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Easts Premier Team in One Day Final - Sunday 29th January 2012 Basin Reserve

Easts Premier team will play Karori in Sunday’s one day final at the Basin Reserve after thrashing the Wellington under-20s by 225 runs on Monday. Opening batsmen and Firebird Josh Brodie carried his bat for 149 not out as Easts ammassed 321-6 batting first and the under 20s could only muster 96 in reply. Read more .... Wellington Cricket

Get to the Basin on Sunday to support the Mighty Easts Premier Team.

Six Easts players selected for Wellington City & Under 23 teams

Six Premier Easts players have been selected to play for this Sunday’s second round Stewie Dempster Shield One-Day series match at Karori Park. Wellington City will include Josh Brodie, Ben Orton, Ricky Joseph & Michael Burns and the Under 23 side Chamika Gajanayaka & Niranjan Naguleswaran. To view selected teams click here ......

Cricket injury and rehabilitation

Scott Pender, a former longstanding Senior player at Easts, is now a Registered Osteopath, ACC Provider.

Scott’s goal is to return injured players back into the game we love, because afterall, it’s much more fun playing cricket than wishing you could be. Scott is offering a discount for club members who have paid their fees.

Non-ACC $60 ($50 for players who have paid subs)
ACC $32 ($25 for players who have paid subs)

1st treatment 45 mins / follow up treatments 30 mins

To read more about Scott and what he is offering for Easts players click here ...

Wellington Junior Cricket for 2011/2012

The junior registration day will be held on September 24th at Wellington Indoor Sports Centre, Newtown from 10:30am to 12:30pm.

If you would like more information regarding junior cricket go to the on-line Junior Website - Easts Junior Cricket Website

Wellington Cricket Awards for 2010/2011

Another great year for the Eastern Surburbs Cricket Club by winning five trophies, and the 2A Roosters in first place 2A Grade competition and retention of the Cook Shield by the Premier Men’s team for another season.

Royal Visit Cup (Awarded to the Wellington club with the highest aggregate points) - Easts first with 1,198.11 points

Best Lower Grade Performance - Duncan McIntyre (265 for Easts Tigers v Easts Bulldogs in 2C Grade

Ron Murray Cup (Awarded to the person who took the most wickets in Premier Men’s grade) - Lance Dry (56 wickets at 13.70)

Sam Platt Cup (Awarded for the best overall performance in Premier Men’s grade) - Lance Dry (Pearce Cup v North City 111* & 7-55)

Mens Cricketer of the Year - Lance Dry (1349 points)

Cook Shield The Premier Men’s competition that runs much like rugby’s Ranfurly Shield with clubs having to beat the holders outright over two days to win it. We have successfully defended this 21 times now.

click here to see all awards

click here to see Wilkinson Pearce Cup Statistics

Premier Team qualified but lost the Wilkinson Pearce Cup Final

Yes the Mighty Easts have done it again and qualified for the Premier Mens Final for the Wilkinson Pearce Cup. No guessing who the opposition is - Karori for the 3rd year in a row. Easts will need an outright win in the three day final at the Basin Reserve to claim the trophy for the astonishing 10th successive year.

DominionPost - 28 March 2011

Wellington Cricket - 1 April 2011

DominionPost - 2 April 2011

Wellington Cricket - Day 1 - 2nd April 2011

DominionPost - Day 2 - 3rd April 2011

DominionPost - Day 3

Wellington Cricket - Day 3

Images Day 1

Result was a win to Karori by 108 runs - we will get it back!!!

Premier Men Competition Points Top 3
Karori - 110.30
Easts - 93.26
Naenae - 90.86

End of Season Prizegiving Dinner

The Club’s End of Season Prizegiving Dinner will be held at the Clubrooms on Saturday 26th March from 7.30pm.

The sumptuous Buffet Dinner will be served at 8.30pm followed by Prizegiving and then the Mystery Guest!

$20 per head - no exceptions, including late arrivals.

Club bar prices.

I want all teams well represented.

Keep that night free!!!!!!!!!!!

Promises to be a humdinger!!!

Cheers, Gordie

Placemaker Player of the week - Lance Dry

Player of the Week can be won by anyone who does something extraordinary in New Zealand sport each week.

