Season recommencement dates

Re-commencement dates for the season are:

Blowfly Cricket

• Next game: Friday 1^st February 2010

Girls

• Next game: Saturday 2^nd February 2019 (Summer Season)

Junior Blasters (Kanga)

• Next game: Saturday 2^nd February 2019

Junior Boys

• Next game: Saturday 2^nd February 2019

Seniors

• Next game: Underway – started again 12^th January

Coming up

Planning is underway for a Club function at the WPH Sports Club. Jane Bish and Indranil Mukherjee are organising a whole Club function as follows:

• When:              either Saturday 16^th or 23^rd February
• Where:             WPH Sports Club
• Function:         Bogan Bingo Night – by all reports this is a lot of fun

We have a maximum of 110 people who can attend and more details will be advised as information becomes available.

Country Carnivals

Our Club is the only Club in NSW to be invited to play in the big Junior Country Carnivals played over the New Year. These Carnivals are Representative standard and it gives players from our Club a wonderful opportunity to enjoy time away in Country NSW playing some great cricket and just having a lot of fun.

U14s Tamworth JCU Carnivals

The Carnival was played between 7^th and 11^th January against Teams representing: Armidale, Gold Coast, Invitational X1, Lismore, Manly Presidents Cup Reps, South East Queensland and Tamworth.

The Team won 2 games (Armidale and an Invitational X1) and lost 3 games in a successful Carnival.

Well done to our top performing players:

• Batting:
  • Steve Easton – 106 runs @ 26.50
  • James Stuart-Gray – 100 runs @ 33.33
• Bowling:
  • Lachlan Edwards – 8 wickets @ 8.38

U15 Walter Taylor Shield (Armidale)

The Carnival was played between the 2^nd and 5^th January against Teams from: Armidale, Lismore, Hunter Valley, Mid-North Coast and Tamworth.

We played 5 games and each against strong opposition but pushed Hunter Valley and Manly-Warringah to close matches.

The following TV News article from Prime 7 this week shows our players in action – here

Well done to our top performing players:

• Aryan Tyagi – 107 runs @ 26.75
• Jack Hutchinson – 6 wickets @ 6.00

U16 Stan Austin Cup (Taree) (7 January to 10 January)

The Carnival was played between the 7^th and 10^th January against Teams from: Armidale, Gold Coast, Hunter Valley, Manly-Warringah, Tamworth.

While we went down in all 5 games against strong Opposition it was a lot of fun and a great learning experience.

To quote our Manager, Rob Hanich:

“The boys had a cracking time in Taree. They may not have won a game (it was clear the team we had was outclassed), but they bonded extremely well and had more fun than I have seen on any other country carnival.  A great bunch of boys that are a real credit to their parents and excellent ambassadors for our club. They fell short each day on the field, but never gave up. The support crew (parents, siblings and grand parents) were also fantastic.”

Well done also to our top performing players:

• Andrew Cooper – 42 runs @ 17.25
• Louis Madison-Hanlon – 7 wickets @ 16.00

Blowfly cricket

The BlowFly cricketers had their last game before the Christmas / New Year break on Friday 22^nd December and it was a great success. Santa turned up and all the players an Volunteers had their new West Penno Blowfly shirts presented by our great sponsor – John Rennie from Sommers.

Check out the photos on in Blowfly section of the Photo Gallery. To quote the legendary Mark Rushton:

“Great teamwork from everyone involved is delivering a wonderful, fun and incredibly enriching experience for all of our players, families, carers and volunteers.

Well done everyone…the dream continues.”

It is never too late to be involved as a player in Blowfly cricket. It is open to young people aged between 5 and around 25 years with autism, cerebral palsy and down syndrome the chance to play organised sport. Check out the website link to find more information – here

If someone in your family is affected or if you know someone who would love to participate then please contact Bill Peterkin on here or 0488 110 942

Junior Boys

Competition results

Competition finished for the break on Saturday 15^th December. We return again on Saturday 2^nd February 2019.

