Club Registration Day

• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

This is our big Rego Day for the whole Club so please come along and register to play. We typically have a big turnout for Registration Day so please register on the day as once Teams are full Registrations are closed off.

Online Registration
You can turn-up on the day or register on-line. Last season we had 50% of all registrations on-line. It is easy and convenient and secure using the PayPal system. The system is now switched on and payments can be made now.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
If you have any questions about the online payment system there is a FAQ section in the Junior Boys section of the website – just under the Team Information section.

“REGOMANIA”

1st - Framed bat autographed by Adam Gilchrist (number 1 of 30bats)
2nd – Bat autographed by the complete NSW State team players
3rd - etc etc
4th – and so on …………..
Register and give yourself the opportunity to win these fabulous prizes

Congratulations to Barry McDonald
Congratulations to our esteemed Chirperson – Barry McDonald who has recently received Life Membership of the HK&HDCA Umpires Association. Barry was also appointed as Auditor of the Association’s accounts.

This is a special achievement and is added to Barry’s other Life membership’s of the Association and ofcourse our Club. To get a Life Membership is special but to have 3 is truly amazing.

Coaching initiative
We have just concluded a 3-year arrangement with Sportspro (Dean Gilchrist’s Business) to provide professional coaching for our Junior players – boys, girls and Kanga. This is an exciting initiative that will allow us to provide quality coaching on skills development, coach the coach and also on the spirit of cricket throughout the season. It will also open the door for personal 1:1 coaching. Much more will follow on this shortly.

Level 1
We are running another CNSW run Level 1 Coaching initiative this season. This is a sought after training qualification that provides an excellent base for anyone taking on a coaching role. Detailsare:
• When: Sunday 19th September
• Where: Edward Bennett Oval
• Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
• Cost: $Nil – for anyone who takes on a coaching role we will cover the $120 cost of the course.

This is a sought after course and spots will fill quickly so if you want to know more contact Ross Anderson at wisden@bigpond.com

Dates for the Diary
Club Registration Day

• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

Season start

• Juniors and Seniors – Saturday 11th September (to be confirmed)
• Girls – late September / early October – details to follow
• Kanga – Saturday 16th October 2010.

Representative cricket
The Association is holding Representative Trials for the following ages:
• U11
• U12
• U13

Please note that the age is the age of the child as at 31st August 2010. Eg. If 12 as at 31/8/2010 then the Rep age Group is U13.

When are the Trials
Two selection trials will be held. The first Trial is:
• When: Friday 13th August
• Where: SCG nets – Driver Avenue SCG
• Time: 5.30 pm to 7.45 pm

Who do you contact?
U11s – Judy Shaw – shawrie1@tpg.com.au
U12s – Mark Lautre – mlautre@bigpond.net.au
U13s – John O’Loughlin – hojo@bigpond.net.au

If you are interested in trying out then the necessary forms need to be completed by 9th August.

Seniors
Our Leadership Team
The Team who will lead the Seniors this season is:
• Director Seniors – Marco Delgado
• Deputy Director – Matt Spalding
• Treasurer – Peter Lees
• Registrar – Peter Westerberg
• Secretary – Ross A
• Club Captain – Simon Smyth
• Captains – selected after Grading Committee selections

Congratulations to this Team and thanks to Andrew Fiedler who did a wonderful job last season.

Seniors training
Seniors start training:
• When – Saturday 31st July for a warm up session with practice gearing up the following week
• Where – WPH Sports Club nets at 103 New Line Road West Pennant Hills
• Time – 1.00 pm until around 4.30 pm.

Grading Committee
The Grading Committee chooses the starting teams for the season. The folks who are on this Committee are:
• Marco Delgado (Chairperson)
• James Makin
• John Mitchell
• Matt Spalding
• Peter Westerberg

Seniors Sunday cricket
A playing option to consider the Sunday competition. This was started last season and proved popular. More info will follow but things to think about:
• The Comp plays every second week
• Is in a 36-over-a-side one-day format
• Has flexible interchange rules
• Is ideal for those guys no longer wanting to play fulltime, play one innings (an hour and a half) and go off to mow the lawn etc.
• Cost is very low – about $95 to play seven rounds of cricket plus semis and finals.

In summary, this is a low commitment involvement and is a possible way for some former players and keener Saturday players to get a few extra games of cricket in.

Interested?
Once the season kicks off with practice then just let the organisers know your interest and we can make the rest happen.

Website development – Graphic designers
We are keen to refresh the website with new functionality and give it a fresher look. If anyone can help out for a short time Peter Lees is keen to get started. We would love to hear from anyone with the following skills:
• Graphic designers
• Perl coding skills
If anyone has ability in this area we can do some work on the website and make it even better. If you are interested then please contact Ross Anderson at wisden@bigpond.com

The Seniors Sunday cricket competition is in a 36-over per side format, not a 20/20 format as previously posted.

Club Registration Day

• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

This is our big Rego Day for the whole Club. It will be well publicised so keep a look out for times and dates from early July.

Online Registration
You can turn-up on the day or register on-line. Last season we had 50% of all registrations on-line. It is easy and convenient and secure using the PayPal system. This will be switched on shortly.

“REGOMANIA”

Every player, whether they be in our Kanga, Girls, Junior Boys or Senior Divisions, who registers to play in season 2010 – 2011,
By midnight on 31st August 2010, will be allocated a Registration Number.
These registrations can be made personally at our Registration Day to be held on Sunday 25th July at Oakhill Public School from 12.30pm to 4pm,
or online at our website www.wphccc.org

In early September, prior to the start of the Junior Boys and Seniors Competitions, which traditionally start on the second Saturday in September,
These numbers will be placed in a draw for the following prizes :

1st - Framed bat autographed by Adam Gilchrist (number 1 of 30bats)
2nd – Bat autographed by the complete NSW State team players
3rd - etc etc
4th – and so on …………..

Register and give yourself the opportunity to win these fabulous prizes

Coaching initiative
We have just concluded a 3-year arrangement with Sportspro (Dean Gilchrist’s Business) to provide professional coaching for our Junior players – boys, girls and Kanga. This is an exciting initiative that will allow us to provide quality coaching on skills development, coach the coach and also on the spirit of cricket throughout the season. It will also open the door for personal 1:1 coaching recommended by our Club. Much more will follow on this shortly.

Level 1
We are running another CNSW run Level 1 Coaching initiative this season. This is a sought after training qualification that provides an excellent base for anyone taking on a coaching role. Detailsare:
• When: Sunday 19th September
• Where: Edward Bennett Oval
• Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
• Cost: $Nil – for anyone who takes on a coaching role we will cover the $120 cost of the course.

This is a sought after course and spots will fill quickly so if you want to know more contact Ross Anderson at wisden@bigpond.com

Dates for the Diary
Club Registration Day
• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

Season start
• Juniors and Seniors – Saturday 11th September (to be confirmed)
• Girls – late September / early October – details to follow
• Kanga – Saturday 16th October 2010.

Elections
The season is about to kick-off and the Annual General Meeting confirmed our Leadership Team as follows:
• Chairman: Barry McDonald
• Deputy Chairman (Snr) Evan Hutchings
• Deputy Chairman (Jnr) Glenn O’Çonnor
• Director Operations Ross Anderson
• Finance Manager Raj Sethi
• Director Kanga John Coulthard
• Director Juniors Patrick Chensee
• Director Girls John Porter
• Director Seniors Marco Delgado

Congratulations to these folk who will be our Leaders for this season.

Seniors
Our Leadership Team
The Team who will lead the Seniors this season is:
• Director Seniors – Marco Delgado
• Deputy Director – Matt Spalding
• Treasurer – to be advised
• Secretary – Ross A
• Registrar – Peter Westerberg
• Club Captain – Simon Smyth
• Captains – selected after Grading Committee selections

Congratulations to this Team and thanks to Andrew Fiedler who did a wonderful job last season.

Seniors training
Seniors start training:
• When– Saturday 31st July for a warm up session with practice gearing up the following week
• Where – WPH Sports Club nets at 103 New Line Road West Pennant Hills
• Time – 1.00 pm until around 4.30 pm.

Grading Committee
The Grading Committee chooses the starting teams for the season. The folks who are on this Committee are:
• Marco Delgado (Chairperson)
• James Makin
• John Mitchell
• Matt Spalding
• Peter Westerberg

Seniors Sunday cricket
A playing option to consider is the Sunday competition. This was started last season and proved popular at Association level - not so much for us but we are keen to participate if there is any interest. More info will follow but things to think about:
• The Comp plays every second week
• Is in a 36-over per side format
• Has flexible interchange rules
• Is ideal for those guys no longer wanting to play fulltime, play one innings (an hour and a half) and go off to mow the lawn etc.
• Cost is very low – about $95 to play seven rounds of cricket plus semis and finals.

In summary, this is a low commitment involvement and is a possible way for some former players and keener Saturday players to get a few extra games of cricket in.

Interested?
Once the season kicks off with practice then just let the organisers know your interest and we can make the rest happen.

Website development – Graphic designers
We are keen to refresh the website with new functionality and give it a fresher look. If anyone can help out for a short time Peter Lees is keen to get started. We would love to hear from anyone with the following skills:
• Graphic designers
• Perl coding skills
If anyone has ability in this area we can do some work on the website and make it even better. If you are interested then please contact Ross Anderson at wisden@bigpond.com

Moscow Circus
Hornsby Shire Council have 1,000 tickets available for sale with all proceeds going towards our own local Hornsby Hospital. Ph 02 9477 9823 to purchase tickets. Enquiries: nberman@hornsby.nsw.gov.au

Dates for the diary

Club AGM
• When: Monday 21st June
• Where: WPH Sports Club
• Time: 7.45 start

This is the most important meeting of the year where our direction for next season is determined. It is also a great chance of catching up with everyone before the season gears up again.

Club Registration Day
• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

This is our big Rego Day for the whole Club. It will be well publicised so keep a look out for times and dates from early July.

Registrations 2010-11 Season

“REGOMANIA”

Register and give yourself the opportunity to win these fabulous prizes

Award winners
Congratulations to everyone who played, in all Grades last season. A special thanks also to everyone who contributed in some capacity as a volunteer. At last estimate we had just on 275 people who contributed in some tangible way to making our last season such a success.

Individual achievement though is a big part of our game so congratulations to these folk on their outstanding individual achievements:

Club
Presidents Award for Service to the Club (Jim Fuggle Award) – to be announced on the 7th May

Girls:
• Lisa Stalakhar Player of the Year Award – Anthea Staines

Junior Boys
• Junior Player of the Year (John Coulthard Award) – Joshua Mathias
• Charles Booth Memorial Award (U13) – Campbell Blue

Association Award Winners
• U11 bowling aggregate – Harrison Broughton 15 wickets @ 5.07
• U14 batting aggregate – Ray Khamis 402 runs @ 50.25.

Seniors
• Player of the Year – Allan Raffel
• Outstanding Prospect (U21) – Daniel Anderson

Association Award winners
• B1 Grade batting average – Matt Scoular 500 runs @ 50.00
• B2 Bowling average – Geoff Richards 30 wickets @ 10.07
• C2 Batting average – Russel Ingram 612 runs @ 87.43
• C3 Batting average – Brendan Harkin 524 runs @ 65.50
• C3 Bowling average – Arun Kumar 34 wickets @ 11.82
• D1 Batting average – Lachlan Vile 489 @ 48.90

Trivia
The HK&HDCA website has some very interesting numbers:

Association level
• The HK&HDCA has approx 3,500 registered players:
o Sydney Shires Cricket has around 1,300-1,500 players members covering all areas of Sydney.
o Afghanistan recently completed a remarkable qualification for the next World Cup T20 and currently has 12,000 playing members – putting HK&HDCA at 30% of the entire countries playing numbers.
o Our neighbours Northern Sydney Cricket Association had 1,335 playing members in 2009/10, while the North Shore Junior Cricket Association had 1,914 playing members (not including Kanga Cricket/In2Cricket/CricHit programs).
o South Eastern Junior Cricket Association was the only Association to nab two Junior 1st’s Representative Premierships (Gee & Moore Shield in 2009/10); their numbers stand at 963 players (again, not including Junior Development programs).
• In 2009/10 we hosted and participated in approximately 1,653 matches of cricket.

WPHC perspective
• Our registrations are 817 players – 23% of the Association total player strength
• Excluding Kanga we participated in 539 matches – 32.6% off all games played in the Association
• The average length of a match is around 3.5 hours (across Juniors and Seniors) and factoring in a few rain outs and early finishes. This equates to approx. 1,886.5 hours of cricket
• This is equivalent to 78.6 days of consecutive cricket (played 24/7) and 11.2 weeks of cricket (played 24/7 without a break).

Our website
A special thanks to Peter Lees for his tremendous work on developing and maintaining our great website. Some trivia you might be interested in:
• In March this year we got the biggest monthly hit volume of 3,465 and get between 2,700 to 3,200 throughout the season
• Visitors view on average 3.32 pages / visit
• 30.12% of all visits are new
• Top landing page is the Club news
• Outside Australia we get regular hits (30+ / month) from Ireland, India, Ukraine, Netherlands and the Russian Federation!
• The most popular time that people access the website are:
o Day: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday
o Time: 4.00 pm followed by 2.00 pm then 1.00 am

MyCricket website
Last season was the first season with all states & territories on board. The website usage statistics as averaged over 315,000 unique visitors and over 12 million page impressions each month. The number of clubs and associations utilising our free MyCricket websites continues to grow with over 1000 MyCricket websites currently in use.

Seniors Presentation day
The Seniors presentation Night is fast approaching. Details are:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Premiers
Girls
Congratulations to our Girls:
• B Grade Blue – Runners-up
• C Grade – Runners up

Juniors
Congratulations to our Premier Teams:
• U16 White
• U14 Blue
• U13 Green
• U11 Gold – Runner’s-up

Seniors
Congratulations to our Seniors Premiers:
• A2 – back to back Premiers and our 5th A2 Premiership overall
• C3 – first time ever WPHC winners (Comp has been running since 2001/02)
• D1 – our first since 2003-04 and 4th D1 Premiership overall.

To our runners up:
• A1
• B2

We are very proud of your efforts.

The elite
Congratulations to our top 10 run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers for the season:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 675 @ 61.36 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 634 @ 42.27 – Allan Raffel (D1)
3. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
4. 524 @ 65.50 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
5. 512 @ 51.20 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
6. 506 @ 33.73 – Tim Millington (B1)
7. 500 @ 45.45 – Matt Scoular (B1)
8. 489 @ 48.90 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
9. 475 @ 33.90 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
10. 439 @ 43.90 – Daniel Anderson (C1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 37 @ 14.73 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 35 @ 12.17– Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
3. 35 @ 14.23 – Jacques Viser (C2)
4. 30 @ 12.17 – Dylan Brogan
5. 29 @ 11.41 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
6. 28 @ 12.82 – Darren Morrow (A2)
7. 28 @ 15.11 – Scott Jobson (B1)
8. 28 @ 16.46 – John Steel (C1)
9. 27 @ 10.63 – Geoff Richards (B2)
10. 27 @ 14.40 – Matt Dawson (A1)
11. 27 @ 11.89 – Tim Starr (B2)
12. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 11 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)
2. 10 – Mark Bennett (B2)
3. 10 – Allan Raffel (D1)
4. 9 – Peter Heidegger (C2)
5. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
6. 9 – Nik Patel (C2)
7. 9 – John Steel (C1)
8. 9 – Perry Waldron (D1)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Matt Dawson 71.0 points (1st for Club in A1 & 7th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 94.70 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 55.4 points (1st & 6th)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 100.3 points (1st & 3rd )
• B2: Tim Starr – 88.50 points (1st & 5th)
• C1: John Steel – 93.9 points (1st & 3rd)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 104.2 points (1st & 2nd)
• C3: Brendan Harkin – 85.4 points (1st & 4th )
• D1: Allan Raffel – 116.4 points (1st & 1st)
• D2 Ankit Grover – 94.0 (1st and 8th)

Champion for Club – all Grades
1. 159.8 points – Daniel Anderson (C1 and U15)
2. 135.1 points – Riley Miedler (C3 and U16)
3. 129.1 points – Lachlan Vile (D1 and U16)
4. 129.1 points – Taki Manolelis (D1 and U16)
5. 117.4 points – Allan Raffel (D1)
6. 115.5 points – Russell Ingram (C2)
7. 101.2 points – Vineet Suri (U13)
8. 100.3 – Andrew Joyce (B2)
9. 96.70- Matt Jobson (A2)
10. 94.20 – Claudio van Blerk (C3)

Personal achievements
This is current up to date leading into the Grand Final.

The main milestone was Simon Smyth’s 250th wicket – it just happened to be taken in the A grade Final. Well done Simon.

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 14/3/2010

Simon Davies
A1 5,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Storey Park 6/3/2010

Simon Smyth
A1 250 wickets Vs ARL @ Berowra Oval, 28/3/2010 Final

Seniors Premiers
Congratulations to our Premiers after Sunday’s Final:
• A2 – back to back Premiers
• C3 – first time ever WPHC winners
• D1 – our first since 2003-04.

To our runners up:
• A1
• B2

We are very proud of your efforts.

Match reports will be updated once they come to hand.

Baby news
A special congratulations to James and Fiona Makin on the birth of Oliver Stuart on Monday. James plays A1 for us and timed the birth to perfection with the Final being played this weekend. Best wishes to the Makin’s. A photo of James and Oliver are on the Photo gallery.

Cricket NSW Casual job opportunity
Due to the ever expanding nature of cricket in NSW, CNSW are keen to have a pool of experienced and enthusiastic staff to assist in presenting the many and varied cricket programs to ensure Cricket remains Australia’s Number One Sport.

The successful applicant(s) will be responsible for visiting Schools, assisting clubs and being a genuine contributor to the growth and success of Cricket in Sydney’s Northern Suburbs.

CNSW will be looking to employ ONE person for a 15 week period commencing Term 3 of the current School Year, and a number of other staff members to assist on a casual basis in times of high demand.

Any interest please then deal direct with Steve Mulally at CNSW on 8302-6034. .

Seniors Presentation day
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Girls
Congratulations to our Girls:
• B Grade Blue – Runners-up
• C Grade – Runners up

Juniors
Congratulations to our Premier Teams:
• U16 White
• U14 Blue
• U13 Green
• U1 Gold – Runner’s-up

Seniors
Day 1 of the Final was played on Saturday. The results are:

A1 143 lost to ARL 227
Day 1
Arriving at Berowra Oval the wicket is a road. ARL won the toss and batted with a par score of 250 being the benchmark. We bowled and fielded well with Simon Smyth getting the early breakthrough with the first 3 wickets taking his tally to 199 for the Club. Wickets fell regularly and we rolled them for a gettable score on a perfect batting deck. With 13 overs to see us through we are 3/31 that makes the task that much tougher but with the depth of our batting this is still game on.

Day 2
The score line doesn’t accurately reflect the fight that the boys put in on day 2. We lost our fourth wicket straight away, but then a number of middle and late order partnerships threatened to get us back into the game. Alex Robertson batted very well for 31 and the partnership between Scott Henderson (29) and Peter Stott (36*) was a highlight. But with so few wickets in hand, each mistake was costly and ARL were able to capitalize. They took their 5th premiership on the trot, but I think this season we’ve shown that we are going to threaten their mantle over the coming years.

A2 134 & 6/50 defeated Kenthurst 95 & –
Day 1
We arrived at Kenthurst Park with great confidence, looking to become the first WPH team to win back to back A2 Premierships. The deck was very hard, very flat with a little bit of grass on top. Basically the idea was to win the toss and bat. Things didn't quite go to plan, and Kenthurst sent us in to field. This turned out to be another top bowling effort from our side - again based around our two opening bowlers (Darren Morrow & Dylan Brogan). Dylan took the first 3 wickets and followed this up by taking 2 catches for the next 2 wickets. By lunch we had them 6/52, a great start but we knew they had some depth in their batting. After lunch we struck straight away, with Amir Marzouk removing the captain and after that wickets fell regularly to have Kenthurst all out for 95. Dylan finished with figures of 5/27 (14), Darren Morrow 1/18 (13), Matthew Jobson 1/26 (10) and Amir Marzouk 3/17 (9).

Our openers provided us with a steady start, seeing out the first 15 overs without losing a wicket. Unfortunately we lost the first 3 wickets for just 15 runs, and lost two more before the end of play leaving us at 5/75, just 20 runs behind. Tim Rae is not out after seeing off the new ball and has played a crafty and very important innings so far, being 35* at the end of play.

Still plenty of work to do on Day 2, hopefully we can take the first innings win and continue to bat on for as long as possible. A long day awaits tomorrow!

Day 2
At the start of the day we knew if we were still batting at lunch we would have a strong lead and be in the box seat for the rest of the game. This was achieved through James Fielder and Sujith Dissanayake who made 32 & 21 respectively to see us pass Kenthurst's first innings total. 1st over after lunch we lost our last two wickets and were dismissed for 135 – a 40 run lead. With now two sessions to go in the match, Kenthurst knew they had to score runs and fast if they were to have any chance of winning this game. Off just 23 overs they made 3/123 and declared at tea with a 83 run lead. This meant that to win the title, we had to see out 2 hours of the day, or score 84 to win on 2nd innings. We lost a couple of early ones, leaving us 3/34 at drinks, with 20 overs to come. Tim Leyshon was the rock of the innings, batting for 27 overs, scoring just 5 runs but did exactly what was asked of him. We finished up 6/58 with Michael Quieros seeing out the final over with Tim, securing our 3rd premiership in 4 seasons and successfully defending our title. A great accomplishment for the team - bring on the 'three-peat'!.

B2 105 lost to Berowra 126 & 0/75
Day 1
Losing the toss and being sent in to field, we made the most of the new ball and a green pitch, reducing the Berowra batting lineup to just 2/11 from 19 overs. From there, there was nothing easy given away by either team, but some consistent pressure both with the ball and in the field saw us make regular breakthroughs to dismiss them for around 100 less than we had at any other point throughout the season. An even spread of wickets, with the pick of the bowlers being Geoff Richards (16 overs, 11 maidens, 3/8), whilst Tim Starr (2/16 off 9), James McBrien (2/23 off 9), Nick Starr (1/4 from 6) and Mark Bennett (1/11 from 9) the other wicket takers.

A bit of a wobbly start with the bat, slumping to 2/17, before a period of reconsolidation was then also followed by the loss of a couple more wickets. Tim Starr (22) and Alex Connell (10) the only ones to make double figures so far. The game is still absolutely in the balance, but requiring another 75 runs still with 6 wickets in hand, and a very strong batting lineup to come, I would still much rather be in our position than theirs. Set up for a fantastic finish.

Day 2
Just not our day today. One of those days where all the 50/50 moments in the days play went their way and no luck went our way. From the first session of play this morning where they held onto 2 absolute screamers in the field, all the momentum was going one way. Restarting this morning needing a further 76 runs with 6 wickets in hand, the loss of early wickets was crucial, and them pulling in 2 screaming catches didn’t help our cause, Geoff Richards the only further player to really trouble the scorers, ending up with 28* as we fell 21 runs short of victory.

With nothing to lose we went into the field with memories of last week’s miracle win, but this week it wasn’t to be. A couple of very “close” LBW decisions turned down, miscued ballooning into gaps, and hot chances being put down say them move along to 0/75 at tea when the game was called. A disappointing end to a fantastic season from the boys, where we were clearly the best team in the competition, but just didn’t put it together when it mattered. All the boys should be really proud of their efforts throughout the season, finishing 10 points clear on top of the table as minor premiers is no mean feat, especially in a team with 10 out of the 14 players under the age of 25, and 7 under 20. A magnificent year all round, and with this young team only going to get better with experience, we will be up there again next year challenging for the top prize.

C3 223 defeated Mt Colah 107
Day 1
One again, when it comes to winning the toss, we can never expect our Captain to win it. Yes, we lost the toss and Mt Colah put us in to bat. We opened with Vishnu Ratnam and Chetan Bhatt who put on an important opening partnership of 44. Vishnu saw team mates leave just as quick as what they joined him, before leaving the field with a great 76 to his name. Rahul Sabherwal and Arun Kumar took charge in the closing stage of this afternoons play and will take the crease when we start play tomorrow. We finished the day on 8/192 and will try to increase that on day 2. Runs of the board in a final plus anything over 200 is placing us in a solid position with a lot of cricket left in this game.

Day 2
Well the season is over, but not without a fantastic fight by our team. We went in to bat hoping to increase on the overnight score of 8/192 and we were eventually all out for 223 and managed to use about 11 over's on day 2.

Mt Colah went in to bat and they were attacking the ball from ball 1. Ian Nichol and Rahul Saberwhal opened our bowling and they made it hard for them to score runs. Rahul has been nursing an injured shoulder, but still managed to get himself a wicket and Ian pulled a muscle in his leg, but still soldiered on. Arun came into the attack while Ian was still there and between the 2 of them Mt Colah were really finding it hard to settle in. Arun ripped into their attack of young and old and was supported by Vikas Manchanda who also showed no mercy. Claudio was not to be left behind and also added another wicket to his tally and probably taking the catch of the season for us, which just happened to be their danger man.

We had the game finished in 45 over's, with Arun finishing with a fantastic 5/38 followed by Vikas with an awesome 3/17 What an amazing finish to a truly great season that has been played by a bunch of mates that have analysed the hell out of each game and tried to plan for the next, but just played each game with the same enthusiasm as the last game.... Thanks guys and go and rest those bones and get your kit ready for next season.

D1 222 & 0/52 defeated outright Hornsby 98 and 7/173
Day 1
Another great perform from a side that keeps getting better all the time and today we peaked to our best when needed most. After losing the toss, Hornsby asked us to bowl and after they beat 1st placed Normanhurst last week, and posting 360 runs, we knew that our bowling had to be spot on. Well spot on is exactly what it as we managed create pressure early by bowling so well that the first 6 wickets all came as a result of “bowled”. Thereafter the pressure was maintained by good fielding and good catching. We find ourselves well positioned heading into day 2. Notable performances thus far are Chris Grima 5/43, Marco Delgado 3/32 and Lachlan Vile with 2/11. Currently at the wicket are Allan Raffel on 47no and Lachlan Vile on 2no.
The ‘fat lady’ is starting to warm up.

Day 2
After dismissing Hornsby for 98 and then posting 116/2 after day 1, we thought we had it all wrapped up and we were expecting Hornsby to concede. However, as they say, “it ain’t over till the fat lady sings”, whilst at one stage we were cruising along, we suddenly lost a flurry of wickets ending the day on 222 (Probably 30-40 less than required to shut the game down), this meant that there were still 50 overs left in the days play. An on fire Hornsby posted a quick 7/173 leaving us to face 18 overs but only with a lead of 52. Once again our openers were rock solid and we attained the 52 runs without much fuss.

Notable performances today were, Allan Raffel with 66, but also importantly from our slow bowlers Roger Friend 3/36, Lachlan Vile 2/42 and Perry Waldron 0/19.

‘Bill Board’
Uncovered! We have our very own Nathan Hindmarsh playing in our ranks. The D1 boys reckon that Marco Delgado, D1 Captain, has the title with the boys offering advertising space on his posterior next season. Looking at the Team though it might be a lucrative opportunity for any advertiser with a number of the boys being more than worthy competitors.

Miser
How about Geoff Richards, B2 opening bowler on day 1 of the Final. His bowling figures were 16 overs 3/8 from 11 overs. We don’t have figures for previous Finals but this is an extraordinary performance and would be up there with tightest bowling in a Final for our Club. Well done Geoff.

Patchwork
If anyone has a chance of getting a photo of Ben McNamara’s (B2) shirt then please do so before the end on Sunday’s play. The shirts is an original and looks it – full of repairs and is a patchwork quilt. Well done mum in getting the shirt on Ban’s back but I reckon next season we might even shout Ban a new one – but only if we win the Final.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of the Semi Finals are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 675 @ 61.36 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 568 @ 40.57 – Allan Raffel (D1)
3. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
4. 524 @ 65.50 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
5. 497 @ 38.23 – Tim Millington (B1)
6. 499 @ 55.44 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
7. 489 @ 54.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
8. 476 @ 52.90 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
9. 475 @ 36.54 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
10. 439 @ 43.90 – Daniel Anderson (C1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 37 @ 14.73 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 31 @ 14.90 – Jacques Viser (C2)
3. 30 @ 12.93 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
4. 28 @ 11.14 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
5. 28 @ 15.11 – Scott Jobson (B1)
6. 28 @ 16.46 – John Steel (C1)
7. 27 @ 11.22 – Darren Morrow (A2)
8. 27 @ 11.89 – Tim Starr (B2)
9. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)
10. 27 @ 12.59 – Matt Dawson (A1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 11 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)
2. 10 – Mark Bennett (B2)
3. 9 – Peter Heidegger (C2)
4. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
5. 9 – Nik Patel (C2)
6. 9 – Allan Raffel (D1)
7. 9 – John Steel (C1)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Gavin Taylor 69.5 points (1st for Club in A1 & 8th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 86.9 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 55.4 points (1st & 2nd)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 83.8 points (1st & 4th)
• B2: Tim Starr – 88.5 points (1st & 5th)
• C1: John Steel – 93.9 points (1st & 3rd)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 104.2 points (1st & 2nd)
• C3: Brendan Harkin – 85.4 points (1st & 3rd)
• D1: Allan Raffel – 102.8 points (1st & 2nd)
• D2 Ankit Grover – 94.0 (1st and 4th)

Personal achievements
This is current up to date leading into the Grand Final.

The main milestone was Simon Smyth’s 250th wicket – it just happened to be taken in the A Grade Final. Well done Simon.

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 14/3/2010

Simon Davies
A1 5,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Storey Park 6/3/2010

Simon Smyth
A1 1,968 runs – 32 runs to 2,000 career runs

• 250 wickets Vs ARL @ Berowra Oval 28/3/2010 - Final

Presentation day
Juniors
The Junior Presentation Day held last week was another outstanding success with a big turnout and fabulous weather at Campbell Park. Just as an insight into our own loaves and fish parable. We had about 650 people turn up and they consumed:
• Sausages: 400
• Steaks 150
• soft drinks 600
• Loaves of bread 60 (960 slices)
• Cordial 4 large McDonalds Drink containers

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Girls
This season we have 3 Girls teams – 2 in B grade and 1 in C Grade. They have done tremendously well this season. Last weekend the Finals were played on Saturday.

B Grade – WPHC Blue Vs Gordon @ Berry Park

C Grade – WPHC Vs West Ryde Rovers @ Cedarwood Oval

Bad luck to our B Grade Red side that lost a close one to Gordon in their 20/20 Semi Final. The scores in the Semi Final were:

WPHC 5/86 (Dashuni Kannangara 16) lost to Gordon 4/87 (Georgia Willmot 2/9)

Juniors
The Junior Grand Finals were played last Sunday and our Premiers are:

• U16’s: WPHC White (3rd successive victory)
• U15’s - no finalists
• U14’s - WPHC Blue
• U13’s WPHC Green
• U12’s - no finalists
• U11’s - Runner up

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Grand Final results are:
U16’s
WPHC White 104 (Sid Shankar 26 and 1/6 off 11 overs) defeated Mt Colah 58

U14’s
WPHC Blue 6/151 (A Gnanasekaram 41, Matt Vile 24, Nicck Hey 20) defeated WPHC Red 92 (Matt Vile 2/18, J Cummings 2/6, J Roots 2/4, A. De Silva 2/12)

U13’s
WPHC Green 7/213 (A. Ramakrishnan 109, S Iyer 44, V Suri 22) defeated Kissing Point 159 (V Suri 1/31, A Ramakrishnan 1/27, K Li 2/18, A Bedi 2/9)

U11’s
WPHC 97 lost to Kissing Point Red 9/139

Seniors
Day 2 of the Semi Finals was played on Saturday. The results are:

A1 9/241 dec. defeated Vs St Ives 199 – we scored a terrific hard-fought win over 2nd placed St Ives after declaring at our overnight score. Despite some lethal bowling from Scott Henderson (1/42) and Matt Spalding (1/25), wickets were hard to come by early on. We continued to mount pressure on their batsmen though and picked up wickets whenever St Ives looked like getting on top. After lunch an inspirational spell from our spinners, Peter Stott (4/44 off 14 overs) and Matt Dawson (2/46 from 14 overs), tore the heart out of the St Ives batting. Some middle/late order hitting threatened for a while to get them back in the game, but Simon Smyth and Peter then tied up the last few wickets for a memorable 42 run win. We now play a strong ARL side seeking their 5th straight Premiership but go into the game with good momentum and ready to take them on.

A2 118 & 7/187 defeated St Ives 51 – after being 71 runs ahead at the start of the day we knew a good start would put us in a good position early. Our openers (Tim Rae and Matt Jobson) provided that by putting on 40 for the first wicket, leaving us 110 in front with 9 wickets in hand. Unfortunately this sparked a mini collapse as we lost 4/12, and again finding ourselves battling at 5/78 at lunch. Amir Marzouk then started to fire, taking the St Ives bowling attack to shreds, finally departing for 87 - his best knock of the season after some great hitting all around the park. Tim Leyshon and Darren Morrow were able to hold out St Ives until Tea, leaving us at 7/187 – over 250 runs ahead with only 30 overs left in the day. The 'mercy rule' was called by St Ives and another massive semi final victory was claimed. This is the fourth year in a row we have made the grand final and we plan on making it our 3rd premiership inside those 4. A top effort today and we look to maintain this momentum heading into the big one next week.

Colts Red 90 and 9/38 lost to Berowra 101 – being such a tight and low scoring game a little bit of luck was needed early on and it just didn't happen. Berowra passed our first innings total with 7 wickets down and were all out a short time later - just 11 runs in the lead. The plan was to get quick runs and get Berowra in to bat and under pressure. It wasn't to be and for the most part due to a devastating spell of bowling by the Berowra opening bowler who tore through our top order and in doing so claimed a hat trick and ensured a well deserved victory for his team. This match was a reflection of our season - close but not close enough with a series of injuries and absences of key players toward the end of the season making it that much more difficult.

B1 80 and 175 lost to Berowra 211 and 1/51 – after a bad day last week we resumed at 4/40 and had it all do chasing Berowra's 211. We started the day slowly trying to grind out a partnership. We managed to go wicketless until drinks taking the score to 4/73, although scoring was tough due to Berowra's quality attack. After drinks the whole innings changed. Matt Thorndyke fell for a hard-fought 34 and it was all down-hill from here losing 6/7 to be bowled out for only 80. With the follow-on enforced we decided to hit out and hope for a fourth innings miracle. Andrew Joyce and Tim Worthington were superb taking the score to 97 in the 16th over before AJ fell for an awesome 61. Tim continued to hit out before falling for 48. After losing these two wickets we fell away losing 4/0 at one stage, once again thanks to their gun spinner on his way to 11 scalps for the match. Some late hitting from Paul Tilley (25) saw us to 175 from 34 overs. Berowra were left with 45 runs for victory. AJ took an early wicket but we were never in the hunt. A disappointing end to an otherwise successful season.

B2 112 and 7/200 dec defeated outright St Ives 181 & 103 – what a day of cricket. Coming into the start of play we still needed 1 wicket to wrap up their first innings, and in the 3 overs it took us to get the last wicket, they clubbed 15 runs, with Ben McNamara taking the last wicket of the first innings to reach figures of 6/53, and saw us staring down a deficit of 69 in the first innings.

With a slightly re-jigged batting order looking for quick runs, we set off with the aim of setting a total, and after just 11 overs we were back with our noses in front thanks to some blistering batting by Geoff Starr (40) and Tim Starr, along with some pretty ordinary discipline in the field from the St Ives boys. A few quick wickets, a small period of consolidation, and another blast with a partnership of 68 between Lachlan McBrien (19*) and Tim Starr, who was dismissed agonizingly short of his first century in seniors for 99, and although disappointing personally for Tim, he had almost single handedly put us in a position where we were a genuine chance to win the game, and for the team that was an absolutely priceless knock, allowing us to declare at 7/200, leaving St Ives with 132 to win from a minimum of 46 overs.

The second innings in the field was a near carbon copy of the first, with fast and accurate spells from Geoff Richards, Ben McNamara and Mark Bennett (1/10 off 7 overs) ripping through the top order and leaving the man-down St Ives struggling at 4/26. However, from here the 2 batsman dug in, resisting playing their natural game and putting on a 60 run partnership in 27 overs to seemingly put them in a position where losing seemed a long way off, and the yelling, laughing and carrying on from their boys on the side indicated they knew this. However, despite needing 5 wickets in the last hour of play, none of our boys gave up, and when Geoff Richards took his 3rd wicket (3/14 off 12 overs) in the over after drinks, everyone sensed we were a real chance. And when James McBrien picked up his first a couple of overs later, the laughing from the sidelines had well and truly stopped. The big moment was yet to come however, and our main man from the first innings Ben McNamara stepped up to claim 2 crucial scalps in 1 over, first an absolute jaffa to rip through the stumps of their captain, and the second a diving catch from James McBrien at square leg to really swing the momentum in our favour. This left us 10 overs to claim the last wicket, and with 6 overs to spare James McBrien (2/8 off 8.5 overs) broke through the solid defences of their final remaining hope to claim an amazing victory against all the odds. Best with the ball for the match was Ben McNamara, who claimed 3/18 off 10 overs for match figures of 9/71 from 23.2 overs, a sensational effort in the high pressure situation of a semi final.

This has got to be one of the most amazing victories of the season, and proves to the competition that we are indeed the best team in the comp, as I’m sure many of the other teams wouldn’t have had the belief in themselves and each other that we had out there that no matter what the game situation, we still believed that we were a chance of winning the game, and we will take that belief and confidence into next week.

C1 54 & 6/77 lost to Castle Hill 220 – last week set the tone for this result. While cricket is a funny game it isn’t hilarious and a win here needed an extraordinary start to the day that didn’t happen. Simply put – 54 was always way too few runs. Day 2 was a much better effort where we bowled well and ended up dismissing Castle Hill for a score that would have been gettable in most other games. Craig Hutchinson was superb taking 5/29 off 19 overs off high quality spin. Backed up by Daniel Anderson with 3/25 the spinners did a wonderful job with great backup by our keeper Gamini who is high quality with sharp catching and stumpings supporting the spinners. John Steel and Andrew Watt were unlucky but also bowled well. With the game over we decided to have a bit of fun after a while, with wickets falling to indiscrete shots, it ceased being fun and the mercy rule was called. Finishing 2nd was a highlight with just a stumble on the 1st day of the Semi that ended what was going to be a memorable year.

C2 44 lost to Mt Colah 210 – following on from last week we managed to bowl Mt Colah out by the middle of day 2. Because of their higher placement on the log we were always going to have to win this one, but Mt Colah were never batting with any purpose and we managed to finally dismiss them in the middle of the day. Mark Bell was our best by a long way with 6/27. Realising that our season was all but over we decided to have a last bash at batting – with everyone getting a license to have some fun. Only Russel Ingram with 19 (in one over) and Peter Lees with 34 bothered the scorers and we were bowled out for 90 in our second innings. This makes it 3 innings in a row that we were bowled out by Mt Colah for under 100 runs. Compare this to an opening partnership of 333 against the same team 5 months earlier – which probably sums up the slump we found ourselves in towards the end of the season, when we should have been shining. Here’s hoping we all have a really good break and return with some more focus in season 10/11.

C3
White 145 lost to Mt Colah 7/148 – a sad end to a great season for the young C3 Whites. Defending 145 on a very fast Greenway was never going to be easy, but when we got an early breakthrough to have Mt Colah 6/53 (after resuming at 5/50) we had to be considered favourites. However we were always wary of their gun U16 Green Shield batter due in next & he lived up to his lofty reputation. He took our bowling to all parts of the ground, and did it so quickly, that the game was over 16 overs later. At least we were first to the pub after the game. So well done fellas - we only lost the first & last games of the season, so can be very proud of our efforts.

Blue 145 defeated Normanhurst/Warrawee 94 – well for all those club punters that lost money on us getting through, I hope that you did not lose too much. Day 2 of the Semi finals, once again showed why we finished up in the top 4 this season, we arrived there with our usual enthusiasm after spending the whole week preparing & analysing a game plan, we did what we always do, that's just "get on with the game".

We were defending what last week seemed to be a meager 145 runs, but after looking at all the results for last week, it was not that bad a result. Normanhurst arrived at the ground full of enthusiasm with their tails in the air and sent in their first 2 batsmen, only to be welcomed by our ever so reliable bowlers Ian Nichol & Rahul Saberwhal, what a welcome that was, as after 11 overs Normanhurst only had 12 runs. Normo lost their first 3 wickets for 12; 17; 18 runs through some clinical bowling. Arun Kumar was in devastating form again.

Our fielding was great, as we gave very little chances and got the ball in quicker than it went out into the field. Claudio van Blerk & Vikas Manchanda chanced their arm at bowling and Vikas was able to bag himself 2 wickets for the day.
Wicket takers were, Arun 4/26; Ian 2/30; Vikas 2/12; Rahul 1/12. I could probably write all day and mention how each player influenced the result yesterday, but it is time to get ready for the final, Great game guys and get to bed early on Friday....

D1 7/240 defeated Berowra 239 – this game is certainly our best performance of the season. The fielding and bowling were outstanding against a very good disciplined Berowra batting line up. The batting was calm and collective to achieve the runs required. Special mention for outstanding batting performances goes to David Behelevanas and Faisal Shamsi for a good opening partnership of 46 against some fine Berowra fast bowling, followed by Lachlan Vile’s 50 retired out and Allan Raffel’s 42, supported by Julian Raffel 26 and Perry Walldron’s 22 not out to get us home. The boys are extremely pleased with everyone’s performances and look ahead to the finals next week.

Finals here we come
We can’t complain about having A1, A2, B2, C3 and D1 in the Finals. While not a record for us it is an outstanding effort especially having 3 of the top 4 Grades in the big one.

Best of luck to the boys next week. Our record in these game is:

A1
Going for our 5th Premiership and our first Finals appearance since 2002/2003 that we won. A special game for Simon Davies who scored his 5,000th run this season and is the only remaining member who played in our last Premiership. A win here will be our 5th Premiership.

A2
Our 4th straight Final and 5th in 6 years is amazing when we have had a strong A1 at the same time. We have momentum and Finals experience.

B2
Going for our 5th B2 Premiership. Our last was in 2000/01 when the great Mark Taylor led the side.

C3
The Competition was only started in the late 1990’s and we have never appeared in a Final until now. So either way Jonathan van Blerk’s team has made Club history.

D1
Going for our 4th Premiership with the last being won in 2003/04 under Roger Friend who also captained the side to victory in 2002/03.

Outstanding leader
There is always one of those people in a Club who achieves amazing things and fly’s below the radar. Matt Jobson A2 Captain is one of those achievers. How about this for an amazing pedigree:
• Outside Colts, Matt is our youngest Premiership winning Captain, leading our A2 side to victory in 2009. Matt had just turned 20
• He now leads A2 into their 2nd successive Final as still the youngest Captain who may well finish with an even more imposing record.
• In 2007/08 as a 19 year old he led A2 to be Runners up so 3 Premiership in a leadership role in one of our top grades before he is 21 years old is truly outstanding.

One of those days
Chapter 1
After each round, our Captains allocate their 3-2-1 points for Player of the Year. One of our Teams had a less than successful game and the Captain commented:

“Are we actually able to take points away from people? Are we able to award points to the scorer? How about the stumps, for bravely remaining intact in spite of all the balls being bowled at it by the WPHCCC bowlers? Or to the brave ball that managed to avoid the outstretched hands of desperate fielders associated with WPHCCC.....”

Chapter 2
Spare a thought for Andrew Fiedler’s C3 White side. They lost 2 games all gear – the 1st game and the last game that just happened to be the Semi Final.

Our very own Warnie
Got to hand it to Rohan Dixit (A2 leg spinner). During day one of the A2 Semi Final, Rohan n had a go umpiring at square leg to support the official umpire. All was going well until everyone on the field heard a ‘beep, beep, beep...’. There was Rohan receiving and sending text messages while umpiring. But then again it was only a semi final so no big deal.

Spot the brain cell
On day 1 of last week’s A1 semi final the match was developing into a real battle with our boys coming out on top. The match was played at Berowra oval which unfortunately has a nearby pub. We all know those moron’s (spectators that is) who walk slowly across the ground to take a short cut and make a statement along the way. We had one of those on the weekend. After being politely asked to leave the field for his own safety by the umpires the bloke continued to take his time. Enter our own Simon Smyth who was playing a very good fighting innings and had his concentration broken. After the umpires were unsuccessful, Simon had a more direct verbal direction that finally got a reaction from this character who wanted to carry it on with 10 of his mates. After the police arrived, photo’s being taken on mobile phones and so on the excitement died down and the boys actually played some more cricket.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Day 1 of the Semi Finals follows:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 656 @ 65.6 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 526 @ 40.46 – Allan Raffel (D1)
4. 524 @ 65.50 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
5. 497 @ 38.23 – Tim Millington (B1)
6. 499 @ 55.44 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
7. 489 @ 54.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
8. 475 @ 36.54 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
9. 432 @ 48.00 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
10. 426 @ 53.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 32 @ 13.36 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 29 @ 14.90 – Jacques Viser (C2)
3. 28 @ 15.11 – Scott Jobson (B1)
4. 28 @ 15.18 – John Steel (C1)
5. 27 @ 10.56 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
7. 27 @ 11.22 – Darren Morrow (A2)
8. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)
9. 26 @ 13.92 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 25 @ 11.76 – Matt Dawson (A1)
11. 25 @ 12.56 – Dylan Brogan (A2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Mark Bennett (B2)
2. 9 – James McBrien (B2)
3. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
4. 9 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Gavin Taylor 68.9 points (1st for Club in A1 & 8th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 83.0 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 54.4 points (1st & 2nd)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 83.8 points (1st & 4th)
• B2: Tim Starr – 72.0 points (1st & 5th)
• C1: John Steel – 90.0 points (1st & 2nd)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 101.6 points (1st & 1st)
• C3: Riley Miedler – 84.4 points (1st & 3rd)
• D1: Allan Raffel – 98.50 points (1st & 2nd)
• D2 Ankit Grover – 94.0 (1st and 4th)

Personal achievements
This is current up to Day 1 of the Semi Final:

Congratulations to Rowan Keating who brought up his 100th wicket in a very successful season.

• Peter Lees – 45 runs to 3,000 runs
• Simon Smyth – 7 wickets to 250 career wickets
• John Steel – 6 wickets to 100 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 14/3/2010

Simon Davies
A1 5,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Storey Park 6/3/2010

Peter Lees
C2 2,955 runs – 45 to 3,000 career runs

Simon Smyth
A1 1,947 runs – 53 to 2,000 career runs

243 wickets – 7 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 94 wickets – 6 wickets

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Girls
This season we have 3 Girls teams – 2 in B grade and 1 in C Grade. They have done tremendously well this season. This weekend the Finals were played on Saturday.

B Grade – WPHC Blue Vs Gordon @ Berry Park

C Grade – WPHC Vs West Ryde Rovers @ Cedarwood Oval

Bad luck to our B Grade Red side that lost a close one to Gordon in their 20/20 Semi Final. The scores in the Semi Final were:

WPHC 5/86 (Dashuni Kannangara 16) lost to Gordon 4/87 (Georgia Willmot 2/9)

Juniors
The Junior Grand Finals were played last Sunday and congratulations our Premiers and Runner-up:
• U16’s: WPHC White (3rd successive victory)
• U15’s - no finalists
• U14’s - WPHC Blue
• U13’s WPHC Green
• U12’s - no finalists
• U11’s - Runner up

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Grand Final results are:
U16’s
WPHC White 104 (Sid Shankar 26 and 1/6 off 11 overs) defeated Mt Colah 58

U14’s
WPHC Blue 6/151 (A Gnanasekaram 41, Matt Vile 24, Nicck Hey 20) defeated WPHC Red 92 (Matt Vile 2/18, J Cummings 2/6, J Roots 2/4, A. De Silva 2/12)

U13’s
WPHC Green 7/213 (A. Ramakrishnan 109, S Iyer 44, V Suri 22) defeated Kissing Point 159 (V Suri 1/31, A Ramakrishnan 1/27, K Li 2/18, A Bedi 2/9)

U11’s
WPHC 97 lost to Kissing Point Red 9/139

Seniors
Day 1 of the Semi Finals was played on Saturday. The results are:

A1 9/241 Vs St Ives – after a great middle and lower order comeback we’ve managed to post a very defendable score. St Ives had us 4 for 50, but then Simon Davies (55) and Matt Dawson (40) rescued us for the second week in a row. This was followed by solid contributions from all of the lower order, including a cracking 30 from Peter Stott, despite showers spicing up the pitch every hour or so. We batted out the day for only the second time this year, finishing on 9 for 241. With ARL a good chance of going down in their Semi this is a very good result.

A2 118 & 0/3 defeated St Ives 51 – after losing the toss, St Ives decided to put us into bat on a grassy looking Turramurra deck, nothing unusual or unexpected about that. After losing a few wickets we were looking rather shaky sitting at 3/9 off the first 10. After some consolidation by Amir Marzouk and James Fiedler we managed to get some runs on the board but unfortunately wickets kept falling, leaving us at 5/46 at the lunch break with runs very hard to come by. After a great dig from Michael Quieros (40) including two sixes, we managed to reach a defendable target of 118 feeling full confident our bowling attack could take some early poles. It took 8 runs to get our first, and then they fell at regular intervals. Darren Morrow and Dylan Brogan were superb - bowling 13 over opening spells each, finishing with 4/22 and 3/12 respectively. Matt Jobson chipped in at the end with 2/5 as we completely tore apart the St Ives batting line-up for a mere 51 runs. First innings is now secure but a long way to go in this match - we must make sure we bat well next week to ensure we take the game.

Colts Red 90 Vs Berowra 5/57 – a typical score on a typical Glade strip. Runs were very hard to get for both teams and Rob Aitken (26), Carl Madsen (24), Tim Anderson (17) and Daniel Brain (15) all batted positively to score the bulk of our runs. In reply Berowra have only managed 57 off 33 overs with the loss of 5 of their best batsmen. The match is very delicately poised and the early overs next Saturday will be most critical in determining which team will progress to the final.

B1 4/40 Vs Berowra 211 – not a lot to report here, our worst day of the season. Berowra arrived fired up ready to play and have put on their best performance of the year – we have pulled out our worst. In the field we dropped 10 catches and lacked any intensity. Rowan Keating was best taking 5/62 and Rhino Cherrie took 2/32. With just over an hour to bat we needed to be patient and look towards next week, but we played loose shots loosing unnecessary wickets. We have batting to come and will fight to the end, but we have it all to do next week. Congratulations to Rowan Keating who took his 100th wicket.

B2 112 defeated by St Ives 9/166 – not the best of days for us, but this is what semi finals cricket is all about. Losing the toss and being sent into bat on a damp and slow Headen Park, we never got going with the bat, at one point slumping to be 7/58, before the tail wagged slightly to get us up into triple figures and Give us something to bowl at. Lachlan McBrien (30*) and Nick Starr (25) the only positives with the bat.

Going out to defend 112 was never going to be easy, but a sensational opening spell from Ben McNamara (5/42) and Geoff Richards (2/34) ripped through the top order and leave them reeling at 6/37. However, this brought some tail-end hacks to the crease, and they slogged and swiped their way past our total 8 wickets down (albeit aided by a handful of missed opportunities) and into a strong position leading into the second day next week. Lachlan McBrien the only other wicket taker with 2/37.

Although we have gone down on the first innings, this game is going to go down to the wire in the 4th innings, as we have plenty of firepower with the bat ready to fire next week and get us the result we need.

C1 54 lost to Castle Hill 4/140 – finals are a different game and this proven yet again. The turning point came when our 3 most reliable batsman (DA, Kishore and Eric) went cheaply. The bowling was adequate but a combination of poor shot selection, bad luck and some ‘interesting’ decisions all went against us. We bowled well with the bat being beaten many times and again luck deserting us. It is not often that everything combines in one day but ‘that’s cricket’. Next week will take a huge effort to get across the line but stranger things have happened although in this case it might be an opportunity to enjoy the day.

C2 44 lost to Mt Colah 4/122 – we lost the toss and it went downhill from there. After losing 2 wickets in 7 balls we never really recovered. Peter Heidegger with 35 the only significant contributor in our score of 88. The 16th over of Colah’s innings gave us some hope as Mark Bell took wickets with the 1st 3rd and 5th deliveries to have them 3 for 28. But some disciplined batting from them saw them pass our score without further loss of wicket. Roll on next week as we seek an outright!

C3
White 145 Vs Mt Colah 5/50 – we continued on our winning run of tosses (Skipper Fiedler hasn't lost one since round 8), and batted with the intention of putting as much distance between us & 4th place Mt Colah. At 1/71, everything was going according to plan, however with Brendan Harkin's demise for 36, the wheels started falling off. Michael ‘Kramer’ Richards kept the side together with a fighting chanceless 46, and almost carried his bat being the 2nd last man out. The only other score above 6 was by Taki Manolelis with 14. We lost too many wickets to thoughtless cricket. We had about 90 mins to get amongst Mt Colah & that is what we did. Brett Hawkins was superb claiming 4/17 of 8 overs of guile and trickery. We applied plenty of pressure and all the bowlers responded. Colah still have batting to come, so this should be a beauty of a finish.

Blue 145 Vs Normanhurst/Warrawee – intersting days play, not as good a position as we would like to be, we used 81 overs to get to 145 runs. We are all out, highest scores are Vishnu on 25 Rahul not out on 23 and Vikas on 20.
We were about to start bowling when the rain came and the umpire called it off. A lot to do in this match but we are more than capable of defending this total.

D1 0/3 Vs Berowra 239 – after winning the toss in favourable conditions and sending Berowra in to bat, we managed to restrict a very good disciplined Berowra to 239. This week we held onto all our catches including a few screamers by Perry Waldron, Graham Auld and David Behelevanas. Our bowling was also satisfactory with 9 bowlers all chipping in with a wicket or two. Whilst runs on the board are important and chasing 239 can be viewed as challenging, we are well prepared and know that we will have our work cut out for us next week.

Cindrella Story
This year we thought it was going to happen but....we now have to wait until next season. Our longest running milestone saga is coming to a thrilling conclusion. D2 Captain Peter Westerberg is approaching (slowly) his career batting milestone of 100 career runs. What makes this fascinating is whether he gets there before his 100th innings. At the close of this season Peter has now scored 92 runs in 92 innings. The main interest next season will be to see what comes first – the century of innings or the century run milestone.

Bondi rescue
Brief background. Jas Singh, Nathan Fathers (C1) and Jacques Visser (C2) had a big night out on New Year eve. The end came when Jas found himself on Bondi Rescue being one of the ‘wasted’ revellers who managed to star on the show being taken away by the paramedics. As it turns out his drink was spiked. Anyway, Jas remembers waking up at about 11.00 am with tubes coming out of him. He managed to get himself home and there was Nathan and Jacques sleeping very comfortably. We are assured though that they made sure he was OK before taking up residence in Jas’ place.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 14 follows.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 72.11 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 526 @ 40.46 – Allan Raffel (D1)
4. 497 @ 38.23 – Tim Millington (B1)
5. 490 @ 61.25 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
6. 489 @ 54.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
7. 488 @ 69.71 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 469 @ 39.08 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
9. 430 @ 53.80 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
10. 426 @ 53.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 32 @ 13.36 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 29 @ 14.90 – Jacques Viser (C2)
3. 28 @ 15.11 – Scott Jobson (B1)
4. 28 @ 15.18 – John Steel (C1)
5. 27 @ 10.56 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
7. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)
8. 26 @ 13.92 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
9. 25 @ 11.76 – Matt Dawson (A1)
10. 24 @ 14.58 – Ankit Grover (D2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Mark Bennett (B2)
2. 9 – James McBrien (B2)
3. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
4. 9 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Gavin Taylor 68.9 points (1st for Club in A1 & 8th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 83.0 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 54.4 points (1st & 2nd)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 83.8 points (1st & 4th)
• B2: Tim Starr – 72.0 points (1st & 5th)
• C1: John Steel – 90.0 points (1st & 2nd)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 101.6 points (1st & 1st)
• C3: Riley Miedler – 84.4 points (1st & 3rd)
• D1: Allan Raffel – 98.50 points (1st & 2nd)
• D2 Ankit Grover – 94.0 (1st and 4th)

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Rowan Keating who brought up his 100th wicket in a very successful season.

• Rowan Keating – 4 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 45 runs to 3,000 runs
• Simon Smyth – 7 wickets to 250 career wickets
• John Steel – 6 wickets to 100 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 14/3/2010

Simon Davies
A1 5,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Storey Park 6/3/2010

Peter Lees
C2 2,955 runs – 45 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,895 runs – 105 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,947 runs – 53 to 2,000 career runs

243 wickets – 7 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 94 wickets – 6 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Our latest International success
Added to our International playing roster of Lisa Stahalker and Denise Annetts (Australian Women stars) John Howard, former Prime Minister (1996-2007), was appointed as Vice President of the International Cricket Council in March 2010 and will become the ICC President in 2012.

John is a West Penno player from way back. He played between 1962-63 and 1973-74. In 31 innings he scored 264 runs at 9.78 in B1 and C2 Grades. Bowling stats aren’t that complete – we only have 1 over recorded for 19 runs back in 1968-69.

In a C Grade game in the early 1960’s John was playing at Oakleigh Oval (Goodland’s Road Thornleigh). John was not out at the end of the first Saturday. However, he arrived at the ground late on the second Saturday – he forgot how to get to the ground he had played on the week before arrived late and ended up being out ’retired’.

His brother, Wally, was an outstanding player who played 139 innings for 1,408 runs @ 12.24 and took an amazing 342 wickets @ 16.52 between 1960/61 and 1974/75. So our relationship with the Howard connection goes back many years and we now have the soon to be world leader of cricket as one of ours.

In another story on John’s playing days, he was playing at Headen Park, before they did it up and the blackberry patch at the Thornleigh end. Apparently, the ball went hard and high towards the boundary, where the future Prime Minister was fielding. He had some trouble seeing the ball at most times, and was groping myopically at it as he edged back.

Finally, the ball landed, just as John went over the edge. When the others arrived to see where he was, he was impaled in crucifix formation in the blackberries. One old wag commented years later, "We had a discussion about whether to pull him out or leave him there" - ofcourse the right decision was made to remove him - eventually.

Kanga achievement
Our Kanga program finished on Saturday – another outstanding success. One of the many highlights was the handing out of 73 Graduation Certificates for our players of the future to move into U9’s next year. We should get 70% of these kids playing U9s next season which means about 50 kids will play next season which is equivalent to 5 U9 teams before a ball is bowled next season. Of these players 60% will still be playing in U16’s and 50%-60% will be playing Seniors in 9 years time. This wonderful program is one of the major sources of our growth so well done to everyone involved in the great Program.

Our latest Representative players
Congratulations to our latest Rep players who will be representing the Association in the showpiece games over the next 2 weeks:

HK&HDCA Invitation XII – all age
Daniel Brain, Sujith Dissanayake, Carl Madsen,

Ross Turner Cup (showpiece East Vs West U15-U14 game)
Daniel Anderson (Capt West), James Madden (Capt, East), Connor Jackson, (U15), Nicholas Hey (U14), James Partridge (U14), Bhavya Nanda (U15), Sid Shankar (U16), Mansimar Singh (U14), Lachlan Vile (U16).

Glenn Hourigan Cup (showpiece East Vs West U13 – U12 game)
John Anderson (Capt West), Lachlan Anchique, Harrison Broughton, Sid Dissanayake, Daniel Heidegger, Travis Loxton, Kristoff O’Meara, Vyas Rajan.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The Junior Grand Finals were played on Sunday and our Premiers are:

• U16’s: WPHC White (3rd successive victory)
• U15’s - no finalists
• U14’s - WPHC Blue
• U13’s WPHC Green
• U12’s - no finalists
• U11’s - Runners up

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Grand Final results are:
U16’s
WPHC White 104 (Sid Shankar 26) defeated Mt Colah 58 (Sid Shankar 1/6, Darshan Pandya 4/6, Riley Miedler 3/10, D Govil 2/19)

U14’s
WPHC Blue 6/151 (A Gnanasekaram 41, Matt Vile 24, Nicck Hey 20) defeated WPHC Red 92 (J. Preedy 31, Matt Vile 2/18, J Cummings 2/6, J Roots 2/4, A. De Silva 2/12)

U13’s
WPHC Green 7/213 (A. Ramakrishnan 109, S Iyer 44, V Suri 22) defeated Kissing Point 159 (V Suri 1/31, A Ramakrishnan 1/27, K Li 2/18, A Bedi 2/9)

U11’s
WPHC Gold 97 lost to Kissing Point Red 9/139.

Seniors
Day 2 of the last round of Competition games was played on Saturday. The results are:

A1 6/128 defeated Hornsby 124 – a comfortable win that moves us into 3rd spot. Matt Dawson played a Captain’s innings for 41* and was well supported by Peter Whitehead with 25 and a few 20’s spread. The highlight though was the 20by Simon Davies that allowed him to score his 5,000th run for West Penno that places him at number 4 in the all-time run scorers list – a wonderful achievement. Well done Simon.

A2 160 lost to Glenhaven 167 – details to follow. Difficult to take too much from this game as it was played at Caterson. We have a team of batsmen who hit the ball along the ground. Teams with players who tonk the ball get value for shots on this very slow ground. The fact that we got to 160 is a fantastic achievement. Tim Leyshon was out best and almost pulled off a win with a super 38 but just not enough. We finished 3rd and play on real ground next week so confidence is high.

Colts
Red 115 defeated WPHC Blue 68 and 0/5 – unfortunately no play was possible so our Reds go through to the Semi Finals and our Blues just miss out.

B1 7/396 defeated Kenthurst 153 – a great warm-up for the semi's with a big win against Kenthurst. With 396 runs on the board in week 1, it was a good opportunity to give our bowlers a solid hit-out in preparation for next week. We comfortably took the points, with Kenthurst unable to get anywhere near our massive total. Best with the ball were Andrew Joyce taking 2/12 off 11 overs, Paul Tilley 2/12 and Ryan Rhino Cherrie 2/29. We finish in 2nd place, most likely playing Normanhurst in our semi final. I'll send the player points through early in the week.

B2 250 defeated Beecroft 198 – a very tough day in the field as we faced up against a determined Beecroft side. In the still and humid conditions, our under-strength bowling attack struggled to make the first breakthrough, although some good disciplined bowling was able to restrict the run rate to a snail’s pace at just over 2 an over. Finally, after 47 overs, we got the first wicket with Simon Roche (2/17) the man to do it on the eve of his return home to the motherland. From there, we kept working hard and wickets fell regularly until they were all out for 199 in 85 overs. Ben Nolan (2/11 from 13 overs) was the only other multiple wicket taker, with 1 each to Mark Bennett, Tim Starr, and Nick Starr, along with 2 catches to James McBrien. A big game in the semis now, and one we are confident of winning if we play near our potential.

C1 182 lost to Kenthurst 7/186 – a close game where we fought extremely well to defend a below par score that should have been 230+ after the start we got. As we finished 2nd irrespective of the result of the game there was a lack of intensity on the first day. We made up for this on Saturday with outstanding bowling and fielding by everyone. Craig Hutchinson was outstanding taking 4/20 odd off 15 overs and got great support from John Steel, Daniel Anderson (at one stage had 1 / 2 off 6 overs) and Jas Singh. Anyway on the Semi Final next week and hopefully the cob-webs will be blown away.

C2 8/84 lost to Mt Colah 229 – this one's short and sweet. Enough said. We face Mt Colah again next week in the semis, hopefully with a different outcome.

C3
White 258 defeated Kissing Point 165 – we continued our winning ways to finish the season as Minor Premiers with a 93-run defeat of Kissing Point. KP resumed on 1/12 chasing a sizeable but getable score on batsman-friendly Mimosa Oval. The intention for the day was to give the key bowlers a good hit-out before the semi's and that is what they got. Whilst KP's top 2 batsmen held us up during an 80-run partnership in the middle overs, we were never really troubled, even though we were a bowler down, and only allowed paceman Riley Miedler to bowl spin to freshen him up for his U16s Final the following day. Best of the bowlers was Riley (3/48), Luke Herzog (2/43) and Chris Creais (2/19). Now for the semis.

Blue 4/350 defeated Kenthurst – the Blues defeated Kenthurst on forfeit soon after we batted on and then declared. The highlight was Claudio van Blerk who scored 150* - our 352nd ton. Well done Claudio.

D1 7/234 defeated ARL 211 – in a 2 Vs 5 playoff we commenced play at 0/24 chasing 211 on slow ankle high grass that resembled a chase of 235/240 against good line and length bowling. We’re extremely pleased with our performance today and will go into the finals next week feeling well prepared and ready. Notable performances with the bat were from Julian Raffel for a gutsy well earned 101* (our 353rd century – well done Julian) and Faisal Shamsi 46. With the ball, Marco Delgado 3/31, Roger Friend 3/27 and David Behelevanas did most of the damage but were very well supported by all the other bowlers.

D2 14 lost to Kenthurst 124 – day 2 is a Sunday game.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

Eric’s day
Eric Junkkari, Club legend and C1 super star had one of those days yesterday that has to be recorded for posterity. Here is just a sample of Eric’s contribution:

Cover your eyes
With a fieldsman on the boundary looking into the sun Eric gave some wonderful advice on how to take a skied catch: ‘Cover your eyes’. Interesting to see how someone could a catch with their eyes covered Eric.

Oh Sh..
Normally when a ball goes up for a catch the response from the fielding side is something like ‘catch-it’. Not Eric. A reasonably easy catch went up to one of our ‘experienced’ fieldsman but right into the setting sun. Eric’s response, loud enough that it could be heard in the next suburb said; ‘Oh Sh..’ and it that’s the way it turned out.

Anatomy of a Low score
Spare a thought for the D2 boys from last weekend. With a weakened team they were playing the now top placed Kenthurst and were rolled for 14. There was no lack of effort but just one of those days and a number of records were set. Here goes:
• The lowest WPHC score in D2 Grade – ‘beating the 30’ we scored in 2005/06 Vs Galston-Glenorie at Northholm
• 2nd lowest score in our Club – much better than the 4 runs we were dismissed for in the 1967/68 B1 Final Vs Perseverance at Campbell Park
• After being 0/9 we lost 4/0 and then scored 2 runs and then lost another 4/0

The boys will look back on this one in time and have a few good stories to share.

Don’t be late
Our D2’s, with an undermanned side last week were rolled for 14 – our lowest D2 score and 2nd lowest score ever. Peter Westerberg, the thinking person’s Captain was on the ball. Being aware that one of our player’s had to play a footy trial on the central coast that finished at mid-day it would take about an hour to get back to Headen Park for a game starting at noon. Peter’s comments were along the lines that ‘while I am confident we can survive the day, don’t be too late getting back’. With the drive back from the Central Coast only an hour hopefully we will last a bit longer this time.

Padded up and ready
The signs were not good before last Saturday’s D2 effort before a ball was bowled. When the number 11 is padded up with helmet ready before the opener’s face a ball is often not a good omen – 15 overs later and 14 runs on the board he was probably proved right.

Hold on to it mate
Got to hand it to A2 ‘keeper, Tim Leyshon who was playing on the pathetically slow Caterson 2. With the boys struggling to hit the ball off the square Tim smashed a quick 38 to almost win the game. In the process he forgot to hold the bat for one shot with the bat flying to deep square leg and the ball, well, it was still on the pitch.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 14 day 1 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 72.11 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 525 @ 43.75 – Allan Raffel (D1)
4. 497 @ 38.23 – Tim Millington (B1)
5. 489 @ 54.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
6. 488 @ 69.71 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
7. 480 @ 60.00 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
8. 469 @ 39.08 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
9. 430 @ 53.80 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
10. 426 @ 53.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 13.68 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 28 @ 14.29 – Jacques Viser (C2)
3. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
4. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)
5. 27 @ 14.37 – John Steel (C1)
6. 27 @ 14.56 – Scott Jobson (B1)
7. 26 @ 9.96– Tim Starr (B2)
8. 26 @ 13.92 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
9. 25 @ 11.76 – Matt Dawson (A1)
10. 22 @ 10.68 – Geoff Richards (B2)
11. 22 @ 15.05 – Ankit Grover (D2)
12. 22 @ 15.36 – Scott Henderson (A1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 9 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Gavin Taylor 66.8 points (1st for Club in A1 & 7th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 81.4 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 49.4 points (1st & 2nd)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 79.4 points (1st & 4th)
• B2: Geoff Starr – 70.1 points (1st & 4th)
• C1: John Steel – 86.0 points (1st & 4th)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 101.6 points (1st & 1st)
• C3: Riley Miedler – 76.1 points (1st & 3rd)
• D1: Allan Raffel – 96.50 points (1st & 2nd)

Competition table
Congratulations to our Seniors Finalists for next weekend:
• A1: 3rd (likely finish)
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd (likely)
o Blue: 5th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 2nd (likely)
• D2: 7th

We finished with 10 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – a Club record and most likely an Association record.

Personal achievements
This is current up to the end of Round 14 is:

• Rowan Keating – 4 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 8 for his 100 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Simon Davies
A1 5,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Storey Park 6/3/2010

Peter Lees
C2 2,926 runs – 74 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Our latest Representative players
Congratulations to our latest Rep players who will be representing the Association in the showpiece games over the next 2 weeks:

HK&HDCA Invitation XII – all age
Daniel Brain, Sujith Dissanayake, Carl Madsen,

Ross Turner Cup (showpiece East Vs West U15-U14 game)
Daniel Anderson (Capt West), James Madden (Capt, East), Connor Jackson, (U15), Nicholas Hey (U14), James Partridge (U14), Bhavya Nanda (U15), Sid Shankar (U16), Mansimar Singh (U14), Lachlan Vile (U16).

Glenn Hourigan Cup (showpiece East Vs West U13 – U12 game)
John Anderson (Capt West), Lachlan Anchique, Harrison Broughton, Sid Dissanayake, Daniel Heidegger, Travis Loxton, Kristoff O’Meara, Vyas Rajan.

Cricket Carnival Day for people with disabilities
CNSW is again running its successful Carnival for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. This is very successful and participation is open to everyone who fits this description. Details are;
• When: Saturday 13th March 2010
• Where: Queens Park cricket fields 20 & 23, Darley Road, Queens Park
• Time: 11.00 am or 3.00 pm
• Cost: $30 / person

If you are interested in a family member giving this a go then please contact Donna Little at CNSW on donna.little@cricketnsw.com.au or call 8302-6033.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The Juniors completed their last round of the Competition on Saturday before the Finals start next week. Final standings of our Teams are:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 4th (Blue) and 6th (Red)
• U15’s - 5th (Blue), 6th (White), 8th (Red), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 7th (Red), 12th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 8th (Gold), 11th (Green)
• U11’s - 3rd (Gold), 5th (Blue), 6th (Green), 15th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Saturday results
U16’s
WPHC White 9/191 Vs WPHC Blue

U14’s
WPHC Blue 8/162 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee

WPHC Red 0/39 Vs Hornsby 113

U13’s
WPHC Gold Vs WPHC Green – scores to come

U12’s
WPHC Blue 121 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 0/12

WPHC Red 0/8 Vs Redfield Red 101

U11’s
WPHC Gold 131 Vs Upper Hills

Seniors
Day 1 of the final round before the Semi Finals in 2 weeks.

The results are:

A1 4/76 Vs Hornsby 124 – this is turning out to a huge game for us given that 3rd placed Kenthurst looks like losing and a win here will put us in 3rd spot and a easier semi game next week. Just a very solid bowling effort from everyone. All 6 bowlers took wickets. Spaldo's first spell was a highlight - 41 dot balls before they finally scored off him. A couple of stutters in the batting but we'll get the runs

A2 Vs Glenhaven – details to follow. It was Jobbo’s21st last night so we might get the scores through if he is sober enough later in the day.

Colts
Red 115 defeated WPHC Blue 68 and 0/5 – although it had been a relatively fine week The Glade still managed to be spongy and proved challenging for the batting of both WPHC teams. The Blue team had first go at it and managed 68 with accurate bowling from Parneet Bhatia and Isaac Malamel returning them 4/9 each. Darshan Pandya battled strongly and top scored with an excellent 30 which provided a total to defend. The Red teams batting suffered the same difficulties early in the innings and were looking precarious at 5/33. Parneet Bhatia complemented his fine bowling display with a patient and timely 27 and Daniel Brain's aggressive 33 saw the total reach 118, a 50 run lead.

B1 7/396 Vs Kenthurst – a warm-up for the semi's with 2nd place secured and no chance of claiming the minor premiership. We started the game 16 minutes late with Kenthurst looking uninterested and unorganised -they even took the field without a keeper before a player return to put some pads on.

We started slowly but solidly with Matt Thorndyke and Paul Tilley taking the score to 52 in the 18th over before Matt fell for 34. Tim Millington arrived at the crease and looked in great touch from ball one. He and Paul took the score to 125 before Paul departed for a season-high 41. Tim continued to dominate belting the Kenthurst attack all over the park racing to 50 including ten boundaries. He gave no opportunities and kept the runs coming bringing up his hundred with a lofted drive down the ground. Tim wasn't finished here and continued to build his total with Kenthurst tiring in the field. He brought up his 150 (our 351st century) during an over which include five consecutive boundaries before finally falling for 180, a very memorable innings and a best for any batsman in B-grade this season. More about this innings below.

Good knocks from James Mielnik (24) and Josh Kleinhans (38) supported Tim before Scott Jobson and Chris Thorndyke took 30 runs off the last two overs of the day to leave us just shy of 400. With a strong bowling attack next week we are very confident of an outright win.

B2 250 Vs Beecroft 0/25 – in a 1 Vs 7 game it ended up being quite a good day, however it was looking far less promising early. Alex Connell (25) and Duncan Moore (24) got us away well early, but there were plenty of wickets falling at regular intervals, and when Ben McNamara (22) and Ben Nolan (22) both fell, we were on the back foot at 8/128. However, this brought the brothers to the crease together for the first time this season, and Lachlan (46*) and James McBrien (67) put on a great stand of 94 for the 9th wicket to really turn the game back in our favour. We went out and bowled 11 overs, and despite not taking a wicket, we should be able to defend this score next week against the bottom placed side if we play anywhere near our best. The 9th wicket partnership was a good one but just a little off the record B2 9th wicket club record of 145* between Anthony Wilson and Simon Smyth on 18/1/2004.

C1 182 Vs Kenthurst 2/41 – while our 2nd spot in the Comp is assured we wanted to go into the Semi’s with good momentum. Batting first we started very well with Kishore Rampersad (20) and Eric Junkkari (30). Then Daniel Anderson scored 52 runs to have us well placed at 3 down for around 110. John Steel also hammered the bowling to score 30 in 5 scoring shots and we were looking at 250 with a strong batting order to follow. We failed to capitalise and posted a score well below par for Annangrove. In the 21 overs we had left we had them 2/41 and with a couple of early wickets on a wicket that offers the bowlers a bit of encouragement we are still in the contest. Well done to DA whose 52 brought up his 800th run and 32 wickets for the season in Association games this season in U15s, C1 and Weblin Shield.

C2 4/56 Vs Mt Colah 229 – just to maintain the pattern we once again lost the toss and were asked to bowl on a ideal batting day by Mt Colah. This is a 2 (us) Vs 3 match-up, so is of interest for the semis in 2 weeks time. We bowled with a less than full strength attack and managed to get them all out for 229 in the 50th over. Bowling was shared between 8 bowlers with the wickets shared amongst the bowlers. Our run chase did not start well and we ended the day at 4/56 with Chris Williamson and Glen O'Conner at the crease.

C3
White 258 Vs Kissing Point 1/12 – given the score, a disappointing end to the day, given we had KP by the throat but let them off the hook. After an excellent start courtesy of Pratah Sinnetamby (a solid 49), Brendan Harkin (a magnificent 81) and Riley Miedler (a quick fire 33), we were looking great at 3/203 after 47 overs. However, we lost 5/13 with some very lackadaisical batting. A last wicket partnership of 21 between Brett Hawkins (24) and Chris Creais (8 not out) allowed us to finish with a bit of momentum. We had 13 overs to bowl, and created some tense moments for the Kissing Point openers, but we managed to take a vital wicket on the last ball of the day to have them at 1/12. On a small oval, we have our work cut-out for us next week....with momentum needed before the Semi Finals.

Blue 4/340 Vs Kenthurst – we lost the toss and were put into bat on a very hot day on a very slow outfield at Glenhaven, Chetan and Vishnu Ratnam opened the batting & got off to a steady start. Vishnu was looking good, but was eventually bowled on 61 runs. Claudio van Blerk went in his usual position & showed the rest of us how to play cricket with a straight bat, with Russell Smith supporting him they both took advantage of anything that deserved to be hit. After a great knock, Russell was caught & finished with 50 runs. Even though the outfield was slow, Claudio decided he would take the direct route, with 4x6’s & 11x4’s. Claudio is currently on 140 (our 352nd century) & Michael on 28 both will be out there to start next week.

D1 0/24 Vs ARL 211 – in a 2 Vs 5 playoff Montview Oval seems to be our bogey ground because the last time we played there we dropped 7 catches. Well, this week we went one better by dropping 9 catches which in the end is the reason that we are chasing 211 instead of about 120. Whilst our catching was not up to standard there were other areas of play that were impressive and we fancy our chances of chasing down 211. Our best bowlers today were Roger Friend 3/27, Marco Delgado 3/31, David Behelevanas 2/31 and Graham Auld 2/53

D2 14 lost to Kenthurst 124 –what a day. Playing with a weakened team against 2nd placed Kenthurst we were in early trouble and it went downhill from there. After being 0/9 we were all out for 14 – the lowest D2 score in our history, beating the previous record of 30 set back in 2005 at Northholm. More about this week. When we bowled we didn’t give in and rolled them for 120 with almost every bowler used taking a wicket. Best were Arkit Grover 2/19, Aparajit Roy 2/5, John Anderson 2/11. It will take a huge effort to win from here but we will try and have fun in the process.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

The Fiedler Miedler Finals Family affair
How about this for a family Finals commitment. Our esteemed Seniors Director, Andrew Fiedler will be Captaining our C3 Minor Premiers in the Major Semi in 2 weeks. There will be 4 Fiedler’s who take to the field in Semi Finals (Juniors this weekend and Seniors next weekend) and will play in a cumulative 5 Semi Finals.

Andrew Miedler is our Director Coaching and has the same family members who are playing in the same Finals games:

The Fiedler’s
C3 Grade Semi: Andrew (dad) and Daniel
U16: Daniel
U14: Stuart
U12: Michael

The Miedler’s
C3 Grade Semi: Andrew (dad) and Riley
U16: Riley
U14: Harrison
U12s: Bailey

On the WPHC and Berowra Fiedler’s (they are really WPHC stock)
Colts: Greg (dad) and Will (Berowra)
A2: James (playing with WPHC)
B2 : Brad (Berowra)
U15: Brad (Berowra)

The Ides of March
After this Round we will have 10 and possibly 11 Teams in the Seniors Semi Finals. In 2005/06 we had 7 Teams in the Semi’s and everyone was beaten so we ended up with no teams in the Finals. The lesson is that while this is our most successful season ever with 10 Teams as a minimum in the Semi it is no foregone conclusion about the next step. So play hard but beware the Ides of March.

Anatomy of a big innings
How about Tim Millington’s 180 on Saturday in B1 Grade. This innings included:
o 29 x 4 and 1 X 6 – 120 runs in boundaries
o batted for 52 overs
o The first hundred was chanceless, with no opporunities until around 120
o In one over he took the first five balls for boundaries.

It is also the 7th highest score in our history. The 2nd and 3rd highest were also scored this season by Russel Ingram when he score 211 and 223.

C3 turnaround – from famine to flood
The C3 Comp was started in 2001/02and we have never played in a Final let alone won a C3 Premiership. Maybe this year. We have by far the best 2 teams in the Com (Andrew Fiedler’s White Team and Jonathan van Blerk’s Blue Team) who will finish 1 and 2. If they play to form they are both big chances of playing each other in the Final and ensuring we get a Club Premier for the first time. Good luck on the weekend fella’s.

Quote of the Round
It had to come from Chris Williamson (C2) who attributed the blame for a miss-field to a problem we all experience at some time:
“My fingers got caught in his shoelaces"

Ofcourse they did Chris.

Arithmetic progression
John Steel (C1) is never one to sit back and score slowly. On Saturday he score 30 runs in 5 scoring shots. The sequence, in order was: 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6

Kookaburra sits on the old.....middle stump
In a U15 Kimbo Cup game yesterday a kookaburra flew onto middle stump and just perched there as the bowler was coming into bowl and didn’t want to move. Despite efforts to gently push it with a bat it wasn’t moving. It was not until it was picked up and put on the ground that it decided to fly away.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 14 day 1 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 72.11 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 536 @ 35.73 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 525 @ 43.75 – Allan Raffel (D1)
4. 497 @ 38.23 – Tim Millington (B1)
5. 489 @ 54.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
6. 488 @ 69.71 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
7. 480 @ 60.00 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
8. 469 @ 39.08 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
9. 430 @ 53.80 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
10. 426 @ 53.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 13.68 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 28 @ 14.29 – Jacques Viser (C2)
3. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue)
4. 27 @ 13.93 – Nik Patel (C2)
5. 27 @ 14.37 – John Steel (C1)
6. 27 @ 14.56 – Scott Jobson (B1)
7. 26 @ 9.96– Tim Starr (B2)
8. 26 @ 13.92 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
9. 25 @ 11.76 – Matt Dawson (A1)
10. 22 @ 10.68 – Geoff Richards (B2)
11. 22 @ 15.05 – Ankit Grover (D2)
12. 22 @ 15.36 – Scott Henderson (A1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 9 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player by Grade
• A1: Gavin Taylor 66.8 points (1st for Club in A1 & 7th in the Grade)
• A2: Matt Jobson 81.4 points (1st for Club & 1st in Association)
• Colts: Michael Dale 49.4 points (1st & 2nd)
• B1: Andrew Joyce 79.4 points (1st & 4th)
• B2: Geoff Starr – 70.1 points (1st & 4th)
• C1: John Steel – 86.0 points (1st & 4th)
• C2: Russell Ingram – 101.6 points (1st & 1st)
• C3: Riley Miedler – 76.1 points (1st & 3rd)
• D1: Allan Raffel – 96.50 points (1st & 2nd)

Competition table
Standings after Round 13 are:
• A1: 4th
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 5th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 2nd
• D2: 7th

With 1 Round to go we have 10 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – a Club record and most likely an Association record.

Personal achievements
This is current up to the end of Round 13 and will be updated to include the latest Round once scores are in. A couple of big ones are coming up:

• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,926 runs – 74 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

St Agatha's School Fete
Come along and support the St Agatha’s School fete. St Agatha’s are great supporters of our Club so let’s support them in their major fund raiser of the year.

Details are:

• When: Sunday 21st March
• Time: 10 - 3pm
• Where: GREENWAY OVAL, CHERRYBROOK

Don’t miss the opportunity to pre-purchase tickets to the rides - 5 hour unlimited rides wristband plus FREE unlimited Animal farm pass per person. (pre purchase tickets only)

Individual tickets - $30
Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children) - $65. Each additional child $10 per child.

To take up this discounted ride and kindi farm offer see the St Agatha's volunteers outside the Greenway Giants Canteen this weekend - Saturday 27 Feb between 9am and 1pm or next Saturday 6 March between 9am and 1pm.

Pre sold wristbands are collected on the day of the fete from the Rides ticket stall.

(Note family passes are unavailable to purchased on fete day only individual ride passes for $30 plus $5 for kindifarm passes)

Cricket Carnival Day for people with disabilities
CNSW is again running its successful Carnival for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. This is very successful and participation is open to everyone who fits this description. Details are;
• When: Saturday 13th March 2010
• Where: Queens Park cricket fields 20 & 23, Darley Road, Queens Park
• Time: 11.00 am or 3.00 pm
• Cost: $30 / person

If you are interested in a family member giving this a go then please contact Donna Little at CNSW on donna.little@cricketnsw.com.au or call 8302-6033.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The Juniors completed their last round of the Competition on Saturday before the Finals start next week. Final standings of our Teams are:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 4th (Blue) and 6th (Red)
• U15’s - 5th (Blue), 6th (White), 8th (Red), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 7th (Red), 12th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 10th (Green), 8th (Gold)
• U11’s - 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 7th (Green), 16th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Seniors
The end of Round 13 and the final round coming up before the Semi Finals in 2 weeks. The results are:

A1 132 lost to ARL 152 – we went down today…Bowling first against the top team we got off to a great start. Matt Spalding (0/17) and Simon Smyth (3/22) restricted them to 2/28 off the first 13 overs on a good batting deck. ARL recovered during the middle overs, then the breaks were put on again at the end by Peter Stott (3/27). ARL were all out for 152 in the 39th over.

Leigh Van den Brooke and Gav Taylor (50) got us off to a solid start. This was converted to 2 for 82 in the 25th over, but then things started to go wrong. A steady run of wickets saw us bowled out in the 39th over for 132. It was a typically tough low scoring game against the champions of the last four years. We can’t miss the top 4 but would like to beat 6th placed Hornsby next week.

A2 195 lost to St Ives 3/198 – match report to follow but a big loss to St Ives that will see us move to 3rd spot in the table.

Colts
Red 8/172 lost to Vs Hornsby – certainly one that got away. In a really solid batting display we set the foundations for a victory with a good score. Rob Aitken continued his great form with 52, Tom Blissenden contributed with 26 and Daniel Brain 18. Hornsby attacked from the beginning. However, work commitments and fortunate AC/DC ticketholders meant that we defended with only 9 fielders for most of the innings. Notwithstanding victory still looked probable but a dubious rejection of a stumping appeal proved decisive. It's been a disrupted season but if we can build momentum leading into the Finals we might cause some damage. Finally, thanks to Taki Manolelis for helping us out. He was a dynamo in the field, covering enormous territory for our numerically depleted team, executed an excellent direct hit run out and took two wickets.

Blue 126 lost to Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 9/156 – details to come.

B1 138 lost to Berowra 9/139 – an important match for us to stay in contention for the minor premiership. Chris won his first toss in five attempts this season and elected to bat. It was our first hit in a month and it showed. We struggled to build any partnerships and gave our wickets away too easily. We eventually fell for a disappointing 138 in the 39th over, our worst batting performance of the season. Best with the bat were Tim Millington (37), Matt Scoular (25) and Scott Jobson (20).

Missing key bowlers again we had it all to do in the field. We fought hard and only just came up short with Berowra passing our total with one wicket in hand. Best with the ball were Chris Thorndyke (3/34), Matt Thorndyke (2/20) and James Kealy (2/26). It was promising to be far from our best and almost come away with the points. We have second place secured, but will need some results go our way to sneak into first place.

B2 8/188 lost to Berowra 211 – playing a one dayer this week because of no play being possible last week due to the wet weather, we probably put up our worst performance of the year in the field. The bowling was way too short, we dropped 6 or 7 catches and were just generally flat in all aspects. Best of our bowlers was Geoff Richards with 2/18 with Pete Flook and James McBrien (both 2/44) the only other multiple wicket takers.

Chasing down 211 in 35 overs was always going to be a huge ask, and our fortunate position well clear on top of the ladder allowed us the luxury of experimenting with the order before the finals. As a consequence however, this resulted in us needing around 140 from the last 16 overs, but we went out there gave it a shake. Geoff Richards scored 32 up the top before Lachlan McBrien (25) and Adam Walter (26) belted a 50 partnership in just 5 overs, but when they were both dismissed with consecutive balls, our task became that much harder. The changing of the order almost worked when James McBrien came in and smashed 37* in the last 5 overs, but it was too little too late. If there is one silver lining, it is how close we did get in a game that we never deserved to win, giving us confidence that our best cricket will beat these guys in a likely semi final showdown. The boys now know that nearing the business end of the season, we can’t just turn up and expect to win, and will be raring to go next week to get back in the winner’s circle before the finals.

C1 4/120 defeated Castle Hill RSL 117 – a big game for us to consolidate a place in the Finals and we did it in style. Playing on a slow Northholm runs were only going to be scored with lofted shots and we did this better than Castle hill. In the bowling John Steel took 2/12, Chris Ireland 2/21 and Andrew Watt 2/22 with other wickets spread. The good bowling was matched by generally very good fielding that took almost everything hit in the air – none better thjan Eric Junkkari who was brilliant. Our turn to bat and we cruised past them with 5 overs to go. Eric (46*) and Andrew Ireland (40) dominated in every aspect to deliver one of our more comprehensive wins of the season against a team that needed to win grab a spot in the top 4.

C2 84 and 2/47 defeated Kissing Point 48 and 160 – after winning on first innings last week we were trying for an outright. We continued batting from last week, and were dismissed in our first innings for 84 – a 36 run lead. We had Kissing Point on the ropes at 6/36 but then took the foot off the pedal and were punished with a 90 run 7th wicket partnership. We finally dismissed Kissing Point for 160 on a perfect batting day. Best bowling was by Jacques Visser with 4/28 in 18 overs and Chris Williamson with 3/32 in 12 overs. With only 9 overs available to chase down a 124 run lead we decided to get some batting practice, in the lead up to the semis, and managed to score 2/47 (P. Heidegger 38 no) before wrapping up the day.

C3
White 3/106 defeated St Ives 97 – St Ives - in a match we had to win to ensure the minor premiership, we were obliged by an understrength St Ives side who would only be able to have 9 players for the day (4 of whom would be 45 mins late). So we obliged them - won the toss & sent them in. After a few early problems with their top order, Chris Creais bowled superbly to block up one end (1/2 off 5 overs). He was well supported by Kramer Richards who after taking some early stick, came back strongly to finish with 4/36. We took some excellent catches to dismiss St Ives for 97. We were never troubled in our run chase, with all the top 5 making double-figures. Best as usual was Brendan Harkin with 33 not out, taking his season aggregate to over 400 runs. We passed them with 13 overs and 7 wickets up our sleeve.

Blue 301 defeated Berowra – we picked up where we left off last week, with Gary Robinson once again supporting the batsmen in the middle with him. We were able to add onto last weeks score & ended the day on 301. Gary finished with another not out on 27 & Jon van Blerk on 43. The bowling got off to a great start with Vishnu diving to take a great catch. Arun Kumar was in devastating form today by bagging the first 4 wickets. We had some spectacular catches by, Vikas, Claudio, Nat & Chetan, but at the same time we dropped quite a few catches as well. Ian was not going to be out done & took the next 3 wickets. Arun finished with 4/27, Ian on 3/47, followed by Vikas & Nat finishing with a wicket each.

D1 89 and 3/149 lost to St Ives 96 and 8/181 dec – we got close today but it was always going to be miracle, chasing 186 to win outright in 24 overs. We lost first innings after suffering 2 injuries, which in the end could have been the difference between a win and the 6 runs needed. A top class effort by Allan Raffel 94 and Lachlan Vile 27 with the bat and with the ball, Manod Wickramasinghe 2/6 and Lachlan Vile 2/44 were the pick of the bowlers. We are up against 6th placed team next week and will hope to put this game behind us and look to build some momentum heading into the finals.

D2 79 and 40 lost outright to Kissing Point –8/336 dec – match report to follow but a comprehensive loss to one of the top teams.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

So long, farewell and thanks a million
Our Club is fortunate to have very many special people who contribute so much to making the Club what it is today. A standout is Geoff Starr (B2 and U16 Red Coach) and one of the 'good guys' in our Club. At the end of this season Geoff will hang up his coach’s hat for the last time.

This will bring to an end a very long standing commitment to our Club. Geoff has been coaching since his oldest son Tim started playing Kanga back in 1998-1999 season. He has coached both his boys’ teams continuously since then to now, that’s 12 years! Most of the time coaching two teams! A better achievement still is that all the boys in the Team’s he coaches keep coming back year after year – a far more important result than looking at win/loss ratio’s.

A very special effort Geoff.

The joys of Managing a Colts Team
Spare a thought for Evan Hutchings who manages our Colts Red team. Faced with a must win game we ended up fielding with 9 players due to a combination of work and AC/DC commitments that saw the opposition run down our competitive score. That’s the way it goes.

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 12 follow. This will be updated during the week as updated scores come through.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 13.88 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 25 @ 15.44 – Jacques Viser (C2)
7. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
8. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
9. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 21 @ 15.71 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Competition table
Standings after Round 12 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: = 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: = 1st
• D2: 7th

With 2 Rounds to go we have 11 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
This is current up to the end of Round 12 and will be updated to include the latest Round once scores are in. A couple of big ones are coming up:

• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,926 runs – 74 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Wet Weather line
There appears to be an old wet weather 'phone number floating around that is causing some grief to an elderly couple who were inundated with calls on the weekend.

It would be appreciated if everyone sued the following number only:

Weather line number is 8230 0144

Greenway update
If you want to see a wet pitch then have a look at Greenway taken on Saturday after the Friday night deluge. It is worth seeing. Anyway the result of this is that after the current photo on the website was shown to Council they have they have agreed to relay the pitch to make it higher and re-astro turf it in time for next season.

Net repairs
The nets at the WPH Sports Club are being repaired next week. We are having the torn surface where the batter takes guard replaced in all 3 nets. And having the wire surrounds either replaced or repaired. Not sure if the astro has already been done but given fine weather it will be completed.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
A great bowling effort by Vineet Suri (U13 Green) two weeks ago saw him take 6/0 off 4 overs against our Red side at Glenhaven. While not the best bowling performance in our Juniors history it is an outstanding effort – well done Vineet.

The season has started again but were also washed out on the weekend. The standing of our Teams follows with 1 Round to go before the Semi-Finals:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 5th (Red) and 6th (Blue)
• U15’s - 4th (Blue), 7th (White), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 9th (red), 11th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 10th (Green), 11th (Gold)
• U11’s - 2nd (Gold), 4th (Blue), 8th (Green), 14th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Seniors
After a weekend of heavy rain most games were called off with a one-dayer to be played next weekend. The results are:

A1 Vs ARL – A1 was always going to be cancelled after Friday’s night’s rain. Fingers crossed that this 3 Vs 1 match gets underway next weekend.

A2 Vs St Ives – another blockbuster washed out. This time a 3 Vs 2 match with the winner going to 2nd place. By the way, have a look at the photo gallery to see the state of Greenway Park after the rain.

Colts
Red Vs Hornsby – another washout in a 3 Vs =4 game. Maybe next weekend.

Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – another washout. This time a =4 Vs 1 match. This is an important one with only one game to go for the Semi’s – probably the most important game for us this round in terms of the Semi’s.

B1 Vs Berowra – game washed out at Warrina Street Oval in a 2 Vs 4 shootout.

B2 Vs Berowra – a further washout in a big game – a 2 Vs 4 match-up.

C1 Vs Castle Hill RSL – washed out with a 1-dayer next weekend. This is a2 Vs 6 game.

C2 9/80 defeated Kissing Point 48 – for the second week in a row we have were scheduled to play on a field which was wrongly allocated. On arrival at Holland reserve we were faced with a “fields are closed” sign and had to hastily search for an alternative venue.

We found Kenthurst 2 field and managed to get the game under way an hour late. We won the toss and sent Kissing Point in to bat in humid, overcast conditions. Once again we bowled well, with Fergus Waterson picking up 5/7 of 7 overs and Jacques Visser with 3/14 off 7, to have Kissing Point all out for 48 in 26 overs. When we started out batting innings the overhead conditions which had helped us earlier now made things difficult and we were struggling at 39/8 before a 9th wicket partnership between Peter Lees (29*) and Mark Bell (10) got us across the line to win the match on first innings. We will continue batting next week on 9/80 with a real chance of getting an outright for this one.

C3
White Vs St Ives – a 1 Vs 6 match-up played on Sunday.

Blue 8/251 Vs Berowra – well, after a team bonding session in the Central Coast, we got to Berowra and won the toss & decided to bat. Chetan & Mike Fitzpatrick pushed the ball around in the wet out field, followed by Vikas. Claudio came in & was just getting settled before he had to walk back to the sheds. Vishnu & Michael were looking good, when Vishnu was caught. Michael supported both Rahul and Arun, before leaving the pitch on a great 75. Gary & Jonathan were able to bat the day out, so we will be back next week to try and complete what we have started.

D1 8/71 Vs St Ives 96 – this is a game we have to win in a 1 Vs 7 game. Playing on a slow Glenhaven track in ankle high grass, we started off reasonably well and managed to restrict St Ives to 96 all out, but picked up a few injuries to key players along the way which forced us to shuffle the batting order, and in the end we find ourselves in a spot of bother. We are still in it given that our regular number 3 batsmen (Allan Raffel) is due in next so hopefully we can hold in there to chase down the remaining runs. Key performances from Matt Dick with 4-14 and David Behelavanas 2-14.

D2 76 lost to Kissing Point –4/221 – Kissing Point won toss & bowled. Not our best day. Sent in to bat on the greasiest of wickets we were in trouble from the first ball, losing both openers without scoring and, in the circumstances, doing well to post a total of 76, Sam Thariani top scoring with 23. In reply Kissing Point made short work of plundering our bowlers, the short boundaries of this little field providing a bonus for batsmen prepared to hit over the top. Striving to stem the tide, Nikhil Suresh (2-46) and Ankit Grover (1-27) did a great job in difficult conditions, assisted by a good spell from Aparajit Bithiroy (1-36), claiming his first wicket for the club. Ben Pilipowski excelled in the field with two good catches at mid-on and mid-off.

With our semi-final hopes put to rest, our challenge next week will be to deny Kissing Point the outright they so badly want: a great opportunity to rediscover the disciplined and purposeful batting we know we are capable of.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

Low scoring wins
The C2 game against Kenthurst was in the running for the lowest scoring result in our history. At 8/39 chasing 48 this was looking good until we skipped away. For the records, the lowest scoring result was on the 1/12/2000 when our A1 side Vs Castle Hill were rolled for 31 and then came out and rolled CHRSL for 53.

This game did make the record books though as it is the 3rd lowest score that we have dismissed a C2 side for in our history. The lower scores are 12 Vs Arcadia in 1967 and Kenthurst @ Kenthurst in the 2005 Final (19/3/2005).

Thinking of Premierships
For the 11 of our 12 Teams still in the running to play in the Semi Finals the following list shows our last Teams to take out a premiership. Good luck this season:

• A1 – 2002/03 season (Chris Thomas was the Captain)
• A2 – 2008-09 (Matt Jobson)
• Colts – 2007-08 (Nick Bennett)
• B1 – 2006-07 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• B2 – 2000-01 (Mark Taylor)
• C1 – 2003-04 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• C2 – 2008-09 (Andrew Fiedler)
• C3 – No Premierships – comp started 5 years ago
• D1 – 2003-04 (Roger Friend)
• D2 – 2006-07 (Rob McBrien)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 12 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 13.88 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 25 @ 15.44 – Jacques Viser (C2)
7. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
8. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
9. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 21 @ 15.71 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player
Just before Christmas we updated the ‘Champion Player’ stats from MyCricket. The standings by Grade as at the end of day 1 of Round 12 are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor with 56.80 points and 8th overall in A Grade
• A2 – Matt Jobson 79.60 (1st in A2 Grade)
• Colts – Michael Dale 48.70 (2nd)
• B1 – Andrew Joyce 79.40 (2nd)
• B2 – Tim Starr 67.50 (4th)
• C1 – John Steel 81.20 (2nd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram 101.60 (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler 72.90 (4th)
• D1 – Allan Raffel 78.40 (2nd)
• D2 – Sam Thariani (81.00)

Competition table
Standings after Round 12 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: = 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: = 1st
• D2: 7th

With 2 Rounds to go we have 11 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
A couple of big ones are coming up:

• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

95 wickets – as at Round 12

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,926 runs – 74 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Wet Weather line
There appears to be an old wet weather 'phone number floating around that is causing some grief to an elderly couple who were inundated with calls on the weekend.

It would be appreciated if everyone used the following number only:

Weather line number is 8230 0144

Congratulations
For the 1st time, our Association is playing in a representative game between the HK&HDCA Vs the Sydney Morning Cricket Association on Sunday 28th February. The match is being played at Jubilee Oval Glebe. It is an Open Age Representative fixture in which the best players presently not playing A1 (the top grade) are selected from both Teams. Being the inaugural fixture is good enough but to be selected in this group is outstanding. The selections are the best young talent in the Association who are well on the pathway to significant cricket achievement. The West Penno players playing are:
• Daniel Brain (Colts)
• Sujith Dissanayake (A2)
• Amir Marzouk (A2) – was chosen but is unavailable

Well done fella’s.

Wet grounds
Have a look at the Photo gallery to see Greenway in all its flooded glory on Saturday. Apart from being a good snapshot of the weekend round we are using it as a justification for a new pitch that is actually placed above the level of the surrounding ground.

Net repairs
The nets at the WPH Sports Club are being repaired next week. We are having the torn surface where the batter takes guard replaced in all 3 nets. This will now happen on Tuesday 9th February so the nets will be out of action all day Tuesday – given fine weather.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The season has started again but were also washed out on the weekend. The standing of our Teams follows:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 5th (red) and 6th (Blue)
• U15’s - 4th (Blue), 7th (White), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 9th (red), 11th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 10th (Green), 11th (Gold)
• U11’s - 2nd (Gold), 4th (Blue), 8th (Green), 14th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Seniors
After a weekend of heavy rain most games were draws except D1 where they actually got underway and won. The results are:

A1 9/297 drew with Kenthurst – no play on the turf was possible. While still established in the top 4 the fact that every other game got a result last weekend is a pain making next weekend’s big match-up against ARL who are the 4 season in a row premier a big game for us.

A2 179 drew with Kenthurst 2/33 – no play possible at Dural Park. Next week’s game is against St Ives in a 3 Vs 2 game that will go a long way to determine the make-up of the top 4.

Colts
Red defeated on forfeit Kissing Point – next weekend we play Hornsby in a 3 Vs 5 game.

Blue drew with Berowra – a Sunday game but most unlikely that we play. Next game is against the top team Normanhurst-Warrawee in a 4 Vs 1 match.

B1 drew with Kissing Point 9/234 – another washout so a real shame against the top team and in a game that we rated our chances. Next week we play Berowra in a 2 Vs 4 shootout.

B2 180 drew with Castle Hill RSL 1/12 – another washout. Next week we our game is against Berowra in a 2 Vs 4 game.

C1 226 drew with Kissing Point – another washout in a very tight competition. A real shame as we were playing the last placed Team. Next week is another big game against Castle Hill in a 2 Vs 6 game.

C2 130 defeated Castle Hill RSL 116 – after a delay of 1 hr to get the pitch dry we resumed bowling against Castle Hill who were on 0/17 from last week. We kept the bowling tight and managed to dismiss them in the 53rd over for 116. A great display of swing bowling from Jacques Visser, who bowled 16 consecutive overs from one end, to post figures of 7/45. This is the 131st time in our history that 7 wickets or better has been taken in an innings – well done Jacques. He was well supported by Nik Patel (1/31 off 14) and Chris Williamson (1/30 off 14). A good win for us leading into the back end of the season.

C3
White 8/343 drew with Mt Colah – in what was looming as a crushing victory no play was possible. Next week we play St Ives in a 1 Vs 6 match-up.

Blue drew with Kissing Point 112 – no play this week. Next week we play Berowra in a 2 Vs 5 game.

D1 7/248 defeated outright Kissing Point 113 & 106 – we were keen to collect maximum points against bottom placed kissing point, hence endured a stop start affair in the field in the rain. In the end, mission accomplished as we collected 10 points which now puts us joint first. It was not easy bowling with a ball that resembled a block of soap so we brought on the slower bowlers aka Perry Waldron, (the pick of the bowlers), to break a crucial partnership and finish with 3/9. Whilst this win puts us joint first, we hope to maintain our winning streak and improve our run rate in the 2 remaining games. Next week we play St Ives in a 1 Vs 7 match.

D2 181 drew with Normanhurst-Warrawee 0/2 – no play. Next week we play Kissing Point in a 7 Vs 3 match.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

T20 it is not
Spare a thought for Peter Heidegger’s C2 Team who had the misfortune to play at Glenhaven on Sunday. With Caterson 2 it is the slowest ground in the Comp. Anyway, our boys batted last week and scored 130 in 61 overs. This was positively rapid scoring on the same ground for the Saturday game between our Blue side and Kissing Point who scored 112 in 70 overs and this included 3 sixers!

Winning friends
Peter Westerberg (D2 Captain) had to front the Association on Tuesday night to resolve a Protest over the result – was it a tie, win or loss – brought about by the Opposition who claimed a win. But no one ever wins an argument about score books when Peter is concerned.

The result of the appeal was a tie – a win for us. But to quote Peter:
“Shook hands with opposite number as you would expect & disappointed committee members who were hoping to see a brawl.

The club's honour is safe.”

Thinking of Premierships
For the 11 of our 12 Teams still in the running to play in the Semi Finals the following list shows our last Teams to take out a premiership. Good luck this season:

• A1 – 2002/03 season (Chris Thomas was the Captain)
• A2 – 2008-09 (Matt Jobson)
• Colts – 2007-08 (Nick Bennett)
• B1 – 2006-07 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• B2 – 2000-01 (Mark Taylor)
• C1 – 2003-04 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• C2 – 2008-09 (Andrew Fiedler)
• C3 – No Premierships – comp started 5 years ago
• D1 – 2003-04 (Roger Friend)
• D2 – 2006-07 (Rob McBrien)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 12 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 13.88 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 25 @ 15.44 – Jacques Viser (C2)
7. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
8. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
9. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 21 @ 15.71 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player
Just before Christmas we updated the ‘Champion Player’ stats from MyCricket. The standings by Grade as at the end of day 1 of Round 12 are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor with 56.80 points and 8th overall in A Grade
• A2 – Matt Jobson 79.60 (1st in A2 Grade)
• Colts – Michael Dale 48.70 (2nd)
• B1 – Andrew Joyce 79.40 (2nd)
• B2 – Tim Starr 67.50 (4th)
• C1 – John Steel 81.20 (2nd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram 101.60 (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler 72.90 (4th)
• D1 – Allan Raffel 78.40 (2nd)
• D2 – Sam Thariani (81.00)

Competition table
Standings after Round 11 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: = 1st
• D2: 7th

With 2 Rounds to go we have 11 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham (400 wickets) and Mark Bell (50 wickets) on their outstanding achievement in Round 11.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09
Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009
Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

95 wickets – as at Round 12

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,946 runs – 54 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Congratulations
The AW Green Shield is the elite U16 Grade Cricket Representative competition in Metropolitan Sydney, rated by Wikipedia as being the best U16 competition in the world. We had the following Junior players playing in this competition over the Christmas / New Year period and performing well:
• Daniel Anderson (Northern District) – U15 Blue
• James Madden(Northern District) - U15 Blue
• Bhavya Nanda (Gordon) – U15 White
• Alex Rashleigh (Sydney) – U16 Blue.

To be selected in the combined Green Shield Representative team to play the NSW Country champions is something really special. Congratulations to Alex Rashleigh who was selected in the 1st XII – the best of the best! This is outstanding and an achievement we are all very proud of Alex achieving.

Net repairs
The nets at the WPH Sports Club are being repaired next week. We are having the torn surface where the batter takes guard replaced in all 3 nets. This will happen on Wednesday 3rd February so the nets will be out of action all day Wednesday.

Thank you
A big acknowledgement to the Commonwealth Bank who has provided us with a $1,500 sponsorship to assist with the repairs to the nets. This is part of their ‘Grass Roots’ cricket program. We are very appreciative of this support and this has allowed us to repair the nets. Thanks CBA.

Level 2 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is also running an elite Level 2 Course. The selection criteria is stringent but is sort after. The Australian Coach for example has a Level 3 certificate. Details are:
• When: Saturday 5th June to Sunday 6th June (residential)
Saturday 19th June to Sunday 20th June (residential)
Wednesday 7th July to Sunday 11th July (residential)
• Where: Sydney Academy of Sport at Narrabeen & Orange
• Time: 8 days residential
• Cost: $600

If you need more information then please let Ross Anderson know asap. If you complete this course and take an active role in the Club’s Coaching program we will subsidise the cost.

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 30/1/2010 when school resumes.

Seniors
The weekend Round results follow:

A1 9/297 Vs Kenthurst – batting first we wanted to get a big score against 4th placed St Ives. At 3/16b we were looking down the barrel as we have relied heavily on the top order to score so far this season. In a good workout for the Semi’s we powered to an impressive 1st innings total. Smokey Dawson was superb with 79, Peter Whitehead got his best score of the season and Nick Bennett is starting to deliver on his great potential with 60. Added to this a 33* from in-form all-rounder Simon Smyth we turned the game around. While the result is important the batting depth is more so with the big games coming up.

A2 179 Vs Kenthurst 2/33 – after a series of good games we had an off day against 1st placed Kenthurst but it could have been a lot worse. At 9/110 we were struggling. Apart for the 47 from Tim Rae who opened 6 players scored a combined 12 runs in aggregate. Well done Leigh van denBroeke who turned the corner with his batting with 20 in tough circumstances. Then enter Daniel Brain 20 and Dylan Brogan 44* batting at 9 and 10 who put on a 9th wicket partnership of 74. When we had them at 2/9 in reply momentum was going our way. With early wickets this game is still alive.

Colts
Red Vs Kissing Point – a shame but Kissing Point forfeited so no game for the next 2 weeks.

Blue Vs Berowra – a big match for us (4 Vs 2) but due to an Association mix-up with grounds this will now be played as a 1-dayer next Sunday.

B1 Vs Kissing Point 9/234 – a big match against 1st placed Kissing Point.With two key bowlers playing as Week 2 players who have taken a combined 40 wickets this season, it was a bad toss to lose. In a long day in the field we have kept Kissing Point to a par score of 9/234 at a fast Thornleigh Park. Scott Jobson was again superb taking 4/73 off 23 overs, including a 20 over opening spell, while Rowan Keating bowled a marathon 29 overs picking up 3/80 and was unlucky not to have a few more. We have one last wicket to take next week and with our strong batting line up are more than capable of chasing this total.

B2 180 Vs Castle Hill RSL 1/12 – sent into bat on a painfully slow Fred Caterson 2 oval the boys put together a very competitive total, which was probably worth another 100 runs on any other ground. The only way to score was to go aerial. Best with the bat was Geoff Richards with 50 and Geoff Starr 31. Solid contributions also from Tim Starr 20, Alex Connell & Duncan Moore 17 each and Mark Bennett 13. We had 15 overs at them before stumps with some excellent disciplined bowling from Ben McNamara, Mark Bennett & Geoff Richards (1/3) all combining well to create the pressure for a break through which resulted in a superb catch behind by Alex Connell. We are well positioned to convert this next week.

C1 226 Vs Kissing Point – the only game Kissing Point have won this season was the 1st round game against us so this was an important one to move solidly into the top 4. We got off to a very good start with 35 to take the edge off the opening bowlers. The next partnership between Kishore Rampersad (72) and Daniel Anderson (77) was 132 and took the game away Point. At 1/170 we were cruising. When this partnership was broken we lost a succession of wickets and finished with a par score that is worth around 250. The batting depth is strong but we probably took the bowling for granted after this big partnership and got out to a few soft dismissals that would not have happened in other games. If we bowl and field to our potential this should be enough to get us across the line.

C2 130 Vs Castle Hill RSL – after finding our field (Fred Caterson 2) occupied by squatters – who claimed to have Council approval for their game – we had to find an alternative ground. Glenhaven was available, so we all moved en masse to the lush and overgrown garden know as Glenhaven Oval. After searching for 5 minutes we found the tossed coin in the long grass. Unfortunately we lost the toss (apparently "tails never fails" - except when called by our C2 captain) and were put in to bat on a hot and very humid day. The bowling from Castle Hill was accurate and disciplined and with the ball swinging profusely we struggled our way to 130 all out in 60 overs.

Less than a handful of boundaries were scored and the total is certainly not un-defendable. Good contributions came from Narendra Kulkarni 42, Richard Cuskelly 30 not out and Peter Lees with 20. We then had a bowl at Castle Hill who finished the day on 17 without loss off their 12 overs. We look forward to significant lawn-mover problems occurring at Glenhaven council this week.

C3
White 8/343 Vs Mt Colah –a top 4 clash with us (1st) playing 4th placed Mt Colah. We had a good day at the office. Winning the toss and batting on a fast Annangrove oval, we took full advantage to finish 8/343 dec at stumps. There were many good contributions, with 2 major partnerships - 121 for the 2nd wicket between run-machines Pratah Sinnetamby (69) and Brendan Harkin (78) and 93 for the 6th wicket between Andrew Fiedler (72) & Daniel Fiedler (51 no). This was 16 yo Daniel's first 50 in seniors. We look forward to pressing home our advantage next week.

Blue Vs Kissing Point 112 – we on the toss (amazing!) and felt that weather conditions were best suited to field although this ground is a batters paradise. Kissing Point came with a very determined side and really dug deep from the outset. However, we were also up for the challenge. From the very first to the very last ball Kissing Point was subjected to "Shock & Awe". The bowling attack was disciplined and controlled throughout the game and gave the batsmen nothing all day. Kissing Point eventually waved their white flag after 72 overs were all out for 112. Although the job is only half done and a good performance is needed with the bat to secure the points, this fantastic display of bowling would have had the great Glen McGrath raising his eyebrows. Wicket takers were, Claudio van Blerk 3/16; Arun Kumar 3/42; Ian Nichol 2/5; Rahul Saberwhal 2/21.

D1 7/248 defeated on 1st inningsKissing Point 113 & 2/8 – after losing to Hornsby last week this is one we needed to get back on track against last placed Point. We lost the toss against Kissing Point who opted to bat first. Chris Grima was on fire today with bowling figures of 7/43 which ensured that we dismissed Kissing Point for 113. This was only the 30th time in our history that a bowler has taken 7 wickets or better in a game – great stuff Chris. With the bat, Allan Raffel 104* (our 350th century), ensured that we have a good lead heading into week 2. Other notable performances with the bat were Lachlan Vile 34 and Faisal Shamsi 30. A top effort from everyone in the field provided a satisfying performance and if we can repeat this next week, we should get an outright win that will cement our 2nd place position, and if other results go our way, we have a chance of creeping into first.

D2 181 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 0/2 – a big game for us against 1st placed Normo. Match results will be updated once the report is to hand.

400 wickets
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham who took his 400th wicket (349 of these have been taken in A1 grade). This is a rare achievement. How about this for career stats:
• 2,032.5 overs with 379 maidens
• 401 wickets @ 17.18
• Plus 3486 runs @ 22.49 including a double century

In our 60 year history only 4 other players have taken more wickets:
• 623 – David Carey
• 543 – Ray McDonald
• 497 – Ken Donaldson
• 461 – Mark Taylor

Well done Greg who ranks as one of our finest ever players.

Experience plus
Think about this one. The C1 side that played almost the perfect game last weekend had an attack with the following experience levels:
• Greg Stoneham – 401 wickets
• Eric Junkkari – 329 wickets
• John Steel – 91wickets
• Kishore Rampersad – 282 wickets
• John Mitchell – 54 wickets

A total of 1,157 wickets in experience – wow! We don’t have records of this type of info but it would take a lot of beating. Missing from the side was Craig Hutchinson who has 118 wickets.

In summary, the team that took the field last Saturday (Craig Hutchinson is to come back) had:
• A combined age of 512 years (including a 14 year old!)
• 1,320 aggregate wickets (including those players who did not bowl)
• 22,900 aggregate runs.

Brother’s in arms
Great performance from Matt (A2) and Scott (B1) Jobson who put in match winning bowling performances last weekend. Matt took 5/15 and Scott 5/29 in outstanding performances. Well done fella’s.

Dropping like flies
In a C3 Round 9 game between our White and Blue Teams 3 players managed to get injured – all self-inflicted injuries:
• Marcus Creais (White’s) after bowling 9 balls went down with a crook back & couldn't bowl any further in the match
• Michael Mahinthin (Blue’s) managed to pull a low full toss into his mouth & retired hurt. Went to hospital to get a mouthful of stitches
• Felix Quah (Blue’s) when going for a quick single slid his bat in, got it caught in the ground as he dived, and had the handle wedge in his ribs and was carried off injured – all this during the Blues 1st innings.
But….all 3 players resumed the game in the second innings to either field (very sore Michael & Felix) or bat (Marcus (hit winning runs). We might ne clumsy but we breed them tough.

The ‘Great Converter’
Spare a thought for Kishore Rampersad (C1) who batted for around 50 overs to score 72 in hot conditions. Kishore is one of our more ‘experienced’ players and as the innings went along the running between wickets became progressively slower. Towards the end of this marathon innings and with possible all run fours being turned into ‘sharp’ two’s the comment was made about the conversion factor.

‘I’ve been everywhere’
Rowan Keating (B1) bowled 29 overs of pace on the weekend in hot conditions due to the absence of 2 of our top wicket takers from this game. There was some slight compensation though as he fielded at mid-on / mid-off / fine-leg all day. In fact he spent 37 overs at fine Leg, 4 at deep mid-off and 5 at mid-on. Add to this the 29 overs Rowan bowled the only running he had to do was in his bowling delivery – a small compensation for this huge effort.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night. As one last look, the top ranked players as at the end of Round 10 follow. Given that points are allocated 3-2-1 anyone can win including a number of players not on the list.

14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)

• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)

• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Riley Miedler (C3 White)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Caludio van Blerk (C3 Blue)

• 11 points
o Nirinjan. Sundararaj (D2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)

• 10 points
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3 Blue)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Lachlan Vile (D1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Day 1 of Round 12 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
4. 25 @ 13.20 – Nik Patel (C2)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
7. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
8. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
9. 20 @ 12.55 – Dylan Brogan (A2)
10. 20 @ 13.45 – Scott Henderson (A1)
11. 20 @ 14.00 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
12. 20 @ 14.80 – Ryan Cherrie (B1)
13. 20 @ 15.00 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player
Just before Christmas we updated the ‘Champion Player’ stats from MyCricket. The standings by Grade as at the end of day 1 of Round 12 are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor with 56.80 points and 8th overall in A Grade
• A2 – Matt Jobson 79.60 (1st in A2 Grade)
• Colts – Michael Dale 48.70 (2nd)
• B1 – Andrew Joyce 79.40 (2nd)
• B2 – Tim Starr 67.50 (4th)
• C1 – John Steel 81.20 (2nd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram 101.60 (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler 72.90 (4th)
• D1 – Allan Raffel 78.40 (2nd)
• D2 – Sam Thariani (81.00)

Competition table
Standings after Round 11 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 5th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 2nd
• D2: 7th

With 3 Rounds to go we have 10 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham (400 wickets) and Mark Bell (50 wickets) on their outstanding achievement in Round 11.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating - 5 wickets to 100

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

Rowan Keating
B1 • 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10
• 95 wickets - 5 to 100 career wickets

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,869 runs – 131 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,912 runs – 88 to 2,000 career runs

239 wickets – 11 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 966 runs – 34 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

CBA Grant
A big thank you to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia who granted us $1,500 as part of their Grass Roots initiative to help with repairs to our training facilities. Our priority is to repair the nets at the Sports Club with work getting underway on both turf repair and wire shortly. Thanks Commonwealth.

Well done
Congratulations to Brendan Ham who made his 1st Grade debut for Northern District last weekend. We have a long history of West Penno players playing 1st Grade with Brendan being the latest to make this wonderful achievement.

It is also worth noting that playing in this game were 2 other West Penno boys – Rob Watts and Daniel Friedrich. So just on 25% of the entire 1st Grade side came from our Club.

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com . Applications close soon so please get the request in quickly.

Level 2 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is also running an elite Level 2 Course. The selection criteria is stringent but is sort after. The Australian Coach for example has a Level 3 certificate. Details are:
• When: Saturday 5th June to Sunday 6th June (residential)
Saturday 19th June to Sunday 20th June (residential)
Wednesday 7th July to Sunday 11th July (residential)
• Where: Sydney Academy of Sport at Narrabeen & Orange
• Time: 8 days residential
• Cost: $600

If you need more information then please let Ross Anderson know asap. If you complete this course and take an active role in the Club’s Coaching program we will subsidise the cost.

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 30/1/2010 when school resumes.

Seniors
The Seniors played in 40+ degree heat on the weekend. Read how they went.

A1 101 lost to Vs Berowra 186 – in a 3 Vs 5 game it wasn’t our day. Missing a few key players, we were beaten convincingly by 5th placed Berowra. Simon Smyth was the only star – taking 5 for 9 and second top scoring with 23. James Makin starred with the bat though scoring 29. Congratulations to both Rob Aitkin and Adam Hutchings who both made their A1 debuts up from Colts and played well. Adam also took his first A-grade wicket.

A2 8/125 defeated ARL 121 – an important game for us to consolidate a position in the top 4 and also to beat the Team coming last with a few key players out. This was a good win but we just got there. We bowled and fielded well to roll ARL. Best bowling came from Matt Jobson who took 5/15 in 7 overs – a fantastic performance in the tough conditions. Other very good performances were from Rohan Dixit 2/38 and tight spells from Amir Marzouk 0/13 (8 overs), Sujith 1/14 (5), Michael Quieros 1/11. Our turn to bat and we just got there. The match winning performance came from Amir Marzouk who scored 38. At 7/92 the game was in the balance but a valuable partnership from Tim Leyshon and Suji got us across the line.

Colts
Red Vs Berowra – washed out day - no play.

Blue 8/84 lost to Hornsby 5/96 – a low scoring game played at Turramurra Oval – need we say more. Match details to follow.

B1 3/181 defeated Galston-Glenorie 9/171 – a bad start to the game after losing a player to illness late on Friday night and being sent into the field in the heat with 10 men. Galston-Glenorie started well working their way to 0/41 from 10 overs with us toiling away in temperatures approaching 40 degrees. Scott Jobson came into the attack and had immediate effect dismissing both openers as Galston were reduced to 2/43. The heat was intense and it showed with a couple of catches going down as Galston worked their way to 2/108 from 28 overs. We fought back with wickets to AJ and Scott to have Galston 6/138 but some late hitting saw them to 9/171 from 40 overs. We let them get a few more than we should have, but with ten men in the heat our effort was outstanding. Scott was the pick of the bowlers with 5/29 from 8 overs, while Ryan Cherrie 2/29 and Andrew Joyce 2/39 provided great support and Matt Thorndyke bowled a great spell of spin bowling and was unlucky not to have a few wickets.

We started our innings quickly as Andrew Joyce smashed 20 off 9 balls (five 4's) before falling. We lost another quick wicket and looked in trouble at 2/32 before great 73-run partnership by Tim Millington and Matt Scoular turned the match in our favour. Both were feeling the effects of the heat, but both pushed through taking the game away from Galston. When Tim fell for a great 37 we were well placed at 3/105 with Galston were struggling in the heat. Scott joined Matt at the crease and we never looked back. We cruised to victory with six overs remaining, with Matt hitting a six over mid wicket to win the match. Matt was superb with 90 not out while Scott was great in support with 19 not out. A gutsy win in hot conditions and a well deserved six points.

B2 4/151 defeated Hornsby 148 – a big game for us, against the only team we were yet to beat, a win could potentially put us 15 points clear of Hornsby on top of the ladder. And that is exactly what we did. After losing the toss and being sent in to field on a scorching Greenway Park, it was always going to be tough, and this was certainly the case as they raced to 0/51 before we got the first breakthrough. After that however, some very tight and disciplined bowling from us saw wickets tumble regularly and we bowled them out in the 37th over for 148. Chief destroyer was Ben McNamara (3/21 off 6), with Geoff Richards (2/22 off 7), Tim Starr (2/27 off 8), James McBrien (1/22 off 5) and Mark Bennett (1/40 off 7.1) also chipping in with wickets.

As we went out to bat, we knew that if we could avoid a major collapse we would win in a canter and it was the 2 Starr’s, Tim (44 off 40) and Geoff (57* off 55) that guided us home with 11 overs to spare, but more importantly before the seemingly imminent rain arrived. Other minor knocks from Adam Walter (17 off 14) and Duncan Moore (10 off 30) helped us cruise to a comfortable win.

C1 7/214 defeated Berowra 154 – almost the perfect game with everything going to plan - winning the toss and batting in the wet through to an imposing score off 35 overs, good fielding and excellent catching. This was John Steel’s match. He scored 106* coming in at number 3 and was well supported by Greg Stoneham 29* and numerous other good starts. Our bowling and fielding matched the quality of the batting. John Steel again dominated in taking 4/24 from 7 overs and got good backup from Greg Stoneham 2/23 and other wickets spread. This was our most dominant performance of the season against a side just out of the top 4. If we can remain at anything approaching this standard for the rest of the year we will be right in the Finals race.

C2 3/148 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee Berowra 143 – Normo won the toss and elected to bat in difficult conditions. For the first 20 overs we kept them quiet with Jacques Visser (1/8), Nikunj Patel (2/15) and Chris Williamson (0/19 off 8 overs) bowling extremely tidy overs. After the drinks break Normo upped the ante and some lusty hitting was finally brought undone by the Kulkarni’s (with Narendra finishing with 3 for 26) and Mark Bell with 2/12. We closed their innings at 143 just inside the 40 over mark.

Chris Williamson and Richie Cuskelly got us off to a steady start but at 3 for 40 after 15 overs we clearly needed to increase the run rate. And we fortunately had the two senior members of the team to see us home, with Peter Lees with 57* and Peter Heidegger with 46* producing an unbeaten 107 run partnership, getting the remaining runs inside the 35th over. A great win for the team to consolidate our top 4 position

C3
White 5/137 defeated Berowra 136 – the Berowra team were there for a good time not a long time, racking up their runs in 21 overs. Fortunately for us we also racked up 10 wickets to have them all out in that time. It was the day for unusual wicket taking deliveries. 3 wickets fell to full tosses (2 caught, 1 bowled), a short delivery that should havebeen hooked to the boundary bounced off the gloves on to the stumps & a rebound off the wicket keepers gloves was caught by first slip. But despite the heat the boys stuck to their guns and polished the opposition off for a very gettable 136, especially on the small Arcadia ground. We mixed the batting order up a bit to give some guys a bat that had not had much of a go. Despite the mixed order we managed to chase down the runs very comfortably thanks to a glorious knock of 94 by Taki Manolelis, falling just short of his century with about 10 runs to go. A great win by the boys in hot conditions to keep our unbeaten stretch going.

Blue 6/149 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee 4/152 – well, we listened to the weather report & won the Toss eventually, obviously too good to be true. We went in to bat, Russell Smith opened & persevered through the heat and managed to see batsmen come and go before retiring. In came Claudio van Blerk, Mr Dependable, with shoulders growing by the week, due to carrying the team with his batting performance with 64, this week was no different as he had another great knock in that stifling heat. Michael Mahinthin managed a quick 21 & Arun stabilized the tail end with 23. We managed to get 149.

Going in to bowl, early conditions were tough and did not get any better when the weather did finally cool down. We could not breakthrough their openers early & we allowed them to get some runs early.as the game went on we eventually managed to break a few partnerships, but in the end it was not enough. Normanhurst won the game by reaching the target with over’s to spare

D1 8/153 lost to Hornsby 7/188 – whilst there was a bit of experimenting leading into the finals, this was one of those games that we would like to put behind us. We started well but dropped 7 catches, which meant that Hornsby were able to post a competitive score of 188. Pick of the bowlers were Julian Raffel 2-19, Marco Delgado 1-17 and David Behelevanas 1-22. Our run chase was slow due to some good line and length bowling from Hornsby and we were unable to create any decent partnership and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. We’re still in the top 4 but need to work hard for the remainder of the comp to rectify our fielding.

D2 150 lost to Vs St Ives 6/152 – details to follow.

Thanks for coming
Tearaway A1 quick Scott Henderson has already taken 20 wickets this season and intimidates the opposition with his pace and 6’ 7’’ (or thereabouts) height. Last weekend he broke a stump while taking a wicket. An email from his Captain Smokey Dawson says it all:

“Hendo broke a stump on Saturday, should we try and get by with just three stumps for the rest of the year. I doubt it will happen again”.

At least we know that you can do it again Hendo.

Not the day to do it
Spare a thought for Allan Raffel (C2). In very hot conditions Allan tested out his stamina in bowling 5 no balls and 2 wides in his opening over. This is a long way short of our longest over with the record being held by Chris Cavanagh (A2) who bowled 21 balls in an over at Rofe Park in 1983. The real effort came from bowling a 13 ball over in 40+ degree heat. For his penance his captain (Marco) then asked him to keep wickets.

Wedding bells
Our Club Chairperson, Barry McDonald, bumped into an old friend the other day while taking a walk at Terrigal – Craig Willmott – a long term West Penno player until he left to work in India in 2006/07. The good news is that Craig is getting married next Friday (29th) to a woman (just joking) who comes from Leeds.

Better news still is that he is coming back to Australia to live and that the bride to be will allow him to play cricket. So with a bit of luck the old fella can play and score the 68 runs he needs to get his 2,000 runs for the Club. Good luck Craig.

Player of the Year
The standings at the end of Round 10 follow. With 4 Rounds to go we are now going to stop updating the table and will announce the winner on Presentation Night. Good luck to everyone in the running. There are 18 players in easy striking range of this achievement with more players within striking distance. Good luck.

• 14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Riley Miedler (C3 White)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Caludio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
• 11 points
o Nirinjan. Sundararaj (D2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
• 10 points
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3 Blue)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Lachlan Vile (D1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the current Round 11 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
6. 364 @ 72.80 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
7. 356 @ 35.60 – Michael McGregor (A2)
8. 317 @ 45.29 – Claudio van Blerk (C3 (Blue)
9. 313@ 39.13 – Alex Connell (B1)
10. 310 @ 28.18 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 28 @ 11.50 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 25 @ 11.16 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 25 @ 13.20 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
5. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
7. 22 @ 13.27 – Scott Jobson (B1)
8. 20 @ 13.45 – Scott Henderson (A1)
9. 20 @ 14.00 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
10. 20 @ 14.80 – Ryan Cherrie (B1)
11. 20 @ 15.00 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 7 – Tim Millington (B1)
5. 7 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Competition table
Standings after Round 11 are:
• A: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 5th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 2nd
• D2: 7th

With 3 Rounds to go we have 10 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies – 28 to 5,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09
Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,972 runs – 28 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,858 runs – 142 runs to 2,000

Andrew Watt C1 966 runs – 34 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 31/1/2010 when school resumes.

Seniors
Results from the weekend are:

A1 5/227 defeated Kissing Point 67 – our 5/227 was centered around a large partnership between Gav Taylor (84) and Alex Robertson (66). It was a huge score on what was a tricky pitch at times. In the bowling, Matt Spalding (0/3 off 5) and James Makin (4/13 off 8) bowled tightly early on, then Peter Stott, Scott Henderson and Matt Dawson picked up 2 wickets each.

A2 136 lost to Wahroonga 165 – details to follow but a turn-up with an important loss to 4th placed Wahroonga. We remain in 3rd spot but in a tighter competition.

Colts
Red Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – match abandoned at Turramurra Oval.

Blue Vs Kissing Point – Sunday game, scores to follow.

B1 7/184 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee 182 – another important match playing against Normanhurst who are a very strong one-day team. Although being 5th on the ladder they have had the wood on us lately beating us in our last two clashes. They won the toss and batted. A few quick wickets had them 2/20 before they fought back to 50 before losing another wicket. This brought their key batsman to the crease and he looked good cracking a few boundaries. Once again Rhino Cherrie delivered, catching the edge and Tim Millington took a screamer diving to his right at 1st slip. A few wickets followed and we had Normo on the ropes at 6/100. To their credit they fought back with some hard hitting and posted a challenging 182 before being dismissed from the last ball of the innings. Rhino continued his superb one day form picking up 4/15 from 8 overs while Rowan Keating 1/24 and Scott Jobson 2/44 were great in support. Rhino also took two catches and run out.

Our innings started off with a bang with Tim Worthington smashing his way to 39 off 20 balls. This knock included eight fours and gave us an early advantage as we surged to 1/66 from the first ten overs. From here we were able to pace our run chase.Best with the bat wereMatt Scoular (38) and Tim Millington (26) before a controlled innings from Scott Jobson (29 not out) saw us home with an over remaining.

B2 7/111 defeated Mt Colah 107 – another good win for the boys. Losing the toss and fielding first, we struggled to take early wickets but managed to keep the runs down, going into drinks after 20 overs with them 1/44 with Nick Starr (1/16 off 7). However, after drinks we were able to make the crucial breakthrough we needed, with Tim Starr (1/7 off 6) removing the other opener before Lachlan McBrien (1/31) claimed the prized scalp to have them on the ropes. From then, Ben Nolan (3/12 off 6, including a stunning 1 handed caught and bowled), Simon “Blocker” Roche (2/8 off 3) and Geoff Richards (1/8 off 7) tore through the middle and lower order to dismiss them for 107. A good day in the field as well, with stand in skipper Adam Walter taking 2 catches, with Alex Connell, Mark Bennett, Duncan Moore and Lach McBrien taking 1 a piece.

What should have been a straightforward chase almost ended in disaster, with Alex Connell (19) and Duncan Moore (14) the only ones from the top 6 to make double figures, and after 23 overs were struggling at 7/62. However, our strength all season has been our even contributions and depth throughout the team, and an unbroken stand of 49 from Geoff Richards (32*) and Ben Nolan (18*) saw us home with 4.3 overs to spare. This win sees us retain our 10 point buffer at the top of the ladder.

C1 92 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee 79 – a really important game for us playing 2nd placed Normo with us just out of the top 4. Batting on a Mt Ku-ring-gai pitch that held up and a slow outfield this was always going to be a battle of attrition especially against an attack that lacks pace and made scoring even more difficult. We scrapped to 92 thanks largely to DA who top scored for the match with 30. The next best score was 13 to give an indication of how difficult to bat. We had to bowl and field well to defend the total and we did. Andrew Watt chose a good day to be ‘on-song’ and took 3 key wickets for 23. He got very good support from Greg Stoneham with 2/10 (8 overs), Craig Hutchinson 2/20 and Eric Junkkari 1/5 (3 overs). The fielding was also a big factor. While putting down a couple, DA took 2 screamers and Eric got the big wicket with one of his special flat throw run-outs. This now puts us back in the top 4 in a tight competition.

C2 8/132 lost to Hornsby 190 – playing 4th placed We played 4th placed Hornsby at Montview. They had a solid opening partnership of 100 in 20 overs before we managed to make a double break-though after some good bowling pressure from us. We managed to dismiss them all for 190, with wickets going to Narendra (3/17)and Sonny Kulkarni (3/13) who dismissed 6 batsmen in the space of 6 overs to finish them off in 38 overs. Our run chase started well with a opening partnership of 70 between regular opener Chris Williamson and our usual #10 Fergus Waterson We missed a number of our regular batsmen and wickets fell at a regular rate thereafter. We were unable to keep the run-rate under control and ended the day on 132 for 8 to bat out the remaining overs.

C3
White 5/152 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee 5/148 – given our top position on the table, we now feel we are under pressure to beat all comers. We were up against a Normanhurst side who had lost only once since round 3 and were running a tight 3rd behind us. After winning the toss and choosing to bowl as usual , we restricted Normo to 5/148. Best were James Creais (2/39) with Brett Hawkins, Andrew Fiedler (3 catches) & Riley Miedler the other wicket takers. Pratah Sinnetamby (16), Riley Miedler (42) and Dave Creais (17) ably supported Brendan Harkin (56 no) to see us home albeit with our usual middle-order jitters, to finish at 5/152 with 3 overs to spare.

Blue 7/145 defeated St. Ives 8/139 – yep we lost the toss again and we had to field first. A bit of a frustrating day in the field as we feel that we gave them too much. Vikas Manchanda was able to get 3/30 followed by Ian Nichol on 2/21 and Nat Mistry having to settle on 2/19 after we dropped 3 of his catches (sorry Nat). St Ives managed to get to 139.

Going in to bat Russell Smith and Mike Fitzpatrick managed to hold out and take some shine off the ball before Russell made his way back followed shortly by Mike. Vikas and Claudio van Blerk were in and started to gain momentum before Vikas departed. Rahul joined Claudio in a great 72 run partnership, Rahul Sabherwal was out on 23 and Claudio smashed his way to 66, which included four great sixes. The rest of us made our way in and out with Nat hitting the winning runs. We beat St Ives with one and half overs in hand.

D1 3/183 defeated Glenhaven 8/172 – by far the toughest game we have had playing Glenhaven at on a very slow Northholm Grammar outfield. They got stuck into us rather early and posted a competitive 172 but our bowlers all chipped in nicely with the top wicket takers being Roger Friend 2/24 and Julian Raffel 2/27 and Marco Delgado 1/9. Once again our batting was well tested chasing down this score, and after an extremely slow start due to accurate bowling from Glenhaven, we were able to get the runs with an over to spare, thanks to some patient batting and worthy contributions from Lachlan Vile 66no, Julian 45no and Allan Raffel 30. This win puts us into 2nd place cementing our positioned in the top 4 and giving us a chance to close in on 1st place.

D2 156 tied with Castle Hill RSL 9/156 – winning the toss we set out to get the batting monkey off our back after a run of poor performances in recent rounds, and were pleased to turn in a more respectable total of 156 thanks to an in-form Ben Pilipowski (31), batting for the first time at 3 and liking it, assisted by good knocks from Ankit Grover (29) and Peter Flook (24) and supported by Sahil and Rajesh Talpade and Josh Murray-Howard, all of whom stuck around to make double figures.

Our bowlers made steady inroads but were put to the test when the Castle Hill middle order began hitting out in pursuit of an all too gettable total on this small ground. A nail biting finish ensued with Castle Hill top scorer falling to a brilliant catch at point by Shankar Ravi off the bowling of Peter Flook with the scores locked on 156. Bowling for WPHC the honours were shared equally by Niranjan Sundararaj (2-24), Ankit Grover (2-47), Ben Pilipowski (1-12), Sahil Talpade (1-24) and Peter Flook (1-26), while Gareth Linaker put in a superb effort behind the stumps with three catches and two run-outs to his account. In all a great team effort to pull off an unforgettable result.

Not surprisingly the result of this match is pending appeal. Whatever the outcome nothing will take away from us what should remain our greatest fight back and most thrilling finish of the season.

One for the road
Got to hand it to Luke Christensen (D2) who announced after Round 2 that he now knew how much he drink the night before a game after getting his highest score of 38. Move forward to Saturday morning (Round 10) and Luke ‘phones through unable to play – he had a bit too much on Friday night, stubbed his toe somewhere/somehow and couldn’t walk and had to pull out. Looks like the lesson may have been forgotten.

Iron Man
A little known fact is that Peter Westerberg (D2 Captain) has not missed a game since his debut in 2002-03. Records aren’t kept of this but it would have to be close to a Club record. Last weekend Peter decided to use his ribs to play a ball rather than his bat and managed break a bone. But not one to miss a game Peter played again, dosed up on pain killers to get on the field. He didn’t test out the injury batting getting a first ball duck but did manage to test the pain barriers in a Group celebration at the end of the game that finished in an exciting tie. What fantastic commitment! Well done mate.

Commitment
Just on commitment how about Fergus Waterson’s effort (C2). Fergus had to take a flight out to the US and leave by 3.30 pm. As he usually bats at number 10, we batted him as an opener to allow him to get away early. But....at 4.20 he was still batting at 46* and trying to win the game. He got out at 46 and raced to the airport in a cloud of applause for his great effort. Secretly we are hoping he missed his flight and will be available for next week's game. Well done Fergus.

Game changer
One of the stories behind the story is the 1-day performance of B1 player Ryan Cherrie. In a very tight comp our B1’s have won 3 in a row after losing every 1-dayer last season. The game breaker has been Ryan 'Rhino' Cherrie. Coming on first change Rhino's pace and bounce has changed every innings so far. He has picked up 10 wickets at 6.60 in our last three matches at an economy rate of 2.75. He has also taken three catches and two run outs. Well done mate – on fire.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. We will stop publishing the running results after the next round so that the final result is a not known until Presentation Night.

Points at the end of Round 10 are:

• 14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Riley Miedler (C3 White)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Caludio van Blerk (C3 Blue)
• 11 points
o Nirinjan. Sundararaj (D2)
• 10 points
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3 Blue)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the current Round 10 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 92.71 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 457 @ 41.55 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 394 @ 49.30 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
4. 374 @ 46.75 – Matt Scoular (B1)
5. 349 @ 38.78 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 340 @ 85.00 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
7. 325 @ 36.11 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
8. 297 @ 74.30 – Riley Miedler (C3 White)
9. 296 @ 32.89 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
10. 294 @ 42.00 – Alex Connell (B1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 28 @ 11.50 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 24 @ 10.54 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 23 @ 13.70 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 22 @ 9.36 – Matt Dawson (A1)
5. 21 @ 16.43 – John Steel (C1)
6. 20 @ 9.65 – Tim Starr (B2)
7. 20 @ 13.45 – Scott Henderson (A1)
8. 20 @ 14.05 – Chris Williamson (C2)
9. 19 @ 14.60 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
10. 18 @ 12.11 (A2) – Darren Morrow
11. 18 @ 12.28 – Dylan Brogan (A2)
12. 18 @ 13.39 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
13. 18 @ 14.72 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
14. 18 @ 14.83 – Ryan Cherrie (B1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 7 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 7 – Allan Raffel (D1)
3. 7 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
4. 6 – Tim Anderson (Colts)
5. 6 – Rohan Dixit (A2)
6. 6 – Chris Grima (D2)
7. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
8. 6 – Tim Millington (B1)
9. 6 – Nik Patel (C2)
10. 6 – John Steel (C1)

Competition table
Standings after Round 10 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 1st
• B2: 1st
• C1: 4th
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 6th

Personal achievements
A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies – 40 to 5,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,972 runs – 28 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,858 runs – 142 runs to 2,000

Andrew Watt C1 966 runs – 34 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 31/1/2010 when school resumes.

Points standings as at the end of Round 7 are:

U16’s
• White (1st), Red (5th), Blue (6th)

U15’s
• Blue (4th), White (7th), Red (8th), Green (11th)

U14’s
• Blue (3rd), Green (4th), Red (5th), White (11th)

U13’s
• Gold (1st), Green (3rd), Red (8th), Blue (12th), White (14th)

U12’s
• Red (3rd), Blue (4th), Gold (9th), Green (11th)

U11’s
• Gold (2nd), Blue (4th), Green (7th), Red (15th)

Under 10’s and 9’s do not play competition cricket.

Seniors
The Seniors started up again on the weekend and the results follow:

A1 190 defeated Vs Castle Hill RSL 100 – another good win – the team is playing very well at the moment. We scored 190 batting first despite a slow outfield. Nick Bennett held the innings together with 54 and was well supported with good contributions throughout the order. Bill Peterkin marked his return from injury by belting a quick-fire 35. Castle Hill were never in the hunt. Peter Stott was terrific with 3 for 11 off 8, and as usual Scott Henderson and Matt Spalding were too good for the batsmen. Simon Smyth also returned from injury with a quick-fire 18* and a miserly 1 for 16 off 5 overs.

A2 3/50 defeated Glenhaven 46 – after winning the toss on a grassy Turramurra wicket we put Glenhaven into bat. After a demolition show by our opening bowlers we had them struggling at the 15 over mark at 7/19. Darren Morrow finished with figures of 4/7 off 8 alongside Dylan Brogan with 4/11 after restricting Glenhaven to a mere 46 runs. We comfortably made the runs in the 16th over to secure a few early beers at the pub with Darren again in the act with a 15 not out to see out the victory. A few other fella’s chipped in but it was never in doubt after such a great bowling performance.

Colts Red defeated WPHC Blue – scores are not yet available but the result is available. Best batting for the Blues were Russell Ingram with 39, Taylor Paton 30 and Chris Milojevic an important 37 to set a competitive total. The Red’s fell short with scores to be updated shortly.

B1 9/147 defeated Ku-ring-gai Chase 9/142 – a big matchup between 1 Vs 2 and finally a chance for us to move into 1st place. Batting first we got a competitive score on a slow ground but had to bowl well. There were lots of 20’s but no one was able to push on. Best for us was Andrew Graham (24*) with his best score of the season.

In a close game Andrew Joyce fired again and got match winning figures of 5/21 of his allocated 8 overs. Ryan Cherrie chipped in with 2/24 to give us the valuable 6 points.

B2 7/184 defeated Pymble 113 – turning-up to the usually lightning fast Greenway Park only to find ankle deep grass covering the field was not what we were expecting, however the boys made the most of the uncharacteristic conditions to record a strong win. Winning the toss and batting first, the plan was to keep wickets in hand for the later stages to allow our longer than average batting lineup to give it a real crack at the death, and that is exactly how it went. Reaching the 20 over mark at 4/57, we had possibly lost too many wickets early, with Tim Starr (35) and James McBrien (14) the only ones to reach double figures. However, these wickets brought together Geoff Starr (72*) and Adam Walter (37) who shared in a 105 run partnership and saw our total up to a more than competitive mark.

With the ball we could not have had a better start, with Ben McNamara (4/26 off 8) clean bowling the opener with the first ball of the innings. We continued to chip away with the ball, and when their one run scorer was forced to retire on 53 (out of the team total of 68), the wickets began to tumble. Pymble retained a faint chance of victory until their last hope was run out by a James McBrien direct hit to put the result beyond doubt. The other wicket takers were Lachlan McBrien (1/17 off 5), Simon “Blocker” Roche (1/8) and Andrew “Acid” Percival (1/5), Acid taking a wicket with his first ball of the season.

Another solid all round performance from all the boys which sees us retain our 10 point buffer at the top of the table.

C1 174 defeated St Ives 135 – an important game to keep us in the chase for the Semi Finals. Batting first best for us was Bray Stoneham with 40, Nathan Fathers returned to form with 33 and a cameo 30* from Gamini Jayawardane gave us a good total. St Ives were never in the hunt with steady wickets falling to good bowling and fielding. Andrew watt 3/26 and Eric Junkkari 3/21 broke the back of St Ives but Craig Hutchinson was the star with 2/16 from 8 overs. How about Bray Stoneham who took 4 catches including a beauty on the boundary. We are sitting just out of the top 4 but once we get our full strength side on the field it will take a good team to beat us. With the holiday break now over results should start to flow again.

C2 9/122 defeated Berowra 118 – playing Berowra in this 1 Vs 2 match we knew that we were in for a tough game as we were playing the only undefeated team, who have won all their games this season, 4 of them outright. We bowled and fielded with great discipline to have Berowra all out for 118 in 31 overs. All the bowlers were outstanding with Nikunj Patel (3/9 in 6 overs) and Steve Baker (4/29 in 6 overs) and Chris Williamson (2/8 in 4 overs). We managed to reach their score in a nail biting finish with 9 wickets down in the 38th over to inflict a very satisfying first defeat on Berowra. Good contributions by Chris Williamson 29, Peter Lees 32 and Richie Cuskelly with a 24 not out to steer us home.

C3 White 5/161 defeated WPHC Blue – an unusual match-up between 2 WPHC teams who are running 1st and 2nd. The White team Young Bucks managed to prevail this time over the more experienced Warhorses from the Blues. White’s won the toss and bravely bowled on a scorching hot Annangrove Oval, hoping to restrict the Blues to a get-able total.

The total would have been heaps more gettable if the White’s didn't bowl 30 no balls & wides, but they managed to restrict the Blues to 7-153 (+ 2 ret hurt). The Blues started to gain some momentum & had Michael Mahinthan retire on 25 due to an edge hitting him on the lip & he went off to get stitched up. The second retirement was Felix Quah who will be out for a while with a possible cracked rib. Rahul Sabherwal , got stuck in before being caught on 25.
Best performers with the ball for the Whites were James Creais & Taki Manolelis each with 2 wickets.

The White’s turn to bat and they banked on the strong opening pair of Brendan Harkin (48) & Riley Miedler (56) to knock off the majority of the total themselves, which they did putting on 90 for the 1st wicket. The Blues bowlers kept posing plenty of questions to us, but a cameo of 29 by Andrew Fiedler helped get the White’s home with 10 balls and 5 wickets in hand.

D1 5/91 defeated Berowra 71 – after winning the toss and sending Berowra in to bat in really hot conditions, our bowlers performed superbly, limiting Berowra to 71 all out. The pick of the bowlers were Chris Grima 2/10, David Behelevanas 2/13 and Lachlan Vile 2/20.

Always tricky chasing a low total in that at one stage we found ourselves at 3/8 but steady partnership between Tom Considine 49 and Chris Grima 20no got us there in the end with overs to spare

This is a good win against the 1st placed side, were 3 points adrift from 1st and 2nd and happy with the state of commitment and levels of depth available for the business end of the season.

D2 82 lost to Galston-Glenorie 110 – a big game for us against 3rd placed Galston. We needed to win to push back into the top 4. After bowling them out for a low score in 36 overs we had our chance to run them down. Not to be this match as could only make 82. Individual scores will be available shortly.

The long way home
We have a long history of players travelling long distances to play on the weekend. The most famous is Mark Taylor (1998/99) travelling from New Noumea to play before flying to London that night and Tony Hadley’s regular visits from Perth (2005-06) and back to play.

Two standout though. Bill Peterkin drove down from the Gold Coast (16/12/2006) to play an A1 game and got a golden duck. The latest is Peter Heidegger (C2 Captain). Peter was coaching the U12 Rep Team at Lismore and drove home straight after the game on Friday afternoon. After the 10 hour drive he got his chance to bat and kept the tradition alive by scoring a golden. Must be something about these trips from the Far North Coast.

Unusual catch
Eric Junkkari (C1) is now approaching his 350th wicket but got an unusual one on Saturday. Bowling a leg-side full toss the batsman managed to get it off the back of the back, ricochet off is head (no helmet) and then have the ball lob out to a standard cover. The player must have a hard head as he showed no reaction.

A tight finish – the inside story
Well done to Chris Thorndyke who provided this ball by ball insight into the B1 thriller on the weekend:

“Five overs remain in the match with Ku-ring-gai Chase needing 20 runs with three wickets in hand.
• The next three balls go for 9 runs before James Kealy takes a big wicket, with the batsman hitting it straight to Andrew Joyce at point.
• The next two balls are dots leaving 11 runs to win off 24 balls with two wickets in hand.
• Ryan 'Rhino' Cherrie comes back into the attack. The first four balls concede three runs including two hit in the air just out of catching range.
• The next ball cleans up their number 10 and the last ball is a dot.8 runs to win off 18 balls with only one wicket in hand.
• Matt Thorndyke is in the pressure situation of bowling the next over – a crucial one. Two runs are hit off the first three balls...tension is building, only 6 runs to win off 15 balls.
• With the field back, their gun bat doesn't want a single and attempts to belt Matt out of the park. The ball is hit long and high towards cow corner, looking like it might go for six to win the match for Ku-ring-gai Chase. The player of the match Andrew Joyce had other ideas running faster than Usman Bolt along the boundary before diving and taking a screamer just cm's off the ground. We win by 5 runs. AJ takes two catches and five wickets.”

