers’
bowlers late on Sunday would have
the reigning champions feeling
slightly better than their counterparts
heading into Saturday’s third day.
South Caulfield might have rued its
decision to bat after making just 147.
Ashley Russell saved South with a
bullish 79 off 194 balls.
The Clubbers got a dose of reality
when they were bowled out for 140,
to be trailing on first innings by
seven. The only Clubbers batsmen to
seriously trouble the scorers on a
tricky wicket were Konrad Kurta (32)
and Justin Baker (52).
The Clubbers still have plenty of
hope after South went to stumps on
the second day in trouble at 5-46 – a
lead of just 53.
-------------------------------------------YARRAVILLE CLUB WINS
EIGHTH TITLE IN A DECADE
by Lance Jenkinson
(Days 3 & 4)
Yarraville Club has returned to the
VTCA Senior Division premiership
dais for an unimaginable eighth time
in 10 summers.
The Clubbers saluted for back-toback flags after a nine-wicket win
over South Caulfield in the Grand
Final at Peter Robertson Oval on
Sunday.
On paper, it would seem like a
routine Grand Final win for the
Clubbers compared with the long line
of drama-filled finals days in the past
eight glories, but the scorebook is
deceptive on this occasion.
For a large part of the game, South
Caulfield must have felt a semblance
of control – right up until the fourth
and final day.
That’s when the Clubbers’ biggame experience came to the fore as
they chased down the 218 required
for victory.
Clubbers coach Michael O’Keefe
described as “incredible” the
transformation of his side from its
position at stumps on day two to the
final-day victory.
“It showed character from the boys,
the way they played over the last two
days. They were unbelievable.”
Sunday will go down as one of the
great days in Clubber history.
That says a lot about the unbroken
193-run stand between captain
Anthony Cristofaro and wicketkeeper
Ben Tupper, considering the number
of unforgettable days of March finals
action witnessed by Clubbers
supporters since the turn of the
century.
Cristofaro must have been spitting
chips after the first weekend, out for
a golden duck after receiving a peach
of a delivery.
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The skipper had to wipe it from his
memory because the team needed
him on the second weekend.
As with the past two premierships,
Cristofaro came up big with the bat at
the right time, blasting 106 not out.
Tupper played his part on the
decisive final day’s play with a
herculean knock of 91 not out.
The opening weekend of the Grand
Final was a beauty for the bowlers.
Konrad Kurta, who finished with
nine wickets for the match, was the
chief destroyer with 4-37 as South
perished for 147 in its first dig.
The Clubbers put up a lame
response with the bat, posting just
140 that could have been worse had
Justin Baker not eked out a valuable
52.
South Caulfield looked to take
control on the third day, scoring 211
on the back of 129 from Anthony
Grey, a knock described by O’Keefe
as “one of the best I’ve seen”.
Kurta’s 5-44 off 32 overs limited
the damage, but it was Aaron Mato
who claimed the prized scalp of Grey.
Staring at a 218-run deficit with a
day and a bit to bat, the final day was
set up nicely for the neutrals, but
O’Keefe always had faith that his
men, who had got the job done in so
many big games in the past decade,
had one last big innings in them.
“There is that belief within the
group because we’ve had the
experience of playing in Grand Finals
over the past six or seven years,”
O’Keefe said.
“We’ve won in so many different
ways.”
The Clubbers passed the target one
down with seven overs to spare.
The
decade
of
dominance
complete, the dynasty lives on.
Both articles (above) were written
by Lance Jenkinson, and appeared
in the MARIBYRNONG and
HOBSON’S BAY STAR WEEKLY,
the first on 18th March, and the
second on 25th March, 2015, and are
reproduced here with Lance’s kind
permission.
Lance has become a regular
contributor to the Presentation
Night LEADING EDGE, and it is
pleasing to be allowed to reproduce
his cricket articles.
DOUTTA STARS BOOKS
SENIOR DIVISION RETURN
by Tim Michell
DOUTTA Stars captain Brenton
Parchment put the exclamation mark
on a Turf Cricket season of individual
supremacy by leading his side to a
North Division Grand Final win over
West Coburg on Sunday.
The all-rounder claimed nine
wickets across two innings and
topscored with 68 in the Stars’ second
innings to effectively bat the
Redbacks out of the contest.
“We’ve had some great cricketers
at this place, but I don’t think there’s
been any better than him this season,”
Doutta
Stars
president
Blair
McFarlane said.
“Just amazing stats. (He’s) led the
runs, led the wickets and been captain
of the club.”
The game was all but decided on
Saturday, when West Coburg fell five
runs short of first-innings points.
Last-wicket pair Evan Cole (10 not
out) and Michael Pratt (12) combined
for a 27-run partnership to get their
side within a whisker of Doutta Stars’
total.
But Ben Tankard’s second wicket
put the Stars in the driver’s seat as
West Coburg succumbed for 170,
four short of Doutta’s total.
McFarlane said the first-innings
finish raised heart rates among the
club’s supporters.
“It was pretty important, it just
changes the whole shape of the
game,” McFarlane said.
“You can bat as long as you want
and just bat them out of the game.
“If you’re behind, you’ve got to set
a total and get back into it.”
Parchment finished with 6-50,
before he joined Robert Pratt (53) to
frustrate West Coburg on the final
day of play.
When the Stars innings finished
with 226 on the board, the Redbacks
needed 231 runs in 25 overs.
West Coburg belted its way to 1/40
inside the first five overs, but its
effort was always likely to be in vain.
Redbacks captain-coach Callum
Appleyard called the game off with
his team 6-70 in the 13th over of a
forlorn chase.
The victory marked Doutta Stars
return to Senior Division after six
years outside the top tier.
The club was relegated in 2008-09,
just one year after winning its last
top-grade flag.
“It’s always been the aim to get
back there, but it takes a lot of
planning, work and effort from a lot
of people to make it come together,”
McFarlane said.
“The last four years, we’ve played
finals four years in a row ... and we
were starting to wonder if we’d
missed our opportunity when we kept
letting them slip by.
“To keep bouncing back every year
and put ourselves in contention has
been a good effort.”
Parchment finished the campaign
with 702 runs and 49 wickets and is
all but certain to win his secondstraight Isaacs Medal.
This article (above) was written by
Tim Michell, and appeared in the
MOONEE VALLEY LEADER on
23rd March 2015, and is reproduced
here with the kind permission of
Sports Editor, Luke D’Anello.
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WEST COBURG
CAPTAIN-COACH
CALLUM APPLEYARD
ANNOUNCES HIS
RETIREMENT
by Tim Michell
IT IS often said that it is best to
sleep on the big decisions in life.
When West Coburg captain-coach
Callum Appleyard woke on Sunday,
the 33-year-old’s back ached and his
troublesome groin was sore.
It was a sign the veteran paceman
had done all he could for the
Redbacks, signalling the end of a
career that has included 18 years at
the club.
Appleyard battled through 22 overs
in Doutta Stars’ second innings of the
Turf Cricket North Division Grand
Final, before being the last man out as
West Coburg conceded at 6-70 in its
second innings chasing 230.
“It was a decision I made Sunday
morning.
I’d
thought
about
(retirement), but the body is just not
what it used to be,” Appleyard said.
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“I probably just lost a little bit of the
hunger for it during the season.
“I was thinking that if we’d got
promoted I might have played on for
one more season, but ... I’m
struggling at the moment as it is.”
Rather than spending days
digesting a four-run grand final loss
with his teammates, Appleyard
headed to the physio for treatment on
his back.
“My back is killing me. I was in the
physio because I couldn’t drive and
lie down,” he said.
“It’s just everything. I’d gone into
the grand final with a torn groin as
well.
“It’s one of those things, I just said
to the boys that it’s probably time for
someone else to lead them in a new
direction.
“I’ve had my time and the body is
not as willing as what it used to be.”
Appleyard said he was unlikely to
entertain a non-playing coaching role,
but would stay around the club to
watch its progress.
The Redbacks
suffered
an
agonising first-innings defeat to the
Stars in the season decider, falling
five runs short of overhauling
Doutta’s total.
Last-wicket pair Evan Cole (10 not
out) and Michael Pratt (12) put on 27,
but their efforts were to no avail as
Ben Tankard landed the decisive
blow.
The first-innings result allowed
Doutta Stars to dictate terms for the
remainder of the match, batting its
way to 226 from 97 overs in its
second dig.
West Coburg was left with 230 to
get from 25 overs, a target it was
never likely to threaten despite a fast
start.
Appleyard said he hoped the
Redbacks could follow a similar path
to the Stars and mount another
challenge for the North Division title
next season.
This article (above) was written by
Tim Michell, and appeared in the
MORELAND LEADER on 24th
March 2015, and is reproduced here
with kind permission of Sports
Editor, Luke D’Anello.
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CHELSEA AND OLD
MENTONIANS CELEBRATE
VTCA PREMIERSHIPS
by Simon McEvoy
CHELSEA claimed a fifth premiership in its 85-year history after a
supreme batting display defused
fierce rivals Bonbeach Tangy in the
2014-15 South Division grand final.
A superb, patient century by Sri
Lankan ace Lasith Fernando (102)
was at the heart of the triumph.
The Seagulls batted on, and on, to
mow down Bonny’s 229 and then
open up a 95-run lead, still with two
wickets in hand, when Lightning
skipper David Fernandez conceded
defeat at about 2.30 on Sunday
afternoon.
Chelsea club legend Jason Chapple
was at the creases, on 47 not out,
having batted for 75 overs. He and No
10 batsman Patty de Mel (40no) had
put on 74 for the ninth wicket to take
Chelsea’s score to 8-324 off a
marathon 169 overs.
It seemed like the Seagulls were
going to bat into next season.
Chelsea skipper Ravi Kannangara
said his side was made to earn it by
Bonbeach.
Lightning
bowler
Andy
MacKessack was all heart, sending
down 44 overs, including 26 maidens,
for a return of 2-48.
“Bonbeach definitely didn’t hand it
to us. The game was in the balance
until the time we got past them. But it
wasn’t over. We had to bat on and put
the game to bed,’’ Kannangara said.
The flag decider, at McKinnon
Reserve, was delicately poised when
it resumed on Saturday.
Chelsea, on 4-124, needed another
126 to win.
Fernando was all class and
determination, dropping anchor for
more than 120 overs to compile a
brilliant ton.
Chapple was also resolute,
absorbing pressure, to ensure the flag
was in the bag.
“This one is pretty special,’’ he
said.
“Because of the local rivalry and,
personally, to be 43 and still be
competing ... You don’t know if it’s
going to be your last hit let alone your
last premiership, so this is as
satisfying as it gets.’’
Kannangara said he and his players
felt added pressure to win the title this
season, so to do it was especially
satisfying.
In the rooms after the game, he told
his men to savour the moment.
“I told them to enjoy it because
premierships don’t come along too
often,’’ he said.
“In 2008 we had waited 16 years.
We’ve done it (again) within six
years now but who knows, we might
not win another flag for another 16
years, so I told them to enjoy it, really
take it in.
“And for four or five of us who are
in the twilight of our careers … we’ll
cherish this more than ever.’’
Meanwhile, a stunning bowling
performance by Nicholas Hardman
propelled Old Mentonians to premiership glory in VTCA South A1.
The Panthers, having lost on first
innings to Carnegie, climbed off the
canvas to score a reverse outright
victory.
Hardman inspired the comeback,
capturing 6-18 off 25 overs to rip
through the Carnegie batting line-up
in its second innings.
Carnegie was dismissed for 111,
following Old Mentonians’ second
innings score of 215, engineered by
Will Hunt with 93.
The flag triumph continues a
golden era for Old Mentonians: they
have now won South B1, South A1,
South, Senior and South A1 in the
past eight seasons in First XI VTCA.
The Panthers’ 2014-15 season will
always be remembered for skipper
Simon Cormie’s astonishing runscoring spree; he hit more than 1000
runs (in all competitions).
The article (above) was written by
Simon McEvoy and appeared in the
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader on 24th
March, 2015. It is reproduced here
with the kind permission of Sports
Editor, Paul Amy.
Simon has become a regular
contributor to the Presentation
Night LEADING EDGE, and it is
pleasing to be allowed to reproduce
his cricket articles.
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SUNSHINE UNITED CLAIM
WEST A PREMIERSHIP
by Liam Twomey
After six sleepless nights, Sunshine
United claimed Turf Cricket’s West
A1 premiership on Saturday.
A week earlier, stumps were called
after two days of the grand final with
the Tigers needing just 19 runs with
six wickets in hand against
Williamstown CYMS.
And while the task looked simple,
the fact that 34 wickets fell in the first
two days was enough to keep
everyone on their toes.
After coming extremely close to
premiership success last season,
United wasn’t about to let another
opportunity slip and the Tigers
secured the remaining 19 runs for the
loss of just one more wicket.
Joshua Maher was the standout
batsman in the second innings, topscoring with 19, while Leigh
Sheridan made 12.
Earlier in the match, United fast
bowler Michael Glowacki ensured he
would be remembered as a
premiership hero.
He finished with 7-39 in the CYs’
second innings to give him 10
wickets for the match.
Speaking after day two, Sunshine
captain Ben Foster was full of praise
for his star fast bowler.
“It was a real lionheart performance
by Michael,” he said. “He really dug
deep.”
“He came out after tea and bowled
about 14 overs in a row. They didn’t
have any answers for him.”
As well as premiership silverware,
Saturday’s win means Sunshine will
be promoted to the VTCA’s North A1
Division for next season.
The article (above) was written by
Liam Twomey and appeared in the
Brimbank and North West Star
Newspaper on 23rd March, 2015. It
is reproduced here with Liam’s kind
permission.
----------------------------------------Editor’s note – Metro Melbourne
is fortunate to have so many local
journalists covering VTCA cricket,
and to be allowed to reproduce
their Grand Final articles in the
Leading Edge is fantastic.
CYMS VETERAN ANDREW
LEETET DEPARTS PROUD
BUT DEFEATED
by Lance Jenkinson
There is no post-mortem needed
here. Williamstown CYMs are well
aware of where they went wrong in a
disappointing West A1 turf cricket
Grand Final defeat to Sunshine
United at Langshaw Reserve at the
weekend.
According to CYs veteran Andrew
Leetet, it’s simple.
“We just didn’t perform with the
bat,” he said. “You can’t get bowled
out for 107 and 88 and expect to win
a grand final.”
It was a shock to see the CYs
batting form desert them on the
biggest occasion of the season.
This is a side that boasts four top10 batsmen with more than 350 runs
each.
No other side in the competition has
that kind of firepower.
One by one they fell on days one
and two, leaving a mere 19 runs
required for United to secure victory
on the third day.
A number of factors contributed to
the CYs’ downfall with the bat. “It
was probably a combination of good
bowling, [poor] shot-making and
pressure,” Leetet said.
The CYs had the confidence in the
pitch to bat first on day one after
winning the toss. It was a decision
they would rue after being skittled for
107 in just 39 overs.
Janaka Siriwardana (33) and
skipper Paul Russ (32) were the
leading scorers amidst a roll-call of
batting failures.
United was only marginally better
with the willow, making 147, but its
30-run first-innings lead would be
crucial in a low-scoring affair.
Leetet, with 4-33 off 26.2 overs,
and Andrew Walshe, 3-35 off 14,
kept CYs in the contest.
But dreams of a premiership all but
evaporated when they were bowled
out for 88 in just 42.4 second innings
overs.
Siriwardana (41) was the only CYs
batsmen to fire, with tailender
Walshe the second top-scorer with 13
not out.
“He really put his head down and
batted very well,” Leetet said of
Siriwardana. “He’s definitely a class
act.”
One United bowler will live in the
nightmares of the CYs’ batsmen.
Chief destroyer Michael Glowacki
took 7-39 in the second innings to
finish with 10 wickets for the match.
“He’s the best bowler we’ve come
up against,” Leetet said. “His effort
on the Sunday put them in a winning
position.”
CYs never waved the white towel,
fighting all the way to the bitter end.
They had a glimmer of hope when
United was in trouble at 4-10, but the
underdogs steadied to go on to win by
five wickets.
Leetet was sad to see his final first
XI game end in defeat but proud that
his teammates never gave up.
The 42-year-old will pass the new
ball to the next generation, going out
at the top of his game after a 46wicket season, including 13 in the
finals.
Leetet has played 20 years in the
VTCA, including six seasons at
Hoppers Crossing and 14 at CYs, and
plans to stick around the club to help
with junior development. He might
even play the odd game in the lower
XIs.
“It’s been really enjoyable and I’ve
been able to do everything –
captained, coached, won a flag and
taken a few wickets,” Leetet said.
“It’s a good bunch of blokes at CYs
and I’ll definitely stay around to help
them out.”
This article (above) was written by
Lance Jenkinson, and appeared in
the
MARIBYRNONG
and
HOBSON’S BAY STAR WEEKLY
on 25th March 2015, and is
reproduced here with Lance’s kind
permission.
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JASON CHAPPLE
In the South B Final in 1990/91,
Highett 2nds made 219. Chelsea 2nds
replied with 299. Teenager Jason
Chapple carried his bat, with 121no.
24 years later, Chapple played his
part for Chelsea in the South Division
Final win over Bonbeach Tangy. But
have we seen the last of him?
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HAIG FAWKNER WINS
NORTH A1 FLAG TO BREAK
A 51-YEAR TITLE DROUGHT
by Tim Michell
THE weight of 51 years without a
First XI premiership lifted from Haig
Fawkner’s shoulders as it batted its
way to a breakthrough Turf Cricket
title on Sunday.
The Fawkner club withstood a
final-day onslaught from Aberfeldie
in the North A1 Grand Final as the
underdogs looked to complete a
stunning turnaround at Laverton
Park.
Abers fought back from a 95-run
first-innings deficit to post 8-346 in
their second innings, leaving Haig
Fawkner with 251 to make or 85
overs to bat to save the contest.
Haig, which last won a First XI flag
in 1964, managed the latter as club
president John Gioupas (47 not out)
and Dean Allan (38 not out) carried
their side to stumps.
Gioupas said the enormity of the
victory took little time to dawn on the
club.
“The game was set up by us on the
first day when we bowled them out
for 75,” Gioupas said.
“It’s hard to get back from there,
but they did a good job.
“They bowled us out for 170 and at
the time we thought ‘it’s only 95 runs
in front’.
“But we knew ...(the pitch) would
be better second week and big scores
had been made on that ground.”
He said Aberfeldie played with
“nothing to lose” after Sameera
Vishwaranga ripped through its lineup in the first innings, claiming 7-28.
“We knew that was going to happen
and it was good by our boys, we
showed a bit of backbone,” he said.
Haig Fawkner will play in North
Division next season after the victory,
a jump Gioupas said the club was
ready to make.
“This group is good enough, we’ll
be competitive in North Division,” he
said.
“I’ve seen the way West Coburg
have gone about things and we
reckon we’ll be competitive in that
Division with the group we’ve got.
“We’ve got a few older heads,
experienced cricketers and our
overseas boys are pretty good too.”
He said four members of the
premiership team had previously
played in North Division, adding
most had already committed to
another season with the club.
HAIG
FAWKNER
170
(Aiyappan 47, McCallum 3-39) and
4-187 (Parker 58, Gioupas 47) def
ABERFELDIE 75 (Vishwaranga 728) and 8-346 declared (Godsell 66,
Gray 57, Stevenson 3-80)
This article (above) was written by
Tim Michell, and appeared in the
MORELAND LEADER on 24th
March 2015, and is reproduced here
with the kind permission of Sports
Editor, Luke D’Anello.
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ANTHONY GREY
Anthony Grey’s second innings for
South Caulfield in the Senior
Division Grand Final against
Yarraville Club was magnificent.
Players from both teams spoke
glowingly about it, as did those of us
privileged to watch from the outer.
On the first weekend, South
Caulfield were dismissed for 147.
They then dismissed Yarraville Club
for 140, a lead of just 7 to South. But
in the remaining overs on Day 2,
South Caulfield stumbled badly,
reduced to 5/29 at one stage.
Ably assisted by veterans in the
lower order, Grey was able to drag the
score upwards, from 5/29 to all out
211 when he was dismissed for a
magnificent 129 off 299 balls.
Grey and the tail had extended the
lead to an imposing 218, and used up
96 overs in total. Grey’s innings was
a technical masterpiece.
Yarraville Club chased down the
runs losing just 1 wicket, but it did not
reduce the quality of Grey’s innings.
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WARREN PARKER
Third place in the Ray Scriven
Medal in North A this season went to
Warren Parker, a long-time batting
star for Glenroy before joining Haig
Fawkner 3 seasons ago.
After 560 runs at 40.00 in North B
in 2012/12, and 279 runs at 23.25 in
2013/14, he topped the North A run
aggregates this season with 665 runs
at 41.56. Despite failing twice against
his old club (0 in Round 2, and 2 in
Round 8), Warren still had the last
laugh, winning the North A1
Premiership.
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KONRAD KURTA
What a recruit this lad proved to be!
He joined Yarraville Club after
Christmas 2013, and played just the 5
games, for 241 runs at 34.43, and 4
wickets at 22.00 from minimal
chances with the ball. He was
awarded The Man of the Match
award in Senior Seconds in 20/13/14.
This season, he began in the
Seconds, scoring 58no in Round 1
before his Senior Division debut in
Round 2. He had earned his chance,
and his position in the Firsts was
never again in doubt.
Opening both the batting and the
bowling, he scored 632 runs at 45.14,
and took 30 wickets at 17.43.
In the semi-final, Hoppers Crossing
made a respectable 207 on Day 1.
Sunday, Day 2, saw opening bowlers
Greg Kennedy and Tawalampolage
Darshanapriya reduce Yarraville
Club to 4/36, but Kurta was still there.
He defied all that Hoppers had and
finished with 108no.
In the Grand Final v South
Caulfield he excelled with the ball.
His first innings figures were
15.4/4/4/37, including the prized
early wicket of gun opener Thilina
Masmulla. He made 32 in Yarraville
Club’s first innings. His dismissal at
2/101 triggered a collapse of 8/41.
Kurta then again dismissed
Masmulla cheaply, before a couple of
long spells, of pace and spin on Day
3 to finish with 32/19/5/44.
After bowling so many overs, he
was “rested” from opening the batting
late on Day 3, and with the matchwinning partnership of 193 between
Ben Tupper (91no) and Anthony
Cristofaro (106no), Kurta was not
required at the crease.
Konrad Kurta is a worthy Premiership player with Yarraville Club,
further rewarded with selection in the
Kingston Trophies Senior Division
Team of the Year tonight, named to
bat at 6, the allrounder’s spot.
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Photo : Jacana Cricket Club
celebrates its VTCA North B1
premiership.
JACANA BREAKS 42-YEAR
PREMIERSHIP DROUGHT
by Tim Michell
MORE than four decades of
emotion poured out after Jacana
secured a drought-breaking Turf
Cricket premiership against East
Coburg on Saturday.
The Lions broke a 42-year drought
with a resounding win against the
minor premier, waltzing home inside
three days to claim the North B1
crown.
But Jacana did not have it all its
own way, with last-wicket pair
Muddassar Hassan (41 not out) and
Kevin Dowsey (1), forcing it to wait
more than two hours to celebrate a
long-awaited premiership.
“It was a scary couple of hours,”
Jacana skipper Shannon Bennett said.
“The raw emotion of the first 10 or
15 minutes after it happened, we were
just yelling and screaming on the
wicket.
“Everyone was in tears and hugging
each other. It was one of the best
feelings in life really, that first 10
minutes was unbelievable.”
The Lions set East Coburg 175 to
win the match by reverse outright on
Saturday at Walter Street Reserve
after being bowled out for 114 in their
second innings.
The club’s position could have been
worse had Telge Peiris (71) and
Lachlan
Bradford
(31)
not
contributed almost 90 per cent of its
total.
Wayne Cooper (4-18) and Jack
Ottaway (2-6) carved through East
Coburg’s batting line-up in its second
innings, reducing their opposition to
7-43.
From that point the result appeared
a formality, although Hassan and
Dowsey made Jacana wait longer
than it would have liked.
Peiris played a vital role in the win
with half-centuries in both innings,
while Praneeth Jayasundera took five
wickets across East Coburg’s two
innings.
Hassan was named man-of-thematch after his dogged performance
with the bat and haul of 8-42 in the
Lions’ second innings.
But nothing could stop Jacana’s
party as it celebrated a performance
its most enduring supporters had
waited years for.
“It was one of the more perfect
performances really,” Bennett said.
“The batting was a bit worrying at
times, but the bowling and the
fielding side of things was spot on.”
Bennett said several members of
the team were likely to retire on a
high, but said he would leave it to
them to announce their intentions.
JACANA 177 (Whelan 61, Peiris
51) and 114 (Peiris 71, Hassan 8-42)
v
EAST
COBURG
116
(Jayasundera 4-40) and 120
(Hassan 41, Cooper 4-18)
This article (above) was written by
Tim Michell, and appeared in the
HUME LEADER on 24th March
2015, and is reproduced here with
the kind permission of Sports Editor,
Luke D’Anello.
-------------------------------------------BONBEACH TANGY
Congrats to Bonbeach Tangy on
their promotion next season to Senior
Division. Remarkably, they have
gone from South B (now defunct) in
2008/09 to Senior Div in 2015/16
without winning a First X1
Premiership! In fact, they have lost 5
Grand Finals in the past 9 years!!!
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OVERSEAS RECRUITS
by Lachlan Quinn
In another outstanding year of
competition in the VTCA, we were
again greeted by many Overseas
players, with some outstanding
performances among the recruits.
Senior Div Premier Yarraville
Club had the pick of the Overseas
Players this season, with NZer
Konrad Kurta (632 runs, 30 wickets)
slotting in rather well to their side.
After playing in the Seconds last
season, he was a vital member of their
Premiership-winning team. 108 in the
Semi, 9 wickets in the GF indicates
he thrived on the big game pressure.
Runner-up South Caulfield again
had a Sri Lankan flavour, this time
adding opening bowler Kanishka
Alvitigala who captured 27 wickets to
go with 255 runs. Thilina Masmulla
(549 runs) and Sampath Perera (41
wickets) were again key planks in the
side and gave them the best possible
chance of winning a Senior Div flag.
Semi-finalist Hoppers Crossing
also had a Sri Lankan in Duleeka
Thisakuttige, a number 3 bat who
peeled off 469 runs. Hampton’s
overseas player, Durham-contracted
Ryan Pringle, had perhaps the most
eye catching performance of the
season with a brutal, run a ball 215
against Strathmore in round 9.
Pringle was clearly Hampton’s key
wicket, making 536 runs from 14 hits
including 2 centuries. Were it not for
his slow start he may have pushed
700+ runs. He also bowled some
handy offspin and continued
Hampton’s recent strength in
securing Overseas players of
significant quality.
McKinnon retained their overseas
players in Sandun Dias (243 runs and
14 wickets) and Malan Madasanka
(29 wickets). They picked up gun
Gloucestershire bat Ed Young (exSpotswood), who was extremely
important to them, making 442 runs
to go with 10 wickets. Bentleigh’s
Chris Williams returned to the
VTCA, his batting improving
significantly with 464 runs including
145no to win Round 1. Chasing 256
and coming in at 3/28 Williams had
no right to steal the match with such
an outstanding innings. Englishman
and former Port Melbourne player
Alex Roberts did not play after
January, managing just 5 matches for
the Demons. His record in the VTCA
is significantly different to the awards
he has won in the Dandenong league.
Airport West’s Dinesh Cooray
made 380 runs with a best of 150
against McKinnon. He has been
consistent in his 2 seasons for the
club. St Bernards’ Jack Sterland hit
413 runs for the Snowdogs in his
debut season down under. Greenvale
picked up wicketkeeper Sameen
Kandanearachchi who was slightly
delayed, starting in the Seconds with
a score of 91 before debuting in round
4 for the Kangaroos. He made 320
runs including a final round 106
against Strathmore. He also took 22
catches and 10 stumpings from just 8
matches.
In the North, Premier and newly
Senior Div-bound Doutta Stars had
Brenton Parchment and Ben Speake.
A former West Indian Test
representative,
Parchment
was
outstanding again with 702 runs and
49 wickets, captaining the team and
securing promotion for the Stars.
Many wondered how they would
replace Brendan Nash - they have
done that and more with Parchment at
the helm. He scored 6 fifties and took
5 or more wickets on 3 occasions.
Speake made 386 runs, including 91
against Laverton early.
Runner-up West Coburg had
Mohomed Feshal join the club, where
he contributed a valuable 426 runs
and 23 wickets. Semi Finalists Keilor
Park had an interesting year, skipper
Andy Barlow (114 runs, 14 wickets)
did not play after Christmas. Rob
Jones was a decent bat for them with
397 runs, but did not play finals
which was a big loss. The Mansfield
brothers (Ian 257 runs and David 123
runs) were both serviceable.
