Waimate Cricket Club

This season has begun with Waimate the defending Tweedy Cup champions looking to follow on from last year’s most successful season since joining the South Canterbury competition.

Waimate will be fielding two teams in the newly formed Second Grade A and B sections with Senior Reserve grade now removed as well as a Fourth Grade and Women’s team to show the club is in strong heart.

40 years after joining the South Canterbury competition after winding up the local sub association, Waimate have had their best season of results ever.

Waimate won trophies in every men’s grade they entered, and topping it off the seniors won the Tweedy Cup, the premier trophy in South Canterbury club cricket, after earlier winning the SCCA Trophy as top qualifier in the Round Robin and being runner-up in the Daily Freightways One Day competition.

Waimate & Star share Tweedy Cup 2010-11 Season

Waimate also won the Second Grade trophy again with Greg Paul hitting an unbeaten century in the final to beat favourites Celtic, the fourth grade won their trophy for the third year in a row and the JAB won their Two Day competition.

Alan Reid South Canterbury Cricket Bowler of the Year with the Tweedy Cup

Glen Drake celebrates his great season

The success of the Waimate Cricket Club was shown at the SCCA Prizegiving where as well as the team trophies Waimate also featured in the individual awards with Alan Reid winning the Williams Cup for Bowler of the Year with 56 wickets @ 15.45 (including 6-95 off 44 overs in Tweedy Cup Final) and the SCCUA Graeme Lowrie Spirit of Cricket Award for the senior cricketer who epitomises the way the game should be played which is chosen by umpires.

Glen Drake also showed his class by winning the L J Grant Trophy Young Player of the Year and also took out the nights supreme prize, the Graeme Blanchard Memorial Trophy for a youth cricketer who displays an excellent attitude on and off the field for fair play, a team player who inspires the spirit of cricket and has good work ethics.

Read what the Timaru Herald said about Alan and Glen here

Click here to read the story about the Tweedy Cup Final

Click here to read about the SCCA end of year prizegiving

More photos and details about the season will be added soon.

Senior Cricket to begin 9th October. All other grades start the 16th October. This year Waimate will have a Senior team which is looking sharp, a second grade team trying to get back to the final, and 4th Grade defending champs have two teams in the grade this year. The A Grade team will be supported by another great JAB starting soon! The Womens’ team will have another fun year playing hard and enjoying an afternoons cricket too.

Good Luck, for 2010/11 Waimate

Just a note in memory of ‘Big Dunc’ who sadly passed away this week.

Duncan was a keen cricketer in his day and always enjoyed a yarn about current players and teams when he had the chance.

In the 1972 – 82 decade he featured three times on the Honours Board with two seven wicket bags and a best of 8-18 bowling his left arm medium pace. He upheld some of the fine traditions of the game, and I remember him making me buy my first beer in a pub (the Makikihi) on the way home from a Senior Reserve match in the early 70′s when I was a third former.

He will be remembered as an icon in Waimate and not just for his on field sporting prowess in rugby, basketball, cricket, golf and almost anything he turned his hand to, but he also influenced a lot of people with his coaching abilities in those same sports, and as well as Waimate I know he was also a well known figure throughout the South Island.

I wish to pass on my condolences to his family and friends as Duncan will be sadly missed, especially at the after match functions, as well as by all the sportsmen who had the opportunity to play with or alongside him, or were coached by him, or just had the opportunity to discuss sport with him.

Not one to do things by halves, ex Club President Quintin ‘Buck’ Paul (holding his Service Award in the photo) does it in double and is quickly adding to the new cricket team that Murray Prattley is setting up after Buck’s wife Dana brought twins into the world on November 19th.

I’m sure the whole club wish Buck and Dana all the best and look forward to seeing the kids at their first practice in 5 or 6 years time!

Congratulations to Muzza (Murray Prattley) and Sharon on the birth of Joshua who will join Cody and Issac as future cricketers for Waimate.

Only 8 more boys and you will be able to field your own team!

The Waimate Cricket Club has decided to run and administer its own JAB cricket competition during the 2009-2010 cricket season. This should help the transport problems of other seasons, and we are hoping to have good numbers of players.

More details coming soon..

Scholarship Awarded

Glenn Drake’s cricket career is hitting new heights after the Waimate High School, student received the Peter Hooten Memorial Scholarship for cricket.

“I was pretty stoked” said the Year 10 student.

Glenn’s teacher Justin Thompson suggested he apply after receiving an email fron the NZ Sports Council outlining the availability of a scholarship for a deserving student at a decile four or below school.

My Thompson provided  the relevant information about Glenn, the school’s achievements in cricket, and the need for better training and equipment.

“Mr Thompson was pretty positive I was going to get it. It was quite a shock for it being the whole of New Zealand,” Glenn said.

Mr Thompson said Glenn’s successful application means the school gets $1500 for cricket training and to improve practice nets.

Glenn also gets $1500 which is to go to training and/or equipment.

“I’m looking at maybe (getting) coaching in Christchurch and a couple of bits of gear that I’m going to need as well.”

Glenn has played cricket for about seven years.

He has represented South Canterbury in the Year 5 and 6 development teams and Primary A, and also played in the Southern Districts representative team.

Glenn will captain the U15 team for the second time this year. He has also captained the High School A Grade and Fourth Grade teams and for the past two years has been in the 1st XI.

The Waimate Cricket Club prize giving was held on the sunny Sunday afternoon of March 29th, starting with a fun Twenty/20 match for players and supporters, followed by a BBQ tea and then a casual family friendly award ceremony.

Cups and Trophies

Senior

Batting: McKenzie Challenge Cup – J Sew Hoy

Bowling: Melva & Alister Brown Cup – B King Senior
Batting: Sew Hoy & Reid Trophy – J Sew Hoy
Bowling: Waimate CC Senior Bowling Trophy – A Reid

2nd Grade
Batting: R Manson Trophy Most Runs 2nd Grade – T Bailey
Bowling: N Sheppard Trophy Most Wickets 2nd Grade – J Thompson

4th Grade 

Batting: Wiremu Tangiora Memorial Batting Trophy – G Drake
Bowling: Wiremu Tangiora Memorial Bowling Trophy – B King

Women 

Batting: Booth Ladies Batting Trophy – C Halkett
Bowling: Booth Ladies Bowling Trophy – J Bailey

Club
CE Peagram Esq Trophy for services to the club: – Not presented
Empire Tavern Mr & Mrs R.A. Allnutt Fielding Cup: – B van Royen

Royal Tavern Trophy Cricketer of the Year:  J Sew Hoy

Most Outstanding Junior (under 18): The Wilson Trophy – B King
Most Improved Senior: J Sew Hoy
Most Valuable Senior: J Sew Hoy
Most Improved 2nd Grade: C Farrell
Most Valuable 2nd Grade: P Wallace
Most Improved 4th Grade: D Dooley
Most Valuable 4th Grade: B King/G Drake
Most Improved Women: W Landon-Lane
Most Valuable Women: C Halkett

Highlights of the season were;  the Second Grade side winning their final for the 3rd year, the Fourth Grade team winning their grade very strongly, Club President A Reid taking 10 wickets in a two day match against Timaru and 100′s for B King, G Drake and M Prattley.

With J.A.B and school boy grades coming back under the clubs umbrella this season, it was great to see the senior members coaching and supporting the future of the club.

A big thank you to the Club’s sponsor Empire Tavern Waimate, and also to all the other businesses, supporters and committee members involved in the 2008/09 season.