Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Weston Creek, Cricket Clubgame for 2 hours and fifty minutes of a three hour game andcome home the winners. How disappointing for the opposition!The losing side had to learn the hard way and quickly how toshow very good sportsmanship. By the way, this was an U15grand final and Margaret and I were close to suffering a cardiacarrest and I'm sure a few of my friends were finally convincedthat cricket could be an exciting game after all.And then there were two occasions when the unbeatables werebeaten; as a matter of fact, consecutive years, both in the semifinals.After being undefeated all year, I arrived at the game tofind that the Weston Creek U11 team had bowled the oppositionout for 52 runs. I continued on my way to other games and afterbeing home for quite a few hours happened to ask, "How manyruns did you win by?" There was no answer, only a flood oftears...."We only got 30". The very same day, a prominentWeston Creek coach was tearing his hair out having 1 wicketdown and ten runs to win and losing the game. "How could thishappen?" - that's cricket.There have been wonderful opportunities in the ACT for ourboys to play representative cricket at all ages right through toColts and Open. There have been also many games playedagainst visiting teams and the opportunity to travel to manystates of Australia. I was so proud when Paul was selected inthe Australian Country team to play Sri Lanka in Bendigo,Victoria in 1990.In 1985 Weston Creek Cricket Club under the direction of PercySamara-Wickrama organised a tour to England. I wasabsolutely ecstatic about all members of the Club having thisopportunity to play in the Old Country. Paul went on this tourand I was so happy for them all.Since then both he and Scott hav.e toured with the 1988 touringteam. Neil has had a season playing with the Neston Cricket90