A lot is happening at the club this time of year in the run up to the Holiday’s as well as for our representative players who will be busy with tournament’s.
Let’s keep celebrating our individual successes and team wins and continue to work on the game as well as the enjoyment and good sportsportmenship that cricket can teach us all.
Junior Cricket – Friday night and Saturday night dates are below
BWC also be having a club BBQ at Burnside on the 19th December 2015, following on from the matches, so please head back to the club if you can.
In other general news Burnside Oval is hosting a week long u15 tournament next week that will involve a bit of a resuffle of pitches and more work for Dave and Regan.
This weeks draw is available here
Hayden Jones from TV One’s “Good Sorts” was at the club last week to interview Jerry Cross and Peter Isle for the programme, I am told it’s due to air on the 20th of December at the end of One News, I’ll be sure to post a link up as that will compulsory viewing.
Junior
*** Friday Night Cricket finishes for the holidays this Friday 11th of December we will be having a BBQ as well as special visitor which will be a real treat. Friday nights recommence on the 12th of February***
*** Saturday Morning and Afternoon Cricketers*** Very importantly this Saturday 12th of December for the Saturday Morning and Afternoon Junior players and coaches we are having a BBQ at the club from 11am to 1.30pm – Food and Drink provided by the club – It will be chance for us to farewell our Year 8 leavers. CMC have tried to get all the matches close to the club so that you can come back.
***Saturday Junior Cricket last match is on the 19th of December and re-commences on the 6th of February***
Peter Smith, coach of BWU4 who played top of the table OBC writes –
“BWU year 6 Team 4 played the unbeaten top of the table OBC team 14. BWU4 held a slight run advantage after each teams first 15 overs, Burnside being 67/4 versus OBC at 60/2. OBC batted very well in their second inning to score 107/2 leaving Burnside needing 101 runs to win from 15 overs against the divisions leading bowling attack. Burnside made steady progress from its first 10 over scoring 53 runs for the loss of 3 wickets with solid contributions from Aakrista Dahal 38 & Nick Smith 28. Needing 47 from the last 5 overs Josh Kenny the star of Burnsides batting effort stepped up scoring 33 off from his final 12 balls to take his total score to 60 and see Burnside home with an over and 2 wickets to spare.”
I would like to congratulate the following girls from our BWU9 team who made the South Island Primary schools tournament. This is the first year together and is also first girls team BWCUCC have had for sometime – plus they are all in Year 7 – it’s a great achievement – Well done to Coaches Angus McIntosh and Mike Dunlop who will also be taking these teams.
SIPST Girls Black
Molly Dunlop
Bethany Fox
Josephine (Joey) Hull
SIPST Girls Red
Eliza McIntosh
Youth Cricket
As mentioned the U15 tournament is on next week at Burnside Oval, as well as the U19 National Tournament at Lincoln, we wish Matt Parker and Harry Wilson all the best of this tournament.
Now is the time if you are in Year 8 moving to Year 9 to get in touch with North West Youth Cricket – please see the details on our website Youth Cricket Link
Adult Cricket
If you didn’t hear about the Premiers win against Marist Harewood in the 50 over one dayer – you would have missed out on Sam Noster’s 169, Matt Farrants 71 and Blake Coburn’s 6/18 as they scored 309/4 before cleaning up Marist Harewood for 78. A bit of payback for an earlier loss in the season.
Arun Kumar is our senior scorer who is using live scoring of premier matches on CricHQ which you get to off a link from our website, here is Sam Noster’s wagon wheel of the inning’s. (Thanks for the great work Arun)
Honour’s Board and Al Brown MVP
Honour’s Board has been updated, please if you know of a great performance please send in an email and an accompanying picture would be great! There has been a bit of work done on the 2a recent result to make sure that Al Brown MVP are allocated correctly – only MVP points are accrued if your named in a fullscorecard that is accepted as the official result. If you not sure what this mean’s ask your skipper, if you are the skipper and your not clear on this send me a note.
Coming into the last two weeks before Xmas Breakup Blake Coburn holds a 3.77 MVP point lead over David O’Brien as they have been trading the top spot week on week, Sam Noster breaks into #5 – but you can find out the leaderboard by following the links on our website by clicking http://burnsidecricket.org.nz/al-brown/
International Transfer Market
Many reader’s may remember back in the day our club proffessional was Wayne Noon, Wayne who has been coaching for Nottinghamshire has just been appointed on the coaching staff of the Sydney Thunder for the Big Bash – read more about here trent bridge news
Spotlight on Sponsor’s
This week the club was very fortunate to be able to collect about 9 x 45kg bags of fertiliser as a donation from Ravensdown. With 4 blocks plus grass practise wickets our costs of operating at the quality we set are understandably high and it’s with great appreciation from companies like Ravensdown and their staff that we receive their support.