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INTRODUCTION (A little history) SEASON PHOTOGRAPHS (Photographs of the various states of the ground, players at practice, teams before and after matches and other horrors!) MEMBERS (Introductions & Photographs) NEWLETTERS (Featuring all contributions) 2002 Kytes & Mucha AGM Report (Members, please check!) 2002 KANTO CRICKET LEAGUE SCHEDULE (The official Competition) KYTES & MUCHA CPC'S SCHEDULES (Members, please check!) CURRENT CRICKET NEWS (What's happening in Japan!) LINKS IN JAPAN (Access to all clubs) LINKS ABROAD (Access to whole world cricket news) FRIENDLY SITES & SISTER CLUBS (New friends are always welcome!) 2002 SEASON SCHEDULES (Check your club venue) MATCH RESULTS (All results in Japan!) CHAMPIONSHIPS TABLES (Check your current position!) FANTASY CRICKET (For the fun of it!)

31/03/2002
Third and probably last(!) practice. More rolling, lawnmowing and cutting!
Wealso had the pleasure to welcome a new player, namely Allan hammer from Australia, whose mother is actually Japanese!

24/03/2002
Second practice, Rolling and a lot of Weeding for the Kytes!
Our youngest member, Arthur Harrison, 12, took part in the practice and showed remarkable coordination and application under the tutelage of no less than 4 coaches. We finally had to stop him!

10/03/2002
First practice, Rolling and Meeting for the Kytes!
Read Report >>

03~07/03/2002
2nd AGM Minute readied by Biju Paul:
Please check here!>>

03/03/2002
2nd AGM finalizes 2002 Kanto Cricket League format:
Tough task ahead for the Kytes to stay in Division 1, while Fuji Far East is favourite for promotion!
The clubs participating in the Kanto Cricket League have agreed to follow the rules of the JCA as a JCA-sanctioned competition, mainly that illegal residents will not be able to qualify for the KCL.
The format of two Divisions is kept as planned in 2001 and reads as follows:
Division 1:
Friends XI C.C.
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.
Millennium C. C.
Tokyo Giants C.C.
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C.
Yokohama Country & Athletics Club C.C.

Division 2:
Adore C.C.
Fuji Far East C.C.
MAX C.C.
Pakistan Eaglets C.C.
Tokyo Bay Districts C.C.
Tokyo British Embassy C.C.
Wyverns C.C.

The two top clubs of each Division will play a final (KCL Trophy & Plate).
The last two clubs of Division 1 will be demoted to Division 2 in 2003 and the two top clubs of Division 2 will be promoted to Division 1 in 2003.

