At the Crease
| October 2008
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Hello to all our Forest Cricket Families! We hope that you all are having a great season. The Kangas kicked off their season this last weekend and our older teams are now right back into the swing of things.
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| Forest Family Fun Day Thank you to all that attended our very successful Forest Cricket Family Fun Day. Despite the hot sun and wind, many of our families came along to celebrate the start of the season and meet the other Club families. We had some cricket action on the pitch and all enjoyed Sean Ledbury's BBQed sausages. A special thank you to Sean for all his hard work in organising the day and also to our registrar, Mark Bromelow who was still hard at work on the day finalising our Kanagas teams.
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Common Cricket Terms
For those of our families that haven't been brought up with cricket, here are a few of the common cricket terms that you will be becoming familiar with this season:
Appeal - When the fielding team believes a batter is out they will appeal by calling "Howzat"
Crease- The lines in front of the stumps that signify where a batter is safe and from where a bowler needs to bowl behind
Duck - When a batter is dismissed without scoring
Golden Duck - When a batter is dismissed first ball
Hat Trick - When a bowler takes 3 wickets with consecutive deliveries
Maiden Over - An over from a bowler where no run is scored off the bat
Overthrows - When a fielder throws the ball at the stumps and accidentally throws off direction and the batters score extra runs
Stumps - The 3 wooden sticks with 2 bails on the top that bowlers aim to hit when they bowl.
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Player Profile: Oscar Dumas
 Oscar is perhaps typical of our new breed of Forest cricketer - he is passionate, talented and in his first year of playing cricket for Forest. Oscar doesn't come from a cricket playing background, his father is French and mother is Swedish but he loves the game and spends every spare moment playing it with his u9 cricket buddies.
Oscar is a talented fast bowler - taking two consecutive wickets for the Forest u9 Greens in a recent game and is also a powerful batter striking 4s with ease. In his last game for Forest, Oscar walked away with the "Man of the Match" Award - a well deserved acknowledgment for a player with flair. |
The History of Forest Cricket
Cricket teams have been playing under
the Forest name for more than 35 years in Manly/Warringah
competitions. In the early days teams played under the name Forest Anglicans and
from about 1982 as Forest Districts. Forest has continuously fielded
teams in various age groups over that whole period.
There are strong links between FDCC and the Forest
Rugby Club which celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. The story goes
that at some point in the early seventies, some of the dads
from the rugby club got together and formed a cricket team so their
children could play for a locally based team. The rest, as they say, is
history! The FDCC logo, as shown on this newsletter, is believed to be
derived from and bears a strong resemblance to the Forest Rugby
logo.
FDCC has a proud history of achievement. There have
been many individual and team successes over the years with numerous
premierships won by Forest teams and many Forest players being selected for
representative honours with Manly District sides.
Forest players have also gone on to higher
levels of cricket with a number playing grade for Manly as senior players over
the years.
There are two former Forest juniors currently playing in the Manly
Ist XI (first grade) side this season. They are Cameron Merchant and Andrew
Lindsay. You may have seen articles in the Manly Daily recently about the
prospects and achievements of both of these fine cricketers. Cameron Merchant has now gone to play for a regional north island team in New
Zealand and is strongly tipped to be selected to play test cricket for New
Zealand later this summer. Andrew Lindsay has just completed his first
representative game for the NSW second XI and based on his immediate impact at
that level, is tipped to continue his journey in first
class cricket. We wish both players every success and will continue to
follow their cricket achievements over the summer.
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We hope that the season is going well and thank you for your contribution to making Forest District Cricket a great Club!
Frank, Scott, Mark, Sean, Kim, Tim, Sharon and the rest of the Forest Cricket Team
Forest District Cricket Club
www.forestcricket.com
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Thank you to our sponsors:
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Batting Drills for you to try at home:
TIP ONE: Put a cricket ball or any other same size ball (e.g. - hockey,
tennis) down at the end of some stockings. Peg the top of it to clothes line and
throw the ball backwards so it swings back and forward. Then you can start
hitting the ball and practicing your defensive shots and sweeps etc. It helps
get your eye in.
TIP TWO: As you may know, Don Bradman used to hit a golf ball against a water
tank with a wicket. Another good variation is to take a golf ball and cricket
stump, and, the night before your game , and the morning of the game, juggle the
golf ball up and down on the stump. If you can get over 10 in a row you're going
well. This will really help you to hit the ball straight and with the full face
of the bat.
TIP THREE: Find a rough, flat bit of ground, and lay a few bumps (like rocks
or twigs) on it. Then get a tennis ball and shave one side. One person will bat
and the other will throw the ball at the rough area. This helps the batsman in
making late movements and corrections to his stroke as the ball moves at awkward
angles of the rough surface.
These tips came from the coaching page at
BATCHAT
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Forest District Cricket Club | Melwood Oval, Melwood Avenue | Forestville | NSW | 2087 | Australia
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