Leadership Plus

We too often take for granted the amazing effort of our Volunteers – put simply, we wouldn’t have a Club without the efforts of so many people – our Club Executive; Junior Managers and Coaches; scorers; umpires; Senior Captains; plus so many more.

Our Volunteers are spread over just on 60 Teams across the Club. But…one Team has done an amazing job as the engine room that keeps us going – the C2 Blue side. How about this as a record that is 2^nd to none:

• Rob Hanich (Captain + Association Junior Secretary + Club Vice President)
• Steve ‘Buzz’ Burrows (Club Juniors Director)
• Will McLennan (Club Social Media Manager)
• Zia Ahmed (Club Vice President Greenway Park Community Centre + Sponsorship).

To have one third of a Team make such an enormous impact on so many people is extraordinary.

Add to this our C2 Red Captain, Indranil who also manages ground allocations across the whole Club and anything else that needs attention the C2 Grade boys (Blue & Red) deserve special recognition.

By the way, both Teams are killing it – the Reds are = 1^st and the Blues are = =4^th!

Photo: Indranil Mukherjee (centre with w/k pads & gloves); Rob Hanich (centre with Club Training shirt); Steve ‘Buzz’ Burrows (centre with pads); Will (next to Buzz); Zia (next to Will) –The C2 Grade Sheep Station Trophy game – Campbell Park – 29 October 2022.

Personal achievements

The PlayHQ issues are making the tracking outstanding performances that little bit more difficult but we had some good ones on the weekend:

• In one of the slowest season starts to our century makers list we had the double in D2 Grade. Well done to:
  • Ray Howard with 127* (our 503^rd ton) & Brahadesh ‘Ram’ Ramamurthy (D2) who scored 100* (our 504^th ton)
  • the boys also put on 188 for the 6^th wicket. Not a record but a great performance
• Michael Richards (A1) took 6/13 from 14 overs. While not a record, it is the best bowling performance by an A1 Grade bowler since Sol Tomlinson took 7/26 Vs Kenthurst on 1 November 2014
• Steve Quanborough (D1 Red) scored 30 * in 56 overs and was well supported by Parin Pillamarri (14*) in 25 overs to steer the Team through avoiding a potential outright loss with the Team finishing at 8/152.

Photo: Ray Howard & Ram after their dual centuries and 188* run 6th wicket partnership – Auluba Oval 12 November 2022.

86 not out

On the weekend, Steve Quanborough (D1 Red) scored another impressive not out innings – batting for 56 overs to finish with 30* in a great effort to avoid an outright defeat. What Makes this amazing is that this innings was Steve’s 86^th not out innings in his 239 trips to the crease – 36% of all his innings. The next nearest is Andrew Fiedler on around 70 so Steve is setting up one of those obscure records that may be a lot time in the record books.

Photo: Steve Quanborough (left) and Parin Pillamarri after their batting heroics (read above) – Northholm Grammar – 12 November 2022

Reelin’ in the years – our best performers by Grade

First up, our theme song – the Steely Dan classic Reelin the Years

I occasionally get asked who has scored the most runs and taken the most wickets by Grade in our history – especially by players who have played in the same Grade for a while. Well here is the record list and the current day challengers:

Photo – a great photo of our century scorers taken at Campbell Park on 19 February 2012. Our record holders in this photo are: Greg Fiedler (3^rd right, back row); Michael Banner (5^th left – back row); Ross A (2^nd left (back row); James Makin (1^st left, middle row).

The bowlers

And now for our bowling record holders and the nearest challengers:

What would your decision be?

Question

Off a No ball, both the injured striker and their runner were out of the crease when the wicket at the striker’s end was put down by the wicket-keeper, without the intervention of any other fielder. What will be your decision if an appeal is made?

Decision

See immediately below.

Photo: Rob Hanich receiving 4th Grade T20 Trophy from Umpires Simon Moore & James Fernandez. Les Shore 1 – 30th October 2022.