Club News

Registrations status

Status is:

• Cricket Blast (5 & 6 years) – OPEN
• Juniors Mixed (U8 to U17):
  • U8 to U17 – Closed

Note: please direct any queries about playing Juniors (Mixed) to our Juniors Director (Steve) on Juniors Director  or 0404 755 919

• Girls:
  • HK&HDCA:
    • All-Girls Blasters – OPEN (Friday Twilight @ Thornleigh Oval)
    • Stages 1 & 2 – Closed
  • NSJCA:
    • Stages 1, 2 & 3 – Closed

Note: please direct any queries about playing Girls Cricket to our Girls Director (Kapil) on Girls Director or 0478 965 255

• Seniors (All Age) – Closed

Note: please direct any queries about playing Seniors (All-age) to our Seniors Director (James) on Seniors Director or 0459 699 393

How do I register?

Go to our registration Home page – Register here .

Discounted use of Indoor nets

Hills indoor sports at Seven Hills has offered our Club a 10% discount on the indoor nets, run up lanes and bowling machines.

They are open 7 days and bookings can be done over the phone or online.

WPHCC is our code for the 10% discount. The website link is: Hills Indoor Sports

Skills session

The free skills sessions, 1 x session for each team in each Age Division, also starts up soon. Registration is open to all WPH Juniors (Mixed and Girls only). Details are:

• When – Tuesday’s each week
• Time: 00 pm to 6.30 pm (arrive please at 4.50 pm)
• Where: John Purchase Oval
• Cost: FREE
• Schedule: the sessions vary for each Age Group – U8 to U12s; Stage 1, 2 & 3 Girls only

How do I register?

Register via the following link – Register here

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 Club Sponsor

Great news to share:

WPH Sports Club

Our great and long-term relationship with the Sports Club continues. Our relationship goes back over 50 years and we are proud to have their name on our playing shirts. Apart from contributing to the new rollout of the new playing shirts they provide exclusive use of the nets, access to meeting rooms and they also put on a regular BBQ for our Cricket Blast families on Saturday’s.

Haven Property & Finance

We have just concluded negotiations with Haven as major playing shirt sponsors and we welcome them to our cricketing family. More info will follow on the services that Haven provides. You can find out more about them via the following link – https://havenpf.com/ . More info will be provided on Haven with an official news release.

New website

Development work is proceeding with our new website. Our next review is in mid-June and it will be operational for the start of the 2024/25 season. 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

To follow the Draw and weekend results you can access the Association website via – Association website

 Blowfly Cricket

Season arrangements

Blowfly Cricket starts again this Saturday (12^th October 2024). To find out more about Blowfy cricket for next season checkout the website – Register here

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 | PlayHQ

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

Rep Trials

North Shore is conducting trials for U13 & U15. Details below

U15 – Margaret Peden Shield

Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 5.30-8pm at Cricket Central Silverwater (with a second trial on Friday 18 October if needed)

U13 – Mollie Dive Shield

Sunday 20 October 2024 at 2pm-5pm at Koola Park Killara (with a second trial on Sunday 27 October if needed)

To register, please use the following links:

• U15: Peden Trial Registration
• U13: Dive Trial Registration

For more details please refer the NSJCA website

Project Inspire

Cricket Australia (CA) has released its important Women & Girls Action Plan – Women & Girls Action Plan= have a browse and be informed of the big plans CA has for female cricket.

Competition tables

Standings after Round 2 (28/9) are:

Stage 1:

• Gardner (4^th)

Stage 2:

• Clark (=1^st)
• Lanning (=1^st)
• Perry (=5^th)

Pathway

Friday (HK&HDCA)

• All-Girls Blaster Hub (5 to 7 years + new to cricket / soft ball program) – Friday Twilight hub at Thornleigh Oval
• 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 2 (28/9) are:

• 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 (4^th); Yellow (=13^th)
• U13 – Purple (1^st); Gold (2^nd); Green (4^th); Orange (=5^th); Blue (=8^th); Red (-=8^th); White (=8^th)
• U14 – Red (=4^th); Gold (=10^th); White (=16^th)
• U15 – Red (5^th); Blue (6^th)
• U17 – Gold (=3^rd); Red (=3^rd)

Seniors

To follow the Draw and weekend results you can access the Association website via – Association website

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.

T20 Semi Finals

The T20 Swemi Fi8nals are on this weekend (Sunday 13 October). Details are:

1^st Grade

• WPHC Red (Cam #25) 3^rd Vs Hornsby Green (2^nd) @ Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval – 2.00 pm start
• WPHC Blue (Birdcage) 4^th Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee (1^st) @ Normanhurst Oval – 2.00 pm start

2^nd Grade

• WPHC (Shomik) 4^th Vs Castle Hill (1^st) @ Thornleigh Park – 2.00 pm start

3^rd Grade

• WPHC Red (Agniva) 2^nd Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee (3^rd) @ Normanhurst Park – 10.30 am start
• WPHC White (Indranil) 4^th Vs Berowra (1^st) @ Warrina Street – 10.30 am start

4^th Grade

• WPHC Red (Ross S) 3^rd Vs Lions (2^nd) @ Les Shore 1 – 2.00 pm

5^th Grade

• WPHC Blue (Nirav) 2^nd Vs St Ives-Wahroonga (3^rd) @ Thornleigh Park – 10.30 am start

Competition Table

The table after Round 2 is:

• A1 (Cam #25) – 6^th (4 points)
• A2:
  • Blue (Ryan) – 4^th (4 points)
  • Red (Todd) – 6^th (2 points)
• B1:
  • Blue (Shomik) – 4^th (7 points)
  • Red (Warren) – 1^st (12 points)
• C1 (Indranil – 7^th (7 points)
• C2:
  • Blue (Hiresh) – 7^th (7 points)
  • Red (Aniket) – 4^th (12 points)
• C3 (Mick) – 7^th (2 points)
• C4:
  • Blue (Rob) – 1^st (12 points)
  • Red (Ross S) – 4^th (9 points)
  • White (Agniva) – 3^rd (12 points)
• D1:
  • Blue (Nirav) – 7^th (7 points)
  • Red (Diggers) – 2^nd (12 points)
• D2 (Roger) –