Neighbours Keilor appointed Sri
Lankan Kaushal Lokuarachchi as
playing coach, the leg spinner taking
18 wickets at an average of 16.3, and
making 307 runs. Also at Keilor was
Upal Bandara who took 37 wickets,
including 33 by Christmas, along
with his 270 runs, showing he was a
great pickup.
Westmeadows’
Callum French started well with 65
against PEGS, before tapering out to
finish on 186 runs and the final match
in the Seconds.
Royal Park
Brunswick pair Sonny Cooper (20
wickets) and Joe Riches (184 runs)
did their best to help their team avoid
relegation in a tough season.
South Division Premier Chelsea
had a Sri Lankan feel to their playing
list, including the recruitment of
Lasith Fernando who made a century
in the Grand Final. He like many
arrived late due to Visa problems, and
took some time to settle, but it’s all
worth it when he gets your team over
the line in the big one. Runner-up
Bonbeach Tangy had the two eye
catching recruits in this grade. Chris
Williams (627 runs @ 36.7) and
Waqas Hussain (469 runs and 40
wickets) were outstanding. Williams’
clean, crisp hitting when opening the
batting was remarkable. Hussain’s
allround contribution was vital to the
Tang making the Grand Final. Port
Melbourne haven’t seemed to nail
their Overseas players since James
Cole left, however this season they
had Simon Cafferkey (259 runs @
17.3) among a couple of others
drifting in and out of the
Firsts/Seconds.
Moorabbin Park again had Kasun
Perera (360 runs, 31 wickets) and
Rashimal Mendis (381 runs, 19
dismissals), both players arriving in
Round 3 after sorting out Visa issues.
Moorabbin Park was one of the first
clubs to invest in the Sri Lankan
program, and they would be rapt with
the performance of their two guns
over the past 3 seasons. In South A,
Premiers Old Mentonians again hit
the jackpot with their overseas, with
keeper Will Hunt (548 runs, 31
dismissals) and offspinner Nick
Hardman (410 runs, 43 wickets)
making vital contributions in key
roles for the Panthers. South
Caulfield bat Danny Davies transferred to Carnegie where he made
751 and took 27 wickets. Third
placed Mentone had Will Hale (307
runs) whilst keeper James Boon had
21 dismissals. Middle Park’s
Michael Littler was a w/keeper bat
who made 368 runs and took 15
dismissals.
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ASH RUSSELL
South Caulfield allrounder, Ash
Russell, was a long-time South
Caulfield player. In fact, he was
named as Captain in the Kingston
Trophies Senior Division Team of the
Year way back in 2004/05.
At the end of 2009/10, he
transferred to Bentleigh Uniting to
play on the carpet in the SECA
competition.
1,485 runs at 45.00 and 92 wickets
at 15.59 and 3 Premierships in 4
seasons were his results on the carpet.
Russell top-scored in his team’s only
Grand Final loss, but 4 run-outs
destroyed their chances.
This season he returned “home” to
help his brother, Luke, now Captain.
Ash scored a magnificent 79 on
Day 1 of the Grand Final when
wickets were falling regularly.
His season’s output amounted to
657 runs at 43.80 and 22 wickets at
19.86.
Back in 2009/10, Ash scored 569
runs at 47.42 to be selected in the
VTCA Kingston Trophies’ Senior
Division Team of the Year.
Returning from his 4 seasons on the
carpet, Ash has resumed his place in
the Kingston Trophies’ Senior
Division Team of the Year in
2014/15, announced and presented
tonight.
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KANE COLLINS
After at least 10 seasons in the
Newport Digman First X1, Kane
Collins dropped down this season to
the Third X1 in North C3.
After a relatively quiet start, he had
136 runs at 27.20 after Round 9. He
then went on a genuine run spree.
Round 10 = 231 (and took 6/23),
Round 11 = 43,
Round 12 = 178,
Round 13 = 113,
Round 14 = 95.
What a fantastic run spree, scoring
660 runs at 132 in just 5 innings.
Unfortunately, Newport Digman
made just 82 in the Semi-final, being
beaten by Taylors Lakes (4/131).
Kane Collins was caught for 5,
finishing with a mammoth 801 runs at
72.82 (plus 22 wickets at 15.86).
- MEMORIES VJCA Annual Report
1990/91
(24 years ago)
Highlights
*** Mr Roy Paxino passed away
in August 1990. He had played in the
VJCA with the Myrall club. Initially,
Roy was involved as a Delegate, and
later as a member of the Executive
Council in 1940.
At various times over 40 years he
was
Registration
Secretary,
Statistician, Vice-President, CUOV
Delegate, Chairman of the Match
Committee, then President from 1967
until 1978. Roy was awarded Life
Membership in 1972.
The name of Roy Paxino is now
associated with the Best Player in
Senior Division. Moorabbin Park’s
Peter Hanlon was the first winner in
1978/79.
*** The new Hon General
Secretary, Peter Howarth, was
appointed in February 1991. He
had previously had 20 seasons in
the VJCA as a player and Delegate.
*** South Caulfield, under Stuart
Carboon’s leadership, won the Senior
Division Premiership.
*** John Restarick played for
South Caulfield’s losing Senior
Seconds Final. In 2014/15 he played
in the losing Senior Division Final
against Yarraville Club.
----------------------------------------UMPIRE MOVEMENTS
It appears that players are not the
only ones who change “teams”.
Umpire Ian Wyatt was involved in
Senior Division Grand Finals in
2011/12 (with Graham Hill), 2012/13
(with Daryl Brigham) and in 2013/14
(with Gary Tranter).
He was the recipient of the
Howarth/Campbell Medal each time.
This season (2014/15) he officiated
at the Sub-District CA South East
First X1 Grand Final. His umpiring
partner on this occasion was Graham
Hill, a dual Howarth/Campbell
Medallist.
Brian Farrow, a Howarth/Campbell
recipient in 2008/09, umpired the
Subbies’ South East 2nds Final.
PAUL WEST
Aberfeldie’s Paul West has been a
very good First X1 player. He scored
637 runs at 45.50 in North B back in
2003/04, and 396 at 39.60 in North A
in 2004/05.
For the next decade, he played only
4 or 5 games each season, primarily
in the lower grades. He remained a
fantastic Club person, fulfilling roles
such as Vice President, and Junior
Coordinator for several seasons.
In 2013/14, he played almost a full
season back in the Firsts, for 159 runs
at 19.88.
This season, 2014/15, aged 45, he
spent the season in the Seconds in
North A2. He scored 3no in Round 1
then missed Round 2. Batting at
number 7 from Round 3 onwards, he
made 95 (lbw), then 119 in Rd 4, 109
in Rd 5, 2no in Rd 6, missed Rd 7, did
not bat in Rd 8, then 117 in Round 9.
At this stage he was averaging
111.25 from 445 runs.
Unfortunately, he scored only 14 in
Rd 10, did not bat in Rd 11, before
being caught for 3 in the Semi-final.
The semi-final was interesting.
Aberfeldie won the toss and batted.
They lost 4/0 at the start, before a
partnership of 90, then they lost 4/1 at
the finish. All out 100.
Merlynston Hadfield then were
dismissed for 100, resulting in a tie.
Aberfeldie went through to the Grand
Final which they won against St
Albans. Unfortunately, Paul West
tore his hamstring in the Semi-final
and missed the Grand Final!
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DAMIEN HIGGINS
South Caulfield player, Damien
Higgins, averaged over 100 with the
bat in 2 separate Grades during the
season. Has this ever happened
before in the VTCA (or elsewhere)?
He played in four grades during
2014/15 as follows:Seconds(Sen2nds)243 runs at 121.50
Thirds (SthA2)
37 runs at 37.00
Fourths (SthC1) 147 runs at 36.75
Fifths (Sth D1) 222 runs at 222.00.
Grand Total of 649 runs at 81.13,
with a Highest Score of 78no in the
Seconds. A fantastic season for
Damien.
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PETER HOWARTH
by Gary McInnes
I feel somewhat privileged that
Brian Quinn has asked me to put
together an article on Peter Howarth.
Is it a case though of “mea maxima
culpa” dating back to the early 90s?
I recall the then President, Bill
Pewtress, telephoning me to set up a
meeting with this new guy who had
indicated he wanted to come on board
as Secretary. I think I was acting
Secretary at the time. Anyway, we
met this bespectacled and bushybearded guy named Peter Howarth at
the Southern Cross Hotel in the city.
The rest is history.
Peter came to the Association with
a strong background in sports
administration; having been involved
in baseball. I can’t recall if he was
still playing at the time but he did play
with Newport East (formerly
Newport ANA).
New Secretary
Peter was appointed General
Secretary and I continued on as
Assistant Secretary which included
the role as Secretary of the Match
Committee.
Peter was a qualified accountant
and he certainly brought that skill to
the Association; never to challenge
the qualities of long-term VTCA
Treasurer, Pat Quinn.
The office of Secretary was a
position filled by appointment by
then Executive Council (now Board
of Management) and received a
modest honorarium. We all know
that Peter immersed himself in the
job. His contribution far exceeded
what he got as an honorarium. His
home office at Freame Street in
Yarraville became the hub of the VT.
Another Tree Falls
I fondly recall times when the
AGM or key Match Committee or
Executive meetings were coming on
and I’d rush over to Pete’s place to
help him compile the reams of paper
that only he could produce. It was
nothing for him to be on three phone
calls at the same time.
Peter came into the VTCA at a time
when most of our systems were paper
based. Peter had a strong database
background and became the key
driver in moving us into the
“computer world”. He took over the
management of our fixtures from Bill
Pewtress; made increasingly complex
with the growth in our number of
clubs since the 90s.
Peter’s workload was enormous.
He has an amazing ability to recall
matters from meetings or discussions;
able to win many an argument with
his elephant-like memory. I think he
was only second to Tony Isaacs in
note taking.
When Russell Pollock took on the
job of Secretary it became a paid
position – not just part-time either.
Peter stayed on and helped build the
VT to where it stands in the cricket
community today.
Life Membership
Love him or hate him, the
undeniable fact is that he has given
great service to our Association and
thoroughly deserved the Life
Membership bestowed upon him in
2008. He became a regular
contributor to the radio as Glenn
“Scatters” Scarborough will attest.
Many people have come and gone
when it comes to this Association;
few have contributed as much as
Peter has. His name will go down in
this Association alongside the greats
like Bill Louch and Pat Quinn.
I know that Peter is very proud of
the contribution his father Ken, and
his uncle Bill Howarth, made as
umpires in this Association. Peter
can be proud too of the contribution
made by his now late brother
Lindsay.
I have a chuckle when I recall some
of the Tribunals that I chaired with
Pete on the panel; he would
sometimes pass a slip of paper to me
at a point during the hearing and I’d
see the devil had been playing
“Hangman” (without prejudice of
course).
(Editor’s note: Gary McInnes was
awarded Life Membership of the VTCA
in 2003. He was Secretary to the Match
Committee from 1987/2005. He is a Life
Member of Bentleigh CC (1984/85). He
had 2 stints as President of Bentleigh over
the years, and was Secretary from
1982/83 to 1985/86, and Delegate to
VJCA/VTCA for many, many years.)
MY MATE PETE
by Glenn Scarborough
I first met Peter Howarth some 25
or so years ago when he and his
brother Lindsay played at St
Bernard’s following the demise of
their club Newport East, and we
immediately became good friends.
Although Peter retired from cricket
soon after this and joined the VTCA
Board of Management in the role of
Secretary, we continued to have
contact
through
work,
my
involvement as a committee member
at St Bernards, and from 1999 to the
present day, my role as presenter of
the radio show “The North West
Cricket Report” on 98.9 NorthWest
fm.
Pete’s introduction to the VTCA
Executive was somewhat unique, as
he came onto the Executive as
completely independent given that he
had no club ties due to the unfortunate
demise of his former club, which
meant that he could always look at
decisions with the entire competition
in mind rather than what may best suit
any individual club. He has remained
totally independent and given
unconditional commitment to the
VTCA for more than two decades and
for this we should be all be very
appreciative.
Peter On The Radio
In the early days of the radio show,
prior to the introduction of modern
technology, many a Sunday afternoon
hour was spent on the phone to Pete
trying to get all the results from
Saturday’s play. Once we had all the
results it was then off to the studio for
me, make sure the fax was on - yes
the fax with the big roll of paper - ring
Pete, get the results sent, then fight
with a couple of metres of paper to get
things in order for the show. Pete was
not always willing to come on air to
discuss any issues, usually claiming
that he was busy testing the
temperature of beer, or peeling
potatoes, or some other crap, but
inevitably he did at my insistence.
In recent years, owing to the
unavailability of my co-host Tony
Wollington due to illness, Pete has
also taken on the role of resident
VTCA expert (a position now vacant)
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for the first hour or so assisting with
a summary of results from the
weekend. His knowledge of the
VTCA and its member clubs and
individual characters is extraordinary, and this knowledge has
assisted me greatly in presenting an
informative (I hope!) show.
Sarcastic, Belligerent. Really?
As all who know him would attest,
Pete can be sarcastic, belligerent,
and never afraid to voice his
opinion, and whilst some might
consider these to be flaws, I believe
they are great characteristics as you
always know where you stand with
Pete. Because of his insistence to
have his say, there have been a
number of times where I have turned
his microphone down or cut him off
if I have considered he has, or is about
to, go overboard with his “considered
opinion”.
Pete’s contribution to the radio
show over its entirety has been
invaluable, as even though we now
have the wonderful technology, first
of Results Vault and now MyCricket,
he still spends hours every weekend
updating scores and ladders in time
for the radio show at 6pm every
Sunday. The amount of time he puts
in, for me and the radio show, during
the finals in particular, has been
amazing, and as I said when he signed
off for the final time on Grand Final
night this year, I am greatly indebted
to him for the enormous contribution
he has made to my show.
Peter’s Contribution
As an avid cricket supporter and an
unabashed advocate for the VTCA I
am also forever grateful for the
wonderful contribution Peter has
made to the VTCA for over 20 years,
for which he has been deservedly
afforded the greatest honour the
VTCA can bestow upon anyone being made Life Member. “Love him
or hate him”, no one can ever deny
the enormous contribution he has
made to this competition.
With this season being Peter’s final
year of involvement with the VTCA,
I would like to take this opportunity
to thank him, firstly on my behalf,
and on behalf of the entire
competition for the incredible
contribution he has made to the
continued success of the VTCA.
My friendship with Pete has been a
long one, one that will continue
regardless of whether he is around
VTCA cricket or not, and I wish him
well for the future.
PS. I believe Pete’s sporting
administration skills have not been
completely retired as he is assisting
with the running of the lacrosse club
that his son BJ plays at.
LOOK
OUT
LACROSSE
VICTORIA THERE’S A STEAM
TRAIN HEADED YOUR WAY!!!
Glenn Scarborough
Presenter
NorthWest Cricket Report
-----------------------------------------(Editor’s note : Glenn “Scatters)
Scarborough is a great St Bernard’s
OC man, involved in both football
and cricket. He has been the presenter
of the radio show “The North West
Cricket Report” on 98.9 NorthWest
fm for the past 15 years.
Many thanks to both Gary
McInnes and Glenn Scarborough
for their contributions.
Peter Howarth was VTCA
Secretary from 1991 to 2009, then
became Competition Manager, a
position he has held since that time.
--------------------------------------------
PHIL THOMAS
by Peter Howarth
The only time that I have ever had
reason to question Phil Thomas is the
day that he nominated for the position
of Treasurer of the VTCA.
What the hell was he doing?
Here was someone from the
Southern sector putting their hand up
to play an integral role with the
running of the VTCA – just unheard
of!
Well, Phil did that and much more.
Most people would not be aware of
Phil’s understated sense of humour,
and his passion for getting the right
result.
Phil was always a reasoned stalwart
of the Southern based clubs when
they deserved a champion, but his
principal aim was to ensure that the
VTCA was a viable and respected
Association within cricketing circles.
To that end, Phil was particular in
ensuring that all clubs were financial
prior to Finals and that the VTCA ran
a balanced budget year after year.
It is a credit to Phil that he has
served for eleven years, which makes
him the third?? longest serving
Treasurer in VTCA annals.
I am pleased and proud to have
worked with Phil for the past eleven
years and will look forward to staying
in touch with him on a personal level.
The VTCA has had a tradition of
long
serving
and
influential
Treasurers over the past one hundred
+ years and Phil has been the latest in
that vein.
It will be interesting to see if the
replacement for Phil can match his
longevity, commitment and sense of
humour over the long haul.
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PHIL THOMAS
by Lachlan Quinn
Phil Thomas has been a loyal player
and tireless administrator for the
Mentone Cricket Club for almost 40
years. On field he was a top order bat,
more than handy wicketkeeper when
required and part time off spin bowler
who like all probably thought he was
underbowled.
He retired from playing in 2011
however like most he has been lured
back for the odd game to help his club
out when people were away etc. He
sits on 269 games, 19th on the all-time
list for Mentone, 4,088 runs, 90
wickets and 4 Senior Premierships
with a club that is 126 years old.
He played his first game for the
club in the Under 12s back in
1976/77. He was awarded Life
Membership of Mentone CC in 1996.
As a batsman he valued his wicket
more than most and had the unique
experience of playing First XI cricket
in his teens, twenties, thirties and then
forties under various comebacks and
renaissances.
Off-field he has been a terrific
Executive and Committee Member
and long time servant of the club in
many administrative roles. He served
as Secretary in 2 terms for 15 seasons
until stepping down in 2011, along
with roles as Vice President,
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Treasurer, Bar Manager, Social
Chairman and Council liaison.
He has been a constant source of
advice for a young and inexperienced
Mentone committee that took over in
2011. He was inducted into the
Mentone CC Hall of Fame in 2014 at
the club’s 125th Anniversary function.
For those who spent time with him
off field he has been an extraordinary
character, who can find humour in
most things that happen on a cricket
field, and always terrific value when
sitting in the stands on a slow day and
the typical “so how was your week,
Phil” began.
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BEN TUPPER
Back in 2003/04, Ben Tupper left
Yarraville Club to join Strathmore.
He was to remain at Strathmore for 6
seasons, where he played 70 matches,
for 2,322 runs at 35.72, with 1
century (104no) and 15 fifties. He
also took 129 catches and 17
stumpings as Strathmore’s wicketkeeper.
From there, he moved to Sunshine
United for 3 seasons, 2010/11 to
2012/13. He played 33 matches for
United, making 618 runs at 20.60,
and taking 14 catches and 1 stumping.
He also took 16 catches in the field
when he gave up the gloves for a
time.
At the start of 2013/14, he resumed
his career at Yarraville Club. In the
time of MyCricket, ie 2002/03
onwards, he has now played 40
matches for the Clubbers in the First
X1 for 633 runs at 19.18 with 3 fifties
and a Highest Score of 91 not out,
made in the recent Senior Division
Grand Final against South Caulfield.
He also has 53 catches as wicketkeeper and 5 stumpings, plus 23 other
catches taken in the field.
Apart from his recent Man of the
Match performance, he has at least
two other Grand Final triumphs. Back
in 1997/98, he opened the batting and
made 166 in a winning Grand Final in
Yarraville Club’s Second X1.
In 2004/05, he made 104 not out
batting at number 4 for Strathmore
First X1 in their outright win in the
Grand Final against Parkville District
in North A.
STRATHMORE
SECOND ELEVEN
What a fantastic group the
Strathmore Seconds have been. They
have won 4 of the past 5
Premierships.
After several near-misses in Grand
Finals and Semi-finals in 2007/08,
2008/09 and 2009/10, Strathmore
Seconds eventually won the flag in
2010/11 defeating Altona North in
North Seconds Grade.
In 2011/12, they defeated Keilor in
North Seconds.
In
2012/13,
they
defeated
Westmeadows in North Seconds.
In 2013/14, they lost to Yarraville
Club in Senior Seconds, but in
2014/15 they got their revenge by
defeating Yarraville Club in Senior
Seconds.
------------------------------------------
RHYS GLEISNER
Westmeadows met West Coburg in
the North Seconds Grand Final.
Having won the toss and elected to
bat, Westmeadows were in big
trouble at 7/92 when number 9, Rhys
Gleisner, joined his skipper, William
Kosteas, at the crease.
Kosteas was soon caught, and it
was left to Gleisner and numbers 10
and 11 to put up a defendable total.
Gleisner was last out for a
magnificent 89, and Westmeadows
had reached a more than respectable
214.
In reply, West Coburg started well
(0/46) before falling in a hole, all out
for 128 off 101 overs.
Skipper Kosteas bowled very
tightly, finishing with 20/15/2/7, but
Gleisner was again the hero with the
ball, as he had been with the bat. His
final figures were 36/23/6/29.
From there, Westmeadows added
198 to their 86 run first innings lead,
setting West Coburg an impossible
285 runs to make off 28 overs. The
game was called off with West
Coburg at 4/50 off 8.
From the moment he came out to
bat at 7/92, Gleisner dominated the
first two and a half days of the game
like no-one else. Fittingly and
obviously, Rhys Gleisner was named
Man of the Match for a magnificent
effort.
UNBEATEN PREMIERS
There were just 3 teams able to
boast “Premiers and Champions”.
In North A2, Aberfeldie went
through the season undefeated,
beating St Albans in the Grand Final.
In North B2, Moonee Valley were
unbeaten until the Grand Final, where
they lost on the first innings to Marby
Park St Marys, but still won outright.
In South C1, Highett were unbeaten
all season, then defeated McKinnon
in the Grand Final.
Yarraville Club were undefeated in
Senior Seconds until the Grand Final
where they lost to Strathmore.
PEGS in North C2 were undefeated
until the Grand Final where they lost
to Altona North.
In South C3, Middle Park Gold
gave a forfeit to Highett during the
season – their only loss. They went on
to defeat Bonbeach Tangy in the
Grand Final.
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SPIRIT of CRICKET
The SPIRIT of CRICKET Award
for 2014/15 has been won by
SEABROOK.
1st – SEABROOK = 9.19 pts
(West B)
2nd – Yarraville Club = 9.15 pts
(Senior Div)
3rd – Spotswood
= 9.06 pts
(North Div)
4th – Brunswick
= 8.94pts
(North D1)
5th – Aberfeldie Pk
= 8.93 pts
(North B)
Recent winners of the major
SPIRIT
OF
CRICKET
AWARD have been:
2008/09 = MHSOB
2009/10 = Port Melbourne
2010/11 = Sunshine United
2011/12 = Seabrook
2012/13 = Barkly Street Uniting
2013/14 = Aberfeldie
2014/15 = Seabrook
Congratulations
to
Seabrook
Cricket Club who participate in West
B1 and West B2. It is the second time
they have won this fantastic award.
- 27 _________________________________________________________________________________________
UMPIRING AWARDS
GROUND of the YEAR
Senior Division – Grand Final
TOP TENS
SPOTSWOOD = 27.50 pts
ALL FIRST GRADES
COMBINED
2014/15
Howarth / Campbell Medallists
Gary TRANTER
and
Ranjith JAYATILAKA
North Division – Grand Final
Crosher / Lauder Medallists
Brett HICKEY
and
Darren TREWIN
South Division – Grand Final
Mouat / Grace Medallists
Cliff D’SOUZA
and
Paul O’NEILL
Congratulations to all six Umpires
for their appointments to the main
Grand Finals in the Association, and,
in fact, congratulations to all umpires
across all grades.
-------------------------------------------
HOWARTH/CAMPBELL
Medallists
(Senior Division
Grand Final Umpires)
2000/01 Gary Burns / Keith Taylor
01/02 Lindsay Howarth / Steven Stewart
02/03 Glenn Keetley / Mal Newington
03/04 David Appleby / Ross McDowall
04/05 Kenneth Platt / Kenneth Probyn
05/06 Lindsay Howarth / Gideon Segal
06/07 Lindsay Howarth/Mal Newington
07/08 Ken Eastwood / James Mills
08/09 Brian Farrow / Russell Pollock
09/10 Peter Nicholls / James Mills
10/11 Graham Hill / James Mills
11/12 Graham Hill / Ian Wyatt
12/13 Daryl Brigham / Ian Wyatt
13/14 Gary Tranter / Ian Wyatt
14/15 Gary Tranter / Ranjith Jayatilaka
Divisional Winners:
Senior Div = Greenvale (Oval 2)
= 27.40 pts
North Div = Spotswood = 27.50 pts
South Div = Cheltenham = 25.75 pts
North A = Glenroy = 25.43 pts
South A = Middle Park = 23.44 pts
West A = Sunshine Hts = 26.00 pts
North B = Aberfeldie Pk = 22.80 pts
West B = Seabrook = 24.27 pts.
---------------------------------------------------
MAN of the MATCH
Awards
2014/15 Grand Finals
Senior – Ben Tupper (YarravClub)
Sen 2nds – Chris Williams (Strathm)
North – Brenton Parchment (Dout)
Nth 2nds – Rhys Gleisner (Westm)
South – Lasith Fernando (Chelsea)
Sth 2nds – Tim Black (Cheltenham)
NthA1 – Sameera Vishwaranga
(Haig Fawkner)
NthA2 – Damien Douge (Aberfeldie)
SthA1 – William Hunt (Old Ments)
SthA2 – Christian Hollingworth
(Carnegie)
WestA1 – Michael Glowacki(SUtd)
WestA2 – Adam Wilson (Werr Cent)
MOST RUNS
1.Simon CORMIE (Old Mentonians)
979 runs @ 68.15
2. Daniel DAVIES (Carnegie)
757 runs @ 42.06
3. Dilshan KANKANAMAGE (Kingsv
Bapts)
712 runs @ 41.88
4. Brenton PARCHMENT (Doutta St)
702 runs @ 43.88
5. Warren PARKER (Haig Fawkner)
665 runs @ 41.56
6. Ashley RUSSELL (Sth Caulfield)
657 runs @ 43.80
7. Telge PEIRIS (Jacana)
653 runs @ 40.81
8. Gihan KANKANANAMGE
642 runs @ 49.38 (St Andrews Foots)
9. Konrad KURTA (Yarraville Club)
632 runs @ 45.14
10. Chris WILLIAMS (Bonb Tangy)
627 runs @ 36.88
MOST WICKETS
1. Brenton PARCHMENT (Doutta St)
49 wkts @ 11.04
2. Michael GLOWACKI (Sunsh Utd)
48 wkts @ 7.56
3. Ricky SUVADA (Deer Park)
47 wkts @ 12.15
NthB1 – Muddassar Hassan (EC)
NthB2 – Jim Polonidis (Moon Vall)
4eq. Andrew LEETET (Willi CYMS)
46 wkts @ 13.13
4eq. Praneeth JAYASUNDERA (Jac)
46 wkts @ 11.41
WestB1 – Shane Jones (Deer Park)
WestB2 – Dejan Samoukovic (Seabr)
6. Tom LANGLEY-DUNN (StAlbans)
45 wkts @ 12.87
T20 – Brad Kruger (McKinnon)
U/17 – Ravindu Fernando (Green)
7eq. Sameera VISHWARANGA
44 wkts @ 14.84 (Haig Fawkner)
7eq. Mathew PIPCZAK (StAndrFoot)
44 wkts @ 9.05
NthC1 – Stuart Outhred (Aberfeldie)
NthC2 – Rajesh Maharajan (AltNth)
NthC3 – Joshua Falaguerra (HoppC)
NthC4 – Jake Brown (Doutta St)
NthD1 – Dale Evans (Hopp Cross)
NthD2 – Amit Nayyar (Avond Hts)
SthC1 – Craig Bayliss (Highett)
SthC3 – Tabriz Himmati (Middle Pk
Gold)
SthD1 – Tim Nixon-Smith (Hamp)
Congratulations to all.
9. Nicholas HARDMAN (Old Ments)
43 wkts @ 11.14
10eq. Chathura DARSHANA(Greenv)
42 wkts @ 18.14
10eq. Pathum de MEL (Chelsea)
42 wkts @ 7.67
Congratulations to all players,
especially Simon Cormie and
Brenton Parchment, for their fine
seasons.
