Greenway Park

Story

  • On 11/12/2004 our U16 team powered their way to 328. On Friday night a downpour occurred that dumped 60 mls of rain on Greenway Park. Mark Kakoschke (Team Manager) commented that there was no way this was going to put this game at risk. So he went down to the Oval at midnight to check it out – walking his dog (that Geoff Newman refers to as a ‘walking powder puff’). Mark knew there was a problem when his dog started dog paddling at the southern end bowlers approaches. 2 hours later he managed to bucket the water off the wicket. They got on and won the game.
  • In October 2012, the ground was completely dug up, new drainage installed and the wicket raised.

History

Greenway Park (1993/94)
WPHCCC B1 Grade played the first senior match (under the great Jim Fuggle’s Captaincy) at the ground. The team went on to win the competition.

Achievements

  • 21/12/2002 – Mark Taylor (B1) took his 400th wicket. Mark finished with 461 wickets @ 18.11 – 4th on the all time list of wicket takers
  • 16/10/2004 B1 – record Club 4th wicket partnership 179* between Michael McGregor (134*) and Tony Hadley (59*) Vs St Ives.
  • 18/9/2004 – U16 White, Karan Dang (116*) & Matt McFarlane (82) Association record U16, 2nd wicket partnership of 213 Vs Normanhurst
  • 18/12/2004 Anthony Wilson (83*) and Adam Smyth (53*) put on an Association B2 Grade 8th wicket record partnership of 143*
  • Ronan Barrett (A2 2006/07) hit 6 fours in succession. It is also the first time in Club History that anyone had scored 4 runs off every ball in an over
  • 22/12/2007 – Michael Richards (U15 Blue) took a Club best 7/2 (seven wickets or more in an innings) in any Grade Vs Mt Colah
  • 29/9/2012 – Alex Connell brought up his 3,000 career runs with his 3rd ton and a big one – 157 (B1 Grade Vs Hornsby). Not only did he notch up this milestone but Alex led the Team to a massive win chasing 328 to win on day 2 in a thriller.
  • 19/9/2015 – Matt Spalding (A1 & A2) took his 250th wicket Vs Castle Hill
  • 9/10/2016 – Ben Waldron 3/15 Vs WPHC 5th Grade T20 @ Greenway Park. Ben became the youngest player in our history to take a Seniors hat-trick at just 13 years 1 month and 22 days of age.
  • 21/1/2017 – Eric Junkkari (C1) took his 450th wicket Vs Lankan Islanders to be only the 5th player in our history to reach to milestone.
  • 28/10/2017 – Michael Banner (A2) scored 61 Vs Castle Hill and set a Club new record as the highest run scorer in A2 when he passed the previous record of 2,009 runs set by Amir Marzouk in 2010/11