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 9 are:

• 14 points
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 12 points
o Russel Ingram (Colts & C2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
• 11 points
o Nirinjan Sundararaj (D2)
• 10 points
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Riley Miedler (C3)
o Rahul Saberwhal (C3)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o John Steel (C1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the current Round 9 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 92.71 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 457 @ 41.55 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 336 @ 48.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 325 @ 36.11 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
5. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 294 @ 42.00 – Alex Connell (B1)
8. 282 @ 35.25 – Rowan Keating (B1)
9. 281 @ 35.13 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
10. 274 @ 68.50 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 27 @ 11.04 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 23 @ 10.26 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
3. 23 @ 12.57 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 21 @ 15.57 – John Steel (C1)
5. 20 @ 9.65 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 20 @ 10.20 – Matt Dawson (A1)
7. 19 @ 13.10 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
8. 18 @ 12.28 – Dylan Brogan (A2)
9. 18 @ 13.30 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
10. 18 @ 14.22 – Scott Henderson (A1)
11. 18 @ 14.61 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 7 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 7 – Allan Raffel (D1)
3. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
4. 6 – John Steel (C1)
5. 6 – Chris Grima (D2)

Competition table
Standings after Round 9 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts Red: 4th
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 1st
• B2: 1st
• C1: 5th
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 5th

With 5 Rounds to go this is a fantastic achievement with 9 of our 12 teams in the top 4. Colts Blue and C1 are 1 win out, and D2 are 2 wins away.

Personal achievements
A couple of big ones are coming up and these will also be updated once results are fully loaded:
• Peter Westerberg – just 12 for his 100 runs before his 100th innings (88 innings and counting)
• Simon Davies – 42 to 5,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,960 runs – 40 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,888 runs – 112 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 887 runs – 113 to 1,000

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,774 runs – 228 to 3,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Christmas and New Year Best wishes
On behalf of our Club Executive may all of our players, parents and supporters have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. For those going away drive safely on the road and see you in 2010.

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 31/1/2010 when school resumes.

Points standings as at the end of Round 7 are:

U16’s
• White (1st), Red (5th), Blue (6th)

U15’s
• Blue (4th), White (7th), Red (8th), Green (11th)

U14’s
• Blue (3rd), Green (4th), Red (5th), White (11th)

U13’s
• Gold (1st), Green (3rd), Red (8th), Blue (12th), White (14th)

U12’s
• Red (3rd), Blue (4th), Gold (9th), Green (11th)

U11’s
• Gold (2nd), Blue (4th), Green (7th), Red (15th)

Under 10’s and 9’s do not play competition cricket.

Seniors
Thoughts of things grand
Got to hand it to Ben McNamara, star B2 opening bowler. While updating himself with all things West Penno on the website in Thailand, the tearaway noticed that he had taken 5 catches so far this season. To get in early on the Player of the Year Points for the match, Ben allocated the points himself “I'm giving myself 3 points, 2 points and one point cause I'm drunk and my name appeared on the club website for taking 5 catches."

Such enthusiasm.

Best debut of the season
The best debut performance in many a year came from Peter Flook (U16) playing C3 last match. Peter bowled 2.5 overs and took 5/4 Vs Kenthurst at Holland Road including their gun bat. Well done Peter.

Spare a thought for Andrew Fiedler (C3 Captain) who has been playing for 28 years to get his best bowling figures of 4/7 only to be pipped for match honours in 2.5 overs of inspired bowling in a debut performance.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 8 are:

• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 11 points
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
• 10 points
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 9 points
o Tom Blissenden (Colts)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Russel Ingram (C2 & Colts)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Scott Henderson (A1)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Pratah Sinnentamby
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)

MyCricket achievements
National figures
Was going through the national figures for MyCricket and some interesting ones came up:
• Highest Score – 299 by a B Grade Victorian player
• Best bowling performance – 9/0 by a North Melbourne U15 player
• Highest batting average – 423 by another Victorian playing for Burwood Uniting

Our own Russel Ingram (C2 & Colts) with his 223 has scored the 10th highest score in Australia this season. Well done Russel.

Club Champion Player points
MyCricket allocates points based on runs scored, wickets taken, 50’s, assisted wickets and so. The standings for each Grade are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor – 43.0 points (8th ranking in A Grade)
• A2 – Matt Jobson – 60.70 points (2nd ranking)
• Colts – Michael Dale – 44.90 points (2nd)
• B1 – Rowan Keating – 65.40 points (1st)
• B2 – Alex Connell – 59.30 points (2nd)
• C1 – Daniel Anderson – 52.10 points (3rd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram – 101.60 points (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler – 53.90 points (6th)
• D1 – Lachlan Vile – 53.40 points (6th)
• D2 – Sam Thariani – 72.20 points (1st)

Club standings
The top 10 standings for all games in West Penno are:
1. 113.80 points – Daniel Anderson (U15 & C1)
2. 101.60 points – Russel Ingram (C2)
3. 89.10 points – Riley Miedler (U16 & C3)
4. 77.90 points – Suri Vineet (U13)
5. 76.20 points – Lachlan Vile (U16 & D1)
6. 74.20 points – Sam Thariani (D2)
7. 71.20 points – Rowan Keating (B1)
8. 71.10 points – Chris Williamson (C2)
9. 62.70 points – Matt Jobson (A2)
10. 60.40 points – Taki Manolelis (C3)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at Round 8 are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 586 @ 117.20 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 452 @ 45.20 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
4. 315 @ 52.50 – Matt Scoular (B1)
5. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
6. 293 @ 48.83 – Alex Connell (B1)
7. 282 @ 35.25 – Rowan Keating (B1)
8. 280 @ 40.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
9. 274 @ 91.3 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
10. 259 @ 32.38 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 27 @ 11.04 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 23 @ 8.78 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
3. 20 @ 8.55 – Tim Starr (B2)
4. 20 @ 10.20 – Matt Dawson (A1)
5. 20 @ 14.00 – Nik Patel (C2)
6. 20 @ 14.80 – John Steel (C1)
7. 17 @ 13.00 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
8. 17 @ 13.29 – Arun Kumar (
9. 17 @ 13.59 – Scott Henderson (A1)
10. 17 @ 16.18 – Jacques Visser (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 7 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
3. 6 – John Steel
4. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
5. 5 – Ben McNamara
6. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
7. 5 – Daniel Anderson

Competition table
Standings after Round 8 are:
• A1: 4th
• A2: 3rd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 6th
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 6th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 except C1 and D2 who are just out of the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Faisal Shamis who scored his 1,000th career run – well done mate.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 12 for his 100 runs before his 100th innings (88 innings and counting)
• Simon Davies – 42 to 4,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,958 runs – 42 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,855 runs – 145 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 884 runs – 116 to 1,000

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,774 runs – 228 to 3,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 88 runs – 12 to 100

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
Significant performances to come.

Seniors Results
A1 Vs St Ives – match abandoned due to a wet wicket

A2 7/140 lost to St Ives 7/141 – after winning the toss and batting we got off to a fairly conservative start, with runs seemingly hard to come by. After the 20 over mark however we started to increase the run rate and managed to put 140 on the board with the loss of 7 wickets. We got off to a great start with the ball, getting rid of their two gun bats in quick time to have them at 5/44 at one stage after 20 overs. Unfortunately this one got away on us with a few of their guys making some valuable runs down the order which saw them pass our score with just 2 balls left in the game - our first loss of the season which now puts us in 3rd place. Suji Dissanayake and Dylan Brogan were fantastic with the ball taking 3/8 (8) and 2/15 (8) respectively.

Colts
Red Vs Hornsby – match abandoned due to wet wicket

Blue Normanhurst-Warrawee – Sunday game and scores will be updated shortly

B1 9/225 defeated ARL – 143 – a very important match (3rd Vs 4th), with only one point separating both teams. We won the toss and batted on a quick Thornleigh Oval. Andrew Joyce was promoted to open the innings in the one day matches and didn't disappoint. He belted 68 off only 65 balls including eight 4's and three 6's – read below for more info on this effort. Matt Scoular continued the stroke play with 38 off 31 balls while Rowan Keating hit 48 at a run a ball ensuring we passed 200. While these batsmen hit out, all the others played an important part in holding the innings together and helping to build a solid total difficult to chase.

We knew that ARL would come out swinging and that's exactly what they did - they were 1/72 in the 9th over. This changed with the introduction of Ryan (Rhino) Cherrie into the attack. He bowled the best spell of bowling from any of our bowlers this season, picking up ARL's hard hitting opener with a superb caught and bowled in his first over. With his pace and bounce he went on to change the game bowling four maidens straight, picking up vital wickets as Asquith slumped to 5/86. We continued to build up pressure in the field and as a result we consistently took wickets not allowing ARL to build any partnerships. ARL struggled to 143, the last 9 wickets falling for only 72 runs. Rhino finished with 4/27 while Scott Jobson (2/25) and Rowan Keating (2/47) provided good support as always. Rhino fittingly finished off the day with a direct hit run out. Backing up this great bowling performance was our fielding which was outstanding. We took six catches, including a ripper in the gully by Josh Kleinhans diving backwards, and also two run outs.

B2 76 lost to St Ives 4/77 – without a doubt our worst day of the season so far. Batting first, a succession of loose shots from the top order saw us crumble to be 4/5 after 5 overs, then 5/13 after 10. Only Duncan Moore (20) scored more than 14. Were it not for our longer than average batting lineup, it could have been much worse than it already was. With the ball, there was a glimmer of hope, Nick Starr (1/18) trapping their opening batsman LBW with the second ball of the innings, but in reality 76 was never going to be enough. The only other wicket takers were Tim Starr (2/20) and Lachlan McBrien (1/13). It will be a long few weeks as we wait to have another crack to redeem ourselves after this embarrassing performance.

C1 99 lost to Hornsby 3/106 – with Christmas looming and half the Team out with injuries even making the field was an achievement against 1st placed Hornsby. In the circumstances we did very well. Thanks to our ‘kids’ – Bray Stoneham 34* and Darshan Pandya with 23 who top scored and played their 1st game in Seniors. We bowled well and if a couple of crucial catches were taken we may well have stretched them but not to be. The big winners in the game were Juniors who helped out and did really well. A special thanks to Darshan Pandya, Bray Stoneham, Jake Hickman, Harrison Norrell, John Anderson and ofcourse the old stager, Greg Stoneham. Thanks also to Rob Aitken who came down from Colts to help out.

C2 122 lost to Kenthurst 6/132 – after losing the toss and being put in to bat by Kenthurst we posted 122 all out. We let ourselves down in the batting department with only Peter Lees (40) bothering the scorers. With such a small total to defend it was always going to be difficult. We managed to have them 6 down before they reached our total in the 31st over. A very disappointing result where we let ourselves down with some poor batting against an ordinary Kenthurst side.

C3
White 0/83 defeated Kenthurst 79 – a thumping victory over Kenthurst, completing the rout inside 38 overs (total). Kenthurst batted first, and were soon in trouble with Andrew Fiedler the most unlikely of destroyers taking 4/7 off 8 overs – that after the captain took a punt and opened the bowling himself. He was bettered by U16 debutant Peter Flook, who recorded the remarkable figures of 5/4 off 2.5 overs. Our turn to bat, and again we tried something new with juniors Riley Miedler (50 no) & Daniel Fiedler (19 no) opening the batting. They effortlessly saw us home with an 83-run opening partnership inside 15 overs.

Blue 3/120 defeated Mt Colah 119 – who needs to win the toss anyway! It is now 8 in a row that we (the Captain) have not won the toss. Got sent in to bowl & that we did. We went into this round wanting to be prepared after watching Mt Colah's batting stats. Arun Kumar & Ian Nichol did not give them a chance to settle, in the 5th over they were 3/10. Their 4th & 5th partnership were a bit frustrating, but eventually we broke them & proceeded to wrap them up. Arun finished with a fantastic 4/14 & Ian with a great 3/18. Chetan, Vishnuu & Claudio each bagging a wicket. Russell Smith & Chetan Bhatt made their opening bowlers tired & got to 51 before we lost our 1st wicket. Vikas & Claudio came in followed by Gary. Claudio blasted a quick 37, Vikas finished on 23. Great result to end the year on.

D1 7/181 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee 179 – having been set a respectable target by the 2nd placed Normanhurst, we managed to chase it down and appeared to always be in control throughout the match. We lost a flurry of wickets towards the end but a good batting partnership between Manod Wickramasinghe 54 and Allan Raffel 45 supported by good bowling by Julian Raffel 3/29 and Lachlan Vile 3/29, ensured that we are now well placed in 3rd place and only a handful of points from the leaders.

D2 99 lost to Hornsby 4/100 – highlights: Sam Thariani 39, Niranjan Sundararaj 2-21, Luke Christensen 1-15 (his first wicket for the club).
In the circumstances nothing short of a miracle that we managed to turn out eleven on the field. Sadly that's about as far as our success went. Hard to believe this is the same team that humbled Kenthurst just one week ago. Hopefully we can bounce back in the new year.

11 out of 12
A huge weekend last Round with another weekend of records – this time at Team Level. We set a Club and Association record of winning 11 Senior games out of 12 matches. Included in this was an outright by our B2 side. The only team to miss out was C1 who went down by 1wicket in a thrilling finish. Our previous best was winning 10 games out of 10 Teams in 2002-03.

Debut to remember
What an effort from Peter Flook (U16) yet another Junior who helped out due to shortages over the Christmas break. Coming on to bowl at 2nd change he took the remarkable figures of 5/4 off 2.5 overs. This included 2 dropped catches. Four of his wickets were bowled, including the last of the innings when he smashed a stump in two. He duly took the stump remains home as a trophy for a memorable performance.

Anatomy of a career best bowling performance
Picture this – the Team (C3) is short, lot’s of Juniors who have bowling limitations after a morning’s play and not a lot of bowling options. If you are Captain then what do you do. You bowl yourself after only bowling only 71 overs in the previous 23 years!

The pre-match warm-up
In the words of the Captain (Andrew Fiedler) himself:
“After struggling all week with getting a team, and knowing that we'd have our bowling stocks down with some of our key junior bowlers not having many overs left to use after their morning matches, I decided at 11am this morning to open the bowling with myself. At 11:01am, I proceeded to the nets, lengthened, then shortened my run-up (8 steps was plenty), and proceeded to fling balls down to an empty net. The stump may have been hit once in 12 mins. By then I thought, let’s not waste all the good ones or injure myself now. That warm-up (after not having opened the bowling since school 28 years ago), would have to do.”

The result
After an inspired spell of bowling supported by some amazing fielding (including a catch by the 6’ 5” frame of Brett Hawkins who intercepted a ball destined for 6 runs on the boundary) ‘The man’ did it – career best figures of 8 overs, 4 maidens, 4 wickets for 7 runs! This was also a 38-year career best bowling performance beating a previous best of 3/48 at Rofe Park in 1983!

This performance has shown once and for all the lack of total respect for this talented batsmen’s bowling has probably been wrong for 38 years. If only we could turn the clock back and start the bowling career again.

The conclusion
Being the great Team man he is the biggest thrill Andrew got was being ‘one-upped’ by one of our Juniors (Peter Flook) making his Seniors debut and being called in on Friday night taking 5/2 and making sure we got a big win. The big test though will be to see if Andrew can walk on Sunday / Monday after this marathon spell.

More fast scoring records
This is turning out to be a big season with record scoring with another big achievement. Andrew Joyce (B1) set a new record in B1 Grade in scoring 25 off an over. The scoring sequence was:
• No ball, 6, 4, Dot, 2, 6, 6
• The highest number of runs scored in an over for B1
• It only ranks behind the 34 by Matt Scoular (Colts 2008) and 26 by John Steel (C1 2009).

Also of note is that the bowler had bowled two overs for one run before this over.

Well done Andrew.

Commitment
In the past we have had a number of players who have shown great commitment to turn up on weekend – weddings being re-scheduled, large amounts of travel and so on. The latest effort is by Rowan Keating (B1). Straight after Rowan plays his B1 game on Saturday he races off to the airport and flies out to Greece. No wonder he is leading the Club Player of the Year awards. Well done mate.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 7 are:

• 12 points:
o Rowan Keating (Colts)
• 10 pointso Chris Williamson (C2)
o John Steel (C1)
• 9 points
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Russel Ingram (C2 & Colts)
o Scott Henderson (A1)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Pratah Sinnentamby
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 8 points
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Matt Jobson (A2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
o Raul Saberwhal (D1)
o Matt Scoular (B1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at Round 7 are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 586 @ 117.20 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 413 @ 45.89 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
4. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 277 @ 55.40 – Matt Scoular (B1)
6. 265 @ 44.17 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
7. 241 @ 120.5 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
8. 229 @ 45.80 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
9. 227 @ 32.43 – Matt Jobson (A2)
10. 221 @ 32.43 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 23 @ 8.78 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
2. 22 @ 10.41 – Rowan Keating (B1)
3. 20 @ 10.20 – Matt Dawson (A1)
4. 20 @ 13.80 – John Steel (C1)
5. 19 @ 14.22 – Nik Patel (C2)
6. 18 @ 8.39 – Tim Starr (B2)
7. 17 @ 13.0 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
8. 17 @ 13.59 – Scott Henderson (A1)
9. 16 @ 11.50 – Geoff Richards (B2)
10. 16 @ 15.94 – Jacques Visser (C2)
11. 16 @ 16.31 – Matt Spalding (A1)

Top 3 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
2. 6 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
3. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
4. 5 – Ben McNamara
5. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
6. 5 – John Steel
7. 5 – Daniel Anderson

Competition table
Standings after Round 6 are:
• A1: 4th
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 4th
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o Blue: 2nd
o White 1st
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 5th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 except D2 who are just out of the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Faisal Shamis who scored his 1,000th career run – well done mate.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 12 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies – 42 to 4,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 2 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 48 wickets – 2 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,958 runs – 42 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,843 runs – 157 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 884 runs – 116 to 1,000

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,772 runs – 228 to 3,000 runs

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
Significant performances to come.

Seniors Results
A1 203 defeated Kenthurst 197 – a fantastic result that in previous years would have seen a different result against 2nd placed Kenthurst. Our attack this year is the best in A1 with strike power all the way down which is why we are in this comp big time. Best bowlers for us were Scott Henderson (again) with 3 wickets with very good backup from James Makin and Matt Spalding both with 2 wickets.

A2 9/299 defeated Kenthurst 114 and 0/61 – match report to follow but another huge result against the competition leaders to give us a share of 1st place. The 1st innings bowling was the most penetrating with Michael Quieros 3/30 and Darren Morrow 2/17 off 13 overs. We are now on a roll.

Colts Red 6/179 defeated Berowra 148 – a sensational effort to convincingly beat the previously undefeated Berowra team. After finally winning a toss we had the opportunity to bat first for the first time this season. A solid opening partnership on the beautiful Berowra strip between Rob Aitken (33) and Matt Bennetts (28) set the scene for the innings and permitted Carl Madsen (31), Pat Bertoldo (26no) and Sam Croft (19) to put on quick runs. At 6/179 after the 40 overs a competitive total had been set. Berowra looked solid early on before Adam Hutchings (5/24) ensured victory for the team by removing most of the top half of the batting order. Sets things up nicely for the remainder of the season.

Colts Blue 131defeated Hornsby 96 – playing at a typically unpredictable Turramurra oval we won the toss and batted first. After a solid start we lost too many quick middle order wickets to be 5/75 at drinks. Thanks to a controlled innings of 23* by Sam Klienhans and a quickfire 28 (off 13) from Rowan Keating we pushed past 120 before the last 3 wickets fell cheaply and we were all out for 131 off only 30 overs which was disappointing as we fell very short of the 40 over allocation. However we still had a target to bowl at.

The bowling and fielding was sharp and taking steady wickets regularly Hornsby never came close to being in a winning position. Peter Yeates (4/22) and Rowan Keating (3/22) were the pick of the bowlers but all the bowlers and the fielding was top quality considering there were 3 fill in players helping out. A good win for the team.

B1 5/230 defeated Kenthurst 226 – another comfortable win, our fourth in a row. We lost a couple of early wickets to be 3/49 before Tim Millington (66) and Scott Jobson (59 not out) combined for a hundred run partnership to take control of the game. Kenthurst's lack of bowling depth showed as Tim and Scott, and then later Rowan and Josh belted their attack to every corner of the ground. We cruised to victory with 5 wickets in hand and with more than over 20 overs left in the day. Looking to maintain this form throughout the one dayers..

B2 3/170 and 4/129 defeated outright Beecroft 132 & 159 – declaring overnight we put Beecroft back in and knocked them over for 159 on a hot and lightening fast Thornleigh Oval. Once again good discipline both bowling and fielding saw us set up the late afternoon run chase for outright points. Best with the ball were Geoff Starr 5 / 42, Tim Starr 2 / 27 and Mark Bennett 2 / 22 with Ben McNamara taking 3 catches. Again, Alex Connell produced a cracking 58 (to go with 104* first innings), well supported by Adam Walter 26, Andrew Percival 18 and Ben Nolan 12* got us across the line with approx 10 overs to spare. An outstanding win which sees us increase our lead at the top. We were already leading the Comp by 10 points and this will only be more after this result.

C1 9/277 lost to Kenthurst 9/278 – we probably got closer than we deserved in this game. Expecting to win comfortably, we were a bit below our standard for a lot of the game, backed up by rolling injuries that saw us field with 10 players for much of the game and down to 9 at times. At 4/215 we clicked with John Steel (4/60) leading the charge with some sustained bowling. The below par energy was backed up by a combination of poor catching and a lot of bad luck with the Kenthurst top order offering a lot of catches and near chances. It got down to the final over for the last player in to edge a ball just wide of his stumps to get the winning runs. A bit of a wakeup call against the last placed team but with the positive being the way we came back.

C2 405 defeated Mt Colah 164 & 8/198 – a detailed match report will follow but this is a match we probably butchered an opportunity for an outright win. Our 1st innings bowling performance got the 6 points with Nik Patel (4/38) and Russel Ingram 3/38 outstanding. In the 2nd innings we had them on the ropes but just missed the killer punch to put them away. Best bowlers in the 2nd innings were Jacques Visser 2/25, Mark Bell 2/34 and Nik Patel 2/24. Anyway a good result that consolidates a top 2 position.

C3
White 153 defeated Kissing Point 153 – chasing a moderate score, we were off to an excellent start with openers Brendan Harkin (39) & Kramer Richards (29) putting on 77 for the opening wicket. At 1/99 we were cruising, but brought Kissing Point back into contention losing 3/1, due to some pretty shoddy batting. However Taki Manolelis (38) & Andrew Miedler (23 no) consolidated and got us home with plenty of time & batting to spare. A god win that consolidates our place as competition leader.

Blue 8/282 defeated Kenthurst 157 – well who needs to win the toss when a bunch of guys can come together and win games. We had a great day out playing against Kenthurst who are a fantastic bunch of guys. Jono van Blerk not out on 48. We went in to bowl & usually we watch Rahul Saberherwal try hard to take wickets, but today was different, he took wickets effortlessly & finished with a fantastic 5/28. Kenthurst were eventually bowled out for 157.

D1 2/118 defeated on 1st innings ARL 91 – another outstanding win by the fellows who in the end managed to chase down the runs for an outright with a single ball to spare. Notable prformances with the bat by Allan Raffel 77 and Laghlan Vile 75no, supported by some good line and length bowling with Graham Auld achieving 3/30 and Manod Wickramasinghe 3/45.
This is the sort of preparation we needed for our next two upcoming games against the 1st and 2nd placed sides. This win leaves us comfortably in 3rd closing in on 1st and 2nd. The most pleasing aspect of this game, albeit being without some key players, is that the good performances are coming from different players every week, who either bat well when required or take a vital catch at the right time, which in turn brings about the positive result.

D2 210 defeated Kenthurst 160 – a detailed match report will follow but this is our biggest win of the season against the Team coming equal first. Best bowlers were Niranjan Sundararaj & Ryan Schuten shared the honours, both taking 3-24. Stay tuned.

The thinking man’s cricketer
As a genius, star U16 player Riley Miedler makes a good cricketer. Playing with an umpires counter while waiting to bat...."Hey check this thing out – it only goes up to 6!".One thing, he is right. Well done Riley but keep the runs and wickets coming.

Knockout
How about Ryan Schouten in D2. After playing U15’s in the morning Ryan had a head clash taking a catch in the morning, knocking himself out – he can’t remember much of the incident. After laying down recovering most of the morning he came out and played his first Seniors game and took 3/24 to play a big part in a huge win against the competition leaders. As they say in the classics ‘beware the injured player’.

Family affair
Last season, the Creais’ set the standard with 4 family members on the field in the one game as players – no records on this one but it is up there. On the weekend, our C1 side also had 4 family members playing – Daniel, Ross, John Anderson to start off with. After a series of rolling injuries we were down to 10 (again) with Denise coming to the rescue and fielding as the game was getting down to a close finish. This was Denise’s first time on the field since her retirement from Test cricket in 1991.

The Club
We reckon our A1 side is the ‘sleeper’ to take out the Comp this season. Talent aside, one of the reason’s is that the boys have a huge incentive to perform. They have developed their own Membership cards (thanks Di) – ‘My Team. My Culture. My Brotherhood’. At the end of each game they have a draw and the winner gets free drinks. What more incentive can anyone get to even turn up.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 6 are:

• 9 Points:
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Rowan Keating (B1)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
• 8 points
o Matt Scoular (B1)
• 7 points:
o Tom Blissenden (Colts Red)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Scott Henderson (A1)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Michael McGregor (A2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Alan Raffel (D1)
o Tim Scoular (Colts Blue)
o Sam Thariana (D2)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at Round 7 (day 1) are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 586 @ 117.20 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 413 @ 45.89 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
4. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 277 @ 55.40 – Matt Scoular (B1)
6. 257 @ 51.40 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
7. 241 @ 120.5 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
8. 229 @ 45.80 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
9. 227 @ 32.43 – Matt Jobson (A2)
10. 221 @ 32.43 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 22 @ 10.41 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 19 @ 9.21 – Matt Dawson (A1)
3. 18 @ 9.67 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
4. 17 @ 13.0 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
5. 16 @ 7.75 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 16 @ 13.52 – John Steel (C1)
7. 14 @ 15.21 – Chris Williamson (C2)
8. 14 @ 15.21 – Matt Spalding (A1)
9. 14 @ 15.29 – Ankit Grover (D2)
10. 14 @ 15.36 – Scott Henderson (A1)
11. 14 @ 16.00 – Matt Spalding (A1)

Top 4 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
2. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
3. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
4. 5 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Competition table
Standings after Round 6 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 3rd
• C2 = 3rd
• C3:
o Blue: 2nd
o White 1st
• D1: 3rd
• D2: = 5th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 except D2 who are just out of the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs
• Simon Davies –
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,927 runs – 73 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,842 runs – 158 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamsi
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

NSW benchmarking achievement
We got a big rap this week when we were advised that the NSW Dept of Sport and Recreation are doing a benchmark survey of 10 sports and doing a Case Study of a Club in each Sport as a guide to best practice that other Clubs can use to help them develop. We have been chosen as the benchmark cricket club in NSW that will be the case study. This acknowledges every facet of the Club – financial management, playing strength, junior development and retention and so on. This is a wonderful acknowledgement of the 250 Volunteers involved in our Club and those who have legacy from years past. Well done everyone.

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
Significant performances to come.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade 203 Vs Kenthurst 1/46 – we won the toss and batted on a decent batting track. Our top order stuttered, but the fourth wicket stand between Alex Robertson (63) and Simon Davies (30) put us in good shape to score a solid total. Scott Henderson also contributed valuable runs towards the end of the innings. In reply, Kenthurst did well to withstand a potent spell from Spalding and Henderson. Despite beating the bat regularly and most of their runs coming over and through the slips, it was a change in bowling (Brogan) that brought the only wicket. Honours are even on the scoreboard, but it’s hard to imagine the remainder of the Kenthurst line-up surviving a repeat performance from our bowlers next week.

A2 9/299 Vs Kenthurst – details to be provided.

Colts Red 7/183 defeated Kissing Point 178 – with nearly all of the team returning from their end of school holidays on the previous day this one dayer was going to be awkward. After losing the toss again (we haven't won one this season) Kissing Point scored 178 and were assisted with some not so accurate bowling from tired players. Tim Anderson was best with 2/17 of 7 overs. The run chase however was very solid and was never in doubt on the back of Daniels Brain's 61, Carl Madsen's 26 and another solid innings of

Colts Blue 54 lost to Berowra 4/223 – details to be provided.

B1 1/11 Vs Kenthurst 226 – Kenthurst won the toss and batted. We had a rare off day with the ball tending to bowl four or five good deliveries and then a bad one to concede a boundary. Rowan Keating was the pick of the bowlers taking 3/33 off 19.1 overs, while Andrew Joyce and James Kealy took two wickets each. With a tough five overs to face before stumps we lost an early wicket. We have plenty of work to do next week, but if we place value on our wickets and build partnerships we are confident of getting a win.

B2 3/170 defeated on 1st innings Beecroft 132 – first innings points already secured in a powerful all round display. Beecroft had no answer to a superb bowling and fielding display from all 11 players with Nick Starr 4/28 and Geoff Richards 3/11 the pick and Alex Connell taking 4 catches behind. Then the fireworks started with us scoring 3 / 170 off 25 overs with Alex Connell producing a brilliant 104* (our 348th century) , smashing the attack all over Thornleigh oval with 17 fours and 1 six. He was well supported by Adam Walter with a quick fire 25. Stumps couldn’t come quick enough for Beecroft who are staring down at outright loss next week. Awesome display boys.

C1 9/277 Vs Kenthurst – this was a game that was a roller-coaster with wickets falling regularly, fightbacks and two standout innings. Daniel Anderson (DA) starred with 134* (our 346th century) having opened the innings and batting through the day to anchor the innings. A standout partnership of 103 with Dinesh De Silva (66) and a cameo 29 from Jas Singh gave us the momentum we needed to set a good target. With our attack - the best in the Comp it will take a mighty effort to get this total. If we can get a win it will consolidate us in the top 4.

