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Walkerville Cats Newsletter Issue 87 www.walkervillecc.com.au
05/02/2015
Presidents Report
The cricket and the weather are really heating up! We now have three of the four senior grades vying for finals berths with the A grade all but wrapping up a home semi-final. The B grade are starting to hit their straps at the right time of the year and the C grade have unearthed some young (and some, not so young) talent as they push towards the finals. This Sunday (8th February 2015) at 1:00pm is the Under 17s showdown at Walkerville Oval. Everyone is invited to come down for a BBQ and a drink or two and cheer on Walkerville as they are no doubt favourites to beat Walkerville. The under 17s players will be provided with a free BBQ on the day. The very next day is a night out at the dogs with Carlos organizing a great night of dinner and socializing….. I’m sure with the odd bet being placed. I bet that it’s going to be a great night. We have locked in the quiz night date of February 28th 2015. Keep this night free and let’s book out the club rooms to make this a night to remember. We really need your help to keep Walkerville Cricket Club being the best place to play cricket and be the envy of the other clubs. The medal count and the presentation day and times are being finalized but keep an eye and ear out as these dates will be booked in within the coming days. Social news of a different type - A big congratulations goes out to Sarah Turner and Nigel Grapentin on their engagement. Wishing you both the very best in your next chapter of life. Wishing everyone the best with their cricket this week and as always I will see you out on the track. Craig Burford.
Social Calendar
1pm Sunday 8th February Under
17’s Showdown at Walkerville
Oval
9th February a night at the dogs
Monday night.
28th Feb Quiz Night so organise
your table of ten and let Carlo
know.
14th March cocktail night.
Hawaii theme end of year show.
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Tim’s Coaching Tips
Being Sam
What is Sam Hutchinson thinking?
This question has occurred many times to various
people in his life; his parents, family, teachers,
sometime colleagues at Giles Gardening
Maintenance, and various team-mates. He is, after
all, a teenage boy and a Hutchinson!
The context today is very different.
It is Tuesday night at Walkerville Oval. A tense,
sometimes testy Semi-Final with Pooraka has ended
in a tie after each side’s allocated overs. On the
Walkerville side there have been notable
contributions from Daniel Giles who has struck three
mighty sixes, crashed a ball into the sponsor’s sign
and played with intent and purpose, Gareth Cox has
hustled and bustled whilst Carlo Manno has wielded
his bat like a tree trunk to change momentum. Young
Brodie Pearce has again been a model of economy
with the ball.
The home side has, however, definitely missed a trick
as, needing only two from the last over, we have
succumbed to pressure to only score one run from
the last six balls, losing two wickets (and our heads)
in the process.
In the bowl off, whilst others have failed around him,
Sam has hit the stumps with his first ball. A Pooraka
response has levelled the scores. Everyone else has
faltered. Sam Hutchinson, 17 years old, slightly built,
seemingly a boy amongst men, with the eyes of the
crowd upon him, and a grand final at Adelaide Oval
beckoning has the last ball.
He has had a mixed day. Bowling well but being
heckled by the crowd when fielding on the boundary,
jeered for an error in front of the grandstand, then
nervously watching the run chase, particularly as next
man in at the end.
What is Sam Hutchinson thinking?
I asked him the following Thursday.
“To be honest, nothing. I just wanted to bowl it
quickly as soon as Matt Perilli was in
position…Afterwards some people have said, “Did
you think about holding it across the seam so it
wouldn’t swing?”, but I wasn’t thinking like that at all.
I wasn’t thinking anything at all.”
I was delighted with this response. This may
surprise some people who might think I may have
wanted Sam to say that he was thinking about all
the hours we have spent in the nets working on
where and how to bowl or the technical areas of his
action to get right through mental rehearsal.
The reality is that these things are already
embedded through repetition and training. Thinking
too much or waiting too long can just increase
pressure and lead to a player tightening up, trying
too hard, or even worse, thinking about the outcome
or the result, rather than just confidently executing
the skill. Players need to be clear headed, free of
distractions, in the moment.