- 28 _________________________________________________________________________________________
‘MY CRICKET’
STRIKE RATES
CHAMPION PLAYER
(Qualification : 100 overs & 20
wickets)
(all First X1 Grades)
1. Brenton PARCHMENT
Doutta Stars – North Div 177.2 pts
2. Daniel DAVIES
163.7 pts
Carnegie – South A Div
3. Simon CORMIE 160.6 pts
Old Mentonians – South A Div
4. Gihan KANKANAMGE
St Andr Foot – West A Div 159.2pts
5. Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Jacana – North B Div 156.0 pts
6eq. Konrad KURTA 153.2 pts
Yarraville Club – Senior Div
6eq. Ricky SUVADA 153.2 pts
Deer Park – West B Div
8. Ravi KARUNARATNE 144.1pts
Aberfeldie – North A Div
9. Ashley RUSSELL 138.7 pts
South Caulfield – Senior Div
10. Waqas HUSSAIN 136.9 pts
Bonbeach Tangy – South Div
(Based on MyCricket points allocation)
--------------------------------------------
VARIOUS
BOWLING TOP TENS
(all First X1 Grades)
------------------------------
ECONOMY RATES
(Runs per Over)
(Qualification : 100 overs)
1. Michael GLOWACKI = 1.76rpo
Sunshine Utd – West A Div
2. Bimal SHAH = 1.83 rpo
Carnegie – South A Div
3. Rob LANCASTER = 1.89 rpo
Chelsea – South Div
4. Andrew MacKESSACK
Bonbeach T – South Div = 1.89 rpo
5. Ravi KARUNARATNE
Aberfeldie – North A Div = 1.92 rpo
6. James BONNICI = 1.94 rpo
Deer Park – West B Div
7. Aaron EDRICH = 1.98 rpo
Werribee Centrals – West A Div
8. Pathum DE MEL = 2.06 rpo
Chelsea – South Div
9. Matthew GRINDLEY = 2.15rpo
Pasc Vale Sp C – North B Div
10. Brenton PARCHMENT
Doutta Stars – North Div = 2.17 rpo
1. Jack OTTAWAY = 21.3 balls
Jacana – North B Div
per wkt
2. Pathum DE MEL = 22.3
Chelsea – South Div
3. Josh MacDONALD = 23.0
West Newport – West B Div
4. Matthew PIPCZAK = 23.3
St Andr Foots – West A Div
5. Leigh SHERIDAN = 24.6
Sunshine Utd – West A Div
6. Upal BANDERA = 24.9
Keilor – North Div
7. Anthony GREANEY = 25.4
Glenroy – North A Div
8. Michael GLOWACKI = 25.7
Sunshine United – West A Div
9. Saaolat KHAN = 25.8
Kingsv Baptists – West B Div
10. Sampath PERERA = 26.2
Sth Caulfield – Senior Div
--------------------------------------------
MOST OVERS
1. Chathura DARSHANA = 263.4
Greenvale – Senior Div
overs
2. Brenton PARCHMENT = 249.2
Doutta Stars – North Div
3. Andrew LEETET = 238.5
Willi CYMS – West A Div
4. Ravi KARUNARATNE = 236.3
Aberfeldie – North A Div
5. Amit CHAUDHARY = 233.2
Haig Fawkner – North A Div
6. Nicholas HARDMAN = 219.5
Old Mentonians – South A Div
7. Sameera VISHWARANGA
Haig Fawk – North A Div = 217.1
8. Tom LANGLEY-DUNN = 216.0
St Albans – North A Div
9. Chris KAVANAGH = 213.0
Barkley Str Uniting – West B Div
10. Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Jacana – North B Div
= 211.2
--------------------------------------------
THANKS to the Premiership
captains who provided commentary
to accompany their Grand Final
scoresheets. Hopefully this enhances
the Leading Edge for the enjoyment
of all, not just the Clubs and
individuals involved.
Most clubs are very co-operative,
and more than happy to help ensure
this Leading Edge Newsletter is as
complete as possible.
But it remains frustrating when
many clubs are unable to complete
their Grand Final Scorecard on
MyCricket, despite requests.
Some games are complete but
others
are
disappointingly
incomplete. If your club is at fault,
please attempt to update MyCricket
with all relevant information.
------------------------------------Sincere thanks to the following:Ian Mann at Kingston Trophies
for continuing to sponsor the Senior
Division Team of the Year.
Steve
McNamara
(VTCA
President) for his contribution.
Sven Samild (President of Old
Mentonians CC) for his contribution.
Simon
Cormie
(Premiership
Captain of Old Mentonians CC) for
our feature interview.
Brydon
Coverdale
from
ESPNcricinfo for his Ken Eastwood
feature.
David Zahorodni (Tullamarine
champion) for his contribution.
Blair McFarlane (President of
DouttaStars) for his season summary.
All the Sports Editors and
Journalists for permission to
reproduce their Grand Final articles.
Gary McInnes and Glenn
Scarborough for their words on
Peter Howarth.
VTCA Secretary Deanne Trewin,
together with Russell Pollock and
Peter Howarth. Their help is always
much appreciated.
All the Club contacts on whom I
rely so much, and to Lachlan Quinn
for his continued fantastic support.
Lastly, thanks to my wife, Mary,
for her support, enabling me the time
to produce the Leading Edge for the
23rd year.
Brian Quinn – Editor,
Leading Edge.
- 29 _________________________________________________________________________________________
SENIOR DIVISION
GRAND FINAL
-------------------------------------
ANTHONY
CRISTOFARO’S
CAPTAIN’S REPORT
In what was probably our most
consistent season for many years,
Yarraville Club managed to finish
on top of the ladder with only 2
losses for the year, due to some
consistent
performances
by
everyone who came through the
First XI, especially Konrad Kurta
who led the club with bat and ball.
Semi-final - Winning the toss,
Hoppers Crossing chose to have a
bat at Hansen Reserve and we
quickly had them in trouble - 3/36
and 5/71, but after tea Hoppers
fought back to post 207 with the
finals specialist Matt Murphy
taking his usual bag, and everyone
else chipping in.
In response Yarraville Club was
in a bit of trouble at 4/36 but
Konrad Kurta and Aaron Mato
steadied the ship with an 85 run
partnership, before Mato was
dismissed.
Andrew Cullen strode to the
crease and made one of his 8 “not
outs” for the year and Kurta
guided us into the Grand Final
with his first ton for the Firsts.
GRAND FINAL – WEEK 1
Heading into the Grand Final for
the rematch of last year, we knew
we were up for a massive
challenge - as it is every time we
play South Caulfield, especially
against their strong batting line up,
and minus Emmett Bronca who
had successfully acquired a job at
the CFA which wouldn’t allow
him to play finals.
Winning the toss, Luke Russell
chose to have a bat on what turned
out to be a difficult pitch at
Murrumbeena. As it turned out we
got off to a great start with the ball,
with Konrad Kurta and Andy
Cullen doing a great job removing
South Caulfield’s top order and
reducing them to 4/37 with Ash
Russell digging deep on a tough
wicket with a fantastic 79.
Kurta, as was the case for most
of the year, was the key, helping
reduce South to 8/86, with 4/37 off
15.4.
A late rearguard action and Ash
Russell’s 79 helped South
Caulfield to a competitive 147,
leaving us 14 overs to negotiate,
which Kurta and Ben Tupper
comfortably managed, leaving us
0/24 at stumps on day 1.
Day 2 was an up and down battle
for both teams with YCCC taking
the early honours with 2/101, with
Kurta and Baker amongst the runs,
before South Caulfield fought
back through the tight bowling of
Ash Russell, and then a fantastic
display of fast bowling by Perera
and Alvitigala. YCCC had a major
collapse losing 7/35 to be all out
for 140, and 7 runs in arrears.
But there was still a twist left in
the day with South to face 26 overs
on a tough wicket. Kurta took the
dangerous Thilina first ball LBW
and Andrew Cullen performed a
spectacular run out of Luke
Russell to have South Caulfield
collapse to 5/29 and eventually
5/46 overnight with the game in
the balance.
GRAND FINAL - WEEK 2
Turning up on week 2 was like
playing a different game. The
wicket played true for the most
part, and there was a hell of a lot
less wickets.
We thought throughout the week
that Grey would be the key wicket,
and that’s how it turned out on day
3. He played an almost chanceless
innings until he was well over 100
- probably the best I have seen in a
Grand Final, guiding South
Caulfield to a defendable lead of
218 with the help of the lower
order.
We eventually bowled South out
in the 70th over thanks to Kurta’s
efforts of 5/44 off 32 overs
(including 19 maidens) leaving us
to face 10 overs with the bat. Ben
Tupper and John Blake, who
replaced Konrad Kurta at the top
of the order, almost saw out the
day but Ash Russell chipped in to
take Blake caught and bowled
with 2 balls left in the day.
INTERESTING DAY 4
Day 4 - The final day was always
going to be interesting - a total of
219
required
for
victory,
especially with South Caulfield’s
bowling line up.
Good
bowling
by
both
Alvitigala and Perera all day,
along with Russell’s tight
spinners, meant that it was a slow
process to chase the runs and it
took until the 72nd over to chase
the score down.
Tupper batted fantastically for
his 91no and I was lucky enough
to bat solidly, with a few chances
put down, and get some runs under
my belt (after a golden duck in the
first innings) with 106no.
In the end we passed South
Caulfield 1 down and the flag was
ours late on day 4.
MAN OF THE MATCH
Ben Tupper was the welldeserved Man of the Match with
his 91no and 5 dismissals and an
amazing keeping effort on an
inconsistent pitch.
To sum it up, the match was
certainly a game of 2 halves, with
25 wickets falling on week 1 for
only 350 runs to the 2 highest
scoring teams of the competition,
while week 2 saw only 6 wickets
fall for almost 390.
I would like to pass a big thank
you to Murrumbeena Cricket Club
for hosting the Grand Final and
Gary and Ranjith our umpires.
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SENIOR DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 325 runs.
Name
Andrew CULLEN
Tristan KASSIS
Chris WILLIAMS
Andrew POWELL
Club
Yarrav Cl
St Berns
Bentleigh
Beaum
Duleeka THISAKUTTIGE Hopp Cr
Konrad KURTA
Yarrav Cl
David ZAHORODNI
Tulla
Ed YOUNG
McKinn
Ash RUSSELL
Sth Caulf
Dean PETER-BUDGE Strathm
Ian HEWETT
Beaum
Asif JAN
AWStC
John PATTON
Strathm
Lucas KENNEDY
Strathm
Ryan PRINGLE
Hampton
Dinesh COORAY
AWStC
Brad KRUGER
McKinn
Jack STERLAND
St Berns
Thilina MASMULLA
Sth Caulf
Jordan MILLS
St Berns
Luke RUSSELL
Sth Caulf
Greg TODD
Bentleigh
Adam CONTESSA
Yarrav Cl
Romain GRENVILLE
Beaum
Aaron MATO
Yarrav Cl
Justin BAKER
Yarrav Cl
Luke GRORGAN
Hopp Cr
Anthony CRISTOFARO Yarrav Cl
G
12
11
11
10
11
12
11
11
13
10
12
11
10
10
11
11
11
11
13
11
13
11
13
11
13
13
12
13
I
15
12
13
12
14
16
14
12
17
13
14
11
10
12
14
11
12
13
17
14
17
13
14
13
15
16
14
18
Nos
8
3
5
2
4
2
2
2
2
1
2
2
3
1
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
1
HS
99*
94
145*
150
72*
108*
99
113*
94
121
116
127
59
75*
215
150*
95
84*
89
59
114
108
79*
98
63
73
104
106*
Runs
494
522
464
532
469
632
531
442
657
522
518
457
330
355
536
380
394
413
549
410
518
394
333
377
382
412
327
354
Ave
70.57
58.00
58.00
53.20
46.90
45.14
44.25
44.20
43.80
43.50
43.17
41.55
41.25
39.44
38.29
38.00
35.82
34.42
34.31
34.17
32.38
30.31
30.27
29.00
27.29
25.75
23.36
20.82
50s
5
5
3
4
3
5
4
2
7
3
3
2
3
1
1
2
2
4
5
4
3
1
2
2
2
3
2
1
100s
Best
7/25
6/59
6/41
5/29
5/16
5/44
8/41
4/26
4/24
8/63
5/77
6/6
5/36
6/49
4/59
3/35
6/41
5/64
RPO
2.6
3.2
3.0
2.3
3.2
2.6
2.9
3.4
2.6
3.3
2.9
2.4
4.1
3.7
3.4
3.0
3.5
4.2
5fors
3
2
2
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 22 wickets, 100 Overs.
Name
Greg KENNEDY
Sampath PERERA
Joe DAWBORN
David ZAHORODNI
Tawal DARSHANAPRIYA
Konrad KURTA
Chathura DARSHANA
Zaen TALEB
Craig OSBORNE
Kanishka ALVITIGALA
Malan MADUSANKA
Ash RUSSELL
Romain GRENVILLE
Daniel SINNOTT
Mitchell ELLIS
Chris KENNEY
Chris DAVIS
Laren GUTHRIE
Club
Hopp Cr
SthCaulf
Hampton
Tulla
Hopp Cr
YarravCl
Greenv
Greenv
St Berns
SthCaulf
McKinn
SthCaulf
Beaum
AWStC
Hopp Cr
Tulla
St Berns
Beaum
O
179.4
178.5
153.2
207.5
157.0
198.5
263.4
130.0
188.3
155.2
189.0
178.4
116.0
153.5
142.0
170.5
156.1
134.2
M
40
44
28
68
22
56
58
23
50
34
32
46
17
28
30
46
27
26
W
39
41
32
31
31
30
42
24
26
27
29
22
24
28
23
22
23
23
R
470
568
458
468
510
523
762
439
483
518
557
437
479
565
481
520
547
557
Ave
12.05
13.85
14.31
15.10
16.45
17.43
18.14
18.29
18.58
19.19
19.21
19.86
19.96
20.18
20.91
23.64
23.78
24.22
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
- 31 -
SENIOR DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
YARRAVILLE CLUB v SOUTH CAULFIELD
SOUTH CAULFIELD
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Thilina MASMULLA
Luke RUSSELL ©
Sam HOLTEN
Ash RUSSELL
Anthony GREY
John RESTARICK
Stuart ANDERSON
Kanishka ALVITIGALA
Shane JEFFREE
Stewart McCOOKE
Sampath PERERA
First Innings
c
c
c
c
Second Innings
A Mato
M Murphy
B Tupper
A Mato
b K Kurta
b A Cullen
b A Cullen
b K Kurta
b M Murphy
c B Tupper
b M Boglis
c & b K Kurta
c A Cullen
b K Kurta
c B Tupper
b A Contessa
l b w
b M Boglis
not out
Sundries: 4b, 2lb.
FOW: 1/4; 2/10; 3/10; 4/37; 5/66; 6/77; 7/85; 8/86; 9/126; 10/147.
Total
9
0
0
79
12
12
5
2
0
15
7
6
147
l b w
b K Kurta
run out (A Cullen)
c B Tupper
b A Cullen
l b w
b A Contessa
c J Baker
b A Mato
c B Tupper
b K Kurta
c B Tupper
b M Murphy
c B Pope
b K Kurta
c A Mato
b K Kurta
not out
c B Tupper
b K Kurta
Sundries: 7lb, 1nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/0; 2/15; 3/15; 4/24; 5/29; 6/63;
Total
0
9
6
1
129
5
5
5
29
9
3
10
211
7/92; 8/162; 9/170; 10/211.
Bowling
Konrad KURTA
Andrew CULLEN
Adam CONTESSA
Matthew MURPHY
Matthew BOGLIS
Anthony CRISTOFARO
Justin BAKER
Aaron MATO
O
15.4
4
22
14
14
2
YARRAVILLE CLUB
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Konrad KURTA
Ben TUPPER
Anthony CRISTOFARO ©
Justin BAKER
Johnathon BLAKE
Aaron MATO
Andrew CULLEN
Ben POPE
Adam CONTESSA
Matthew BOGLIS
Matthew MURPHY
M
4
3
7
3
7
1
W
4
2
1
1
2
0
R
37
2
48
26
26
2
First Innings
O
14.5
18
15
7
7
M
8
5
5
2
4
W
4
4
1
0
1
32
18
0
52
4
1
9
0
0
2
2
20
140
W
5
1
1
1
0
0
0
1
R
44
29
52
23
34
7
11
4
not out
not out
91
106
c & b A Russell
O
16
14.2
21
8
13
1
8
4
Sundries: 1b, 20lb.
Total 1 for
FOW: 1/29;
R
32
33
29
16
14
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Peter Robertson Oval, Murrumbeena.
Luke Russell (South Caulfield) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
19
1
10
7
0
0
1
1
Second Innings
l b w
c
b K Alvitigala
b K Alvitigala
b K Alvitigala
b S Perera
c L Russell
b A Russell
l b w
b K Alvitigala
b S Perera
b S Perera
c & b S Anderson
c S Holten
b S Perera
not out
Sundries: 4b, 12lb, 1nb, 3w.
FOW: 1/44; 2/44; 3/101; 4/107; 5/110; 6/129; 7/129; 8/134; 9/134; 10/140.
Total
Bowling
Sampath PERERA
Kanishka ALVITIGALA
Ash RUSSELL
Shane JEFFREE
Stuart ANDERSON
Luke RUSSELL
Stewart McCOOKE
O
32
8
26
16
6
2
4
2.4
M
4
4
6
1
6
0
2
W
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
Umpires : Ranjith JAYATILAKA and Gary TRANTER
Man of the Match : Ben TUPPER (Yarraville Club).
YARRAVILLE CLUB WON OUTRIGHT BY 9 WICKETS
YARRAVILLE CLUB won the FRANK TURNER MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Pennant and Plaque.
The Match Report from Yarraville Club captain, Anthony Cristofaro,
can be found on page 29.
R
53
53
34
16
22
4
19
21
222
- 32 -
NORTH DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 270 runs.
Name
Brenton PARCHMENT
Chris HASENKAM
Mark LOGAN
Robert JONES
Shane WINDRIDGE
Fahid REHMAN
Matt SAUNDERS
Jeremy BROWN
Robbie MILLER
Shaun GUERRA
Adam DUDDERIDGE
Tom ATKINSON
Matt LEDDIN
Jamie MANNING
Mohomed FESHAL
Patrick McARDLE
Club
Doutta St
RPB
Laverton
Keilor Pk
SunshDr
PEGS
Altona N
Spotsw
Laverton
Keilor
PEGS
SunshDr
Spotsw
Keilor Pk
W Cob
Altona N
Tharindu WEERASINGHE
Seddon
Malith COORAY
Seddon
Michael BUTERA
Westm
Upal BANDARA
Keilor
Harsha DE SILVA
W Cob
Kaushal LOKUARACHCHI
Keilor
Ben SPEAKE
Doutta St
Michael ROSENDALE
W Cob
G
13
9
11
10
11
11
8
11
11
11
10
11
10
12
11
10
11
11
11
11
12
11
13
13
I
18
9
13
12
14
11
9
15
14
15
10
17
14
14
16
12
13
15
13
15
17
14
18
18
Nos
2
1
4
1
1
2
2
3
1
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
HS
93
126*
107
76
179*
97
97
105
85*
73
83
55
86*
67
67
54
76
72
87
60*
62
63
91
69
Runs
702
319
357
397
456
384
313
465
359
385
293
405
376
360
426
276
298
294
270
270
381
307
386
337
Ave
43.88
39.88
39.67
36.09
35.08
34.91
34.78
31.00
29.92
29.62
29.30
28.93
28.92
27.69
26.63
25.09
24.83
22.62
22.50
22.50
22.41
21.93
21.44
19.82
50s
6
1
1
3
1
2
2
2
2
4
1
2
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
2
2
100s
Best
6/25
7/42
5/12
4/10
6/14
6/33
5/53
7/37
6/43
5/22
7/62
5/47
3/5
4/28
6/34
5/43
4/42
4/24
4/25
5/83
6/49
4/45
4/18
RPO
2.2
2.2
2.3
2.2
3.0
2.6
2.5
2.7
2.1
3.4
2.5
3.1
2.7
2.8
2.9
2.3
2.7
2.4
2.7
3.1
2.7
2.8
2.4
5fors
3
3
2
1
1
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 20 wickets, 100 overs.
Name
Tharindu WEERASINGHE
Brenton PARCHMENT
Dan SCHUPPAN
Mohomed FESHAL
Andrew DICKINSON
Jarrod FRECKLETON
Sameera VITHANA
Thineth ARACHCHIGE
Sathpath KAMBURUGAMUWA
Upal BANDERA
Neil G JAYASUNDARA
Ben TANKARD
Jack GLAISHER
Jeremy BROWN
Mark KEENAN
Callum APPLEYARD
Tom ATKINSON
Evan COLE
Ryan BLAIR
Tarique JEFFREY
Sonny COOPER
Nick NEAGLE
Michael PRATT
Club
Seddon
Doutta St
Keilor
W Cob
Spotsw
Keilor Pk
W Cob
Sunsh Dr
Westm
Keilor
Doutta St
Doutta St
DouttaS
Spotsw
Laverton
W Cob
Sunsh Dr
W Cob
Westm
Westm
RPB
RPB
W Cob
O
166.3
249.2
200.0
139.3
150.4
128.3
191.3
124.1
134.5
153.3
181.3
120.5
114.5
155.5
154.0
189.0
162.0
155.0
153.1
159.4
139.0
161.5
204.5
M
48
81
56
48
43
35
55
21
43
15
45
27
22
34
33
62
21
44
26
30
28
33
76
W
34
49
38
23
34
25
36
25
21
37
32
25
21
27
27
25
25
21
22
26
20
22
22
R
369
541
457
302
452
338
487
339
285
518
459
370
314
439
441
436
440
378
416
495
381
448
489
Ave
10.85
11.04
12.03
13.13
13.29
13.52
13.53
13.56
13.57
14.00
14.34
14.80
14.95
16.26
16.33
17.44
17.60
18.00
18.91
19.04
19.05
20.36
22.23
2
1
1
1
1
3
2
1
3
1
1
1
- 33 -
NORTH DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
DOUTTA STARS v WEST COBURG
DOUTTA STARS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Mark ROSSITTO
Robert PRATT
Clinton STUART
Ben SPEAKE
Brenton PARCHMENT ©
Neil G JAYASUNDARA
James VISTARINI
Ben TANKARD
Liam CASTELLAS
Marcus DAWSON
Jack GLAISHER
First Innings
c M Crump
c
c
c
c
M Crump
M Feshal
J Nunan
C Appleyard
c M Feshal
c M Pratt
Second Innings
b M Feshal
b E Cole
b C Appleyard
b M Pratt
b E Cole
b E Cole
b M Pratt
b M Pratt
b E Cole
b S Vithana
not out
Sundries: 3b, 3lb, 2w.
Total
FOW: 1/60; 2/72; 3/88; 4/106; 5/106; 6/141; 7/149; 8/169; 9/174; 10/174.
38
28
18
4
14
35
13
7
4
5
0
8
174
c M Feshal
c A Gibbs
c
c
c
c
l
c
A Gibbs
C Law
J Nunan
A Gibbs
b w
M Feshal
c A Gibbs
b E Cole
b C Appleyard
b C Appleyard
b S Vithana
b M Rosendale
b C Appleyard
b M Pratt
b C Appleyard
b S Vithana
not out
b S Vithana
Sundries: 16b, 1lb, 4w.
Total
FOW: 1/0; 2/28; 3/33; 4/150; 5/159;
0
53
10
5
68
15
34
5
8
3
4
21
226
6/174; 7/192; 8/215; 9/219; 10/226.
Bowling
Michael PRATT
Evan COLE
Callum APPLEYARD
Sameera VITHANA
Mohomed FESHAL
Michael ROSENDALE
Harsha DE SILVA
O
31
25
28
12.3
11
WEST COBURG
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
M
15
11
11
8
7
W
3
4
1
1
1
R
60
45
45
9
9
First Innings
b B Parchment
c J Vistarini
b B Tankard
c L Castellas
b B Parchment
c L Castellas
b J Glaisher
c M Rossitto
b N G Jayasundara
c N G Jayasundara
b B Parchment
c J Glaisher
b B Parchment
b B Parchment
b B Parchment
c J Vistarini
b B Tankard
not out
Sundries: 1b, 7lb, 6nb.
FOW: 1/10; 2/22; 3/61; 4/61; 5/105; 6/110; 7/114; 8/140; 9/143; 10/170.
Total
O
33
23.2
22
6
5
M
12
8
7
1
2
W
6
2
1
1
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Donald McLean Reserve, Spotswood.
Brenton Parchment (Doutta Stars) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
6
8
6
7
4
2
1
W
1
1
4
3
0
1
0
R
40
37
59
38
11
14
10
Second Innings
Michael ROSENDALE
Mohomed FESHAL
James NUNAN
Harsha DE SILVA
Matthew CRUMP
Chris LAW
Sameera VITHANA
Callum APPLEYARD ©
Aaron GIBBS
Michael PRATT
Evan COLE
Bowling
Brenton PARCHMENT
Ben TANKARD
Neil G JAYASUNDARA
Jack GLAISHER
James VISTARINI
O
20
20
22
16
10
6
3
R
50
50
34
17
11
4
38
1
16
22
17
30
3
3
12
10
14
170
c B Speake
b B Tankard
b B Parchment
not out
run out (M Dawson)
c B Tankard
b B Parchment
c M Dawson
c B Parchment
17
24
2
12
6
b B Parchment
b J Glaisher
FOW: 1/12; 2/40; 3/49; 4/67; 5/67; 6/70;
5
1
Sundries: 3nb.
Total 6 for
O
6
6
M
0
0
W
3
1
R
38
32
0.2
0
1
0
3
70
Umpires : Brett HICKEY and Darren TREWIN
Man of the Match : Brenton PARCHMENT (Doutta Stars)
DOUTTA STARS WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 4 RUNS
DOUTTA STARS won the PETER HOWARTH PERPETUAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
The North Division grand final between Doutta Stars and West Coburg was a very tight struggle played out over the whole four days and was eventually
decided by just four runs on the first innings. Winning the toss and batting, Doutta Stars got off to a very slow and steady start, and the opening partnership
between Robbie Pratt and Mark Rossitto of 60 runs from some 40 overs was a key factor in Douttas' eventual success. The two youngsters from the Douttas
junior system set a solid platform that whilst never fully capitalised on, enabled them to set a reasonable target of 174. West Coburg made steady progress in
their chase, and at various stages looked in a good position to take a first-innings lead, with particularly good innings from Mo Feshal and Sameera Vithana.
Douttas were able to strike at important stages and fittingly club stalwart Ben Tankard managed to claim the final first-innings wicket after an excellent lastwicket stand of 27 had West Coburg within five runs of victory.
The slow scoring rates continued deep into the match meaning a 2 innings result was never likely to be achieved.
The match was played in great spirit, and for that all players should be commended. Umpires Brett Hickey and Darren Trewin did a sensational job and
showed why they are at the upper end of the umpire selection panel.
Once again Spotswood Cricket Club provided perfect playing conditions for the match, and their hospitality was appreciated by both competing clubs. Even a
potential disaster via a burst water main off field that flooded part of the outfield on the final day was not an issue and was quickly dealt with in an extremely
professional way by the host club.
The North Division overall was a very even and competitive competition all season, and this showed through in a Grand Final that could have gone either way
and was played between two very evenly matched teams. (Compiled by President, Blair McFarlane, on behalf of skipper, Brenton Parchment, who has
returned to Jamaica).
- 34 -
SOUTH DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 250 runs.
Name
Matt DAYKIN
David FERNANDEZ
Jason CHAPPLE
Chris WILLIAMS
Justin SNOW
Jason OLDFIELD
Tim DALE
Shamith KANNANGARA
Kasun PERERA
Rashimal MENDIS
Waqas HUSSAIN
Arron McKENZIE
Mark ELLIOT
Calvin BARLOW
Ross STEWART
Jarred FLETCHER
Lasith FERNANDO
Sean VANDERGERT
Madushanka PERERA
Pathum DE MEL
Mervyn D'ROZARIO
Anurudhdha FONSEKA
Simon CAFFERKEY
Roshan PERERA
Club
G
I
Nos
HS
Runs
Ave
50s
Port Melb
Bonb T
Chelsea
Bonb T
Port Melb
Bri Distr
Port Melb
Chelsea
MoorabPk
MoorabPk
Bonb T
Chelt
Bonb T
Clay D
Bri Distr
MoorabPk
Chelsea
Clay D
Chelsea
Chelsea
Bonb T
Clay D
Port Melb
Chelsea
14
15
15
15
14
13
11
13
13
13
15
12
12
13
13
14
9
12
10
15
15
12
13
14
16
15
16
18
16
12
13
13
14
16
18
12
13
15
12
17
13
14
12
17
15
14
15
18
4
3
8
1
4
1
3
94*
100*
50*
135
69
126
125
71
61
75*
76
77
103
70
64
92
102
92
61
41*
69
48
76
54
587
522
332
627
442
403
337
396
360
381
469
298
293
335
283
368
268
283
258
250
267
253
259
277
48.92
43.50
41.50
36.88
36.83
36.64
33.70
30.46
30.00
27.21
26.06
24.83
24.42
23.93
23.58
23.00
22.33
21.77
21.50
20.83
20.54
19.46
17.27
16.29
4
4
1
3
4
2
1
4
1
3
3
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
5
2
1
1
100s
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
2
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 20 wickets, 100 Overs.
