NDCC Yearbook 2025 - Flipbook - Page 43
U17/19's - Coach Ali Poll
The NDCC Academy teams showed great progress during 2024, after experiencing a chastening
reintroduction the previous year.
The U19s only lost one match, away to a very strong Bideford side, and the U17s progressed to
the Devon Finals Day where we came up short against Ipplepen in the semi final.
Individual highlights were provided with the bat by Ed W who scored two unbeaten half centuries
in consecutive days, and Navindu V who won the Batting Award.
With the ball, Noah T turned the match away to Holsworthy with 4 for 5, and in two games against
Braunton Dylan E bowled devastating spells to finish with 4 for 7 off 4 overs.
However, the best contribution in a single match went to Jools H at home to Bideford who took 4
for 5 and then clubbed 53no.
Both teams were superbly captained by Oscar M, who contributed with both bat and ball, and
captained with a maturity which he should take into his new role as 2nd Team Vice Captain.
It has been a great privilege to have been able to coach this group over the past two years, I only
hope they continue to grow, both as
cricketers and as people, and I am
certain that they will achieve great
success.
Under 17/19's Awards
Batter – Navindu Vanderbona
Bowler – Noah Tovell
Fielder – Harris Swayer
Player's Player – Ed Wilson
Manager's Player – Oscar Meech
Spirit of Cricket – Ellis Duerden
We again finished the season with a celebration day which included 2 concurrent parents /
guardians versus junior games, these were then followed by a presentation and awards and the
biggest raffle in the world! Thankfully we were blessed by good weather again. We have
already booked the awards day for this season, this will be the 13th September and will this year
incorporate the adults end of season awards too. It’s a fantastic end to the season and allows us
to celebrate the efforts of the juniors and the helpers and coaches too.
We have been running training throughout the winter, it has been a huge success again and we’ll
look to keep on running this going forwards.
On to 2025, the season is nearly upon us! We have some fantastic coaches and team managers
and we’re massively supported by all of the parents, guardians and grandparents. We’ve got a
fantastic group of children who are developing all the time. It’s a privilege for me to be a part of all
this and to see how the juniors are developing and continuing into adult cricket. Here’s to a
successful 2025.
Simon - Chair of the NDCC Juniors
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