NEXT SOCIAL FUNCTION IS TRIVIA NIGHT SATURDAY JANUARY 31ST

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RM HATCH TEAM 2009

Congratulations and Good Cricket to the Williamstown 2009 HATCH SHIELD TEAM

Lachlan Broadway           WILLIAMSTOWN

Daniel He                             PRAHRAN

Nathan Bratby                   WILLIAMSTOWN COLTS

Robert Harb                        WILLIAMSTOWN COLTS

Daniel Popa                         WILLIAMSTOWN

Jake Farley                           HOPPRERS CROSSING

Jake Mc kenzie                   WILLIAMSTOWN COLTS

Matthew Dervan                WILLIAMSTOWN

Joel Hogarth                          WILLIAMSTOWN

Simon Hoare                         SPOTSWOOD

Jayden Costello                    WILLIAMSTOWN

Jackson Adams                      WILLIAMSTOWN

Jack Mills                                  WILLIAMSTOWN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Cricket has a penchant for unveiling the quirky and quaint, and the story of Darren Pattinson’s bizarre English Test selection earlier this year is up there with the best. The Dandenong quick caused a fluttering stir when he was picked from complete obscurity to play against the touring South Africans, in the second Test at Headingley in July.

It was an extraordinary unfolding. Pattinson, a born Englishman but an Australian resident for the past 24 years, only 11 games into his first-class career and two weeks short of his 30th birthday, was picked to replace the injured Ryan Sidebottom and open the Pommy attack. Even more remarkable were the contemporaries he leap-frogged to take the new-ball, including Ashes heroes Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard. Yes, Pattinson’s Test debut was one of cricket’s greater unforeseen obscurities, even for a Headingley Test.

Then of course, as quickly as it had all emerged, a 10-wicket victory to the touring Proteas dissolved Pattinson back into the first-class circuit, almost certainly to leave him with a sole cap and a brilliant Christmas lunch story.

But he’s not alone. Victoria and the district competition seem to have quite the history of producing some short-lived but spectacularly obscure Test careers.

CAPTAIN OF WILLIAMSTOWN'S 1ST XI PREMIERSHIP 1946/47 MAURIE SIEVERS IS ONE SUCH STORY:

MORRIS SIEVERS (Bottom Row 3rd from left)

VCA Colts, Carlton and Fitzroy (1930-31 to 1945-46)
Matches: 117
Runs: 3632
Average: 33.32
Wickets: 270
Average: 16.01
Catches: 64

The Test career of Morrie Sievers is one that a number of his modern day contemporaries could perhaps sympathise with. Having begun his district career with Colts aged 17 in 1930, the right-arm quick Sievers rose to fame at good pace, cracking the Victorian team three summers later, before being picked in the first Test of the 1936-37 Ashes series at Brisbane. After the first three Tests, Sievers led Australia’s bowling averages with nine wickets at 17.89, his best figures having come in the most recent match at Melbourne, taking 5-21 in England’s first innings on a gluepot wicket, restricting the Poms to 9-76 declared in their first dig. Australia won that match by 356 runs, getting back into the series to be 2-1 down.

But despite his series-turning contribution, Sievers was then spectacularly dropped for the remainder of the English tour, as Australia romped home to win 3-2 without him. The wily opening bowler still finished the series with the leading average, though bizarrely never again appeared on the international stage. Though it wasn’t a deterrent for the rest of his career, Sievers spending almost another decade in the Victorian squad while finishing his district career with Carlton and Fitzroy with a sizzling average of a tick over 16 for his 270 First XI wickets.