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Are we all ready to see Pink Ball day / night test cricket, not sure what everyone’s thoughts are on this change butlet’s get behind the Black Caps this weekend!

Just are reminder to make sure you have got plenty of sunscreen and if you have forgotten to bring some just ask and it will be happily shared around.

Coco-Cola Christmas in the Park is happening this Saturday night where you will able to see Nyree Huyser starring in the show….Nyree is married to Premier player Carl and we wish her all the best for this years performance –  Further information is available here

Junior Cricket

Well done to Joey Hull opening the batting for BWU9 against St. Albans managed to get 30* retired in just 29 balls opening the batting – in fact the top four batsmen for the team all retired against a good St. Albans attack, unfortunately 154/3 wasn’t enought to stop St. Albans who got the target 5 down.

BWU2 had a really good win over St. Andrews with Samual Lawry 4/3 off 4 overs and Oliver Smith 3/10 off 4 overs restricting St. Andrews. Great Bowling spell there guys!

Keep posting those awesome pictures up on the club facebook page as well!

Senior Cricket

A wicked spell of bowling from Matt Farrant and Anthony How had the Premier Team restrict St. Albans to 182 (a good recovery from 113/8 so credit St. Alban’s there). The target that looked achievable at 108/3 saw the wheels fall off and being all out for 153.

The performance of the weekend goes to David O’Brien who got 6/14 off 6 overs as Brawlers continue their winning ways.

President’s Grade had a bye, but the Grade day hosted at St. Albans was a great success with two the President’s sides getting to play on Hagley Oval which will have several club fixtures a season on it. A real treat as Mark Harding would say.

Carl Huyser, Premier Men opening batsman who will need another 100 to beat his wife Nyree’s performance on Saturday.

Honours Board and Al Brown MVP

Did we mention David O’Brien get 6 wickets, this takes him to top of the points table, pushing Blake into second and Matt Farrant whose 4 wicket hall take to third. Deon did everyone a favour in getting a duck.

The honours board has been update with all the performances that were on Cricket HQ, if you know if any others just email them in!

Enjoy your cricket and have a great weekend!

What a weeks it has been with passing of Jonah Lomu and the tragic events in Paris – which seem such a world away from our cricket ground in Christchurch – however when you hear from people in our cricket community who have family or friends in France our thoughts go out them this week.

Junior Cricket

We look forward to seeing all the Friday night cricketers getting back into action this week, let’s try and stay warm and hope there is no rain!

Well done to Noah James from BWU2 for earning his place on the Honours Board with 43 last Saturday, but the highlight of the weekend goes to BWU3 for picking up the ‘Peter Burke Shield’ with a nail biting 1 wicket win against Marist Harewood.  Sam Forster 35 and Easton Stock 30 had a matching winning partnership for the 7th wicket helping get the team home with 1.2 overs to spare. BWU3 celebrate with the Peter Burke Shield.

Senior Cricket

Congratulations to Blake Coburn from our Premier team on being selected for Canterbury A. A couple of other players in the team came close and have certainly been training hard, I am sure their time will come. Blake is also now top of the Al Brown MVP club competition after an 83 run 10th wicket partnership with Scott Inglis who came together with the score at 58/9 to make East Shirley wait for their win.

This week our both Premier Men and 2a’s are at home at Burnside Park so please come down and support them as they face Saint Albans in the One Day competition.

Afternoon grade cricket is back on and President’s will be having their Grade day at Hospital Corner with two lucky teams having the privilege of playing on Hagley Oval. Hopefully they bring the boundaries in a bit closer, as their arms are not what they used to be as this great article discusses.

Cricinfo – Got a good arm? Enjoy it while it lasts

Note from the Committee

The Club committee is currently looking at ways to increase the Club’s revenue so that we can improve our facilities and strengthen the financial position of the Club, without increasing our subs.  As part of the process, the Club committee intends to establish a revenue subcommittee, to brainstorm ways of increasing the Clubs revenue and ultimately to implement those ideas.  We are looking for volunteers who are able to assist us with this and sit on that subcommittee.  Whether you are a current senior player, a parent of a junior player or one of the Club’s alumni, we would love to have you assistance.  Please send expressions of interest to burnside.cricket@gmail.com.  No specific experience is necessary (but if you have it, it is welcomed) just a willingness to commit some time to helping the Club.

