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

Details will follow.

Draw and Competition tables

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

Club News

Registrations status

Status is:

• Cricket Blast (Boys & Girls 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 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 – Registration page .

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.

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

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.

Blowfly Cricket

Season arrangements

Blowfly Cricket started on Saturday (12^th October 2024). To find out more about Blowfy cricket for next season checkout the website – Blowfly Cricket website link

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

Project Inspire

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

Competition tables

Standings after Round 4 (26/10):

Stage 1:

• Gardner (=4^th) – 6 points

All-Girls:

• Harris =7^th (2 points)
• Annetts =8^th (0 points)

Stage 2:

• Lanning (1^st) – 24 points
• Clark (=3^rd) – 18 points
• Perry (=9^th) – 6 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 4 (26/10):

• 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 (=3^rd); Blue (=3^rd); Yellow (=12^th)
• U13 – Purple (=1^st); Green (=1^st); Gold (=4^th); Orange (=4^th); Blue (=6^th); Red (=8^th); White (=12^th)
• U14 –Red (=6^th); Gold (=11^th); White (=11^th)
• U15 – Blue (=4^th); Red (6^th)
• U17 – Gold (3^rd); Red =4^th)

Seniors

Draw

You can check out the Draw and Match Results via the Association website:

Association Draw and standings

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 Grand Finals

The T20 Grand Finals are to be played on Sunday 27^th October 2024. The draw is:

1^st Grade

WPHC Red (Todd) Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Park @ 2.00 pm

3^rd Grade

WPHC Red (Aniket) Vs post WPHC White (Indranil) @ Greenway Park @ 10.30 am

5^th Grade

WPHC Blue (Nirav) Vs Castle Hill Green @ Greenway Park @ 2.00 pm

Competition Table

The table after Round 3 (19/10) is:

• A1 (Cam #25) – 5^th (7points)
• A2:
  • Blue (Ryan) – 4^th (10 points)
  • Red (Todd) – 6^th (3 points)
• B1:
  • Blue (Shomik) – =3^rd (10 points)
  • Red (Warren) – = 1^st (15 points)
• C1 (Indranil) – 4^th (13 points)
• C2:
  • Blue (Hiresh) – =1^st (13 points)
  • Red (Aniket) – =1^st (13 points)
• C3 (Mick) – 7^th (8 points)
• C4:
  • Blue (Rob) – 2^nd (12 points)
  • Red (Ross S) – =5^th (10 points)
  • White (Agniva) – 1^st (18 points)
• D1:
  • Blue (Nirav) – =6^th (8 points)
  • Red (Diggers) – =4^th (13 points)
• D2 (Roger) – 7^th (3 points)