Semi final teams - 13 & 14 March 2010 1st XI vs Caulfield: At Caulfield 12.30 start At ground 11.00am Conway (capt), Thomas, Dunne, De Silva, Gill, Perera, Kalpage, Hale, Phillips, Chard, Bhatt. 2nd XI vs Altona at home 12.30 start At Ground 11.00am Ladgrove (Capt), Macauley, Slatter, Vickers, Blakely, Arbon Nethersole, Duggan, Patel, Johnson, Lyons 3rd XI vs Caulfield at home - 12.30 start At Ground 11.00am - Briglia (capt), Brown, Parker, Kiernan, Selleck, Arain, Reed, Williams, Frawley, Hillier, Allen 4th XI vs Caulfield, Caulfield Park No. 1 Oval 1.00pm start At Ground 11.45am - Thorn (capt), Singh, A Journeaux, Hackett, Horsell, Murphy, Adeney, Stingel, Anderson, Tinney, Regan, N Journeaux. Good luck to all teams! Congratulations Steuart Snooks On Sunday (24/1) at the Colts vs DLS Malvern match Steuart Snooks played his 200th game for the club. He capped this achievement with an innings of 66, helping Andrew Prowse (150) put on a significant partnership. Snooksie has made over 3000 runs for the club and taken over 220 wickets. 99 of his games were in the 1sts, he won the bowling average in 1990/91 and he was Club Champion and Most Valuable Player in 1989/90 and 1990/91.More recently he has played a critical role captaining our Colts XI and managing our Hatch team. He is currently enjoying playing with son Andrew in the Colts team. Steuart is one of the strongest contributors to the wellbeing of our club, particularly in relation to developing our juniors and making the transition to senior cricket a comfortable one. Whilst our Hatch team struggled this year the team was made of predominantly Under 15 boys who play for Malvern in the junior program which is most pleasing and, despite us taking a few hits against more robust and more developed Hatch squads, this is surely the way to go. On top of all this Snooksie is a member of the club committee too. On behalf of everyone associated at Malvern I congratulate Steuart on a significant achievement and hope that he stays connected with our club for a long time to come 
That's Snookise on the right with son Andrew at their first game together T20 Semi Final - 19/1/10 vs Oakleigh Unfortunately we lost to strong opposition who were simply too good on the day. Rain earlier the day meant a wicket described by Knobby as an "old style Subbies wicket”. We stuck to our mantra of going after it with the bat which had served us well and at 0/19 off three we were tracking OK. Unfortunately a few indiscriminate shots later we found ourselves 8/44 and only some late order resistance from Brett Chard and Tim Arbon got us to 65. We didn't lie down with the ball claiming four wickets with the ball and another twenty runs would have made for an interesting game. On behalf of everyone I congratulate Conners and the team. Despite the negative of not being able to use Malvern City Oval the team played some great cricket and conducted themselves as Malvern teams should. A semi final finish was a fine result with only Oakleigh and Melton a bit ahead of us at this stage. Our youthful team is well suited to Twenty20 cricket and I am sure we will give the competition a shake in years to come. |