When we play our best, we are in a state of what
sports psychologists call flow – when we seemingly
have plenty of time, an uncluttered mind and things
are just happening as we want them to. This is what
we aim for – our IPS (Ideal Performance State).
Sam Hutchinson, thinking about nothing, runs in like
he has thousands of times before, jumps, rocks
back and releases the ball, which hits the wicket,
wins the game, creates history and will live in the
memories of everyone who saw it for a long time
and in Walkerville folklore forever.
Sam will have future days when things don’t work
well for him. There will be golden ducks, missed
catches, frustrations of various sorts, soreness,
tiredness and days when, as a bowler, you get hit
around the park. This the nature of cricket and Sam
is a young player still learning to be more
consistent.
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Coaching Tips Continued
Yet, for one shining moment, he held his nerve on a
big stage and stood tall when it counted – something
to be very proud of and that no-one can take away.
One of the great commercial successes in the NBA
was the Gatorade campaign which used the slogan,
‘I Wanna be Like Mike’ (1992), using Michael
Jordan’s outstanding athletic appeal, particularly to
youth. There were many youngsters watching our
game and Sam’s heroics. Doubtless, they went home
thrilled and when playing in the back yard or local
park in coming days wanted to bowl like Sam and win
the game off the last play.
For them, Sam Hutchinson is a role model. As a
cricketer, and more importantly as a person, they
could do a lot worse!
Tim Hart
T 20 Grand Final at Adelaide Oval.
Wow what an opportunity it was to play at the
Adelaide Oval where I am sure every cricketer would
like to walk out to and soak up the atmosphere. With
50,000 plus people in the stadium just 2 days before
we played , the atmosphere was still electric with our
150 people looking on. Our A grade had won the
opportunity to challenge the current undefeated
ladder leader in premier grade PAOC. It was always
going to be a tough match, but I do not think anyone
had an idea on what was about to happen.
The Cats batted first and made 103 which we all
thought was about 15 too few, especially with the
way PAOC start their innings. We managed to peg
them back with some tight bowling and continuous
wickets and it came down to the last 2 balls where
they needed 2 to win. A quick single of the second
last ball and scores were tied, the field moved in and
Skids removed his glove just in case he was
required. Muffy bowled it outside off and the
batsmen missed the ball and they try to scramble
through for a single only to be run out by a direct hit
from Skids!! This resulted in a bowl off again and the
mighty cats proving themselves to be steady under
the pressure and securing the Grand Final win 2
hits to one! It was a great win by the young side and
great rewards for a well played tournament by the
boys. Pictures on the following pages.
Can you pick the old person out?
Yes its Miller, he is wearing a hat!
Quiz question – Who owns this rapper hat?
If you answered Sparksey you were correct, he is
really into hip hop and break dancing!
Can anyone identify this furry man?
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A Grade Report
When Knowlesy won the toss for the first time in a
while there was no question as to what we would do.
Batting first we got off to a steady start due to the
Prince of North Adelaide, Lochlan Skinner, (AKA the
Koala Bear/Marsupial) and his opening partner
Daniel 'Janet' Giles. They took the score to 66 before
Janet played at a wide one and snicked off. The
Prince and Michael 'Claude' Hill were quick to follow
as a great start suddenly took a turn for the worse as
the score reached 73/3. This meant that a rebuilding
job was needed from the skipper and his apprentice,
the jeweller. With some sensible cricket the pair were
able to put on 94 for the 4th wicket as they took the
score to 167. With a solid platform it left the middle
and lower order the opportunity for a decent hit and
a licence to play their strokes in the search for quick
runs. Knowlesy was finally dismissed for 68 as his
tremendous season continued. It was left to the two
sloggers (Skids and The Sniper) to get us to a big
score as Skids weighed in with a vital 48 including
some massive Tom Mix's as they took the score into
the 280's. Brodie 'Diesel' Pearce decided that instead
of running a single that he would crawl the last 5
metres. On all fours he managed to somehow
complete the run in what seemed to be like slow
motion pictures. Although still quicker than Mark
Cosgrove it is advised that staying on your feel is a
more acceptable way of completing a run.
