The Wobbler. 2018/19 Season Underway. #wccredcaps THE ONLY PLACE TO GET ALL THE REDCAP NEWS Est.1942/43

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1 Issue No /19 THE ONLY PLACE TO GET ALL THE REDCAP NEWS Est.1942/ /19 Season Underway Welcome to a new cricket season. Many senior and junior players have been training regularly for some weeks now under the guidance of senior coach Peter Le Leivre and Junior coordinators David Knight, Leigh Cassidy and Tim Argall. Max Drew continues to lead our club as president and Matt Jones has undertaken the role of secretary. Matt will also captain one of our 3 rd XI s. Our other senior captains are Gavin Webb, 1 st XI, with Ryan Simmonds as vice captain, Justin Howlett,2 nd XI, Luke Robertson 3 rd XI, as mentioned Matt Jones and also Angus McFangus. We are in the unique position of having three 3 rd XI teams all playing in the same grade so no doubt there will be plenty of banter when these teams meet each other during the course of the season. The club chose to enter the additional team into the thirds competition as we wanted our players to have the opportunity to play as many 2 day games as possible especially considering the number of younger players coming through the ranks. Playing in a lower grade would have meant that our 5 th team would have only played 1 day matches. As always we thank Brett The Hound Godson and his kitchen elves for the sensation meals that he has put on already this season. The pasta night at the season launch and the burgers on the first selection night was magnificent.

2 Juniors From a junior perspective David Knight, Tom Argall, Leigh Cassidy and Natarsha Williams have continued to put considerable time into preparing and planning for our numerous junior teams as they approach the commencement of their season this coming Saturday. Also, thank you to those parents and players who have offered to coach, manage and support our underage teams this season. Committee The club welcomes Gabby Howlett [ wife of Justin and mum of Liam] onto our executive committee. Gabby s expertise and contribution at committee level will be of great benefit to our club. We thank outgoing committee members, Justin Howlett, Derek Hunt, Bridget and Liam Brady for their service during their tenure on the committee. New Players We also welcome a number of new and returning players to the club this season namely: Tom Hannett (Navarre) Liam Hurse (Carisbrook) Anthony Carlyon [Harry s dad out of retirement] Mat Begbie (Melbourne Cricket Club) Adam Ridley (returning from sabbatical) Hugh Knight (returning from Caulfield) Norm Hughes (also returning from sabbatical) Uwais Mohammad (Ingleburn RSL CC in Sydney) Cooper Gregory (East Ballarat) Furthermore, it is especially pleasing to see a number of Under 15 & U17 players coming through the ranks and training with the senior group.

3 Refurbished Storage Shed 1 st XI Round 2 Special thanks to Brett Godson and Tim Argall for their fantastic work during the off season in re-shaping and shelving, the storage facility at our training nets. It is a brilliant set up and certainly makes access to, and storage of, our equipment very convenient. 1 st XI - Round 1 On a magnificent day weather -wise, our 1 st XI commenced their season last Saturday against North Ballarat with a convincing win. This year the first XI started a week earlier than all other teams. Despite an ordinary start in the field, we were able to dismiss the opposition for 186 and then achieved this target very comfortably with 13 overs to spare and losing just one wicket. Jack Peeters and Jonty Wall both claimed took 4 wickets while Ryan Simmonds and Cole Roscholler dominated with the bat each scoring 75 runs. Hugh Knight took 3 catches behind the stumps and in his first game with the club, Tom Hannett took 2 very important catches. Well done to Webby and his team. The boys made the journey down to Darley for Round 2 this week. Lucas Argall from our U17 s made his 1 st XI debut. Darley elected to bat and made 136 before being bowled out in the 45 th over. Lucas Argall 2/30 off 10, Ben Evans 3/24 off 8 and Jonty Wall 3/29 off 9 did the damage. A shaky start saw us 2/18 before Heath Pyke & Mat Begbie steadied the ship. Mat Begbie saw us home with a display of patient and class batting to finish on 57*.

4 Round 1 2 nds, 3 rds & Juniors This weekend saw the rest of the club kick off their season. Some highlights: Norman Hughes 56 and 6/14 off 8 (Player of the Round!) Tom Perkins 5/21 off 8 Jase Squire 50 Tom Godson 84 Matt Begbie 57* Daniel Cassidy first senior wickets 2fa Noah Ryan & Tom Cleary made their senior debuts in the 3rds Tristan Maple 2/24 off his 8 to stem the flow Darren Woodyatt - backed the winner of The Everest! Max Drew - his dog is still running Apologies to Norm who made 56 but I had to deduct 2 runs online to get MyCricket to balance!! Congratulations to all junior players who started the season in good spirits and played the game the way we expect at Wendouree. The results are never the most important thing to us and it was great to see such enthusiasm and support for each other in round 1. Sponsorship To enquire about sponsorship opportunities for your business in the 2018/19 season - speak to Chris Griffin on Chris will work with you to tailor a sponsorship package that is right for your business.

5 Lucas Argall 1 st XI Debut Lucas being presented with his Baggy Red by Phantom at Team Selection on Thursday night. President Max watching the 1 st XI at Darley and checking how his dog went.

6 Cricket Australia Community Champion Natarsha Williams has been nominated as a Community Champion for all the work she has done with Cricket Without Boundaries. For those who aren t familiar with Cricket Without Boundaries, it s the initiative that Nat and her family started a few years ago assisting the local indigenous community with the help of Lany Johnson who worked at BADAC at the time. CWB is now sending pre-loved cricket and sporting gear all over the world. We ve send cricket gear to orphanages in India, indigenous communities in the Tiwi Islands, Vanuatu and most recently 26 boxes of gear was sent to Bangladesh. A film crew came to Ballarat this weekend and interviewed Natarsha and a few people fro the club and took some footage that will be put together into a short 3-4 minute clip that will be shown at the breaks of all Test Matches around Australia over the summer. This is very well deserved recognition for Natarsha and all the work she and her family and others have put in to the Cricket Without Boundaries initiative. Donations Wanted Over November and December we are going to send some gear to Nepal through a group called Aussie Action Abroad. They are looking to support a project in Nepal called play for positive change which is looking to help communities affected by the two earth quakes in Nepal in This project involves working with the local communities in Nepal to provide opportunities to access sports activities and coaching to some of the country s most disadvantaged young people, especially women and girls. As well as supplying cricket gear we are hoping to gather some other sporting equipment we could send. If anyone has any sporting equipment that they are no longer using that is still in working order, please consider donating it to the children in Nepal. Natarsha will place a bin in the shed at the nets - if you would like to place donations in there or give them to her directly she will arrange to get them sorted and packed ready for shipping. Any sport is great, cricket, football, netball, volleyball, rugby, tennis, badminton, etc

7 Stay in Touch This year the Senior Players and Coaches will be using the Team App to communicate. Any player who hasn t downloaded the Team App should do it NOW. Past players and supporters can keep up to date with what s happening around the club by following us on Facebook This week all of our other senior grades, together with our junior teams, began their season and we look forward in particular to watching our many younger players continue to develop their skills. We will have a number of 15,16 and 17 year old lads playing in our senior teams so exciting times are ahead as these youngsters are guided and encouraged by their senior teammates. Onward and Upward! Red Cap Rudolph [ formerly Red Cap Ronnie.] Also anyone can download the MyCricket App from the App Store and follow the live scores each weekend. Well worth doing if you are interested in seeing the ballby-ball. scores when the teams are live scoring on their ipad

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