SMITH BUILDERS STUMPS SPONSORS

In addition to our many other wonderful sponsors, the Strathalbyn Cricket Club would like to thank Smith Builders for their continuing stumps sponorship.

This season they have ramped up their sponsorship to cover all our senior grade matches at Strathalbyn Oval and Strathalbyn Primary School, and they've enabled us to purchase a stack of brand new and high-quality stumps for game day and souvenir use.

These stumps will provide a great advertisement for the Smith Builder's brand, and will provide our players with a wonderful momento should they score a century or take a five-fa ... like Jason Oliver's hand grenades scooping a match-winning 5-26 in A2's against Macclesfield last season. 

WELCOME TO OUR NEW RECRUITS

 Strathalbyn Cricket Club is delighted to have secured the services of Matt Hein for the upcoming season.

Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the club, having served as Wistow's A Grade captain since 2009/10.

Over the past two seasons, he has taken 40 wickets at 27 bowling left-arm unorthodox spin, while has scored a handy 387 runs at 16.

The club is also thrilled to welcome Tim Schubert.

Tim lives in Strathalbyn but has played for Meadows in the Hills Cricket League for 15 years.

Since the start of 2011/12, Tim has taken 58 wickets at an average of 13 in 39 matches, while he has scored six half centuries in 898 runs at 25.

The club is also delighted to see so many new faces at training and welcomes many more.

With the turf nets project progressing nicely and the season fast approaching, there's exciting times ahead for the club.

The A Grade opens the season on Saturday, October 11 against Lobethal at Lobethal Oval, before returning to the Strathalbyn bowling green for the two-day Courier Cup clash against Ashbourne over Saturday, October 18 and 25.

The fixture for our other two senior grades will be available from approximately Thursday, October 9, with their seasons commencing on Saturday, October 18.

We have nominated for B-grade (40 over matches) and C-grade (35) teams, however, we won't find out our exact grades until the AEHCA Executive Committee decide the lower grade teams and structures on Tuesday, October 7.

Bad News and good news!!

The bad news is that this Wednesday marks the final indoor training night that has been going for 4 weeks now for the U/14s and seniors. Lets try and get as many numbers there  from these groups this week to finish the indoor program on a high. As always, training will start at 6.00pm.

The good news is that as of this Sunday(Registration Day), the club starts outdoor pre season training as an entire club ie. ALL juniors through to seniors. Given that our practice area resembles a battlefield at the moment, we may have to spill over onto the main oval in coming weeks until work is completed.

Today 9th September 2014 , marked the start of constuction of our new Practice Pitches.

Now that work has commenced, it should continue at smart pace with the completion of the 

project only a matter of weeks down the track.

If you would like to be kept up to date on progress of the pitches, head to our photo section and

take a look at what has happened so far.

2014/15 Season Launch

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Thank you to everyone that attended this year’s AGM held on 19th May 2014.

All positions were declared open and the new Management Committee looks like this:

Club President: Adam Smith

Vice President: Justin Neumann

Secretary: Michael Cutting

Assistant Secretary: Mike Greig

Treasurer: Steve Schofield

Committee Members: Scott Smith, Luke Cousins, Tony Gaiter, Perry Jones, Rodd Brinkmann

This group of people have been afforded the responsibilities of the clubs finances, facilities and general operations on and off the field. They are all volunteers and all are very approachable and encourage suggestions by any other club members with regard to the direction of the club. It was identified at the meeting that we need to put a real emphasis on fund raising this season to help cover the costs of some exciting projects for the club in coming months.

AEHCA Presentation Evening

Association trophy winners 
A Grade: Mark Abbott: all rounder of the year and the Shaun Tait Cricketer of the Year.
Strath captain Ben Cousins was runner up in both those two awards as well. Congratulations to those boys on a fantastic year!

D Grade: Anthony Murgatroyd: D grade batting and the D grade cricketer of the year.

Congratulations to James Greig on winning the association under 14 batting trophy and to Brayden Gaiter on winning the association bowling trophy and the under 14 Cricketer of the year.