Coming up

With the season now into his final leg, the key dates to look out for are:

• End of season:
  • Girls Semi Finals / Finals – Saturday 11^th March
  • Juniors:
    • Kimbo Cup – Saturday 4^th and 11^th March
    • Grand Finals – Sunday 12^th March
  • Seniors:
    • Semi’s Finals (11^th & 18^th March)
    • Final (25^th & 26^th March)
• Juniors Presentation Day – 18^th March 2017 at Oakhill Drive Public School
• Seniors Presentation Night – Friday 5^th May at Dural Country Club.

Pink Stumps day

Pink Stumps Day, run by the U9s is going ahead on Saturday 11 March– the last day of the Junior Competition. This is a great day that involves our 5 Teams all playing at Oakhill Drive Public School.

This will be promoted more fully in the coming days but as a heads-up:

• Games start at 9.00 am and runs through until 12.00 noon
• There are raffles, a cake stall, speed gun, silent auction and a sausage sizzle and heaps more
• There are an amazing 17 raffle prizes with tickets just $2 each or 3 for $5.

Donation

If you can donate to this great cause please go to our online donation page – https://pinkstumpsday2017.gofundraise.com.au/page/wphccricketclub

Association News

Club Champions

Our Seniors have won the Association Club Championship for the first time since 2008/09. This is a great achievement as the qualification criteria are designed to even the playing field and tends to favour smaller Clubs.

Having missed out last year by 1/1000^th of a point, the doctrine of inevitability has shone on those who believe in fate and destiny – I think they call it Karma!

Well done.

Paid Umpiring opportunity for Semis / Finals

The Umpires Association has asked us to nominate players not qualifying for the Finals for Umpiring duty on the following dates:

• Senior Semi Finals: Saturday 11th and 18th March
• Senior Finals: Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th March
• Junior Finals: Sunday 12th March

Minimum qualification to be appointed is a current Captains Ticket. Obviously preference will be given to those holding current Umpires Certification.

All persons appointed to these fixtures will be paid the current umpire rate of $20 – $22 / scheduled hour of play, dependent upon whether one or two umpires are in attendance.

Specialist Off-Season Coaching Program

The Coaches’ Association is taking registrations for its annual off-season Specialist Coaching Program.

Details

• Who can attend – U/12 – U/15 players covering batting, pace & spin bowling and wicket-keeping, and is designed for representative standard players and/or stronger club players
• Where – James Park, Hornsby
• When – Sunday 30 April; 21 May; 18 June & 30 July 2017
• Cost – $120 for one skill (e.g.; batting) and $240 for 2 skills (e.g.; batting & bowling)

This Specialist Coaching Program sold out in advance in 2015 and 2016, with great feedback from the players and their parents, so please register early.

To register please access the following link – here)

Representative Selection Trials

Boys

The Association is holding selection trials for 2017/18 as follows:

• Ages – U13, U14, U15 and U16 (determined by your age as at 31 August 2017)
• When – Sunday 19 March 2017
• Where – Action Indoor Sports, 7 Gundah Rd, Mt Ku-ring-gai
• Starting times –a 8.30 am to 4.00 pm
• Registrations closure date – Thursday 16 March at 7.00 pm.

Plus:

• Ages – U10, U11, U12
• When – Sunday 26^th March
• Other details – as above.

Girls

• Ages – U13 and U15 Age Groups
• When – Sunday 26^th March
• When – 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
• Other details – as above.

Full details are located at the following link – here

Juniors Boys

The Semi Finals were played on the weekend with the Finals played next Sunday as all-day matches.

Points table

Final standings are:

• U16’s               4^th (Blue), Red (7^th)
• U15’s               4^th (Gold), 5^th (Blue), 8^th (White)
• U14’s               1^st (Blue), 8^th (Gold), 11^th (White)
• U13’s               4^th (White), 5^th (Blue), 9^th (Red)
• U12’s               5^th (Green), 6^th (Red), 10^th (Orange), 14^th (White), 16^th (Blue)
• U11’s               3^rd (Purple), 4^th (Orange), 13^th (Blue), 16^th (Green), 21^st (Gold)
• U8s, U9s, U10’s – no competition.

Congratulations to our Semi Finalists who played on Sunday and to our U13 White who made it through to the Final next weekend. Results were:

U16

WPHC Blue 4/102 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee 2/104

U15

WPHC Gold 115 drew with Kenthurst Upper Hills – as we finished 4^th the boys miss out.

U14

WPHC Blue 133 lost to Berowra 8/188

U13

WPHC White 3/112 defeated Hornsby 111

U11

WPHC Purple 75 lost to Hornsby Green 4/102

WPHC Orange 69 lost to Castle Hill 2/71

Semi Final Highlights

• Amardeep Gill (U13 White) – 62* Vs Hornsby
• William Dearden (U16 Blue) – 50* Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee
• Sidhant Singh (U13 White) – 2/9 Vs Hornsby
• Kai Carney (U11 Purple) – 2/12 Vs Hornsby Green
• Aryan Tyagi (U13 White) – 2/13 Vs Hornsby

Congratulations also to all of our Teams who played this season – well done and thanks.

Kanga

The last leg of the season finished on Saturday 4^th March with our Presentation Day. Due to a wet weekend the Presentation was held in the Sports Club and some photos are loaded on the Gallery. This now brings the season to a close and a big thank you to all of our players, parents and supporters.

A special thanks to the Sports Club who kindly allowed us into the Club before opening hours and at short notice to help us out – really appreciated folks.

Junior Girls

Reps

• Ages – U13 and U15 Age Groups
• When – Sunday 26^th March
• Where – Action Indoor Sports, 7 Gundah Rd, Mt Ku-ring-gai
• Starting times –a 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm
• Registrations closure date – Thursday 16 March at 7.00 pm.

Full details are located at the following link – here

T20 Blast (8 to 12 years)

Our T20 Blast Girls finish up next Friday (10^th March) at James Henty. Well done to our Girls who had a lot of fun and we are looking forward already to the start of the 2017/18 season – stayed tuned in the off-season on more information later this year.

Sixers Girls Cricket League (10 to 17 years)

The Final Round was played on the weekend with the final being round being played next weekend. Results are:

U13s

WPHC drew with Mosman – a draw in this important 4^th Vs 5^th game. At this stage it looks like we finished 3^rd and will play 2^nd placed West Ryde Rovers in the Semis next week.

U17

Division 1

WPHC drew with Forest Fire – another washed out game in this 4^th Vs 1^st game. Next week we play in the Semi’s with the final draw to be announced. Well done girls.

Division 2

WPHC Red drew with Castle Hill Thunder – this 3^rd Vs 1^st game was also washed out along with all other games. We will now play our 3^rd placed White Team next weekend.

WPHC White drew with Mercy College – another washout in this 2^nd Vs 5^th match. We finished 2^nd and will play our Reds next weekend.

Bumpty Report – the February edition

The February edition of the ‘Bumpty Report’ is on the website – here. The Report has a hard hitting look into the impact of the heat abandoned Round last weekend on family life and how WPHCCC players got through this traumatic experience. The Bumpty Report goes searching for answers.