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A day for Ducks
A great commentary from Peter Westerberg (D2) on the game Vs Berowra @ Northholm Grammar last weekend:

“For some years now there has been a colony of ducks on the dam beside the cricket ground at Northholm and, while not a superstitious person in general, I have long harboured a feeling that one day they would, metaphorically, come home to roost for us. Well, today was the day, with a grand total of three golden ducks in a spectacular middle order collapse that saw us slump from 1-35 to 7-37.”

History

In the 1890s, William Small and the brothers Horace and Fredrick Henstock first settled the land. William and Horace took violin lessons in Galston. This interest resulted in Frank Waddell to refer to the area they settled as ‘Fiddletown’. The name stuck but there are continuing efforts to change the name.

Our Association gained access to the School Oval in around 2002/03.

Achievements

• 15/10/05 D2 dismissed Galston-Glenorie for 30 – the lowest score a WPHC D2 side has dismissed a team
• 20/2/2010 Eric Junkkari scored his 3,000th run Vs Castle Hill RSL 20th
• 29/10/2010 Allan Raffel scored 166*. This was our 355th century and the 14th highest in our history
• 20/2/2010 Eric Junkkari (C1) scored his 3,000 runs Vs Castle Hill RSL
• 29/9/2012 – Pratah Sinnetamby (111) and Ray Khamis (103) put on an Association D1 Grade record 2nd wicket partnership of 241 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee. This beat the previous record of 217 set way back in 1998/99
• 21/12/2013 – our D2 boys had a tough day at the office. In a 40 overs game, they went for a D2 Club record of 3/421 in 40 overs.
• 25/1/2014 – 2^nd wicket C3 Grade Club record partnership of 114 runs between Charindu Weeraratne 109* & Ian Paterson 61 Vs Hornsby.