News – 22nd December 2024
Club News
Happy Christmas / New Year / Holidays
We now go into a short recess over the Christmas / New Year period. We return to playing on the following dates:
- Seniors – Saturday 11 January 2025
- Juniors Mixed – Saturday 1st February 2025
- Girls – Saturday 1st February 2025
- Blast – Saturday 1st February 2025
On behalf of our Leadership Team we wish everyone a safe and restful break and we look forward to seeing everyone back on deck in 2025.
A special thankyou to our Volunteers who contribute so much and are the reason we have such a great Club.
Blast Initiatives
Colour Bash – All-Girls Cricket Blast Holiday Program
CNSW is running a fantastic initiative for Girls to build on the great Summer of Cricket. The initiative covers:
- FREE All-Girls Program
- Aimed at girls aged 5 – 12 – no past experience necessary.
- Learn new skills and have fun along the way.
- Wear activewear ( White T Shirts for Colour Bash events)
- Water and colour-based activities- prepare to get Wet
Details are:
- When: Wednesday 15 January 2025
- Where: Thornleigh Park
- Time: 10.00 am to 2.00 pm
- Cost: $Nil
More information
You can get more information on this great initiative via the following link – Cricket New South Wales
How I register
You can register via the following link – Register | PlayHQ
New Sponsor launch
We are proud to have Haven Property & Finance are one of our major Sponsors and have their name on our playing shirts.
Haven is our trusted partner that offers comprehensive mortgage broking and innovative property solutions. They specialise in solutions for:
- Home 7 Investment Loans
- Refinances & Pre-approvals
- Specialised Industry loans
- Property selection & wealth strategies
Check out their website – https://havenpf.com/ . There will also be more info following on the soon to ‘go-live’ website and also through Social Media.
More info will follow shortly.
Blast Holiday Bash Program
With the fantastic Test Series against India getting better and better + the BBL starting next week, CNSW is running a series of Blast initiatives to capitalise on this interest. We are fortunate to have a program run in our own backyard – Greenway Park. Details are:
- When: Wednesday 22 January 2025
- Where: Greenway Park
- Time: 9.00 am to 3.00 pm
- Cost: $49.00
More information
You can get more information on this great initiative via the following link – Cricket New South Wales
How I register
You can register via the following link – Register | PlayHQ
Blast Term 1 (2025) registrations
- What is being offered:
- Blast (boys & girls) aged 5 & 6 years with games available on both Saturday morning and Tuesday Twilight all at Edward Bennett Oval
- All-Girls Blast (girls only aged 5 to 9 years) played Friday twilight at Thornleigh Oval
- Cost:
- Registration fee is just $50.00 (the full-season fee is $130)
- If you also introduce a friend to play we will refund you the $50.00 so your child gets to play for free
- When: Term 1, 2025 (8 weeks)
- How do I register – via the following link – Register here
More details on the Blast program can be found on the Club website at – Blast Club information
Sydney Sixers Special offer
The Sydney Sixers has a special offer for the Sixers Vs Perth Scorchers BBL game at the SCG on 11th January 2025.
In the offer, for every ticket purchased from a Club member we get a point on our schools ticketing competition Leaderboard.
The more tickets our members purchase the greater the chance of winning a visit from one of our very own Big Bash players.
Please see the link below: Sixers Vs Scorchers special offer
Bradman Museum Exhibition
The Bradman Museum is launching an exhibition on the ‘Unstoppables’ – an exhibition that features the 12 most influential Women in the history of Australian Cricket. One of our own features – Denise Annetts who represented Australia between 1985 and 1993 and was a long-term volunteer with West Penno and occasional player.
The exhibition will run over Summer and “…Unstoppable brings to life stories of excellence, determination, and passion from women’s cricket. Countless clever, resourceful and talented women are featured for their achievements on and off the field, which have inspired millions of people around the world.”
The exhibition launch details are:
- When: Wednesday 8th January 2025
- Where: Bradman Museum, Bowral
- Time: 2.00 pm
If you are anywhere near Bowral over Summer then pop in and have a look at this wonderful exhibition.
Sports Club Christmas Tree decorating competition
The Sports Club are again running their Christmas tree decorating competition. We won the popular vote by Sports Club Members last year so let’s give 2024 another run.
How this works
The voting is open to everyone who comes to the Sports Club and buys drinks at the bar – including soft drinks.
All you need to do is to:
- Buy any drink at the bar and you get a receipt
- Put the receipt in the voting box that is beside the Christmas tree and it is that easy
- Our tree is the Beach Cricket decorated tree.
If we are lucky enough to win again then the winner get $500.
So….all West Penno Cricket Club members come along to the Club after games and vote often.
Sports Club approach to cricket nets
The Sports Club AGM on Monday (25/11) approved Development plans that involves a re-designation of the cricket nets and tennis courts land area as being ‘non-core’.
This allows the Sports Club to proceed with the investigation of alternative income producing land use. They explained that the days of reliance on poker machine revenue is rapidly coming to an end (e.g.; cashless poker machines, political & media pressure) and they need to diversify their income streams. The time frame is likely to take years but the process can now start.
