Twenty - Weston Creek Cricket Club

Weston Creek, Cricket ClubDon Brooker in his Annual Report said,"... a highly successfulseason culminated in the Weston Creek Cricket Club becomingthe ACTCA Club Champions for the second time in threeseasons. Without a doubt the last season has been the mostsuccessful, in playing terms at least, in the Club's history .... allof the teams qualified to play in the semi-finals "As the 1984-85 season closed, another of Percy Samara-Wickrama's cricketing dreams was coming close to realisation. Ithad long been his ambition to take a team from Weston Creek ona tour of England where he had so many happy cricket memories.He had no trouble convincing the committee and the proposal wasenthusiastically received by the players. A team of 15 players,two managers and a scorer were soon preparing themselves forthe historic inaugural tour. All arrangements were made by Percythrough his various friends in England, and in August 1985, thetouring party departed on the four week 11 match tour whichtook them to some of England's most beautiful cricket grounds.A visit to the historic Old Trafford ground where the scheduledgame against a Lancashire XI was rained off, and a practicesession at Lord's were magnificent features of a cricket experiencethat most will never forget.Since that time, two more tours to England have taken place.Over the years, the Club has also placed 13 young players withEnglish clubs to gain experience playing under differentconditions.John Carr of Middlesex County Cricket Club replaced JohnAbrahams as the club's visiting professional in 1986-87., scoring614 runs at an average of 47 and, in the process, making a groundrecord score of 173 not out at Stirling Oval. Stuart Fletcher, apace bowler from Yorkshire followed in 1987-88. Since that timethe Club has not engaged the services of an overseas player.Having initiated the programme of bringing English professionals16