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The senior awards were presented at the annual dinner held at Baldwins Omega last month. The list of winners for 2009 is:

Clubman of the Year: Bill Croft

Yorkshire League

Best Batsman: Nick Gaywood
Best Bowler: Nadeem Khan
Player of the Year: Alex Patmore

South Yorkshire League

2nd XI Best Batsman: James Colton
2nd XI Best Bowler: Mark Longley
3rd XI Best Batsman: Danny Walton
3rd XI Best Bowler: Ben Fielding
Player of the Year: James Colton

Yorkshire & Derbyshire League

Congratulations to Richard Kettleborough on his promotion to the International Umpires Panel. We wish him all the best. Congratulations also to Joe Root for winning the Man of the Series award on the recent England U/19 tour of Bangladesh. Along with the launch of Michael Vaughan's book, this makes for a very good few weeks for the club.

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We had a strong representation from our Under 11s at District level this season. Lexi Moore, Matt Tyas, Dan Priestley and Brad Jones all contributed with bat and ball during the 5 games played. Brad and Lexi put on strong performances with the bat and enjoyed two partnerships of over 100 and 80 against Halifax and Huddersfield. Brad finished the 5 games with an everage of 64 after three knocks of over 50. Lexi averaged over 30 during the 5 games including a top score of 46. Matt, Lexi and Dan all bowled tightly collecting several wickets throughout the games.

The Summer Prize Draw was held last night in the bar at Abbeydale and was drawn by Mr. Anil Walhekar, the manager of the touring Cricket Master's Academy. The winners and ticket numbers are as follows:

1) 42 inch LCD TV - Ben Shaw (251)
2) Bat signed by Michael Vaughan - Garry (6481)
3) Bat signed by Imran Khan - Dave Jones (699)
4) Shirt signed by Graeme Smith - Sides (7496)
5) £150 Luxury Hamper - Joan Mason (2804)
6) £150 D&P cricket bat - Hodgkinson (6068)
7) £75 glasses voucher and free eye test - C. Pickford (7397)
8) £100 Ice carpet cleaning voucher - Chris Ash (1725)

SUMMER CRICKET CLINICS

The Michael Vaughan Cricket Academy summer clinics 2009 will be held on the following dates:

22 - 24 July
29 - 31 July
3 - 5 August

Each clinic runs for 3 days and starts at 9am and finishes at 4pm. They are open to boys and girls age 6-13 yrs at a cost of £55 per clinic. Each clinic is hosted by qualified coaches who will run structured sessions where kids will learn all the basics while having great fun and competing for daily prizes.

A cool and breezy evening on the main square saw the U11 Green team make it four wins out of four on Monday.
After a shaky start in the field Collegiate soon settled and some excellent bowling from Jim Pollard and Josh White restricted Whiston to a score of 249. The boys then batted solidly, giving only two wickets up to finish comfortable winners with 276 runs on the board.
Thanks to Kam for all his help with the lads and thanks to the Parents for sticking it out in the cold weather.

Collegiate Blue 249-4
Whitley Hall 243-4

This keenly anticipated contest went right down to the wire on Monday night with the Blue team delighted to topple the favourites for this division.

Collegiate made a confident start with the in form Alex Moore (12) and partner Max Jones posting a partnership of 18. Brad Jones (19) then dominated a partnership with his little buddy Ravi to take the score to 237 at the half way stage.

Alex Moore and Matt Tyas were selected to play for a South Yorkshire U11 team against North Yorkshire following some good displays at the District winter nets.Both turned up smartly in their shirts and ties for the match at Beverley Cricket Club on Bank holiday Monday.

North Yorkshire batted first and and quickly started to knock the ball all round the ground. However Alex came on first change and soon restored some order with his usual accurate bowling and completed three good overs. Matt followed with three further good overs from the same end and the run rate started to tumble.

In November-esque conditions on the top pitch at Abbeydale, the Under 11 Green team ran out comfortable winners against a young but nevertheless enthusiastic Frechville team.

A fine effort from the Collegiate bowlers held Frechville to 244, losing 4 wickets along the way but remarkably only 12 runs came from the bat. Constant drizzle gave a very slippery ball and accounted for 26 extras at 2 runs a piece. Ben Dockrill was the pick with 3-4 from his 2 overs.

A lovely evening in the grounds of Renishaw Hall was the setting of a very good performance by the young U/11 yellow squad against the seeded and an experienced Eckington team.

The batting by the yellows was encouraging , with all of them holding their own and most getting on the scoring sheet. At the end of the innings, the yellows had made 249 for the loss three wickets, giving a total score of 234.

The bowling again was promising, with a few wide’s and no balls, but Harry Ashton and Tom Codling also took a wicket each to keep the Eckington total score to 266.

This all bodes very well for the future. Both Coach and Manager were very pleased with the overall performance, and felt that the boys did an excellent job against a very good Eckington team.