Name
Pathum DE MEL
Rob LANCASTER
Josh BOYLE
Andrew MacKESSACK
Arron VANDERWERT
Waqas HUSSAIN
Jason CHAPPLE
Stuart GARA
Ben MANNING
Scott EASTWOOD
Kasun PERERA
Justin SNOW
Brenton STEVENS
Mathew CAMPBELL
Calvin BARLOW
Tim DALE
Mark RYAN
Khair MUHAMMAD
Club
O
M
W
R
Ave
Best
RPO
5fors
Chelsea
Chelsea
Port Melb
Bonb T
MoorabPk
Bonb T
Chelsea
Bri Distr
Bri Distr
Chelsea
MoorabPk
Port Melb
Bri Distr
MoorabPk
Clay D
Port Melb
Chelt
Clay D
156.2
181.4
111.5
161.0
129.1
183.5
108.0
105.0
153.0
139.0
159.4
167.2
113.0
192.1
146.2
135.2
206.0
146.5
53
62
38
68
35
46
32
23
38
39
36
38
20
54
31
25
43
17
42
38
22
27
25
40
21
21
29
25
31
28
25
31
25
21
22
21
322
343
210
304
288
471
256
259
401
346
433
396
401
511
434
396
495
527
7.67
9.03
9.55
11.26
11.52
11.78
12.19
12.33
13.83
13.84
13.97
14.14
16.04
16.48
17.36
18.86
22.50
25.10
5/11
5/9
5/24
4/12
6/63
7/23
3/11
4/45
4/22
5/14
4/21
5/36
3/16
5/19
6/80
3/40
4/52
5/48
2.1
1.9
1.9
1.9
2.2
2.6
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.5
2.7
2.4
3.5
2.7
3.0
2.9
2.4
3.6
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
- 35 -
SOUTH DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
CHELSEA v BONBEACH TANGY
BONBEACH TANGY
First Innings
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Chris WILLIAMS
Mark ELLIOT
Waqas HUSSAIN
David FERNANDEZ ©
Dirk SOLOMONS
Andrew MacKESSACK
Mervyn D'ROZARIO
Bryce O'CONNOR
Ben SHARLAND
Nathan MOTTRAM
Chris ALLEN
c J Chapple
b P de Mel
b L Fernando
l b w
b L Fernando
c S Athurugiri
b R Lancaster
l b w
b S Eastwood
l b w
b R Lancaster
c S Athurugiri
b S Eastwood
c
b P de Mel
not out
c
b R Lancaster
b S Eastwood
Sundries: 6b, 8lb, 1nb.
FOW: 1/89; 2/99; 3/137; 4/162; 5/177; 6/203; 7/206; 8/206; 9/225; 10/229.
Total
Bowling
O
M
W
R
Pathum de MEL
22
6
2
41
Scott EASTWOOD
17
3
3
41
Jason CHAPPLE
14
3
0
32
Rob LANCASTER
25
11
3
49
Lasith FERNANDO
13
1
2
52
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Darren CUMMING
Madushanka PERERA
Roshan PERERA
Lasith FERNANDO
Rob LANCASTER
Mathew PEARSON
Shamith KANNANGARA ©
Jason CHAPPLE
Sumudu ATHURUGIRI
Pathum de MEL
Scott EASTWOOD
CHELSEA
98
20
8
45
6
2
12
0
6
17
0
15
229
First Innings
c
l
c
c
run out (W Hussain)
B O'Connor
b W Hussain
b C Allen
b w
b C Williams
b A MacKessack
B O'Connor
b C Allen
B O'Connor
b A MacKessack
not out
c & b W Hussain
not out
Sundries: 9b, 8lb, 6nb, 5w.
Total 8 for
FOW: 1/25; 2/44; 3/89; 4/92; 5/141; 6/181; 7/232; 8/250;
Bowling
Chris ALLEN
Nathan MOTTRAM
Waqas HUSSAIN
Andrew MacKESSACK
Ben SHARLAND
Chris WILLIAMS
Mervyn D'ROZARIO
O
21
19
29
48
27
22
3
6
26
33
102
0
13
18
47
11
40
M
3
7
9
28
8
9
2
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015
W
2
0
2
2
0
1
0
28
324
R
48
37
73
51
53
44
1
Umpires : Cliff D'SOUZA and Paul O'NEILL
David Fernandez (Bonbeach Tangy) won the todd and elected to bat.
Man of the Match : Lasith FERNANDO (Chelsea)
CHELSEA won on the First Innings,
and won the BILL PEWTRESS PERPETUAL SHIELD and Premiership Plaque.
One vs Two, couldn't ask for a better Grand Final. Tough three & half days of cricket. Bonbeach called heads at 12.30pm & straight away I said
to myself 'Oh no', I haven't lost a toss this year calling heads'. Obviously Bonny won the toss & naturally decided to bat on an absolute road. Great
start by the Sharks, with a 100 run opening stand. 'Willow' just falling short of a ton being dismissed for 98. Bonny skipper Dave made 45. Both
batted really well.
Our Bowlers (Patty, Wiz, Easty, Lasith & Chaps) did the job for us again, knocking over Bonbeach for 229. Probably a 100 short of what they
were hoping for.
We batted the best we have for a number years. 8/324, when Bonny conceded two overs prior to the 1st drinks break on the 4th day. Our batting
was led by our Sri Lankan import Lasith Fernando, who made 102 runs, batted for 110+ overs & was awarded Man Of The Match.
No surprise why McKinnon was voted the best wicket. We appreciated their hospitality. Umpires Paul & Cliff were outstanding, 10/10 for their
performance. Both teams played hard & didn't give an inch on the ground. Just the way a GF should be played.
Lastly, I wanted to say Thank You to all our Wives/Partners who do give up a fair bit during summer so we can play the sport we love.
'If you are a Chelsea boy, just sing along with me'... Ravi Kannangara, Captain - Chelsea CC.
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NORTH A1 DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 285 runs.
Name
Warren PARKER
Michael YOUNG
Michael BRNE
Club
Haig F
Glenroy
Tay Lakes
Ravindra KARUNARATNE
Aberf
Adam DAVIES
Craigieb
Levi WOLFENDEN
Merl/Hadf
Gayas CHRSTOPHER St Albans
Sangaran NANDHALAL
Aberf
D G DEWAGE
Haig F
Daniel ENGLISH
Craigieb
Dilan CHANDIMA
Tay Lakes
Michael FABRIS
Glenroy
Kieren GRAY
Aberf
Nayana PALAMANDADIGE Glenroy
Sameera VISHWARANGA
Haig F
Jarrod MILCZAK
Merl/Hadf
Raheel HUSSAIN
Avond Hts
Nich PARTHENOPOULOS St Fr de S
Michael BRAY
St Albans
Hyder KHAN
Avond Hts
Bob KUNESEVIC
Haig F
Michael PELL
Merl/Hadf
G
13
9
9
13
11
12
8
13
13
10
11
11
13
11
13
12
11
10
12
11
12
12
I
17
12
11
17
15
17
11
16
16
13
14
16
16
16
15
16
15
14
16
15
14
16
Nos
1
2
2
1
1
1
3
2
4
2
2
1
1
2
1
HS
172
153
93
67
132*
165
113
89
72
101
95
77*
58*
63
45
51*
58
102
104*
89
71
78
Runs
665
411
376
511
415
501
313
464
485
387
411
356
382
436
289
362
334
329
368
314
309
344
Ave
41.56
34.25
34.18
34.07
31.92
31.31
31.30
30.93
30.31
29.77
29.36
27.38
27.29
27.25
26.27
25.86
25.69
25.31
24.53
24.15
23.77
21.50
50s
6
2
3
5
1
1
1
4
3
1
3
2
3
4
Best
4/26
6/16
3/13
7/45
7/42
6/75
5/59
6/44
4/37
7/28
6/73
5/27
5/37
4/27
5/41
6/56
6/36
4/58
3/21
4/26
5/36
3/20
5/44
4/27
RPO
2.7
1.9
2.4
2.7
2.2
2.7
3.3
2.6
2.8
3.0
2.8
2.5
2.3
3.5
2.8
3.3
3.0
2.8
2.4
2.6
2.8
3.1
2.7
3.3
100s
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 20 wickets, 100
Overs.
79.00
Name
Luke SMITH
Club
St F de S
Ravindra KARUNARATNE
Aberf
Matthew HILL
Aberf
Tom LANGLEY-DUNN
St Albans
Geeth ALWIS
St Albans
D G DEWAGE
Haig F
Anthony GREANEY
Glenroy
Michael FABRIS
Glenroy
Jarrod MILCZAK
Merl/Hadf
Sameera VISHWARANGA
Haig F
Daniel ENGLISH
Craigieb
Steven GOODWIN
Glenroy
Amit CHAUDHARY
Haig F
Major SINGH
Avond Hts
Matthew COSTELLO St F de S
Jarrod WAKELING
Tay Lakes
Luke HARRISON
Tay Lakes
Dean PITTS
Merl/Hadf
Andrew PIZARO
St Albans
Gavin McCALLUM
Aberf
Romesh KALUARACHCHI Tay Lakes
Michael BURY
Craigieb
Mohamed JINAN
Avond Hts
Robert NIKOLIC
St Albans
O
110.1
236.3
110.0
216.0
124.0
160.4
131.3
162.4
155.1
217.1
195.0
186.2
233.2
111.2
162.2
114.4
141.2
182.4
167.0
167.4
197.1
190.4
190.0
173.0
M
26
97
33
57
44
46
30
58
41
48
61
49
90
10
42
19
41
59
54
46
46
57
51
39
W
24
36
21
45
21
32
31
30
30
44
36
29
31
22
25
21
23
27
20
21
26
25
21
22
R
294
455
269
579
273
436
427
417
432
653
538
461
534
393
448
380
430
510
401
431
543
588
522
566
Ave
12.25
12.64
12.81
12.87
13.00
13.63
13.77
13.90
14.40
14.84
14.94
15.90
17.23
17.86
17.92
18.10
18.70
18.89
20.05
20.52
20.88
23.52
24.86
25.73
5fors
2
5
1
2
1
1
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
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NORTH A1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
ABERFELDIE v HAIG FAWKNER
ABERFELDIE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Vishane PERERA
Tim BERZINS
Sangaran NANDHALAL
Thomas GODSELL
Kieren GRAY ©
Ravindra KARUNARATNE
Matthew HILL
Cameron WEST
Zachary MEVISSEN
Jordan CAHIR
Gavin McCALLUM
First Innings
c K King
l b w
c T Stevenson
c A Chaudhary
Second Innings
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b S Vishwaranga
b T Stevenson
b T Stevenson
not out
b T Stevenson
Sundries: 2lb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/1; 2/3; 3/5; 4/19; 5/19; 6/20; 7/30; 8/46; 9/53; 10/75.
0
3
4
0
11
0
2
27
2
1
22
3
75
b T Stevenson
b R Aiyappan
b A Chaudhary
D Ginimala Dewage b K King
D Allan
b K King
b w
b R Aiyappan
not out
D Ginimala Dewage b T Stevenson
not out
32
34
19
66
57
31
24
4
9
l b w
c
c
l
c
run out (A Chaudhary)
Sundries: 2b, 14lb, 3nb, 1w.
FOW: 1/66; 2/91; 3/103; 4/133; 5/215;
50
20
Total 8dec 346
6/282; 7/317; 8/322;
Bowling
Sameera VISHWARANGA
Amit CHAUDHARY
Rajan AIYAPPAN
O
11
13
1
5
6.4
Damith GINIMALA DEWAGE
Tim STEVENSON
John GIOUPAS
Kelvin KING
HAIG FAWKNER
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Warren PARKER
Rajan AIYAPPAN
Bob KUNESEVIC
Damith GINIMALA DEWAGE
Dean ALLAN
John GIOUPAS
Blake CHARLTON
Amit CHAUDHARY ©
Sameera VISHWARANGA
Kelvin KING
Tim STEVENSON
M
2
7
0
2
1
W
7
0
0
0
3
O
18
20
9
18
24
3
7
First Innings
c
l
c
l
c
c
O
8
24
26
6
18
11
1
M
3
11
11
1
2
4
0
Total
W
0
3
3
1
2
0
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Laverton Park, Altona Meadows.
Kieren Gray (Aberfeldie) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
2
5
2
3
6
1
3
W
0
1
2
0
3
0
1
R
73
60
28
70
80
7
12
Second Innings
c & b G McCallum
T Berzins
b R Karunaratne
run out (R Karunaratne - J Cahir)
b w
b R Karunaratne
K Gray
b G McCallum
b w
b G McCallum
M Hill
b Z Mevissen
T Godsell
b R Karunaratne
not out
b Z Mevissen
b J Cahir
Sundries: 1b, 13lb, 1nb, 3w.
FOW: 1/40; 2/86; 3/95; 4/108; 5/110; 6/116; 7/128; 8/137; 9/164; 10/170.
Bowling
Thomas GODSELL
Gavin McCALLUM
Ravindra KARUNARATNE
Jordan CAHIR
Zachary MEVISSEN
Matthew HILL
Kieren GRAY
Tim BERZINS
R
28
15
3
12
15
R
17
39
45
6
36
12
1
26
47
24
5
4
0
2
9
23
9
3
18
170
c
c
c
c
V Perera
T Godsell
K Gray
K Gray
b R Karunaratne
b R Karunaratne
b R Karunaratne
b M Hill
not out
not out
58
0
1
24
38
47
Sundries: 9b, 6lb, 4w. 19
Total 4 for 187
FOW:
O
17
14
22
7
8
7
8
2
M
5
4
9
3
4
1
4
0
W
0
0
3
0
0
1
0
0
R
24
24
57
9
13
22
21
2
Umpires : Ray BUTTERFIELD and Matthew PEARCE.
Man of the Match : Sameera VISHWARANGA (Haig Fawkner).
HAIG FAWKNER WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 95 RUNS
HAIG FAWKNER won the CHARLES CLARK MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
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SOUTH A1 DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 275 runs.
Name
Simon CORMIE
Daniel DAVIES
William HUNT
Troy LAMB
Brett HARDHAM
James HANDLEY
Aaron FENTON
Dan CLAYTON
Matthew WILLIAMS
Alan SYMONS
Michael LITTLER
Nicholas HARDMAN
Matthew TONKIN
Matthew WITHERS
Vishal BRAHMBHATT
Ben CAVEY
Jake BLOOMER
Will HALE
Lewis OLIVER
Daniel WALTON
Club
OldMents
Carneg
OldMents
Murrumb
Murrumb
Murrumb
Carneg
MiddPk
Murrumb
ParkUtd
MiddPk
OldMents
Mentone
MiddPk
CG/NCG
OldMents
OldMents
Mentone
Mentone
Carneg
G
15
15
15
14
14
14
14
13
14
13
13
15
13
12
11
13
15
14
14
15
I
16
19
16
15
15
13
17
16
15
14
16
16
13
15
15
13
15
17
16
19
Nos
1
1
2
2
3
4
2
1
1
2
1
HS
Runs
237*
979
156
757
159*
548
101*
500
76
454
55
298
101
517
89
473
64
428
70
368
108no 366
81
410
100*
293
51
341
67
336
125
277
82
318
50
307
88
280
66
293
Ave
65.27
42.06
39.14
38.46
37.83
33.11
30.41
29.56
28.53
26.29
26.14
25.63
24.42
24.36
22.40
21.31
21.20
20.47
17.50
16.28
50s
6
4
2
2
3
1
2
3
1
2
2
2
2
3
1
Best
6/18
3/12
7/8
6/21
5/15
5/31
5/26
4/10
5/32
5/16
5/17
5/35
4/41
4/16
5/90
4/21
3/39
4/31
4/14
3/25
RPO
2.2
1.8
2.3
2.8
2.3
2.5
3.2
2.4
3.0
2.8
3.2
3.1
2.7
2.9
3.3
3.5
2.4
3.3
3.5
3.7
100s
3
2
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 15 wickets, 90 Overs.
Name
Nicholas HARDMAN
Bimal SHAH
Jake BLOOMER
Regan BUCKLEY
Troy LAMB
Daniel DAVIES
Zane GOOLD
Darcy BROWN
James HANDLEY
Adam RAY
Chris McCREADY
Alan SYMONS
Chris HUGHES
Daniel PARKINSON
Daniel GRAHAM
James NEW
Lachlan QUINN
Lewis OLIVER
Daniel HOLDEN
Tim FIERENZI
Club
OldMents
Carneg
OldMents
Carneg
Murrumb
Carneg
Murrumb
OldMents
Murrumb
Midd Pk
Mentone
ParkdUtd
Mentone
Murrumb
ParkdUtd
Carneg
Mentone
Mentone
Midd Pk
Murrumb
O
219.5
148.3
140.0
164.1
167.0
151.5
98.0
159.0
137.1
109.0
123.2
155.4
96.0
144.0
133.1
187.4
148.4
115.4
171.1
112.0
M
76
35
50
45
50
42
18
40
30
26
24
46
26
33
33
34
41
20
33
16
W
43
24
26
35
29
27
22
27
28
20
25
28
15
22
22
31
17
18
27
18
R
479
272
322
463
391
384
313
389
410
304
399
477
261
423
443
654
360
385
593
417
Ave
11.14
11.33
12.38
13.23
13.48
14.22
14.23
14.41
14.64
15.20
15.96
17.04
17.40
19.23
20.14
21.10
21.18
21.39
21.96
23.17
5fors
3
2
3
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
Please note: Figures on this page differ to MyCricket as I have added figures from South Div crossover games.
Also, where possible, I have added some Grand Final details that do not appear on MyCricket as it was locked.
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SOUTH A1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
OLD MENTONIANS v CARNEGIE
OLD MENTONIANS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Ben CAVEY
Simon CORMIE ©
Jake BLOOMER
William HUNT
Nicholas HARDMAN
Mark PHILLIPS
Robert TUNBRIDGE
Darcy BROWN
Dustan MILLS
Patrick FORSYTH
Tim APPEL
First Innings
Second Innings
b A Patey
c J Young
l b w
b R Balasubramanyam
l b w
c D Davies
b R Balasubramanyam
b A Patey
b A Patey
b R Buckley
b B Shah
b B Shah
b A Patey
b B Shah
not out
Sundries: 1b, 4nb.
Total
FOW: 1/11; 2/11; 3/43; 4/60; 5/134; 6/151; 7/161; 8/161; 9/167; 10/171.
3
44
0
7
45
46
8
4
8
0
1
5
171
l b w
c A Fenton
l b w
l b w
c
b R Buckley
b J New
b A Patey
c & b A Fenton
b J New
b J New
b R Buckley
b B Shah
run out
run out
not out
Sundries: 4b, 4lb, 5nb, 3w.
Total
FOW: 1/23; 2/33; 3/37; 4/161; 5/181;
27
3
34
93
18
0
2
17
0
5
0
16
215
6/192; 7/192; 8/192; 9/215; 10/215.
Bowling
Regan BUCKLEY
James NEW
Alan PATEY
Daniel DAVIES
Rajesh BALASUBRAMANYAM
Bimal SHAH
Aaron FENTON
O
13
16
12.3
13
14
12
CARNEGIE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
W
1
0
4
0
2
3
c W Hunt
Rajesh BALASUBRAMANYAM
c J Bloomer
c W Hunt
O
13
15
11
13
5
12.3
6
c W Hunt
l b w
O
24
4
14
5
9
9.3
7
4
M
6
0
3
3
4
5
3
1
Total
W
3
0
2
0
0
4
0
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at South Caulfield.
Simon Cormie (Old Mentonians) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
3
4
3
3
1
6
1
W
2
3
1
0
0
1
1
R
37
25
23
38
28
15
31
Second Innings
b S Cormie
b D Brown
b S Cormie
b D Brown
b J Bloomer
run out (D Mills)
b D Brown
b J Bloomer
b S Cormie
b S Cormie
not out
Sundries: 11b, 3lb, 8nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/18; 2/123; 3/128; 4/132; 5/137; 6/149; 7/161; 8/163; 9/220; 10/221.
Bowling
Darcy BROWN
Dustan MILLS
Jake BLOOMER
Robert TUNBRIDGE
Nicholas HARDMAN
Simon CORMIE
Tim APPEL
Patrick FORSYTH
R
15
45
38
22
36
14
First Innings
Aaron FENTON ©
Regan BUCKLEY
Tarun RABARI
Daniel DAVIES
Daniel WALTON
John YOUNG
Andrew MORRISSEY
Alan PATEY
James NEW
Bimal SHAH
M
8
4
4
7
4
6
R
79
19
33
6
30
11
10
19
78
4
23
4
22
1
8
0
44
13
0
24
221
b J Bloomer
not out
b P Forsyth
b N Hardman
b N Hardman
b N Hardman
b N Hardman
b N Hardman
b J Bloomer
b N Hardman
b D Brown
Sundries: 4b, 5lb, 6nb, 5w.
c
c
c
c
c
l b w
Total
FOW:
O
7
9
21
2
25
8
5
2
M
2
5
14
1
16
4
2
0
W
1
0
2
0
6
0
0
1
3
21
45
6
0
0
2
0
3
5
6
20
111
R
7
13
23
4
18
13
18
6
Umpires : Warren DUNCAN and Robert SENN.
Man of the Match : William HUNT (Old Mentonians)
OLD MENTONIANS WON OUTRIGHT BY 54 RUNS
OLD MENTONIANS won the PATRICK QUINN PERPETUAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Another opportunity to play a Grand Final at South Caulfield, where our club has had great memories before, was a fantastic result for Old Mentonians CC First XI side. After only losing 3
games for the year, we thought we had every right to be there, as did the dangerous Carnegie after they ripped through Murrumbeena the week before and had some damaging players with both
bat and ball. We knew it would be a tough battle, that would go the journey, and it didn't disappoint, achieving our success with 6 overs to go on Day 4.
Carnegie were all over us with the ball in our first innings, but thanks to a grinding partnership of 74 between Mark Phillips and Nick Hardman, we saw 170 as a competitive enough score.
Carnegie, led by the hard hitting and risk taking Aaron Fenton had other ideas and came out all guns blazing and put us on the back foot, slapping most bowlers to the boundary. At 1/123, we
needed to make some changes to change the momentum, and when Fenton fell shortly after for 78, we felt we were back in the game. We then took some control having them 8/161 before a
patient partnership by their lower order saw them have a 50 run lead going into the second innings. Simon Cormie took 4/11 off 9.3 overs and Darcy Brown toiled away all day taking 3/79 off 24
overs.
Knowing we needed a lead of 150+ to have a chance to bowl Carnegie out, we didn't start well, being 3/40 or so before a stunning 125 run partnership between Jake Bloomer (34) and Will
Hunt (93) saw us end up 215 and a lead of 166, which we thought was defendable. We had 6 overs to bowl at them late on Day 3 and Jake Bloomer took the huge wicket of Fenton to have them
1/10 going into the final day.
Spin was always going to be a factor on Day 4 and we were proven right when Nick Hardman produced the spell of the season, claiming 6/18 off 25 overs and mixing up his pace, and spin
extremely effectively, getting their leading run scorer for the season, Danny Davies cheaply and soon after 2 more wickets. His spell put us in a commanding position at Tea, with Carnegie 8/74,
however the stubborn Regan Buckley and Patey were at the crease and we knew it would be a grind. Those last 2 wickets were the hardest wickets to take all year, and credit where credit it due,
the Carnegie boys never gave up.
The boys were absolutely thrilled with a reverse outright result to claim the South A1 premiership. The OMCC would like to thank the VTCA, South Caulfield CC for hosting the game,
Carnegie CC, the two umpires Warren Duncan and Robert Senn & all the supporters who attended the game over the 4 days. Simon Cormie - Captain - Old Mentonians CC.
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WEST A1 DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 270 runs.
Name
Club
Gihan KANKANAMGE
St Andr F
Dadimuni SILVA
FootsUtd
Saman GONAWALA SunshHts
Andrew FORD
Wyndh
Damitha HUNUKUMBURA W CYMS
Daniel PACE
SunshUtd
Lakshan RODRIGO
W CYMS
Agha ADEEL
SunshHts
Paul RUSS
W CYMS
Adam MOSCATIELLO
Wyndh
Steven McKAY
FootsUtd
Aiden ELKINGTON
Altona R
Janaka SIRIWARDANA W CYMS
Leigh SHERIDAN
SunshUtd
James VELLA
SunshHts
Ashleigh PETERS
Altona R
George GABRIELSON
Altona R
Rasika MANDADIGIE FootsUtd
Matthew MASON
NewpD
Indika DHARMAWARDANE SunshUtd
Mohsin ABBAS
SunshHts
Simon KRYGGER
St Andr F
G
12
11
11
11
13
12
11
11
13
12
11
11
13
13
11
11
11
11
11
13
11
12
I
16
13
13
12
16
16
14
14
17
13
14
15
17
18
14
17
17
13
13
18
14
16
Nos
3
1
1
2
4
3
1
3
1
3
1
3
2
2
HS
107*
166
166
74
92
105
116
105
69
95*
89
65*
51
61*
60
71*
55*
102
54
48
57
92
Runs
642
550
526
376
568
557
462
452
384
288
337
300
376
341
288
309
331
280
275
338
294
285
Ave
49.38
45.83
43.83
37.60
35.50
34.81
33.00
32.29
29.54
28.80
25.92
25.00
23.50
22.73
22.15
22.07
22.07
21.54
21.15
21.13
21.00
17.81
50s
4
1
3
3
5
3
2
3
3
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
2
Best
7/39
5/17
4/11
5/10
3/16
5/36
4/26
5/6
5/19
4/23
7/28
7/41
7/26
5/37
4/17
4/16
5/54
4/18
5/56
5/50
5/40
RPO
1.8
2.3
2.3
2.0
2.2
2.0
2.5
2.2
2.4
2.2
2.6
2.5
2.8
2.6
2.7
2.4
2.7
3.1
2.6
3.0
2.8
100s
1
2
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 22 wickets, 100 Overs.
Name
Michael GLOWACKI
Mathew PIPCZAK
Leigh SHERIDAN
Gihan KANKANAMGE
Shaun TARRANT
Aaron EDRICH
Ushan YADDRHI
Club
SunshUtd
St Andr F
SunshUtd
St Andr F
SunshUtd
Werr C
St Andr F
Indika DHARMAWARDANE SunshUtd
Jay DOLLIVER
Wyndh
Andrew WALSHE
W CYMS
Matthew SHIELL
NewpD
Andrew LEETET
W CYMS
Ashleigh PETERS
Altona R
ThananARUNTHAVAPALAN Werr C
Leigh LEWIS
Altona R
Chris PLUMMER
Wyndh
Ryan RADFORD
Wyndh
Kallan DAWSON
W CYMS
Geeth SILVA
FootsUtd
Luke ALLISTER
Werr C
Yaditha USHAN
FootsUtd
O
205.5
171.1
102.4
126.3
135.0
166.3
155.3
165.0
157.1
164.0
153.1
238.5
124.3
145.0
175.0
151.4
136.2
132.1
191.4
187.0
185.0
M
57
65
35
33
41
56
36
40
57
43
37
68
32
46
46
47
36
32
52
29
44
W
48
44
25
25
26
29
34
30
30
29
31
46
26
26
32
23
23
22
26
29
25
R
363
398
239
251
291
329
394
370
371
362
395
604
351
377
481
356
372
410
494
558
511
Ave
7.56
9.05
9.56
10.04
11.19
11.34
11.59
12.33
12.37
12.48
12.74
13.13
13.50
14.50
15.03
15.48
16.17
18.64
19.00
19.24
20.44
5fors
3
3
2
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
- 41 -
WEST A1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
WILLIAMSTOWN CYMS v SUNSHINE UNITED
WILLIAMSTOWN CYMS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Aaron ALLEY
Damitha HUNUKUMBURA
Janaka SIRIWARDANA
Jack SUTTER
Lakshan RODRIGO
Paul RUSS ©
Kyle O'CONNOR
Bradley DAVIES
Kallan DAWSON
Andrew WALSHE
Andrew LEETET
First Innings
c N Chouhan
c N Chouhan
c J Maher
c N Chouhan
st N Chouhan
c I Dharmawardane
c T McGrath
c N Chouhan
c D Raniolo
c H Popinski
Total
FOW:
Bowling
Michael GLOWACKI
Shaun TARRANT
Indika DHARMAWARDANE
Leigh SHERIDAN
Tim McGRATH
O
12
11
9
1
6.3
SUNSHINE UNITED
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Second Innings
b S Tarrant
b S Tarrant
b I Dharmawardane
b M Glowacki
b I Dharmawardane
b M Glowacki
b I Dharmawardane
b M Glowacki
not out
b S Tarrant
b T McGrath
Sundries: 3b, 4lb, 1nb, 3w.