Competition Tables

Team standings after Round 7:

U16s – Blue =2^nd (2^nd on quotient), White 4^th

U15s – 4^th

U14s – Red =2^nd (2^nd on quotient), Orange =2^nd (3^rd on quotient), White 8^th

U13s – Red 2^nd, Purple 4^th, Green =7^th (7^th on quotient), Blue 9^th, Orange 10^th

U12s – Orange 1^st, Gold 7^th Green 10^th, Red 11^th, Blue 15^th

U11s – 7^th, Blue 8^th, Red 11^th,, Gold -18^th (18^th on quotient)

U10s – non competition

U9s – non competition

U8s – non competition

Top 5 Batsmen

1. Cameron Tunks (U16 White) – 292 runs @ 97.33
2. Shaan Bakshi (U16 White)) – 286 @ 47.67
3. Soham Chawla (U13 Green) – 266 @ 53.20
4. Rigved Sodal (U13 Green) – 257 @ 51.40
5. Jehan Polwaththe (U14 Orange) – 240 @ 26.67

Top 5 Bowlers

1. Aiden Hall (U12 Gold) – 11 wickets @ 3.27
2. Aditeya Nair (U16 Blue) – 11 @ 8.36
3. Jehan Polwaththe (U14 Orange) – 11 @ 13.27
4. Dylan Ranjan (U16 White) –11 @ 14.55

Girls Cricket

The results from the Final Round of the Spring Competition, played on Saturday 1^st December are listed below. Congratulations to our Undefeated Premiership winning U13s:

U13s

WPHC 4/76 defeated Thornleigh 56 – our amazing team went undefeated through the Competition and despite a low score with the bat today they bowled out Thornleigh to win by 20 runs. Special mention to Trinity who was undefeated with the bat and followed up with 3 wickets plus 2 run outs. Our team ranged in age from 7 through to 12 and for almost half the team it is their first season of cricket.

U15s

WPHC Red 2/91 defeated Thornleigh 7/90 – a plate final for the Reds. Tight bowling with wickets shared around meant chasing 91 to win. Ellen and Danielle added 48 without taking any chances to chase down easily the Thornleigh score

WPHC Blue 77 lost to Castle Hill 4/79 – contested the Grand Final and we failed to post a big total. However they fought back well with the ball and got Castle Hill 4 down with 34 still needed but they just could not break the 5^th wicket but a great effort by the girls.

Competition table

U13s

• WPHC 1^st and Premiers

U15s

• Blue = 2^nd (2^nd on quotient)
• Red = 2^nd (3^rd on quotient)

Spring Season finished

Congratulations to the Girls who now finished the Spring season and have a break over the Christmas / New Year period before staring up again in the New Year.

Well done to our Undefeated U13s who won the Grand Final.

Seniors

Round 10 started on the weekend. Games kicked off with the first of a series of 1-Day games between Round 10 and Round 13 (2^nd February).

Round highlights – Round 10

Batting

• Joel Herzog (C2 Blue) 89* Vs St Ives @ Campbell Park
• Peter Lees (C2 Red) 47 Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Glenhaven

Joel also scored a new Club record of 36 runs off the last over the game – more on this in the Anecdotes.

Bowling

• Daniel Schwartzel (C2 Blue) 4/9 Vs St Vies @ Campbell Park
• Xander Vink (C3) 3/9 Vs Berowra @ Cheltenham
• Arjun Kumar (C1) 3/18 Vs Lankan Islanders @ Annangrove
• Paul Vink (C3) 3/28 Vs Berowra @ Cheltenham
• Louis Madison-Hanlon (C2 Red) Vs Castle Hill @ Glanhaven

Training

Training has been running since the season start but with Daylight savings now in place it becomes more of an option for people to turn-up who have work or other commitments. Details are:

• Wednesday @ John Purchase from 4.30 pm
• Friday @ WPH Sports Club nets also from 4.30 pm.

Points Table

Standings after 10 Rounds (to be updated as other Association Teams update scores) are:

• A1 Grade – =3rd (3^rd on quotient)
• A2 – 1^st
• B1:
  • Blue (Rick) – 8^th
  • Red (Gunny) – 1^st
• B2 – 5^th
• C1 – 6^th
• C2:
  • Blue (Fieds) – 1^st
  • Red (Indranil) – 5^th
• C3 – =1^st (2^nd on quotient)
• D1 – 2^nd
• D2 – 5^th

“Bistro WPH” Photo of the Month November winner

Congratulations to Jane Bish who has won the Bistro WPH Photo of the Month prize. Jane has provided us with a number of photos this season but series of Photos taken at BlowFly Cricket have been great. Check them out – here

Jane has won a $50 voucher at the fabulous Bistro for – here

To is easy to enter:

• Just take a photo of anything to do with our Club – Kanga, Girls, Boys and Seniors
• The photo can be of our players batting, bowling or fielding
• Also, we are keen to get any ‘quirky’ photos that are a bit of fun.

Next steps

For our next winner, just take a photo and send it to Ross Anderson (here) with some brief commentary and it is that easy.