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Scott Jenyns - wins at Taradale Cricket Club |
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Written by Site Admin
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Monday, 03 July 2006 |
 Brothers Blair, Scott and Marc Jenyns claimed trophies galore at Taradale Cricket Club's prizegiving.
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If you weren't Mikey Peta or the Jenyns boys, then the Taradale Cricket Club's awards evening was probably a dead loss.
Between them, the quartet won 12 prizes, as Peta and Blair Jenyns split the big premier trophies between them. Peta took batsman, fielder and allrounder and shared the bowling cup with Jenyns, before going on to be named the club's overall cricketer of the year.
Not to be outdone, Jenyns was named player's player and outstanding club man.
Marc Jenyns won three trophies and Scott one, to complete a fairly successful assault on the club's silverware.
There was no getting away from Peta's contribution, though. But if Hawke's Bay Today expected to find him basking in the glory, we were sorely mistaken. The prodigiously talented 21-year-old turned out to be more embarrassed, than anything else.
"No, I wasn't that happy, because I don't think I really did much," said Peta.
"I mean the season was all right, but it was nothing fantastic. I scored hardly any runs and took hardly any wickets ... so I knew I had three of them in the bag, with best fielder, best batting and best bowling, just because of the stats during the season.
"But I didn't know I was going to get player of the year, because I didn't really do much."
Equally, Peta remains just as nonplussed about his method as he is his success.
"I haven't really got a clue what I'm doing," he said.
"I guess I'm an attacking sort of bowler, in that I don't want to bowl line and length, just take wickets. I haven't got a clue about batting either. I know I used to be a wogger, but since I started opening I've tried to play more as a batsman.
"I'm not sure if it really suits me, though. I think I might try and get back down to the middle order. It was hard to open the batting and bowl first-change, but it was just a situation I found myself in."
Another situation was getting picked for Hawke's Bay's final Hawke Cup match of last summer. Ask him about that and the "no big deal" routine stops pretty quickly.
"That was awesome and I'm going to try and play in all of the matches this year," he said.
"I tried not to show it, but I was pretty nervous and I had to open the bowling as well. I want to do well this year, because I want to go to England next year and that will be easier if I can play a year of rep cricket first.
"I want to play cricket all year round and go there and play and come back here and play and just go on like that. I love it."
Which will be music to the ears of the odd Hawke's Bay selector, because commitment to playing and training has been the biggest thing missing in Peta's game. The basic tools and athleticism have always been there, but there were too many weeks each season when Peta decided to do something else with his Saturdays.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 03 July 2006 )
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