Our MVP and Fieldlow votes count

You know it's getting towards the end of the season when we hold our Most Valuable Player and Fieldlow votes counts, and the Sunday night of the long weekend saw some spirited barracking for the favorites and the smokies.
The Labor Day weekend marked the last game for our Firsts and Seconds, while our Thirds, Fourths and Women's team are still in the race. Our other grades finished earlier.
Around three dozen of the club faithful gathered at the pavilion for the March 7 count, and the slide show provided by Peter Golding. Thanks also to Dom Rettino for organising the catering - pizzas all around!
The MVP winners were: Firsts Nadeera Thuppahi; Seconds Matt Esmore; Thirds Sunil Bhandari, Fourths Jay Patel; Fifths Liam Shaw; Sixths James Smith; Sevenths Simon Kapitelli; Eighths Hafiz Ahmad.
The Fielding award winners were: Firsts Daniel Comande and Anthony Cafari; Seconds Michael Ozbun and Geoff McKeown; Thirds Peter Golding; Fourths Jay Patel; Fifths Paddy Shelton; Sixths Eamon O'Toole; Sevenths Nick Pigitsakis; Eighths Rohit Sharma.
Above: MVP and Fieldlow winners celebrate the event. L-R: Back - Peter Golding, Nadeera Thuppahi, Michael Ozbun, Matt Esmore; Eamon O'Toole, Simon Kapitelli. Front - Sunil Bhandari, Daniel Comande, Anthony Cafari.
The Women's team is still finalising votes.
***For more photos and full voting from the night, click here .


REWARD FOR

EFFORT FOR

OUR SHAUN

 One of Moonee Valley's most diligent and committed cricketers, Shaun Rayment has played his way to the 200-game mark.
One of the best half-dozen fielders at our club, Shaun has played anywhere we need him over the years since his debut in 2005/06, and has been a mainstay of Danny Terzini's two-day teams over successive seasons.
Shaun played in the Sixths 2013/14 Premiership team, and his athleticism and catching and fielding skills in the outfield went a long way towards the victory.
He brought up game 200 on February 21 in the Sevenths, in the team which narrowly went out in the Quarter Final after being overhauled with just four balls to go.

At left: Shaun's next target is 300 games - he's showing us with his fingers.
Behind him are teammates from Game 200 - L-R Tom Janetzki, Anthony Cafari, Bill Nimorakiotakis, Luke Brock, Felix Fischer, Luca Nimorakiotakis and Steve Esmore.
In one memorable game in the one-day grades in 2009, Shaun hit his first and only 50, against Sunshine. He backed it up with his best bowling figures - 4/31.
He's got 820 runs to his credit so Shaun's next target is reaching the 1000-run milestone.
He's naggingly accurate with his slow bowling, and has 27 scalps to his name.
Shaun has opened the batting when we've needed him to do a job, and is the ultimate team man by batting anywhere in the order as required.



Ben's Hur-culean effort

Congratulations to Ben Thomas on reaching his 250th game at Moonee Valley - a place where only 11 Moonee Valley players have gone before  him in our 50-year club history.
It's a remarkable achievement, given that Ben initially showed no interest in joining brother Matt at the Valley, and instead played his junior cricket at Barkly Street.
But once we got Ben down to Ormond Park in 2003/04 he's stuck fast, and has forged his own history at our Club.
At the start of this season Ben sat 10th on our all-time runs leader board, and is rapidly closing on 5000.
At right: Milestone man Ben Thomas (right) with fellow life member and teammate Dean Jukic.
He's had an interrupted 2020/21 season so far, missing most of the early games due to an ongoing back problem. But in the past couple of weeks in the Thirds he's hit his straps and hit some runs.
Ben brought up his milestone game in a solid win over Flemington on February 7 and top scored with 29.
Such is his unassuming character, he tried to let the significant milestone go unnoticed.
The Thirds are finals-bound this season, and Ben is sure to be a key cog in the push for a flag.
Ben's already a two-time Premiership winner, and a third medal would look very nice in the trophy cabinet. 

 

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Last updated : March 9, 2021.
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