Neeten CHOUHAN
Daniel PACE
Leigh SHERIDAN
Indika DHARMAWARDANE
Ben FOSTER ©
Joshua MAHER
Henry POPINSKI
Daniel RANIOLO
Michael GLOWACKI
Tim McGRATH
Shaun TARRANT
M
3
5
1
0
1
W
3
3
3
0
1
l
l
l
c
c
b w
b w
b w
N Chouhan
N Chouhan
b M Glowacki
b M Glowacki
b S Tarrant
b M Glowacki
b M Glowacki
b M Glowacki
c N Chouhan
b M Glowacki
run out (B Foster)
b M Glowacki
not out
l b w
b S Tarrant
Sundries: 2b, 3lb.
Total
FOW:
R
24
16
29
11
20
O
19.4
15
2
M
5
3
1
W
7
2
0
R
39
29
4
6
1
0
11
First Innings
c
l
l
c
c
c
c
b A Leetet
b A Leetet
b A Walshe
b A Walshe
b P Russ
b A Walshe
b A Leetet
not out
b A Leetet
c J Siriwardana
b K Dawson
run out (L Rodrigo - A Leetet)
Sundries: 3b, 4lb, 5nb, 10w.
O
8
26.2
14
9
7
M
1
13
4
3
0
Total
W
1
4
3
1
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Langshaw Reserve, Altona North
Paul Russ (Willi CYMS) won the toss and elected to bat.
3
5
41
6
5
4
1
1
2
13
2
5
88
Second Innings
J Sutter
b w
b w
J Sutter
J Sutter
J Sutter
J Siriwardana
FOW: 1/23; 2/24; 3/70; 4/104; 5/112; 6/115; 7/117; 8/126; 9/137; 10/147.
Bowling
Kallan DAWSON
Andrew LEETET
Andrew WALSHE
Paul RUSS
Janaka SIRIWARDANA
Paul RUSS
2
0
33
2
13
32
0
1
0
5
8
11
107
R
31
33
35
21
20
12
1
32
31
17
4
1
21
5
1
0
22
147
l
l
c
c
l
b w
b w
J Sutter
B Davies
b w
b A Leetet
b A Walshe
b A Leetet
b A Walshe
b A Walshe
not out
not out
5
0
12
0
0
19
3
Sundries: 5b, 3lb, 3nb, 1w..
Total 5 for
FOW: 1/5; 2/5; 3/7; 4/10; 5/44;
O
3.1
8
9
4
2
4
M
2
3
1
2
1
2
W
0
2
3
0
0
0
12
51
R
6
14
18
3
2
3
Umpires : Dennis STUART and Robert TANNENBERG.
Man of the Match : Michael GLOWACKI (Sunshine United)
SUNSHINE UNITED WON OUTRIGHT BY 5 WICKETS
SUNSHINE UNITED won the newly-created RUSSELL POLLOCK PERPETUAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Willy’s captain Paul Russ won the toss and elected to bat on a wicket that looked good for batting. However the wicket had a slight green tinge to it so there
was a possibility that there also might be something in it for the bowlers as well. Early on, that seemed to be the case with Willy finding themselves 3/13 after 13
overs with their star batsman Hunukumbura one of those out. However, Siriwardana and Rodrigo fought back to put on 36 in the next 6 overs before Rodrigo
was stumped for 13. After that wickets seemed to fall on a regular basis with only Siriwardana 33 and Russ 32 showing any resistance before Willy were all out
for 107 in the 40th over. Sunshine United’s main bowlers in Glowacki, Tarrant and Dharmawardane all bowled well and picked up 3 wickets each.
Sunshine United made a brisk start in the chase for a 1st innings lead being 0/20 after 4 overs but were slowed down after that by some tight bowling from
Willy’s veterans in Leetet and Walshe. However United put themselves in the box seat at stumps on the 1st day by reaching 4/106.
At the start of the 2nd day Willy put themselves back in the game by grabbing 6/41 to have United all out for 147, a lead of 40 runs. For United, L.Sheridan
32, Dharmawardane 31, Raniolo 21no and their captain Foster 17 all batted solidly. Leetet (4 wickets) and Walshe (3 wickets) were easily Willy’s best bowlers.
Willy’s 2nd innings was rocked by a brilliant bowling spell from United’s Glowacki who finished with 7/39 from 20 overs (the last 15 in a row) to have Willy
all out for 88. Tarrant ably backed up Glowacki with 2/29 off 15 overs. The only Willy batsman to get going was Siriwardana who made 41.
Therefore United needed 49 to win with 12 overs left on the 2nd day. Things quickly went pear shaped for United when they found themselves 4/10 in the 5th
over. L.Sheridan and Maher steadied the ship and took the stumps score to 4/30.
So the 3rd day started with United needing 19 runs to win with 6 wickets in hand. However, L.Sheridan (12) and Maher (19no) guided United to victory against
tight, aggressive bowling from Willy. (Compiled by Bernie Sheridan on behalf of Captain Ben Foster).
- 42 -
NORTH B1 DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 250 runs.
Name
Mick KENNY
Telge PEIRIS
Siddam de SILVA
Khalid HASSAN
Club
PVSpC
Jacana
E Cob
MoonVall
Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Jacana
Rushith KUNDAVARAM
RMIT
Matthew THOMAS
MoonVall
Shoaib KHAN
E Cob
Pat FELMINGHAM
MoonVall
Phillip CONGUES
Flem
Suriya MOLLIGODA
Flem
Nasir CHEEMA
E Cob
Danish REHMAN
RMIT
Jonathon GRANT
MPStM
Andrew HOUSE
Flem
Suhaib JILANI
E Cob
Jarrad COURTNEY
PVSpC
Anthony RIGGIO
Aberf Pk
Mohan WICKRAMASINGHE Aberf Pk
Isuru YADDEHIGE
Aberf Pk
Peter BROWN
MPStM
G
13
15
12
6
15
12
13
11
12
14
12
12
11
12
11
14
13
12
13
13
12
I
15
17
16
9
16
12
15
12
14
15
14
14
11
14
13
18
14
15
16
16
14
Nos
4
1
1
2
1
1
3
1
1
2
3
1
2
1
HS
82*
79
226*
91*
154*
77*
87
106
99
84*
85
70
80
77
70
106
52
66
91*
55
110
Runs
470
653
579
258
530
343
358
321
407
378
317
355
257
257
300
391
310
331
300
336
273
Ave
42.73
40.81
38.60
36.86
35.33
31.18
29.83
29.18
29.07
27.00
26.42
25.36
23.36
23.36
23.08
23.00
22.14
22.07
21.43
21.00
21.00
50s
3
6
3
2
3
2
2
Best
6/46
8/42
5/17
5/17
8/34
4/5
4/37
6/22
5/36
8/27
5/23
5/43
5/36
6/29
6/27
4/27
4/20
4/38
4/22
3/30
6/44
3/18
4/28
5/21
RPO
2.3
2.4
2.5
3.3
2.2
2.6
2.8
3.1
2.1
2.6
3.1
2.8
2.2
3.2
2.3
3.9
3.3
3.6
3.8
3.2
3.0
3.3
3.7
3.4
100s
1
1
1
3
3
1
2
1
2
2
2
2
4
1
2
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 18 wickets, 80 Overs.
Name
Muhammad HAROON
Muddassar HASSAN
Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Jack OTTAWAY
Andrew MITCHELL
Rushith KUNDAVARAM
Arsalan MALIK
Prashant DARJI
Matthew GRINDLEY
Jason McGOWAN
Matthew THOMAS
Wayne COOPER
Muhammad RASOOL
Matt SCHROTH
Amila Y MENDIS
Luke MORRISON
Jonathon GRANT
Matthew KING
Bede GANNON
Glenn GROVES
Campbell GIBBS
Gary PASCU
Isuru YADDEHIGE
Nishant DESAI
Club
E Cob
E Cob
Jacana
Jacana
Flem
RMIT
RMIT
MPStM
PVSpC
PVSpC
MoonVall
Jacana
E Cob
AberfPk
E Cob
PVSpC
MPStM
PVSpC
MoonVall
Jacana
Flem
AberfPk
AberfPk
MPStM
O
163.0
171.2
211.2
141.4
140.0
116.0
90.0
158.0
190.4
194.2
135.0
164.2
136.0
92.2
148.3
80.0
115.0
101.0
146.5
107.2
145.0
118.5
129.0
131.0
M
50
45
60
32
46
28
23
36
72
63
33
42
39
16
33
12
24
17
29
28
27
28
17
22
W
36
38
46
40
24
22
18
35
28
34
27
29
19
18
21
19
23
21
31
19
23
19
21
19
R
367
415
525
472
310
304
254
497
409
508
419
455
299
291
340
309
379
368
551
343
435
395
483
449
Ave
10.19
10.92
11.41
11.80
12.92
13.82
14.11
14.20
14.61
14.94
15.52
15.69
15.74
16.17
16.19
16.26
16.48
17.52
17.77
18.05
18.91
20.79
23.00
23.63
5fors
1
3
1
2
1
2
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
- 43 -
NORTH B1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
EAST COBURG v JACANA
JACANA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
First Innings
Michael EVANS
Adam ROBERTSON
Jesse SAWBRIDGEWORTH
Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Telge PEIRIS
Shannon BENNETT ©
Casey WHELAN
Lachlan BRADFORD
Jack OTTAWAY
Glenn GROVES
Wayne COOPER
Second Innings
c N Cheema
c N Cheema
c S Khan
b M Hassan
b M Rasool
b S de Silva
b M Hassan
c
b S de Silva
l b w
b S de Silva
not out
c M Makkar
b M Hassan
run out (M Hassan)
run out (A Yagamuni Mendis)
b N Cheema
Sundries: 2b, 3lb, 4nb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/2; 2/2; 3/13; 4/76; 5/86; 6/91; 7/105; 8/115; 9/139; 10/177.
2
0
28
6
51
0
61
7
2
5
5
10
177
c M Makkar
l b w
c S Jilani
c S Khan
c S Khan
l b w
l b w
b M Hassan
b M Rasool
b M Hassan
b M Hassan
not out
b M Hassan
b M Hassan
b M Hassan
b S de Silva
b M Hassan
b M Hassan
Sundries: 1b, 3lb.
Total
FOW: 1/0; 2/1; 3/1; 4/4; 5/22; 6/24;
1
0
3
0
71
1
0
31
2
1
0
4
114
7/88; 8/102; 9/114; 10/114.
Bowling
Muddassar HASSAN
Muhammad RASOOL
O
15
12
14
2
16
3
3.4
Siddarmarakkalage DE SILVA
Atif AWAN
Amila YAGAMUNI MENDIS
Suhaib JILANI
Nasir CHEEMA
EAST COBURG
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
M
4
4
5
0
2
0
0
W
3
1
3
0
0
0
1
R
32
30
32
2
53
16
7
O
15.5
13
9
M
6
3
1
W
8
1
1
R
42
24
19
11
2
0
25
First Innings
Waqar SHAH
Nasir CHEEMA
c
l
c
c
c
l
l
Second Innings
L Bradford
b w
M Evans
C Whelan
C Whelan
b w
b w
b W Cooper
b G Groves
Siddarmarakkalage DE SILVA
b P Jayasundera
Atif AWAN
b W Cooper
Kevin DOWSEY
b J Ottaway
Mukul MAKKAR
b S Bennett
Suhaib JILANI ©
b P Jayasundera
Shoaib KHAN
b P Jayasundera
c T Peiris
Muddassar HASSAN
b S Bennett
c S Bennett
Muhammad RASOOL
b P Jayasundera
not out
Amila YAGAMUNI MENDIS
Sundries: 1lb, 2w.
FOW: 1/11; 2/19; 3/41; 4/41; 5/45; 6/50; 7/72; 8/72; 9/82; 10/116.
Total
4
9
20
7
0
13
8
14
0
24
14
3
116
c
c
c
l
W Cooper
T Peiris
C Whelan
b w
b J Ottaway
9
1
17
3
1
c C Whelan
b P Jayasundera
2
c C Whelan
b W Cooper
0
l b w
b T Peiris
14
not out
41
c J Sawbridgeworth b J Ottaway
7
c S Bennett
b T Peiris
1
Sundries: 14b, 4lb, 6w. 24
FOW: 1/9; 2/10; 3/10; 4/26; 5/30;
Total
120
b
b
b
b
W Cooper
W Cooper
G Groves
W Cooper
6/34; 7/43; 8/62; 9/67; 10/120.
Bowling
Glenn GROVES
Wayne COOPER
Lachlan BRADFORD
Praneeth JAYASUNDERA
Jack OTTAWAY
Shannon BENNETT
Telge PEIRIS
O
4
5
1
14
9
4
M
1
0
0
5
3
1
W
1
2
0
4
1
2
R
9
17
15
40
12
22
O
15
16.2
5
25
9
8
3
M
5
9
2
11
5
2
0
W
1
4
0
1
2
0
2
R
27
18
6
18
6
19
8
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Walter St., Reserve, Ascot Vale. Umpires : Eric HURST and Robert SINNOTT.
Shannon BENNETT (Jacana) won the toss and elected to bat.
Man of the Match : Muddassar HASSAN (East Coburg)
JACANA WON OUTRIGHT BY 55 RUNS
JACANA won the LES SMITH PERPETUAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
- 44 -
WEST B1 DIVISION AVERAGES - 2014/15
BATTING
Qualifications : minimum 260 runs.
Name
Club
Daniel NIGHTINGALE FootsANA
Dilshan KANKANAMAGE
KingB
Trent JONES
W Newp
Daryl VETEHA
FootsANA
John HILLIS
KingB
Aaron FLOYD
W Newp
Senad LEVIC
KingB
Ricky SUVADA
Deer Pk
Dale WILLIAMS
BarkStU
Sam KUKUCKA
FootsANA
Ross CASSIDY
W Newp
Dhavel PATEL
Seabr
Glen ROBSON
W Imps
Leigh EDWARDS
Seabr
Joshua EASON-JONES W Newp
Shane JONES
Deer Pk
Chris ARMSTRONG
SunYCW
Mayurathan RATNESWARAN Deer Pk
Robert ENGLER
Seabr
Hayden DAVIDSON
BarkStU
Josh MACDONALD
W Newp
Luke GRAVES
Deer Pk
G
11
15
14
13
15
14
13
15
13
10
14
9
13
12
13
13
13
15
12
14
13
15
I
14
18
15
13
16
14
15
18
17
12
16
10
15
13
14
15
14
17
13
17
16
17
Nos
3
1
3
4
4
2
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
3
1
1
2
1
HS
116
197
93
62*
63
132
77
69*
66
69
72*
92
67
51
64
94*
79*
70*
67
59
49
70
Runs
613
712
492
362
409
464
417
492
482
328
411
264
434
322
334
307
314
361
268
308
302
291
Ave
55.73
41.88
41.00
40.22
34.08
33.14
32.08
30.75
30.13
29.82
29.36
29.33
28.93
26.83
25.69
25.58
24.15
22.56
20.62
20.53
20.13
17.12
50s
5
5
4
2
3
1
5
3
3
3
3
2
4
1
3
1
2
3
2
2
Best
5/31
5/23
6/10
4/14
5/12
5/19
6/35
5/31
3/16
5/90
5/25
3/21
4/17
5/26
7/26
3/27
4/14
5/20
6/30
4/47
RPO
3.1
2.9
1.9
2.2
2.8
2.3
3.1
3.4
3.3
3.0
3.4
2.7
2.7
3.3
2.8
2.7
2.9
2.5
2.6
3.5
100s
1
1
1
1
BOWLING
Qualifications : minimum 20 wickets, 80 Overs.
Name
Club
Dhavel PATEL
Seabr
Josh MACDONALD
W Newp
James BONNICI
Deer Pk
Glenn SULLIVAN
Deer Pk
Ricky SUVADA
Deer Pk
Faiz UNAID
SunYCW
Luke FOLEY
SunYCW
Saaolat KHAN
KingB
Trent JONES
W Newp
Joshua EVEREST
FootsANA
Sean JOHNSON
BarkStU
Bryan MUNCE
BarkStU
Peter HICK
W Newp
Clayton PETTIGREW W Imps
Chris KAVANAGH
BarkStU
Mitchell HABERECHT
Seabr
Sujith NIKETHANA
KingB
Daniel SHANAHAN
KingB
George SEMERZIDIS
KingB
Shane JONES
Deer Pk
O
82.3
111.2
197.0
125.2
205.2
116.4
137.0
103.0
90.3
122.3
100.5
151.3
128.4
96.0
213.0
132.1
180.4
193.0
164.5
111.1
M
18
33
72
34
54
30
28
26
18
40
17
37
40
28
59
44
48
64
55
32
W
25
29
32
23
47
20
29
24
20
24
22
26
22
20
36
20
30
27
24
20
R
255
326
382
277
571
265
418
350
300
367
338
403
348
318
598
353
531
478
430
394
Ave
10.20
11.24
11.94
12.04
12.15
13.25
14.41
14.58
15.00
15.29
15.36
15.50
15.82
15.90
16.61
17.65
17.70
17.70
17.92
19.70
5fors
1
1
2
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
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WEST B1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
DEER PARK v KINGSVILLE BAPTISTS
DEER PARK
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
First Innings
Mayurathan RATNESWARAN
Chase SINGARELLA
Glenn SULLIVAN ©
Luke GRAVES
Ricky SUVADA
Shane JONES
Matthew WOODHOUSE
James BONNICI
Scott BALSHAW
Denham KRSTEVSKI
Sohail HUSSAIN
l b w
c J Hillis
c J Hillis
st J Hillis
c R Khwaja
l b w
c S Nikethana
Second Innings
b R Khwaja
b D Shanahan
run out
b R Khwaja
c & b S Nikethana
b D Shanahan
b S Nikethana
b D Shanahan
not out
b D Shanahan
b G Semerzidis
Sundries: 3b, 4lb, 4nb, 2w.
Total
FOW: 1/5; 2/17; 3/19; 4/63; 5/73; 6/87; 7/99; 8/119; 9/119; 10/130.
8
2
7
1
47
23
6
8
13
0
2
13
130
c
c
c
c
S Levic
D Shanahan
J Hillis
J Hillis
lbw
c J Hillis
lbw
lbw
lbw
b R Khwaja
b G Semerzidis
b G Semerzidis
b G Semerzidis
b R Khwaja
b R Khwaja
b D Shanahan
b R Khwaja
b D Kankanamage
b G Semerzidis
not out
Sundries: 8b, 5lb, 1nb, 4w.
Total
FOW: 1/4; 2/4; 3/11; 4/40; 5/61;
59
0
0
2
19
8
5
38
30
4
6
18
189
6/122; 7/131; 8/148; 9/165; 10/189.
Bowling
Daniel SHANAHAN
George SEMERZIDIS
Rahmatullah KHWAJA
Saaolat KHAN
Sujith NIKETHANA
Michael VO
Dilshan KANKANAMAGE
O
19
11.5
23
9
22
KINGSVILLE BAPTISTS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Michael VO
Wes HENSTRIDGE
Dilshan KANKANAMAGE
Sujith NIKETHANA
Rahmatullah KHWAJA
Senad LEVIC
John HILLIS
Dominic VAZ
Saaolat KHAN
Daniel SHANAHAN ©
George SEMERZIDIS
M
10
4
7
4
12
W
4
1
2
0
2
R
25
13
48
17
20
O
20
18
20.4
8
4
8
9
First Innings
l b w
c G Sullivan
c
c
c
l
L Graves
M Woodhouse
J Bonnici
b w
c S Hussain
W
1
4
4
0
0
0
1
R
55
48
25
14
5
9
20
Second Innings
b J Bonnici
b S Jones
b J Bonnici
b G Sullivan
b S Jones
b S Jones
b G Sullivan
b G Sullivan
b S Jones
b R Suvada
not out
Sundries: 7lb, 5nb, 5w.
Total
FOW: 1/12; 2/27; 3/48; 4/51; 5/60; 6/84; 7/91; 8/119; 9/123; 10/125.
M
3
7
10
2
2
3
3
9
1
18
28
0
1
38
2
7
4
0
17
125
l
c
c
l
c
c
b w
L Graves
R Suvada
b w
M Woodhouse
L Graves
c S Jones
c R Suvada
b J Bonnici
b R Suvada
b J Bonnici
b J Bonnici
b S Jones
b J Bonnici
not out
b R Suvada
b G Sullivan
not out
9
4
52
34
3
0
51
0
3
30
Sundries: 3lb, 3nb, 3w.
Total 8 for
FOW: 1/5; 2/29; 3/72; 4/86; 5/86;
6/108; 7/131; 8/140;
Bowling
Denham KRSTEVSKI
Glenn SULLIVAN
James BONNICI
Shane JONES
Sohail HUSSAIN
Chase SINGARELLA
Ricky SUVADA
O
1
20
18
21
4
2
1.1
M
0
9
7
8
1
0
0
W
0
3
2
4
0
0
1
R
6
18
34
47
8
3
2
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Hogans Road Reserve, Hoppers Crossing.
Glenn Sullivan (Deer Park) won the toss and elected to bat.
O
M
W
R
14.2
21
13
3
8
2
1
4
1
30
37
48
18
2
2
77
Umpires : Nigel COWAN and Joe POLZELLA.
Man of the Match : Shane JONES (Deer Park)
KINGSVILLE BAPTISTS WON OUTRIGHT BY 2 WICKETS
KINGSVILLE BAPTISTS won the VTCA Shield, and Premiership Plaque.
First and foremost, I would like to congratulate Deer Park on making the final. They were great opponents and made it a grand final to remember.
To the Hoppers Crossing CC I would like to thank them for providing excellent facilities and a really great pitch and ground to play on.
Also I'd like to thank the Umpires for governing a good, hard and fair game of cricket. Dan Shanahan - Captain - Kingsville Baptists CC.
9
195
- 46 -
T20 FINAL - 2014/15
KEILOR v McKINNON
Innings
McKINNON
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
45
10
15
39
Sundries : 2lb, 4w.
6
Total 2cc for
115
FOW: 1/16; 2/43;
Innings
KEILOR
not out
b R Laksiri
b R Laksiri
not out
Sandun DIAS ©
Regan O'BRIEN
c L Sneddon
Ed YOUNG
Brad KRUGER
Cam FITCHETT
Adam PULLMAN
Daniel STREKER
James ALONI
Kyle HELM
Jacob STONE
Malan MADUSANKA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Shaun GUERRA
Roshan LAKSIRI
Daniel STAVRIS
Daniel VENABLES
c R O'Brien
c M Madusanka
c C Fitchett
c K Helm
b B Kruger
b D Streker
b B Kruger
b B Kruger
b S Dias
b E Young
run out (S Dias)
b M Madusanka
b M Madusanka
b B Kruger
not out
Sundries : 3lb, 7w.
Kaushal LOKUARACHCHI ©
Lachlan SNEDDON
Kristian DIXON
Luke DELBRIDGE
Dan SCHUPPAN
Jarryd CLEMENTS
Shafraz MOHAMED
st K Helm
FOW: 1/15; 2/17; 3/31; 4/31; 5/76; 6/77;
Total
13
2
0
10
29
20
1
1
10
12
2
10
110
7/80; 8/86; 9/100; 10/110.
Bowling
Dan SCHUPPAN
Lachlan SNEDDON
Roshan LAKSIRI
Shafraz MOHAMED
Jarryd CLEMENTS
O
3
3
4
4
2
4
Kaushal LOKUARACHCHI
M
0
0
0
0
0
0
W
0
0
2
0
0
0
R
25
17
17
28
7
19
Bowling
Sandun DIAS
Brad KRUGER
Daniel STREKER
Cam FITCHETT
Ed YOUNG
Malan MADUSANKA
Played Sunday 1st March, 2015 at Donald McLean Reserve, Spotswood.
Kaushal Lokuarachchi (Keilor) won the toss and sent McKinnon into bat.
O
3
3.5
3
2
4
4
M
0
0
0
0
0
0
W
1
4
1
0
1
2
R
24
11
13
17
15
27
Umpires : Glenn RUGER and Nigel COWAN.
Man of the Match: Brad KRUGER (McKinnon)
McKINNON WON BY 5 RUNS, and won the McGRATH FOUNDATION 20/20 CUP.
UNDER 17 SUNDAY NORTH FINAL - 2014/15
GREENVALE v WESTMEADOWS
Innings
WESTMEADOWS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Ryan STINGEL
David IVEZIC
b M Perera
b M Perera
c
stpd
b S Perera
b S Perera
40
11
16
38
9
12
0
5
3
b L Ellis
Nadeena THENABADU ©
Michael GATT
Liam THOMAS
b A Ricupero
b S Perera
not out
not out
Dean SAWBRIDGEWORTH
l b w
Nick PERERA
Lachlan O'DONNELL
Jackson IULIANELLA
Harley GLEESON
Ryan BURGESS
Sundries : 4b, 2lb, 3w.
9
Total 7cc
143
FOW:
Bowling
Lachlan ELLIS
Mark PERERA
Sakila PERERA
Jordan BUCKINGHAM
Joshua EID
Peter DISPENZERI
Anthony RICUPERO
O
7
8
7
7
3
3
1
M
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
W
1
2
2
2
0
0
1
Innings
GREENVALE
c C Leslie
c A Bound
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Bowling
Dean SAWBRIDGEWORTH
David IVEZIC
Lachlan O'DONNELL
Michael GATT
Nick PERERA
Ryan STINGEL
Nadeena THENABADU
O
6
5
5
5
3
4
2
13
Total 2 for
144
M
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
W
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Umpires : Eric HURST and Matthew PEARCE
Nadeena Thenabadu (Westmeadows) won the toss and elected to bat.
40
50
14
21
6
Sundries : 5b, 2lb, 4nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/101; 2/135;
R
24
22
21
35
16
18
1
Monday 9th March 2015 at Greenvale.
run out (M Gatt)
retired not out
not out
c & b D Ivezic
not out
Connor LESLIE
Ravindu FERNANDO
Anthony RICUPERO
Joshua EID
Joshua WHATMAN
Peter DISPENZERI
Alex CRISARA
Aaron BOUNDY
Jordan BUCKINGHAM
Mark PERERA
Sakila PERERA
Lachlan ELLIS ©
Man of the Match: Ravindu FERNANDO (Greenvale)
GREENVALE WON BY 8 WICKETS, and won the VTCA SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
R
26
17
25
21
15
25
8
-47-
WICKETKEEPERS - 2014/15
ALL FIRST ELEVENS COMBINED
W/Keeper
(minimum 15 dismissals)
Club
Grade
Catches
Stumpings
Total
Sameen KANDANEARACHCHI
Greenvale
Senior Div
22
10
32
Ross HORKINGS
Spotswood
North Div
28
2
30
Sunshine Utd
West A Div
26
3
29
Seddon
St Albans
Haig Fawkner
Chelsea
Old Mentonians
Sunshine YCW
Westmeadows
Footscray ANA
Yarraville Club
St Francis de Sales
Werribee Centrals
Hoppers Crossing
North Div
North A Div
North A Div
South Div
South A Div
West B Div
North Div
West B Div
Senior Div
North A Div
West A Div
Senior Div
19
24
24
18
20
19
18
18
21
19
16
17
8
3
3
7
5
5
5
5
1
3
6
4
27
27
27
25
25
24
23
23
22
22
22
21
Doutta Stars
Wyndhamvale
Carnegie
Point Cook
West Newport
Kingsville Baptists
Mentone
Altona Roosters
Pascoe Vale Sp Club
South Caulfield
Strathmore
Altona North
West Coburg
Aberfeldie
Parkdale Utd
North Div
West A Div
South A Div
West A Div
West B Div
West B Div
South A Div
West A Div
North B Div
Senior Div
Senior Div
North Div
North Div
North A Div
South A Div
16
15
17
12
18
15
15
16
12
15
13
13
10
10
15
3
4
1
6
19
19
18
18
18
18
17
17
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
Neeten CHOUHAN
Mark WEBB
Andrew HILI
Bob KUNESEVIC
Samudu ATHURUGIRI
William HUNT
Luke SIMPSON
Salvatore SCODELLA
Daniel NIGHTINGALE
Ben TUPPER
Nicholas PARTHENOPOULOS
Chris DUFFIN
Justin GOEGAN
Liam CASTELLAS
Joel ROZE
David MORRISSEY
Travis BEAN
Jarryd MILLS
John HILLIS
James BOON
George GABRIELSON
Drew EVANS
Sam HOLTEN
Nick JAMES
Paul SPITERI
Aaron GIBBS
Sangaran NANDHALAL
David PROWSE
3
2
1
5
1
2
2
5
5
- 48 -
SENIOR SECONDS DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
YARRAVILLE CLUB v STRATHMORE
YARRAVILLE CLUB
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Michael LANGHORNE
Fahad AHMED
Kevin UPTON
David BOUDRIE
Joel RICHARDSON
Gavin TIPPETT ©
Joseph BLAKE
Marc HUSSEY
Michael FORD
Craig TROUNSON
Lachlan DOWLING
First Innings
c
c
c
c
l
l
c
c
c
S Houlden
S Houlden
S Houlden
S Houlden
b w
b w
S Houlden
S Houlden
J Condon
c S Houlden
FOW: 1/3; 2/12; 3/40; 4/42; 5/44; 6/54; 7/55; 8/64; 9/69; 10/69.