The PlaceMakers Player of the Week wins a $250 PlaceMakers voucher and last weeks winner was Lance Dry who achieved two milestones - his best bowling in an innings with 7-55 and a maiden century of 111* when batting at number 10. He also set a new club 10th partnership record of 112 with Ricky Joseph.

Listen to Murray Deakers Sportstalk on Newstalk ZB yesterday afternoon when Lance was awarded Placemakers Player of the Week.

Move the seek button to 26:15 to listen to Murray talking with Lance:- Newstalk ZB - 6 March 2011

Painful end to season for Josh Brodie

History repeated in painful fashion for young Wellington & Easts opener Josh Brodie yesterday when his season was ended in the nets.

A distraught Brodie was told he would be sidelined for six to eight weeks after his left index finger was broken by a short delivery from Wellington fast bowler Andy McKay at net practice.

It was a broken bone in the same finger that ended Brodie’s season at a similar stage last year as he was pushing for higher honours.

Captain Lance Dry leads by example

Lance had his career best bowling figures 7-55 and first senior century in the two day match against North City on 26th & 27th Feb 2011.

The first day Lance removed the two openers and with some help from Jeetan Patel put Norths on the back foot when the scorebook changed from 0-66 to 4-67. Lance’s 1st innings bowling figures were 27 overs, 9 maidens and 7 wickets for 55 runs.

Chasing 270 for first innings points, Lance joined Josh Mclauchlan (68) at the crease when the score was 238-8. Lance & Josh achieved the target of 270 and progressed to 330-9 scoring 95 runs for the 9th wicket.

Next in at number 11 was Ricky Joseph (47) and Lance and Ricky went about setting a new Premier Mens team 10th wicket partnership record of 112 beating the previous record, set in the 2008 three day final, of 89 held by Lance & Roger Fouhy

Other highlights in the match were Jeetan Patel’s 3-90, Josh Brodie (80) and Scott Golder (70).

We are now in 2nd place in the Pearce Cup and are sniffing around with a chance for the final with 2 matches to play.

Father & son play together for Easts Hazlett Cup Team

The Easts club chairman and Wellington selector Doug Pollock decided to dust off the whites and team up with his 18 year old son Andrew for the two day match against Taita VIC Cycles.

At 44 and fresh up from a spell, Doug hopes he can break his senior club century drought for Eastern Suburbs today. But a few catches off his son's bowling would do nicely instead.

Plunket Shield huge motivation for Josh Brodie

Expect Josh Brodie to hit the ground running when the Plunket Shield resumes at the Basin Reserve with the Wellington Firebirds hosting the Auckland Aces.

With a strong motivation to help the Wellington Firebirds rediscover their winning formula and a huge desire to play Test cricket for the BLACKCAPS, the left handed opener can’t wait to don the whites and get back into four-day cricket.

“I’m excited about the upcoming Plunket Shield games and it’s a great opportunity for Wellington to finish the season strongly,” he said. “We need to put in some good performances over the next several weeks - the batsmen need to score big hundreds and occupy the crease while the bowlers need to form partnerships and back each other up. If we can have some big sessions and dominate teams then we can climb up the ladder and be in contention for the title at the business end of the season.”

Kilbirnie Sports - Annual Summer Sale

Starts on Friday 11th February 2011

10-50% off all Cricket Gear*

20-40% off All Cricket Shoes

20% off all Cricket Clothing

and more ....................

* excludes Kookaburra Cricket Balls

To find out more go to the Kilbirnie Sports website
where you can purchase online - Kilbirnie Sports

Easts players selected for Wellington Under 23

Two East Premier Team players, Ricky Joseph and Niranjan Naguleswaran, have been selected to represent Wellington in the National Under 23 tournament.

All three formats will be played throughout the tournament that is played amongst the six Major Associations, including one three-dayer, three one-dayers and one Twenty20 fixture.

