Our Valley girls take out the awards

                

Above: Celebrating the season and the awards: L-R captain Sarah Fenn with Kylie Russo and Fiona Bathie
and their comp-wide trophies.
Two key players in the  Moonee Valley Women's team took out top awards at the North West Metropolitan Cricket Association Presentation Night on April 17.
With our team promoted to the top grade Geoff Law Shield, wicketkeeper/batter Fiona Bathie won the keeper's award with eight catches and three stumpings, as well as being involved in four runouts.
Fiona also came runner-up in the batting award, with 346 runs @ 86.5.
Kylie Russo won the bowling award with 16 wickets @ 11.38.
Kylie's 16 wickets was the best season's tally ever at the Moonee Valley Cricket Club, beating the 15 wickets taken by Nicole McLachlan in 2008/09.

Presentation Night 2026 - and the stars

come out

Fresh from his elevation to the Moonee Valley Cricket Club Hall of Fame in February, Darren Nagle received another massive accolade at our Presentation Night - the revered Lindsay Jones Best Clubman award.
Spud was blind-sided by the honor at the March 28 dinner, announced by his great mate John Talone - the two of them ran our club jointly for 12 years from 1993/94 as President/Secretary.
At right: Darren "Spud" Nagle (left) was presented the revered Lindsay Jones Best Clubman award by his great mate John Talone.
Darren could easily have eased off after stepping down from the job of leading the club, but instead took on new tasks - piloting a group of talented youngsters right through the junior ranks from Under 10s to adulthood, and then taking on his current role - coach of our Women's team.
Around 70 players, supporters and family members attended the Presentation Night dinner at our Ormond Park pavilion.
Tony Gleeson, a First Eleven premiership player, Premiership coach and club coach across three separate stints, was awarded Life Membership.  His Life Membership was announced and presented by the newly-crowned Lindsay Jones Best Clubman, Darren Nagle.
At left: New Life Member Tony Gleeson reflects on his cricket journey at Moonee Valley, flanked by fellow Life Member Darren Nagle.
In another highlight of the night, Hayden Rayner was the runaway winner in our Club Champion award, winning by a massive 491 points. Hayden also took out the First Eleven batting and fielding awards.
Chand Shrestha won the Sean O'Kane Award - best player for all grades other than the Firsts - winning by 26 points from Thirds teammate Ammy Kahlon with Lachlan Smith another 35 points away in third place.
Firsts gloveman Oscar McKeown received his Wicketkeeper of the Year award from fellow keeper Allan Cumming - Oscar following in the footsteps of his father Geoff.
Jordy Walsh won the Most Improved Player trophy - the Coach's Award - while Fourths premiership player Dean Jukic was honored as Player of the Finals.
***More pictures - click HERE

   The Flag's up for our mighty Fourths 

      
Our team with the GF spoils - flag, shield and premiership medallions. L-R: Back - Manu Singh, Dean Lawson,
Jackson Partridge, David Lubansky, Lachlan Smith, Jason Ripa, Joel Italia, Dean Jukic and Mark Gauci.
Front - Luke Sevenson, Ben Baldacchino and Sudarshan Devkota.
Moonee Valley may have had a blip against Reds in the qualifying final, but our Fourths redeemed themselves and won the match that really counts - The Mercantile Cricket Association D Sunday Grand Final.
We were unable to beat Reds all season - a washout, two losses in the regular season and then the first final - but that counted for nought when the chips were down in the big game on March 22.
Played at Reds' home ground at Walker Oval in Parkville, Moonee Valley won 8/219cc to Reds 157.
Amazingly, it was a third Premiership win as captain for Manu Singh, who led the troops well in the Grand Final with both bat and ball.
At right: Moonee Valley captain Manu Singh (far right) receives the Premiership shield from Mercantile Cricket Association secretary Rhidian Thomas.
It was a game for young and old for Moonee Valley, with three teens and three Life Members among the 12.
The game brought up Mark Gauci's fifth Premiership, while it was flag No. 4 for Dean Jukic and No. 2 for Dean Lawson.
Lachlan Smith was judged Player of the Match by the umpires Santosh Pulakanti and Karthik Sidhartha for his crucial 50 not out in the lower order, then following it up with 2/20 - taking the last two wickets to clinch the win.
A strong contingent of Moonee Valley's current and past players, as well as families and supporters, ensured that we outnumbered Reds from the sidelines.
It was Premiership No. 49 for Moonee Valley in both senior and junior ranks, since we won our first flag in our inaugural season 1971/72.
**** For more pictures from the Premiership win, click HERE

*CRICKET - COME PLAY AT THE VALLEY  

Moonee Valley Cricket Club is always keen to talk to potential new players for our Saturday and Sunday turf teams, our Saturday men's hard-wicket team, our Sunday women's team and junior teams at all levels.
Anyone interested in joining Moonee Valley can phone senior coach Brayden McGregor on 0429 559 797, junior co-ordinator Paul Sevenson on 0407 556 950 or President Charlie Walker on 0411 705 381. Anyone wanting information can also email us at [email protected]

Main Club contact details:

* Charlie Walker - President 0411 705 381; 9370 1802
* Allan Cumming - Treasurer 0438 380 990
* Sarah Fenn - Secretary 0438 141 179
* Mark Gauci - Vice President 0457 778 335 
* Paul Sevenson - Junior Co-ordinator - 0407 556 950   

Emails: [email protected]
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For more contacts, see " Office bearers & Officials " under "Club News & Info" at the top of the page

Last updated : April 19, 2026.
For more of our history, including our Premierships, click HERE