Leading from the front.

We are all astounded by the personal sacrifices that City’s newest Life Member, Peter Mead has made for our club. This season has been no exception, Peter was looking forward to a season in 2nd Grade but after we lost Harrison Kelly as our 1st Grade Captain at the start of the season the club turned once more to Peter as our saviour. Once again Peter didn’t let us down, not only has he taken leadership of our 1st Grade side but he has turned them into a very competitive team that play for each other and have a wonderful spirit of mateship and a common goal.

In 2nd Grade the same can be said of Mark Fisher. Mark has stepped into the breach as captain and has kept an understrength team together through difficult times. He has shown faith in his players and always encouraged them.

Our 2nd Grade didn’t have a wicket keeper for Saturday’s match and after ringing around could not find any keeping gear. So Mark went off and brought the entire keeping gear we required himself. He practiced Keeping during lunch and morning tea breaks in the offices at Council and had some office staff throw him catches, using his chair as the stumps.
Match day came, Mark had Josh throw him some catches, it didn’t look good. Mark said with a smile “I am confident of stopping at least half of them”.
We took to the field and like in every match that he has captain, Mark set a high standard for his fellow players to follow. The bowling as a bit over the shop and on occasions the ball would bounce just in front of him, sometimes twice. But NOT one catch was dropped and NOT one bye was given. Mark wore them on his chest, his legs, his arms, as he got behind every ball that came his way.
A Wicket Keeper he is not but a leader of men he is.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO where some amazing people play CITY

A Dentist visit while on Holidays.

Our President and his wife interrupted their holidays to go to the dentist.
Our President's wife was so angry with this interruption to their week away. She stormed into the Dentist reception room and said "I want a tooth pulled, and I don't want any pain killers because I'm in a big hurry," she said. "Just extract the tooth as quickly as possible, and we'll be on our way."
The dentist was quite impressed. "You're certainly a courageous woman," he said. "Which tooth is it?"
Our President's wife turned to our President and said, "Show him your tooth, dear."
GOOOOOOOOOO good luck on the weekend, gentlemen CITY

What a wonderful performance from our terrific 3rd Graders.

Trent with his father Glen who was a long time City player also.

Our 3^rd Grade team lived up to their tag as being “Terrific” by winning both their 20/20 matches on Saturday. It was a wonderful team performance in both matches, where the bowlers continually took wickets. Our 3^rd Grade captain Trent Balderston was delighted by the team’s fielding in both matches during a very hot afternoon, he was also very impressed by his batsmen who were in total control chasing down the small totals in each match. .

The two wins have leapfrogged our 3^rd Graders into 4^th spot in the overall competition and 2^nd spot in the One-Day competition giving them every opportunity to play in the One-Day final if they can beat Bective this weekend.

GOOOOOOOOOOOO exciting time for CITY

"The day was a win for us because we beat one of the top sides"

Peter Mead and his men had a wonderful afternoon after beating the One-Day leaders in Old Boys in the second 20/20 match. After falling short by 20 odd runs in the first match, our boys regrouped and played some very good quality cricket to beat Old Boys in the second match of the day.

Simon Toyer once again showed his class with a nice 44runs in the first match and then a delightful 51 runs in the second match.

Other batsmen to shine on the day were Ryan Hansen how scored 30 runs and Richard “I always look good” O’Halloran who put on a classy 44 runs of his own in the second match.



Simon Toyer has had his photo is most Monday editions of the Northern Daily Leader, the reason could be Simon is coming third in the NDL Best & Fairest Table with 11 points, two behind the leader. Well done Simon and may your outstanding form continue.

In the bowling department Dan Lawrence was the stand out, picking up three wickets in both matches. A great team performance from a side that always turns up ready to perform at their best.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO our 1st Grade side does our Club proud every week. CITY

Ground changes

There are some late ground changes, our mighty 1st Grade is now at Chaffey Park, our amazing 2nd Grade is now at Scully Park and our terrific 3rd Grade is playing at Belmore park. Starting times have not changed first match 12.30 and second match 3pm.
GOOOOOOO best of luck gentlemen CITY.

Training this Wednesday

The cricket fields are ours once again.

 Now Tamworth is back to normal and the place is ours once again, training and selections for this coming Saturday is this Wednesday.
Our first match back from our short break will be this Saturday 1^st February,  1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd Grade teams will play two 20/20 matches both against Old Boys in this one afternoon. While 4^th Grade will play Old Boys in a 40 over a side One-Dayer.

GOOOOOOOOO 20/20 matches, looking forward to them CITY

The most important job in Australia.

 They say Captaining your country in Cricket is the most important job in the country even in front of the office of Prime Minister. Micheal Clark and his side have won the Ashers 5-0 and won the One-Day series.
This will be a summer that people will speak about with enjoyment in many years to come.

 

A blonde woman ran into a police station wailing. She claimed that her house had been broken into.

After she stopped sobbing, the Police Officer requested her for a description of the robber.
"He was tall and dressed in white. He was wearing all sorts of protective pads, gloves and helmet."
"Hmmm...appears to be a cricketer," concluded the policeman.
"Ah officer!" she confirmed, "then he must have been an English cricketer."
"What makes you think that he was English? From the accent?" asked the officer.
"No sir," she replied, "he was in and out so quickly."
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO a summer to remember for Australian cricket CITY

A big thank you must go to ALL our City members that assisted in fulfilling our Country Music commitments at Cricket House. There were City boys cooking egg and bacon rolls, manning the showers, manning the boom gate, manning the canteen, we were everywhere from 6am in the morning till 9pm at night.



GOOOOOO Johnny Miskle drove in from Kootingal and attended every shift City was on CITY