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The Warriors Cricket Club is new to Daniel Wright Junior High School. Join us for the 2021-22 school year as players from all grades enjoy the world's second-most popular sport.
In 2022-23 Warriors Cricket meets every other Friday in room 105 for a kit (gear) check and brief meeting, followed by either an indoor or outdoor practice/game session depending on the weather. We will meet all year.
All students from all grades at Daniel Wright Junior High School are welcome to join. There are no tryouts, and no previous cricket experience is necessary.
Students interested in joining the Warriors Cricket Club should visit the following link for permission forms and club fee information:
Our First Practice
Our First Practice
On 10/4/21, The Warriors Cricket Club came into existence.
Drills, Drills, Drills
Drills, Drills, Drills
Over 40 students on our roster are in motion every minute of every practice.
Expert Coaching
Expert Coaching
Parents welcome any time. Above, ace cricketeer Vikram Bhardwaj instructs the finer points of fielding a cricket ball.
Excellent Youth Coaching
Excellent Youth Coaching
Our coaches are a fun mix of youth and adults. During our 10/18/21 practice, Youth Head Coach Om Bhardwaj runs the show.
A Youth-Run Club
A Youth-Run Club
In the WCC, Daniel Wright students learn to conduct meetings, make agendas, set a calendar, and a host of other skills that will serve them throughout their lives.
Outstanding Facilities
Outstanding Facilities
A full-sized pitch projected to be built in 2022!
Rain or Shine, Wet or Dry, Warm or Cold, All Year!
Rain or Shine, Wet or Dry, Warm or Cold, All Year!
During our 10/25/21 practice, the Warriors take to the relatively dry blacktop during a break in a day of rainstorms.
Batting, Bowling, Bravery
Batting, Bowling, Bravery
Sleep, Eat, School, Cricket, Repeat.
All Players Learn Every Position
All Players Learn Every Position
In a game where the tiniest nations often defeat global super-powers, it is never the size of the dog in the fight; it is the size of the fight in the dog.
Play Ball!
Play Ball!
During our 11/1/21 practice, the youth coaches decide to spend a blustery afternoon just playing cricket and having fun.
Have Fun!
Have Fun!
It's called "playing" a game for a reason!
Make Friends!
Make Friends!
The Warriors Cricket Club includes students from over a half-dozen nations, a wide range of cultures, and a world of different experiences and interests. No experience needed: join us for friends and fun!
Krish Bandi -call sign "Bandit"- models the proper way to wear protective equipment.
Show your pride in the Warriors Cricket Club: buy and wear your DW Cricket gear today!
Show your pride in the Warriors Cricket Club: buy and wear your DW Cricket gear today!
Check in for our late spring shirt/jersey store opening!
Learn to Lead
Learn to Lead
During our 11/8/21 practice, student coaches lead through example and instruction, practicing leadership skills that will serve them a lifetime.
Learn to Teach
Learn to Teach
Those who can't do, teach. Right? Um, wrong.
Learn to Learn
Learn to Learn
Youth coaches and players both learn from cricket players with decades of experience.
The Joy of Victory.
The Agony of Defeat.
Warriors Cricket Motto: WAY more fun than chores, homework, or an after-school job.
Our Founder, Vaasudev Kulkarni, also known as Cricket Boi.
History is Made
History is Made
Joining the Warriors Cricket Club for our 11/15/21 practice is 8th grader and ace tennis player, Carolyn Ryan, immediately becoming the greatest Irish-American young woman 14-and-under cricket player in IESA history. We think. We'll check on that and get back to you.
Speed
Speed
New Warrior Cricketeer Ryan learns to field: teammates soon discover she can cover pretty much the entire area by herself, all the way back to the white Toyota. Its windshield was already broken when we got there, by the way.
Strength
Strength
Ryan learns to bat with the outstanding tutoring of our youth head coach, Om. She is cheered on in the background by resident fielding coach/motorcycle enthusiast/gangster film expert and sartorial artist, Hasin "Stone" Khan.
Boom
Boom
First pitch = Ryan goes yard.
Our Founder, Our Future
Our Founder, Our Future
Cricket Boi works the phones relentlessly in the offices at Cricket Central, recruiting other middle schools around the area to add cricket teams. If you have friends at other schools who love to play cricket, tell them to organize a club!
Arjun D. Works All Thanksgiving
Arjun D. Works All Thanksgiving
Coach Arjun D. works tirelessly over the long Thanksgiving holiday break organizing Zoom meetings, creating practice agendas, and producing alternative flyers for the club. Thanks, Arjun! We couldn't do it without you!
Cricket.
Cricket.
And More Cricket.
And More Cricket.
That's how we roll at the WCC.
Street Ball!
Street Ball!
When it's 39 degrees outside (well, 1 degree in India and the rest of the cricket world) you have to keep moving to keep warm.
We're Coming for you, Competition!
We're Coming for you, Competition!
Look Into Our Eyes! Fear Us!
Go Yard!
Go Yard!
Scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage. The best kind of club meeting. Our 11/29/21 practice.
Film Study!
Film Study!
Winter? Not fun. Learning secrets to bowling 100 km/hour? Fun.
Strength Training!
Strength Training!
Work that core.
Half-Speed Drills!
Half-Speed Drills!
Newest member Owen Gobble (in team jersey) learns proper bowling form.
WCC Returns to the pitch!
Cricketeers brave the icewater to sharpen their skills
Scrimmage!
8th graders experience their first "ice bowl" cricket! Bring it on, Aptakisic!
Cricket Returned to DW on April 1st!
Cricket Returned to DW on April 1st!
Warriors Cricketeers took advantage of the newly-built custom cricket pitch, built double-fast over the winter break. One of, if not THE finest middle-grades cricket facility in the world! Yes, the meeting was on April Fools' Day. Do the math.
Mudbowl 2022!
Mudbowl 2022!
The Warriors Cricket Club met in driving rain mixed with snow on April 8th, braving 38 degree temperatures and below-freezing windchills to practice fielding and passing. The roughest, toughest cricketeers in the North Suburbs!
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