Association News

Breaking News (7 October)

Due to prolonged wet weather this week the Association has advised:

“Due to the extremely wet weather and the forecasted rain this weekend, both senior and junior games scheduled for this weekend have been cancelled. Communications were sent to club senior and junior co-ordinators late yesterday.

 Round 3 of the senior competition will now be played as a One Day game on Saturday 15^th October, Sunday 16^th October for C3 grade.”

 WPHC Academy & Skills Clinics

Our acclaimed Academy and Skills Clinics are soon to kick-off. Details are:

Boys Academy

• Starting: Wednesday 19^th October 2022 and then each week until 7^th December
• Finishing: 9^th February2023 after resuming 2^nd February
• Time: 00 pm to 6.30 pm
• Where: John Purchase Public School
• Cost: $225 for 10 sessions – amazing value

Girls Academy

• Starting: Wednesday 19^th October 2022 and then each week until 7^th December
• Finishing: 9^th February2023 after resuming 2^nd February
• Time: 00 pm to 6.30 pm
• Where: John Purchase Public School
• Cost: as above

Key items

• The Academy is run over 10 weeks (8 x sessions before Christmas & 2 x sessions after the break)
• Numbers are capped:
  • 30 for the Boys
  • 10 for the Girls
• Our Coaches will be Premier First Grade + First Class / WBBL players + our own accredited and experienced players. They are among the best coaches available in the District.

How do I register?

Full details will be provided shortly.

Skills sessions

We will also be running our very popular free Skills Sessions for Master Blasters to U13’s + Girls Stages 1, 2 & 3.

More details will follow on this one but this is an initiative that targets both the players and Coaches to help them build their Coaching skills. In brief though, key points are:

• When: Monday’s starting 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm
• Where: John Purchase Public School
• Who can attend: all players from Master Blasters to U13 + Coaches
• Cost: $ Nil

Cricket Central – net hire

With what looks like another La Nina affected summer, you may want to think about getting an indoor net session to keep your players in some sort of form and add a bit of excitement to not being able to play. The new Cricket Central complex at Silverwater is open and has a massive indoor cricket net facility that can be hired. Details are:

• Send an email to bookings@cricketnsw.com.au with your request.
• Our CNSW staff will be able to action the booking request and assist you to find a suitable time and date.
• The pricing is done per hour and per net. The price guide is below:

	Indoor Centre
When	Times	Cost
Off Peak – Monday to Friday	9.00 am to 5.00 pm	$60.00 / hour
Peak – Monday to Friday	5.00 pm to 10.00 pm	$75.00 / hour
Saturday & Sunday	8.00 am to 10.00 pm	$60.00 / hour

Association News

The Association has released the Season calendar and it can be viewed – Season calendar

Cricket NSW latest

Blast Training Session

CNSW is running a Blast Coordinator training session where all within HKHDCA are invited and encouraged to attend. This training is aimed at all experience levels involved in delivering Blasters packages. Details are:

• Date – Wednesday 12 October 2022.
• Time – 6pm to 7pm.
• Location – Thornleigh West Public School (Giblett Avenue, Thornleigh).
• Cost – Free.

Please register by following this link – LINK HERE

School Holiday Clinic

A Sydney Sixers School Holiday Program has been scheduled! Details are:

• Name – Sydney Sixers Holiday Program
• Date – Tuesday 4 October 2022
• Time – 9.00 am to 3.00 pm
• Location – Greenway Park (Oval 2)
• Cost – $50 per participant

The contact for the day is our region’s CNSW Blast Specialist, Stuart Fone (stuart.fone@cricketnsw.com.au).

200 Women in Cricket – invitation

A Cricket NSW initiative, led by the amazing Julie Stafford, has set-up a network of amazing women doing great things across NSW. To quote Julie:

“We’d like to harness these collective experiences by creating a network of “Wicket Wisdom”  – to share best practice, tips and tricks and resources. We’ll host short videos, create resources, and share your great ideas to help us all make a difference at your Club or Association.

 So, if you’re a female in a cricket club, whether as a player, a Mum, a young adult or as a current committee member– we’d like to invite you to join in our WiCKETS network.

 More about us info here: https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/minister-hails-200-wickets/2022-09-09

 Please fill in below and we’ll send you a link to join in the group or join our Facebook page directly! Once you’re in the group – you can then invite others to join too.

 WiCKETS Rego link

https://www.facebook.com/groups/wicketwomen”

Registrations

Status

Registrations remain open all season for the Blowfly, Junior Blasters & Master Blasters as these are non-competition program.

All other Registrations close once caps are reached in each Age Division, including Seniors.

Registration process

If you still want to register than just go to our Registration page and follow the prompts – https://wphccc.com.au/player-registrations/

Blowfly Cricket

Season arrangements

We will again be offering Blowfly Cricket to our players with autism at James Henty Oval. More details to follow shortly.

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

Registrations

There are 4 x formats for Girls and the details are below:

• Junior Blasters – girls & boys aged 5 to 7 years of age – Saturday morning

• Stage 1(a) – Master Blasters (Girls Only who are new to cricket)

• Stage 1 (b) Sixers Girls Cricket – Saturday afternoon (1.00 pm)
• Stages 2 & 3 – Sixers Girls Cricket League – Saturday afternoon

Check out full details, including how to register then go to the following link – https://wphccc.com.au/junior_girls/

Juniors (mixed)

Season format

The season format is: Season calendar .

In summary:

• Round 14 – 17^th December  with a 5-week break over Christmas / New Year
• Round 15 – starts again on Saturday 28^th January with 5 weeks of normal Comp games
• Semi Finals – Saturday 4^th and 11^th February 2023
• Grand Final – Sunday 12^th March 2023

Round highlights

Normally we would highlight every week the standout achievements from each Saturday. Unfortunately, with a few systems bugs with PlayHQ we can’t identify individual highlights without going through each scorecard. So until this bug is fixed we can’t provide this update.

Competition Tables

After 3 Rounds, with some games rain affected, the latest status is:

• U16/17: White (3^rd); Red (6^th)
• U15: Blue (2^nd); Green (3^rd)
• U14: Blue (1^st); Gold (3^rd); Red (12^th)
• U13: Purple (=1^st); Gold (7^th); Blue (8^th)
• U12: Red (3^rd); Blue (8^th); Purple (9^th); Gold (11^th); Green (13^th)
• U11: No competition tables available (6 Teams)
• U10: No competition tables available (6 Teams)
• U9: No competition (4 Teams)
• U8: No competition (5 teams)

Seniors

The season calendar is: Season calendar .

Congratulations to our T20 Finalists. Games are to be played on Sunday 16^th October 2022. Details are:

T20 Finals

1^st Grade (Sunday 16^th October)

WPHC Vs Berowra @ Greenway Park – 2.00 pm

4^th Grade (Sunday 30^th October)

WPHC Blue (Rob) Vs Kissing Point @ Les Shore #1 – 2.00 pm

Sunday Games

The schedule for Sunday matches, up to & including Rd 8 (18/12/2022) are:

Round	Date	Grade
3	9/10 & 16/10	C3
4	23/10 & 30/10	B
5	6/11 & 13/11	C4
6	20/11 & 27/11	C2
7	4/12 & 11/12	C1
8	18/12	B2

Round highlights

Normally we would highlight every week the standout achievements from each Saturday. Unfortunately, with a few systems bugs with PlayHQ we can’t identify individual highlights without going through each scorecard. So until this bug is fixed we can’t provide this update.

Training

Seniors training schedule is:

• Wednesday – WPH Sports Club nets from 4.00 pm until dark
• Friday – John Purchase Oval from 4.00 pm

Competition structure

• Round 1 – Saturday 24^th September
• One day games – Rounds 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 (7 matches)
• Two day games – Rounds 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 13 & 14 (7 matches)
• Finals:
  • Semi’s – 4^th & 11^th March 2023
  • Grand Final – Saturday 18^th & Sunday 19^th March 2023

T20 World Cup – ‘Squads’ initiative

The Men’s T20 World Cup kicks-off on 16 October and runs until 13 November. In brief:

• 45 matches played across Adelaide, Brisbane, Geelong, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney
• Australia drawn with New Zealand, England and Afghanistan in addition to two teams who get through from Round 1
• Final to be played at the MCG on November 13
• First time Australia have ever hosted the pinnacle men’s event for T20 cricket

Cricket Australia has set up a great initiative called ‘Squads’. This is an initiative where people supporters for each of the participating countries can be part of a national supporters group. To find out more check out the following links:

• Australia – Squads – Australia

• Afghanistan – Squads – Afghanistan

• Bangladesh – Squads – Bangladesh

• England – Squads – England
• India – Squads – India

• New Zealand – Squads – New Zealand
• Pakistan – Squads – Pakistan

• South Africa – Squads – South Africa
• Sri Lanka – Squads – Sri Lanka
• West Indies – https://www.facebook.com/groups/squadwestindies

Check out the links and be part of the build-up – THIS IS YOUR SQUAD V3