Report to come soon

19/02/2002

Letter Riitta Jarvelainen, our Fan Club Honorary Chairwoman!
Hi !
Thanks for your greetings. I've been busy as always. Before Christmas I working like maniac trying to get everything done before my holiday. I took 4.5 weeks off as Antony and I went to South-EastAsia: Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.
We travelled by bus from Bangkok to Cambodia, the first place to stay was called Sihanoukville.Sihanoukville is by the sea and has gorgeous beaches. White sand and nobody there!
We spent about two weeks in Cambodia, and basically travelled from one place to another byboat along the Mekong river. It was very beautiful there. The capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh was a weird place. On the one hand, loads of French looking houses from the time of the French colonialism, and on the other hand, very dusty and dirty roads full of basic hut looking houses.
In Phnom Penh we went to a holocaust museum, it was very interesting. Maybe you remember the times of Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in 1975 - 79? He was a horrible man who caused the killing of nearly 2 million Cambodian people. The museum used to be a prison were Pol Pot's men tortured people trying to make them "proper" communists. After these people were tortured they were taken to the Killing Fields were they were either shot dead or most often beaten dead. They didn't want to spend any bullets as they were expensive so they rather used beating. It was awful.
We also went to see the Killing Fields.
The history of Cambodia is so interesting, that it made the trip exiting. Also there was so much to see in the country.
The royal palace in Phnom Penh was gorgoeus, much more beautiful than the royal palace in Bangkok. Also the temple area Angkor in the middle of the Cambodian jungle was something I have never seen. If you ever have chance to go there, you should definitely go.
And do you know, we went to see some fresh water irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong river. It was amazing! There are only about 60 of these dolphins left in Cambodia. They are so cute, they noses are flat so they don't look like ordinary dolphins at all.
The most exiting part of the trip was crossing the border of Cambodia and Laos in a border station that is not officially open. We had to pay some money first to the Cambodian officials to be able to leave Cambodia, and then we had to pay some money to Laotian officials to be able to enter Laos! But we made it.
Laos was a very interesting combination of communism and Buddhism. Everything is very slow in Laos, nobody is in a hurry. Sometimes you had to wait for a meal for a long time, and gradually we learnt to order food well before we felt hungry. There were plenty of wats (temple) in Laos, and monks everywhere in their orange robes. The scenery was also so beautiful, it was like I always thought Indo-China would have looked like.
So calm.
In the northern Laos it was quite cold and then it started raining a lot. Then we decided we'd spent the last week of our holiday somewhere in Thailand where it would be warm. We went to a small island called Ko Samet.
Oh, it was so hot and nice there. Just beach and sun and good food. I really enjoyed it. Ko Samet is a national park and it is very well kept. There are plenty of stray dogs but they don't disturb you at all.
One night we heard a dog crying under our hut and thought two dogs are fighting. But soon we also heard some squeaking... We went out to see what is happening, and the dog had given birth, there were 8 tiny puppies there!
Now we're back home and not very motivated doing any work. Winter has been very strange, there is hardly any snow even though this time of year it is usually very cold with loads of snow.
I hope you are ok. Please tell me some news from Shizuoka.
Take care.
br,
Riitta
Ext-Riitta.Jarvelainen@nokia.com

02/02/2002
Shizuoka Cricket club Emblem

We finally have our emblem/logo/arms! thanks to Mr. Tetsu Iwase, owner of Camelot British/Irish Bar in Shizuoka and first official sponsor of Shizuoka Cricket Club (i.e. Shizuoka County C.C., comprising Fuji Far East C.C., Mucha CPC & Shizuoka Kytes CC).
Please check Camelot article on our other HP!

15/01/2002
Anton McCloy's change of e-mail:

et everybody be informed that Anton's new e-mail is: straw@sf.tokai.or.jp

25/12/2001
Greetings from Mark "Coatsy" Coates

Dear all , a merry christmas and a happy new year from the land of smiles where there is no christmas whatsoever! Hope you are well wherever you are and that times are good now and for the following year. I'm working today(christmas day!) but will be on the beach beer in hand for four days at new year. All the best, Mark
mcc100lbw@hotmail.com
26/12/2000
Greetings and Letter from Mark & Yukapi Chaffey

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!
Our new address:
9/241, Anzac highway, Plympton, SA, Australia, 5038
tel.: (61)(0)8-83511091
E-Mail: go_chappy@hotmail.com

02/12/2001
2002 Kanto Cricket League Divisions 1 & 2 composition:
The Kanto Cricket League's two new Divisions will read as follows:
Division 1:
Tokyo Giants C.C.
Friends XI C.C.
Yokohama Country & Athletics Club C.C.
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.
Millennium C.C.
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C.
Tokyo Sri Lanka Lions C.C. (very doubtful)

Division 2:
Tokyo British Embassy C.C.
Fuji Far East C.C.
Adore C.C.
Wyverns C.C.
MAX C.C.
Tokyo Bay Districts C.C.
+ possible 7th club

18/11/2001
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C. retain Pacific Cup after levelling series against Shizuoka Kytes C.C.
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C.: 205/8 (Viswa Gosh, 53; Jaganath panda, 36; Vikram, 33; Extras, 33)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 145
Tokyo Indian Engineers c.C. won by 60 runs

14/10/2001
Shizuoka Kytes taking advantage of postponed pictures to do work on their pitch

Your faithful groundskeepers, Nicholas "Nick" Shannon & Robert-Gilles "Grandad" Martineau at work on Wednesday afternoon 14th of November 2001!

Click for more recent pictures of the ground>>

14/10/2001

Takashi Matsuura bowling Friendly: Second-string Kytes beat Adore C.C. with difficulty:
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 169/6 (M. McTamney, 56*; Farhan Ulla, 30: Extras, 38) (35 overs)
Adore C.C.: 152/8 (Takita, 39; M. Wilson, 3/19) (35 overs)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C. won by 17 runs

16/09/2001
Kanto Cricket League 2002 Division 1 Play-offs:
Gary Parsons' heroics (6/16 & 49) not enough to prevent Tokyo British Embassy's defeat by Shizuoka Kytes led by Matthew Sharpe's bowling (6/19)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 159/8 (Extras, 43; T. Phillips, 34; G. Parsons, 6/16)
Tokyo British Embassy C.C.: 99 (G. Parsons, 49, M. Sharpe, 6/19, M. McTamney, 3 catches)
Shizuoka Kytes Kytes C.C. won by 60 runs
Umpire: T. Ohira

10/08/2001
The new roller has come to the Shizuoka Ground:

From left to right:
Our new lawn mower (bought by the club for 150,000 yen), the new roller (paid by the KCL for 134,000 yen), the defunct roller (originally kindly offered by Glenn Carter)

14~15/07/2001
Kanto Cricket League:
Shizuoka Kytes make sure of their berth in Division 1 play-offs past Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C. in another bowlers' cliffhanger:
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C.: 97 (M. Wilson, 4/28; M. Sharpe, 3/22)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 100/8 (Extras, 38)
Shizuoka Kytes won by 2 wickets
Umpire: H. Smith

08/07/2001
Fuji Far East C.C. crush Wyverns C.C. by 9 wickets to send both teams in Division 2:
Wyverns C.C.: 99 (T. Baba, 34; K. Orita, 3/9; T. Yamamoto, 3/25)
Fuji Far East C.C.: 100/1 (H. Takahashi, 61*)
Umpires: A. McCloy & M. McTamney
Fuji Far East C.C. saved some honour for a disappointing season by crushing Wyverns C.C. in one of the most one-sided games of the season. H. Takahashi (61*9) set a second best batting record for Japanese batsmen.
(the recored is held by N. Miyaji of Mullennium C.C. with 64)

01/07/2001
Kanto Cricket League:
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C. relegate Fuji Far East C.C. to Division 2 in 2002
Fuji Far East C.C.: 151/4 (40 overs) (Extras, 51; T. Kawashima, 37*)
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C.: 152/8 (37.4 overs)(extras, 43; K. Orita, 3/23; T. kawashima, 3 catches)
Tokyo Indian Engineers C.C. won y 2 wickets

17/06/2001
Kanto Cricket League
Friends XI'S Naeem Qureshi put things right against Shizuoka Kytes C.C. in bowlers' festival!
Friends XI C.C.: 99 (M. Wilson, 3/5; R. Hutton, 3/11; N. Shannon, 3/34; Wides, 33; A. McCloy, 4 catches=record)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 31=lowest innings record! (Naeem Qureshi, 5/8)
Friends C.C. won by 68 runs
Umpire: T. Fuji

10/06/2001
Kanto Cricket league
Kytes tame Lions in major upset to take the lead of Group A!
Tokyo Sri Lanka Lions C.C.: 89 (28 overs) ( T. Phillips, 3/21)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 91/5 (31.3 overs)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C. won by 5 wickets.

Friends XI C.C. confirm their might in big win against Fuji Far East C.C.
Friends XI C.C.: 273/8 (Asad Ali, 52; Aamir Ali, 40; Zafar Iqbal, 38*)=Highest total of the year!
Fuji Far East C.C.: 156 (P. Rundell, 34; wides, 33; Aamir Ali, 5/15; Munir Ahmed, 3/20)
Aamir Ali's bowling figures, second best for the year!
Friends XI C.C. won by 117 runs
Umpires: T. Awazu, Higuchi

27/05/2001
Kanto Cricket League
R. McKenna (60) and Kytes' bowlers too much for Adore C.C.
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 148 (R. McKenna, 60; S. Nakazawa: 3/7)
Adore C.C.: 75
Shizuoka Kytes C.C. won by 73 runs
Umpires: H. Uemura, S. Fukumoto

20/05/2001
kanto Cricket league
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.'s bowlers skittle Fuji Far East C.C. to throw Group A open!
Fuji Far East C.C.: 78 (N. Shannon, 3/18; R. Huttoon, 3/20)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C. : 83/3 (M. Sharpe, 36)
Shizuka Kytes C.C. won by 7 wickets
Umpire: Mumtaz Alam

06/05/2001
Kanto Cricket League
Fuji Far East C.C. crushes Adore C.C. with an 184-run third wicket partnership
Fuji Far East C.C.: 241/2 (G. Carter, 106*, T. Kawashima, 51*; extras, 62) (40 overs)
Adore C.C.: 112 (H. Takahashi, 4/14; K. Orita, 3/20) (37.4 overs)
Umpires: T. Fuji & N. Miyaji

22/04/2000
Kanto Cricket League
J. Hanada and H. Kojima's bowling give surprise win for Wyverns C.C. over Shizuoka Kytes C.C.!
Wyverns C.C.: 72 (T. Phillips, 4/6; R. McKenna, 3/25; N. harrison, 3 catches)
Shizuoka Kytes C.C.: 62 (J. Hanada, 5/22, H. Kojima, 4-7)
Wyverns won by 10 runs
Umpires: F. Nakano, T. Kamei

Sujith Dharmasena's bowling helps Tokyo Sri Lanka Lions C.C. crush undermanned Fuji Far East C.C.
Fuji Far East C.C.: 82 (Sujith Dharmasena, 4/12; Indika Anurudha, 3 catches) )
Tokyo Sri lanka Lions C.C.: 85/2 (Fuard Junaideen , 34*)
Tokyo Sri lanka Lions C.C. won by 8 wickets
Umpire: R.A. Fordyce

25/02/2001
Sizuoka Kytes Cricket Club Annual General Meeting
On Sunday February 25th, 2001, the shizuoka Kytes C.C. held their AGM.
The following hierarchy was agreed upon:
General manager: Robert-Giles Martineau : Mobile: 09041977698
e-mail: contact@japan-cricket.com
2001 Captain: Anton McCloy, mobile: 09092200934
e-mail: warts69@hotmail.com
2001 Vice Captain: Ptrick Harrington, Tel.: 054-2564417
e-mail: patch@mail.wbs.ne.jp
Other members (random order): Bruce Harris, Todd Phillips, Tariq Hussain (new!),Aminul Talukder (new!), Syed Dilshad Ali, Hisatsugu Umehara, Takashi Matsuura, Kenji Ichikawa, NeilHarrison, Rob McKenna, Matthew Sharpe,
Nicholas Shannon, Francis Newman,Gerald Ruel, Joel Chamberlain, Kevin Roberts, Muneali Matsumoto
AS far as the 2001 schedule is concerned:
March 25th: First Practice
Kanto Cricket league matches:
April 15th: vs. Indian Engineers c.C.
April 22nd: vs. Wyverns C.C.
May 21st: vs. Fuji/Far East C.C.
May 28th: vs. Adolescents C.C.
June 10th: vs. Tokyo Sri lanka Lions
June 17th: vs. Friends XI C.C.

We shall also have the second edition of the Pacific Cup against our good friends the Indian Engineers C.C.!

Other Cricket Homepages in Japan: Other Cricket Homepages in Japan: (English) British Embassy C.C. Indian Engineers C.C. Fukuoka C.C. Lalazar Sports C.C. Matsuyama C.C. (also in Japanese) Nagasaki C.C. Osaka C.C. Saga Cricket Club Yokohama C. & A. C. ------ (Japanese) Japan Cricket Association Nippon Cricket Community

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