2018/19 Season Underway
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Issue No. 1 – 2018/19
Welcome to a new cricket season. Many
senior and junior players have been training
regularly for some weeks now under the
guidance of senior coach Peter Le Leivre
and Junior coordinators David Knight, Leigh
Cassidy and Tim Argall.
Max Drew continues to lead our club as
president and Matt Jones has undertaken
the role of secretary. Matt will also captain
one of our 3rd XI’s. Our other senior captains
are Gavin Webb, 1st XI, with Ryan
Simmonds as vice captain, Justin
Howlett,2nd XI, Luke Robertson 3rd XI, as
mentioned Matt Jones and also Angus
McFangus. We are in the unique position of
having three 3rd XI teams all playing in the
same grade so no doubt there will be plenty
of banter when these teams meet each other
during the course of the season.
The club chose to enter the additional team
into the thirds competition as we wanted our
players to have the opportunity to play as
many 2 day games as possible especially
considering the number of younger players
coming through the ranks. Playing in a lower
grade would have meant that our ‘5th’ team
would have only played 1 day matches.
As always we thank Brett ‘The Hound’
Godson and his kitchen elves for the
sensation meals that he has put on already
this season.
The pasta night at the season launch and
the burgers on the first selection night was
magnificent.
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Juniors New PlayersWe also welcome a number of new and returning players to
the club this season namely:
• Tom Hannett (Navarre)
• Liam Hurse (Carisbrook)
• Anthony Carlyon [Harry’s dad – out of retirement]
• Mat Begbie (Melbourne Cricket Club)
• Adam Ridley (returning from sabbatical)
• Hugh Knight (returning from Caulfield)
• Norm Hughes (also returning from sabbatical)
• Uwais Mohammad (Ingleburn RSL CC in Sydney)
• Cooper Gregory (East Ballarat)
Furthermore, it is especially pleasing to see a number of
Under 15 & U17 players coming through the ranks and
training with the senior group.
From a junior perspective David Knight, Tom Argall, Leigh
Cassidy and Natarsha Williams have continued to put
considerable time into preparing and planning for our
numerous junior teams as they approach the commencement
of their season this coming Saturday. Also, thank you to those
parents and players who have offered to coach, manage and
support our underage teams this season.
CommitteeThe club welcomes Gabby Howlett [ wife of Justin and mum
of Liam] onto our executive committee. Gabby’s expertise
and contribution at committee level will be of great benefit to
our club.
We thank outgoing committee members, Justin Howlett,
Derek Hunt, Bridget and Liam Brady for their service during
their tenure on the committee.
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Refurbished Storage Shed 1st XI Round 2The boys made the journey down to Darley for Round 2 this
week.
Lucas Argall from our U17’s made his 1st XI debut.
Darley elected to bat and made 136 before being bowled out
in the 45th over. Lucas Argall 2/30 off 10, Ben Evans 3/24 off
8 and Jonty Wall 3/29 off 9 did the damage.
A shaky start saw us 2/18 before Heath Pyke & Mat Begbie
steadied the ship. Mat Begbie saw us home with a display of
patient and class batting to finish on 57*.
Special thanks to Brett Godson and Tim Argall for their
fantastic work during the ‘off season’ in re-shaping and
shelving, the storage facility at our training nets. It is a
brilliant set up and certainly makes access to, and storage of,
our equipment very convenient.
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1st XI - Round 1On a magnificent day weather -wise, our 1st XI commenced
their season last Saturday against North Ballarat with a
convincing win. This year the first XI started a week earlier
than all other teams.
Despite an ‘ordinary’ start in the field, we were able to
dismiss the opposition for 186 and then achieved this target
very comfortably with 13 overs to spare and losing just one
wicket. Jack Peeters and Jonty Wall both claimed took 4
wickets while Ryan Simmonds and Cole Roscholler
dominated with the bat each scoring 75 runs. Hugh Knight
took 3 catches behind the stumps … and in his first game
with the club, Tom Hannett took 2 very important catches.
