All things considered we had a pretty good season, finishing fifth was a great achievement for the boys as we had a few new players that had to find their place in the team and also rainy days at the wrong time of the season didn't help. We would have made the finals if the last game wasn't washed out, but that's cricket.

Congratulations to Darren and Billy for topping the batting and bowling.

Well done to Simon (eminem) who improved heaps during the year even though he had a few knocks to the head and forgot about training once or twice....

Patrick who always gave it his best shot as wicket keeper, keep practicing Pat and make sure you enjoy yourself out on the field. Great to have you in the team.

Jayde tried very hard all year and was a great team player, took a couple of terrific catches as well.

Johnno who consistently took the wickets and catches when we needed them, also got a few runs, well done..

Billy who never said much but bowled like a young Brett lee, had some of the opposition in tears at times, well done Billy.

Jordan who opened well for the team all year, dicky knee and all, great to have you in the team Jordan...

Mikael who got our only 50 for the year and came up from Under 11 to help us out, thanks Mikael.

Campbell who at times had a weird fascination with clumps of dead grass but always batted and bowled really well, keep it going through reps this year, well done

Darren, who could hit the ball like Andrew Symonds when he wanted to, had a great year, hope to see you again next year, well done Darren

Jack Crook, our resident Pom, opened well and hung around with the bat when needed, well done Jack

Matt Shepherd, our mini Warney... Congratulations on your "5 years service award" a pleasure to have you in the team Matt once again. I expect to see you turning it sideways next year. Well done for a great year

Eliah, Always ready with advice, whether it was wanted or not, and always had an opinion on anything that was happening, BUT well done for the year, great fielding, the BRCC under 12's wouldn't be the same without you Eliah. Hope to see you again next season..

Clayton, Hard for me to say something about Clay being his dad but for me, I think the best part of the year for Clay was that all the boys in the team liked and respected him as Captain and team mate. I also thought he did a pretty good job captaining the team. Bowling and batting were pretty good as well..

Vicki, thanks for looking after the score sheet, stats, sportzdat etc etc. Couldn't do it without you.
Also, thanks to Wendy who filled in scoring from time to time and Shaun and Norm for helping with the coaching.

Anyway, thanks to all the boys (and parents) for making the job of coaching the BRCC under 12's extremely enjoyable and hope to see you all again next season. Next year we will be training harder and aiming to be in the finals from the first game of the year. There will be no slackening off in the middle of the season and plenty of laps for those that don't agree...."

John
 

Washed Out

Playing Southport Labrador Gold at Southport State School.

Day 1, We batted first to make a very average 133 all out in 34 overs. After letting the boys know that we really needed to make more runs than that. Now we would have to bowl "extremely" well to have a chance at the outright win we needed to make the finals. With 13 overs left to bowl for the day, stumps saw our opposition at 25 for 7 an amazing effort by our bowlers gave us a chance at outright victory.

Day two, saw us bowl out Southport Labrador for 44 runs in the first hour. Leaving us 39 overs to bowl out the opposition again. We were in a great position when we had them once again reeling at 6 for 45 but a dogged batting performance saw us just miss out on the outright win. Sensational bowling and fielding from the whole team. Well done boys....

Another two day game, this time against Runaway Bay. We are back on the winners list with an outright victory. We made 217 for 8, a great team performance. Runaway Bay made 57 for 10 and 67 for 9. Although soundly beaten the boys from Runaway Bay never gave up and were a credit to their club. Outstanding efforts by Campbell Dickinson and Simon (Eminem) Willis.

A hard fought game. Our boys tried hard but were unable to get over the top of Queens and force our first win for a while. Our 127 for 8 was always going to be about 40 runs short of what we needed. Queens grabbed us in the last few overs to get 140 for 9. We actually bowled them out in under 30 overs which was a great performance but not enough to get us home.

We are improving and I expect to see us back on the winners list in the near future.

Washed Out

Loss to Palm Beach 1

ROUND 6 - November 26th - Dec 3rd 2005

I don't really want to say too much about our first innings effort with the ball. 105 sundries top scored for Mudgeeraba so we were always going to do it tough. Mudgeeraba finished their first innings with 260 or so runs from their 50 overs, having batted for an extra 10 overs due to the number of sundries. A big effort would be required to just avoid the follow on.

We were a  different team that took the field the following week.  The boys concentrated ans put in a huge effort to get us to 203 from our 50 overs avoiding an innings defeat and making the coach very happy. Special mention to Simon Willis and Jade Batchelor that held our innings together at the end, a starring effort from Matt Shepherd and a welcome return to form from Eliah James. Well done boys.