Our position is that as we don’t own the land and use it as guests of the Sports Club and there is more upside working collaboratively as a partner with the Sports Club to source alternative practice facilities.
The speakers at the AGM confirmed that they will work with our Club to make sure that we are looked after as this proceeds.
New website
Development work is proceeding with our new website. It is just about ready for a final test and will be operational very soon. There is lots of new functionality with the latest technology.
The website will have a new look, be quicker and have all the latest social media capability integrated into the front-end.
Stay tuned.
Association News
January Clinics
The Coaches’ Association highly regarded Clinics are coming around soon. Details will follow but for your early planning here goes:
- Mark Taylor Oval (MTO) – Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th January 2025
- Greenway Park – Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th January
- MTO – Monday 20th & Tuesday 21st January
Clinic details are available on the following link – HKHDCCA cricket clinics – January 2025 – Google Drive
- Age range – 6 to 14 years
- Cost – $155.00 and $290 if a sibling also registers
How do I register – Register here
The Coaches Association is a not-for-profit organisation that offers high quality coaching over the last 15 years and is highly recommended. We encourage you not to delay as these Clinics are always fully subscribed.
Draw and Competition tables
To follow the Draw and weekend results you can access the Association website via – Association website
Blowfly Cricket
Season arrangements
Blowfly Cricket started on (11th October 2024). To find out more about Blowfy cricket for next season checkout the website – Blowfly cricket
Game details are:
- Where: James Henty Oval
- Day: Friday’s
- When: 6.00 pm to 7.30 pm
What if I need more information?
Please contact Bill Peterkin at here
How do Register?
You can register and pay online through the following link – Register here
Channel 10 – The Project story
Check out the News report on Channel’s 10 ‘The Project’ –Blowfly TV item from about 1:43 secs.
Girls
Project Inspire
Cricket Australia (CA) has released its important – Women & Girls Action Plan= have a browse and be informed of the big plans CA has for female cricket.
Competition tables
Standings after a wet weekend, Round 11 (14/12):
Stage 1:
- Gardner (=5th) – 18 points
All-Girls:
- Harris 6th (10 points)
- Annetts 10th (0 points)
Stage 2:
- Clark (=3rd) – 42 points
- Lanning (=3rd) – 42 points
- Perry (8th) – 27 points
Pathway
Friday (HK&HDCA)
- All-Girls Blaster Hub (5 to 7 years + new to cricket / soft ball program) – Friday Twilight hub at Thornleigh Oval starting 18th October 2024
- Stage 1 (7 to 11 years of age – no experience necessary) – Friday twilight Girls-only cricket (played in the Hornsby district)
Saturday (NSJCA)
- Cricket Blast (5 to 7 year olds for boys & girls);
- Stage 1 (a) – 7 to 11 years of age – new / a bit of experience. Saturday (played at local grounds and in the North Shore area
- Stage 1(b) – 10 to 11 years. Saturday afternoon home & away hardball
- Stage 2 & Stage 3 (ages 12 to 17 years of age) – Saturday afternoon Girls-only competitive cricket.
To learn more then checkout – Girls Playing information
Juniors (Mixed)
Competition table
Standings after Round 13 (14/12):
- U8 – no competition standings published
- U9 – no competition standings published
- U10 – no competition standings published
- U11 – no competition standings published
- U12 – Green (1st); Gold (2nd ), Blue (=8th), Yellow (=17th), Purple (=20th)
- U13 – Gold (=1st ), Purple (=1st), Green (=4th), Orange (5th), Blue (7th), Red (12th), White (15th)
- U14 –Red (3rd); Gold (9th); White (15th)
- U15 – Blue (4th); Red (9th)
- U17 – Gold (4th), Red (5th)
Seniors
To follow the Draw and weekend results you can access the Association website via – Association website
Draw
You can check out the Draw and Match Results via the Association website: Association Draw and points table
Training
Now that Daylight training has started, training is underway. We train at:
- WPH Sports Club on Wednesday’s from 6.00 pm – our main day
- John Purchase Oval on Friday’s.
Competition Table
The table after Round 8 (14/12) is:
- A1 (Cam #25) – =3rd (31 points)
- A2:
- Blue (Ryan) – 5th (27 points)
- Red (Todd) – 6th (16 points)
- B1:
- Blue (Shomik) – =2nd (30 points)
- Red (Warren) – =2nd (30 points)
- C1 (Indranil) – 2nd (35 points)
- C2:
- Blue (Hiresh) – =4th (30 points)
- Red (Aniket) – =7th (25 points)
- C3 (Mick) – =2nd (38 points)
- C4:
- Blue (Rob) – 1st (43 points)
- White (Agniva) – 2nd (41 points)
- Red (Ross S) – 6th (33 points)
- D1:
- Blue (Nirav) – =3rd (41 points)
- Red (Diggers) – =8th (26 points)
- D2 (Roger) – 7th (19 points)