“Jessica Black captained the girl’s team in the last match of the season and although narrowly defeated by the Boys Under 9’s team, she showed real leadership in her decisions, analysing the strengths of her own side, evaluating who would be best at batting and bowling, setting the field with no assistance from others, and importantly was careful to ensure not only that no one was left out, but that each of her team members was encouraged to do their best. Importantly for any aspiring captain she ensured that she neither opened the batting nor the bowling, despite being a clear contender as one of the best all-rounders on her team. This selflessness and ability to identify the best in others in my view is in keeping with the true spirit of the game”
Well done Jessica.
Jermaine Scantlebury, the award winner for June, spent his prize money on a new cover for use on the Ferme Park square. It’s great we now have this, thank you Jermaine and let’s hope we don’t need to use it for the rest of the Summer!
We had a record number of nominations for July – thanks to all concerned, keep them coming
JUNE: Jermaine Scantlebury.
On the 9th June 2007 in a 3rd team fixture away to Bessborough Jermaine Scantlebury returned the following figures: 15 overs, 2 maidens, 8 wickets for 64 runs conceeded. A truly outstanding performance and due reward for 2 spells of unrelenting pace and accuracy. There were many nominations made in June...all for the same person.
Well done Jermaine and many congratulations on being North London’s Jack Petchey achievement award winner for June.
Frankie Fraser the award winner for May spent the prize money on 3 full sets of wicket keeping equipment (covering different age groups) and used the remaining money to purchase new balls for the bowling machine. Thank you Frank and well done.
May 2007: Frankie Fraser
I’m delighted to announce the May recipient of the Jack Petchey Foundation achievement award. Frankie scored heavily for the under 13’s in May and also bowled well. He is a very keen member of the team, always tries hard and he’s very helpful during training sessions. A credit to the NLCC colts, Frankie now has £200 to spend on the club.
Also, to update you on the April award winner Jack Grylls chose to spend his £200 on the following:
- New Umpire Coats for games.
- New battery for the bowling machine.
April 2007 - JACK GRYLLS
I'm delighted to announce the winner of NLCC's first Jack Petchey Foundation award. There were 3 nominations and from those nominations Jack Grylls was unanimously selected as the winner. Jack has taken on the
administration of the NLCC website and done sterling work, both in developing the site and in ensuring updated player availability information has been available to selectors. It's no accident that we fielded 5 strong teams yesterday and that membership numbers and player availability are both high. It augers well for the club's future that one of our younger cricketers has stepped up to take on an important administrative role. Jack will now be encouraged to spend his £200 award on something benefitting NLCC in the very near future.
I'll let you all know what Jack has chosen to spend the money on in my next update, in the meantime let's try and get a few nominations coming in for May - the season is well underway, there will be lots of cricket played in the month and lots of opportunities to nominate 11-25 year olds.
Congratulations once more to Jack Grylls.
Jim Green - Award Co-ordinator