Second Innings
b M Henry
b M Henry
b M Bull
b C Williams
b M Bull
b M Bull
b L Bassi
b L Bassi
b A Steel
not out
b L Bassi
Sundries: 5b, 1nb, 5w.
Total
3
3
13
14
2
6
14
0
1
2
0
11
69
c S Houlden
l b w
b L Bassi
b L Bassi
b M Bull
c M Reynolds
b C Williams
c C Williams
b M Bull
l b w
b A Steel
c S Houlden
b A Steel
run out (B Ang - S Houlden)
c J Condon
b L Bassi
c M Henry
b C Williams
not out
Sundries: 2b, 1lb, 2nb, 7w.
FOW: 1/13; 2/24; 3/67; 4/67; 5/96;
Total
0
6
24
2
12
12
28
2
36
4
3
12
141
6/100; 7/106; 8/112; 9/115; 10/141.
Bowling
Michael HENRY
Matthew BULL
Andrew STEEL
Luke BASSI
Chris WILLIAMS
Tim STEPHENS
O
8
11
2
13
9
STRATHMORE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Jack CONDON
Matthew REYNOLDS
Nick SABATINO
Chris WILLIAMS
Tim STEPHENS
Brad ANG
Luke BASSI
Matthew BULL
Andrew STEEL
Stephen HOULDEN ©
Michael HENRY
M
3
3
0
6
5
W
2
3
1
3
1
R
13
15
3
17
16
First Innings
c
c
c
l b w
l b w
c
l b w
st M Hussey
O
12
23.1
20
12
10
1
2
M
6
0
10
3
3
1
2
W
1
5
1
0
2
1
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at McDonald Oval, Altona North.
Gavin Tippett (Yarraville Club) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
6
2
8
8
10
0
W
0
2
2
3
2
0
R
25
15
30
46
20
2
Second Innings
b J Blake
b M Ford
b L Dowling
b F Ahmed
b M Ford
b C Trounson
b M Ford
b L Dowling
not out
c
b M Ford
c
b M Ford
Sundries: 7b, 3lb, 1nb,2w.
FOW: 1/2; 2/4; 3/69; 4/75; 5/115; 6/125; 7/165; 8/167; 9/169; 10/175.
Total
Bowling
Joseph BLAKE
Michael FORD
Craig TROUNSON
Joel RICHARDSON
Lachlan DOWLING
Fawad AHMED
Michael LANGHORNE
O
13
7
16.2
18
18
1
R
22
43
31
37
32
0
0
1
3
13
77
0
19
18
25
4
0
2
13
175
l b w
c
c
b C Trounson
b J Blake
0
0
b C Trounson
not out
not out
3
21
6
Sundries: 2b, 4lb, 1w.
Total 3 for
FOW: 1/05; 2/6; 3/11;
O
5
M
2
W
1
R
8
6
2
2
23
7
37
Umpires : Adam KRYGGER and Glenn RUGER.
Man of the Match : Chris WILLIAMS (Strathmore).
STRATHMORE WON OUTRIGHT BY 7 WICKETS
STRATHMORE won the BOB BRIERLEY PERPETUAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
We arrived at North Altona where Yarraville won the toss and chose to bat. Tight bowling by all bowlers saw wickets falling at regular intervals. Highlights included Luke
Bassi and Matt Bull both taking 3 wickets. However all bowlers bowled fantastic lines in which 7 catches were taken behind the wicket. It was a great effort to have bowled
Yarraville out for 69.
We knew that Yarraville would fight from any position so to bat well was important. With both openers out early, a partnership between Chris Williams and Nick Sabatino
saw us get to 69 before Nick was out caught. Chris continued to score runs with Brad Ang until he was out for a well-made 77. Good contributions by Brad, Luke Bassi and
Matt Bull saw us get to 170 before a late order collapse saw us all out for 175. This left us with a lead of 104.
Credit to the Yarraville bowlers who bowled tightly, particularly Michael Ford who took 5 wickets and also tight fielding which made scoring runs a difficult process.
With 37 overs to bowl, we were able to take 2 wickets before Michael Ford and Kevin Upton, looking solid, played out the rest of the day leaving Yarraville 2/62, requiring
44 runs to make us bat again.
On the 2nd Saturday Luke Bassi was again able to get 2 wickets early however Kevin Upton and Joel Richardson were threatening to build a big partnership before Matt
Bull took the wickets of both batsmen. Despite some late order hitting from Joseph Blake we were able to bowl out Yarraville for 141 leaving us 36 runs to win.
We managed to lose 3 wickets in the chase until Tim Stephens and Brad Ang managed to see us home.
Congratulations to the Strathmore boys for an impressive display over the finals series.
Well done to Gavin and his Yarraville team on their season. Each game we play is done with humour and the right spirit.
Thanks to the umpires Adam and Glenn who did a great job over the match.
And to Altona North who were great hosts and produced a great pitch. Steve Houlden - Captain - Strathmore 2nd X1.
- 49 -
NORTH SECONDS DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
WEST COBURG v WESTMEADOWS
WESTMEADOWS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Leigh ANDERSON
Will KOSTEAS ©
Andrew TARDIO
Glen LAMBETH
Heath DOWNIE
Craig BYRON
Wade JOHNSTON
Andreas NICOLAOU
Rhys GLEISNER
David IVEZIC
Daniel DiCOCCO
First Innings
Second Innings
b T Klewer
b D Boeti
b T Klewer
b M Dargan
b M Dargan
b T Klewer
b T Klewer
b T Klewer
& b K Barns-Jenkins
b M Dargan
not out
Sundries: 1b, 2lb, 3w.
c T Campbell
c K Barns-Jenkins
c J Gale
c K Barns-Jenkins
c P Triulcio
c K Barns-Jenkins
c
l b w
Total
FOW: 1/6; 2/6; 3/59; 4/71; 5/92; 6/92; 7/92; 8/123; 9/159; 10/214.
6
54
0
26
6
7
0
0
89
11
9
6
214
c
c
l
c
R Williams
K Barns-Jenkins
b w
M Dargan
l b w
c J Gale
l b w
c T Campbell
b T Klewer
b D Boeti
b P Triulcio
b R Williams
b M Dargan
b M Dargan
b T Klewer
b T Klewer
b T Klewer
not out
b D Boeti
Sundries: 14b, 7lb, 1nb, 3w.
Total
FOW: 1/2; 2/73; 3/110; 4/131; 5/141;
2
34
38
24
15
7
32
1
8
12
0
25
198
6/145; 7/153; 8/163; 9/195; 10/198.
Bowling
Tim KLEWER
Ryan WILLIAMS
Daniel BOETI
Kieran BARNS-JENKINS
Matthew DARGAN
Pas TRIULCIO
O
24
28
8
13.2
19
3
WEST COBURG
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Pas TRIULCIO
Lincoln RAMSAY
Dwayne PORTELLI
Jake GALE
Thomas CAMPBELL
Matthew ROBERTS
Matthew DARGAN
Tim KLEWER ©
Ryan WILLIAMS
Kieran BARNS-JENKINS
Daniel BOETI
M
11
13
2
4
2
1
W
5
0
1
1
3
0
R
52
50
17
22
59
11
First Innings
O
9
7
18
10.3
36
20
1
M
3
3
4
2
23
15
1
W
0
0
1
1
6
2
0
R
20
9
39
19
29
7
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Donald McLean Reserve No 2, Spotswood.
Will Kosteas (Westmeadows) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
10
8
3
2
3
6
W
4
1
2
0
2
1
R
30
22
21
34
40
30
Second Innings
st H Downie
b R Gleisner
b R Gleisner
l b w
b D Ivezic
l b w
b R Gleisner
b W Kosteas
st H Downie
b W Kosteas
l b w
b R Gleisner
b G Lambeth
c H Downie
b R Gleisner
c H Downie
b R Gleisner
not out
Sundries: 1b, 4lb, 6nb, 11w.
FOW: 1/46; 2/67; 3/70; 4/76; 5/94; 6/109; 7/118; 8/120; 9/128; 10/128.
Total
Bowling
Daniel DiCOCCO
Craig BYRON
David IVEZIC
Glen LAMBETH
Rhys GLEISNER
Will KOSTEAS
Wade JOHNSTON
O
26
17
11.3
11
12
16
30
26
18
3
1
10
10
4
0
4
0
22
128
c H Downie
c A Tardio
c D Ivezic
b C Byron
8
b C Byron
b C Byron
not out
b C Byron
10
0
22
8
Sundries: 2lb.
Total 4 for
FOW: 1/19; 2/37; 3/38; 4/50;
O
3
4
M
0
0
W
0
4
R
27
18
1
0
0
3
2
50
Umpires : Mark WILSON and Wilfred D'SANTOS
Man of the Match : Rhys GLEISNER (Westmeadows)
WESTMEADOWS WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 86 RUNS
WESTMEADOWS won the MICHAEL BANNON MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Westmeadows CC thanks Spotswood CC on hosting the North Seconds GF. A special thank you must go to the ladies in the canteen who did a great job in looking
after us, and the curator for preparing a very good even wicket for 4 days, together with his willingness to help with covers etc.
To the umpires Mark and Wilfred, who both had control of the game from start to finish and whose decision making was excellent, congratulations.
To West Coburg CC who made the GF in the Firsts and Seconds, a fantastic achievement and your club as a whole is obviously doing a lot right.
Westmeadows were lucky enough to win the toss on a good wicket which offered a bit to the bowlers early on but then flattened out. We were in a bit of trouble at 694 but Rhys Gleisner, batting at 9, made 89 and had good partnerships (36) with D Isezic batting at 10, and (55) with D Di Cicco batting at 11. We managed to get to
214. West Coburg got off to a good start and had an opening partnership of 46 (P Triulsio 30) and ended day 2 at 4-94. We started day 3 with an early wicket and
managed to take a wicket every time a partnership started and restricted West Coburg to 128. In the second inning we were able to bat for 93 overs taking time out of
the game and establishing a lead of 284. West Coburg had a crack at the run chase but conceded at 4-50.
Highlights for Westmeadows were Rhys Gleisner 89 and 6-29 (man of the match) also Heath Downie had a great game with the gloves.
For West Coburg, Tim Klewer took 9 wickets for match and captained well. Kieran Barns-Jenkins 5 catches (4 in slips), under 16 player Lincoln Ramsay batting for
90 overs, and Ryan Williams bowled well without luck.
Will Kosteas - captain - Westmeadows 2nd X1.
- 50 -
NORTH A2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
ABERFELDIE v ST ALBANS
ABERFELDIE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Chris PARSLOW
James JEFFERY
David LEECE ©
Stuart RIXON
Zachary MARGARITI
Chris PLATT
Peter MAGAFAS
Damien DOUGE
Matthew WADE
Jake DUNELL
Daniel COGHLAN
First Innings
c
c
l
l
P Singh
A Alki
b w
b w
l b w
c
c
l b w
Second Innings
b G McLaughlin
b D May
b C Hili
b C Hili
b M Else
b G McLaughlin
b R Mackenzie
b M Else
not out
b R Mackenzie
b M Else
Sundries: 13b, 17lb, 2nb.
Total
FOW: 1/0; 2/43; 3/244; 4/261; 5/274; 6/307; 7/329; 8/335; 9/346; 10/361.
18
0
125
88
31
11
22
8
24
2
0
32
361
c D Ostrycharz
l b w
c M Cristino
c
b D May
7
b M Else
44
b R Mackenzie
0
b R Mackenzie
14
b C Hili
43
c
b C Hili
13
l b w
b R Mackenzie
7
run out (D Ostrycharz)
1
c
b R Mackenzie
8
not out
5
c
b D May
2
Sundries: 1b, 1lb, 1w.
3
FOW: 1/13; 2/15; 3/15; 4/50; 5/63;
Total
147
6/89; 7/124; 8/132; 9/140; 10/147.
Bowling
Rohan MACKENZIE
Dermott MAY
Michael ELSE
Guy McLAUGHLIN
Chris HILI
Matthew CRISTINO
Jason KANTAROVSKI
Pawandeep SINGH
O
33
22
34
20
29
3
3
1
ST ALBANS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Pawandeep SINGH
Dean THORN
Matthew CRISTINO
Dermott MAY
Dylan OSTRYCHARZ
Chris HILI
Guy McLAUGHLIN
Jason KANTAROVSKI
Rohan MACKENZIE
Aaron ALKI
Michael ELSE ©
M
11
6
9
8
5
2
0
1
W
2
1
3
2
2
0
0
0
R
82
47
61
50
59
5
27
0
O
22
10.5
11
4
8
First Innings
c
c
l
c
c
l
J Jeffery
J Dunell
b w
C Platt
J Dunell
b w
W
4
2
1
0
2
R
54
25
25
15
26
Second Innings
b D Douge
b D Douge
b J Dunell
b J Dunell
b D Coghlan
b M Wade
b D Douge
not out
b D Douge
b M Wade
b M Wade
Sundries: 2b, 12lb, 1nb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/44; 2/52; 3/74; 4/75; 5/88; 6/105; 7/174; 8/200; 9/224; 10/234.
M
4
5
1
1
2
28
20
60
8
0
7
9
73
6
5
2
16
234
c M Wade
b J Dunell
10
b D Douge
54
l b w
b D Coghlan
19
b D Douge
11
run out (C Platt)
5
c Z Margariti
b D Douge
21
b D Douge
6
b D Douge
25
b D Douge
16
b D Douge
21
not out
2
Sundries: 1nb, 1w. 12
FOW: 1/18; 2/80; 3/88; 4/95; 5/117;
Total
202
6/124; 7/151; 8/176; 9/177; 10/202.
Bowling
Daniel COGHLAN
Jake DUNELL
Damien DOUGE
Chris PARSLOW
Matthew WADE
Stuart RIXON
O
20
16
18
10
9.5
5
M
5
4
3
1
1
1
W
1
2
4
0
3
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Clifton Park, Essendon.
David Leece (Aberfeldie) won the toss and elected to bat.
R
34
59
49
27
29
22
O
10
4
15.1
5
3
M
0
0
0
0
0
W
1
1
7
0
0
Umpires : John POORE and Craig WILSON.
Man of the Match : Damien DOUGE (Aberfeldie)
ABERFELDIE WON OUTRIGHT BY 72 RUNS
ABERFELDIE won the "SPORT" KING MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
R
51
31
56
27
25
- 51 -
SOUTH SECONDS DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
CHELTENHAM v CLAYTON DISTRICT
CLAYTON DISTRICT
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Johnny SAJENKO
Ahsan SHEIKH
Ashley PLOZZA ©
Brendan LAZARUS
Pradeep SINGH
Jeremy LABLANCHE
Fabian JURIE
Julian JURIE
John MARGETIS
Travis EMOND
Mitchell WILSON
First Innings
c L Diggins
c T Black
c N Ellery
c M Bright
l b w
c M Bright
Second Innings
b T Black
b T Black
b T Fitzsimons
b M Bright
c & b T Fitzsimons
b M Bright
b N Ellery
not out
b T Black
b T Black
b L Diggins
Sundries: 7lb, 1nb, 4w.
Total
FOW: 1/46; 2/63; 3/64; 4/65; 5/66; 6/86; 7/116; 8/126; 9/126; 10/127.
56
19
5
1
0
0
12
15
7
0
0
12
127
b T Fitzsimons
b B Doyle
b R Anderson
b R Anderson
b T Black
run out
b N Ellery
b R Anderson
b N Ellery
not out
b T Black
Sundries: 3b, 8lb.
c
c
c
c
l b w
l b w
l b w
Total
FOW: 1/1; 2/4; 3/41; 4/50; 5/62; 6/63;
20
1
4
35
3
8
5
0
0
1
4
11
92
7/72; 8/72; 9/86; 10/92.
Bowling
Tim BLACK
Ben DOYLE
Matthew BRIGHT
Tim FITZSIMONS
Russell ANDERSON
Nick ELLERY
Joel CUSACK
Lewis DIGGINS
O
13
4
13
7
15
3
4
2
CHELTENHAM
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Callum CUSACK
Alan ANDERSON
Joel CUSACK
Matthew BRIGHT
Tim FITZSIMONS
Russell ANDERSON ©
Lewis DIGGINS
Tim BLACK
Mark RAPP
Nick ELLERY
Ben DOYLE
M
6
0
6
1
8
0
0
1
W
4
0
2
2
0
1
0
1
O
10
4
6
6
12
6
1
First Innings
c
l b w
c
l b w
c B Lazarus
c A Plozza
l b w
c
l b w
O
19
23
23
17
3
7.4
5
4
M
8
8
15
6
0
5
0
2
Total
W
1
0
1
4
0
4
0
0
R
33
32
20
22
3
4
5
3
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Jack Barker Oval, Cheltenham.
Ashley Plozza (Clayton Districts) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
4
1
1
3
2
1
0
W
2
1
0
1
3
2
0
R
13
12
17
7
21
10
1
Second Innings
b J Sajenko
b J Margetis
b A Plozza
b J Sajenko
b A Sheikh
b J Sajenko
b J Sajenko
not out
b A Sheikh
b A Sheikh
b A Sheikh
Sundries: 6b, 5lb, 5w.
FOW: 1/24; 2/26; 3/53; 4/55; 5/84; 6/94; 7/119; 8/119; 9/123; 10/133.
Bowling
John MARGETIS
Mitchell WILSON
Ashley PLOZZA
Johnny SAJENKO
Julian JURIE
Ahsan SHEIKH
Pradeep SINGH
Jeremy LABLANCHE
Brendan LAZARUS
R
36
14
17
8
19
11
14
1
17
5
13
15
33
20
1
11
0
2
0
16
133
l b w
c J Lablanche
c A Plozza
b J Margetis
b J Margetis
b J Jurie
b J Sajenko
c & b A Plozza
not out
b P Singh
not out
0
11
24
12
9
20
1
5
Sundries: 1lb, 2nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/5; 2/35; 3/51; 4/51; 5/67; 6/74;
O
11
7
14
7
4
10
1
1
1
M
4
5
8
1
2
5
0
1
1
W
2
0
1
1
1
0
1
0
0
Total 6 for
5
87
R
17
6
14
18
12
16
3
0
0
Umpires : Daryl OWENS and Tim MASON.
Man of the Match : Tim Black (Cheltenham)
CHELTENHAM WON OUTRIGHT BY 4 WICKETS
CHELTENHAM won the NOEL BONDINI MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Cheltenham lost the toss and were invited to bowl by Clayton District. I remember thinking that there would be nervous times coming up during the match chasing runs with a
young team.
A few of our boys were pretty nervous pre-game and the first ball of the game from Tim Black was an above waist no ball that was promptly dispatched for 6 over square leg. At
the time I could really only be amused by the whole thing. In fairness to Tim he recovered well from there to eventually be named Man of the Match.
At the end of week one after slugging it out for 160 overs we were 6 runs behind with 2 wickets in hand having batted for 100 odd overs for just over 100 runs and we knew the
game was going to be tightly-played right over the two weeks. Clayton bowled incredibly tightly and maintained pressure on our batsmen for the entire day and it seemed like we
could not get ahead. Notable first innings performances: Chelt : Tim Black 4 for 36, Tim Fitzsimmons 33 runs and 2 for 8. Clayton District: Johnny Sajenko 56 runs and 4 for 22,
Ahsan Sheikh 4 for 4.
I had dreamt of record late partnerships during the week, none of which came through, so we were quickly bowled out with a small lead.
Once again we bowled and caught really well in the second innings dismissing Clayton for 92. Brendan Lazarus dug in hard in the second dig and was difficult to chisel out,
making a tight and disciplined 35 runs. Good second innings performances were by Sajenko 20 runs and Black 2/13 and Ellery 2/10.
Chasing 87 to win it is fair to say I was worried; many teams have perished in similar circumstances over the years.
We got off to a good start at 2 for 47 overnight. However as expected Clayton came out hard the next morning with tight bowling and good fielding and we ended up 6 down when
we got the runs. In the end the game was really close.
A special thank you to Tim and Daryl who did a fantastic job umpiring the game and still managed to get a couple of deserving sledges to silly old timers like myself still trying to
play cricket and run between the wickets. Special thank you also to the Clayton District supporters who gave our canteen excellent support.
It's fair to say that having so many 18 to 20 year old boys in the team the post game celebrations were quite extensive. Cheers. Russell Anderson - captain - Cheltenham 2nd X1.
- 52 -
SOUTH A2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
MENTONE v CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
First Innings
Second Innings
Anuj PHOGAT
Rohan STOREY
Matthew BAYLISS
Christian HOLLINGWORTH
Tim DODGSON
Louie TURPIE
Stuart EASTON
Luke MEYER
David MORRISSEY
Aarun TONG
Glenn MURPHY ©
b A Jones
b A Jones
b L Anastasio
b S Mills
c
b L Anastasio
c
b A Jones
b A Jones
not out
c
b A Fauzdar
c
b A Fauzdar
b L Anastasio
Sundries: 24b, 8lb, 2nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/21; 2/48; 3/65; 4/87; 5/103; 6/155; 7/155; 8/188; 9/199; 10/211.
Total
14
9
27
41
11
5
22
13
19
5
9
36
211
l b w
c
c
c
b D Gillespie
b D Gillespie
b D Gillespie
b A Jones
b D Gillespie
b A Jones
b A Jones
b L Anastasio
b L Anastasio
l b w
b A Jones
not out
Sundries: 12b, 1lb, 3nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/11; 2/13; 3/14; 4/37; 5/61;
Total
0
12
0
126
3
4
12
47
5
0
17
18
244
6/77; 7/220; 8/226; 9/227; 10/233.
Bowling
Adrian JONES
Cameron GUMBLETON
Stuart MILLS
Liam ANASTASIO
Avinash FAUZDAR
Dylan GILLESPIE
Josh FISHER
O
20
7
22
16.4
7
MENTONE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
M
3
0
7
8
5
W
4
0
1
3
2
R
60
30
54
25
10
O
27.1
12
8
8
9
24
3
First Innings
M
7
0
0
3
4
8
0
W
3
0
0
3
0
4
0
R
76
18
35
34
15
44
9
Second Innings
Jason GUMBLETON
Ty EDWARDS
Jack UNWIN
Dylan GILLESPIE ©
Andrew WARE
Josh FISHER
Avinash FAUZDAR
Stuart MILLS
Cameron GUMBLETON
Adrian JONES
Liam ANASTASIO
b G Murphy
run out (C Hollingworth)
l b w
b G Murphy
b L Turpie
c C Hollingworth
b A Tong
c & b C Hollingworth
l b w
b T Dodgson
l b w
b C Hollingworth
not out
b C Hollingworth
c A Tong
b T Dodgson
Sundries: 2b, 1lb, 2nb, 1w.
FOW: 1/0; 2/18; 3/32; 4/55; 5/83; 6/126; 7/126; 8/132; 9/134; 10/143.
Total
0
14
13
11
39
14
29
0
8
0
9
6
143
c S Easton
c L Meyer
c G Murphy
b L Meyer
b C Hollingworth
b C Hollingworth
b L Turpie
c S Easton
b M Bayliss
b M Bayliss
l b w
b T Dodgson
l b w
b C Hollingworth
c G Murphy
b T Dodgson
not out
b C Hollingworth
Sundries: 1b, 6lb, 4nb, 1w.
FOW: 1/21; 2/46; 3/92; 4/115; 5/126;
Total
17
2
71
12
20
21
30
7
16
6
19
12
233
6/176; 7/192; 8/203; 9/209; 10/233.
Bowling
Glenn MURPHY
Rohan STOREY
Matthew BAYLISS
Aarun TONG
Louie TURPIE
Luke MEYER
Christian HOLLINGWORTH
Tim DODGSON
O
13
2
1
7
8
7.0
13
7.2
M
2
0
0
4
2
2
3
3
W
2
0
0
1
1
0
3
2
R
38
12
2
13
23
17
22
13
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Princes Park 4, South Caulfield.
Glenn Murphy (Carnegie) won the toss and elected to bat.
O
9
M
1
W
0
R
31
11
2
4
5
35.5
14
2
0
2
1
10
5
2
0
1
1
4
2
36
3
14
10
90
42
Umpires : Derrick KIEL and Arthur SIMPSON.
Man of the Match : Chris HOLLINGWORTH (Carnegie).
CARNEGIE WON OUTRIGHT BY 79 RUNS
CARNEGIE won the LES MICHAELS MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Carnegie won the toss on day one and chose to bat on a very flat looking track. The Carnegie openers got off to a positive start losing the first wicket at 21, Carnegie’s number 3
M.Bayliss batted very well for 27 and couple of wickets fell quickly for Carnegie to be 5/114 at tea. The track was playing very slow and scoring was tough with good
disciplined bowling from Mentone. C.Hollingworth and S.Easton put on a good partnership in the middle order of 52 runs before both batsmen were dismissed with the score at
155, the A.Jones dismissal of S.Easton a bouncer off the grill on to the stumps. The tail wagged and Carnegie put on another 56 runs to be all out on day one for 211 with every
batsmen making runs, A.Jones the pick of the Mentone bowlers with 4/60 off 20 overs.
7 overs remained in the day and Carnegie got off to the perfect start with Glenn Murphy clean bowling the Mentone opener first ball of the innings, soon Mentone lost a second
wicket to be in trouble at 2/23 at stumps. Day 2 started with a rush with some quick runs and the Mentone skipper D.Gillespie being run out. Mentone batsmen A.Ware had the
runs flowing at pretty quick pace but when he miss hit an outswinger by A.Tong, Mentone had to re-build again.
J.Fisher and A.Fauzder put on a partnership of 43 off 25 overs with both Carnegie off spinners operating on a low and slow deck, but when they both fell with the score at 126 it
was always going to tough for the tail. Mentone were all out for 143, C.Hollingworth was the pick of the bowlers with 3/22 off 13 overs. Carnegie had 28 overs to bat on day 2
and seeing the effectiveness of slow bowling on the deteriorating deck, the Mentone skipper D.Gillespie opened, snaring 4 quick wickets with his side-arm sliders to have
Carnegie 5/65 at the close of day 2 and effective lead of 133 with C.Hollingworth 32no.
Day 3 began with more bounce in the wicket than day 2 and Carnegie found scoring a bit easier losing an early one 5 overs in but then a massive partnership of 143 between
L.Meyer 47 and C.Hollingworth 126 ended within an over of each other after the 2nd new ball was taken. With the score at 8/226 the tail wagged again for Carnegie to finish all
out for 244, G Murphy 17no, an effective lead of 312. 16 overs remained in the day and Mentone came out swinging to be 2/49 at stumps. The final day came and I think both
teams knew it was going to be tough but the match could go either way, every batsmen valued their wicket and Carnegie had to fight for every one. J.Unwin batted very well for
71 and well supported by the middle and lower-middle order at 5/176 with 40 overs remaining the pressure was right on. Carnegie bowled spin all day from one end and rotated
the spin of T.Dodgson and pace at the other end to slowly work through the wickets on the very slow wicket but when A.Ware was caught in the deep by S.Easton off M.Bayliss
to have Mentone 8/203 we knew we were close to the win. Still to the end even the Mentone number 11 didn’t go out wondering hitting some clean sixers to cow corner until he
went down town one too many times, it was fitting that C.Hollingworth claimed the last wicket that made Carnegie CC the premier in Sth A2. The Man of the Match Christian
Hollingworth bowled the whole of day 4 un-changed with figures for the innings of 35.5 overs 4/90 to back up his 126 the day before and another big effort in the first innings.
Thanks to Mentone CC for the tough, hard and fair manner that the game was played. Also thanks to the two top quality umpires in Arthur Simpson and Derrick Kiel for the way
they officiated throughout the match. Glenn Murphy - captain - Carnegie 2nd X1.
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NORTH B2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
MOONEE VALLEY v MARIBYRNONG PARK ST MARYS
MOONEE VALLEY
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Ben THOMAS
Daniel PHILLIPS
Lou RAFFAELE
Channa DE SILVA
Tom KING
Jim POLONIDIS ©
Jack NEWMAN
Peter GOLDING
Rex BENNETT
Adam PATCHELL
Simon THORNTON
First Innings
c
c
c
c
st J Bullock
c
c
c
Total
FOW: 1/28; 2/28; 3/28; 4/28; 5/32; 6/36; 7/50; 8/58; 9/73; 10/73.
