Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Twenty Seasons Onin the sub-district competition. One comprised former juniorplayers and three fathers - Malcolm Overland, Les Drew and JimFaulkner. The other team was made up of players with wideranging backgrounds, abilities and ages.Like the early years of the nation's history, records of theinaugural senior season are extremely sketchy and are limited toanecdotal evidence provided by early stalwarts like Chris Harris,Don Brooker, Ian Phillips, Jim Nuttall, Laurie Evans, Pat Flynnand Percy Samara-Wickrama.The team of fathers and former juniors was relatively constant andsettled, in direct contrast to the other team whose compositionwas never certain, even on the morning of the match.Introductions to new team mates were necessary before the startof every game. In one match the Weston Creek captain asked thefieldsman at square leg to go a little deeper only to discover thathe was a member of the opposing team acting as an umpire.In the next season Don Brooker stood down from the Presidencyto concentrate on the development of the increasing number ofjuniors. He was succeeded by Laurie Evans. Ian "Pussa" Phillipstook over as Secretary from Chris Harris. Again two teams wereentered in the sub-district competition. There were 12 juniorteams. All the junior teams reached the semi-finals of theircompetitions with the Under 14s and Under lis going on to bepremiers. The senior teams, too,did much better and recordedseveral notable performances.Laurie Evans scored the first century for the Club while KenMatthews, the Naval Attache at the British High Commission,captured 25 wickets at an average of 14.08. Ken enjoyed hisseason so much that, before he returned to England, he donatedthe "Ken Matthews Shield" as a perpetual trophy to be awardedeach year for the best bowling performance.3