Foxglove Oval

History

Foxglove Oval (1983/84)
Foxglove was used a rubbish tip before being converted to a sports field.

Achievements

  • Gavin Taylor (C1 2005/06) put on a 9th wicket partnership of 68 against a good Mt Colah side at Foxglove Oval. What makes this special is that, Gavan Taylor was only 13 and 4 months got a classy 58* on top of his 33 the match before. This is the highest recorded score by a 13 years old in C1 or higher.
  • 12/2/2006 – Ben McNamara (D1) took a Club record 10/42 Vs Kissing Point to be the only WPHC player to have taken 10 wickets in an innings. Ben’s match figures were 14/96
  • 15/11/2008 – Marco Delgado took 7/61 Vs ARL (Foxglove South). This was the 126th time a player had taken 7 wickets or better in an innings
  • 1/11/2009 – 26 runs off an over by John Steel is a C1 Club record for runs off an over Vs Berowra at Foxglove North
  • 24/11/2012 – Kishore Rampersad (C2) took his 300th wicket Vs Hornsby at Foxglove South as part of his match figures of 6/15 off 10 overs. This put Kishore at number 9 in the all time list of wicket takers.
  • 14/9/2013 – Peter Westerberg set a new D2 Club record with his bowling after having 26 runs taken off it Vs Kissing Point. In the same T/20 game in a 4 over spell Ashish Acharya also went for 0/22 (1 over), Adam Scholem 0/22 (1 over), Guy Hunt 0/20 (1 over) – 90 runs off 4 overs