Well done to Webby and his team.
Round 1 – 2nds, 3rds & JuniorsThis weekend saw the rest of the
club kick off their season.
Some highlights:
• Norman Hughes 56 and 6/14 off 8
(Player of the Round!)
• Tom Perkins 5/21 off 8
• Jase Squire 50
• Tom Godson 84
• Matt Begbie 57*
• Daniel Cassidy first senior wickets
2fa
• Noah Ryan & Tom Cleary made
their senior debuts in the 3rds
• Tristan Maple 2/24 off his 8 to
stem the flow
• Darren Woodyatt - backed the
winner of The Everest!
Max Drew - his dog is still running
Apologies to Norm who made 56 but
I had to deduct 2 runs online to get
MyCricket to balance!!
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Congratulations to all junior players who
started the season in good spirits and
played the game the way we expect at
Wendouree.
The results are never the most important
thing to us and it was great to see such
enthusiasm and support for each other in
round 1.
Sponsorship
To enquire about sponsorship
opportunities for your business
in the 2018/19 season - speak to
Chris Griffin on 0419 571 475
Chris will work with you to tailor
a sponsorship package that is
right for your business.
Lucas Argall 1st XI DebutLucas being presented with his Baggy Red by Phantom at
Team Selection on Thursday night.
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President Max watching the 1st XI at Darley and checking how his dog went.
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Cricket Australia
Community ChampionNatarsha Williams has been nominated as a Community
Champion for all the work she has done with Cricket
Without Boundaries.
For those who aren’t familiar with Cricket Without
Boundaries, it’s the initiative that Nat and her family
started a few years ago assisting the local indigenous
community with the help of Lany Johnson who worked at
BADAC at the time. CWB is now sending pre-loved
cricket and sporting gear all over the world.
We’ve send cricket gear to orphanages in India,
indigenous communities in the Tiwi Islands, Vanuatu and
most recently 26 boxes of gear was sent to Bangladesh.
A film crew came to Ballarat this weekend and interviewed
Natarsha and a few people fro the club and took some
footage that will be put together into a short 3-4 minute
clip that will be shown at the breaks of all Test Matches
around Australia over the summer.
This is very well deserved recognition for Natarsha and all
the work she and her family and others have put in to the
Cricket Without Boundaries initiative.
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Donations Wanted
Over November and December we are going to send
some gear to Nepal through a group called ‘Aussie Action
Abroad’. They are looking to support a project in Nepal
called ‘play for positive change’ which is looking to help
communities affected by the two earth quakes in Nepal in
2015. This project involves working with the local
communities in Nepal ‘to provide opportunities to access
sports activities and coaching to some of the country’s
most disadvantaged young people, especially women and
girls’.
As well as supplying cricket gear we are hoping to gather
some other sporting equipment we could send. If anyone
has any sporting equipment that they are no longer using
that is still in working order, please consider donating it to
the children in Nepal.
Natarsha will place a bin in the shed at the nets - if you
would like to place donations in there or give them to her
directly she will arrange to get them sorted and packed
ready for shipping.
Any sport is great, cricket, football, netball, volleyball,
rugby, tennis, badminton, etc
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Stay in Touch
This year the Senior Players and Coaches will be using
the Team App to communicate.
Any player who hasn’t downloaded the Team App should
do it NOW.
Past players and supporters can keep up to date with
what’s happening around the club by following us on
https://www.facebook.com/red.caps.3/
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Also anyone can download the MyCricket App from the
App Store and follow the live scores each weekend.
Well worth doing if you are interested in seeing the ball-
by-ball scores when the teams are live scoring on their
iPad
This week all of our other senior grades, together with our
junior teams, began their season and we look forward in
particular to watching our many younger players continue
to develop their skills. We will have a number of 15,16
and 17 year old lads playing in our senior teams … so
exciting times are ahead as these youngsters are guided
and encouraged by their senior teammates.
Onward and Upward!
Red Cap Rudolph [ formerly Red Cap Ronnie.]