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Altis Cricket Season 1 Review & Awards - July 2008

The first few weeks in Division 6 Five Dock league were quite interesting, some HUGE defeats, massive tortures and of course some extremely comical moments considering half the team hadn’t played indoor cricket or cricket for that matter. 10 weeks later, after being mocked and sledged by fellow consultants we got our first ever win of the season. What we didn’t know was it was a beginning of something very special….7 weeks later, we had won 5 out of 6 games, formed a bond, synergy and team spirit that was getting impossible to beat.

'Tension on the bench'

'Alok lining up another six'

'Fearless warriors fielding up front'

'Team looking sharp in the field'

We stormed in to the Elimination Semi Final and played a memorable game to beat the previously unbeaten team in the competition…only to be pipped in the preliminary final by another team. We came 3rd in the competition out of 7 teams…. and considering we were at the bottom for the first 8 weeks, it was a miraculous recovery! A memorable season, we are back again next season with some new young guns, perhaps we will go a step further this season to bring the trophy to Altis!

Season Cricket Awards

'Shaun Marsh' Award - For the biggest improver on the field with the bat or ball.
WINNER: John Hoffman

'Hayden/Langer' Award - Best batting pair of the tournament!
WINNER: Alok Joshi & Dan Cunningham

'Steve Waugh' Award - Back to wall innings, by a pair or batsmen.
WINNER: D Grobler and John Hoffman – 50 Partnership

'Bradman' Award - Most consistent batsmen for the season.
WINNER: Ridhish Arora

‘McGrath’ Award – Most consistent bowler of the tournament.
WINNER: Glen Wiblin

‘Brett Lee / Shoaib Akthar’ Award – Bowler with express pace!
WINNER: Pavan Amaraneni

‘Yuvraj Singh' Award – Player who hit the most 6's!
WINNER: Ridhish Arora & Alok Joshi

‘Jonty’ Award – Most outstanding fielder of the tournament.
WINNER: Dan Cunningham

'Warne’Award – Person who sent the largest number of SMS’s ..err I mean THE Bowl of the tournament.
WINNER: Ray Pulapaka

‘Ouch’ Award – Player who took the most or worst ‘blows’ for the team.
WINNER: Pavan Amaraneni

'Arjuna Ranatunga’ Award – Most comical running between the wickets.
WINNER: Ray Pulapaka

‘Barry Hall’ Award – You mess with me and I'll punch you, most aggressive player of the tournament.
WINNER: Glen Wiblin

‘Fanatic Fan' Award – Our top supporter. Easy choice, this person was always there to support us and clearly showed a lot of interest considering how frustrated she got seeing some of our players running themselves out ;-)
WINNER: Karen Wiblin

 

Article written by Ridhish.