Wellington’s draw is:
24-26 January v Otago (three-day match)
28 January v Auckland (One-Day match)
29 January v Canterbury (One-Day match)
30 January v Northern Districts (One-Day match)
31 January v Central Districts (Twenty20 match)

Four Easts Premier team selected for Wellington 23 match against Hutt Valley

The annual Wellington versus Hutt Valley cricket match for the Stewie Dempster Shield is being played this Sunday 19th December 2010 at Fraser Park. Four East Premier Team players have been selected with Josh Brodie as Captain along with Jeremy Dean, Josh McLauchlan & Ricky Joseph.

This year the match doubles as a trial match for the Wellington U23 side that will contest the National Tournament in Lincoln from 24 of January 2011.

How about providing support to your fellow East players.

See more - Wellington Cricket

Three Easts Premier team make Wellington Twenty20 Trial

Three of the Easts Premier team are in the Wellington trial game to be played at Kelburn Park on Tuesday 30th November 2010. The four players are Jeremy Dean, Scott Golder and Jeetan Patel.

See more - DominionPost - Mark Geenty

Jeetan Patel will captain the Wellington Twenty20 team with Scott & Jeremy missing selection.

See more - DominionPost - Sam Worthington

Lance Dry joins celebrated 500 Club

There was little in Lance Dry’s first over in Pearce Cup cricket to suggest he would go on to take 500 wickets. But that’s the milestone the 35-year-old Eastern Suburbs leg spinner reached yesterday, when he dismissed Naenae’s Damian Austin, on home turf at Kilbirnie Park.

In doing so, Dry became the first bowler since Evan Gray (Karori and Johnsonville) to reach the elusive mark.

See more - DominionPost - Hamish Bidwell

Club Guns

In the very first edition of a new series Club Guns on the Twenty20 website they spoke to former Wellington Firebird and current Eastern Suburbs stalwart Scott Golder about his career for both the Easts club and Wellington province.

See more - Twenty20 Report - Marc Ellison

Live Scorecard

Premier Pearce Cup

21 & 28 January 2012

Nairnville Park 1

Easts 227-9 decl

Josh Brodie
Scott Golder
Sam Mclauchlan

44
54
65

Onslow 89-10 & 75-5

Nathan Cameron
Michael Burns

7-28
4-20

Day 2 as at 12:00pm

Recent Updates

Weekly Draw - 23 Jan 2012
Results - 22 Jan 2012
Cook Shield - 21 Jan 2012
Gallery - 21 Jan 2011

2011/2012 - Season
as at 21 Jan 2012

Standings

Premier
Hazlett
Senior 3
Women 2020
2A Roosters
2A Bullets
2B Demons
2B Tigers
2C Hawks
2C Aces
2C Bulldogs
2C Sharks
2C Superchallengers
1A Originals
1B Bay Boys
2020 Cobras
2020 Indies
2020 Buffaloes

43.27
31.12
39.76
27.00
51.76
31.88
33.94
22.77
36.47
41.07
21.35
35.12
56.09
42.00
16.00
45.00
36.00
15.00

2nd
5th
3rd
2nd
3rd
5th
5th
8th
5th
3rd
8th
6th
1st
1st
6th
2nd
1st
4th

Centuries

Nick Lunn
Josh Brodie
Felix Faisandier
Roy Singh
Roy Singh
Phil Callaghan
Aalok Manohar

176
149*
122
120
118
114
100

10 + Wickets

Firoz Sait Mohammed
Jack Buchanan

15 - 71
10 - 65

5 + Wickets

Firoz Sait Mohammed
Martin Badenhorst
Nathan Cameron
Jack Buchanan
Firoz Sait Mohammed
Logan Pithyou
Kris Bieringa
Jacob Alex
Jacob Alex
Greg Stanger
Jeremy Marr
Firoz Sait Mohammed
Steve Pyke
Jack Buchanan
Richard Gilhooly
Roy Singh
Michael Burns
Christian Bonnevie
Firoz Mohammed
Lachlan Donnelly
Alex Davidson

8 - 28
7 - 27
7 - 28
7 - 39
7 - 43
7 - 53
6 - 22
6 - 43
6 - 48
6 - 49
5 - 13
5 - 15
5 - 18
5 - 22
5 - 37
5 - 40
5 - 41
5 - 48
5 - 49
5 - 54
5 - 60