Honours Board and Al Brown MVP

The honours board has been updated from last weekend, and also a number of 2a players have been added for the last two week include Mike Allcock 65 and Ben Henderson who in his first match for the club scored a well compiled 50 in his first dig for 4 years.

Al Brown sees Blake Coburn race to the top, with the following places unchanged from last weeks non-afternoon cricket matches and Matt Farrant pushing his way into 5th. With Blake on Canterbury A duty the top spot is up for grabs.

A special mention

Congratulation to Peter McInnes who was the ‘Volunteer Coach of the Year’ for New Zealand winner the New Zealand Netball awards in Auckland. Well deserved and thanks for being such a great volunteer! Peter and Kat McInnes

Spotlight on Sponsor’s

Lane Neave are one of the largest and well respected law firms in the country and have been providing our club both with sponsorship funding and guidance with legal affairs. Several of the firms lawyers and partners are current and former players who will be willing to be of assistance to member’s needs.

Welcome to this weeks edition,

There is NO Friday Night Super Start Academy cricket this week due to Show Day – Saturday Morning Junior Cricket is still ON.

There is also NO afternoon grade senior cricket this Saturday due to show weekend, but our Premier Team will be travelling to Burwood to take on East Shirley while the 2a’s will face East Shirley at home.

Here is a CricHQ link for this Saturday Fixtures

Cricket Live Day – Thank you for all your support

Thank you for all the help and support, the weather turned it on and there was plenty of really positive feedback from everyone involved who made it happen. It is great to know that as a cricket community we are able to really help out a great cause.

Junior Cricket

The Honours Board has been updated for BWU2 Jamie Hays 44 retired vs Sydenham, and Joey Hull from BWU9, 31* as well an excellent bowling performance from Tom Giddens with 4/9 – awesome figures! Thanks for all of the great photos coming in – please keep sharing on Facebook they look just great, check this awesome selfie from BWU5 – that will hard to beat!

Senior Cricket

It’s a bit of a shame we couldn’t celebrate the first Ton of the season from the club with a win – Premier Men’s batsman Carl Huyser scored 108 on Saturday vs OBC, he did manage to celebrate with his cousin Deon Cremer who has been consistantly at the top of the Al Brown MVP points awards. Deon Cremer on the Left, and centurion Carl Huyser.

David O’Brien also had a stunning weekend in the Brawlers match against OBC, with bowling figures of 5/25 and scoring 75* to take over the lead from his team mate Deon in Al Brown MVP. The Brawlers continue their winning ways, joined with 2a’s who had two good wins under leadership of Matt Janett on the Saturday and Jordan Buchanan on the Sunday.

The Rolling Stones look like they also had their first win of the season, however the President’s went down in their top of the table clash against Merivale Papanui. If you have any special performances post up some pics on the clubs facebook page.

Honorary Members Luncheon

We invited our Honorary Members for a luncheon on Saturday and it was great to see many of them come and enjoy some time in the club. Many of these members also helped to develop our club at Burnside Park from 1 pitch and a shed in 1972 and they are still prepared to go the extra distance and support the club today. Special thanks to Peter Burke who arranged lunch.

The new iniative of becoming involved in the ‘Jack Kerr Pride’ is another level of Honorary membership that allows extras funds to be put aside and spent for the benefit of the club. Honorary Membership is $30.00 per annum and ‘Jack Kerr Pride’ is $100.00 which includes the honorary membership – click here for honorary membership

You can read more about Jack Kerr here at wikipedia

Honours Board and Al Brown

The Honour’s Board has been update as of today, if there are any performances not on the board please email as these are only being picked up on the results in CricHQ.

After some quick calulations we find that David O’Brien’s performance has taken him to the top of Al Brown MVP with 96.08 with Blake Coburn closely following on 93.97…some other points scorer’s might be joining them once Arun returns from Holiday.

Al Brown MVP

Welcome to this weeks newsletter,

Here is a link to the draw for Saturday CricHQ draw for November 7th the Premier Team and 2a’s have double header and both teams are also playing Riccarton at Burnside Park on Sunday the 8th – Its going to be a busy weekend at Burnside Park.

