Key dates

• Annual General Meeting – Wednesday 5^th August
• Registration / Information Day –Sunday 30^th August (to be confirmed)
• Seniors Training – Saturday 29^th August
• Season start – 24^th October (see below).

Association update

The Association met on 30^th June and details for next season are:

Season start

Juniors

• Start date – 24^th October to 19^th December (9 weeks) then January 30^th to 6^th March (8 weeks)
• Semi Finals & Grand Finals – 14^th to 21^st March

The Association has adopted a 100% compliance to CA Junior formats across all age groups. This mainly affects Master Blasters, U9s & U11s. More detail will come on this.

Helmet policy

The wearing of a helmet will now be mandatory for all players facing medium / fast bowling; fielding within 7 metres of the bat; wicket keeping up to the stumps.

Girls, Junior Blasters (U5 to U7) & Blowfly

Not yet advised but likely to be in early November.

Seniors

• Start date – 24^th October to 19^th December with a 2 week break starting up again on 9^th January 2021
• No T20 Competition
• Helmet policy applies
• Semi Finals and Grand Finals – 13^th to 28^th March
• Season format:
  • 4 x 2-day games to start the season
  • 1 x 1-day game (19^th December)
  • 1 x 1-day games to 23^rd January finishing with 2 day games until season end (13^th March).

From this season, the Association unanimously agreed to implement the helmet approach as a Policy and not part of the Rules. Batters not wearing a helmet will effectively be given Out – Timed Out.

Representative Cricket

The dates for Rep selection Trials are below. The venue will be advised shortly.

Sunday 23rd August

• U10: 8:30 – 10:00 am
• U12: 11:00 – 12.30 pm
• U14: 1.30 – 3.00 pm

Sunday 30th August

• U11: 8:30 – 10:00 am
• U13: 11:00 – 12.30 pm
• U15: 1.30 – 3:00 pm

Cricket Australia News

CA has advised (30 June) the following changes regarding the My Cricket platform:

“The Board …has confirmed:

• • • Making the replacement of the current MyCricket platform one of Cricket Australia’s highest priorities;
    • Endorsing the largest investment in Community Cricket technology ever.

 We are currently scoping out a platform that we hope can meet our community needs. When a vendor has been selected we can then develop a transition plan, with community input and consultation.

 We are committed to a successful transition and this will take some time to get right – we expect the project to take us up to two years. Meanwhile, we will remain on the current MyCricket platform.”

Greenway Park development

We are getting close to the new $3.6m Community Centre at Greenway Park being installed. The Centre is to be located on the grass bank between the top and bottom ovals and will become a major enhancement that can be used during the season. It will have viewing balconies, storage, meeting rooms, kitchen, air-conditioning, change rooms and function facilities. Most importantly, our players , parents and supporters will have a great viewing platform to watch the game in comfort.

The Centre is being built in modular form and will be transported from Somersby to Cherrybrook and installed in June.

Check out our Facebook page to as a video of the latest development.

SBS ‘Life Time Community Service Award’

Congratulations to Sreeni Pillamarri (C2 and Executive Committee Member) who was announced as runner up in the SBS ‘Life Time Community Service Awards’ (26^th May 2020).

His contribution is amazing. Apart from his volunteer effort with our Club, Sreeni is a Board Member of Radio station Alive 90.5 FM, former President of the Telugu Association and United India Association.

In 2018 he organised and walked from Parramatta to Canberra in the ‘Walk for Farmers’ to support drought stricken farmers. This year he organised a major funding raising for the SFS volunteers during the bushfires.

This is outstanding and is yet another example of what makes our Club great – the depth and quality of our amazing volunteers in all capacities.

Well done Sreeni.

Danielle Chivers:

National winner: ‘Young Community Leader of the Year’ &

CNSW ‘Young Community Leader of the Year’

On 21 May 2020, Cricket Australia selected Dani Chivers (pictured left in the Banner photo together with Ellen Hall) as the national ‘Young Community Leader of the Year’. Danielle topped list ahead of 5 other State nominations making her the highest ranked Young Community Leader in Australia.

To reach this distinguished level, Cricket NSW announced (13 May 2020) that Danielle was named the Young Community Leader of the Year! Her achievements, among many, are:

• Dani is a key member of our Schools Clinic/ Coaching teams
• Is actively involved in our Blowfly Cricket initiative
• Is a Coach in the HK&HDCA Coaching Program run by the legendary Bruce Wood
• Last season she won the Association Rookie Coach of the Year Award
• Her playing record is also outstanding. Playing cricket for our Sixers Girls Cricket League and won the prestigious Lisa Sthalekar Award as the outstanding Girls cricketer for 2019/20.

The prestigious ‘A Sport for All’ Awards run by Cricket Australia are the highest honour a volunteer can receive and Dani has taken out one of only 3 individual categories. We have over 275 active volunteers who all do an amazing job to support our Club and Dani is a great representative of what our club is all about.

Well done Dani – we are very proud of your achievements.

Major Club Award – Presidents Award

Rob Hanich

We have over 275 active Volunteers with everyone making a significant contribution. To be acknowledged as the outstanding Volunteer of the Year is something special.

Outside Life Membership, the ‘President’s Award’ is the most prestigious Award that is available in our Club. The Award acknowledges the most outstanding Volunteer effort for our Club over the last season, also taking into account long service and outstanding contribution.

Rob is Deputy Juniors Director, Club Vice President, Seniors D1 Captain. Add to this, Juniors Secretary of the Association for a 2^nd season plus being a former Club Juniors Director (2016-19), Junior Coach and Age Convenor. These are amazing contributions not just for this season but over many years.

Well done and well deserved Rob.

Major Award Winners (Juniors) 2019/20

Whilst we were unable to hold our usual Presentation Day for this past Season due to COVID-19, the Junior Committee have still had the difficult task of assessing the many worthy nominations for our Perpetual Awards.

We now take great pleasure in being able to acknowledge our Major Award winners for Season 2019/2020.

John Coulthard Award – Outstanding Junior U16 Player : Shaan Bakshi

Lisa Sthalekar Award – Outstanding Girls Player (Senior): Danielle Chivers

Charles Booth Memorial Award – Outstanding Junior U13 Player: Benjamin Burrows

Tina McPherson Award – Outstanding Girls Player (Junior): Sofia Culas

Ross Anderson Award – Outstanding Junior Player U11: Oscar Honeysett

 

Volunteer of the Year Awards

Volunteer of the Year (U12-U16): Duminda Thenuwara

Volunteer of the Year (Girls): Neil Jackson

Volunteer of the Year (U8-U11): Mick Dalton

 

Arthur Souter Award (Players graduating U16 who have played every season from Kanga – U16)

Cory Brookhouse

Danielle Chivers

Seth Sweeney

Luchith Thenuwara

Aryan Tyagi

Congratulations to all the Award winners.

Major Award winners (Seniors) 2019/20

With the Seniors Presentation cancelled due to COVID-19 we don’t have any formal end of season recognition for outstanding achievement. Our 2 Major Awards though are still being made and trophies will be awarded once the season start is known.

Congratulations to our major Award winners:

Player of the Year

Michael Richards (A1).

Michael won the prestigious Award for taking 28 wickets @ 14.7 to be our top A1 wicket taker + 2nd highest wicket taker in the Club. This is also the 2nd time he has won the Award (2015/16) plus winning the Charles Booth Memorial Award (U13s) in 2005/06.

Outstanding Prospect

Alastair Fullerton (D1 Blue)

Alastair won the prestigious ‘Outstanding Prospect’ of the year award by scoring 532 runs @ 59.2 and taking 13 wickets @ 18.6.

Team based awards

We are going to be acknowledging best batting & bowling achievements in all Senior Grades. The winners will be published on the website in May.

Girl’s cricket

Competition

Results of the GF played on Saturday 7 March 2020:

U13

WPHC (Sthalekar) 2^nd defeated Thornleigh 4^th in the Plate Final.

The 5^th placed Annetts Team just missed the Finals by finishing 5^th.

Final Competition standings are:

• WPHC Sthalekar – 2^nd (45 points)
• WPHC Annetts – =4^th (5^th on quotient) – 29 points

Sixers League

U16s

Congratulations to our Grand Finalists:

Grand Final

WPHC Healy 84 lost to Castled Hill Thunder 2/91

Plate Final

WPHC Perry 4/31 lost to Castle Hill RSL 30 in the Plate Final.

Final Competition standings are:

• WPHC Healy 1^st (49 points)
• WPHC Perry – 3^rd (43 points)

Juniors

Grand Final results

• U11:
  • Blue (2^nd) 76 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee (1^st) 93
• U15/16
  • Orange (3^rd) 135 lost to Hornsby (1^st) 141

Team standings

After the last competition Round – 29^th February, Team standings:

• U15 /U16s – Orange =2^nd (3^rd on quotient); Blue 7^th; Red 8^th; White 10^th
• U14s – Red 1^st; Purple =2^nd (3^rd on quotient), Blue 6^th; Orange 7^th, Green 9^th
• U13s – Red 6^th, Green 7^th, Blue 10^th, White 11^th
• U12s – Blue 4^th; Green 8^th; Orange 15^th; Gold 17^th; Red 19^th.
• U11s – Blue 2^nd; Orange 3^rd; Gold 9^th; Red 12^th; Green 14^th
• U8s to U10s – no competition points allocated.

Awards Presentation

As mentioned above, the Juniors Presentation has been cancelled. Awards for each Team and major Perpetual Awards will still be presented – the timing and process have yet to be determined. As a minimum, we will use our Club Social Media to let everyone know who won the various awards.

Seniors (All Age)

Presentation Night & Awards

The Senior Presentation Day, scheduled for Friday 1 May 2020 has been cancelled due to COVID 2020.

Award winners for each team have been distributed and our major Award winners have been announced:

• Player of the Year – Michael Richards (A1)
• Outstanding Prospect – (Alastair Fullerton)

Semi-Finals & Grand Finals

Congratulations to our Minor Premiers and Premiers (declared after finishing highest on the Competition table):

• C1 Red (Phill)
• C3 (Buzz)

Commiserations to our Teams that missed out in the Semi Finals – wet weather ensured drawn games meaning our 4 lower placed sides missed out:

• A2 Blue (Gunny)
• C2 (Indranil)
• D1 Blue (Rob)
• D2 (Mike)

Points table

Team standings after the final Round (14) follows:

• A1 – 5^th (37 points)
• A2:
  • Blue (Gunny) – 3^rd (53 points)
  • Red (Andy) – 5^th (47 points)
• B1 – 6^th (38 points)
• B2 – 8^th (33 points)
• C1:
  • Red (Phill) = 1^st
  • Blue (Fieds) – 8^th
• C2 – 4^th (42 points)
• C3 – 1^st (70 points)
• D1:
  • Blue (Rob) – 3^rd 48 points)
  • Red (Diggers) – 5^th (44 points)
• D2 – 3^rd (52 points)