September 4th 2005
Junior Cricket Skills and Single Wicket Finals Day
Scorching hot weather once again greeted the young Oaks cricketers in pursuit of single wicket glory. A total of XX young cricketers turned out to contest the five age-group finals. Amongst them were four of last year's winners Joel Gallagher, Scott Hartley, Nick Crook and Jack Davison.
The morning's events were once again a six-discipline skills competition designed to whittle the numbers down to two in each age-group for the afternoon finals. The disciplines were Running, catching, batting, bowling, throwing and fielding. The Running was held in age-groups with other events in mixed groups although the scoring system was against only each cricketers peer group. The Running skill comprised a 100 yard sprint and a 66-yard 'three-run' simulation with bat in hand. As usual the crowd were unstinting in their derision of any one considered not trying and this year was no exception. The five-discipline rotation followed for the remainder of the morning. The results emerged as below:
| Under 11s | Batting | Bowling | Throwing | Catching | Running | Fielding | Total |
| Ben Fothergill | 5 | 4 | 1.5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 26.5 |
| Jack Davison | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 24.0 |
| Arron Smith | 1.5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3.5 | 19.0 |
| Jason Roberts | 1.5 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3.5 | 1 | 18.0 |
| Jack Middleton | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.5 | 0 | 11.5 |
| Lewis Wrathall | 0 | 0 | 1.5 | 4 | 1 | 3.5 | 10.0 |
| Alex Whitehead | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10.0 |
| Jackson Rouse | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 7.0 |
Under 11s Final
The Under-11s Final promised and delivered a well contested Final with
Jack Davison a
winner in 2004 at
u-9 level attempting to overcome first time finalist
Ben Fothergill.
Jack's 16 score (11 from bat) was attainable but a wicket for Jack made the task
doubly difficult for Ben. Plucky Ben made a total of 6 as Jack took the title by
10 runs