Seniors Match Report – Round 7 (1-Dayer) – 6 December 2025

Competition Tables

Table after Round 7, (6/12/2025) is:

PlayHQ link – Draw & Competition Table

• A1 (Cam #25) – 3^rd (34 points)
• A2:
  • Blue (Warren) – 6^th (21 points)
  • Red (Todd) – 8^th (9 points)
• B1 (Prats) – 3^rd (29 points)
• B2 (Sparsh) – 2^nd (27 points)
• C1 (Aniket) – 5^th (24 points)
• C2 (Indranil) – =6^th (19 points)
• C3:
  • Blue (Chintan) – 1^st (39 points)
  • Red (Karl) – 4^th (27 points)
• C4:
  • Blue (Rob) – 1^st (34 points)
  • Red (Ravi) – 2^nd (34 points)
• D1: Note: 1-day competition (Round 9)
  • Blue (Roger) – 1^st (56 points)
  • Red (Diggers) – 5^th (38 points)
• D2 (Ross S) – 4^th (26 points)

Match Reports

A1 Grade

WPHC (Cam #25) 8/145 lost to Berowra 208

Australia Vs England, Roosters Vs Souths, Carlton Vs Collingwood and  WPHCCC Vs that team up north in a GF rematch.

Now hate is a very strong word so I won’t use that but look up the rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and Georgia Tech and you’ll see what this game is about.

Before we get to the key ins and outs I did have one question – are we sure it’s maroon because it looks more burgundy to me?

In Team news, T and Billy were dropped for DEI reasons, namely one being English and I won’t say the other. Some big ins though as Tando was back from the mines, P from a wedding, Ass from probably another holiday and Wu recalled with his kids now on school holidays.

On the other side, they were missing their Captain through injury and as a result were able to field a much stronger side this week. 

K lost another toss (7 in a row now) with Jack snagging an early one, T A Love style as he knocked over Temu K shouldering arms. The bowlers toiled away and stuck to it all day and whilst some new sets of hands might be required we had them all out within the allotted with T the pick taking 4.

The change of innings break came and no sandwiches unfortunately, but out came the oldest opening partnership in A1’s history with Jim and Wu.

Whilst we might’ve missed it because we are terrible teammates, Jamaican brought up his 7000^th run which is truly amazing and we can’t wait to be there and celebrate his 8000^th. Some solid starts and plenty of promise to the chase but ultimately them having 8 blokes on the fence all day and 4 of our 11 going down with injuries proved too much as we fell short. 

But hey as I’ve always said you’re only as good as your last premiership so never fear loyal readers as you know December round games don’t matter and we’ll see them again in March when it counts.

A special mentions to Ms Belly for preparing slice for the team and apologies to Bruce and Heather for JuW’s tardiness and as a result lack of frog box action. Onto the RMM (Richards Memorial Medal) votes below:

3 – Hawwy

2 – Ju

1 – T

A2 Grade

A2 Blue (Warren) 96 lost to St Ives-Wahroonga 3/81 (DLS)

Good morning avid readers and welcome back. It brings me great sadness and despair to write today’s match report. 

A dusty, hot greenway greeted us. 

Warren “Pol Pot” Schwartzel also looked dusty and hot as he finally won a toss and elected to bat. 

Zac “Poo poo bum bum” Turner and K “Alan’s Son ”T walked out and started positively, KT swatting their opening bowler for 19 off his second over, including a lost ball into the Greenway bushes, probably down at the servo. St Ives opted to take the new ball and the game changed from here on.

Zac (4) proceeded to pull a half tracker to backward square and KT (33) followed suit shortly after, whacking one straight to cover. We did not put up much resistance after this. 

Riken “whipped” Hira played a couple decent shots, I guess, but was eventually run out for 11, Rohan “concrete for feet” Asija firmly standing his ground at the non strikers end while Riken called yes and was halfway down the pitch. 

Ro (19) played some okay shots, hitting a throw down straight back to the bowler. Big thank you to for Rafa for filling in on such a miserable hot day. He unfortunately copped a bump ball and was caught behind for 4. 

Rohan “Apparently an LMS specialist?” Arora (4) got tired of blocking 3 or so balls and proceeded to sky it. 

Tanay “good intent” Hira was fresh off a good innings last week and was keen to show the boys how to bat, especially after complaining of how terrible our top order looked. He proceeded to under edge a rank half tracker, but he showed good intent at least. He also ran out Warren so that was funny. 