Special Mention....Mussels scoring a run!
2nd Week.
With 289 on the board the game was ours to lose.
Muffelwhite and Claude started well and despite
picking up early wickets they stalled the Hope Valley
response to less than 2 an over from the first 12
overs. It wasn't until the skipper brought himself on
that the wickets started to fall. The next two hours
were not the most exciting periods of cricket we've
played all season as the spin twins of Knowlesy and
the Woolshed bowled 17 and 14 overs respectively
as regular wickets were taken without many runs
being scored. They both bowled accurately and
patiently as Knowles finished with 3 for 39 and the
Woolshed finished with 5 for 17. With the Wooly ball
in full flow it was inevitable that a wicket would fall
due to a full toss and he didn't disappoint. He
flighted one up and used the old spinners technique
of getting the ball above the batsman's eye line to
produce a false shot from the batsman as he
chipped it to Diesel at midwicket who took a
regulation catch.
The highlight of this period of cricket was when
Janet (Gilo), from out of nowhere, declared that he
was in fact an albatross. While the boys tried to take
in the news he then started to speak in a made up
language which can only be described as a cross
between the crazy frog and Chinese. Despite
nobody being able to speak the language of the
Albatross it was a pretty one way conversation as
he warmed up at fine leg in an attempt for the
skipper to throw him the ball.
The last wicket fell to Chopper as he proved that the
full toss wicket was a family trait as he threw one up
and the number 10 just lobbed it to the Prince at
short cover as we bowled them out for 118
We batted again and sent Skids and the Prince to
open up. They put on 57 before Skids was out and
Skinner was eventually run out for 33 and for those
who have seen him run between the wickets this
isn't difficult to comprehend. Mussels carried on his
cracking form with the bat as he made another duck.
He says he hit it but it looked pretty plump from our
deep midwicket view.
All in all it was a pretty anticlimactic finish to the day
after it promised so much at tea. However, it was
another professional performance as the Cats look
to go unbeaten for the whole season in all
competitions.
The Jeweller.
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B Grade Report
The B grade returned to Walkies for our round 8
clash with Hope Valley.
With both sides evenly poised outside the top four,
Panz finally won a toss and with a bowling line up
which resembled the star-studded West Indies of
the late 70’s and 80’s, he chose to bowl.
TT and Milsey opened up with a fine exhibition of
seam and swing bowling. Milsey snaring the top
four to have them in all sorts at 4/37. Unfortunately,
our catching was very poor as we put down several
chances behind the wicket. They put on a bit of a
partnership before Panz broke through with a half
tracker that was gratefully accepted on the
boundary by Norts 5/79.
At tea the score was 5/101.
We quickly gained the ascendancy shortly after with
Panz snaring another 3 quick ones 8/110 with his
‘liquorice all sorts’. Unfortunately again we must
have had cream from the scones on our fingers, as
we dropped another few chances (the author
especially poor) and their final two batsmen put on
another 40.
We eventually dismissed Hope Valley for 150, but
had we held onto our catches it would have been
around 110.
We were required to bat 20 overs before the end of
day 1.
Morgs and Nance opened up, but ‘Groundskeeper
Willie’ Morgs was caught in the slips early 1/7. Pete
joined Nancy boy and they looked solid until Nance
was out caught 2/45. Justin Timberlake (JT) came
and went quickly 3/48.
The pressure was on ‘Slim Shady’ (Caldwell) as he
went out to bat for the final 8 overs of day 1. Together
with Sars they saw us through to 3/55 at the end of
the day.
Day 2 arrived and Captain Leo was looking for an
unlikely outright. His message was to get the victory
first and then score as quickly as possible in order to
put Hope Valley back in. Pete and Jack batted
beautifully and put on a 102 run partnership before
Pete was dismissed on 84 with the score at 4/150.
