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4 March, 2022
Club legend plays 400th game for Bulls
ONE of Pomborneit Cricket Club’s favourite sons, Luke Reynolds, can only find one way to describe the way he feels about his club as he approaches his 400th game.
ONE of Pomborneit Cricket Club’s favourite sons, Luke Reynolds, can only find one way to describe the way he feels about his club as he approaches his 400th game.
“It feels like home, and the club is my family,” Reynolds said.
“I couldn’t think of a better place to have my family play and be involved in.
“Every time I drive through the gate it feels like I’m home.”
The Bulls veteran will rack up his 400th game for the club this weekend, either away in division one against Bookaar at Frederick St or at home against Heytesbury in division two.
Reynolds said among all his other achievements at the club, this one felt different.
“I’ve probably been a bit blasé with milestones and other things, but 400 does mean a lot,” he said.
“The other three blokes who have achieved it before, Brian, Ian and Jimmy Boyd, they’re pretty big names.”
Reynolds, who debuted for the seniors at age 14, has played 399 games so far (not counting his 21 Twenty20 games), accruing two division one premierships (2018/19, 2020/21), a Twenty20 premiership (2018/19), and an under 16 premiership (1994/95), amassing a total of 6656 runs, 235 wickets, and 113 catches.
The Pomborneit Cricket Club life member is serving in his 20th year as club secretary and has also spent two years as club president.
Reynolds is also a dedicated juniors coach, currently overseeing the club’s under 16 and two 13 teams, and sees his role in re-establishing the club’s juniors program in 2010 as one of his proudest achievements.
“It’s probably the most important thing I’ve done for the club,” he said.
“It’s been a lot of work, but it’s certainly worthwhile when you see all these guys go through and play senior cricket.
“A few of them have starred in premierships and become really good cricketers, but even those kids that aren’t the greatest cricketers, a lot of them have gone on to become really good clubmen in the ranks.”
Reynolds said while he was proud of his achievements, the most important aspect of his cricketing career was the social one.
“The two division one premierships I’ve played have probably been the highlights, but it’s just all the friends you make over the years and the club atmosphere,” he said.
“That’s why I play, because of the social side of it and the friends I’ve made from the game.”