JUNIORS SECTION

Preseason

A few juniors have had a specialist session with David Saker & will continue for the next few weeks.  David took 247 wickets in 72 first class matches for Victoria & Tasmania and is recently the assistant to Greg Shippard with the Dehli Daredevils in the IPL.

St. Andrews has 2 junior sides this 2007/08 season - an U16/3's & 16/4's

Team Managers: Abid Khan & Shane Cairns

Presentation Night Awards

U16-3 Batting & Bowling - Andrew Croucher 

U16-4 Batting - Rob Deluca

U16-4 Bowling - Sri Kotla

5 Years Service - Andrew Williams, Jake Cairns, Musa Tan, Anthony Moorhouse & Andrew Croucher

Season Review

The 16-3’s finished the season on a disappointing note with a loss to Warranwood. With that went the chance to play finals. Oh well!  Now let’s look at some of the highlights of the year.

Surely Crouch going through the entire season without winning one toss must rank highly, so does 14 stitches to his eye (don’t let him tell you it was more than that –  he’s good now though). Shawn’s six at Warrandyte is right up there (he hit a few pretty good 4’s as well), and so is Wilbo’s 46 against Warranwood and his catching and general fielding all year. Nappy’s great fielding in the last game, and his giving it all for the whole season.  Adam’s 42 and Jake’s 39 in game one; our first win in round 3; two in a row round 4 with Brad making a great 51; and a 106 partnership from Brad (39) and Crouch (61no) to set up a win against Warrandyte were also great.

 We had three wins, but one of the highlights was from a game we lost - the run chase against Croydon Ranges . Everyone, including our first year players, tried so hard to win this one. In the end falling just short of the target didn’t really matter. Special mention to Bear for leading the lower order chase – and for his excellent keeping through the whole season – big improver Bear!  

Other highlights included our cheer squad led by “Go Sainters” cheerleader Kathy and ably supported by Shelly and Judy – fantastic support every week  

Thanks must go to Doug Ackerly for organising former Australian Test Players Ray Bright and Ian Callen to come and coach the boys. But that’s not all – Doug’s energy, enthusiasm and his knowledge of the game and what makes it tick has been really well appreciated by the boys and their parents. Is anyone surprised that he used to talk for a living??  

Thanks also to Mouse, Shanga for terrific leadership throughout the year and to Jake and Crouch for leading the boys on the field in a manner the club can be proud of.

 But by far the best thing this season was welcoming new under 16’s to the club: Chris Copeland, Shawn Morall, Ben Cockett, Sean Merrigan, Andy, Tom Baker, Robbie Deluca , Sri Kotla. It’s been so good to see all these blokes develop their cricket and really improve. 

Here are some pics from the season: