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The Presentation Issue of Deeners Doings for 2010/11 is now available. The document is password protected — the password is being sent to all Deeners on the email list. If you have any problems gaining access, email webmaster@deeners.com.

Deeners Kern Kapoor and Al Kyrkou will be shaving their heads at tomorrow’s pre-Grand Final training session at Hays Paddock, as part of the World’s Greatest Shave fundraiser for the Leukaemia Foundation.  Kern and Al would like your moral and your monetary support, so please come down to the club for this special event.  For [...]

“Bails, great to see you mate. You are wrong about the French, let me tell you. Yesterday I met a French pole dancer.” “Did ya mate? What was his name?” Shaun Lorenzini is the Captain of the Club and a fine bloke. He had invited me around to the home of Craig Burnham to meet [...]

I was very interested to see how the ones were going and how they prepare for a match.  A well drilled, professional outfit, training with military precision and organised to the NTH degree.  I arrived at 11am to find the boys already practising.  Very impressive.  Fielding, some batting and always the big fast bowlers pounding [...]

Hello all fellow Deeners, I’m contacting you to obtain your assistance in the continued development of this great club of ours. As you may or may not know, the committee has highlighted a serious shortfall within the Junior Section of our club. With this in mind the committee has instigated a recruiting program to enable [...]

Is the concept or theory of wickets in hand a valid batting strategy, or has it become a cliché uttered more in hope than confidence?   For years TV and radio commentators have uttered the ‘wickets in hand’ mantra ad nauseam as though it is an indisputable, cast-in-stone, sure-fire guarantee of batting success.  Because the theory [...]