2017 Victorian Metropolitan Affiliates Championships

With a revamped format for this year’s Championships, player and affiliates numbers swelled, with great support from TTV there was 111 players and 9 Affiliates entered. And once the event was concluded, almost 700 matches were played.

On Saturday, the team’s event was held and there was 46 teams entered over 8 grades. Affiliates were represented from Croydon & Districts, Coburg, Greater Dandenong, Diamond Valley, Manningham, Miao Miao TT Academy, St.Kilda Cricket, ES&CTTA and Melbourne Veterans.

Players of all standards competed, from the low level club player to National representative and a World Champion. Whilst everyone fought hard in all their matches, we all had a great time together and enjoyed the camaraderie.

Half the players came back the following day to compete in the Individual championships, and it ironic the Open Men’s & Women’s champions are former country players, with Dillon Chambers (a two time Country Singles Champion) and Mackenzie Gardner now playing for Croydon & Districts winning these titles.

We all look forward to next year, and from what several players were saying, they will be bringing more from their clubs next time as well.

A1
Premiers:     Croydon & Districts    Luke Cosgriff, Dillon Chambers, Nicholas Lum
Runner Up:    Coburg            Craig Carter, Eric Huang
Leading Player:    Dillion Chambers (CDTTA)

A2
Premiers:    Greater Dandenong (2)    Raymond Zhang, Bunthea Ung
Runner Up:    Greater Dandenong (1)    Greg Robbins, Tom Tomasevic
Leading Player:    Raymond Zhang (GDTTA)

B1
Premiers:    Greater Dandenong    Parleen Kaur, Belinda Ai
Runner Up:    Miao Miao TT Academy    Michelle Wu, Mingxue Nie
Leading Player:    Parleen Kaur (GDTTA)

B2
Premiers:    Greater Dandenong    Tim Huang, Milad Naghibi
Runner Up:    Diamond Valley        Prajwal Gulati, Jim Despotellis
Leading Player:    Tim Huang (GDTTA)

C1
Premiers:    Greater Dandenong    Jason Weerasinghe, Daniel Ho
Runner Up:    Diamond Valley        Damon Edgar, Owen Banks
Leading Player:    Damon Edgard (DVTTA), Daniel Ho & Jason Weerasinghe (GDTTA) – equal

C2
Premiers:    Croydon & Districts    Jamie Kapelles, Hartmut Schmandtke
Runner Up:    Greater Dandenong    Bob Bozelle, Xavier Hla
Leading Player:    Jamie Kapelles (CDTTA)

D1
Premiers:    Croydon & Districts    Noah Philp, Edmond Cheung, Chuan Chew
Runner Up:    Manningham        Fabian Kenie, Al Laymen, Terry Piva, Karem Debash
Leading Player:    Fabian Kenie (MTTC)

D2
Premiers:    Croydon & Districts (1)    Brian Noble, Kelly Martin
Runner Up:    Croydon & Districts (3)    Bernice Seto, Inaaya Khan
Leading Player:    Mark Finlayson (Coburg)