Players are encouraged to bring along partners and their family’s.

Format will be order your own food and drinks.

There will also be a lucky door prize.

A successful turn out at the Christmas party is part of our commitment to Panthers Bathurst sponsorship, so please make the effort to come along.

See you all there,

Regards

Scott Inwood

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All players, family and friend are welcome to come join in the fun and excitement at Panthers Bathurst – Home of ORC Cricket Club.

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The registration ‘day’ will run from 10am through to 11am.

ORC’s senior cricket club has seen a number of talented youngsters progress through the club’s junior ranks, with many current senior players having come from the junior ranks.

If you know of anyone who is looking for a junior cricket club in Bathurst for their kids to play for, please pass these details onto them! If anyone is unable to attend, but would like to register their kids to play junior cricket for ORC, please let Dave Judge (ph: 0417 257 679) know in advance.

Details/rego form can be filled out and returned to Dave either prior by email or on the day.

The junior registration form can be downloaded by clicking here.

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ORC Cricket Club senior training will once again be held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, running from about 4:30pm until dark.

Tuesday afternoon training will commence on Tuesday the 3rd of September at the Sportsground Nets. We had some very good turnouts at training last season and the club hopes to see a strong presence at the nets again this year, particularly as strong turnouts inevitably help the club with on field results.

It would be great to see some new faces as well, so if anyone knows of someone who is looking for a new club, particularly junior players looking to move into senior cricket through ORC’s Presidents Cup side, please encourage them to come along!

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It is compulsory for all players to complete this form, not only to ensure the club has all the correct details, but also to acknowledge that all players understand and agree to abide by the Bathurst District Cricket Association code of conduct, match rules, and bye-laws, which can be found at the BDCA’s website, here.

Please ensure that you download the appropriate rego form, depending on whether you are a senior or junior player. All forms are to be returned to Dave Judge, either at training, or by emailing the completed form to davidjudge@live.com.

Senior Form: click here to download

Junior Form: click here to download

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Season 2013/14 is almost here…

Office Bearers

At the recent AGM, the following office bearers were nominated for season 2013/14.

President: Scott Inwood ph: 0428 372 449
Vice President/Junior President: Adam Bromfield ph: 0405 140 838
Treasurer and Secretary/Public Officer: Dave Judge ph: 0417 257 679
B.D.C.A Delegate: Scott Inwood, Sam Debenham
B.D.J.C.A Delegate: Adam Bromfield, Dave Judge

Junior Club: All junior club enquiries should be directed in the first instance to Adam Bromfield on the number listed above.

Junior and Senior Playing Fees

Playing fees for season 2012/13 have been set at $280. This is the same as last year.

Junior players who play senior cricket in a grade higher than Presidents Cup as well as junior cricket for ORC will need to pay a total fee of $250, which will include their junior playing fees.

Non ORC Junior players who play for ORC in Presidents Cup will be required to pay $150 to play senior cricket for ORC.

Junior fees for 2012/13 are:

• Kanga Cricket: $50
• Junior Hard Ball $80

The Senior playing fee of $280 can either be paid upfront in one lump sum or in three installments as per last season.

For those opting to pay in instalments, the three dates which payment is due by are:

• First Instalment – Date: Thursday, October 10th $100 – Registration Fee
• Second Instalment – Date: Thursday, November 7th $100 – Playing Fees
• Final Instalment – Date: Thursday, December 5th $80 Playing Fees

Please note: Regardless of paying in one amount or over instalments, the registration fee of $100 MUST be paid by the 10th of October in order for players to be registered and eligible to play for the club. It is club policy that players will NOT be permitted to take the field until this initial registration fee has been paid. If you have any issues in making this date, please speak to Dave Judge A.S.A.P.

Any players who are unfinancial from previous seasons will be required to be financial for the outstanding season(s) as well as the current season prior to being cleared to play.

As per last season, we are also providing the option for players to pay the fees via internet banking. When using internet banking, please make sure you include your name in the message field when making payment so we know who the payment was from. Our banking details are:

BSB: 032-814
Account Number: 70-0117
Account Name: Oberon RSL Country

If you would like to pay by cash, you are still able to do so. Please see Dave Judge at training, as all registration and playing fee payments are to go through Dave. No registration fees should be paid to team captains.

If you have any questions regarding fees, please speak to either Dave Judge or Scott Inwood.

Training

Pre-season training will commence on Tuesday the 3rd of September, from 4:30pm onwards at the Bathurst Sportsground nets.