C2 405 Vs Mt Colah 3/41 – we won the toss and batted against the 2nd placed Mt Colah at Holland reserve. Our openers, Russel Ingram and Chris Williamson, decided to use the match as a warm up for the one-dayers reaching 333 in 40 overs before Russel was caught with his score on 223 – more about this inningsbelow. Russel’s hard hitting and the temptingly small Holland Reserve ground even got the usual cautious Chris Williamson playing freely, scoring 17 runs in the second over of the day. Wanting to get Mt Colah to bat for at least 10 overs before the end of the day the rest of the batsmen threw caution to the wind, and we managed to reach 405 all out (Chris Williamson 76, Mark Bell 30) in the 57th over before putting them in to face 15 overs at the end of a long and hot day. At stumps we had them at 3/41.

C3
White Vs Kissing Point 153 – playing a Kissing Point side who scored 400+ last week, we expected a tough day in the field after losing the toss and playing with only 3 seamers & 2 spinners for the day. But we put in probably our most spirited performance of the season. We dismissed them in the 72nd over of the day for just 153. We bowled to our plans and gave them nothing in the field in what felt like a day playing against a Northern English County side, such was their appetite for being only intent on occupying the crease. Best bowling honours went to Brett Hawkins (4/37 off 19 overs). Ashane De Silva also bowled beautifully taking 2/23 off 14.

Blue 8/282 Vs Kenthurst – just not getting any better at winning the toss, went there wanting to bowl, if we won the toss & ended up losing it again! Kenthurst sent us in to bat. If there was an award for appealing, Kenthurst would certainly be in line to take this. We got off to a tough start as their opening bowlers were aiming high and low with Russell Smith & Chetan Bhatt taking the shine off the new ball, followed by Mike Fitzpatrick. Claudio & Vishnuu Ratnam, went in & managed to frustrate the bowlers. In came Michael Mahinthin who took control of the middle with Vishnuu & between them put on a 73 run partnership. Michael finished on 72 & Vishnuu on 35. Gary Robinson & Arun Kumar came in and frustrated the bowlers before leaving the middle. Johny Quah & Jono Van Blerk are at the crease with Nat waiting anxiously to come in. Hopefully we may last a few more overs next week. We finished the day on 8/282, which happens to be our highest score so far this season and also shows that we seem to be more comfortable setting a target than chasing one.

D1 2/118 defeated on 1st innings ARL 91 – notable performances by Allan Raffel 53 not out and in the bowling department, Lachlan Vile was 3 for 28. We’re playing the 4th placed team so a win here will surely cement our place in the top 4 and send a message to the higher placed teams. Once again a good all round performance by everyone.

D2 9/205 Vs Kenthurst – winning the toss and batting against a depleted Kenthurst attack we finished the day with a respectable, if not commanding, total of 9-205 thanks largely to a magnificent maiden century by opener Sam Thariani (our 347th century). Batting for five and a half hours he frustrated the Kenthust bowlers with a marathon display of skill, patience, concentration and endurance that confirms his place as one of the club's most exciting batting discoveries of this season. Along the way he was partnered by Niranjan Sundararaj (29),to make 69 for the third wicket and by Simon Bodley (17), to make 63 for the fifth wicket, Simon playing yet another of the gutsy, heroic middle order innings that have become his trademark: this man just gets better with every match.

Going into next week minus our two leading wicket takers, we will face a mammoth task to clinch victory in this match. We intend to give it our very best shot: if we can pull it off, against the team that have easily dominated our Grade since the start of the season, we will truly have earned the title of giant killers.

Call of the day
Call of the day went to Michael Kramer Richards (C3) – one Kissing Point batsmen had batted 30 overs for a fighting 12 runs, when Kramer suggested "This guy looks as solid as a Hobo's Hut"...unfortunately he was dropped next ball behind the wicket as the chuckles were still subsiding.

C2 massacre
How about Russel Ingram (C2). It was only last month that his run scoring feats were covered with only the 4th score of 200 in our history. This weekend he did it again. This time Russel scored 223 – the 2nd highest score in our 80 year history. This exclusive Club now stands as:

1. 225 by Kevin Smith B Grade 1956/57
2. 223 by Russel Ingram C2 Grade Vs Mt Colah @ Holland Reserve 5/12/2009
3. 215 by John Chadwick C1 1952/53
4. 211 by Russel Ingram C2 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Mimosa Oval 1/11/2009
5. 205 by Rob Gailey C1 Grade 1991/92.

Some other facts about this innings:

Boundaries

• 32 x 4’s for 128 runs
• 7 x 6’s for 42 runs
• Total = 170 runs

In Russel’s previous score of 211 he hit 164 in boundaries. So in 2 games he has hit 334 runs in boundaries (232 in 4s) and (102 in 6s)

Records
In addition to Russel’s score he and Chris Williamson put on a record opening partnership of 333 runs. How about this for record breaking:
• This smashed the previous Association C2 1st wicket record on 184 set in 2007/08
• It also broke the Club C2 1st wicket partnership of 183 set by Andrew Mckinnon and Andrew Clarke in 2004
• It is also the highest partnership for any wicket in all Grades for West Penno- beating the 300* between Jim Fuggle (Jnr) and Len Ward (B1) in1987/88)
• It is also the 5th highest partnership in the association (all Grades). The others being:

Highest partnerships
1. 427 B2 7th wicket Final 1990/91
2. 358 C1 1st wicket 1990/91
3. 357 D1 1st wicket 1991/92
4. 336 A2 4th wicket 1986/87
5. 333 C2 Russel and Chris

Another double hundred
A different 200 was also scored on the weekend. Daniel Anderson (DA) played for the U15 Blue in the morning and scored 81* (74 on Saturday) before the innings was declared. In the afternoon for C1 he opened the batting and scored 134* - 208 on the same day. This is the first time in our history that a Junior has scored 200+ runs (either an innings or aggregate score) in a day.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 6 are:
• 9 Points:
o Rowan Keating (B1)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
• 8 points
o Matt Scoular (B1)
• 7 points:
o Tom Blissenden (Colts Red)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Michael McGregor (A2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Alan Raffel (D1)
o Tim Scoular (Colts Blue)
o Sam Thariana (D2)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 6 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 363 @ 90.75 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 310 @ 38.75 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 280 @ 46.67 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
4. 277 @ 69.25 – Matt Scoular (B1)
5. 276 @ 39.43 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 251 @ 50.20 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
7. 229 @ 45.80 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
8. 219 @ 36.50 – Ankit Grover (D2)
9. 181 @ 45.25 – Vishnu Ratnam (C3)
10. 181 @ 36.20 – Chetan Bhatt (D1 & C3)
11. 181 @ 36.20 – Rowan Keating (B1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 19 @ 8.68 – Matt Dawson (A1)
2. 19 @ 10.32 – Rowan Keating (B1)
3. 18 @ 9.67 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
4. 16 @ 11.8 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
5. 16 @ 7.75 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 16 @ 13.52 – John Steel (C1)
7. 14 @ 15.21 – Chris Williamson (C2)
8. 14 @ 15.14 – Matt Spalding (A1)
9. 13 @ 17.69 – Rowan Dixit (A2)
10. 13 @ 16.23 – Geoff Richards (B2)
11. 13 @ 16.08 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
12. 13 @ 17.0 – Nik Suresh (D2)

Top 4 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
2. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
3. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
4. 5 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Competition table
Standings after Round 6 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 3rd
• C2 = 3rd
• C3:
o Blue: 2nd
o White 1st
• D1: 3rd
• D2: = 5th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 except D2 who are just out of the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
• Chris Williamson who scored his 1,000 runs in Seniors
• Scott Jobson who took his 100th wicket

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,927 runs – 73 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,842 runs – 158 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamsi
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Level 1 Coaching Course
Cricket NSW is conducting another Level 1 Training Course. This is a sought after qualification for those interested in Coaching. Details are:
• When: Sunday 7th February 2010
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby heights
• Time: 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
• Cost: $120

If you are coaching a WPHC side we pay for the cost.

If you are interested then just let Ross Anderson know at wisden@bigpond.com

Well done Matt
Congratulations to Matt and Emma Nolan who are now the parents of a 3rd child – Frances Clare. This means that Matt is now building a Girl’s cricket team with Frances having 2 sisters: Maeve and Niamh.

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only two Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
Significant performances to come.

Seniors Results
A1 147 & 0/26 defeated on 1st innings Berowra 66 (overnight score) – after taking a first innings lead of 80-odd last week, we stretched that to 230 before declaring 9 down. Gav Taylor scored 44, supported by Nick Bennett, Alex Robertson James Makin scoring 20-odd each. Berowra were a little more stubborn in their second innings, and a few early wickets and quick runs kept things interesting for both sides. Then a tight spell by Matt Spalding and Smokey Dawson killed Berowra’s chances of winning but they were able to survive until stumps 4 wickets down. A tough match against Kenthurst next week.

A2 127 & 5/135 tied with ARL127 – we were able to pick up a few quick wickets early this afternoon to leave them 9/102, with them needing 128 to win and us just the one wicket. Out comes their number 11 swinging the bat, and was able to slog away 17 runs before being trapped in front by Matt Jobson at the scores level. An amazing outcome, but felt we had a good chance to wrap the game up and was very frustrating to last place ARL get away with another one, similar to round 1. They put us into bat with no real chance of an outright for any side. Michael McGregor top scored with 37, continuing his good form, and Darren Morrow was the pick of the bowlers today with 4/42. Nonetheless we are still undefeated, and depending on results this weekend are hopefully still in 2nd place.

Colts Red Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – no game this weekend – Schoolies.

Colts Blue Vs Kissing Point – no game this weekend – Schoolies.

B1 9/261 defeated Berowra 143 & 3/81 – commencing at 4/72 we started the day well passing Berowra's total without losing a wicket. Scott Jobson played a controlled innings of 25, holding the innings together well. Rowan Keating, backing up from his 4 wicket haul last week, hit out with a great knock of 73. Matt Scoular coming in as a Week 2 player did some damage finishing 63 not out before we closed the innings at 9/261 dec. In the field we took an early wicket, but Berowra put up a good fight finishing with 3/81 before we called it a day. A great win consolidating our position in the top 4.

B2 5/244 defeated Berowra 241 – another powerful display with the bat from the boys, with a great chase being built on some solid partnerships. Resuming today at 1/39, we took the score along to 72, before we lost our first wicket, that of Geoff Starr for 40. Another couple of wickets fell relatively quickly and left the game in the balance with us at 4/115. However, a strong partnership of 63 between Nick Starr (70) and Adam Walter (62*) saw us to 178 before Nick was dismissed shortly before tea. Adam was then joined by James McBrien (24*), and their unbeaten stand of 66 saw us home in the 59th over. A huge thanks to Isaac Malamel, David Creais and Chris Creais who have helped us out over the last couple of weeks, it is much appreciated.

C1 7/198 defeated Castle Hill 193 – a solid hit out after 2 losses against Teams we should have beaten. This win was actually more comfortable than the scores indicate. After a 76 run 2nd wicket partnership between Kishore Rampersad (47) and Ross A (42), we put consistent partnerships together led by Dinesh de Silva 30, and Eric Junkkari with 25. With a strong middle order the key is to get a good platform and this was achieved this match. After slipping out of the top 4 for the 1st time last match the win puts us back in the running.

C2 6/203 defeated Kissing Point 186 and 5/140 – after bowling Kissing Point out for 186 last week we continued our innings from 1/66. Good contributions by all the batsmen had us reach their score in the 35th over. Best for us were Russell Ingram 41, Narendra Kulkarni 38, Chris Williamson 35, Ashane De Suilva 26, Peter Heidegger 25. We decided to try for the outright, but they managed to reach 5/140 before we called it a day.

C3
White 2/269 dec defeated outright innings St Ives 116 & 106 – a comfortable outright win for C3 White vs an undermanned St Ives. Resuming on day 2 on 2/198 (after dismissing St Ives for 116), we batted for 10 overs to declare at 2/269. Brendan Harkin (53 no) & Riley Miedler (44 no) put the opposition to the sword to give us a big lead with plenty of overs remaining in the day. Needing only 7 wickets to force an outright, Brett Hawkins was in top form taking 3/35. Other wicket takers were Ashane De Silva (2/17), Riley Miedler & Luke Herzog (both 1/15), as we bowled St Ives out for 106 in the 28th over. The win will likely put us into top spot..

Blue 5/102 defeated Berowra 151 – Day 2 we needed 53 to secure the 1st innings, and 5 batsmen left and we felt that we could do it and just managed 10/159. Berowra went back in to bat and the fun began;Arun and Rahul opened the bowling followed by Vikas, Ian & Vishnuu. Rahul finished with 6/30, which included Four in a row or a Double Hat-Trick, followed by Arun, Vikas and Ian each taking a wicket. We managed to wrap them up for 127.
We went in to bat and ran out of time we finished with 4/78. Looking forward to meeting Berowra again later in the comp.

D1 264 defeated St Ives238 – we turned up this week expecting an easy game, having the opposition 3 for 17 last week chasing 264. But a really good partnership got them close at 200 for 4. A good over from Perry Waldron broke the partnership and the boys kept working hard in the field, the rest is history. Notable performances were from Peter Dick (27) and Mathew Dick (40) for a good steady partnership when we needed it the most. Additionally Lachlan Vile made 43 and Perry Waldron made 35 not out. With the ball, Graham Auld 2-34 and David Behelevanas 2-11 were the pick of the bowlers. This win consolidates our position in the top 4. This team continues to improve weekly and we look forward to continue the progress.

D2 190 lost to Kissing Point 7/208 – this was always going to be a tough one, and so it proved, as we confronted the strength of Kissing Point's batting in 39 degree heat. We put up a great fight but, in the end, our total of 190 proved just too little to defend. Nikhil Suresh was the best of our bowlers, taking 4 - 35, including all the big wickets; Ankit Grover bowled superbly all afternoon, unlucky to take just 2 - 37; Joshua Murray-Howard claimed 1 - 50, while Niranjan Sundararaj, though wicketless, provided invaluable support and shone in the slips where he took two great catches; Sam Shearer also taking another fine catch in the deep. Altogether a fine team effort in the toughest conditions sees us beaten but unbowed. Next week we face competition leaders Kenthurst: time for us to dig deep, as I know we will.

History repeating itself
Some strange things happen when our A2 side plays against ARL in terms of numbers. Some amazing stats follow from Matt Jobson.

In the 2007/08 Semi Final against ARL we managed to bowl them out for 57 for 21.3 overs, and then again in their second dig for 57 in 21.3 overs, the exact same score and exact same number of deliveries. Pretty rare you'd say.

Now this match, after being dismissed for 127 off 43.4 overs last week, we bowled ARL all out for 127 off 43.4 overs today. Surely not. Add to that, the last wicket today was an lbw by Matt Jobson, which was the exact same way the last wicket fell in ARL's 2nd innings back in 2007/08!

Adam Walter – the sequel
A couple of Updates ago we reported that Adam Walter (B2) got a golden duck in our massive score of 430. In this match Adam said “No matter what, I am going to block the first ball.” True to his word, he got in behind the half-tracked and knocked it back down the pitch. After that, however, he belted the ball to all parts to score an unbeaten 62, including one coming perilously close to killing Lachlan McBrien who was umpiring at the bowler’s end.

The Cinderella Chronicles
Last round there was a great story about Josh Kleinhans (B1) who left his shoes behind and after a Cinderella type search for a pair that fitted went out and hammered 60 odd runs.

Fast forward to this game. Midnight had come and gone since the last match and reality strikes. After his heroics and a match winning knock last round, Josh unfortunately remembered his cricket shoes this week. This proved costly as he was bowled for a golden duck.

Man-eating crabs
Got to hand it to Jas Singh (C1 opening bowler). For those who don’t know, Jas has a phobia about anything that moves – magpies being noteworthy. Anyway, Eric Junkkari was telling a story about a TV show he saw that that observed that crab fisherman had one of the highest death rates of any occupation. Jas showed why he is a fast bowler and jumped straight to the real issue – his comment “how big were the crabs”.

A good head for radio
Last week we reported that Andrew Watt (C1) was selected as one of a 20 people to be the 12th man for the All Stars T/20 game against Australia last weekend. Everything went well until a trial media interview. That was the end of that. As they say in the classics ‘a great head for radio’.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 4 are:
• 9 Points:
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
o John Steel (C1)
• 8 pointso Chris Williamson (C2)
• 7 points:o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Alan Raffel (D1)
o Matt Scoular (B1)
o Same Thariana (D2)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 5 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 363 @ 90.75 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 310 @ 38.75 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 256 @ 51.20 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
4. 251 @ 50.20 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
5. 239 @ 39.83 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 229 @ 45.80 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
7. 219 @ 36.50 – Ankit Grover (D2)
8. 214 @ 53.50 – Matt Scoular (B1)
9. 174 @ 58.00 – Vishnu Ratnam (C3)
10. 167 @ 33.40 – Tim Rae (A2)
11. 161 @ 40.25 – Faisal Shamsi (D1)
12. 161 @ 40.25 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 16 @ 8.88 – Matt Dawson (A1)
2. 15 @ 9.33 – Rowan Keating (B1)
3. 14 @ 6.57 – Tim Starr (B2)
4. 13 @ 17.69 – Rowan Dixit (A2)
5. 13 @ 14.23 – John Steel (C1)
6. 12 @ 14.75 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
7. 12 @ 14.75 – Arkit Grover (D2)
8. 11 @ 16.00 – Chris Williamson (C2)
9. 11 @ 12.45 – Dylan Brogan (Colts & A1)
10. 11 @ 11.36 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
11. 11 @ 11.18 – Geoff Richards (B2)
12. 11 @ 10.91 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
2. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
3. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
4. 4 – James McBrien (B2)
5. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
6. 4 – Michael McGregor (A2)
7. 4 – Andrew Miedler (C3)

Competition table
Unconfirmed standings after Round 6 are:
• A1: 2nd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 3rd
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o Blue: 2nd
o White 3rd
• D1: 2nd
• D2: = 4th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
• Chris Williamson who scored his 1,000 runs in Seniors
• Scott Jobson who took his 100th wicket

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,927 runs – 73 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,842 runs – 158 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamsi
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
How about our U13 Blue side. For a couple of years results have been hard to come by and they even lost a game 2 Rounds ago outright. But after a lot of perseverance they won on the weekend – and got an outright in the process – their first ever. Well done fella’s.

Seniors Results
A1 147 and 0/26 Vs Berowra 66 – our rollercoaster season continued. We batted first and were bowled out for 147. Despite the heat the pitch was a little damp and had plenty of grass. Alex Robertson scored 52 on A-Grade debut and Smoke scored 31. We then ripped Berowra apart for 66. Matt Spalding and Scott Henderson were awesome and had them 6 for 15 at one point. Spaldo finished with 5, Hendo 3 and Smoke Dawson 2. We’re 0/26 in our second innings.

A2 127 Vs ARL – 5/53 – after winning the toss we elected to bat on a very grassy deck at the Glade. We started off quite badly, losing early wickets and being 6/54 at one point. We ended up with a decent score, on a pitch that offered everything to the bowlers, thanks to Tim Rae who played a very controlled and errorless innings with 63 in the middle order. This allowed us 29 overs for our bowlers to have a dig at the ARL top order. Wickets were spread around and we were unlucky not to get a few more as we bowled very tightly, getting the ball in the right areas. Definitely a big chance to win this one, and could quite possibly be decided on 2nd innings.

Colts Red 83 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 113 – not much to report on this one. We were able to keep Normanhurst to a low score on a poor, cracking strip. Unfortunately Normanhurst dismissed us for an even lower score with the pitch getting progressively worse and lower. The highlight was Carl Madsen's 4/14.

Colts Blue 1/73 defeated Kissing Point 71 – a Turramurra special awaited us as we rocked up on Sunday, the pitch consisted of dust or long grass and not much in between. Winning the toss, stand in skipper Tim Scoular was greedily eyeing wickets and sent Kissing Point into bat. However, a decent start from Kissing Point's opening batsmen had them looking comfortable at 0/37 after 15 overs. However Michael Dale stepped up with the ball and picked up 5-21 with Chris Milojevic taking 3 sharp chances behind the stumps. Shashankh kept the pressure up from the other end and with only 7 batsmen, Kissing Point were all out for 71, nothing should be taken for granted at Turramurra though, and the early loss of Chris Milojevic created a few nervous faces however Sam Klienhans (34) and Michael Dale (29) delivered us home safely from 15 overs, without losing their wickets. Congrats boys on our first win for the season.

B1 4/72 Vs Berowra 143 – a good all-round effort from the boys in some testing conditions. After winning the toss and deciding to bowl we consistently took wickets through some great bowling by all the bowlers,Rowan Keating 4/40 of 14, Ryan Cherrie 1/19 off 12, James Kealy 2/19 off 9 and Scott Jobson 3/36 off 12. These guys did a fantastic job as we were probably one bowler short and maintained the pressure as we bundled Berowra out for 143 a below par total on a fast Thornleigh oval. Our innings again started poorly in which we were 3/26 at one stage, but a nice cameo from Tim Worthington 33 has put us into a good position and with 2 batsmen coming into the side for wk2 we should reach our Berowra’s total with some sensible and disciplined batting. This is a great chance for us to really consolidate our position in the top 4.

B2 1/39 Vs Berowra 240 - a long, tough, hot day on a very fast field, we did well to restrict them, where anything through the infield rockets to the fence. Pick of the bowlers was Duncan Moore (3/38), with Geoff Richards (2/26), Nick Starr, Isaac Malamar, Tim Starr and James McBrien (1 each) also chipping in, with James also holding on to 2 catches, taking his tally to 6 for the season. Going in and batting out 10 overs, Alex “Fathead” Connell (15) was the only casualty, with Nick and Geoff Starr both 11*. A good chance next week on a fast outfield with a batting lineup coming off 400+ in our last dig.

C1 1/63 Vs Castle Hill 193 – a very good effort at a hot, windless Gilroy Oval. Losing the toss we got the worst of the conditions and fielded. Apart from a brief session where one of their hitters made an impact we took wickets regularly with all the bowlers chipping in. Jas Singh bowled very well getting a lot of edges and getting 2 to be held. John Steel again ran in hard and took 3 wickets. Add to this Craig Hutchinson who got 2 and also slowed the run rate down and 193 on a reasonably fast outfield and we would have taken 193 at the beginning of the match. Our turn to bat and see through the remaining 24 overs. After an early wicket, Kishore with 15* and Ross A 36* saw through the overs to have us in a very good position overnight.

C2 1/66 Vs Kissing Point 186 – we rolled Kissing Point for 187. 112 of that by the Captain (and he was dropped/few half chances reasonably early as well), next best score of 12. Chris Williamson best of bowlers with 3/33. Jacques was also good getting 2/12 off his only 5 over spell at the start. Batting in reply we had 20 overs to face with Russell Ingram coming out with intent, blasting 41 in 6 or 7 overs. We then steadied to finish overnight with Chris Wliimason and Amesh currently in. We are well placed to win this one, sensible batting should get us there-pending on how quick we score and can maybe then bowl them out.

C3
White 2/198 defeated St Ives 116 - after losing the toss in 40 degree heat on a flat Headon deck, we could have easily dropped our heads and expected a long afternoon in the sun. However, we buckled down, and played good positive cricket, in a re-match of last years C2 Final. We took wickets at regular intervals, dismissing St Ives for 116 in only 28 overs. Bowling honours were shared by Ashane De Silva (3/21), Taki Manolelis (3/32) & Brett Hawkins (2/28). The key was our plan of just keeping it simple and bowling at the stumps....it paid dividends with 7 bowled's, 1 LBW & 1 caught behind. Our turn to bat, and we did a great job of grinding them into the dirt. Kramer Richards (73) & Pratah Sinnetamby (71) put on 139 for the first wicket. We finished the day at 2/198, and are certainly looking build on that lead with quick runs next week as we push for an outright result.

Blue 5/102 Vs Berowra 151 – well winning the toss seems to be getting harder, I lost it again and guess where we ended up, yes, fielding in this heat.
It took a few overs for us break the openers, but we also need to practice our catching as we dropped a few today. Once the first couple of wickets fell, there was a partnership that kept us busy, but we were able to finish them in 40 overs for 151. Arun the King of swing finished with 4/22, Vikas bagged himself 2/19 follwed by Vishnu, Rahul & Ian each taking a wicket.

Batting got off to a shakey start, but Vikas and Vishnu soon took charge, Vikas lost his fight to a great catch & Vishnu lost his wicket caught behind, Rahul & Ian are batting & should be able to see us through to the total. We finished the day on 5/102.

D1 264 Vs St Ives3/17 – we won the toss and elected to bat first at Bannockburn Oval and once again a good team effort. Most pleasing of all is that the run makers this week were different from those in previous games. We have a few players away this round but are well placed, should we manage to attain a few early wickets again next week. A win here will consolidate our position in the top 4.

D2 190 Vs Kissing Point 2/20 – with a scorching temperature predicted this was a very good toss to win, our decision to bat straightforward though our middle order was somewhat depleted and our tail-end rather long. Despite the loss of early wickets our batting was held together by another fine innings from Niranjan Sundararaj whose 90 runs kept us in the game. Along the way he was ably assisted by Sam Thariani (22) and Luke Christensen (15), who made good his promise at the nets last Thursday to “bat responsibly this week”, while Nikhil Suresh (8) played a handy rearguard innings with the tail. Our total of 190, while a lot less than we might have hoped for, still gives our bowlers something worthwhile to defend.

That defence began well when both our opening bowlers, Joshua Murray-Howard and Ankit Grover rose to the challenge, each claiming a wicket to have Kissing Point 2-20 and the game balanced on a knife’s edge at stumps.

The final day of this match may present us with our toughest challenge yet as our bowling attack, assembled at full strength for the first time this season, prepares to defend our modest total against a Kissing Point team that has plenty of solid batting yet to come. The stage looks set for yet another thrilling finish.

Watties – Australian All Star
Got to hand it to Andrew Watts (C1). After getting a random email seeking people interested in playing as 12th man for the ACA All Stars Vs Aus XI Twenty/20 match. Live on Ch 9 Sunday night 22/11. In the words of Andrew:

“Basically I entered a competition and was selected as 1 of 20 people to fly to Brisbane on Friday to take part in "a game of skill" which is basically a net session (bowling 5 overs, batting 20 mins and some fielding) against the other 19 to be selected by people from the ACA and Johnnie Walker. If I don't make it then I just get to hang in Brisbane( 5 star hotel) for the weekend and go to the game then fly home on Monday.

So everyone, stay tuned to see if Andrew becomes our first Australian All Star”

“John’s catch”
Just picture it. A high ball goes up between John Mitchell and John Steel (C1) with both running for the catch off a player who was starting to motor along. A fielder calls out “John’s Catch” problem is they are both John’s so both kept going for the catch. Fortunately the catch was taken by John Mitchell with a collision all but happening.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 5 are:
• 9 Points:
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
o John Steel (C1)
• 8 points
o Chris Williamson (C2)
• 7 points:
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Nick Patel (C2)
o Alan Raffel (D1)
o Matt Scoular (B1)
o Same Thariana (D2)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 3 results follow. Round 4 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 322 @ 107.33 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 288 @ 41.40 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 246 @ 61.50 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
4. 226 @ 56.50 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 219 @ 43.80 – Michael McGregor (A2)
6. 216 @ 43.20 – Ankit Grover (D2)
7. 214 @ 53.50 – Matt Scoular (B1)
8. 161 @ 40.25 – Faisal Shamsi (D1)
9. 161 @ 40.25 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
10. 158 @ 59.50 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 16 @ 8.88 – Matt Dawson (A1)
2. 15 @ 9.33 – Rowan Keating (B1)
3. 14 @ 6.57 – Tim Starr (B2)
4. 13 @ 17.69 – Rowan Dixit (A2)
5. 13 @ 14.23 – John Steel (C1)
6. 12 @ 14.75 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
7. 12 @ 14.75 – Arkit Grover (D2)
8. 11 @ 16.00 – Chris Williamson (C2)
9. 11 @ 12.45 – Dylan Brogan (Colts & A1)
10. 11 @ 11.36 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
11. 11 @ 11.18 – Geoff Richards (B2)
12. 11 @ 10.91 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
2. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
3. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
4. 4 – James McBrien (B2)
5. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
6. 4 – Michael McGregor (A2)
7. 4 – Andrew Miedler (C3)

Competition table
After 5 Rounds standings are:
• A1: = 3rd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: =1st
• C1: 5th
• C2 3rd
• C3:
o Blue: 2nd
o White 3rd
• D1: 4th
• D2: 3rd

To have 11 of our 12 teams in the top 4 with Colts just out of the top group is an amazing effort.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
Chris Williamson who scored his 1,000 runs in Seniors.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09
Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,926 runs – 74 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,842 runs – 158 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamsi
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

North Sydney Oval Big Bash - this Sunday
The North Sydney District Cricket Club has invited our Club members to come along to North Sydney Oval on November 22, 2009 for Round 3 of the Sydney Cricket Association Twenty20 competition.

Commencing with the U21 (Poidevin Gray) at 11am, followed by First Grade at 2:30pm a great day's cricket is promised featuring NSW Representatives Grant Lambert & Doug Bollinger(depending on Test duties) & ACT Comets all – rounder Josh Kentwell high quality cricket will be a highlight.

Admission is free & a BBQ will be operating.

Bring the family along for a great day of local cricket!

Seniors Results
A1 Vs Kissing Point – results to come.

A2 7/299 defeated Wahroonga 184 and 5/89 – we managed to pass their score only 3 wickets down, and upped the ante to push ourselves to around 115 ahead. Michael McGregor and James Fiedler put on 120 and batted very sensibly with scores of 78 and 63 respectively. Great support from our debutant Michael Quieros who added 48 in no time, along with some handy runs down the order. This gave us 23 overs to have a crack, Jobbo ended up with 2 wickets along with Rowee Dixit - unfortunately not getting the outright points but improving our quotient all the same. A top effort, still undefeated so far this season.

