Bumper season of club cricket starting this week

Cricket Wellington Media Release                                                       

Wednesday 20 October 2010

Bumper season of club cricket starting this weekend

A bumper club cricket season starts this Saturday with a Twenty20 round for all Intercity Men’s grades. The Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy grades will also play a One-Day 50-over round on Labour Day Monday, while the Senior Women’s grade commences on Saturday with an opening round of One-Day fixtures.

Most other grades start the following weekend, Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October, subject to ground availability.

Ground renovations throughout the Wellington region are behind schedule due to inclement weather throughout August and September, forcing a disrupted start to the season for all grades as more grounds become available.

Expect another keenly fought summer of cricket, with Eastern Suburbs starting the 2010/11 season hoping to win an unprecedented 10 Pearce Cup titles in a row. Several clubs will be hot on their heels, led by last year’s beaten Pearce Cup finalist Karori who won the National One-Day club title in Auckland over Easter.

Also vying for Pearce Cup honours are Naenae Old Boys (third last year), Onslow (fourth), North City (fifth), Taita (sixth), Hutt District (seventh) and newly promoted Wellington Collegians who are back in the top grade after a decade. Collegians take the place of University who drop down to the Hazlett Trophy after a year in Premier Cricket.

The Hazlett Trophy will also be hotly contested, with University, Petone-Riverside, Upper Hutt and Johnsonville all competing for a spot in the top flight for the following season. 

Defending champions Onslow will again be the team to beat in the Senior Women’s grade.

Player movement this season sees several new and returning faces to the region. Players such as Leighton Morgan (to Upper Hutt, from Otago), Leighton Burtt (Onslow, from Canterbury), Marc Calkin ( Naenae Old Boys from Central Districts) and Andrew Lamb (Onslow, from Hutt District) will add spark to their new teams.

An emphasis on twenty20 cricket will see up to 37 teams participating throughout both Wellington and Hutt Valley in the shortest form of the game. This is a 48 percent increase on last season.

A Twenty20 weekend of Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy matches will take place over two days on 27 and 28 November, the weekend before the start of the HRV Cup domestic Twenty20 competition involving the Wellington Firebirds.

The One-Day finals for both Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy are on 6 February (Waitangi Day), while the three-day Pearce Cup final will be held at the Basin Reserve from Saturday 2 April to Monday 4 April. 

There will be no Hazlett Trophy final this season. The winner and promoted team for the following season will be the leading side at the conclusion of the final round-robin Saturday 26 March.

For more information contact:

Clinton Butler, Cricket Wellington Senior Club Cricket Coordinator, 021 409 861

Gavin Larsen, Cricket Wellington CEO, 021 409 860

Please see attached for this weekend’s draw.

2010-11 squads are as follows (as at 20 October 2010):

Collegians

Damien Grant (captain); Sachin Cooray; Mathan Thevakulasingam; John Peters; John McDonald; Deepak Joon; James Crichton; Vijay Chhagan; James Widerstrom; Julian Brown; Senthil Selvaratnam; Clinton Butler; Beau Brown; Nathan Brown; Tim Geeves; Chris Fowler; James Franklin.

Gain: Fowler (Southland)

Loss: Sam Fairbrother (U.K); Praveej Janzse (Sri Lanka)

Eastern Suburbs

Pearce Cup

Lance Dry (captain); Josh Brodie; Nathan Cameron; Jeremy Dean; Chamika Gajanayaka; Ben Gamble; Scott Golder; David Holt; Tom Jamieson; Ricky Joseph; Josh McLauchlan; Sam McLauchlan; Niranjan Naguleswaran; Jamie O’Donnell; Ben Orton; Jeetan Patel; Steffan Piolet; Matt van Kesteren; Leon Viggars; Richard Gilhooly

Gains: Orton (University); Piolet (Warwickshire); van Kesteren (Karori)

Loss: Danny Evans (Middlesex)

Hazlett Trophy

 Neil Badenhorst; Matt Bull; Werner Combrinck; Matt Harvey; Chris Jamieson; Hugh Marfell; Andrew Pollock; Haseeb Quazi; Josh Stevens; Ben Thompson; Blair Watkins; Alex Yates

Gains: Badenhorst (University); Combrinck (Manawatu); Marfell (Nelson).

Hutt District

Matthew Bell (captain); Chris Nevin; Fraser Colson; James Colson; Andrew Hadley; David Twigg; Darren Cudby; Fergus Martin; Kieron Lennon; Tom Robertson; Andy Roberts; Ian McPeake; Ridge Montgomery; Adam Barrett

Gain: Roberts (Overseas)

Johnsonville

Scott Mudgway (captain); Lukw Woodcock; Hareem Silva; Barry Rhodes; Mark Pulley; Gareth Powell; Ryan Isaac; Mario Stols; Kunal Kapadia; David Castle; Laurence Sukhu;  David Hudson; Nuwan Silva; David Asirvatham.

