Hot off the press... the latest news at Forest Cricket....
Forest Registrations for 2010/11 SeasonRegistrations for the 2010/11 Season are now open! We will be updating the website shortly with forms and we will be at Forestville shops on Saturday, 31 July and Saturday, 7 August from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. See you there! Forest cricketer wins Rep player of the year award!Alex Bain, our star Forest cricket rep player was awarded the Rep player of the 2009/10 season award at the recently held MWJCA presentation evening. A huge congratulations to Alex! He has done us proud! This has really set an example for all of our young FDCC rep squad hopefuls for next season - anything is possible if you are passionate about the game!Forest Cricket Prizegiving with special guest, Josh Hazelwood
Forest Cricket was privileged to have super fast RTA Speedblitz Blues bowler, Josh Hazelwood attending our annual Presentation day on 8 May 2010. Our players celebrated the end of the season and received their well deserved trophies. A huge thank you to Cricket NSW and Josh Hazelwood for supporting the Club in this event! Click here for more photos. MWJCA Rep Squads announcedA huge congratulations to all the Forest cricketers who have been included in the MWJCA rep squads for 2010/11. We are very proud to have the most Forest cricketers in recent history included - with 4 of our cricketers in the u11 squad (Oscar Dumas, Nick Osborne, Matt Ledbury and Jadon Wilson), 4 in the u12 squad (Rik Bhatty, Yavar Bates, Alex Bain and Lachlan Kerr) as well as representatives in the u13 and 16 squads. These squads don't necessarily mean that our players will be in final rep teams but it is most certainly a step in the right direction and we congratulate all the players for all their hard work this season. For full details of the Rep Squads, click here. Spin Bowling WorkshopFor those keen Warnie's out there, Mark McInnes of Sydney Cricket Coaching is running a spin bowling clinic at the SCG on the 28th of March. For more information or to have a chat to Mark about his individual coaching services, please contact Mark on 0414 753057.School Holiday Camp
Download an application form from the Elite Cricket website or contact Mark Atkinson for more details. Forest Lions Junior AFL Club registrations now
openDid
you know that AFL was created to help keep the earliest Australian
cricket test team fit in the off season? We encourage you all to sign
up for the winter season at: www.forestafl.com.au
.Exciting news from Forest Lions is that the Sydney Swans are coming to visit their club room on Wednesday, 3 March. For more information please send an email to footballmanager@forestafl.com.au . Forest now offers In2Cricket Program
The Club will be offering the popular In2Cricket program to in the fourth term of 2009. The program is ideally suited to 4- 7 year boys and girls who want to be introduced to the joys of cricket in a fun-filled environment. There are plenty of giveaways and lots of things to learn. The program will be run on Friday afternoons. Register online now - remember to select Forest District Cricket Club as your In2Cricket centre! Forest Cricketers reach new heights in New Zealand
Mark Houghton
and Cameron Merchant who both started their cricket careers in the same
team with Forest District Cricket in the early 1990's as primary school
boys from Killarney Heights Primary School are now playing top class cricket in New Zealand. Cameron has this year
secured a first class contract with the New Zealand Wellington
Firebirds. Mark had a contract with the same team last year. Both have
played a number of first class cricket games in NZ and hopefully they
will both line up in the same Firebirds team this season.Let that be an inspiration for all of our up and coming cricketers! For more news, check out our NEWS ARCHIVES |
