Club News

Blast Initiatives

Colour Bash – All-Girls Cricket Blast

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

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 11^th 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 8^th 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.

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 26^th & Thursday 28^th 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 6^th & Tuesday 7^th January 2025
• Greenway Park – Wednesday 15^th & Thursday 16^th January
• MTO – Monday 20^th & Tuesday 21^st 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 (11^th 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 10 (7/12):

Stage 1:

• Gardner (5^th) – 15 points

 All-Girls:

• Harris 6^th (10 points)
• Annetts 10^th (0 points)

Stage 2:

• Lanning (=4^th ) – 33 points
• Clark (=4^th) – 33 points
• Perry (8^th) – 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 18^th 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 10 (7/12):

• U8 – no competition standings published
• U9 – no competition standings published
• U10 – no competition standings published
• U11 – no competition standings published
• U12 – Green (1^st); Gold (2^nd ), Blue (=7^th), Yellow (=16^th), Purple (=21^st)
• U13 – Gold (=1^st ), Purple (=1^st), Green (=4^th), Orange (=4^th), Blue (6^th), Red (12^th), White (15^th)
• U14 –Red (6^th); Gold (=10^th); White (15^th)
• U15 – Blue (5^th); Red (9^th)
• U17 – Gold (3^rd), Red (5^th)

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 1^st 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 1^st Grade, 3^rd Grade (C1) & and D1. Also, Match Reports have been loaded for 1^st Grade & 3^rd Grade so have a browse of the Match Report tab when you get a chance.

Competition Table

The table after Round 9 (7/12) is:

• A1 (Cam #25) – =4^th (25 points)
• A2:
  • Blue (Ryan) – =3^rd (26 points)
  • Red (Todd) – 6^th (15 points)
• B1:
  • Blue (Shomik) – =2^nd (29 points)
  • Red (Warren) – =2^nd (29 points)
• C1 (Indranil) – 4^th (29 points)
• C2:
  • Blue (Hiresh) – =2^nd (29 points)
  • Red (Aniket) – =6^th (24 points)
• C3 (Mick) – 3^rd (32 points)
• C4:
  • Blue (Rob) – 1^st (37 points)
  • Red (Ross S) – 6^th (32 points)
  • White (Agniva) – 2^nd (35 points)
• D1:
  • Blue (Nirav) – =3^rd (35 points)
  • Red (Diggers) – 9^th (20 points)
• D2 (Roger) – 5^th (18 points)