The Chidgey’s and Diggers all made single digits and suddenly we are all out for 96, when par score was probably 350. 

Now it was our time with the ball.

Tanay started superbly, removing their top 3, ending with 3-28 now the tournament’s top wicket-taker. Only Diggers could really support him (0-7) as we ran out of runs to defend.

After a lightning break, our score was reduced to 80 and they chased it down within a few overs. 

Hopefully we can put this terrible game behind us as we return to the spiritual home of cricket, The Glade, next week against Kissing Point who we beat convincingly earlier in the season. 

A2 Red (Todd) 4/174 lost to Castle Hill 4/258

Today was a day with due cause for celebration. Today, we witnessed a big piece of history that has not even occurred as many times as one can count on one of their hands in our Club’s 95 year history.

Michael Banner (we are using his full name here whether he likes it or not) reached 7000 Club runs.

It was a wonderful achievement for a long time servant of WPHCCCCCCCC cricket, something that has only occurred twice before today. And today, we are hearing it again happened twice (see A grade match report or anecdotes to see what Ross Anderson says on this matter).

For Volc, who needed just nine runs to reach the coveted milestone at the start of the game came in at six with the game essentially dead and scratched around for a while, eventually bringing up the milestone with a gloved pull shot from a half tracker.

Next ball, he then swept one of Castle Hill’s fastest bowlers past three guys in the deep for four, the best shot we’ve seen him play in nearly two years.

Maybe it was just the pressure of reaching the milestone getting to him – now that it’s passed, will we be seeing the Volc of old again?

As for the rest of the match, well, long story short we lost. Again.

We started off well after Castle Hill chose to bat first on a very green looking surface at the Glade, Todd getting one of their dangerous openers early before Keats got the other a few overs later, leaving them 2-40ish inside ten overs and putting us in a good position.

Then they had a 180 run partnership for the third wicket as Castle Hill’s number three played a brilliant innings, scoring 138 off 90 odd balls to set the game up well. Some late runs and they finished four down for 258, Todd bowling superbly and just conceding 28 runs from his seven overs, while Dan and Keats picked up wickets along with Alec and Willy combining for a crucial run out late on.

Needing about 7.5 runs an over to win, Lachy went out all guns blazing and after a few scratchy shots in the first few overs, started to pepper their bowlers to all parts before top edging one straight to point on 33 for the 4824172983th time this season – just enough to bring up his 2000^th run for the club so now we know where his priorities lie. Alec joined Az and proceeded to take over, hitting some monster blows including one that somehow flew into the yard of the house backing onto the Glade, which is probably quite comfortably a six on any ground in the world. At 1-120 with fifteen overs to go we looked a chance, but when they both departed a few balls apart for 40ish each our hopes were gone.

And from there, Volc scored his 7000^th run for the Club while Shomik and Keats chipped in to take us to a respectable 174.

And so we are still looking for our first win of the season, but are back at the home of cricket next week against St Ives, who we very narrowly lost to in the first game of the season. Nothing like some good revenge.

B1 Grade

WPHC (Prats) 9/104 lost to Castle Hill 2/105

A warm welcome and hello to all long term and new readers of the famed B1 match report, sit back relax and enjoy the agony and suffering of an extremely bloody hot Saturday

It was very very, very hot…. It was so bloody hot that as I reminisce on the performance all I can think about is the searing temperatures hotter than a vindaloo. 

Nevertheless, on to the cricket and this humble match reporters shortest every match report because words will escape me after today.

We won the toss and batted (in hindsight a truly terrible decision) – Captain Burglar Prats unfortunately was late so designated and huge tosser Dean “Old Man” Carlin took the duties and duly won his second toss this season… 

Unfortunately, it was a bad day at the office for B1 with the bat with just 2 players cracking the double digits – Aden “Ronnie” Hanich and Ben “Dunks” Dunkerley the latter of which had a masterful 42 in the scorebook filled with attacking shots and an extremely solid defence… 

Beautiful batting to watch which unfortunately was interrupted midway through due to the extreme heat and Ben’s calling for the shower at the ground.

