Coromandel Cricket Club | Established 1862

The Club currently fields four senior teams which cater for a range of cricketing abilities and backgrounds, from those with Grade cricket experience to those who are still learning the game.

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Coro mourns the loss of one of their Life Members

It was sad news to hear that on Tuesday 17th August 2010 Rowan Lloyd lost his battle with illness. He had been struggling over the past 12 months or more and whilst there were encouraging signs over this time that he was getting better, sadly it got the better of him.

Lloydy was one of those great club men. In the early years he was a member that just enjoyed playing his cricket but after retiring he did devote so much time to the club as a committee member and secretary. He was also instrumental with myself in starting the junior cricket program which has seen so many new young players enter the club.

Lloydy was one of these guys that just never said no. I was lucky enough to have him as a committee member and secretary in my time as President of the club. You would ask him if he could do or chase something up and he would then, bring his pipe to his mouth, take a puff, and say, yes no worries Darren, yes I will get that done.

For many years he was also captain of our 4th or 5th XI sides which he just loved as it was made up mostly of the young fellas he had managed through the juniors. The highlight for the rest of the club was at the after match round up of results. He would walk out the front to give his speech, everyone would be quiet, we would all be waiting, he would start to talk and then it came.  He would take hold of the top of hs trousers and pull 'em. The crowd would cheer, Hitch em' up Lloydy Hitch em' up! Everyone would yell. Good times.

In later years, I think from Mike "Kiwi" Maclean, he got the nic name of Clarry after the great Australian spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett as he did bowl a funny style of spin bowling and he certainly looked in the style of Clarrie's era.

In his past few years he had been working tirelessly towards our 150 yr celebrations in 2012 collecting lots of historical data on the club. He will dearly be missed during these celebrations.

At 2.00pm on Tuesday 24th August Lloydy's funeral service will be held where he will be laid to rest.

Rest In Peace Rowan and thanks for the memories and being a great friend.

Love ya 

Darren Cheek 

Presentation Night 2009/10 (10th April)

Trophy Winners

Henry is a winner!!

This week our own Bruce Henry Carpenter was the round 5 winner of the 5AA Coopers Living Legend promotion and was heard being interviewed on 5AA 30th March 2010.

Congrats Henry. If you missed the interview here it is http://www.fiveaa.com.au/Article_Bruce-Carpenter-Coopers-Local-Legend_99212 

1st XI Grand Final evenly poised at stumps (27th March)

In the 1st XI grand final at William Light School, captain Darren Coulter called correctly at the toss and elected to bat in slightly overcast conditions.
After the early loss of Matt Longhurst, Gareth Bruce and Jai Koirala put their heads down and ground out a second wicket stand of 68 in just under two hours before Jai was caught at first slip for 28. Bruce batted with the same determination as he has all season surviving 150 balls in top-scoring with 41. He hit five boundaries - including one delightful straight drive (all the way along the ground past the bowler) and two intentionally edged over second slip.
As the main break approached, Sam Cheek scored 16 runs from an over (clearing the long on boundary twice) and his side were well placed at two for 97 at tea.
However Coromandel's batting has been brittle all season and Bruce and Cheek were dismissed in rapid succession after tea, caught in the in-field. Some clever bowling changes and field positioning resulted in some tight bowling and in one period only five runs (all sundries) were scored from 10 overs for the loss of four wickets. At one stage the score was 8/124 before a cameo of 15 from Ben Moore helped push the score up to 141.
It is with great sadness that the statistician reports the four ducks in this innings is a record in A-Grade finals matches.
In the remaining 20 minutes before stumps the bowlers did manage to send a few shudders through the batsmen in fading light.
Josh Lourens commenced the innings with a lovely leg-cutter followed by an inswinging yorker that sent all stumps flying. On the next ball Glenelg ANA skipper Steff Basso tore an achilles heel running a quick single and he was forced to bat with a runner for the remainder of the day. Gareth Bruce breathed more life into the Coromandel cheer squad as he produced a magnificent inswinger to the left-hander taking the top of off stump. Two wickets were down with only four runs on the board.

At the Western Youth Centre, 3rd XI captain Mike Maclean lost the toss and his team was inserted into the field. However they quickly the made their presence felt bundling the hosts out for 127.
It was a captain's dream for Maclean with a myriad of bowling options available and yet he only needed two up to the tea break. Openers Adam Morris (4/30) and Thomas Bird (2/38) completed their full quota of 15 overs and reduced the opposition to 6 for 69 at the half-way mark in the day.
What a luxury - being able to keep the leading wicket-taker (Will Hillier) on ice for 30 overs! Will and Graham Carpenter completed the task - each bowling 11 overs and taking two wickets.
In fact the situation could have been far better for the 3rd XI - there were five dropped catches, three from the bowling of "T-Bird"!
Openers Mark Lemmey (6) and "night-watchman" Brendan Richards (4) saw the team safely to stumps at 12 without loss.

Full scores from the first day's play of grand-finals.

Grand Finals

Grand Finals this week (confirmed)

Coromandel Vrs Glenelg ANA - William Light School - Errington Street, Plympton

Coromandel III Vrs Western Youth III - Western Youth Centre