Norts came and went without bothering the scorers
5/150 but Jack and Leo got us the 10 points.
The scoring had to increase with only 40 minutes left
until tea. Jack was dismissed on 65 trying to up the
ante 6/168.
Panz and Max took up the challenge but on the
stroke of tea, Panzamam-Ul-Haq struck again
running out Max 7/217.
We declared at the break looking for early wickets.
Norts shattered the stumps in over no 2 to have
them at 1/5 but they dug in and we could only
manage to get them 5/116 before stumps were
pulled.
Iggy
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C Grade Wrap Up
Got a late email Friday night to say Nigel has been
called up to work on Saturday and will miss our game
against Port Districts and two young guys also came
into the side that I knew nothing about. It was quite a
good day to play cricket down by the beach, although
it is down Port Adelaide way. They were keen to toss
the coin and unfortunately I lost the toss and we had
to bowl. Josh Partington got an early wicket thanks to
a good catch in the gully. At the first drinks break we
had them 1 for 53 off 18. There was not a lot in the
wicket and we kept bowling a ball or two that they
could score from, after 30overs they were 1 for 113
and it was time to take the pace off the ball and
unleash the wiley offspiner “grasshopper” to weave
his magic. With instant results getting there opener
hitting a catch straight to Vinay 2 for 113 (good
bowling change), Darcey picked up a wicket in each
of his next two overs and we went to tea with 4 for
124, the cats were back on track.
First ball after tea young Alex Harriss continued
bowling and bowled a beautiful floating, slow medium
pace full toss that the batsman just couldn’t hit and he
was back in the clubhouse to continue having some
more afternoon tea (great spread put on by the young
ladies of Port Districts). Josh came back on and
ripped through there tail and finished with 4 for 20 off
11, Grasshopper 4 for 14 off 10 and young Alex 2 for
18 off 6. Port Districts all out 144. Great work by the
cats.
That left us with 20 overs to bat tonight the message
was given THE MORE RUNS TONIGHT THE LESS
WE NEED NEXT WEEK. We lost an early wicket
when Mal just keep knicken and after a couple of lives
was out without scoring, 1 for 9. Vinay joined Foxy
and they got the score to 51 before Vinay was out for
32. Foxy and Harry (Bad Harry) Latham followerd
shortly and we were 4 for 54. Young Harry Sytnx
came in and hit one massive 6 over mid wicket and
we finished the day at 4 for 67. Day two Fraser and
young Harry batted well putting on 35 before Fraser
got out. That brought CJ to the crease sub for Quigs
who had to look after cats and dogs second week part
of his vet training (did a great job last week umpiring
for 20overs). CJ appreciated this and really showed
the young guys how to hang around and bat in
partnerships with other batters when you struggle
yourself to get going. They put on a partnership of 37
before CJ missed a full toss and hit it straight to mid
wicket for 9. young Harry who is now known as the
good Harry got us over the line 6 down. He was out
shortly after for ( Tim, Panz and Bruce chairman of
selcetors) a scratchy, streaky, lucky 74. We then
lost our last three wickets quickly and on the stroke
of tea we were dismissed for a 159.We thought
great we`ve won the game, can enjoy the afternoon
tea and then go and watch the A`s or B`s.
But they had were keen to go for an outright not that
we thought there was much chance of this in just
one session, they made 6 for 114 off 21 overs with
Josh getting another 3 wickets and CJ 2. They set
us 100 off 11 overs unfortunately we were never
going to get it after losing Vinay early and finished
the day 2 for 47.
Man of the match went to Grasshopper with some
good performances from our younger players.
Kohi Award this game goes Nigel because he looks
good in his uniform.
Mal
Look a Like
Jack Caldwell and Eminem rapping it up at the T20
final.
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Walkerville win T 20 Final
The last ball where Matt runsout the non striker trying to sneak the winning single.
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