Unfortunately, with a small total of 104 on the board WPHCCC would need a famous get out of jail act today…. Houdini like you could say, unfortunately it didn’t go our way and at times I wish I was like Houdini himself – DEAD

Chances a plenty dropping short of fielders and more false shots then the English top 6 but we just couldn’t get a foothold in the match and by the 20 over mark defeat was knocking on our door and we were going straight for the exit and cool air

1 wicket each to Hot Take Watkins and Rick “Trophy” Turner the latter of which with a notorious over of shit gets wickets… And that ladies and gents is why Rick has a trophy in his name and us peasants are left with nothing but the honour of telling Rosco “Seagull” Anderson to stop knicking our sporto chips

A short list of shoutouts before we head into an ice chamber to recover from whatever that Saturday was 

– Ben “Dunks” Dunkerley who decided to pay the ultimate tribute to fellow left hander Allan “Raffa” Raffel with a mid-innings shower in searing hot conditions – If Dunks is half the batsmen Raffa is watch out B1 Competition 

– An extremely special shout-out to 2 club stalwarts and legends – Michael “Volc” Banner and James “Jamaican” Makin both bringing up 7000 seniors runs, a truly herculean effort but one does wonder could they do it on a stinking hot day at Caterson 2 

So that was the Saturday of B1, god it was so bloody hot seriously, I think my internal body temperature is still 55,732,902 Degrees Celsius

I’m off to contemplate my life decisions and if my captain asks for my availability to play in 40° degrees again I’ll kindly tell him to listen to the chorus of a song by The Angels for the answer…

Till Next Week! 

B2 Grade

WPHC (Sparsh) 109 lost to Vs St Ives-Wahroonga 117

For the first time this season, WPH lost the toss and were sent into the field, forced to bowl in brutal 40-degree heat against St Ives.

Despite the conditions, the boys showed serious heart and fought through 35 tough overs.

The opening spells set the tone, with Maz and Manas leading brilliantly from the front.

Manas delivered one of the most disciplined spells we’ve seen this season, bowling his full seven overs straight through and finishing with incredible figures of 2 for 7, barely giving the opposition a chance to score. At the other end, Maz kept the pressure on beautifully, picking up 3 for 22 and breaking partnerships just when we needed it.

As a unit, the bowlers stuck to their plans, stayed patient, and refused to give St Ives any easy runs, and considering the heat, holding them to 117 was a massive effort that kept the match well within reach.

The chase, unfortunately, didn’t unfold the way we hoped.

Early wickets stalled our momentum and made it difficult to build the partnerships needed to steady the innings. Sparsh and Maz were the standouts with the bat, showing plenty of fight and scoring 23 and 33 respectively to keep us in the game, but with wickets falling around them, the pressure kept mounting. In the end, we couldn’t quite track down what looked like a very chase-able total.

It was a 1 Vs 2 clash, and St Ives took their key moments, but there were still plenty of positives to take away.

The boys showed grit, the bowling was outstanding, and the effort never dropped. We’ll regroup, learn from it, and come back stronger, this team always does.

C1 Grade

WPHC (Aniket) 2/107 defeated Beecroft 106

It was a hot day, and the weather predictions were far from favourable.

The temperature was expected to reach 40 degrees, but Ani still wanted to bowl first, as the team had been chasing sensibly and he was keen to keep the winning streak going.

Unfortunately, we lost the toss — but luck was on our side as Beecroft chose to bat first anyway, giving us exactly what we wanted.

From the very beginning, we bowled tight lines and lengths, putting the Beecroft batsmen under immediate pressure. Despite the scorching conditions, everyone was fired up and giving their best in the field. The runs simply weren’t coming for Beecroft, and the mounting pressure soon led to wickets.

By the first break after 12 overs, we had restricted them to just 22 runs for the loss of 3 wickets.

Just like the weather, Amitava was on fire.

He kept sending Beecroft batsmen back to the pavilion at regular intervals and led the wicket-taking charge with a brilliant 5-wicket haul.

While Amitava dominated from one end, the rest of the bowlers supported strongly from the other. The best part — not a single catch was dropped today; everyone brought their A-game. We wrapped up Beecroft’s innings for 106 in the final over.

Bowling figures:

• Amitava: 5/25
• Vinod: 1/4
• Anand: 1/6
• Ani: 1/11
• Mohan: 1/18

This was our third consecutive match where one of our bowlers picked up a five-wicket haul — an incredible achievement!

Ray and Chetan opened the batting for us, and both looked solid until Ray was trapped LBW by an uneven bounce. But Chetan, who wasn’t feeling well and at one stage had even considered sitting out, began hammering the Beecroft bowlers all around the park. Eventually, the heat took its toll on him and he was run out by a direct hit from point.

Lakshya and Mridul then took responsibility for finishing the chase quickly to save the rest of us from the brutal sun. They did just that, guiding us home in the 19^th over and giving everyone some well-deserved relief from the scorching heat.

C2 Grade

WPHC (Indranil) /177 defeated Berowra 4/195 on DLS

On a scorching afternoon at Les Shore, the pressure was on from the very start.

Winning the toss felt crucial—but luck wasn’t on our side, and we were sent into the field under the blazing sun.

Berowra began confidently, putting together a solid opening partnership.

Their steady start threatened to build into something big until a crucial breakthrough came our way. Jaydev pulled off an excellent catch right on the boundary, shifting momentum and lifting the team’s spirits.

As the innings progressed, Berowra’s scoring slowed thanks to disciplined bowling and tight fielding. However, in the final overs they accelerated sharply, pushing their total to a competitive score of 4/195 in 35 overs.

Our chase began cautiously, with the early overs focused on settling in on a difficult wicket.

Unfortunately we lost a wicket early and just after that, the rain hit and play was stopped until the weather cleared up causing us to lose 5 overs giving us a revised target of 177. This meant that after the first 8 overs where we only scored 20, 157 runs were required in 22 overs giving us a tough chase to win this game. The innings resumed and thanks to some pivotal runs by Dinesh (30), Sufyan (24) and Prashant (41), who steadied the ship and scored quickly, we were able to get the game into a position where it was there to win.

The closing stages were tense.

With 27 runs still needed in the last 3 overs and the match hanging in the balance, Divit and Vishnu held their nerve brilliantly hitting some crucial boundaries.

Now it all came down to the last over— 7 runs required, which then quickly became 7 off 3 balls after some dots and a wicket.

Finally it became 4 off just one delivery. With the field spread and every fielder on the boundary, Vishnu delivered under pressure, cracking a boundary straight down the ground to seal a thrilling last-delivery victory to give us back to back wins, giving us some momentum with just a few more rounds until the break.

After a great win today, we now move onto the next week, hoping to secure another win next week and get our season going and get us back into contention for top four.

C3 Grade

WPHC Blue (Chintan) 255 defeated ARL 76

🏏 *MATCH REPORT – WPHCCC BLUES (Chintan) 255 defeated ASQUITH RUGBY LEAGUE (ARL) 76*

*Campbell Park – A Scorcher, A Hat-Trick, and a Whole Lot of Fun*

WPHCCC Blues won the toss on what was, according to every weather app in existence, the day you absolutely must win the toss. With the sun already threatening to melt the boundary rope, the blues happily chose to bat.

*A Steady Start… Until It Wasn’t*

The ARL opening bowlers were annoyingly disciplined early on, keeping things quiet. Chintan, facing a teasing outswinger, nicked one to slip and walked off wondering why good balls choose good people.

Arun arrived like a man late for dinner—first ball, thwack, four runs. A few overs later he hammered three more fours in a single over, setting the tone for a big total. But just as the dugout started imagining carnage, an incoming delivery rearranged his stumps. WPHCCC sat at 2/45 after 7 overs.

*Building the Foundation*

Anubhav and Vikrant steadied things, nudging ones and twos and punishing anything loose. But just as the partnership blossomed, Anubhav fell to a spectacular catch at mid-off. At 82/3 after 13 overs, the base was laid—time to launch.

*The Vikrant–Sitabja Power Show*

Then came ten overs of absolute fireworks.

Vikrant and Sitabja turned bowlers into reluctant bowling-machine operators. In came the fielders… then out they went… then further back… then they simply watched hopelessly as gaps were pierced with surgical finesse. One Sitabja six travelled so far it might have required airport customs clearance!

Vikrant brought up a classy fifty, and Sitabja fell while trying to accelerate, but not before helping the team rocket to 167 after 22 overs.

Vikrant, cruising towards a heroic century, fell for 92— eight agonizing runs shy of glory, much like being eight minutes late for the last bus home.

*Finishing Strong*

The lower order chipped in with handy runs as the Captain had declared a target of 250 to be par on the lightning-fast Campbell Park outfield.
The Blues ended with 255 all out in 33.3 overs—solid contributions all around: Arun (13), Anubhav (13), Sitabja (38), Pritam (21), Adi (17), Sayan (12).

The heat was so awful that ARL’s over rate slowed to “glacier pace,” and the innings didn’t wrap up until 4 PM.

*Bowling Innings – Precision, Drama & a Hat-Trick*

Mridul and Manraj opened with laser accuracy, repeatedly beating the outside edge. The breakthrough came early when Anubhav sprinted left to take a brilliant catch—and kept sprinting. For a moment, everyone feared he’d run straight across the boundary rope, the car park, and possibly into someone’s Uber.

Mridul struck again next over. The batter nicked, the keeper appealed, the umpire stayed silent, but the batter walked. True spirit of cricket—or he just knew the ball had snitched on him.

*A Touch of Controversy*

Then came a dismissal that was 100% legal but only 40% appreciated. The ARL Captain overbalanced chasing a wide one, and Sitabja—alert as a hawk—whipped off the bails. Out! All by the book.

The ARL skipper was not thrilled and continued discussing the moment during post-match handshakes—possibly still talking about it right now.

*Catches Win Matches*

Some brilliant catching saw wickets tumbling! Chintan grabbed a sharp one, Manraj took a casual one-handed caught-and-bowled like he was picking an apple, and Praneel – who took a low juggling catch, joined the catching party. Soon ARL was wobbling at 67/5 after 19 overs.

*Enter Vikrant – The Hat-Trick Hero*

Just when boredom threatened to creep in, Vikrant took the ball.
In the 21^st over, his zippy left-arm spin produced:
• Ball 2: Bowled
• Ball 3: Bowled
• Ball 4: Bowled

A hat-trick! Possibly the first of the season—and definitely the loudest celebration of the afternoon.

Whatever resistance ARL had planned, evaporated immediately. They finished 76 all out in 25.1 overs.

With a massive all-round performance, WPHCCC Blues sealed another comprehensive victory.

*Special Mentions*

• Manraj – Claimed his 50^th wicket for the Club.
• Pritam – Achieved his 50^th wicket a couple of rounds earlier against Beecroft.
• Vikrant – 92 runs + a hat-trick. Need we say more?

All in all, a scorcher of a day, a scorcher of a performance, and one scorched ARL batting line-up.

*WPHCCC Blues march on!* 🏏🔥

WPHC Red (Karl) 6/252 defeated Beecroft 5/216

On a hot Saturday afternoon, West Penno won the toss and elected to bat. 10 overs into the game, we were beginning to doubt the wisdom of that decision. 2-40 at drinks quickly became 5–41, as a procession of wickets fell victim to Beecroft’s army of gentle slow medium trundlers.

Things were looking bleak, with our top order embarrassed, it was left to the lower order to get things back on track, and did they deliver!

Fast forward to the 35th over and Jimmy Wilkin and Isaac Taylor had put on a 205 run partnership, smashing the tired Beecroft attack to every corner of a very fast Northholm Grammar outfield.

Jimmy ended the day with 112 (76 balls & our 564^th ton) and Isaac with 85 no (61 balls), and we’d turned a poor start into an imposing target of 252.

Heading out to bowl, we were confident we’d batted Beecroft out of the game. Turns out we were a little too confident, with the opening batters belting us all over the park. 0–77 after 10 overs, and could have been a lot worse if someone had informed the Beecroft batters you could score runs by running between the wickets, and not just hitting boundaries – apparently you can be too old to learn.

By the second drinks break things had tightened up a little. Beecroft only one down, and needing 130 off the last 15 overs. Seemed like a big ask but with Beecroft’s bludgeoning opener at the crease, and still only dealing in boundaries, the game was very much in the balance.

After drinks it was time for spin, and after a couple of looseners from Will D the break-through came. Will deceived Beecroft’s opener in the air, taking a sharp catch off his own bowling – the big fella was gone for an entertaining 74, and so we’re Beecroft’s chances of an unlikely victory.

From there, Jimmy, James, Isaac and Karl closed out the innings – sealing a tough win for WPH with some tight bowling in fading light. 

Excellent job boys! Special mentions:

– Jimmy Wilkin for scoring his first senior century

– Isaac Taylor for a stylish half century, and 205 run partnership with Jimmy.

C4 Grade

WPHC Blue (Rob) 6/209 defeated WPHC Red (Ravi) 9/147

The sun was shining, but it was windy.  Oh was it windy.  And we all know wind is great.

Oops that was last week.

Today it was hot and windy.  Oh was it hot and windy.  But we will leave the virtues of heat and wind to another week.

Today was Sheep Station Cup……Snumpty-Tina Cup……C4 Reds vs Blues

The venue, Royal Arcadia!  What a grand venue for such a grand match,

Ravi and Rob headed out to do the toss.  Paparazzi all around. 

Extra drinks breaks agreed. 

Both perennial toss losers……but someone had to win.  Rob called heads.  It came down tails.  And Ravi asked the Blues to bat.

So out everyone trudged in the heat…..enthusiasm still a thing!

