Author: John Walter

First Grade Wanneroo 212 (O’Day 37, De silva 37, Stumpers 28*, Holly 27) def. by Midland-Guildford 9/215 (Billington 4/26, Dzodzos 3/38) After Christmas break cricket has finally arrived to Kingsway, thanks to Vinny Clarke for his hard work to get us up a decent deck. At a special and atmospheric Pink Stumps Ladies Day event,…

U/17s South Perth 5/137 (Walker 2/16) & 1/11 def Wanneroo 9/137 (Walker 41, Marinovich 32) & 0/10(cc) On a perfect Saturday morning we travelled to Richardson Park to play South Perth. After winning to toss we elected to bowl in the hope of early wickets. With Rhys Walker and Riley Gillespie taking the new ball…

First Grade University 181 (Poulter 5/68, Sabburg 4/29) and 2/7 def by Wanneroo 197 (Varsani 44, De silva 35, Swindells 33, O’Day 27) and 5/77dec (Swindells 29) Day 1 started off with a toss win for Deon so the Roos went in to bat. Openers Sam De Silva (debut innings) and Michael (Moog) O’Day started…

First Grade Wanneroo drew Joondalup 5/265 (Poulter 2/37) Not much to write home about this round. The wet weather wanted to get involved in our game so there was lots of sitting and waiting on day one before the umpires deemed the pitch unsafe to play on. Day 2 started with promise, with fiery opening…

First Grade Wanneroo 317 (Sabburg 110, Swindells 70, Holly 34, Varsani 32) def. Rockingham-Mandurah 10/300 (Sabburg 3/54, Billington 3/76) The first two-day game at home for the 1’s got off to a good start with captain Deon winning the toss and without hesitation electing to bat. Not the best of starts with the Roos being…

First Grade Wanneroo 130 (de Nobrega 32) def. by Subiaco-Floreat 7/216 (Sabburg 2/38, Richards 2/41) The 1s were back at Kingsway for the 4th round of the season. Deon won the toss (again) and sent Subiaco-Floreat into bat first. Matthew Dzodzos and Bailey Richards started off well restricting the runs and picking up 1 each…

First Grade Scarborough 0/114 def. Wanneroo 113 (Sabburg 34, de Nobrega 26) The ones once again won the toss with Deon choosing to bat. Chris Sabburg got going quickly, scoring freely. Once he got out, the roos collapsed poorly with only three of our batters going double figures, with the roos limping to 113. Scarborough…

First Grade Men Wanneroo 215 (Varsani 65, Richards 34, Holly 28) def. by Melville 4/249 (Billington 2/34) The day started very promising with new skipper Deon Billington winning the toss and electing to bowl first. However, after an eventful first over Melville were on track for about 950 and 2nd bowler Bailey “bee sting” Richards…

First Grade Mount Lawley 133 (Dzodzos 4/21, B Richards 4/33) def by Wanneroo 2/134 (Spangenberg 50*, de Nobrega 41, Sabburg 27) For the first game of the year the Roos were up against the Mount Lawley Hawks. Heading to Breckler, debuting Roo Ricardo de Nobrega was handed his A-grade baggy (#209) before the team went…

It is with great sadness that yesterday we sadly lost one of our pioneering legends of the club Dick Wheeler. He has had a couple of health battles over the past 6 months, but sadly after the numerous hospital visits found that some battles were insurmountable. Dick was a foundation member of the club, club…