Latest News
Vale Michael Banner
Our Club and community are deeply saddened by the news of Michael Banner’s passing this week.
Inaugural Hall of Fame member, Seniors Treasurer (2001-05), A-grade player number 284, century-scoring record-holder and loyal club player for 30 seasons.
But most importantly, our good friend. Michael has been playing A2 this season and will be sadly missed.
Our ‘Stories of West Penno’ has a Vale on Michael – Stories of West Penno .
New WPH Sports Club co-branded digital Membership card
Good news. The new digital Sports Club Membership Card is now operational.
We are meeting with the Sports club this coming week to work through the final detail of a Cricket Club co-branded card.
The key point is that the Sports Club will support us through sponsorshipbased on how strongly our members support the Sports Club. This creates a genuine two‑way partnership.
The new co-branded card offers many benefits:
- 20% discounts across bar, restaurant & café
- $20k badge draw access
- $10 in bonus points to spend in the Club for every member who downloads their new digital card.
Our expectation is that everyone over 18 who is a registered WPHC player or family member of a player signs-up to be a Sports Club member.
Stay tuned for more information on how to get the digital card.
Girls Playing opportunities
The Girls and Women’s-All Age comps started up on 16th & 18th October and there are still some spots available in both programs:
- Stage 1 Girls (Friday Night soft ball comp for Girls aged between 7 – 11 years) and;
- Women’s All-age (CNSW Metro Competition) – Sunday T20 & T30 games at 1.00 pm.
Anyone with daughters, female family members, or friends keen to play still has time to register before the season begins.
Details on both Competitions and how to register, are on the following flyer.
WPH Sports Club co-branded digital Membership card
WPH Sports Club co-branded digital Membership card
Cricket Blast
Registrations for the 2026/27 season are OPEN and you can register – HERE
Details on the Blast program can be found on the Club website at – WPHC Blast Information
Blowfly Cricket
To find out more about Blowfy cricket for next season checkout the website – Blowfly Home Page
Details
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
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’ – Channel 10 report from about 1:43 secs.
ABC News coverage
Also worth looking at is a great story that aired on the ABC News on Sunday 2nd March 2025 – ABC News Report
Girls
Registrations for 2026/27 are OPEN. Check out our website for everything you need to know about Girls cricket – Girls Cricket Information
To short-cut registration, scan the following QR Codes:
Juniors Mixed
Season details
Key dates are:
- Competition starts:
- U12 – U17 – Saturday 12th September 2026
- U8 to U11 – Saturday 19th September 2026
Christmas / New Year break
Last game: Saturday 12th December 2026
Recommences: Saturday 30th January 2027
- Last Round:
- Saturday 27th February 2027 (U8 – U11)
- Saturday 27th February 2027 (U12 – U17 ) Semi Finals
- Grand Finals – Saturday 6th March 2027 (U12 to U17)
- Presentations – Saturday 13th March 2027 (TBC)
The U8s to U11s play morning and occasional afternoon games.
The U12’s to U17’s play Saturday mornings between 8.30 am to around 12.30 pm.
Competition Tables
Table after Round 5, (17/10 2026) is:
PlayHQ link – PlayHQ Juniors Table
- U8 – no competition
- U9 – no competition
- U10 – no competition
- U11 – no competition
- U12 – Green (=3rd); White (=3rd); Red (=7th); Yellow (=9th); Gold (=-12th)
- U13 – Red (1st); Purple (=2nd); Yellow (=4th); Blue (=4th); Gold ((=9th); White (=11th)
- U14 – Green (=5th); Purple (=13th); Gold (15th)
- U15 – Gold (=1st); Purple (=7th); Blue (=9th)
- U17 – Gold (=3rd)
Seniors
Key dates & playing details
- Season start:
- 1st Competition game – Saturday 19th September 2026
Christmas / New Year break
Last game: Saturday 19th December 2026
Recommences: Saturday 9th January 2027
- Finals in mid / late March 2026.
Our 20-26/27 Captains
Congratulations to our 2026/27 Captains:
- A1 – Cameron McBrien (Captain #25)
- A2 – Todd Hutchinson
- B1:
- Blue – Prats Datar
- Red – Warren Schwartzel
- B2 – Sparsh
- C1:
- Blue – Aniket Mahindre
- Red – Roger Francis
- C2 – Chintan Shah
- C4 – Ravi Gunna
- D1 – Ian Digby
Seniors Mixed One-Day Competition
- Blue (Roger Friend)
- Green (Rob Hanich)
- Red – (Pras Indrakumar)
- White – Parin Pillamarri
Website page updates
James Makin, our Seniors Director has worked his magic and updated the website to bring to life our major Seniors statistical records.
Our Club records are second to none and go back to 1946/47.
The records cover Seniors only due to the long history of patching together manual records that, pre PlayHQ, were kept on paper records held by Team Managers. For Juniors and Girls, statistics simply aren’t available, so it’s not possible to aggregate similar historical Leader boards.
However, our ‘Awards & Records’ (in the Club History menu) does have details of the limited records that have been sourced through manual effort over many years.
With the latest enhancements we now have:
- On the Home page a great visual of the Season’s best achievements and also personal milestone tracking
- There is also a new tab in our Club history ‘Statistics Hub – Seniors’ – Statistics Hub – Seniors. This is a great, easy to source data base that is worth playing around with.
The data is updated after every round.