Frogbox
In the News section we announced that we are about to use Amazon Frogbox’s free live streaming for our Girls Stage 2. The Frogbox platform is on Youtube and allows access to watching a game live – anywhere as long as you have internet access.
Cricket Australia, Cricket NSW and Amazon has given us access to this service as an acknowledgement of being one of the top 50 Clubs supporting Girls cricket in Australia! The aim of this is to allow our Club to:
- Stream matches live, connecting players with family and supporters
- Build community engagement through shareable highlights and memorable moments
- Create visible role models to inspire young female cricketers
- Enable performance analysis and player development
Where to from here?
This will allow us to ‘test the water’ with live streaming with a view to rolling it out more widely. Also, we can use it as a tool for sponsorship and promoting our Club.
More info will follow but once Frogbox is operating we will let everyone know.
Our new website
Our new website launched just 2 weeks ago and early analytics shows some interesting insights into what and where people are looking at. Keep in mind that just the Seniors are back playing and the Juniors start again this weekend. Here goes:
Total views
- 759 visitors
- 2,226 views
- 4.07 minutes is the average session time
- 1.49 views / session
Most popular pages
- Home page (includes News)– 630 views
- Seniors Match report (latest) – 391
- Anecdotes (latest) – 139
- Life Member page – 78
Around the World
- USA – 127 views (San Francisco, California, Virginia, New York, Iowa, Chicago, Florida)
- American Samoa – 72 views
- China – 14 views (Shanghai, Henan)
- United Kingdom – 12 views
- India – 12 views (Maharashtra)
- Others (Fiji, New Zealand, Croatia, Spain, Nigeria, Japan, China, French Polynesia and Thailand)
To get this many hits and have this level of dwell time is a fantastic early result.
While on our new website
In our 93 years as a Club we have entered 514 Seniors, 1,218 Junior Teams plus had 3,147 Blast and 1,212 Girls players.
This means that since day 1 we have had just on 28,000 players play for West Penno! Add to this our Volunteers (Team captains, Team Managers, Coaches, umpires and scorers) the number of people actively involved in our Club would be closer to 40,000 people – think of the SCG at capacity!
During this time we have Inducted just 27 people as Life Members. This is just 0.1% of our wonderful players and around 0.06% of everyone involved as a Player & Volunteer.
Our Club exists because of our amazing Volunteers. Our Volunteers exist, in part, because of our Life Members.
Our new website has a dedicated section on our Life Members – who they are and what they have contributed to our great Club. Have a browse of the Life Members page to be familiar with the achievements of these folks over the years – https://wphccc.com.au/life-members/
Photo: Bill Peterkin (Life Member #22), Barry McDonald (#12), Andrew Miedler (#25), Steve ‘Buzz’ Burrows (#26), John Coulthard (#17), Ross Anderson (#11), Peter Lees (#23) & James Makin (#21) – WPH Sports Club – 25 June 2024.
Grubs – the latest
The Grubs always offer a great insight into local cricket. With AI building amazing momentum, in everything, the obvious next step is to use it vas a source of cricket sledging. Have a look at te latest Grubs release and enjoy this one – https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=The%20Grubs%20cricket%20videos&mid=F07D81F5D4CBA41F59C9F07D81F5D4CBA41F59C9&ajaxhist=0
Our elite performers
With just 2 games to go before the Semi’s start we are into the business end of the season. Our elite Club performers are:
Top 5 batters
- Vinoth Sambasivam (D2) – 389 runs @ 35
- Mohan Somasundaram (C2 Red) – 369 runs @ 41.0
- Mridul Das (C4 Red) – 369 runs @ 53.0
- Oliver Linschoten (C1) – 362 runs @ 60.0
- Cliff Greenhalgh (D1 Red) – 357 runs @ 32.0
Top 5 bowlers
- Pritam Dhamija (C4 White) – 23 wickets @ 10.1
- Manraj Singh (D1 Red) – 23 wickets @ 14.3
- Brahadesh ‘Ram’ Ramamurthy (C4 Red) – 21 wickets @ 12.7
- Kaushal Gandhi (C4 Blue) – 20 wickets @ 5.3
- Anand Sadasivam (C4 Red) – 19 wickets @ 15.1
Top 5 wicket-keepers
- Ian Digby (D1 Red) – 17 dismissals (11 catches & 6 stumpings)
- Sufyan Memon (C4 White) – 12 (8 catches & 4 stumpings)
- Nick Price (C1) – 11 (9 catches & 2 stumpings)
- Sahil Kirpalani – 11 (10 catches & 1 stumping)
- Cameron Bish (B1 Red) – 11 (10 catches & 1 stumping)
Photo: Ian Digby, star wicket-keeper (left) with Rob Hanich Sheep Station Trophy.jpg