Luke and Lukas opening the bat against the Reds bowling.  Good steady partnerships was the theme for the Blues and they built a healthy innings in their 35 overs.  70 to Lukas was the highlight, with good contributions from Mudi (42), Luke (39) and Jake (20). 

Great energy in the field from the Reds, with good bowling by Amith with 2/28.

Now it was Blues turn to spend some time in the heat.  Vishnu and Sahil opened the bat for the Reds, but after only 6 overs, the storm came and everyone was off the field. 

A waiting game. 

Finally the match resumed and 9 overs lost.  The new target was now 173.  The Reds batted gamely, but in the end fell just short.   Good batting from Waman (36) and Jashwant (22no).  And excellent bowling from Malinda and Kaushal, each picking up 2 wickets.

Another Sheep Station to come later in the year.

D1 Grade

1-Day games

WPHC Red (Diggers) ) 5/94 lost to Hornsby 4/310

It was a scorching day for cricket with temperatures pushing close to 40°C, and both teams were unsure whether batting or bowling first would be the better option. We didn’t get the choice—Captain Diggers lost the toss, and we were sent in to bowl.

Parin opened the attack alongside Zach, and both held their lines well on Fred Caterson 4. Parin struck early in the 3rd over, removing the opener and putting Hornsby at 1/16. Zac followed shortly after with a wicket of his own, leaving Hornsby 2/39 after 8 overs.

From there, Hornsby shifted gears, applying steady pressure and pushing their total to 2/70 by the 12th. Their momentum didn’t stop, with two batters retiring after well-made fifties and the score ballooning to 2/181 by the 25th over.

Sarthak lifted team spirits with a superb caught-and-bowled, but Hornsby continued to pile on runs. Kiran claimed his maiden wicket for the team, yet the opposition still powered through to finish at 4/310.

Then it was our turn with the bat.

Diggers and Cliff looked comfortable early, but Diggers was bowled in a bizarre moment where no one was quite sure how the bail had come off. Soon after, Cliff was run out following a miscommunication between him and Zach. The wickets kept tumbling: Zach was caught, and Parin followed soon after with another catch.

Tim and Munish stepped in and began to rebuild with a steady partnership. Unfortunately, the game was paused due to lightning, resulting in nine overs being removed—making an already tough chase almost impossible. Despite that, Tim and Munish kept their heads up and continued batting positively until Tim was bowled, leaving us at 5/50.

Sarthak joined Munish, and the pair put together a strong partnership, playing some quality shots to push the total to 5/94 by stumps.

A tough, unlucky day out with brutal weather and a difficult position to chase from. Time to reset and look ahead to the next game.

WPHC Blue (Roger) 7/250 defeated Thornleigh 99

The lead up to the match had excitement and trepidation as the temperatures were expected reach 38 plus. The Blues came well prepared with Esky’s full of beverages.

Captain Roger won the toss and made the crucial call to bat first which ended up paying off thrice over – leaving alone the win – it also meant we fielded in much cooler conditions later in the day and also provided the always welcome time in the middle for the batters, given the winning margin in the end. 

We scored 250/7 in the mutually agreed shortened 32 overs. Vinoth Sambasivam top scored with a destructive (running out of superlatives to describe this guy)  101 retd not out and put on a 85 run partnership with Malinda Dharmadasa (32 retd  n.o).  – following up the previous weeks 88 run partnership between the same pair.

Shehan Fernando 28 and Pankaj Gawande’s farewell knock before taking a months break of 22 not out were the next 2 highest scorers. Balaraman Raghuraman who has scored 146 runs this season (frequently coming in down the order) and yet to be dismissed was again unbeaten. He will look to get out once for before the season out to make sure he has an average in Play HQ (currently infinity). Daniel McEwan was at the unfortunate end of a Mankad dismissal. 

Boiling was of a high standard ensuring the winning margin of 15,  courtesy of  8 out of 9 bowlers used in short spells of 3 overs picking up wickets with Roger Friend and Cory Brookhouse picking up 2 wickets each. 

Good ground fielding and catching continued with 5 catches taken (3 by Malinda Dharmadasa) and 1 stumping by Navneet Singh in his first match this season as keeper with the regular keeper Sandeep Pathak away on holidays. Thornleigh was eventually bowled out 99 in 26 overs. 

Final tally 

WPHCCC D1 Blue 250/7 – 32 overs beat Thornleigh 99 all out in 26 overs  by 151 runs.

D2 Grade

WPHC (Ross S) Vs BYE

MNo game this week.