Dear WNJCC Community,

The Summer cricket season has concluded and it really did give us a bit of everything.

We enjoyed some great cricket this summer just gone. Several of our teams won premierships in their competitive age groups, many of our players achieved individual milestones and a selection of older players took the field for BNJCA representative team duties. Most importantly our players conducted themselves in the spirit of the game, had fun while they played and achieved group and individual success.

We faced some serious challenges with the bushfire crisis, sudden and extended wet season and currently the Coronavirus pandemic. We’ve all been affected in different ways during these times however we have pulled together as a community and forged our way through. Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation during these challenges.

In November we held our Annual General Meeting and welcomed six new committee members to the fold. We bid a very fond farewell to outgoing Treasurer and all-round outstanding person Simone Rosengren; Simone worked tirelessly to ensure the club was in a strong financial position going forward and is still involved as manager of one of our girls teams. Thank you Simone and welcome Tim, Scott, Paul, Tanya, Nicole and Craig.

We would like to thank our platinum sponsor Hoppy’s Car Wash Cafe. Hoppy’s have supported cricket at Wilston Norths for many years. If you haven’t had your car washed at Hoppy’s, you don’t know what “clean” really looks like. Please get in touch to purchase a discounted car wash voucher and see what all the fuss is about.

Thank you to Store Local Newmarket. Store Local have supported us this season with much-needed storage space at their Finsbury St, Newmarket site. Sharon and the staff are lovely to deal with and run a very clean and functional storage facility. There are discounts available for our members and the club receives a cash incentive whenever a customer mentions us as their referee. Click their image below for rates and other details.

Special thanks to Darren Roy, Warren Hawkins, David Taylor and David Brain for their work with the internal trials process. Warren also worked tirelessly to pull together the statistics required to award the trophies again this season. Amanda Broadhurst once again worked her magic in getting nearly 400 players organised in to their teams, thank you Amanda!

Our volunteer coaches, managers, and scorers deserve a huge round of applause for their efforts in getting our boys and girls down to training and on to the field each week. Thanks to each and every one you.

Stay healthy and see you in October,

Chris Shay

Club President

Congratulations to the following teams for winning the premiership in their competition:

Open Blue

U14 Blue

U13 White

U12 Maroon

U12 Purple (post Xmas)

An extra special mention to our girls U11 Orange team for their undefeated season!

Players in our U13 to Open age groups are eligible for the perpetual MVP and Club Champion awards.

Watch the following videos to find out who won!

The following players celebrated some fantastic milestones during the season:

Batting 100+ runs

Fletcher F (Open Red) – 158 not out

Hugo S (U13 Green) – 124 not out

Langdon C (U12 Purple) – 116 not out

Bowling 5+ wickets in an innings

Jake S (U12 Purple) 5/5

William E (U14 Blue) 5/15

George F (U14 Blue) 5/30

Congratulations to these players for their achievements this season!

Congratulations to the following players who were selected by the BNJCA as representatives in the championship, challenge and development carnivals in the 2019/20 season: