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CNSW Community Cup
Round 1 of the CNSW Community Cup starts this Sunday 8th November 2026. This is the CNSW T20 equivalent of the FA Cup for non-Premier level cricket where Teams from Associations across NSW play each other in a knockout competition.
Our A1 boys play the 1st Grade Epping Bulls. Details are:
- When: Sunday 8th November
- Where: Parklands Oval
- Time: 2.00 pm
Come along to support our boys in this elite T20 competition.
Live streaming
If you can’t make it to the game then it is also being live streamed via the linls on the following PlayHQ site – Live Stream HERE
WPH Sports Club co-branded digital Membership card – available now
The new digital membership system is now operational.
What are we doing and why?
We have partnered with the WPH Sports Club to launch a co-branded digital membership card as part of a pilot program.
This initiative provides benefits to our members while also supporting the Cricket Club. Future sponsorship arrangements will be linked to the number of members who sign up and actively use their digital membership card at the Sports Club.
What’s in it for me?
No cost to join
While members are required by the Sports Club constitution to pay a joining fee ($10) this will be automatically re-credited to each digital card that can be used at the bar / restaurant within 2-weeks.
Digital convenience
No more plastic membership cards. It will now be stored securley in your digital wallet.
Member benefits
Members will be eligible for:
- Entry in the $20,000 members draw
- Member pricing at the bar and Restaurant – typically around 20% lower than non-member prices
- Free children’s meals on Sunday nights at the Restaurant
- After-game Saturday specials:
- Jugs of beer: $18.00
- Soft drink jugs: $10.00
- Beer and soft drink combo: $25.00
- We are also completing arrangements for other incentives specifically for:
- Blast families
- Juniors Mixed and Girls
- Blowfly cricketers.
What do I need to do?
Every West Penno family, including supporters & volunteers are encouraged to become WPH Sports Club members.
To access the Cricket Club benefits, applicants must use the application via the following membership link. Please note that only members who register through the Cricket Club application link will receive the co-branded card and Cricket Club-specific benefits:
Existing Sports Club Members
New Sports Club Members
The process takes less than 1 minute. For new members, simply visit the Sports club with ID so your membership can be activated.
Michael Banner memorial gathering
The Banner family is organising a special Memorial for Michael on Thursday 19 November.
Details have not yet been firmed up but it is likely to start at 2.00 pm Castle Hill RSL.
More info will follow once it is available.
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 7, (31/10 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 (=5th); Yellow (7th); Gold (10th)
- U13 – Red (1st); Purple (2nd); Yellow (=5th); Blue (=6th); Gold (7th); White (11th)
- U14 – Green (=4th); Purple (=13th); Gold (15th)
- U15 – Gold (=2nd); Purple (6th); 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.
Team shuffling
On Wednesday 4th November 2026, the Association Senior Competition advised that they had reviewed the Competition structure and made the following changes. This is standard practice after 4 Rounds. The changes are:
- Hornsby B moved to A Res
- Hornsby B Res moved to B
- Berowra B Res moved to B
- WPHC Red B moved to B Res
- Hills Tigers C3 moved to C Res
- WPHC Red moved from 1-Day Only to C Res
- Normanhurst C Res moved to C3
- Castle Hill Green C4 moved to C3
- WPHC Blue moved from 1-Day Only to C4
- The D grade teams of WPHC, Beecroft and Hornsby moved to C4
- Oakhill College moved from C4 to D/ D Res
- WPHC White moved from 1 – Day to D/ D Res
Combined D/D Res Competition
The SCC has merged the D and D Reserve competitions into a single 10-team competition.
This decision was made to ensure teams play against more than 3 opponents and not have a bye.
The following conditions will apply:
- The competition will operate under the current D grade player rating rules, being a 9-rated competition where teams may field a maximum of two 8-rated players on a given day.
- The top four teams at the completion of the regular season will qualify for the D Grade Finals Series.
- Teams finishing 5th to 8th will qualify for the D Reserve Finals Series.
- Teams finishing 9th and 10th will not participate in the finals.
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.