Women's Cricket South Coast
2008/09 Season
Women's cricket is one of the fastest growing and most successful sports in Australia. The Commonwealth Bank Southern Stars National team has had remarkable success in the World Cup, winning four titles. In 1999, there were over 10 000 registered female cricketers in NSW, an increase in excess of 30% from 1998.
WCSC is located in the Illawarra/South Coast region of NSW. It covers an area from Helensburgh in the north, to Shoalhaven in the south. The open competition grew over 40% in 2000 and the current season has five teams with an estimated 70-80 players.
WCSC's representitive team recently became the leading country team in NSW after finishing third at the 2003 state championships in Maitland behind Sydney Blue and Sydney Gold. For the first time a youth competition was developed for the State Championships and WCSC's youth team (U19's) is quickly becoming one of the states strongest teams.
WCSC is always looking for new players and teams to join the competition, if you are interested please contact a committee member listed on this website.
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CRICKET ILLAWARRA UNDER 21 COMP [Illawarra]  |
| Mon 05-Jan-2009 16:14 |
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Tamworth and Stockton Nthn Districts Clash in the Final of the SCG Country Cup [Country Cricket] |
| Mon 29-Dec-2008 23:02 |
Following the SCG Country Cup Carnival held in Orange and Bathurst from 27-29 December 2008, Tamworth (seeded 1) and Stockton Nthn District (seeded 2) have qualified to play in the final of the SCG Country Cup at the SCG on Sunday 18th January.
Tamworth had a convincing win over Cricket Albury Wodonga (CAW) in their semi final, managing 9-236 from their allotted 50 overs with Tim Kensell (70) and Blake Fitzgerald (65) the pick of the bats. Crafty Albury medium pacer Gerard Midson had the excellent figures of 4-39, while young quick Ben Dower took 3-54.
In reply, the young CAW bats struggled against some hostile bowling from Josh Hazlewood, however it was the NSW Country Captain Jeff Cook was took the first 3 wickets with some clever bowling. Wickets fell regularly and apart from some late order hitting from Michael Booth (21), there were no other contributions of note and CAW were dismissed for 95. Cook finished with excellent figures of 4-18, while offie Tim Kensell snared 3-23.
In the all Newcastle semi final, Toronto Workers Kookaburras batted first and tallied a competitive 9-225 in their 50 overs. There were a number of contributors with the bat, the best being Joe Price with 56 and Aaron Gray 47. The wickets were shared around for Stockton with Tim Harding, Darren Whittingham and skipper Mark Dries all taking 2 wickets each.
In reply, Stockton lost 2 early wickets, however some scintillating batting by Steve Phillips and Mark Dries took the game away from the Kookaburras and allowed Stockton to cruise to victory with 10 overs remaining and for the loss of only 4 wickets.
Phillips remained unbeaten for a superb 132 while Dries scored an aggressive 43.
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Volunteers sought For ICC Women’s World Cup, Australia 2009 [Cricket NSW] |
| Fri 19-Dec-2008 11:56 |
| You don’t have to be one of the best cricket players in the world to take part in the ICC Women’s World Cup cricket tournament being held in Australia in 2009. You don’t even have to play cricket! You could become one of the 100s of volunteers needed to make this major event run smoothly and be close to all the action.
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