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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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The final U/13 practice for the season has been cancelled. All players will be contacted about with regards to pre-season practice for 2010.

Tonight's U/13 practice has been cancelled due to bad weather.

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.

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.

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.

On Sunday morning, 10am, Martin Maddocks will need help to remove nets and store all the other cricket related equipment for next season. The more people able to avail themselves the quicker it will all get done. Please come and assist if possible.

The Club Family Day and Gordon Hall 6-a-side that was unfortunately cancelled last year due to rain is due to be held on Sunday, August 24.

With the current unavailibility of a significant number of players we are contemplating changes from the 6-a-side format to 20/20 and also possibly the date. We are looking at a junior and senior 20/20 match with players made up from U/13 to U/17 in the junior match and all teams in the seniors. The matches will be played in coloured clothing with a white ball and all the normal 20/20 rules.

S.C.C.C 64 All Out
Wakefield Thornes 67-3

On Sunday morning the under 13 looked to carry on their fine cup run with a trip to Hartshead Moor Cricket Club to play Wakefield Thornes.

After losing the toss we were asked to have a bat on a decent looking pitch. However we didnt make good use of it. Alex Thomas was brilliantly stumped after a legside take and Chris Pickford was run out and we slumped to 3-2. James Harrison and Elliot Calis got a bit of control back but wickets fell at a regular occurrence. Some good bowling backed up with good fielding made it hard to score which led to pressure and resulted in some poor shot selection. We managed to scrape to 64 all out. Wakefield made it really hard to score and kept the extras down.

S.C.C.C 95-4
Doncaster Town 94-8 (Gibson 30*)

Sundays cancelled cup Semi-Final was moved to Abbeydale and was played on Tuesday night.

Captain Elliot Winter lost the toss and we were asked to bat on a wet and green wicket.

A steady start from Openers Alex Thomas and Elliot Callis until both men fell playing lazy shots. At the half way point Chirs Pickford (22) and James Harrison (13) carried us to 50 and looked good, playing shots all around the ground, until both were dismissed. Jack Lister (21*) and Levi Atherton (8) got us up to 95 which was probably 20 less than we should have got. In fairness Doncaster bowled very well at the death.

On a damp morning at Abbeydale the first ever SCCC Academy XI played Mentone Grammar School, a touring side from Melbourne, Australia.

We won the toss and put Mentone in to bat a decision quickly vindicated after the opening partnership of Chris Pickford and Rob Shaw reduced Mentone to 18 – 2, Rob picking up both of the wickets, the second of which a fantastic catch by Josh Jones at second slip.
Josh then came on to replace Chris and bowled two overs picking up a wicket with an absolute jaffa sending off pole flying. Then Josh who had come in to the game with a back niggle felt a twinge so was taken out of the attack and was replaced by Jack Lister.

Rufforth 28 all out
S.C.C.C 32-2

The Under 13's played their quarter final of the cup in Rufforth and thankfully managed to get the game in due to the weather being alright in York.