Season Start

The 2013/14 BDCA competition has (at this stage) been scheduled to start on the 5th of October. More details will be available once the BDCA has received team nominations for each grade and draws have been created, and a decision has been made on the competition start date.

Team Captains and Team Nominations

Details will be released in the coming weeks regarding team captains and team nominations.

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Needing 11 from the final over of the innings for victory, Mark Fulthorpe remained cool as a cucumber, and some great pressure fielding restricted a depleted Redbacks side to 8 and in doing so, secured ORC’s second win for the season in the BDCA Presidents Cup competition.

After winning the toss and batting, it was sensible batting from openers Mark Day and Ricky Webb, who put on 134 runs for the first wicket. Webb was the first to fall, 4 runs short of his maiden grade half century, caught for 46. Similarly looking good for his first century in grade cricket, Day was gone three balls later, skying a catch and out for a well made 75.

With 10 overs remaining, and the score on 136, Grant Hines and Scott Hines managed to avoid running each other out, and set to work on pushing the runs. And push they did. A 70 run partnership came off just 6 overs, with Scotty in imposing form.

Grant was finally bowled for a well made 18, giving great support to Scott. Replaced by Braydon Breen, the runs continued to flow. After 40 overs, ORC had set their opposition a massive chase of 252, achieved for the loss of only 3 wickets.

Braydon finished with 18 not out, scored at faster than a run a ball, while Scott finished unbeaten on 73, amazingly scored off only 29 balls. His knock featured 7 sixes and 5 fours – 62 of his 73 runs in boundaries.

Only having 9 batsmen, Redbacks were likely to come out and attack. And they didn’t disappoint.

Captain Luke Bingham attacked from the off, punishing anything that was marginally wide, taking 13 off Nick Gorrell’s second over and 20 off Braydon’s fifth over. Usually among the tightest bowlers in the side, Nick finished his first 5 overs with figures of 1/32 while Braydon finished with 1/40, although he did snare a brilliant caught and bowled chance.

Some great fielding early on by Eliza Bunner also saved countless runs, including stopping two balls seemingly destined for the boundary.

Some tight bowling from Scott managed to stem the flow of runs somewhat, however by drinks, Redbacks had amassed a score of 2/142, with Bingahm looking good for a ton on 85 and getting good support from young batsman Rory Deburgher.

Needing a wicket, Scott threw the ball back to Gorrell after the drinks break, knowing it was a gamble to bowl his openers now as opposed to the end of the innings, but it was a decision that paid off handsomely, with Nick bowling the danger-man Bingham with his first delivery and finishing with the slightly better figures of 2/43 (8). Braydon also tightened the run flow, only conceding 7 runs in his final 3 overs to finish with figures of 1/47 (8).

Mark Day took his almost now customary 3 wickets, snaring 3 quick scalps before the Redbacks batsmen took to him in his final over, finishing with figures of 3/22 from 3, with yet another classic catch taken by Alex Davey.

With ORC unable to snare more wickets, the game increasingly came down to the wire. Some poor ORC fielding and good batting drew Redbacks ever closer to an unlikely victory. Eventually, ORC would get home due to some improved desperation fielding and tight bowling by Fully, but it was a great game and a fantastic effort by Redbacks who should be congratulated for playing the game in the spirit it deserves.

Next weekend sees ORC take on City Colts in a Grand Final re-match at Police Paddock.

Best and Fairest for the game:

Senior 2 – Scott Hines
Senior 1 – Alex Davey

Junior 2 – Mark Day
Junior 1 – Ricky Webb

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Missing several regulars due to unavailability and call-ups to second grade, and ultimately only fielding 10 players, ORC were always going to struggle against Old Boys. Batting first, ORC only managed to register 134, despite some promising knocks.

An early mix up saw the in-form Mark Day run out for 8. Braydon Breen and Ricky Webb both fell cheaply and when Mick Deaton was out for 22, it left Neil Webb and Eliza Bunner to steady the ship, with a 45 partnership before Eliza fell for a well made 30.

Wickets continued to fall and when Webby fell for 34, the inning soon closed.

134, while not a huge total, was also defendable. Unfortunatley, being a man down in the field left gaps that couldn’t be plugged and despite some very tidy bowling, particularly from Webby (0/14 from 6) and Eliza (0/15 from 5), Old Boys managed to pass ORC’s total without losing a wicket.

So the first loss for the season, but under the circumstances, a mighty effort from everyone, including some great fielding by Joel Harper.

Best and Fairest for the game:

Senior 2 – Neil Webb
Senior 1 – Mick Deaton

Junior 2 – Eliza Bunner
Junior 1 – Braydon Breen

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ST PAT’S Old Boys have picked up their first win of the BDCA second grade season after ending ORC’s unbeaten run with a victory at George Park 2 on Saturday.

