28th December 2011
GOLDFIELDS HOLIDAY CRICKET CLINIC                                                  
Claremont-Nedlands Cricket Club First Grade Cricketer and Cricket Australia Level 3 High Performance Coach Chris Brabazon, will be running a Cricket clinic during the summer holidays for cricketers of all ability.

28th December 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - RYAN MITCHELL

	NAME		Ryan MItchell
	DOB		25th May 1985
	NICKNAME		Mini
	BAT / BOWL		RH bat, wicketkeeper
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		NKCC, EGCA, WA Country X1
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		NKCC Batting Aggregate, EGCA Batting Average
PREMIERSHIPS			NKCC  “A” Grade  2000/01, 02/03, 06/07, 07/08, 08/09
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Boan Cup 2004 (“A” Grade Country Week Premiers), Country Cup Premiers 2010, Country Week All Star 2008
FAVOURITE DRINK			Corona
FAVOURITE FOOD			Surf and Turf
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Horse Racing, Golf
CRICKET HEROES			Mark Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Dad
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Marcus North, Ryan Campbell
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Craig Mitchell and Brad Kelly climbing on the roof of the Broad Arrow Tavern to redress the manikin in a NKCC shirt and hat, and I will never forget Kiel Rudd getting out first ball in an U/14’s GF then locking himself in his mums car and crying for the next 3 hours
CURRENT JOB			Electrician
IDEAL JOB			Professional punter
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			Mitch Brennan – probably one of the handiest blokes I know…
FAVOURITE MUSIC			Crowded House, The Beatles, Most Triple J Tunes
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Definitely Scott Nelson - his love for Timmy Hendo has got out of control

6th December 2011
FINAL EGCA STATEWIDE T20 SQUAD - 11th DECEMBER 2011

The EGCA squad has been finalized for this weekend’s matches vs Scarborough and University Cricket Clubs in Perth. We had a couple of players pull out due to injury and unavailability.

Zane Arthur (captain) – Lake View
Chris Johnston – Great Boulder
Ryan Mitchell – North Kalgoorlie
Michael Worthington – Lake View
Nick Murphy – Hannans
Josh Rushmore – Great Boulder
Scott Nelson – North Kalgoorlie
Blake Willis – North Kalgoorlie
Mickey Allan – Lake View
Gavin Bailiff - Hannans
Collin Stewart – Hannans
Rick Smith-Ince – Hannans

Andrew Zafer (EGCA Chairman / Team Manager)
Keith Jones (EGCA Vice Chairman / Scorer)

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6th December 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - MICHAEL WORTHINGTON

	NAME		Michael Worthington
	DOB		21st November 1984
	NICKNAME		Gorby, Knuckles
	BAT / BOWL		RH Bat, LH Bowler
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		LVCC, Norden CC, Midland Guilford CC
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		LVCC Fairest & best (three times), O’Shaunnessy Medal 08/09, some various batting and bowling aggregate awards
PREMIERSHIPS			‘A’ Grade LVCC 04/05 & 10/11, ‘B’ Grade LVCC 00/01 & 01/02, ‘A’ Grade Country Week title 2004
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Countryweek Allstar 2011, Runner up O’Shaunnessy Medal (three times)
FAVOURITE DRINK			Cordial
FAVOURITE FOOD			Chicken Teriyaki with rice
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Being a serial pest, being a Dad, being a work nerd
CRICKET HEROES			Mark Waugh
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Trevor Spence, Darren Gaby
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Danny Campo locally (07/08) – Justin Langer in Perth
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Telling Justin Langer to come back and see me when he’s played 100 games in Kalgoorlie soon after he’d just played his 100th Test Match for Australia
CURRENT JOB			Workshop supervisor for Force Equipment
IDEAL JOB			Investor
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			Bear Grylls
FAVOURITE MUSIC			Triple J
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Jed Grantham

6th December 2011
ROUND 8 RESULTS

A Grade

Hannans 3/290 Stewart 113 Murphy 82 Smith-Ince 61no defeated Great Boulder 262 Altus 94 Menhennet 2/38