Collegiate Green U/11 - 253
Aston Hall U/11 227

The U/11 Green team had a comfortable win against Aston Hall on the top pitch. The team, which has no coach or manager at the moment, were incredibly enthusiastic and this translated into a good team win.

Bowling first they restricted the opposition to 227 through disciplined bowling with only 4 wides in the entire innings. This was backed up by good fielding meaning Aston Hall lost 8 wickets with the best bowlers on the day being Simon Deutsch with figures of 3/4 and Joe Pickford 2/1.

In reply we only lost two wickets with all 4 pairs contributing to the score. Every batsmen kept things simple by hitting the bad ball and blocking the good ones and the running between the wickets was excellent for such a young side.

Many thanks to Alex Patmore for agreeing to umpire and score at short notice and to Andy Pickford for volunteering to manage the team for the season.

Collegiate Blue U/11 274
Thorncliffe U/11 190

The Under 11 Blue team made a strong start to the season against a young Thorncliffe side. All four pairs batted well and we only lost 4 wickets in total. The match was played with a virtually full sized mens boundary which meant that there were only two boundaries struck all night.However the boys ran very well between the wicket even picking up singles to the keeper on occasions. 274 was a very good score in the circumstances.

The team also fielded and bowled very well.Captain Matt Tyas set some good close fields which stopped Thorncliffe getting many singles and with all the bowlers bowling straight and accurate Thorncliffe never looked like getting close. There were several run outs and many more near misses with some excellent backing up.

There was lots of encouragement by all the fielders and this was a very good all round display.

The team have set the standard now and everyone should be looking forward to a most enjoyable season.

The draw for the club's Summer Prize draw (raffle) has been changed from Thursday 30 July to Sunday 2 August due to numerous difficulties getting all the sold ticket stubs back. The draw will be held in the bar at Abbeydale at the end of the day's play and winning tickets will be drawn by Mr. Anil Walhekar, the manager for the Cricket Master's Academy, who we are currently hosting.

The prizes are:

1) 42" LCD TV.
2) Michael Vaughan signed bat.
3) Imran Khan signed bat.
4) Graeme Smith signed shirt.
5) £150 Luxury Hamper.
6) D&P Cricket Bat worth £150.

The Michael Vaughan Cricket Academy 2009 starts on Friday, 24th April at 17h30.

The earlier start time is to give new and current members the opportunity to register for the season and give the coaches time to allocate all the players to the correct group. The sessions will continue to be planned so they are fun, educational and appeal to beginners as well as the more advanced.

If anyone has any questions please contact Julie Lister (junior co-ordinator) on 0773 972 1446 or Riaz Richards (club coach) on 0774 286 2135.

Race Night, an annual club fundraiser, is to be held on Thursday 26th February 2009 at Baldwins Omega Restaurant at 7.15 for 7.45.

Pre-season nets will be held at Meadowhead for all age-groups except U/9's who will be at Birkdale. Saturday sessions start on January 24th, Tuesday's on 27th and Thursday's on the 29th and will run till the last week of March. The day and times for each age-group session is as follows:

Seniors: Thursday 20h00 - 21h30
U/17: Tuesday 20h00 - 21h30
U/15: Tuesday 18h30 - 20h00
U/13: Saturday 09h00 - 11h00
U/11: Saturday 11h00 - 13h00
U/9: Sunday 14h00 - 16h00 (start date to be confirmed)

VERY IMPORTANT: To ensure we provide the best possible coaching environment we've split the juniors into different groups within their age-groups. Juniors will be contacted by letter with the dates that their group's sessions start.

Anyone interested in coaching/managing a junior team next season (2009) or with helpful ideas on how the junior section can be improved is invited to attend a meeting on Wednesday, 3rd December 7pm at Abbeydale.

The meeting will be to discuss all things related to junior coaching and management which includes winter nets, squad selection, practices, representative cricket, juniors' integration into senior cricket, friendly matches and friday night Academy.

If you unable to attend but in a position to assist, can you please contact Riaz Richards or Julie Lister as soon as possible. (contact details on website)

The club will undertake it's first ever tour of India, and to my knowledge, first ever overseas tour this October.

The tour party departs from Manchester on the 22nd October and will return on the 10th November. The tour will consist of 12 matches of varying formats and will take in four cities. It will start in Mumbai before moving to Pune and Bangalore, where the India-Australia match is currently being played, and will end in the seaside resort of Goa.

The 2008 SCCC club dinner is at Baldwins on Friday 10th October 7.15 for 7.45. Carriages late. Dinner + music is £27.50 and is basically at cost, but at a loss if you, this means you, don't come. The food is always spot-on at Baldwins and there's a lot to talk about.

See you there. Tuck pencil over ear for the Angry quiz.

Please contact any team captain, Julie Ibbotson, or Richard Ibbotson with numbers + special dietary requirements.