Cricket Live Day – 7.11.2015

CLD is an iniative to raise funds and awareness of Cricket Live Foundation which whose founder Alex Reese is also the BWCUCC coach. The foundation provides life skills and education through cricket to underprivilidged children in Sri Lanka.

CLD is where all 8 of the Premier Club Teams in the Christchurch Metro Cricket competition will play at Burnside Park and wikll have food, entertainment to make it festival of cricket. If you are able to please come down and support the day and BWCUCC Premier Men who would love to see you!

http://www.cricketlivefoundation.org/

Junior Cricket

What a busy it is for parents with Halloween, Guy Fawkes and All Black win’s but through all this they still manage to get all the budding cricketers to their practises and matches – a big thanks for all that work!

Last Friday say the Active Post Super Star Academy kit issued to the players in the Super Star Academy 2 group, it was just a treat to see the bats and ball getting put into action straight away!

Saturday Morning Cricket continues this weekend – but due to the 4 x premier cricket matches they will not be played at Burnside Oval – CJCA has tried to make all the junior games as close as possible to the park so that juniors can come to Burnside after their matches. Please email or post on facebook some pictures of these matches!

Senior Cricket

Both Premier Team, 2a’s and our 2b team all had loses over the weekend and it wasn’t helped that we didn’t have a full contigent of players available for matches – with many people unavailable due to exams and being away – but it’s back to a full muster this week and let’s support these sides over the weekend.

The President’s Foxes and Cannon’s scrape win’s by 1 wicket with some real quality tail order batting, Brawlers win their top of the table clash with MPCC while the Mariners has a loss in their 3b match. The Dubai Diamond Traders continue their gem of run with another win while the Strikers had a win over the Rolling Stones in the local derby. The Ghetto Hustlers also has pleasing win over St. Albans by 5 wickets.

The big match up of the week sees a top of the table clash of two unbeaten President’s sides as the Foxes take on the MPCC at Hospital Corner.

Paul ‘Ando” Anderson of the Whangaparoa Canno’s Pony Club

Citation reads – “Jellyfish stopped the rot for a time until 2 wickets in 2 overs had us 71/9. Step up Ando. Edge of the seat stuff as he guided the ball to the fence twice, then requiring 5 to win went down town for 6 over long off, earning him back to back 4M Awards”

Al Brown and Honour’s Board

Keep sending in the information for the honours board which still needs to be updated, however with the Al Brown MVP it’s directly from CricHQ – however for some reason the stat’s are split into two seasons for the Premier Mens with the 2-day competition in ‘2015/16’ season and 1 day competition in the ‘2015/16’ season so a bit of adding up sees Blake Coburn make a charge to second on 76.76 points behind Deon Cremer on 82.82

Al Brown MVP

Spot Light on Sponsor’s

Marriot’s provide a full accounting and business service and have set themselves out to provide excellent levels of service to a wide range of small and mid-sized business. Marriots provide the club a range of services which they very kindly offer without any fee and it’s a pleasure to have Doug Allcock, a partner of Marriotts, as Treasurer on the committee.

Have a great weekend!

Welcome to this weeks newsletter;

Draws for this weeks matches are here CricHQ for 31st October

Friday Night Cricket

It was great to see so many kids at our first Super Star Academy night at Burnside Cricket, this weeks looking a lot cooler so remember to wrap up warm especially those parents! Our coaches are do their best, but you are welcome to jump and in give them hand if they look like they need it. We’ll have a couple more helpers attending once they finish their important exams. A reminder any cancellations to Friday Night will be posted on our club facebook page between between 3.30pm and 4pm. Burnside Cricket on Facebook

Make a note in your Diary about Cricket Live Day on Saturday the 7th of November, we will a NZ Post Super Stars Net setup during the day – more information on the link at the bottom of this newsletter!