Bowling
Jonathan FURNEAUX
Nathan FURNEAUX
Dylan McNAMARA
Mohamad BARAKAT
Scott BINGLEY
Stephen MAULDEN
Chris GRANT ©
O
13
12
9
9
11
MARBY PARK ST MARYS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Chris GRANT ©
Wilson FISHER
Jakobus LIEBENBERG
Stephen MAULDEN
Scott BINGLEY
Ben WARRENER
Nathan FURNEAUX
Mohamad BARAKAT
Jack BULLOCK
Dylan McNAMARA
Jonathan FURNEAUX
Second Innings
b N Furneaux
b J Furneaux
b J Furneaux
c & b J Furneaux
b J Furneaux
b D McNamara
b S Bingley
b S Bingley
b S Bingley
not out
b S Bingley
Sundries: 5b, 1lb, 2nb, 1w.
M
6
8
5
7
4
W
4
1
1
0
4
13
13
0
0
0
5
10
16
4
3
0
9
73
c
b N Furneaux
b N Furneaux
b S Maulden
b N Furneaux
b N Furneaux
b J Furneaux
b C Grant
b S Maulden
not out
c & b J Furneaux
not out
Sundries: 5lb, 2nb.
c
c
c
c
c
R
25
13
9
6
14
O
22
26
4
12
15
27
8
First Innings
l
c
c
c
l
M
5
7
0
2
0
8
3
W
2
4
0
0
0
2
1
R
60
70
31
18
55
75
14
Second Innings
b w
P Golding
B Thomas
P Golding
b w
b J Newman
b A Patchell
b J Newman
b A Patchell
b R Bennett
c & b R Bennett
b A Patchell
c P Golding
b J Polonidis
not out
c sub (M Ozbun)
b J Newman
l b w
b A Patchell
Sundries: 11b, 6lb, 2w.
Total
FOW: 1/1; 2/13; 3/73; 4/96; 5/100; 6/100; 7/134; 8/142; 9/147; 10/166.
Total 9 decl
FOW: 1/32; 2/51; 3/132; 4/142; 5/166;
6/212; 7/257; 8/327; 9/331;
43
9
8
84
2
81
32
19
34
0
1
30
343
1
16
8
42
14
23
0
18
16
3
6
19
166
c B Thomas
c J Newman
c R Bennett
c
l
l
c
J Polonidis
b w
b w
P Golding
b A Patchell
b S Thornton
b R Bennett
b J Polonidis
b J Polonidis
b J Polonidis
b J Newman
b R Bennett
b A Patchell
b R Bennett
not out
Sundries: 9b, 3lb, 2nb, 3w.
Total
FOW: 1/21; 2/99; 3/107; 4/111; 5/111;
9
25
53
4
4
5
15
1
7
0
1
17
141
6/119; 7/132; 8/140; 9/140; 10/141.
Bowling
Adam PATCHELL
Jack NEWMAN
Rex BENNETT
Simon THORNTON
Jim POLONIDIS
Daniel PHILLIPS
O
15
15
14
7
8
2
M
1
5
5
3
2
2
W
4
3
2
0
1
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Ormond Park, Moonee Valley.
Jim Polonidis (Moonee Valley) won the toss and elected to bat.
R
39
39
37
9
25
0
O
15
12
9
9
5
2
M
3
2
1
5
2
0
W
2
1
3
1
3
0
R
34
28
29
21
11
6
Umpires : Brian LAZZARO and Lucky MENDIS.
Man of the Match : Jim POLONIDIS (Moonee Valley).
MOONEE VALLEY WON OUTRIGHT BY 109 RUNS
MOONEE VALLEY won the Roy Picone Perpetual Shield, and Premiership Plaque.
Moonee Valley had gone through the North B2 season undefeated. MV won the toss and decided to bat. The innings started brightly enough but then in the twinkle of an
eye MV went from 0/28 to 5/36. Our top order had been skewered with J.Furneaux doing the damage with a superb spell of bowling of 4/25. Maribyrnong Park/St Marys
then pressed home their advantage and we were all out for a paltry 73. S Bingley 4/14 cleaned up the tail while P.Golding (16) top scored. With 25 overs to bat MPSM
were 2/13 but recovered well to be in a strong position at stumps at 2/42.
Day 2 saw MPSM lose their third wicket on 73 runs with a valuable 60 run partnership between W.Fisher (16) and top scorer S. Maulden (42). Passing our score, they lost
3 for 4 in the middle order, consolidated and then lost another 3 for 13 before finishing their innings on 166 – a lead of 93. A.Patchell 4/39 was most impressive of the MV
bowlers. With 44 overs left in the day MV lost two early wickets, then B.Thomas and C.DeSilva got us to 2/124 at stumps - a lead of 31 runs with what was to become a
match-defining partnership.
Day 3: Thomas (43) didn’t add to his overnight score and we were 3/132, after a 81-run partnership. We lost a further two wickets, including a magnificent gamechanging knock by DeSilva (84). At 5/166 with a lead of 73, skipper J.Polonidis (81) called on the support of the middle order J.Newman (32), P.Golding (19) and
R.Bennett (34no), who helped add 161 runs for the next three wickets. After batting 114 overs MV declared at 9/343, with a lead of 250 and now back in the match. With 6
overs remaining MPSM were 0/11 at stumps.
Day 4: MPSM pushed on for the runs, and reached 1/99 at drinks with W.Fisher (25) and import J.Liebenberg (53) with nine boundaries looking dangerous. However,
immediately after drinks Liebenberg was superbly bowled by R. Bennett. MPSM lurched to 6/119 in a twinkle with an inspired spell from skipper J. Polonidis (3/11). We
then finished off with Bennett (3/29) to have MPSM lose 9/42 and be all out for 141 shortly after tea– a well-deserved win by MV.
Congratulations on MPSM on making the Grand Final, thanks to the umpires Brian Lazzaro and Lucky Mendis who were professional throughout the four days, and the
supporters of both sides. Finally, thanks to the MV boys who after Day 1 fought extremely hard mentally and physically, showed character and determination to win the
premiership. (Jim Polonidis - captain - Moonee Valley 2nd X1)
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WEST A2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
WERRIBEE CENTRALS v SUNSHINE HEIGHTS
SUNSHINE HEIGHTS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Darren TO
Karan GREWAL
Charles BUTTIGIEG
Sajith RANASINGHE
Daniel STEWART
James RHODES
Darren SANDARS
Simon CHARLTON ©
Thai NGUYEN
Amila GUNATHILAKA
Kenneth DOAN
First Innings
Second Innings
l b w
c
c
c
c
c
b D Taylor
b D Williams
b D Williams
b D Williams
D Roach
b D Williams
A Wilson
b A Dorricott
b D Taylor
M Johnson
b D Roach
D Williams
b A Dorricott
sub (L McIntosh)
b D Taylor
not out
Sundries: 4b, 3lb, 3nb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/0; 2/57; 3/83; 4/87; 5/123; 6/139; 7/141; 8/146; 9/152; 10/165.
0
19
49
27
0
34
2
19
0
4
0
11
165
c D Taylor
l
c
c
c
l
c
c
b w
K Kukde
B Taylor
J Golowka
b w
B Taylor
J Golowka
b D Williams
b D Roach
b D Roach
b K Kukde
b D Taylor
b K Kukde
b K Kukde
b D Taylor
b J Torr
b J Torr
not out
Sundries: 2b, 4lb, 5nb, 7w.
Total
FOW: 1/29; 2/31; 3/48; 4/109; 5/115;
15
7
15
37
64
3
13
1
15
1
0
18
187
6/120; 7/153; 8/180; 9/185; 10/187.
Bowling
Dean TAYLOR
Kulantha RAMANAYAKE
Daniel WILLIAMS
Damien ROACH
Kedar KUKDE
Blake TAYLOR
Jayden GOLOWKA
Ashley DORRICOTT
Joel TORR
O
16
6
17
4.5
3
5
6
10
WERRIBEE CENTRALS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Adam WILSON
Kulantha RAMANAYAKE
Matthew JOHNSON
Kedar KUKDE
Joel TORR
Daniel WILLIAMS
Ashley DORRICOTT
Dean TAYLOR ©
Damien ROACH
Jayden GOLOWKA
Blake TAYLOR
M
5
1
4
2
0
1
1
6
W
3
0
4
1
0
0
0
2
R
24
17
46
19
14
17
21
9
O
14
3
14
8
12
8
2
3
3.1
First Innings
c
c
l
l
c
b C Buttigieg
b J Rhodes
b C Buttigieg
b A Gunathilaka
b K Doan
c & b K Doan
run out (K Doan - D Stewart)
b A Gunathilaka
b J Rhodes
b C Buttigieg
not out
Sundries: 4b, 4lb, 15nb, 5w.
Total
FOW: 1/18; 2/25; 3/76; 4/102; 5/119; 6/144; 7/191; 8/191; 9/199; 10/223.
W
1
0
1
2
3
1
0
0
2
R
39
24
32
18
32
14
2
16
4
First Innings
S Ranasinghe
D Stewart
b w
b w
S Charlton
l b w
M
3
0
3
3
1
1
1
0
2
85
6
1
17
7
3
11
36
22
2
5
28
223
l
c
c
l
b w
D To
J Rhodes
b w
c D Sandars
b J Rhodes
b S Charlton
b J Rhodes
b A Gunathilaka
b C Buttigieg
b J Rhodes
b C Buttigieg
b C Buttigieg
not out
b A Gunathilaka
not out
Sundries: 5b, 4lb, 9nb, 1w.
Total 9 for
FOW: 1/44; 2/59; 3/63; 4/81; 5/82;
6/103; 7/103; 8/110; 9/115;
Bowling
Amila GUNATHILAKA
James RHODES
Charles BUTTIGIEG
Darren TO
Simon CHARLTON
Kenneth DOAN
Thai NGUYEN
O
19
27.3
15
5
11
8
4
M
5
7
5
0
3
3
0
W
2
2
3
0
0
2
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Galvin Park, Werribee.
Simon Charlton (Sunshine Heights) won the toss and elected to bat.
R
53
64
25
16
14
19
24
O
12
19.2
20
M
3
5
9
W
2
3
3
R
32
32
41
10
3
1
18
Umpires : Kevin HORE and Cameron BALLATO
Man of the Match : Adam WILSON (Werribee Centrals).
WERRIBEE CENTRALS WON OUTRIGHT BY 1 WICKET
WERRIBEE CENTRALS won the VTCA Shield, and Premiership Plaque.
19
21
15
6
8
7
13
2
13
5
3
19
132
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WEST B2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
WEST NEWPORT v SEABROOK
SEABROOK
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Hernie ISORENA
Luke RAPPAZZO
Stephen FLETCHER (c)
Nathan PISANI
David ANDERSON
Peter FRACZEK
Stephen MORGAN
Dejan SAMOUKOVIC
Cameron CLAMP
Shaan TURKI
Sabodh CHAKRABARTY
First Innings
Second Innings
c G Gkroidis
c
c
l
c
l
c
b A El Hassan
b M McCartney
B Jones
b A El Hassan
A Malik
b L Gretgrix
run out
b w
b A El Hassan
L Wright
b C Irving
c & b C Irving
b w
b C Irving
M McCartney
b C Irving
not out
Sundries: 4b, 13lb, 2nb, 30w.
Total
FOW: 1/32; 2/62; 3/66; 4/90; 5/127; 6/155; 7/171; 8/194; 9/219; 10/228.
10
26
11
22
5
23
18
35
12
15
2
49
228
l b w
b A Malik
b A Malik
b A Malik
b C Irving
b A Malik
b C Irving
b A El Hassan
run out
b M McCartney
not out
b A Malik
Sundries: 6b, 12lb, 1nb, 2w.
l b w
c
l b w
l b w
l b w
Total
FOW: 1/17; 2/18; 3/18; 4/27; 5/37;
12
3
5
10
0
14
28
11
34
6
0
21
144
6/37; 7/73; 8/94; 9/110; 10/144.
Bowling
Chris IRVING
Ali MALIK
Ahmed EL HASSAN
Matthew McCARTNEY
Luke McCARTNEY
Tom POULIOPOLOUS
Liam GRETGRIX
O
25.1
5
20
13
4.2
11
4
M
9
0
9
5
0
3
2
WEST NEWPORT
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Lachlan WRIGHT
Brandon JONES
Tom POULIOPOLOUS
Matthew McCARTNEY
Liam GRETGRIX
Chris IRVING
Luke McCARTNEY ©
Ahmed EL HASSAN
Jed JURY
George GKROIDIS
Ali MALIK
W
4
0
3
1
0
0
1
O
First Innings
l b w
c S Morgan
c P Fraczek
c
l
c
c
c
S Fletcher
b w
S Morgan
P Fraczek
S Turki
O
11
26
18
2
6
4
M
5
9
4
0
0
2
Total
W
2
2
5
0
0
1
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Loft Reserve, Newport.
Stephen Fletcher (Seabrook) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
W
R
Second Innings
b C Clamp
b S Turki
b C Clamp
b S Turki
c & b C Clamp
b S Chakrabarty
b S Chakrabarty
b C Clamp
b C Clamp
b D Samoukovic
not out
Sundries: 5b, 4lb, 3nb, 8w.
FOW: 1/26; 2/31; 3/39; 4/39; 5/119; 6/152; 7/153; 8/169; 9/174; 10/178.
Bowling
Sabodh CHAKRABARTY
Shaan TURKI
Cameron CLAMP
Stephen MORGAN
Nathan PISANI
Dejan SAMOUKOVIC
R
40
37
52
22
23
26
11
0
27
8
2
47
45
13
5
7
0
4
20
178
Sundries: 1b, 7lb, 6nb, 3w.
Total
FOW:
R
27
57
44
9
28
4
O
10
20
21
9.5
16
M
3
6
10
5
5
W
0
4
1
3
2
17
164
R
27
45
22
16
46
Umpires : Clayton EVANS and Rodney JONES.
Man of the Match : Dejan SAMOUKOVIC (Seabrook).
SEABROOK WON OUTRIGHT BY 30 RUNS
SEABROOK won the VTCA Shield, and Premiership Plaque.
Despite the fact that this was a lower grade final the match went deep into day four before Seabrook eventually won outright by 30 runs. The game's four
completed innings saw no batsmen make a half century with West’s captain Liam Gretgrix’s 47 the highest individual score. Seabrook batting first managed
228 thanks to eventual Man of the Match Dejan Samoukovic’s season’s highest score of 35. It was just enough as West were dismissed for 178, highlighted by
5/44 from Seabrook’s Cameron Clamp, Liam’s 47, Chris Irving’s 45 and Lachlan Wright’s 18 over opening batting performance which yielded not one run.
Having to bat 10 overs on the first Sunday evening Seabrook crashed to be 4/27 with Ali Malik snaring 4/6. It was a long week for both teams. Saturday again
saw Seabrook in real trouble losing 2/10 to be now 6/37 and a lead of just 87 but the tail rallied to amass 107 more runs before we were all out 144.Cameron
Clamp’s cameo 34 was to prove vital. By stumps West were able to reach 4/92 needing a further 103 runs to win. Day four West slowly gained the upper hand
moving to 4/124 with Lachlan Wright able to bat for 61 overs and provide the backbone to their innings and despite losing him, West were still a chance
particularly with Gretgrix and Irving still to bat. Seabrook’s bowlers kept their cool and cometh the hour cometh the man with Stephen Morgan being brought
into the attack to jag 3/16 to dismiss West Newport for 164. Seabrook had won its first premiership in the VTCA and only our second turf flag in history.
Special mention of Shaan Turki’s match figures of 46/15/6/101, Cameron Clamp’s 49/14/6/66 and Chris Irving’s 45 and 4/40. The match was played hard, but
with good sportsmanship. Thanks to the match umpires Clayton Evans and Rodney Jones and West Newport’s hospitality. We thank Francis (Teddy) Henry our
President, committee, coach Leigh Edwards and the fantastic Club members and players who supported us over the four days. Our season was long, but each
and every one of us at Seabrook gave their all and contributed to our Club’s premiership. I thank all of our players for their support, mateship and success. On a
personal note I would like to thank Alison and my children, Caitlin and Jack very much for supporting my cricket. Yours gratefully, Stephen Fletcher - captain Seabrook 2nd X1.
- 56 -
NORTH C1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
ABERFELDIE v STRATHMORE
STRATHMORE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Anthony DAQUINO
Luke CUFFE
Zeke POLLOCK ©
Declan KNIGHTS
Jack HOWARD
James COUTTS
Jack MERZEL
Jayden HOCKING
Zack CAREY
Matthew GROENEWEGEN
Nicholas MARINI
First Innings
Second Innings
b J Snowball
b M McDonald
b C Berzins
b J Snowball
b M McDonald
b I Labrooy
b S Outhred
b L Moore
b M McDonald
not out
b C Berzins
Sundries: 4b, 2lb, 5nb, 11w.
c I Labrooy
c C Berzins
c L Moore
c M McDonald
l b w
l b w
Total
FOW: 1/19; 2/31; 3/33; 4/104; 5/131; 6/149; 7/151; 8/181; 9/185; 10/190.
17
3
47
0
70
17
0
0
7
7
0
22
190
c
c
c
l
c
c
T Gray
T Gray
C Berzins
b w
T Gray
L Moore
l b w
b S Outhred
b S Outhred
b M McDonald
b S Outhred
b S Outhred
b M McDonald
b I Labrooy
b S Outhred
run out
not out
not out
Sundries: 2b, 5lb, 1nb, 13w.
Total 9 decl
FOW: 1/34; 2/38; 3/51; 4/61; 5/100;
17
5
16
7
24
8
19
0
23
9
9
37
174
6/119; 7/121; 8/132; 9/162;
Bowling
Jonathan SNOWBALL
Mitchell McDONALD
Stuart OUTHRED
Chris BERZINS
Ian LABROOY
Lachlan MOORE
O
23
17
9
23.4
21
1
M
5
4
2
3
7
0
ABERFELDIE
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Simon CAVE
Mark McALLION
Charith FERNANDO
Stuart OUTHRED ©
Lachlan MOORE
Chris BERZINS
Travis GRAY
Jonathan SNOWBALL
Liam McALLION
Mitchell McDONALD
Ian LABROOY
W
2
3
2
3
0
0
O
3
17
18
6
2
First Innings
c
c
c
c
c
c
b Z Carey
b J Hocking
b Z Carey
J Hocking
b Z Carey
L Cuffe
b J Hocking
J Howard
b N Marini
J Merzel
b N Marini
run out (J Merzel - L Cuffe)
J Coutts
b N Marini
L Cuffe
b N Marini
not out
Sundries: 11b, 1lb, 2nb, 11w.
O
25
34
2
8
10.1
12
5
M
10
11
0
2
2
1
1
Total
W
0
3
0
2
4
0
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Syd McGain Oval, Strathmore.
Zeke Pollock (Strathmore) won the toss and elected to bat.
M
0
3
3
0
0
W
0
2
5
0
1
R
21
52
47
23
10
Second Innings
c L Cuffe
c D Knights
FOW: 1/14; 2/38; 3/57; 4/59; 5/80; 6/131; 7/148; 8/178; 9/207; 10/212.
Bowling
James COUTTS
Zack CAREY
Zeke POLLOCK
Jayden HOCKING
Nicholas MARINI
Matthew GROENEWEGEN
Jack MERZEL
Luke CUFFE
Declan KNIGHTS
Anthony DAQUINO
R
39
35
22
56
28
4
R
41
56
2
30
33
30
8
not out
not out
7
22
13
47
0
11
39
11
20
17
0
25
212
31
53
Sundries: 1b, 2lb, 1w.
Total 0 for
O
3
4
4
2
3
3
3
2
3
3
M
1
0
2
2
1
2
0
0
0
0
W
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Umpires : Ian CURWOOD and Jack MOSZKOWSKI
Man of the Match : Stuart OUTHRED (Aberfeldie)
ABERFELDIE WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 22 RUNS
ABERFELDIE won the FRANK KEON MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
R
5
11
6
0
7
2
14
8
15
17
4
88
- 57 -
NORTH C2 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
P E G S v ALTONA NORTH
ALTONA NORTH
First Innings
Second Innings
c & b b A Ollington
b D Jayawardana
l b w
b C Moir
c
b R Thwaites
c
b A Ollington
b A Ollington
l b w
b R Thwaites
Kalaiarason SANTHANATHAN
b C de Silva
l b w
Rajesh MAHARAJAN
b A Ollington
not out
Vasanth RAJARAJAN
c
Prasanth PURVSHOTHAMAN
b A Ollington
Sundries: 9b, 1lb, 2nb, 2w.
FOW: 1/25; 2/68; 3/85; 4/85; 5/91; 6/145; 7/196; 8/204; 9/241; 10/241.
Total
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Kishore JAGANNATHAN
Ganapathy MANI ©
Dinesh DHANRAT
Sathish MADAVAN
Jayakumar NAVANEETH
Venkat PURUSHOTHAMAN
Karthik KAMALANATHAN
Bowling
Dilan JAYAWARDANA
Chris de SILVA
Alan SHIPP
Aron OLLINGTON
Richard THWAITES
Craig MOIR
Kyle SHELDON
Dean MULCAHY
Alex HANNAH
O
17
14
15
34
24
20
3
PEGS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Aron OLLINGTON
Dean MULCAHY
Rob COOPER
James CARTER
Alex HANNAH
Alan SHIPP
Chris de SILVA
Richard THWAITES ©
Dilan JAYAWARDANA
Craig MOIR
Kyle SHELDON
M
4
6
8
18
4
4
1
W
1
1
0
5
2
1
0
R
43
31
11
43
57
36
10
Kalaiarason SANTHANATHAN
Karthik KAMALANATHAN
Ganapathy MANI
Vasanth RAJARAJAN
Prasanth PURVSHOTHAMAN
c
c A Ollington
l b w
not out
b D Jayawardana
b K Sheldon
b C Moir
not out
35
12
34
12
10
Sundries: 5b, 1lb, 2nb, 1w.
Total 3 for
FOW: 1/32; 2/72; 3/85;
O
13
6
M
1
0
W
1
0
R
33
21
9
4
6
5
2
3
4
2
2
2
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
12
2
13
9
7
9
First Innings
b G Mani
b K Santhanathan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
b R Maharajan
c V Purushothaman
b V Rajarajan
not out
Sundries: 3b, 1nb, 3w.
FOW: 1/10; 2/72; 3/138; 4/150; 5/157; 6/158; 7/162; 8/164; 9/189; 10/189.
Total
Bowling
Rajesh MAHARAJAN
40
13
25
4
5
29
50
26
19
16
0
14
241
c
c
c
c
c
c
D Dhanrat
V Rajarajan
D Dhanrat
K Jagannathan
D Dhanrat
D Dhanrat
O
24.1
8
16
11
10
8
M
9
0
8
4
6
0
W
7
1
0
1
1
0
R
41
46
37
28
15
19
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at PEGS Sports Fields, Keilor Park.
Ganapathy Mani (Altona North) won the toss and elected to bat.
56
1
63
24
6
3
17
3
1
8
0
7
189
Umpires : Neil DEY and Ken EASTWOOD.
Man of the Match : Rajesh MAHARAJAN (Altona North)
ALTONA NORTH WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 52 RUNS
ALTONA NORTH won the VIC BEDDOME MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
9
112
- 58 -
NORTH C3 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
TAYLORS LAKES v HOPPERS CROSSING
HOPPERS CROSSING
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Mark SLATTERY
Bernard MOYNAHAN
Rhys FRY
Jesse TREWIN
James SENIOR
Geoffrey YEO ©
Ali AMMAD
Prashant IYER
Chris LILLEY
Joshua FALAGUERRA
Aatif SYED
First Innings
c
c
c
l
c
c
l
Second Innings
L Lau
A Gupta
D Sangwan
b w
R Treloar
R Aranyos
b w
b B Duffy
b A Stephen
b J Duffy
b R Treloar
b B Duffy
b B Duffy
b B Duffy
not out
c A Stephen
b J Duffy
c L Lau
b A Stephen
l b w
b B Duffy
Sundries: 10b, 1lb, 1nb.
FOW: 1/4; 2/72; 3/72; 4/75; 5/79; 6/85; 7/124; 8/126; 9/160; 10/170.
Total
54
1
24
0
3
0
4
53
0
19
0
12
170
c
c
l
l
D Sangwan
T Aranyos
b w
b w
b J Duffy
b J Duffy
b B Duffy
b R Treloar
b J Duffy
c L Lau
b J Duffy
c sub (J Chen)
b B Duffy
c K McMullin
b B Duffy
l b w
b A Stephen
b A Stephen
not out
Sundries: 9b, 10lb, 1nb, 7w.
FOW: 1/24; 2/29; 3/52; 4/84; 5/92; 6/92;
Total
23
2
31
8
10
8
40
6
8
30
12
27
205
7/114; 8/151; 9/167; 10/205.
Bowling
Brendan DUFFY
Andrew STEPHEN
Riley ARANYOS
Chris DUFFY
Ryan TRELOAR
James DUFFY
Kris McMULLIN
O
20.5
7
5
2
7
6
5
TAYLORS LAKES
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
M
7
0
2
0
2
0
0
W
5
2
0
0
1
2
0
R
29
29
23
11
17
33
17
O
32
15.4
3
M
12
7
0
W
3
2
0
R
58
22
6
15
30
4
6
1
4
32
68
First Innings
Second Innings
Tom ARANYOS
Dhruv SANGWAN
Lawrence LAU
Ryan TRELOAR
Aman GUPTA
James DUFFY
Kris McMULLIN
Brendan DUFFY ©
Craig DUFFY
Andrew STEPHEN
Riley ARANYOS
b P Iyer
c J Senior
b C Lilley
c A Syed
b P Iyer
b A Ammad
c A Syed
b J Falaguerra
c J Falaguerra
b C Lilley
l b w
b J Falaguerra
c J Falaguerra
b G Yeo
b J Falaguerra
b J Falaguerra
not out
Sundries: 2b, 11lb, 7w.
FOW: 1/4; 2/28; 3/42; 4/48; 5/50; 6/73; 7/102; 8/106; 9/106; 10/116.
Total
2
13
19
2
3
12
25
11
6
0
3
20
116
c & b J Falaguerra
c G Yeo
b J Falaguerra
c A Syed
b C Lilley
b P Iyer
c A Syed
b J Falaguerra
b P Iyer
not out
l b w
b J Falaguerra
b P Iyer
b J Falaguerra
b A Ammad
Sundries: 1b, 4lb, 2nb.
FOW: 1/4; 2/25; 3/34; 4/70; 5/71;
Total
17
21
32
1
1
5
30
0
0
0
13
12
132
6/103; 7/104; 8/108; 9/109; 10/132.
Bowling
Prashant IYER
Joshua FALAGUERRA
Chris LILLEY
Ali AMMAD
Geoffrey YEO
O
19
19.2
11
9
2
M
5
6
4
3
0
W
2
4
5
1
1
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Lionheart Reserve, Taylors Lakes.
Brendan Duffy (Taylors Lakes) won the toss and sent Hoppers Crossing in to bat.
R
26
28
28
17
4
O
17.3
25
11.3
6
M
6
7
4
0
W
3
5
1
1
R
40
54
14
18
Umpires : Kim COURTNEY and Dennis NEWTON.
Man of the Match : Joshua FALAGUERRA (Hoppers Crossing)
HOPPERS CROSSING WON OUTRIGHT BY 127 RUNS
HOPPERS CROSSING won the VTCA SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Taylors Lakes played hosts to the North C3 Grand Final against Hoppers Crossing, the result not coming until just after 5pm on the fourth and final day. Taylors Lakes won
the toss and bowled first. Hoppers made a sizeable score of 170 runs thanks largely to 54 from Mark Slattery, 53* Preshant Iyer, 24 from Rhys Fry and backed up by the tail
including a then season high 19 from Josh Fallaguerra.
On a field where there was no value for shots along the ground and even those hit in the air stopped half way to the boundary, 170 runs was a big score. The pitch appeared to
be a little two paced and Brendan Duffy exploited it with five wickets. The highlight for the fielding was the ripping catch by Riley Aranyos in close.
Hoppers then had a bowl - Josh Fallaguerra led the way 4/28, Preshant Iyer 2/26 and Chris Lilley 2/28. Batting for Taylors Lakes had Kris McMullin leading the way with 25.
Taylors Lakes struggled to build any partnerships with the largest being 29 between Brendan Duffy and Kris McMullin they finished all out for 116. At stumps on day two
Hoppers were 2/38 with Mark Slattery out for 23. A handy 92 runs in front.
On day three Hoppers was well intent to bat for as long as it possibly could. Rhys Fry toiled hard for a well-earned 31, Ali Ammad 40. Josh Fallaguerra dug in. Before this
game he had only made 20 runs for the whole season and in the second innings made a near career high 30 just 3 runs short of his best ever. This brought his game total to 49
and took the second innings score over the 200 mark for the first time this season for Hoppers. It also gave us a handy lead of 259 and a huge target of 260 to win with only
78 overs left to play in the match.