Gains: Silva (Sri Lanka)

Loss : Sam Outtrim (Taita)

Karori (Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy)

Simon Baker; Chris Spring; Hamish Templeton; Tom Gibson; Harry Boam; Lee Edwards; Stephen Murdoch; Jarred Sewell; Tom Blundell; Andy McKay; Matt Atkin; Charlie Gallagher; Neil Martin; Fletcher TeAika; Simon Kent; Sunnie Chan; Stefan Allen; Charlie McLean; Marc Ellison; Harry Wright; Oliver Redwood; Tom Logan; Luke Scully;  Jules Balasingham; Andrew Fletcher; Don Dewes; Steven Graham; Sam Donaldson; Tom Donaldson; Misty Middleton-Jones; Tama Walker; Jonny Fletcher; Fraser Quarterman

Gains: McLean, Scully, Fletcher and Tom Donaldson (Wellington College); Graham (Kapiti) Middleton-Jones (Onslow); Quarterman (North City)  

Naenae Old Boys

Adam Williams (captain); Mark Calkin; Michael Cornish; Ash Russell; Phil Tunnicliffe; Asif Mohammad; Ronald Karaitiana; Jesse Ryder; Grant Elliott; James Ware; Matt Ryan; Malcolm Ball; Hayden Perks; Marcel Wratt; Damian Austin; BJ Crook

Gain: Calkin (Central Districts)

North City

Pearce Cup

Russell Kyne (captain); Dewayne Bowden; Mark Gillespie; Ili Tugaga; Michael Pollard; Joe Austin-Smellie; Aaron McCash; Nick walters; Neeraj Chawla; Craig Shanks; Duncan Moore; Mike Hayward; Tipene Friday; Sam Keegan; Russell Pepperell; Nick Angus

Loss: Fraser Quarterman (karori)

Hazlett Trophy

Eliott Brookes ( captain); Ben Turner; Chris Munro; Jordan McDermott; Johnny Chapman; Hamish Kyne; Stu Veitch; Dylan Patel; Gerrard Roach; Saj Senadeera; Andrew Maguiness; Mark Frew; Chris Gunn; Paresh Maisuria; Simon Clark; Ken Williams

Onslow

Neal Parlane ( captain); Sam Foley; Blair Parlane; Andy Thompson; Andrew Lamb; Leighton Burtt; Taylor Pentecost; Corey Larsen; Ryan Dannhauser; Glynn Howell; Sam Lawson; Scott Archer; George McCaffrey; Callum McLean; James Boock; Declan McKeefry; Stewart Rhodes; Liam Chrisp; Jimad Khan; Nick Ryan

Gains: Lamb (Hutt District); Burtt (Canterbury); Larsen (Wellington College); McCaffrey (Durham)

Loss: Misty Jones-Middleton ( Karori)

Taita Pearce Cup and Hazlett Trophy)

Mark Houghton (captain Pearce Cup); Patrick Houghton (captain Hazlett trophy); Oliver O’Leary; Chris Tait; Cameron Merchant; Steve Gellatly; Jason Doyle; David Houghton; Sam Outtrim; Aaron Pennell; Matthew Pepper; Andrew Sturt; Hamish Blomfield; Ben Rammell; Sam Dean; Zac Curtis; Michael Green; Christian Taylor; Matthew Rose; Jimmy van Dissen; Michael Hammond; Henry Walsh; Matt Lewer; James Renshaw; Craig Roper; Shaun Gillespie; Phil Crothers; Tom Clark

Gains: Outtrim (Johnsonville); Rammell, Dean, van Dissen, Hammond & Walsh (St Pats Silverstream) Rose (Petone-Riverside) Clark (England)

Losses: Anthony Crummy  retired); Sam McGavin (Korea)

University

Simon Thomas (captain); Michael Burns; Graham Murray; Callum Geldart; Adrian Fong; Tim Richards; Liam McGarvey; Louis LeLoir; Alec Morrison; Daniel Norman; Matthew Sadd; Nick Wanden; Elliott Borren; Geoff Willmott; Ryan Clare; Scott Thorburn; Duke Pomare; Thomas Gordon; Adam Clark; Sam Brown; James Nelson; Chris Owen; Matt Hall; Lucien Johnson; Tim Russell

Gain: Geldart (Yorkshire)

Loss: Ben Orton (Eastern Suburbs)

Upper Hutt

Leighton Morgan (captain); Shane Brockelbank; Louie Davidson-Powell; Robert Kennedy; Matt Taylor; Daniel van der Hayden; Jason McKenzie; Michael Billmore; Deon Gibbons; Nick Press; Tom Pere; Josh Stewart; Joel Stewart; Greg Weber; Dave O’Brien; Andy McHugh

Gain: Morgan (Otago)

Petone-Riverside

Scott Bonner, Nick Ward, Matt Goldsbury, Jacob Stirling, Richard Chatfield, Mark Hewson, Leigh Kelly, Andrew Corliss, Josh Joseph, Anthony George, Sam Blandford, Scott Jones, Ben Saunders, Rosco Price Moor, Leith Johnston,

Gain: Jones (Stokes Valley)

ENDS

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