No Guts, No Glory
Last week we did a summary of our wicket keeping records across all Grades.
Spare a thought for Campbell (FAC = Future A Grade Captain) Wallace who kept wicket for A1 while filling in for Billy Gaunt who is doing it tough on holidays overseas..
Anyway, last week (Day 1 Round 4) was a tough day in the Office at Berowra Oval with the ball keeping low and falling just short of the ‘keeper.
Add to this one of the best fast bowlers in A1, Jack Hando was operating and it was a nightmare to keep wickets with Campbell throwing his body around to stop the ball. At one stage, he commented that he should be wearing a thigh pad next time.
The theme music for this gutsy fielding effort is by none other than Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
The photo below shows why.
While on Campbell
While on A1, they are now joint Competition leaders and have yet to be bowled out after 4 Rounds. This week they finished at 4/220 and now have a quotient of 3.542 – 2nd only to Hornsby D2 with 5.570. While this is a great Team performance spare a thought for quality batters who can’t even get to face a ball.
Top of the list is #7 batter, Campbell Wallace.
Campbell is one of the best juniors we have produced in many years. He also has a high score of 176* and has Captained A2 with distinction. The photo below is after his C1 3rd wicket Club partnership record of 259 runs with Matt Schwartzel.
The good news is that our batting depth is so strong we are building towards a strong defence of our Premiership.
Exciting to know
One of the best things about playing for West Penno is the chance to go back to the Sports Club after a day’s play and to enjoy our Team mates company and in some cases rewriting what actually happened.
After the D1 Red washout on the weekend the boys went back to the Club and unfortunately sitting next to Parin just became too much for Bharga.
What better theme music for this photo than the Wiggles classic – Wake up Jeff
Nice touch
Well done to both the West Penno C4 Red and Kissing Point Teams on Saturday who observed a minutes silence before the game to pay tribute young Ben Austin who was unfortunately hit by a ball at cricket training during a Club training session.
Well done boys.
Website stats hit 30,000 views
During the week we clocked over 30,000 views on our website. The website refresh was launched on 15 January 2025 so has been operational for just 8 months – 5 months of this was during the winter when no cricket was being played!
Keep in mind that we launched on 15 January 2025 and since then have had 5 months of winter this is an amazing result as it reflects just 4 months of summer activity. The dashboard summary showing how popular our website is shown below:
The most popular initial landing pages are:
- Home page (29%)
- Seniors Match Reports (40%)
- Anecdotes (15%)
- Seniors Information page (6%)
- Club News (5%)
- Assorted other pages (5%)
Our website is not own popular with our own Club but our website is popular around the World. Checkout the top 5 countries:
Add to this we get regular views with average view time greater than 4 minutes from: Canada, Japan, Czechia, American Samoa, China & Wallis & Fortuna.
What does all this mean?
Our website is very popular around the World and our Match Reports especially are viewed all over the world!
Records by Grade – dismissals (non-wicket-keeper)
So far, we have highlighted the record for each Grade in batting, bowling & wicket-keeping. This week we conclude our record holders non-wicket-keepers.
| Grade | Highest catches | Player | When | Current player nearest the record |
| A1 | 66 | James Makin | current | James Makin – 66 |
| A2 | 52 | James McBrien | current | Brent Larkham – 14 |
| B1 | 60 | Peter Harrison Ross Anderson | 1981/82 to 2008/09 current | Rick Turner – 20 |
| B2 | 18 | Matt Digby | current | No close competitor |
| C1 | 32 | Nathan Fathers | 2001/02 to 2003/24 | No close competitor |
| C2 | 40 | Peter Lees | current | No close competitor |
| C3 | 22 | Tarun Lath | 2011/12 to 2022/23 | No close competitor |
| C4 | 13 | Gihan Thebuwanage | current | Zia Ahmed – 8 |
| D1 | 30 | Steve Quanborough | 1998/99 to 2023/24 | Roger Friend – 23 |
| D2 | 23 | Luke Christensen Ayush Gupta Vishaal; Nathan | 2007/08 to 2022/23 2010 to 2015/16 2017/18 to 2023/24 | No close competitor |
Our Top 5 non-wicket-keeping dismissals across all Grades are:
| Player | Dismissals | When | Grades |
| Ross Anderson | 172 | current | A1 to D1 |
| James Makin | 162 | current | A1 to C2 |
| Peter Lees | 145 | current | B1 to D1 |
| James McBrien | 138 | current | A1 to B2 |
| Eric Junkkari | 136 | 1991/92 to 2024/25 | B1 to C3 |
Note: pre 2010/11 data dismissals are shown as catches.