Saturday Morning Cricket

Well done to Xaviar Bell and Ezra Dalley who are the first juniors to make it onto the honours board – let’s hope a few players can join them this weekend with scores over 30 runs or 3 wickets. If you need to keep an eye on cancellations the best place is the CJCA Cancellation page . BWU5 shake hands after the match on Saturday morning

Premier Grade and 2a’s

Labour Weekend’s Saturday and Monday were both cricket days for the Premiers and 2a’s. The Premiers lost the 2 day fixture on Saturday as LPW took the iniative away and built up a quick lead in the morning which put them in winning position. Monday’s 1 day fixture was a loss to Marist Harewood who were able get wickets at the right times to keep ahead of the match, and not even a 61 by Blake Coburn could save the day. 2a’s on the other hand finished with an outright win in the 2 day fixture, and a win in the 1 day match on the Monday. Well done to skipper Steve McKean, let’s hope you have another win over the weekend (and we are not talking about the Wallabies).

Afternoon Grades

A mixed bag of results all round for the afternoon grade seeing the Brawlers going down, who have a top of the table clash on Saturday at Burnside #3. President’s grade player Ben Allan scored 94 – the highest of a club member for the season to date –  before his only mistake, a faint snick to the keeper sent him on his after an impressive partnership with Geoff Boorer 71. Not a bad knock after a 4 year absence from the crease. Geoff Boorer the juggler, next in.

Honours Board and Al Brown MVP

Landon Neale keeps his place a at the top of the Al Brown leaderboard dominated by Brawler’s and Diamond Traders, a surprise may await them in the next issue as the 2a’s will finally have there CricHQ scores loaded up we shall have to wait and see.

A link to the MVP points is on the Al Brown section of the website, while the Honours Board has been updated to reflect the weekends play of play and congratulations to all those who have made it onto the board.

Spotlight on our Sponsor’s

We’d like to thank the team at Cricket Express at 210 St.Asaph street who have provided the club with over 10 years of support and continue to be both sponsors and suppliers to your club. They have an extensive cricket range and knowledgeable staff, so if you are in the market for any new equipment please try these guys first or browse the online catalogue at http://www.cricketexpress.co.nz

Upcoming Events

31 October – Halloween Party at the clubrooms – 7.30pm – 11.30pm Halloween Invite

7 November – Cricket Live Day at Burnside Oval! All 8 premiers compete at Burnside Park to help raise funds and awareness for Cricket Live Foundation Cricket Live Day 2015

Welcome to this weeks newsletter,

Friday Night Cricket – set to start this week, please be at the part at 6pm the first week takes a little longer to get underway, and remember you can still register if any friends what to get involved in cricket this summer. Registration Info

Cricket Draws for this week can be found here CricHQ

Saturday Morning junior got underway last Saturday and we would like to congratulate the BWU9 Girls team on their first game together and win. Well Done to everyone involved!

Premier Men need another 3 wickets for a first innings against LPW at Burnside Oval on Saturday, this game is in an interesting position as LPW might throw caution to the wind and make it at an interesting affair. No rest for the senior sides in the club at they have the first 1 day competition match on Labour day Monday the 26th, you are more that welcome to come down and watch. The Premier side last week arranged to have a shared lunches with partners, wives and mum’s which was appreciate by all involved.

Appointment of New Chairman

Following the retirement of Paul O’Flaherty as Chairman of the Club, Greg Belton-Brown has recently been appointed Chairman.  Greg has been a member of the 2B team since 2013 and served on the Committee as legal advisor on the Club Committee since early 2014.  Outside of cricket, Greg works as a solicitor at Lane Neave.

Honours Board and Al Brown MVP

Landon Neale has leaped from 5th on Al Brown to 1st after smashing 93, taking his runs to 176 for the season at 58.67, a link to the MVP points is on the Al Brown section of the website, while the Honours Board has been update to reflect the first three weeks of play and congratulations to all those who have made it onto the board. Brawlers are currently joint leaders of the 3b competition.

Spotlight on our Sponsor’s

Without the support of our sponsors, the club simply would not survive on subscriptions alone. This week’s spotlight falls on the surveying firm of Fox and Associates who are involved in creating legacies with land, through urban design, land development, planning and surveying. David Fox has been involved with the club for over 40 years and support the President’s side as well as the club.

Liam Winn, Premier player top scored with 33 vs LPW on Saturday.

Upcoming Events

31 October – Halloween Party at the clubrooms – 7.30pm – 11.30pm Halloween Invite

7 November – Cricket Live Day at Burnside Oval! All 8 premiers compete at Burnside Park to help raise funds and awareness for Cricket Live Foundation Cricket Live Day 2015