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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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Tonight's U/15 practice has been cancelled due to rain, all U/15's to attend tomorrow night's senior practice.

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)

In a game interrupted by a heavy shower and often playing in a steady drizzle at Stocksbridge , collegiate won by 100 runs to win there 2nd trophy of the season .
Batting first on a slow wicket openers Matt Lee and J ames Harrison scored steadily and where not troubled by the hosts bowling: several probabul 4s being slowed to 2s by the wet outfield.

After a routine win over Maltby in the morning collegaite travelled to Treeton to play in the 6's. The manager going via Abbeydale to collect Tom Hancock exhausted after a weekend on the Duke of Edingburgh award scheme.
Our group was made up with Whiston, Shiregreen and sheffield united. We started against Whiston and some familiar faces from the district nets were on view. We started with James Harrison left out of the squad of seven.

Sheffield Collegiate 144-6 (Pickford 27, Mines 26)
Maltby 38all out 10overs (Mines 3-15)

Collegiate went into this match as strong favourites having bowled Maltby for 32 last time. The blues opened with Callis and James Harrison. They started well hitting 4s on a long boundry. Callis was looking good until he hit a full toss straight to deep backward square(12). In came chris Pickford who played his normall confident style from ball one. Harrison was playing the more ancor role and was doing a very good job until missing a straight one (20). 60-2. Chris then got going and

Sheffield works 91 all out
Under 15 blue 92-3

Sheffield collegiate under 15 blue 167-2 (Callis 54no, Harrison 50no)
Wickersley 65all out (Callis 4-1)

Collegiate under 15 blue recorded their 4th successive victory away at Treeton on Sunday.Apart from the away match at Norton Oakes the team has not being tested yet. The main batsmen have dominated the opposition to such an extent that we have been able to give several players a bowl who would not normally .Matt Lee, Tom Hancock, Chris Pickford, and Elliot Callis have all made good scores and James Harrison who has moved up from the under 13s, has scored well and looks a real prospect.

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.

Tonight's U/15 and U/17 nets have unfortunately been cancelled as the hall is being used for exams. Nets will continue next week in the usual timeslots.

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 last practice session of the season has had to be cancelled due to bad weather.