The 1st XI captained by club legend Brian Carlton won the A Grade premiership making it back to back premierships. An interesting historical aspect is that these matches were timeless requiring an outright result to win the premiership. Rosanna made a massive score of 501 in its first innings to set up the victory. Heidelberg responded with 216. A second innings 111 from Rosanna set Heidelberg 396 who fell short with 160. The resounding victory demonstrated the quality of this team.

 

The team in batting order was:
Val Ellen; Geoff Crawford; Kevin Hart; Ron Webster; Dick Russell; Roy Hartney; Steve Durant; Brian Carlton (Captain); Jack Fitzsimmons, Darrell Burgin (Vice Capt); Ken Stephens

The 2nd XI captained by Bob Jamieson won the B Grade premiership making it three years in a row for the second XI and the sixth premiership in 8 seasons. Rosanna scored 384 to defeat North Alphington 283.

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The team in batting order was:
Max Davies; Graeme Pope; Alan McQueen; Ron Jones (Vice Capt); Bob Jamieson (Captain); Steve Durant; Brian Carlton; Hugh Lawler; Clem Cullinan; Ron Barkas; Greg Tannock

The 2nd XI captained by Paul Luby won the B Grade premiership in a hard fought battle against arch rival Heidelberg. The side contained a mix of up-and-coming younger players and experienced players. In a sign of the strength of this side, there were 8 players that eventually made the RCC Hall of Fame. Rosanna made 267 with David Jones [67], Mark Muscat [61] and Chris Leech [52] contributing with the bat, defeating Heidelberg 258 with evenly spread wickets across the bowlers highlighted by Geoff Wilson bowling a marathon 42 overs taking 2 for 57.

The team in batting order was:
Geoff Wilson, Denis Groom, Chris Leech, Mark Muscat, Peter Hodder, David Jones; Ken Matson (Vice Captain); Paul Luby (Captain), Grant Pyers; John McKenzie; Matthew Flynn.

The Under 14 team captained by Dirk Xanthos went through the season undefeated and claimed back-to-back premierships. The last time that this feat was achieved at this level was in seasons 1981-82 and 82-83. In the Grand Final against Bellfield, the side recorded its lowest score for the season, struggling to a lowly 93. With some good fielding and excellent field placements we soon had the opposition in trouble at 6/48 but some resistance from their lower order batsman and a 7th wicket partnership of 21 saw them close in on our tally of 93. However, with the fall of the 7th wicket, the last 3 wickets fell for the addition of just one run to be dismissed for 70. Steve Jones(3/12) and Luke Anderson (3/32) were our leading wicket takers. Scores: Rosanna 93 defeated Bellfield 70. The side was managed by Hilary Reddrop and coached, for the second year running, by Geoff Wilson and Daniel Thorpe.

 

The team in batting order was:
Haedar Almatrah (Deputy Vice Captain); Michael Coffey; Dirk Xanthos (Captain); Luke Anderson (Vice Captain); Ross Abedi; David Watson; Steve Jones; Daniel Koop; Kai Fisher; Chris Summers and Scott Crawford

The Under 12 A team captained by Adam Crosthwaite had a sensational year claiming the premiership with two wins from a best of three Finals series. Right from the outset of the season, the boys showed a willingness to learn and improve. Combined with their acceptance of playing the game with a disciplined and responsible attitude meant they rapidly improved and grew in stature as the season progressed. The class of the team was evidenced by the fact that they won 17 out of 18 games played and averaged 114 runs per Innings (versus the opposition 64 runs) – an average winning margin of 50 runs! In the first of the Finals matches, we comfortably, defeated West Heidelberg YCW. James Westmore was outstanding with the ball taking 4/6. Scores: Rosanna 8/128 defeated YCW 90. In the second match we again prevailed. Scores: Rosanna 3/120 defeated YCW 7/103. The side was coached by Peter Waddingham and Rod Webster. For such a young person, the sides Captain, Adam Crosthwaite, showed outstanding leadership, sportsmanship and discipline. It is little wonder that Adam would go on and have a successful First-Class Cricket career as a wicket keeper and hard-hitting middle order batsman!

The boys who played in the winning premiership Team, in alphabetical order were:
Adam Crosthwaite (Captain); Huss Almatrah; Tim Angus; Daniel Kinsalla; Tim Maurer; Ben
Peake; Matt Rose; Alan Slater; Charlie Sdraulig; Vivek Srinivasan; Matt Veljanovski; Dean
Waddingham and James Westmore

The 1st XI captained by John Raywood won the A Grade premiership after a 9 year drought. We came up against our old foe in Heidelberg – a side that included several former District cricketers and eight batsmen who had all made recent centuries. It was meeting of David and Goliath. We won the toss and elected to bat; however, runs were hard to come by and we were bowled out for 163 in the 77th Over. Huss Almatrah was our top scorer with 30. In reply, Heidelberg’s batsmen also struggled and were eventually dismissed for 148 in the 75th Over. John Raywood (4/41) and Kane Shaw (3/34) were our best bowlers. Skipper John Raywood claimed it to be his greatest success. Scores: Rosanna 163 defeated Heidelberg 148.

The team in batting order was:
Adrian Duncan; Luke Anderson (Vice Captain); Huss Almatrah; Scott Dunbar; Steve
Nikolovski; Daniel Thorpe; David Crawford; Shane Hicks; John Raywood (Captain); Kane
Shaw; Haedar Almatrah

The 3rd XI captained by Anthony "Dasher" Lambert won the premiership against Old Ivanhoe Grammarians, with a nail biting two run victory. In the last ball of the match, a catch to win was dropped on the fence followed up by a throw to achieve a run out for victory! The best of the batsmen were Darrin Friedrichs (47), Nick Carlton (59) and Charlie Sdraulig (41) whilst Stephen Dale was the pick of the bowlers with 3/39. Scores: Rosanna 9/251 c.c. defeated Old Ivanhoe 249.

The team in batting order was:
Darrin Friedrichs; Daniel Dunbar; Matthew Lambert; James Sommer; Anthony Lambert (Captain); Nick Carlton; Charlie Sdraulig; Bevan Dimeck; Tim Lewis; Stephen Dale; Owen Dimeck

The U14 (Teal South) captained by Patrick Bourke had a successful season winning the premiership with a comfortable 58-run win over Heidelberg. Batting first, we made 9/120 with Patrick Bourke (43 Not Out) and Jack Gravell (22) our main run scorers. In reply, we knocked over Heidelberg for just 62 runs. Jack (3/10) and Patrick (4/7) did the damage with the ball. Scores: Rosanna 9/120 defeated Heidelberg 62.

The members of the premiership Team, were:
Patrick Bourke (Captain); Patrick Lawson; Alexander McGregor; Cooper Luby-Anderson; Ben Ellis; Jack Gravell; Joshua Jackson; Nelson Prince; Jonathan Potenza; Fletcher Adcock;
Alexander Stella; Ben Castles; Jack Flynn-McKenzie; Andrew Milesi.