Double Hat-trick
Last week we did a story on the hat-trick by Pras Indrakumar (C2) who took the 55th hat-trick in the Seniors History.
The following week we had an even rarer achievement – a double hat-trick (4 wickets in 4 balls). Our records on how many times this has been achieved in the Juniors are light-on but take it as a given that it is relatively rare.
Congratulations to James (U11s) who took an amazing 6/9 last weekend, including 5 wickets in 5 balls. It could so easily have been 6 wickets in 6 balls as the ball just missed the stumps.
What is also interesting is that there is no accepted naming convention for this achievement as it is so rare.
Just as note on Junior cricket, the U11 competition has modified rules where the batters swap ends when they are out, remaining at the wicket. They retire after a certain amount of balls faced. Meaning some of these wickets are the same batters more than once.
Well done James.
Fast centuries
In another amazing performance by a Junior player, how about Gurjot in the U15’s who scored 100 retired off just 52 balls at Mills Park, Asquith.
Unfortunately, there are no records of run rate before electronic scoring was introduced 3-years ago. However, this is likely to be ‘up there’ with the fastest centuries.
As background, the following fast scoring achievements, based on the number of boundaries hit which is a good indicator of rapid scoring:
Juniors Mixed
Carl Madsen (U14 Red 12/11/2005) scored 100 at Edward Bennett Oval. His ton included 9 x 6’s and 9 x 4’s.After 2 overs he was 32* after having come in at a team score of 3 down for not many in 25 overs chasing 118.
Seniors
Russel Ingram (C2) had successive scores of 211 and 234. These innings included:
- 211 (10 x 6’s & 25 x4’s @ Mimosa Oval on 24/10/2009 – 160 runs in boundaries
- 223 (10 x 6’s & 32 x 4’s @ Holland Rd 5/12/2009 – 188 runs in boundaries
Our shirt design
For our new Club Members it is important to understand what the Indigenous design on our Club playing shirt means.
First up, the bespoke design was done by Indigenous Artist, Rheanna (Rhe) Lotter, a proud Yuin woman and founder of Ngandabaa (Yun-Da-Baa). She also designed the Australian Paralympic Team, Sydney Thunder BBL playing shirts, NSW Swifts and Western Magic AFC.
The design has a unique storyline:
“The artwork is a combination of elements visually representing West Pennant Hill Cherrybrook C.C., our Club colours (red, white, blue & green), the players (boys, girls and men), and our meeting places (Sports Club & playing grounds).
The design shows our location – the Blue Mountains (bottom left) are a boundary (wavy lines) along with the Hawkesbury River (blue dots) depicted at its base.
The dots are reflective of our players, family and supporters.
There is a specific reference to our playing membership – male (Seniors), female (Girls) and children (Blast).
The 2 large concentric circles represent our meeting places – our Home (Sports Club depicted on the left) and our Spiritual playing grounds (Campbell Park / Greenway Park as depicted on the right).
Linking these 2 venues are footsteps that show the connection between our Home and playing grounds.
On the outside of the circles are the Indigenous symbols for Man, Female and Child – represented by the blue, red & green ‘n’ shaped symbols.
The boundary colours of red, white, blue and green reflects our Identity.”
