SUCCESSFUL SEASON LAUNCH

On Thursday 9th October the junior and senior sections of the club came together for a very successful season’s launch at EE Gunn Reserve. More than one hundred excited juniors with their parents received their playing shirts as teams, captains, coaches and managers were announced prior to the first round of matches.

The club was fortunate to obtain the Chairman of Selectors for the Victorian Bushrangers, John McWhirter, who spoke to both senior players and several juniors about the pathways available to young players and how senior Premier Cricket talent is identified and fast tracked to levels of state selection in all forms of the game.

The arrival of the coloured one day shirts added to the occasion as senior captains Simon Beshara (1st XI), Sean Clark (2nd XI), Darren Stait (3rd XI) and David Jones (4th XI) were announced.

The club thanks our major sponsor Buxton Real Estate and Andrew Chisholm for their continued support and also appreciates the assistance of the Glen Eira Council for its ongoing support of turf cricket in the municipality.

John McWhirter, Chairman of Selectors for Victorian Bushrangers, speaks to Ormond players.

R.M. Hatch COMPETITION

After winning the RM Hatch Competition for the first time earlier this year, the Ormond Cricket Club is preparing for back-to-back wins in 2009.  The Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Stait as the Ormond Hatch Coach and Darren has begun the pre-planning for next year's tournament success.  Read about the training dates and other important information here.

Photos

David Watts has been very busy attending lots of games and taking many photos. These photos are available for you to view and download. They can be found at http://occlub.spaces.live.com/. Thanks David.

What's Happening "Around The Nets"

Senior training is at the nets at EE Gunn Reserve on Tuesday and Thursday from 6.00pm. Specialist Coach Peter Burke attends training on Tuesdays.

Junior Coaching

A new junior coaching structure was introduced last season. The lynchpin to the success of this initiative was the appointment of Darren Stait to the newly created position of Junior Coaching Coordinator.

The key outcome from this new structure, and from Darren's appointment, will be a far more effective cricket skills acquisition program for our young cricketers. But to be completely successful it will need support from the parent group to step-up as coaches and assistant coaches, and involvement of the Club’s Senior players.

Read more here about how you can become involved.

Annual Report 2007-08 

The Ormond Cricket Club Annual Report 2007-08 is available here.(PDF File - 2mb)