Highlights of the weekends cricket at Taita

Batting
Rohit Chaudhary 141 (Fireblades)
Mike Best 86* (Legends)
Luke Dingle 69* (Premier Reserve)
Nik Swain 65* (Premier)
Jason Corsbie 51 (Legends)
Nik Swain 48 (Premier)
Mark Houghton 47 (Premier)
Nick Greenwood 47 (Premier)
Tom McHugh 45* (Kamos)
Rohith Yeluri 42 (Premier Reserve)
Sam Bourne 41 (Premier Reserve)

Bowling
Tom McHugh 4/29 (Kamos)
Sriram Krishnamurthy 4/33 (Premier)

Representative honors

We have had three of our players get selected for Representative honours this week, congrats guys!

Logan van Beek- New Zealand A
Travis Muller- Wellington Firebirds
Patrick Smith- Wellington A

Also Taita welcomes two new players to the club,

Joseph Bowden- joins us from Johnsonville
Nick Greenwood- joins us from Wellington College

Welcome lads!!

Award winners for the 2016/17 season

Team player of the year:

 

Women's Grade-Becca McHugh

 

Fireblades-Mahendra Sadaye

 

Yodhas-Leks Alagappan

 

Legends- Shay Thomson

 

Kamos- Henry Clayton

 

Third Grade-Matthew Heissenbuttel

 

Premier Reserve- Aaron Curtis/ Sam Bourne 

 

Premier-Obus Pienaar

 


Peter Smith Trophy

(Best Bowling Women's)

Carlene Angus

 


GJ Robertson Trophy

(Most Wickets all Lower Grade Cricket Men)

Hayden Moore

 


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(Best Batting Aggregate Women’s)

Lisa Carter

 


BR Clarke Cup

(Highest Batting Aggregate Lower Grade Cricket Men)

Matthew Heissenbuttel

 


Don Hazlett Trophy

(Best Fieldsman in Premier and Premier Reserve)

Obus Pienaar

 


Ray Tyler Cup

(Best Lower Grade Fielder)

Jonny Hare

 

Practice Award

Mark Houghton/ Matt McComb

 


Taita District Cricket Club

(Club Captains Trophy)

Hayden Moore

 


Stuart Briggs Cup

(Most scores over 30 throughout the Season all Grades)

Obus Pienaar/ Mitchell Scott

 


KJ Rowley Trophy

(Most Wickets in Premier & Premier Reserve Grades)

Liam Sullivan

 


Fawcett Plate

(Best Bowling Average in All Grades)

Hayden Moore


Life Members Trophy

(Highest Batting Aggregate in Premier & Premier Reserve Grades)

Obus Pienaar

 


Vice Presidents Partnership Award

(Open to all teams in the Club)

Jason Doyle/ Tim Brown

 


Taita Cricket Club Cup

(Best Individual Performance in Lower Grades Mens)

Tom McHugh ( 6/11 and 49* and 29* vs Petone- Riverside- Grade 3)

 


Petone Radiators Cup

(Best Individual Performance in Intercity Premier & Premier Reserve Grades)

Rohith Yeluri 9/9 vs Upper Hutt

 


WE Schofer Trophy

(Open to all teams – Points scored throughout the season)

Obus Pienaar

 


McCurley Cup

(Most Improved Woman's Cricketer - Points scored throughout the Season)

Shayne Martin

 


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(Most Promising Young Cricketer in the Club)

Mitchell Scott

 


Robin Randell Memorial Cup

(Best Club Member – awarded for Services to the Club over the season)

Johnny Hare

 


Doug Urry Memorial Trophy

(Cricketer of the Year)

Obus Pienaar

 

GRADE-3 FINALS RUSULT

Congrats to the Grade 3 side for winning their final (Played against Eastern Suburbs Super Challengers on 19th March) !! We won by 95 runs...Stars of the show were Tom McHugh 49 (run out second to last ball) and Hayden Moore 6/15.

THE WEEKS DRAW

On Sunday our third side play Eastern Suburbs in the grade 3 final at Kilbirnie Park starting at 12 midday. This side are always supporting all the other teams in the club, so if you can get along Hayden and the team would be very appreciative.

7th TAITANIUM LUNCH

On Saturday 4th of February Taita Cricket celebrated its 7th Taitanium Lunch. This event was used to recognise Mark Houghton, Taita Premier Captains 200th Premier game. Mark first played Premier for Taita in 2002/03 season.

He has scored seven hundreds and is the highest run scorer in our History with over 5300 runs.

We were very fortunate to have Mark Sorenson a Hutt Valley and NZ Softball legend as our key note speaker. A great day was held by all