SPOB made things hard for themselves at times chasing 132 for victory but ultimately got across the line by two wickets thanks largely to a good team bowling performance and a strong opening stand with the bat.

With ORC batting first, Chris Porter put them on the back foot early on with three wickets in his opening spell, removing Dave Sellers (18) along with Aaron Taylor and Harrison Oakley without scoring.

He would finish with 3-26 while Nathan Down also took two wickets, as ORC struggled for momentum, Ben Spence (19), Adrian Mielke (15) and Glenn Robinson (24) all getting starts but not converting.

In reply SPOB cruised to 0-51 in 11 overs before losing Shannon Dawes (37) and Chris Sewell (31) in quick succession.

James Smith (4-20) brought his tean back into the game with SPOB at 6-114 but Porter (11 not out) showed enough composure to get his team over the line.

Kyle Aubin (2-16) also finished among the wickets for ORC.

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ST PAT’S Old Boys have survived their first major speed hump of the 2012-13 Commonwealth Bank Cup to register a narrow but gutsy win over premiers ORC at Morse Park 1 on Saturday.

The result gives them three wins from as many matches in a dream start to the Bathurst District Cricket Association first grade competition.

The defending champions now find themselves winless after three rounds of the competition, albeit one of those rounds having been a bye, and they will lament a major missed opportunity on Saturday. The Tigers were dismissed for 105, 14 short of Pats Old Boys’ 119, and in truth they were lucky to get as close as they did after a late rally from Mick Fardon gave them an outside chance of victory.

Earlier Matt Fearnley picked up his second four-wicket haul in as many games to run through ORC’s top order and reduce them to 6-51. “It is definitely a huge confidence boost to win when defending such a small target,” Fearnley said.

“We were obviously pretty disappointed with our total and the fact we didn’t bat out our overs but we went out there knowing we had to bowl stump to stump. “ORC bowled well, we knew we had to match that to be a chance.”

SPOB captain Nathan Dennis won the toss and elected to bat on what looked like a hard and flat pitch but his side was soon in trouble at 2-22 after Tim McKinnon (2-17) removed Stuart Hodges (four) and Shane Broes (six).

Jared Rowe (21) and Adam Ryan steadied things before Rowe was bowled by Jacob Bognuda, and with Dennis coming to the crease the next period of play was set to prove critical. Dennis and Ryan looked good for a big partnership before Ryan fell for 34 and when Dennis was bowled by Bognuda for 17 a few overs later ORC were in with a chance to finish SPOB off for a modest total.

They managed to do that, claiming the final seven wickets for just 40 runs, though ultimately a 14-run stand between Matt Fearnley (five) and George Douehi (14 not out) would prove critical. Bognuda finished with 3-32 from his eight while Sam Debenham claimed 5-24 from 7.2, taking advantage of his teammates’ early work to clean up the tail.

Knowing that a good start to their chase would be able to kill the game off reasonably early, ORC weren’t able to use that to their advantage and were in early trouble at 2-11 with openers Adam Bromfield (nought) and Tim Halloran (three) back in the sheds.

In-form skipper Brendan Inwood was perhaps a little unlucky after surviving a leg-before appeal only to fall out of his crease as wicketkeeper Josh Knox threw the stumps down a few seconds after the delivery. Evan Jones (three) departed in his first match against his old team and at 4-22 the premiers were in real strife.

Wickets continued to tumble and when Myles Emanuel went for nine, SPOB were well and truly in the driver’s seat.

Wayne Sellers and Sam Debenham each made 16 and briefly got things back on track but both fell within the space of four deliveries, and whe Tim McKinnon fell to Scott Traves (3-21) first ball, the match looked over at 9-73.

Bognuda survived a huge leg-before shout early in his innings and Fardon proceeded to tee off at the other end, and when the target got to less than 20 Dennis was forced to go to a fifth bowler for the first time in the innings.

He gambled on Broes’ off-spin and though Fardon fancied his chances of some lusty blows to bring the target closer, he only succeeded in picking out Douehi on the long-off boundary and fell for 31.
Fearnley finished with 4-15 to take the bowling honours for SPOB.

“We were surprised that ORC were only on 55 or so at drinks, and they were six down at that stage and at that point we knew we were a huge chance, we just went back out there knowing we had to go for it and really put the pressure on,” Fearnley said.

“When Mick Fardon was starting to tee off there were a few nerves, we dropped him once or twice and it looked like he could get them home but we managed to get over the line.”

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