News – 30th November 2024
Club News
Blast Term 4 and Term 1 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 $75.00 (the usual fee is $130)
- If you also introduce a friend to play we will refund you the $75.00 so your child gets to play for free
- When: the rest of Term 4 (3 weeks) & Term 1 (8 weeks)
- Come & Try day: come along on Saturday 7th December between 8.00 am and 9.30 am @ Edward Bennett Oval and join us for a BBQ after the games
- 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
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.
All-Girls Cricket Blast end of year celebration
CNSW is hosting an end of year celebration for all Girls registered in the Blast programs (Saturday, Tuesday Twilight & All-Girls). Details are:
- Friday 6th December
- Time: 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm
- Where: Thornleigh Oval
What to expect:
- End of year celebration for Female Cricket Blast participants
- A Cricket Blast session with all their favourite games and activities from the term
- A BBQ with drinks provided
- WBBL Player Q & A/ Photos and Signatures
- Watch the Stage 1 Fixture under lights
Who is invited?
- All-girls Hub participants
- Any female participant in a HKHDCA Club Cricket Blast program
- Friends and family of participants aged 5-9 (Female only)
How do I register?
Register here – Register here
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.
Girls Skills sessions
We are excited to announce a skills development session with Club coach Connor and team at John Purchase Oval on the following dates:
- Stage 2 Teams: Tuesday, December 10th – 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Stage 1 Teams: Wednesday, December 11th – 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
This is a fantastic opportunity organized by the club, and we encourage as many girls as possible to participate.
Details will follow shortly.
Junior Mind Enhancement program
This is a really special initiative to look out for. After a great response last season we will running a follow-up session with Tim Affleck (Sports Psychologist). We will be offering, free of charge 2 programs in November. Details are:
When
Tuesday 26th & Thursday 28th November
Where:
WPH Sports Club
Workshop 1:
- How to change thinking from negative to positive
- How to be a leader
- How to goal-set properly and realistically
Workshop 2
Tailored for parents/coaches to focus on
- Encouraging positive reinforcement
- Creating a positive atmosphere within a team
These are special sessions and have tremendous value not just for the cricket development of our junior players and Coaches but also for development of life skills.
Stay tuned for more info on registration.
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 Round 9 (30/11):
Stage 1:
- Gardner (=5th) – 15 points
All-Girls:
- Harris =7th (4 points)
- Annetts =9th (0 points)
Stage 2:
- Lanning (=5th ) – 30 points
- Clark (=5th) – 30 points
- Perry (9th) – 21 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 9 (30/11):
- 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 (=7th), Yellow (=16th), Purple (=21st)
- U13 – Gold (=1st ), Purple (=1st), Green (=4th), Orange (=4th), Blue (6th), Red (12th), White (14th)
- U14 –Red (6th); Gold (10th); White (15th)
- U15 – Blue (5th); Red (9th)
- U17 – Gold (3rd), 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.
CNSW Community Cup
Our A1 Team played Lindfield in the CNSW Community Cup – a T20 competition that has Teams from Sydney Metropolitan & Regional NSW (e.g; Dubbo & Orange)/. We played the 1st game on Sunday 10/11) against Lindfield Shires and went down on the last ball of a Super Over thriller:
WPHC 4/163 and 2/5 lost in Super over to Lindfield Shires 8/163 & 1/7
Highlights:
- Billy Gaunt 88, Harry Hando 33, Ashane De Silva 22
- Michael Richards 2/19 (4), Andy Meikle 2/26 (3), Tany Hira 2/34 (4), Jack Hando 1/30 (4)
The Photo Gallery (on the home page) has been updated with photos from 1st Grade, 3rd Grade (C1) & and D1. Also, Match Reports have been loaded for 1st Grade & 3rd Grade so have a browse of the Match Report tab when you get a chance.
Competition Table
The table after Round 8 (30/11) is:
- A1 (Cam #25) – =4th (22 points)
- A2:
- Blue (Ryan) – =4th (23 points)
- Red (Todd) – 6th (12 points)
- B1:
- Blue (Shomik) – =2nd (26 points)
- Red (Warren) – =2nd (26 points)
- C1 (Indranil) – 4th (26 points)
- C2:
- Blue (Hiresh) – =34th (26 points)
- Red (Aniket) – =6th (21 points)
- C3 (Mick) – 1st (32 points)
- C4:
- Blue (Rob) – 1st (34 points)
- Red (Ross S) – 6th (23 points)
- White (Agniva) – 2nd (32 points)
- D1:
- Blue (Nirav) – =3rd (32 points)
- Red (Diggers) – 11th (17 points)
- D2 (Roger) – 5th (18 points)