North Kalgoorlie 7/202 N Willis 66 M Brennan 47 Lilley 3/14 defeated Lake View 9/189 Ruly 59 M Brennan 2/19

Ladder Hannans 46, Great Boulder 35, Lake View 19, North Kalgoorlie 18

B Grade Round 8

Hannans 8/226 Parker 80 Brodala 47 Meredith 2/14 defeated Great Boulder 183 Thomas 100 Brodala 3/30

Lake View 7/235 Cummins 54 Herl 54no H Lintern 3/38 defeated North Kalgoorlie 137 H Lintern 27 Silva 3/29

Ladder Great Boulder 41, Hannans 41, North Kalgoorlie 19 Lake View 19

1st December 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - RICK SMITH-INCE

	NAME		Rick Smith-Ince
	DOB		11th March 1973
	NICKNAME		Tupperware, WOP
	BAT / BOWL		Right Hand Bat, RH hit me wherever you want
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		Warnbro, Phoenix, Kardinya, Nth Kalgoorlie, Hannans
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		SMCA Cricketer of Year, SMCA 1st Grade Batting Average, Phoenix Cricketer of Year
PREMIERSHIPS			Phoenix ‘A’ 2002/03,  Kardinya ‘B’ 2004/05, Nth Kal ‘B’ 2007/08 2008/09, Hannans ‘A’ 2009/10, Hannans ‘B’ 2010/11
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Peel Cricket Assoc All Star 1997/98, SMCA All Star 2000/01
FAVOURITE DRINK			Jacks/Dry
FAVOURITE FOOD			Any BBQ
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Watching AFL, Fishing
CRICKET HEROES			Dean Jones, Ricky Ponting
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			My father, my wife
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Ben Ward, Adam Voges
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Kardinya 05/06 when Daniel Reid thought we had won the GF and stripped off and ran naked around the ground only to realize we still needed 4 runs. He also had wrote in marking pen ‘Such Is Life’ on his guts. Also anything that Tim Osmetti is involved in.
CURRENT JOB			Branch Manager – Protector Alsafe
IDEAL JOB			AFL Footballer
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			Pink
FAVOURITE MUSIC			Rock, Country
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Collin Stewart

22nd November 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - CHRIS JOHNSTON

	NAME		Chris Johnston
	DOB		8th March 1983
	NICKNAME		Johnno, Peter Griffin
	BAT / BOWL		left hand bat, right arm bowl
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		Great Boulder, EGCA, WA country X1, St George DCC (Sydney)
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		O’Shaughnessy medal, 2 x Jerrard Medals
PREMIERSHIPS			None in Kalgoorlie
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Played as a professional for three seasons in Scotland and England.
FAVOURITE DRINK			Diet Coke
FAVOURITE FOOD			Lasagne
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Golf
CRICKET HEROES			Allan Border, Mark Taylor, Viv Richards
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Dad, David Thompson, Gary Crowfoot
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Kevin Pietersen, Michael Clarke
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Playing in a grand final as a 14yo. A mate yelled out to the captain hey I can’t f@#$ing see out here it’s too dark! Captain told him to shut up as we only need two wickets. We got the two wickets and later thought it was amusing how stupid the comment was.
CURRENT JOB			Nurse
IDEAL JOB			Cricket commentator
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			My fiance Kassie
FAVOURITE MUSIC			Any sort, like Powderfinger though
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Damien Sweet

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16th November 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - NICK MURPHY

	NAME		Nick Murphy
	DOB		17th January 1982
	NICKNAME		Murph, Murfo
	BAT / BOWL		LH Bat, Left arm bowler
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		Hannans CC, Caboolture CC, Barnards Green CC, WA Country XI
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		Hannans F&B 2010-11, 2009 Bowling Average Worcester Crusader League
PREMIERSHIPS			Sunshine Coast A Grade Premiers 4 years 2000-2004, Hannans A Grade Premiers 2009/10
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			2007 WA Country Week All-Stars team, In EGCA team to win 2010 WA Country 20/20 comp., 50 wickets/300runs in English season.
FAVOURITE DRINK			Little Creatures Rogers at the moment
FAVOURITE FOOD			A good steak or pizza
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Fishing/Snowboarding holidays
CRICKET HERO			Glen McGrath, Craig McDermott
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Having brothers, old man & neighbours to play cricket with as a kid.  Also senior club players when I was a junior.
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Mitch Marsh
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Had a tradition at an English club to do a half yard glass for a 5 wicket haul or 100 runs.  We had a young kid who got a hundred so he had to do a half yard of milk instead of beer and was sick everywhere.  Closely followed by Tim Osmetti’s Bee Gee dancing & singing at Hannans wind-up.
CURRENT JOB			Mechanical Project Engineer on a gold mine
IDEAL JOB			Don’t mind a bit of share trading
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			I’d better say the wife
FAVOURITE MUSIC			Anything on 981 Radiowest
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Sorry Roosy – even though you do put the batters off behind the stumps!

