Season Report

The season started poorly including a 10-wicket loss in the opening game to the eventual competition winners and by the Xmas break we were near the foot of the table with only three wins. The Xmas pudding must have agreed with everyone because the second half of the season saw a complete form reversal where we won our opening nine games and of the two we lost one was the last game of the year against the leading team, who couldn't be caught, and most people were more interested in the BBQ and beer.

As usual our batting was the area that let us down with many players having the odd good innings but struggling for consistency. Our bowling was a different story having seven first choice bowlers to call on ranging from penetrating to containing to unique and we were often able to defend small targets. Also our catching and fielding standard (with two glaring exceptions) was much better than in previous years making the bowlers' jobs much easier. Three bowlers took career best figures during the season.

Overall, an enjoyable season to which everybody contributed in some way and hopefully everybody should be back for next season to do it all again.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's OVER THE HILL MAN.  Simon thought Brad was in for a big surprise on a post-season mystery bus trip, supposedly to surprise Brad re imminent loss of bachelorhood, but to Simon's even bigger surprise it was actually for Simon because he turned 40. Last on the bus at each venue was handcuffed to Simon. We have the negatives.

Players :

Jon Bennett
Batted consistently with only two scores in single figures but out too often in the 10-29 range. Didn't bowl much this year but was able to abuse captaincy in order to field in the best positions and take most catches.

John Gower
Started the season OK but fell away as time went on. Needs to work on which ball to defend instead of trying to attack every ball.

Ahmed
Finally had the season we all knew he could. Played a lot straighter this year and more patiently although not afraid to bring out the big pull shot when the ball was short. Three fifties a good reward and also made mid-on "his" position taking the second most number of catches.

Andy Chisnall
El Presidente started the season as a bowler but due to injuries ended up a specialist batsman. Often distracted by the pressures of the world, Andy still had the third best runs total and got some cheap wickets even though he bowled more wides in 25 overs this season than in the whole of any other season.

Simon Vincent
Even though he is a walking advertisement for ACC Simon can still do it all. Bowled for a third of a season, wicket keeper for a third of a season and injured for the other third. Simon had two methods of dismissal when batting. Either he was out to the easiest catch of all time or someone took the catch of the day.

Lionel Schulte
46 wickets at an average under 10, what more needs to be said. Lionel remains one of the grade's best bowlers always getting the early breakthrough and an expert at cleaning up the tail. Unfortunately injury towards the end of the season cut short his aim of 50 wickets for the season.

Stacey Garrett
A good year opening the bowling into the wind, Stacey's outswing was a good complement to Lionel's inswing at the other end. Didn't get as many wickets in the second part of the season as early on but still bowled well. While he took out the 'duck' award with seven (including 4 golden) Stacey was valuable down the order where he usually scored at better than run a ball.

Shane Evans
Shane had a great year picking up a lot of wickets, career best figures and the team's player of the year award. A guy with a good attitude he didn't get as many overs as he should because we tried to fit all bowlers into the game. Always able to get the breakthrough usually with a ball that confused the batsman even more than our fielders.

Scott Tizzard
Bowled well through the middle of the season but struggled with consistency either side. Career best 6/25 against Addington and one of the season's highlights was watching Scott smash the ball over Cow Corner in what turned out to be a match winning last wicket partnership. More concentration needed on cricket and less on fast cars and text messages.

Rocky Kingi
Rocky gave up bowling this year to take back his schoolboy position of wicket keeper with some success. Also decided to open the batting although there were too many 10 year olds bowling to enable the same success here. Should be an expert on cloud formations by now, judging by his batting technique.

Richard McKernan
Played after Xmas and his joining coincided with the team's pickup in form (although we don't dare tell him this). Gave us the extra batsman we needed as well as keeping and showing the other batsmen why you don't charge or reverse sweep. Never short on advice for the opposition he also picked up the season's best figures with 7 wickets for 11 runs including a double hat-trick when called upon to complete an over after Lionel broke down.

Tim Bloomfield
Also played after Xmas. Tim's bowling meant we could attack from one end the whole game and he is a handy batsman as well especially when quick runs are required. "Step-thru" boy will be a big boy when he grows up and should go on to bigger and better things for the club.

Dave LeComte
[ Burley has forgotten to describe Grubby's exploits for the season, so this will have to do in the meantime. Dave's appearances were limited by his Ice Hockey commitments but. It is safe to assume that his turns at bat were characterised by a healthy percentage of dot balls - POF ]

STATISTICS

Batting Averages   (minimum 5 innings)

Name	Innings	Not Out	Runs	Average	Highest Score	Fifties
J. Bennett	22	3	703	37	93 not out	5
R. McKernan	9	-	252	28	79	2
Ahmed	21	4	418	24.59	72 not out	3
T. Bloomfield	9	2	123	17.57	44	-
A. Chisnall	19	1	300	16.67	46	-
L. Schulte	17	5	157	13.08	23	-
S. Garrett	16	3	148	11.38	32	-
D. LeComte	5	1	45	11.25	27	-
S. Vincent	17	-	169	9.94	37	-
R. Kingi	11	3	68	8.5	22	-
J. Gower	17	-	117	6.88	32	-
S. Evans	13	2	40	3.64	14	-
S. Tizzard	11	6	17	3.4	9 not out	-
Name	Innings	Not Out	Runs	Average	Highest Score	Fifties

Also Batted
D.Hall 1,0,3 / J.Calder 2,11,6 / T.Little 1,6no / D.Cunningham 15 / R.Pegrim 0,0,8no, 5 /
Ajmal 11 / B.Larter 24 / D.McNeil 34no / T.Dannenberg 4 / D.Hammond 6 / J.Boyd 3

Bowling Averages   (minimum 5 wickets)

Name	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	R/O	Best	5
R. McKernan	8.2	3	15	9	1.66	1.8	7-11	1
L. Schulte	164	34	440	46	9.57	2.68	6-10	1
S. Evans	74.4	7	352	30	11.73	4.73	5-30	2
A. Chisnall	25	4	95	8	11.88	3.8	3-18	-
T. Bloomfield	69.3	12	256	20	12.8	3.68	4-3	-
S. Garrett	117	22	385	25	15.4	3.29	4-1	-
S. Vincent	26.3	5	141	9	15.66	5.32	4-25	-
S. Tizzard	95	9	420	16	26.26	4.42	6-25	1
Name	Overs>	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Average	R/O	Best	5

Also Bowled
J.Calder 9.1,2,24,3 / T.Little 6,-,21,1 / J.Bennett 3,-,4,1 / B.Larter 10,3,14,4

Catching Averages

Name	Catches	Dropped
J. Bennett	15	3
Ahmed	12	5
S. Garrett	8	-
R. Kingi	7	5
R. McKernan	6	1
L. Schulte	6	2
D. LeComte	6	2
S. Vincent	6	5
J. Gower	6	5
S. Evans	4	1
A. Chisnall	4	6
T. Bloomfield	1	-
S. Tizzard	-	1
Name	Catches	Dropped

Duck Club

Name	Ducks
S. Garrett	7
J. Gower	5
S. Tizzard	5
S. Evans	4
Ahmed	3
R. Kingi	3
L. Schulte	2
D. LeComte	1
A. Chisnall	1

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