Taylors Lakes batted for six overs on the third day and with the very last ball of the day Josh Fallaguerra struck with a brilliant catch taken by keeper Aatif Syed. Taylors
Lakes batted steady till tea on the last day and left themselves still over 160 runs to get with only 36 overs to go. Lakes had a last ditch tilt at the game but Hoppers bowlers
stuck to the plan and the outright was secured getting the last wicket with only 132 runs on the board. Josh Fallaguerra took 5 wickets and Kris McMullin batted with a little
luck to make an unbeaten 30.
To the umpires Dennis and Kim thanks for being consistent and patient. They were clear and stuck to their decisions. Many thanks to the Taylors Lakes team and club for a
great game of cricket that was enjoyed by all who played and watched. The team manager for Lakes ensured that the arvo tea was hot and presented at the right time for all to
enjoy and the spirt of cricket was clearly shown by all. Geoff Yeo - captain - Hoppers Crossing Third X1.
- 59 -
NORTH C4 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
SATURDAY ONE - DAY GRADE
DOUTTA STARS (BLUE) v P E G S
DOUTTA STARS (BLUE)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Jordan ROGERS
Mitchell JENSEN
Mark ANDERSON
Brandon THOMAS
Marcus CALVARESI
Nick CIAMPA ©
Samuel EHMER
Shachin WILLARA
Jake BROWN
Mitchell DAY
Patrick GIBLIN
Innings
c R Casey
c
l b w
c R Casey
c
c T Muzafar
FOW:
Bowling
Robert CASEY
Tariq MUZAFAR
Shane BISHOP
Mathew DUDDINGTON
Haydn McKEON
Kenny NG
O
5
7
4
3
7
6
PEGS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Shane BISHOP
Mathew DUDDINGTON
Haydn McKEON
Henri SCHIAVON
Chris HOWITT
Colin MURPHY
Robert CASEY
Kenny NG
Andrew PETERSEN ©
Sal GURCIULLO
Tariq MUZAFAR
b H McKeon
b R Casey
b M Duddington
b H McKeon
b K Ng
b K Ng
b H McKeon
b K Ng
not out
b K Ng
b S Bishop
Sundries: 4b, 4lb, 7w.
Total
M
W
R
0
1
26
2
0
18
0
1
23
0
1
11
0
3
14
0
4
25
First Innings
c
b
run out
b
b
b
b
not out
b
not out
l b w
c
c
18
45
5
15
2
2
9
7
2
Sundries: 1b, 6lb, 1w.
Total 7cc for
FOW:Bowling
Samuel EHMER
Mitchell DAY
Shachin WILLARA
Nick CIAMPA
Jake BROWN
Sat 14th March, 2015
33
6
24
4
4
22
2
1
4
3
0
15
118
O
7
7
7
7
8
M
1
1
2
3
2
W
1
1
0
1
3
Umpires : Abdul MOHAMMAD and Abdul SHAIK
Nick Ciampa (Doutta Stars) won the toss and elected to bat.
Man of the Match : Jake BROWN (Doutta Stars)
DOUTTA STARS (BLUE) WON BY 13 RUNS
DOUTTA STARS won the VTCA Premiership Shield, and Plaque.
R
17
28
17
18
18
8
105
- 60 -
NORTH D1 SUNDAY ONE-DAY FINAL - 2014/15
SUNSHINE HEIGHTS v HOPPERS CROSSING
Innings
SUNSHINE HEIGHTS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
b M Gobbe
b P Dowling
Siva GNANASEGARAM c M Bennett
b D Stuart
run out (D Evans)
Akat MAYOUM
not out
Max HATZOGLOU
Adam MILLER
b D Stuart
Nick HATZOGLOU © c J Farley
b P Dowling
Giulio VENDITTI
b P Dowling
Darren SANDARS
b P Dowling
not out
Kerwan PETERSE
Sai BOLLA
Sundries : 3b.
Total 8cc for
FOW: 1/5; 2/40; 3/48; 4/52; 5/62; 6/85; 7/93; 8/109;
Bowling
Paul DOWLING
Grant FARLEY
Matthew LAWRENCE
Russell LATHAM
Dennis STUART
Michael GOBBE
O
7
7
4
3
8
7
7
M
1
0
0
0
2
0
W
4
0
0
0
2
1
Innings
HOPPERS CROSSING
c M Bennett
Peter HATZOGLOU
Najeeb HUSSAIN
21
4
19
7
37
2
9
3
5
2
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Jake FARLEY
Mathew BENNETT
Michael GOBBE
Dale EVANS
Mark WRIGHT
Grant FARLEY ©
Darren SNOW
Paul DOWLING
Russell LATHAM
Matthew LAWRENCE
Dennis STUART
run out (A Mayoum)
b N Hussain
not out
retired not out
c M Hatzoglou
b P Hatzoglou
not out
3
112
Bowling
Sai BOLLA
Kerwan PETERSE
Najeeb HUSSAIN
Akat MAYOUM
Peter HATZOGLOU
Nick HATZOGLOU
Adam MILLER
Sunday 1st March, 2015 at Ainsworth Reserve, West Sunshine.
Sundries : 5b, 2lb, 1w.
8
Total 3 for
116
FOW: 1/1; 2/8; 3/102;
R
24
23
14
12
19
17
O
3
3
8
6
7
6
2
1
3
40
50
5
9
M
1
0
1
1
1
0
1
W
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
R
3
5
24
18
21
28
12
Umpires : Robert TANNENBERG and Brett HICKEY.
Nick Hatzoglou (Sunshine Heights) won the toss and elected to bat.
Man of the Match: Dale EVANS (Hoppers Crossing)
HOPPERS CROSSING WON BY 7 WICKETS, and won the VTCA Shield, and Premiership Plaque
This was Hoppers Crossing’s first season in the Sunday North D1 one day competition. Throughout the year we encountered many sides that could have made the finals
and gone all the way as many teams were evenly balanced. After the Christmas break HC were dismissed for 44 on the first game back, this turned out to be the turning point
for our team and as we produced some solid performances leading up to the finals. After a convincing win over Avondale Heights in the semi-final we were to play Sunshine
Heights who we had narrowly beaten in Round 9.
On Grand Final day Sunshine Heights won the toss and elected to bat first making 8/112. The stand out batsman was Peter Hatzoglou (21) and his younger brother Max
Hatzoglou (37no). The pick of the HCCC bowlers was Paul Dowling (4/24 of 7 overs) who had previously played in 9 losing Grand Finals without tasting the success of
going all the way, & Dennis Stuart (2/19 off 8 overs). As the captain I walked off the field knowing this was going to come down to the final overs as 112 was a reasonable
score on a slow outfield.
The HC innings started in the worst way with our opener who was the leading run scorer the week before in the semi final being run-out in the first over. Within a few
overs HCCC were 2/8 with both openers being dismissed. At this point HCCC were looking down the barrel as Sunshine Heights players were pumped and on a roll. With
two fresh batsmen at the crease, the experience of Michael Gobbe (40no) and Dale Evans (50rtno) put on a match winning partnership to put their side back in a position to
be equally poised to win the game. HC eventually won the game on the last ball of the second last over with 3/116.
I would like to thank the Sunshine Heights captain Nick Hatzoglou and his team who along with the HC players, participated and played the match in the spirit of the
game. Also I would like to thank umpires Brett Hickey & Robert Tannenberg who were consistent and fair throughout the match. Grant Farley - captain - Hoopers Crossing
Fifth X1.
NORTH D2 SUNDAY ONE-DAY FINAL - 2014/15
DOUTTA STARS v AVONDALE HEIGHTS
Innings
AVONDALE HEIGHTS
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
c C Rutley
c C Rutley
c C Rutley
Bahadur SODHI
Balvinder SINGH
Satinder GILL
Amit NAYYAR
Abdul MUNIR
Bikramjit SINGH
Harpreet SINGH
Gurinder GILL
Parminder SINGH
Jodhbir SINGH
Gurmeet SINGH ©
Innings
DOUTTA STARS
b S Barrett
b P Tudor
b S McFarlane
not out
run out (A Rutley)
c A Rutley
b P McDonald
c & b S McFarlane
run out (D Mosele)
b S McFarlane
b S Barrett
c & b S Barrett
Sundries : 2b, 8lb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/9; 2/20; 3/97; 4/135; 5/135; 6/152; 7/154;
5
7
30
51
12
22
12
4
1
3
1
11
159
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Scott McFARLANE ©
Craig RUTLEY
Jamie TATE
Damian MOSELE
Andrew RUTLEY
Paul McDONALD
Sam BARRETT
Patrick NOTARO
Tom RUSKAN
Wayne PARRY
Paul TUDOR
b A Nayyar
b P Singh
b P Singh
c P Singh
b B Sodhi
b P Singh
b A Nayyar
c S Gill
b J Singh
b A Nayyar
run out
not out
b A Nayyar
Sundries : 1b, 10lb, 2nb, 1w.
Total
FOW: 1/12; 2/39; 3/71; 4/86; 5/105; 6/113; 7/118;
8/157; 9/158; 10/159.
8/119; 9/126; 10/143.
Bowling
Sam BARRETT
Paul TUDOR
Andrew RUTLEY
Paul McDonald
Scott McFARLANE
Tom RUSKAN
O
8
7
6
6
7
1
M
0
3
1
0
0
0
W
3
1
0
1
3
0
R
29
20
13
32
45
10
Monday 9th March 2015 at Buckley Park, Essendon.
Bowling
Bahadur SODHI
Jodhbir SINGH
Gurmeet SINGH
Amit NAYYAR
Parminder SINGH
Harpreet SINGH
O
5
7
4
7
7
5
M
0
0
0
0
3
0
W
1
1
0
4
3
0
R
23
29
19
22
25
14
Umpires : Arahman HASHMI and Darren TREWIN
Scott McFarlane (Doutta Stars) won the toss and sent Avondale Heights in to bat.
Man of the Match: Amit NAYYAR (Avondale Hts).
AVONDALE HEIGHTS WON BY 16 RUNS, and won the VTCA SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
21
4
58
16
1
13
0
1
3
12
0
14
143
- 61 -
SOUTH C1 DIVISION FINAL - 2014/15
HIGHETT v McKINNON
HIGHETT
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
First Innings
Second Innings
Ryan SMART
Troy CASS
Hrishikesh PRADHAN
Tim GRIFFIN ©
David BAMBRIDGE
Craig BAYLISS
Rajeev PAWAR
Kane D'ATRI
Trent BARLOW
Travis MITCHEM
Richard HUNTER
b D Wilson
c J Cox
b P Cox
c J Cox
b P Cox
c J Cox
b S Hamstead
c N Braddon
b P Cox
c P Cox
b N Braddon
not out
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
Sundries: 1b, 2lb, 1nb, 6w.
FOW: 1/28; 2/40; 3/44; 4/56; 5/148; 6/218; 7/239; 8/243; 9/253; 10/270.
Total
Bowling
John BRADDON
David WILSON
Paul COX
Jacob DUSCHER
Stuart HAMSTEAD
Darryl STRUDWICK
Nicholas BRADDON
Shaun DAVIS
James RUMANOVSKY
Jarryd COX
O
12.5
24
21
10
10
4
5
McKINNON
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
M
2
4
4
1
1
0
1
W
4
1
3
0
1
0
1
R
37
76
53
35
44
16
6
c J Cox
c J Cox
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
b J Braddon
not out
not out
6
7
35
1
79
32
Sundries: 1lb, 2nb, 5w.
Total 4 for
FOW: 1/13; 2/14; 3/18; 4/95;
O
17
7
10
M
8
0
3
W
4
0
0
R
28
39
24
1
14
5
2
2
1
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
30
18
8
7
8
8
168
First Innings
Guy MARROCCO
James RUMANOVSKY
Nicholas BRADDON
Jacob DUSCHER
Shaun DAVIS
Paul COX
Stuart HAMSTEAD ©
Darryl STRUDWICK
David WILSON
Jarryd COX
John BRADDON
b D Bambridge
b T Mitchem
c & b T Mitchem
D Bambridge
b T Mitchem
b w
b T Griffen
b w
b T Mitchem
R Pawar
b D Bambridge
run out (H Pradhan)
b w
b R Hunter
T Cass
b T Griffin
not out
Sundries: 3b, 4lb.
c K D'Atri
c
l
l
c
l
c
Total
FOW: 1/0; 2/5; 3/9; 4/10; 5/14; 6/15; 7/30; 8/36; 9/36; 10/36.
Bowling
David BAMBRIDGE
Travis MITCHEM
Richard HUNTER
Tim GRIFFIN
21
9
13
2
40
102
47
18
0
6
2
10
270
O
11
8
4
1.4
M
6
3
3
1
W
2
4
1
2
R
10
15
4
0
14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd March, 2015 at Highett Reserve, Highett.
Tim Griffin (Highett) won the toss and elected to bat.
0
1
1
4
16
1
0
2
4
0
0
7
36
Umpires : Eric ROWE and Alan BIGGS.
Man of the Match : Craig BAYLISS (Highett)
HIGHETT WON ON THE FIRST INNINGS BY 234 RUNS
HIGHETT won the BILL LOUCH MEMORIAL SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
Highett came into the Grand Final after an undefeated season where we had played good cricket. We started to reach the level we knew we were capable of in the semi final
against Mentone. McKinnon progressed to the GF after their fantastic win against South Caulfield. We were lucky to have the GF scheduled at Highett's home ground. The pitch
was true and the outfield immaculate. Someone ordered perfect weather - sunny with a hint of breeze. Highett won the toss and chose to bat. We started well then lost a couple
of quick wickets to be 4/56. Dave Bambridge and Craig Bayliss came in and steadied the ship, putting on an amazing display of batting to help us recover. Craig hit multiple
boundaries to start his innings and go on to make huge century of 102 when we were in trouble and really needed him. Dave backed Craig up with a vital 40 which showed his
class after knee surgery over Christmas. In partnership they added 92 with the next wicket falling at 148. Raj Pawar contributed with a stylish innings of 47. These performances
ensured Highett set a good first innings total of 270. In a match featuring two father-son combinations for McKinnon, the senior Braddon and Cox were pick of the bowlers for
McKinnon, taking seven wickets between them, with Cox junior chipping in with three catches.
We were pretty pumped up when we took the field and were eager to take quick wickets. Bambridge got us off to a flying start, taking his first wicket of the year, finishing
with 2/10 off his 11 overs. Travis Mitchem cemented his credentials as an into the wind workhouse from the other end and claimed the ball of the day in dismissing Cox senior
on the way to 4/15 off his 8. Richie Hunter came on first change and showed his flair to snag Wilson LBW (who was juggling playing the GF and the impending birth of his
child who arrived safely during the two weekends). Richie was also bowling when Rishi Pradhan created an outstanding run out from bat pad. Overall this was one of the best
bowling and fielding displays that I have been part of, with our keeper Kane D'Atri setting the standard with the gloves.
Having secured a first innings result and with so much cricket to be played, we decided to bat again. McKinnon came out with their tails up and took three quick wickets
before Rishi and Dave combined to solidify our position in the match. After Rishi was dismissed for 35, Dave and Man of the Match Craig resumed their partnership from the
first innings and were looking ominous before McKinnon conceded the match. After coming so close last year in a losing Grand Final, it was terrific to get the win this year.
Captain Stuart Hampstead and the McKinnon boys played in the spirit of the game and there are lots of positives for the future of their club. It was great to play against two
father-son combinations in Cox and Braddon and see the passion of the younger members of the team. In our own team we had youngsters Paddy Franklin and Ryan Smith as
joint 12th men who both showed their talent for the team throughout the season. Cricket is always a lot more fun with capable umpires so I'd like to thank Eric Rowe and Alan
Biggs for their contribution to a match which was played in good spirit throughout. Thanks to our scorer and HCC life member Mick Kell as well as the McKinnon scorers. I
also acknowledge everyone who helped out at the club during the match especially match manager and HCC president Andrew Mountford. Tim Griffin - captain - Highett 1st
X1.
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SOUTH C3 SATURDAY ONE-DAY FINAL - 2014/15
MIDDLE PARK (GOLD) v BONBEACH TANGY
MIDDLE PARK (GOLD)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Vineel NADIMPALLI
Kapil MAMIDI
Hajim GADDAM
Imtiyaz MOHAMMED
Tabriz HIMMATI
Shaik RAHMAN
Dhathri AMMAN
Kareem MOHAMMED
Ajay MYSORE ©
Mujeeb RAHMAN
Feroz MOHAMMED
Innings
c
c
c
l b w
FOW: 1/35; 2/39; 3/46; 4/54; 5/160; 6/179; 7/182; 8/199;
Bowling
Rhys BROWN
Joel MULHOLLAND
Matt WELLS
Darren FERGUSON
Jason LOWE
Corey BUCKLEY
O
8
6
7
7
3
5
b R Brown
run out
b D Ferguson
b D Ferguson
not out
retired not out
b R Brown
not out
b
run out
b C Buckley
Sundries: 4b, 6lb, 12nb.
Total 8cc for
M
W
R
0
3
40
0
0
39
0
0
37
0
2
25
0
0
20
0
1
42
BONBEACH TANGY
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Joel HANSON
Corey BUCKLEY
Hayden SHARLAND
Paul SMITH
Thomas REEVES
Joel MULHOLLAND
Shaun CUNNINGHAM ©
Matt WELLS
Rhys BROWN
Darren FERGUSON
Jason LOWE
First Innings
c D Amman
b K Mamidi
run out (V Nadimpalli - T Himmati)
b M Rahman
c
b S Rahman
b F Mohammed
c
b A Mysore
c
b A Mysore
not out
c
b A Mysore
b F Mohammed
b F Mohammed
Sundries: 3b, 1nb, 3w.
Total
FOW: 1/18; 2/19; 3/29; 4/45; 5/83; 6/95; 7/105; 8/111; 9/121; 10/129.
Bowling
Mujeeb RAHMAN
Kapil MAMIDI
Shaik RAHMAN
Hajim GADDAM
Ajay MYSORE
Imtiyaz MOHAMMED
Feroz MOHAMMED
30
6
4
5
65
51
0
25
2
1
2
22
213
O
8
7
4
3
7
4
3.2
M
1
1
2
1
0
0
0
W
1
1
1
0
3
0
3
10
14
0
14
17
28
16
9
6
6
2
7
129
R
18
22
14
10
28
13
21
Sat 14th March, 2015 at McKinnon Reserve, McKinnon. Umpires : Graeme WEBBER and Gerald PINTO.
Shaun Cunningham (Bonbeach Tangy) won the toss and sent Middle Park in to bat.
Man of the Match : Tabriz HIMMATI (Middle Park)
MIDDLE PARK WON BY 84 RUNS
MIDDLE PARK won the VTCA SHIELD, and Premiership Plaque.
We lost the toss in the grand final and Bonbeach Tangy put us in to bat, which we wanted to do anyway.
Vineel made a quick 30 and then a 100 runs partnership from Tabriz and Habeeb helped us score 213 runs
- a good score to defend. Bonbeach had a very good fast bowler Rhys Brown who took 3 wickets and was
pick of the bowlers. Bonbeach was then bowled out for 129 runs in 36 overs. It was a great game - good
umpires and atmosphere. I loved playing in the VTCA for the first time, and hopefully there will be many
more years to go. Ajay Mysore - captain - Middle Park 3rd X1.
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SOUTH D1 SUNDAY ONE-DAY FINAL - 2014/15
HAMPTON v CAULFIELD GRAM / N C G
CG/NCG
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Chintan BHIMAJIYANI
Savan PATEL
Ravin GOSWAMI
Darshan BHATT
Siddharth MEHTA
Satyam PATEL
Mukesh BHAGAT ©
Hitesh SOJITRA
Ronak SHAH
Ramkrushna PATEL
Aadesh PATEL
Innings
Editor's Note - Caulfield Grammarians / North Caulfield Glenhuntly failed to enter
ANY Grand Final details whatsoever into MyCricket, including their team(!!!) despite
many emails. I have entered their team here in the same batting order as their semifinal, and similarly with their bowling.
Sundries: 2b, 4lb, 3w.
Total
W
R
2
18
2
10
0
13
6
17
0
23
FOW:
Bowling
Chris ELLISON
Rodney RAE
Ash ROBERTS
Tim NIXON-SMITH
Dean HEWITT
O
8
4.2
5
7
6
M
2
2
1
3
1
HAMPTON
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
Ben RIDGEWAY
Peter CLARK
Rodney RAE
Dean HEWITT
David LEVER
Tim NIXON-SMITH
William BOWDEN
Ash ROBERTS
Chris ELLISON
Michael REIDY ©
Mark JOHNSON
Innings
b
b
not out
not out
l b w
28
19
23
16
Sundries: 2lb, 1nb, 3w.
Total 2 for
FOW: 1/49; 2/50;
Bowling
Chintan BHIMAJIYANI
Ronek SHAH
Aadesh PATEL
Siddharth MEHTA
Ravin GOSWAMI
9
87
O
M
Sunday 1st March 2015 at Boss James Reserve, Hampton.
W
6
92
R
Umpires : Cliff D'SOUZA and Lucky MENDIS
Mukesh Bhagat (CG/NCG) won the toss and elected to bat.
Man of the Match : Tim NIXON-SMITH (Hampton)
HAMPTON WON BY 8 WICKETS,
and won the NEVILLE BOLD PREMIERSHIP SHIELD and Premiership Plaque.
Hampton's Sunday XI took out the South D1 flag following a comprehensive display against Caulfield Grammar North
Caulfield Glenhuntly at Boss James Reserve. As the only senior Hampton side to reach finals this year, the Club's hopes of
silverware were pinned firmly on the chests of the Sunday XI and they delivered with poise and skill.
Having won the toss CGNCG captain Mukesh Bhagat elected to bat on a wicket that had held up well despite the overnight
rain. With the start delayed by an hour, the opening over of the innings was always going to be more eagerly anticipated than
usual and that anticipation was justified as Chris Ellison picked up two wickets in his first over, including the prized wicket of
Chintan Bhimajiyani, to reduce CGNCG to 2/0. Rod Rae broke through in the sixth over to have CGNCG 3/10 and HCC clearly
had the upper hand. CGNCG then launched a fight back that saw them reach 3/70 and a respectable total seemed well and truly
on the cards. Savan Patel and Satyem Patel who had put on 60 for the 4th wicket in a brave fight back then fell in quick
succession. Tim Nixon-Smith picked up the first of his six wickets, in what was to be a Man of the Match performance, when he
had Satyam Patel caught behind for 21 then followed up quickly by bowling Savan Patel for a very well compiled 46. It didn't get
any better from there for CGNCG as they collapsed to be all out for 87 in an innings that contained 6 ducks. Nixon-Smith was
the hero of the day collecting 6/17 from seven overs in a dominant display of line and length medium pace bowling.
Small totals can sometimes be difficult to knock off, particularly in Grand Finals. A strong start from Ben Ridgeway (28) and
Peter Clark (19) put paid to any thoughts that CGNCG may have had of victory. The score reached 49 before the first wicket was
lost. Ridgeway was first to go and then Clark followed soon after with the score at 50 but the damage had already been done and
leading run-scorer for the season Rod Rae (23*) and Dean Hewitt (16*) saw the Seahorses over the line in the 30th over.
It is the second flag in four years for the Sunday XI which has been a mainstay at the Club ever since the 2006/07 Centenary
Season when the side formed as a Legend's XI. Today, the side is made up of a number of Junior Team Managers, Club Legends
and up and coming young players. Michael Reidy - captain - Hampton CC.
-64Official V.T.C.A. LADDERS - 2014/15
SENIOR 2nds
Club
Points
Yarraville Club 112.16
Strathmore (P) 92.88
Hoppers Cross
83.33
Sth Caulfield
83.32
A W St C
83.22
Beaumaris
80.84
St Bernards OC 79.24
McKinnon
72.71
Bentleigh
62.69
Hampton
56.25
Tullamarine
50.61
Greenvale
44.82
NORTH 2nds
Club
Points
Spotswood
107.64
PEGS
105.12
West Coburg
96.74
Westmeadows (P)
90.86
Keilor Park
84.69
Altona North
83.65
Doutta Stars
76.38
Seddon
76.37
Royal Pk Bruns 71.75
Keilor
56.54
Laverton
48.90
Sunshine Druids 38.04
NORTH A2
Club
Points
Aberfeldie (P) 116.45
Taylors Lakes 113.14
St Albans
101.31
Merlynston Had 86.20
Haig Fawkner
78.46
Craigieburn
77.71
St Francis de S
51.07
St Andrews PV 50.80
Glenroy
48.33
Avondale Hts
27.27
NORTH B2
Club
Points
Moon Vall (P) 122.77
Marby Pk St M 121.23
East Coburg
112.23
Flemington
108.33
East Keilor
106.65
Pascoe V Sp C 64.44
Aberfeldie Park 51.92
Jacana
45.73
WEST A2
Club
Points
Werribee C (P) 97.69
Sunshine Utd
97.10
Sunshine Hts
96.00
Wyndhamvale
92.32
St Andr Foots
83.73
Point Cook
79.82
Willi CYMS
62.89
Footscray Utd
62.19
Newp-Digman
52.93
Altona Roosters 42.97
WEST B2
Club
Points
West Newport 114.20
108.27
Seabrook (P)
Willi Imps
96.86
Footscray ANA 85.66
Sunshine YCW 81.86
Barkly Str Utg
73.40
Kingsv Bapts
62.61
Deer Park
62.29
NORTH C1
Club
Points
Aberfeldie (P) 96.22
Yarrav Club
95.80
Strathmore
77.80
St Bernards OC 74.06
Spotswood
72.88
St Francis de S 63.21
Taylors Lakes
62.17
Hoppers Cross
46.30
St Andrews PV 43.69
NORTH C2
Club
Points
PEGS
111.38
Seddon
97.77
Altona Nth (P) 95.19
St Albans
92.29
Glenroy
62.11
Laverton
61.78
Royal Pk Bruns 51.13
Flemington
42.50
Keilor Park
37.76
NORTH C3
Club
Points
Wyndhamvale 123.30
Taylors Lakes 122.32
Newp-Digman 116.39
Hoppers Cr (P) 95.97
St Bernards OC 91.35
Seddon
63.58
East Keilor
49.87
Spotswood
40.44
NORTH C4
Club
Points
Doutta Blue(P) 148.11
Yarraville Club 139.73
PEGS
127.82
Altona North
123.95
Royal Pk Bruns 103.88
Flemington
97.34
Laverton
93.97
Aberfeldie Park 83.87
Doutta St Gold
82.34
East Keilor
55.27
NORTH D1
Club
Points
Sunshine Hts
97.86
Avondale Hts
93.45
Hoppers Cr (P) 92.97
RMIT
92.16
Brunswick
89.59
Laverton
83.29
Keilor
68.35
Seabrook
67.97
Willi CYMS
43.65
Wyndhamvale
36.36
NORTH D2
Club
Points
Doutta Stars
111.42
Avond Hts (P) 105.19
Craigieburn
93.98
Keilor
79.93
St Andrews
79.55
Brunswick
56.31
Aberfeldie
54.45
Willi CYMS
38.44
UNDER 17
Club
Points
99.07
Greenvale (P)
Strathmore
96.44
Westmeadows
89.94
St Andrews
81.40
Willi CYMS
76.92
Craigieburn
74.77
Taylors Lakes
47.65
Marby Pk St M 43.51
SOUTH 2nds
Club
Points
Bonbeach Tangy 113.00
Chelt'ham (P) 103.30
Port Melbourne 102.33
Clayton District
87.86
Chelsea
76.34
Brighton Distr
70.33
Moorabbin Park 59.65
SOUTH A2
Club
Points
Mentone
123.89
Beaumaris
102.94
100.70
Carnegie (P)
McKinnon
99.72
Middle Park
74.66
Murrumbeena
73.97
Parkdale Utd
58.08
SOUTH C1
Club
Points
103.89
Highett (P)
Sth Caulfield
89.10
McKinnon
68.68
Mentone
66.51
Cheltenham
66.21
Hampton
58.31
Murrumbeena
35.21
SOUTH C3
Club
Points
Midd Pk G (P) 159.84
Bonbeach Tangy 149.49
Parkdale Utd
137.72
Beaumaris
132.58
Port Melb Blue 130.70
Highett Red
119.51
Clayton District 115.39
Heatherton
110.21
Hampton
99.39
Murrumbeena
92.76
Cheltenham
83.58
Port Melb Red
82.58
Midd Pk Green 75.42
Chelsea
63.77
Highett Blue
55.39
McKinnon
43.75
SOUTH D1
Club
Points
95.29
Hampton (P)
Sth Caulfield
90.47
CaulfGr/NCG
81.59
Mentone
80.95
Beaumaris
72.39
Old Mentonians 37.91