Story

• Former Prime Minister John Howard played for West Penno over a number of years in the 1960’s. This is the ground where he made his highest score. As recounted by Alf James (former Association President) in relation to his brother Stephen’s bowling “In 1968, at Mt Kuring-gai Oval, he helped John Howard make his highest score (34) by bowling three consecutive long hops down the leg side – all of which Howard swung at wildly and got down to the fine leg boundary….”.
• 1994/95 B1 Grade Semi Final (Mt Ku-ring-gai) we were a player down through injury. Denise Annetts (Anderson), recently retired Women’s Test Cricket star, fielded at deep square leg – 7 months pregnant. Her son (to be born) Daniel thereby became the youngest player in the Association’s history – 2 months before birth!
  Sequel
• On Saturday 26th January 2008 in the
  C1 White game against Pymble, Daniel Anderson (12 years of age) played as a Senior registered player. His debut 12 years later now concludes this remarkable double debut! How did he go – he scored 22 and top scored for the match.
• 2/11/2013 – Kyle Faber (101*) and Patrick Phillips (101*) put on an undefeated opening partnership of 158 Vs Mt Colah. This is the 1st time in the U15s and only the 2nd time in our Juniors history that both openers have achieved this feat – previously being achieved by Daniel Heidegger and Matt Chamberlain in the U16s the year before.

History

Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval (1962/63)
Mt Ku-ring-gai was a former rubbish tip.

Achievements

• 4/2/06 Bill Peterkin (A2) scored his 3,000th run Vs ARL
• Ronan Barrett (A2 on 12/1/2008 Vs Galston-Glenorie) hit 4 sixers in the 16th over to win the game – a Club record number in one over.
  5/0
• James Kealy’s (B1 – 22nd November 2008) achieved a Club first in taking 5/0 against the 4th placed Mt Colah. Using the windy conditions to perfection, this performance is the ‘for 0’, bowling performance in our history. The previous nearest was the 7/11 by Ryan Cherrie Vs Kenthurst in the 2004/05 C2 Final or the 8/4 by Don Lamb who took 8/4 for B1 against Castle Hill in 1962/63. Well done James.
• Tim Leyshon (A2 – 18/9/2010) scored his 2,500th run Vs ARL.
• Gav Taylor (A1 on 12/9/2015) bacame the youngest player in our history to reach 3,000 career runs at 23 years 3 months and 17 days (born 26 May 1992).