8th November 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - NICK WILLIS

	NAME		Nick Willis
	DOB		16th August 1984
	NICKNAME		Bruce, Bingo, Willis
	BAT / BOWL		Right hand bat/bowl
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		Rockingham Mandurah District CC, Norton CC, WA Country XI, Roopena CC, Nth Kalgoorlie CC
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		RMDCC 2nd grade most wickets and all rounder 2000/01, Norton CC Club champion 2003, Roopena CC most wickets 2006/07, North Kalgoorlie club champion 07/08, 10/11, WA Country XI player of the carnival 2010, Australian Country XI team 2010, 2010/11 O'Shaughnessy Medal
PREMIERSHIPS			Roopena CC 2006/07, Nth Kal 07/08, 08/09, 2011 Country Championships
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Getting Shaun Marsh out twice (one of my favourite stories think the boys have had enough of it though)
FAVOURITE DRINK			Jacks and Coke
FAVOURITE FOOD			Italian
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Watching sport, playing football, cricket, golf. Having a punt and a beer.
CRICKET HERO			Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Merv Hughes
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Mark O'Neil
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Justin Langer, Shaun Marsh
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Mad Monday a few years ago when Tim Henderson got his arse waxed at the Federal Hotel
CURRENT JOB			Fire Fighter
IDEAL JOB			Fire fighter, leaves me plenty of time for golf
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			Malcolm Douglas - if he was still alive, he would know how to get back
FAVOURITE MUSIC			I like most music, have a thing for 80s music though
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Scott Nelson, he talks too much

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2nd November 2011
PLAYER PROFILE - ZANE ARTHUR

	NAME		Zane Arthur
	DOB		14th August 1982
	NICKNAME		Zano, Zed
	BAT / BOWL		Right hand bat, right arm medium
	TEAMS PLAYED FOR		Lake View CC, WA Country XI, Willetton CC, Fremantle District CC, Norden CC
	MAJOR AWARDS WON (Individual)		2001/02 O'Shaughnessy Medal, 2001/02 Cranston Medal, 2010/11 Cranston Medal, 2009/10 Lake View B&F
PREMIERSHIPS			2001/02 Lake View, 2010/11 Lake View, 2002/03 WA Country Championships
OTHER CRICKETING ACHIEVEMENTS			Asif Mujtaba Medal for Norden Cricket Club 2008 and 2009
FAVOURITE DRINK			Corona, White Russian
FAVOURITE FOOD			Steak and veg with mushroom sauce
FAVOURITE PASTTIME			Following the Richmond Tigers, movies, relaxing on the recliner
CRICKET HERO			Shane Warne
BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON CRICKET CAREER			Dad
BEST CRICKETER YOU HAVE PLAYED AGAINST			Justin Langer, Brad Hogg
FUNNIEST CRICKET STORY			Always remember during a juniors game when Alan Utterson got out cheaply and threw his gloves onto the pavillion roof and his mum made him climb up and get them in front of everyone.
CURRENT JOB			Business Manager
IDEAL JOB			Pro golfer
IF YOU WERE STRANDED ON A DESERT ISLAND WHO WOULD YOU LIKE AS A COMPANION?			Male - Bear Grylls Female - .....
FAVOURITE MUSIC			The Cure, U2, Nick Cave
MOST ANNOYING TEAMMATE			Andrew Herl, a very smug Carlton supporter

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