Friday, 29 October 2010

Capping Ceremony Date (Change)

Please note that there has been a change to the capping ceremony date, this will now be on Tuesday 7th December at Takapuna Rugby Club. Boys will be "officially" capped and can purchase NH tournament gear on the night.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Inter-Squad (Labour Monday)

Excellent start to the season: runs, wickets, sunshine ... who could ask for more! A veritable run-fest on the top shelf between the two B sides and two excellent efforts to beat the bigger boys in the two A games.

Burgundy B lost to Black B
Burgundy B 203 All Out
Scott Gannaway 39, Dylan Stevenson 71*, Sean Reader 28*
Bjorn Wojt (2/24), Benjamin Beecroft (2/26), Adrian Young (2/42)
Black B 293 All Out
Sharn Fonseka 34, Benjamin Beecroft 62*, Matt Strain 44, Bjorn Wojt 46
Keegan Russell (1/40), Scott Prentice (3/26)


Black A lost to Y9/10 B
Y9/10 197/3 (50 overs)
Ross ter Braak (2/17), Anmol (1/18)
Black A 152 All Out
Sam Hinds 24, Kieran Seedall 44, Ross ter Braak 15, Cameron Riches 13

Burgundy A lost to Y9/10 B
Y9/10 157 All Out
Jake Fitzgibbon (2/20), Bronson Marshall (1/23), Max Lewis 2/26), Reid Hastie (3/27), Chris Groenink (1/13)
Burgundy A 119 All Out
William O'Donnell 11, Donald Coleman 20, Cole Briggs 15, Reid Hastie 14, Chris Groenink 21

Captions Required

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Monday, 18 October 2010

PSB 2010 Squads

Burgundy A
Rupert/Colin
Black A
JdR/Simon
William O'Donnell Josh du Rand
Connor Stuart Sam Hinds
Eru Hudson Kieran Seedall
Donald Coleman Josh Down
Angus McKenzie Chris Woodard
Cole Briggs (Wk) Kit Freeman
Reid Hastie Ross ter Braak
Chris Groenink Scott Martin
Bronson Marshall Jake Skellern
Max Lewis Cameron Riches (Wk)
Jake Fitzgibbon Steven Newey
Angus Nicoll Anmol Thapar
Burgundy B
David Prentice/Brendan Cheyne
Black B
Craig Beecroft
Jack Stevenson Sharn Fonseka
Scott Gannaway Nathaniel Law
Ed Henning (Wk2) Josh Cheesman
Oliver Cheyne Ryan Schierhout
Dylan Stevenson Gray Hardy
Jake Meenhorst Benjamin Beecroft
Asher Robb (Wk) Matt Strain (Wk/Capt)
Kieran Young Jacob Scott
Sean Reader Adrian Young
Scott Prentice Bjorn Wojt
Keegan Russell Sachin Chhiba
Liam Brown Jayson Jooste

PSB 2010 Squads

If you were not involved in the Academy, please remember to bring a cheque for $50 made payable to "North Harbour Junior Cricket" on Monday.

Monday, 11 October 2010

PSB Trial 16th October (Massey University)


Availability
If selected for one of four the PSB teams (Burgundy A/B and Black A/B), you will need to be available to play pre-tournament fixtures starting on Labour Monday (25 October) up to the tournament. These are generally every other week (Sunday) but, your commitment will depend on whether you are in Black or Burgundy, so it is not possible to give you the dates until the teams have been selected.

Trial Format
There are 48 places available (4 teams x 12 players), 26 boys have attended the academy and we will be looking for another 22 from the trial. The trial format will involve all attendees moving through a session on batting, bowling and fielding. The selectors will be looking for all round skills and a good attitude; the A teams require more specialised positions than the B teams but, clearly there needs to be a good balance between bowlers and batsmen. Please make sure that you bring full kit and remember there are going to be 30 other kitbags at Massey, so make sure that you look after your kit and keep it neat and tidy outside the nets – you will notice that this will be a theme running through to the tournament; keep your kit all together as a team and neat and tidy.

Selection and beyond
At the development (B team), the intention through the tournament is to make sure that every gets a fair go – it is a long tournament 5 games x 50 overs and we want to make sure that bowlers get a good bowl and batsmen get a chance to bat. However, often the issue at this level is that so many players do both ... Basically, we have to try and manage this as best we can but it does mean that if you bat top 5, do not expect to bowl and vice versa, if you bowl 10 overs do not expect to bat. The coaches are looking to balance the team during the tournament so at everyone leaves the tournament having had a chance to shine, I am there to make sure that this happens. The teams will be selected for the first game on the 25th October (an inter-squad game at Wainoni). Once selected in either Burgundy or Black, you will tend to stay within that colour but, there will be opportunities to move between an A and a B team over the first few games. However, we will be looking at “fixing” the teams by early November to allow for the coaches to start working on team building and development.

The tournament itself will require a commitment from the boys and parents. Please do not expect to drop the boys off and disappear for the day – we need everyone to get involved; from helping with drinks, looking after the kit, first aid to scoring, umpiring etc. Everyone will be rostered to do something – this really is a complete team commitment! If you do not think you can help out, it is better to know now than at the tournament.

I look forward to seeing you all on the 16th. It is pretty hectic, so forgive me if I don’t get a chance to chat.

Trial List
  1. Rory Douglas
  2. Anmol Thapar
  3. Scott Gannaway
  4. Scott Prentice
  5. Kit Freeman
  6. Sean Reader
  7. Ed Henning
  8. Faisal Ganchi
  9. Oliver Cheyne
  10. Sachin Chhiba
  11. Jonathan Brewis
  12. Jayson Jooste
  13. Jake Meenhorst
  14. Angus McKenzie
  15. Asher Robb
  16. Ben Beecroft
  17. Adrian Young
  18. Kieran Young
  19. Jack Clothier
  20. Keegan Russell
  21. Nathaniel Law
  22. Dylan Stevenson
  23. Gray Hardy
  24. Jacob Scott
  25. Liam Brown
  26. Ryan Schierhout
  27. Donald Coleman
  28. Bjorn Wojt