Colts Red 236 defeated WPHC Blue 129 – after being 3/19 the reds posted an impressive score with Tom Blissenden top scoring with 64. In the bowling, Tim Scoular struck early for the Red team and took his wicket tally for the match to an impressive 5 for just 32. The game opened up before Adam Hutchings 25 and Isaac Malamel 18 took the total to a point where both teams decided that getting out of the heat was the best decision to make with an outright result for either side looking improbable.

B1 181 defeated Kissing Point 136 – resuming at 5/96 against the team coming 2nd this a great effort from the boys. Our day started badly losing Matt Scoular for 40 in the 3rd over of the day. Enter Josh "Cinderella" Kleinhans and Andrew "Pat" Graham. These guys combined for a vital 30 run partnership to get us within 7 runs of victory. Both managed to be dismissed with 7 runs needed to poor shots. Andrew Joyce pulled the team over the line with a 6 to pass KP's score. He continued some entertaining stroke-play and ended up on 37 runs as the innings closed with us on 181. In the heat and with around 50 overs left in the game we called it a day.

B2 430 defeated outright Castle Hill 73 & 113 – a massive win by an innings and 244 – one of our biggest wins which will give us a bit of breathing space on top of the table. Castle Hill (with only 10 players) was never in the hunt, being reduced to 4/16 from 9 overs in the first innings before being bowled out for 73 in just 22.3 overs. Wickets were fairly evenly shared, with Geoff Richards (3/10), Tim Starr (3/17), Mark Bennett (2/27) and Ben McNamara (1/21) the only bowlers required, with 6 of the 9 wickets to fall being bowled.

Come the second innings, and there was little more resistance from the batsmen, as they were again rolled in 22.4 overs for 113, with some good catches By James McBrien and Tim Starr, coupled with brilliant bowling from Lachlan McBrien (4/13), Mark Bennett (2/13), Geoff Richards, Duncan Moore and Ben McNamara (1 each) saw the game over well before 5pm, in what is likely to be one of the most dominant performances of the season.

C1 142 lost to Kissing Point 188– starting the day with 5 wickets in hand to 107 runs on a small fast ground was well within our range but we fell short in a game we should have won. In the batting, Wayne Seabrook gave a Masterclass of 32 before reaching his retirement score and there were a few other cameo’s with Nathan Fathers 32 and a couple of 20’s but just too many soft dismissals. The season starts again next week when we can perform to the level that we know we can in the batting stakes.

C2 6/123 defeated Castle Hill 121 a one day game following last weeks wash out. Lost the toss and bowled first. After twenty over’s CH were 2/71, enter Fergus Waterson 3/17 and Narendra Kulkarni 2/21 who turned the innings around for us, supported by great fielding from all but especially Mark Bell with two great catches and a run-out. Our turn to bat and a slow start and the loss of 4 wickets inside the first twenty over’s had us behind on the run chase. Up steps Steve Baker (29) who guided the innings to a successful end with support from Chris Williamson (20), Nikunj Patel (18) and Fergus Waterson(16*). A great team effort today that will put us into the top 4.

C3
White 8/192 drew with Mt Colah 8/303 – we scraped through with a draw today against top of the table Mt Colah who resumed at 7/255 today & took their score to 8 dec 303 via a quick 6-over slog-a-thon. Best bowler was Taki Manolelis with 3/56. We were a player short today, so needing 304 off 66 overs with 9 wickets in hand was always going to be tough. We were off to a great start with Pratah Sinnetamby (26), Gareth Linaker (54) & Dave Creais (34) all batting well, seeing us through to Tea at 1/110. Our plan was to have wickets in hand for a strong push at the target in the final 20-overs, however that didn't eventuate. We lost regular wickets through the afternoon session, and found ourselves struggling to hang on. In the end, Riley Miedler & Brett Hawkins held off the opposition and we finished at 8/192.

Blue defeated Kissing Point 127 – playing a team that really made it hard to enjoy the game we reached the required score to win the game and just to give them some more reasons to complain, we commenced with some batting
practice, Claudio finished on 37 runs, Vishnu retired on 51, Gary Robinson end not out with a well earned 30 and as quick as Arun arrived, he hit a quick 28 runs before being caught.

D1 6/248 defeated Kissing Point 197 – our team is starting to find form, and most pleasing is that the good performances have come from different players across the entire team. The players are getting better every week and the depth that we are beginning to develop will stand us in good stead for the remainder of the season. All honours for this game go to Graham Auld for a memorable bowling performance where he took 4 wickets when we needed them the most, supported by good batting performances that included Faisal’s 84 and Allan Raffel’s 57.

D2 8/237 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee 9/238 – our injury-depleted bowling attack had to dig deep against some strong batting from Normanhurst in the final day of this match. A great, sustained effort from Niranjan Sundararaj (3-46), Ankit Grover (2-45), Joshua Murray-Howard (1-31) and Nikhil Suresh (1-54) kept us fighting right down to the wire in a truly thrilling finish. Sam Thariani put in another great day behind the stumps, unlucky not to be credited with a third caught-behind, while our fielders in the deep performed prodigies.

Cinderella's Day at the Cricket
After turning up to Howson oval this week without his cricket shoes, Josh Kleinhans (B1) decided to make a dash home to retrieve his shoes. He left the ground at 12:40pm and after 2 minutes of driving decided , thankfully, to return back to the ground as he was not going to make it there and back in time to bat, as he was not out from last week.

During his short journey the Captain Matt Thorndyke discovered what Josh had done and stated "if he doesn’t come back in time he’s not playing ever again." After returning to the ground, where he received a round of applause from the boys for common sense, he trialled several of the boys shoes and he put on the Captains and decided to use them.

The shoes which must be magical, allowed Josh to finally score some runs and he ended up with 34, a crucial innings. After returning to the sheds he discovered that he had been renamed Cinderella in the scorebook a name he will surely have to endure for the rest of the season.

When things go against you....
Spare a thought (just a small one) for Castle Hill B2 playing our imposing unit. After we score a near record 430 last week they turn up to Greenway Park that was now top dressed. In the words of Adam Walter, our 430 “was like chasing 600”. Not hard to understand that we ended up winning outright before 5.00 pm on day 2.

The Bruise Brother – or ‘a Pom never learns’
After infamously displaying his bruises last season to the boys and some people walking their dogs at Greenway, Paul Tilley (B1) was at it again showing his bruises from last week to the boys. Hopefully none of the juniors still at Howson were watching as PT took off his shirt and proudly showed everyone his bruises and talked everyone through how he got them batting last week. Maybe someone should tell Paul that the thing he has in his hand while batting is a bat that is meant for hitting the ball.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 4 are:
• 9 Points:
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 7 points:
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
• 6 points:
o Russell Smith (C3 Blue)
o Rowan Keating (B1)
o Russell Ingram (C2)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3 White)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamsom (C2)
o Chris Milojevic (Colts Blue)
o Alan Raffel (D1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 4 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 322 @ 107.33 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 288 @ 441.40 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 246 @ 82.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
4. 226 @ 56.50 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 216 @ 43.20 – Ankit Grover (D2)
6. 214 @ 71.33 – Matt Scoular (B1)
7. 161 @ 40.25 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
8. 160 @ 40.00 – Michael McGregor (A2)
9. 148 @ 37.00 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 141 @ 141.00 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 15 @ 9.33 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 13 @ 8.08 – Matt Dawson (A1)
3. 13 @ 14.23 – John Steel (C1)
4. 11 @ 6.82 – Tim Starr (B2)
5. 11 @ 11.36 – Andrew Joyce (B1)
6. 11 @ 17.45 – Rowan Dixit (A2)
7. 10 @ 16.90 – Chris Williamson (C2)
8. 10 @ 8.10 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
9. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
10. 10 @ 15.00 – Ben Pilipowski (D2)
11. 10 @ 13.20 – Arkit Grover (D2)
12. 10 @ 12.30 – Dylan Brogan (Colts & A1)
13. 10 @ 11.60 – Scott Henderson (A1)
14. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
15. 10 @ 15.00 – Ben Pilopowski (D2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 4 – Mark Bell (C2)
4. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Competition table
After 4 rounds you start to get a feel for how Teams are landing. We are going very well with standings are;
• A1: 2nd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 4th
• B2: =1st
• C1: 4th
• C2: =4th
• C3; 4th
• D1: 4th
• D2: 3rd

To have 11 of our 12 teams in the top 4 with Colts just out of the top group is an amazing effort.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
John Mitchell who took his 50th career wicket for our Club.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 7 to his 1,000
• Faisal Shamis – 51 to 1,000 runs

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09
Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,926 runs – 74 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,816 runs – 184 runs to 2,000

Eric Junkkari
C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis
D1 949 runs – 51 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 87 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 993 runs – 7 to 1,000 career runs

Northern District Test Match lunch
The Annual Test Match lunch run by our parent Club Northern District is on again and we have been invited to have a table. Details are;
• When: Friday 27th November
• Where: Hornsby RSL
• Time: 12.00 noon to whenever
• Cost: $100 (includes food and drink)
• Clothing: collar and tie

Guest speakers will be Doug Walters and Wayne Phillips – very entertaining speakers.

If interested then please get back to Ross Anderson – it should be great fun.

Juniors
Significant scores to follow.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade Vs Kissing Point – results to come.

A2 2/80 Vs Wahroonga 184 – another big game with 2 (us) Vs 4 in the Comp. After losing the toss and being put into field we did well to restrict Wahroonga to 184 on a fast Thornleigh Oval. Bowling honours went to Rohan Dixit who continues his great form with 4/40 off 14, supported well by Darren Morrow with 2 wickets. After clocking up 20 runs in the first two overs we got off to a great start. James Fiedler and Michael McGregor remain at the crease with just 106 more to get - definitely achievable on this fast outfield.

Colts Red 4/150 defeated WPHC Blue 129 – day 1 of the WPHC Colts 'derby' was played in good spirits and fortunes swung a few times along the way. Parneet Bhatia, Isaac Malamel and Tom Blissenden took two wickets each to put the Red team in control but an aggressive 43 from Taylor Paton took the Blue team's total to 129 on a pitch that wasn't totally predictable. The Blue’s bowling attack, lead by Tim Scoular who's first 8 over spell returned 3/6, took the initiative early. Tom Blissenden, however, backed up his bowling performance with an excellent 62no and along with Sam Croft 27no and Rob Aitken 26 managed to pass the first innings target.

B1 5/96 Vs Kissing Point 132 – we won the toss and bowled in overcast conditions in a big match with 4 (us) Vs number 2. The move paid off as we soon had Kissing Point 6 down for just 32 runs through some great bowling from Rowan Keating and Andrew Joyce (AJ). But the pressure was released somewhat as we allowed Kissing Point to reach 132 before finally closing the innings. AJ was the star taking 5/39 with great assistance from Keats 3/26. Our chase started badly as we lost 2 quick wickets to leave us 2/4 and continued to lose wickets through some absolutely pathetic stroke play but Matt Scoular has settled the innings and still remains unbeaten on 40. We are 5/96 at the close and are looking forward to reaching the target of 137 with just 41 runs needed. This is really our game to lose at this stage and some sound disciplined batting with get us over the line and consolidate our place in the top 4.

B2 430 Vs Castle Hill – a fantastic day from our blokes, racking up a mammoth first innings score of 430 at Greenway. Good contributions from all batsmen, with Duncan Moore (76*), Tim Starr (56), James and Lachlan McBrien (both 47), Mark Bennett (39), Geoff Starr (36) and Nick Starr (27) laying the platform for what should be a good chance for plenty of points next week. Special mention must also go to Ben McNamara who, batting at 11, joined in the party by hitting a 6 of his own. Now to finish this one off. More about this score later in the update.

C1 5/88 Vs Kissing Point 188– a funny sort of game played on the small and fast Mimosa Oval. We bowled well with John Steel (3/47) and Craig Hutchinson 3/38(leading the way). John Mitchell with his 2/20 also took his 50th wicket for the Club. Given that this is a 300 plus run chase ground we go ourselves into a bit of trouble batting out the 28 overs left in the day. We are a few players down this match but most players got themselves out to the wrong shot. With Nathan Fathers still there on 33 and with good batting to come including Dinesh de Silva being available day 2 this is still well within our range.

C2 Vs Castle Hill – Sunday round – results to come.

C3
White Vs Mt Colah 7/255 – against top-of-the-table Mt Colah, we sent them in on a fairly heavy ground, but it appeared our legs were the ones getting heavy throughout the day. With many of our juniors backing up from fielding in the morning, we were unable to take a stream of regular wickets. Best of the bowlers was Taki Manolelis (2/34). Riley Miedler (2), Brandon Jack (on senior debut), Brett Hawkins & Andrew F (one each) were the other wicket takers, though all found the going pretty hard on an unforgiving (narrow) Foxglove track. We created plenty of chances, but we spilled far too many of them. Heads down for a big run chase next week.

Blue 2/51 Vs Kissing Point 127 – a great day to sit & watch the team play cricket today & it was great watching a bunch of guys come together as a team & take control. We won the toss & elected to back ourselves by bowling. It started with some wayward bowling & then Rahul decided he did not want to spend all day in the field & finished today on 3/16, Arun Kumar had the ball swinging & the opposition guessing while he finished on 3/36. Vikas Manchanda was not going to be left out & broke a partnership that was starting to gain some momentum & ended his day on 3/18. Claudio van Blerk was back & rejuvenated after HSC & his bowling figures were 2/19, which included an awesome caught & bowled & while helping out behind the stumps assisted with a great stumping. We went in to bat with 22 overs to the end of the day & left stumps at 2/51 with both Chetan Bhatt & Claudio still at stumps. Looking forward to next week.

D1 0/51 Vs Kissing Point 198 – a standout performances from Grahame Auld 4/27 and Roger Friend 3/43. A solid recovery where at one stage they were 137 for 2 but our bowlers stuck to their tasks and never gave up to dismiss them for 198. Outstanding performances by Grahame Auld and Roger Friend helped us contain them to a moderately low score, given that the boundaries at Northolm Grammar insisted on by the Kissing Point captain make it the smallest ground that we have played on all year. A win here will put us comfortably in the top 4 so a big match for us.

D2 8/237 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – another fine batting performance from our upper and middle order saw us reach 5/200 and able to declare in a strong position. Ankit Grover led the way with a superb 65 compiled over three and a half hours, while Niranjan Sundararaj, who has bowled so well in recent weeks, showed us today just how well he can bat with a swift and fluent 50. These two were well supported by Ben Pilipowski (21) and Simon Bodley (21), the latter showing great form in a gritty middle order innings. Next week our bowling attack, strengthened by the return of Shankar Ravi, will match it with a Normanhurst side that have some depth in their batting. Expect another day of vintage cricket.

Tonked
The C1 game last week at Foxglove had some amazing achievements in big hitting. Here goes:

Most runs of an over by a WPHC Player
John Steel went ballistic Vs Berowra at Foxglove North last Sunday. He took 42 runs off 2 overs from their slow bowler including 26 in an over. This is a record by a WPHC player playing C1 and the 3rd highest ever. The only scores beating this effort are:
• 34 by Matt Scoular (Colts) @ Storey Park 27/1/2008
• 30 by Ian Paterson and Roger Friend in D1 – Vs Galston Glenorie @ Arcadia 17/1/2004.

3 big overs
In the same game this was reduced to a 1-dayer and 377 runs were scored by both Teams – nothing special here. However:
• 21 runs came off an over by Jaskaran Singh
• 42 runs came off 2 overs from a Berowra bowler.

This is 17% of the entire match runs came off 3 overs out of the 80 that were bowled – amazing.

Record score
How about our B2 side who hit 430 in their game at Greenway. A few facts about this score:
• This is the 4th biggest score recorded by a WPHC side, beaten only by:
o 494 by B1 Vs Cowan in 1965/66
o 436 by A1 Vs St Ives 1951/52
o 431 by A1 Vs Berowra 1997/98
• This is a record score by a WPHC B2 side
• No records are kept on this one but the highest score was 76* – so no ton in this massive score.

Missed out
Just on the record B2 score, spare a thought for Adam Walter (A1 opening bowler) playing with a batting dispensation in B2 while he recovers from injury. Adam was the only person not to reach double figures after spending 53 overs sitting and watching the ball fly everywhere, managed to get himself out for a golden duck!

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 4 are:
• 9 Points:
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 7 points:
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
• 6 points:
o Russell Smith (C3 Blue)
o Rowan Keating (B1)
o Russell Ingram (C2)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3 White)
o John Steel (C1)
o Chris Williamsom (C2)
o Chris Milojevic (Colts Blue)
o Alan Raffel (D1)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Standings at the end of Round 4:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 322 @ 107.33 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 284 @ 47.33 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 246 @ 82.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
4. 208 @ 69.33 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
5. 174 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
6. 161 @ 40.25 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
7. 151 @ 37.75 – Ankit Grover (D2)
8. 148 @ 37.00 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
9. 141 @ 35.25 – Michael McGregor (A2)
10. 141 @ 141.00 – Lachlan Vile (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 12 @ 9.50 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 11 @ 7.73 – Matt Dawson (A1)
3. 11 @ 6.82 – Tim Starr (B2)
4. 10 @ 16.90 – Chris Williamson (C2)
5. 10 @ 8.10 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
6. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
7. 10 @ 15.00 – Ben Pilipowski (D2)
8. 10 @ 13.80 – John Steel (C1)
9. 10 @ 13.20 – Arkit Grover (D2)
10. 9 @ 13.89 – Scott Jobson (B1)
11. 9 @ 12.33 – Jacques Visser (C2)
12. 9 @ 14.44 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 4 – Mark Bell (C2)
4. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Competition table
After 4 rounds you start to get a feel for how Teams are landing. We are going very well with standings are;
• A1: 2nd
• A2: 2nd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 5th
• B1: 4th
• B2: =1st
• C1: 4th
• C2: =4th
• C3; 4th
• D1: 4th
• D2: 3rd

To have 11 of our 12 teams in the top 4 with Colts just out of the top group is an amazing effort.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
John Mitchell who took his 50th career wicket for our Club.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 7 to his 1,000

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 246 wickets – 4 to 250

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,783 runs – 217 runs to 2,000

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis
D1 835 runs – 165 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 87 runs – 13 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 993 runs – 7 to 1,000 career runs

Junior achievers
A number of our Juniors have achieved some wonderful achievements this season in senior Representative selection. Here goes:
Green Shield Selections (elite U16 Representative)
• Alex Rashleigh U16 (08-09 WPHC Junior Cricketer of The Year) has been selected on Sydney Green Shield
• Daniel Anderson (U15) – Northern District Green Shield and Weblin Shield Captain
• James Madden (U15) – Northern District Green Shield and Weblin Shield Vice Captain
• Bhavya Nanda (U15) – Gordon Green Shield

Well done fella’s.

Private Coaching
Sean Clarence (level 2 and Hawkesbury 1st Grade has been recommended to us by the Association if anyone is interested in any personal coaching. He can help you with batting, bowling and wicket keeping. Sean can be contacted on 0402 559 740.

Web usage
Our Website continues to go from strength to strength. Some interesting facts:
• 3,400 hits – the average each month over the last 2 months
• Most popular pages are; Club News, Grounds and Photo Gallery
• 2.85 – the average number of pages visited per hit
• 2.35 minutes – average time on the site
• 30.19% - of all visits are new visitors

Northern District Test Match lunch
The Annual Test Match lunch run by our parent Club Northern District is on again and we have been invited to have a table. Details are;
• When: Friday 27th November
• Where: Hornsby RSL
• Time: 12.00 noon to whenever
• Cost: $100 (includes food and drink)
• Clothing: collar and tie

Guest speakers will be Doug Walters and Wayne Phillips – very entertaining speakers.

If interested then please get back to Ross Anderson – it should be great fun.

Juniors
Significant scores to follow.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade 3/186 and 3/75 defeated outright Castle Hill 134 and 125 – a tremendous effort from the boys to take 10 points for the game – our first outright in a long time. Smoke Dawson took 4 wickets to take his match tally to 10. Gav Taylor scored about 40 to add to his first innings century. Matt’s tally of 10 wickets is only the 45th time in our history that a bowler has taken 10 wickets or better in a match. This was Matt’s 250th wicket – an amazing effort. Well done Matt.

A2 9/327 defeated Glenhaven 122 & 4/80 – it was clear that Glenhaven were after the draw after some very slow batting, but managed to get them all out for a mere 122 off 52 overs. Figures went to Amir Marzouk with 3/19 and Rohan Dixit who bowled really well with 3/47 off 16, very unlucky at times. We decided to send them back in and they ended up 4/80. Top effort racking up 327 to begin with, and then everyone bowled well with a good result keeping us in 2nd place.

Colts Red Vs Hornsby – Colts start up again on the 1st November after the HSC

Colts Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – Colts start up again on the 1st November after the HSC

B1 255 defeated Glaston-Glenorie 174 and 7/85 – a great all-round performance. Starting off the day at 0/80 we powered our way to 255 before declaring. Matt Thorndyke was again dominant falling just short of a century on 95. Matt's knock included 14 fours, his third fifty of the season so far. He was well supported by Tim Millington (39), Paul Tilley (34) and Rowan Keating (22). With runs on the board, we decided to have a crack at outright points. Rowan Keating (3/37) was again superb taking early wickets and GG looked to be in trouble. Scott Jobson used his variations to great effect and was all over the batsman taking 3/13. GG slumped to 6/43 and an outright was looking good. In the end GG just managed to hold on, only one batsman making double figures.

B2 158 lost to Hornsby 226 – not the best of days for the boys after being 1 down over night with 56 on the board. Chasing what we saw as a very getable score, 5 of the top 6 got starts, with Alex Connell (34), Adam Walter (22), Geoff Richards (31), James McBrien (18 - in the process reaching his 1000 runs) and Nick Starr (19), but nobody was able to go on with the job. In the end it came down to our last pair of Lachlan McBrien and Ben McNamara to avoid the follow on, which they eventually did, but not before giving the blokes on the side a few minor heart attacks. If nothing else, we know that if we play to our best we can beat a team that dropped down a grade after having only lost once in B1

C1 7/177 lost to Berowra 7/179 – with a few players out due to a Sunday fixture we lost a thriller. Batting first we struggled until Bryce Morley and John Steel came together to put on 70 for the 6th wicket in rapid time. In the bowling John Mitchell was the star with 4/28 but this was not enough to pull back their early run rate. Berowra just got across the line in the last over .

C2 3/316 defeated Normanhurst 307 – after being set a target of 307 to win by Normo last week we started the day on 0/4. We lost our first wicket on 127 when Chris Williamson was caught behind for 15. His opening partner, "Night Watchman" Russell Ingram was on 93 at that stage. Russel reached his 100 in the 21st over of the day and went on to score on 211 in the 39th over before finally being caught.! Russel was supported by the other batsmen who watching enjoyed his prolific scoring from close in. Peter Heidegger made 39 not out with Narendar Kilkani and Chris Williamson also frustrating the Normo bowlers. We ended the day on 3/316 to record a satisfying win against Normo.

C3
White 7/259 dec defeated on first innings Berowra 77 – we continued to dominate the Berowra side, but were unable to convert our 1st innings points from day 1 into an outright. Resuming at 3/159 we batted on for an hour or so. Chris Milojevic finished on 65, Riley Miedler made a classy 40 and Andrew Fiedler a brisk 30 not out to set up the declaration. We had Berowra in early trouble in the second innings, but they put up staunch resistance to see out the day at 5/129. Best with the ball were Taki Manolelis 2/27. Brett Hawkins, Luke Herzog & Riley Miedler were the other wicket takers. Nothing of interest to report other than almost being embroiled in a fight with a very angry & very large Berowra player who didn't like being dismissed.

Blue 9/143 drew with Normanhurst 296 – welcome to C3 after being promoted from D1 during the week. Normanhurst continued batting and we wrapped them up in 7 overs. Rahul Saberherwal finished with 5/67. We had a big run chase got off to a slow start. Russell Smith was determined to stay in and saw a few batsmen come and go and was finally caught on 43. It was hard work trying to stay in the game and we were able to see the last ball bowled and finished with a hard earned 9/143.

D1 7/234 defeated Hornsby 231 – a well deserved win with outstanding all round efforts in the field and with ball and bat. We were up against a Hornsby side that had bolstered their side some Colts players but the boys did extremely well and it all started with Perry Waldron’s majestic diving catch in the slips and supported by Manod with 4/46 and Chris Grima’s 3/44. Then with the bat Allan Raffel’s well composed 54 and David Behelevanas’ fighting 39, supported by Faisal Shamis 30 and Chris with 28, set us up nicely to record our first win for the season. Hopefully this is what we needed to get our season moving in the right direction.

D2 266 defeated St Ives 174 and 6/150 – in the words of our Captain, Peter Westerberg: “chasing the outright, produced one of the greatest days of cricket I have experienced in all my years at the club. The D2s gave it absolutely everything they had. As the afternoon wore on a parade of injured soldiers went off the field and came back on again just as soon as they could to support their team mates. When finally we came off the field at the end of the day there was not one of us who was not limping, totally spent and ready to collapse. As our keeper, Sam Thariani said, "cricket just doesn't get any better than this". I'm so proud of these boys.We may not be the strongest team in our grade but we're sure as hell the gutsiest, and I believe we'll go the distance”.

Anatomy of a big score
Tons are a great achievement – double tons are just so rare. On the weekend, Russell Ingram (C2) set all sorts of records. How about these for starters:
• Russell’s ton was our 344th for the Club
• His 200 is only the 4th in our history and the 3rd highest ever. The other big ones are:
o 225 by Kevin Smith B Grade 1956/57
o 215 by John Chadwick C1 1952/53
o 205 by Rob Gailey C1 Grade 1991/92.
• His innings included 25 x 4 and 10 x 6’s – 160 runs in boundaries – another Club record
• The 10 x 6’s equalled the Club record of hit 10 hit by Alex Sutcliff (D2) in his Semi Final innings of 132 against Berowra on 21st March 1998 also at Mimosa.
• Russell obviously picked his fieldsmen well being dropped on 27 before being eventually caught!

Amazing effort – we will try and get a photo of Russell on the website shortly.

Lost ball
Just on Russell’s innings, he dispatched the second new ball which Normanhurst were entitled to when we reached 200 for a six into the surrounding bushland - resulting in a lost ball. Being a gracious side who play cricket in the spirit intended we were agreeable to them replacing it with a similar 1-ball old ball!

Bad call
One for the Opposition. A comment from an enthusiastic opening bowler from Normo (C2) before Russell’s carnage, enthusiastically egging on his team to get rid of these WPHCC night watchmen! Oh dear.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 3 are:
• 7 Points:
o Nik Patel (C2)
• 6 points:
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 5 points:
o Daniel Anderson (C1)
o Arkit Grover (D2)
o Scott Henderson (A2)
• 4 points:
o Ian Nichol (C3 Blue)
o Ben Pilopowski (D2)
o Tim Scoular (Colts)
o Sid Sethi (C3)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o Sam Thariani (D2)
o Chris Williamson (C2)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 3 results follow. Round 4 standings will be updated throughout the week:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 322 @ 107.33 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 284 @ 47.33 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 246 @ 82.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
4. 163 @ 81.50 – Matt Scoular (B1)
5. 151 @ 37.75 – Ankit Grover (D2)
6. 148 @ 37.00 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
7. 148 @ 49.33 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
8. 141 @ 35.25 – Michael McGregor (A2)
9. 141 @ 141.00 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
10. 132 @ 44.00 – Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 11 @ 6.82 – Tim Starr (B2)
2. 10 @ 13.20 Arkit Grover (D2)
3. 10 @ 16.60 – Nikunj Patel -
4. 10 @ 16.90 – Chris Williamson (D2)
5. 9 @ 8.56 – Rowan Keating (B1)
6. 8 @ 6.80 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
7. 9 @ 11.78 – John Steel (C1)
8. 9 @ 12.33 – Jacques Visser (C2)
9. 9 @ 11.78 – Chris Milojevic (Colts)
10. 8 @ 7.63 – Ian Nicol (C3)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 4 – Andrew Miedler (C3)
2. 4 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 4 – Tim Millington (B1)
4. 4 – Mark Bell (C2)
5. 4 – Brett Hawkins (C3)

Personal achievements
Congratulations
Yet more milestones this weekend:
• Amir Marzouk took his 250th wicket placing him at number 14 in the all time wicket takers
• James McBrien scored his 1,000 runs – well done mate.

After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies 75 for his 5,000 runs
• Matt Dawson – 4 wickets for his 250
• Peter Westerberg – just 13 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 7 to his 1,000

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 246 wickets – 4 to 250

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,783 runs – 217 runs to 2,000

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis
D1 835 runs – 165 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,765 runs – 235 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 87 runs – 13 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 993 runs – 7 to 1,000 career runs

Kanga kickoff
WPHCCC runs one of the state's biggest Junior cricket programs in Australia. Last Saturday about 120 youngsters turned out in their whites at Edward Bennett Oval as part of our Kanga program – some of them for their first time at cricket ever! Its believed kids 5 - 8 across the district were up and dressed at the crack of dawn, ready to go!

As far as numbers go, this is one of our biggest ever recorded years, and whilst the 'nursery' continues to develop young cricketers, more and more will progress through our ranks, continuing the development started when Kanga Cricket was kicked off at WPHCCC in 1992.

Well done to John Coulthard and his team!

Junior achievers
A number of our Juniors have achieved some wonderful achievements this season in senior Representative selection. Here goes:
Green Shield Selections (elite U16 Representative)
• Alex Rashleigh U16 (08-09 WPHC Junior Cricketer of The Year) has been selected on Sydney Green Shield
• Daniel Anderson (U15) – Northern District Green Shield and Weblin Shield Captain
• James Madden (U15) – Northern District Green Shield and Weblin Shield Vice Captain
• Bhavya Nanda (U15) – Gordon Green Shield
• Ashane De Silva(U16) - Sydney Uni Green Shield

Well done fella’s.

Northern District Test Match lunch
The Annual Test Match lunch run by our parent Club Northern District is on again and we have been invited to have a table. Details are;
• When: Friday 27th November
• Where: Hornsby RSL
• Time: 12.00 noon to whenever
• Cost: $100 (includes food and drink)
• Clothing: collar and tie

Guest speakers will be Doug Walters and Wayne Phillips – very entertaining speakers.

If interested then please get back to Ross Anderson – it should be great fun.

Juniors
Significant scores to follow.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade 3/186 defeated on first innings Castle Hill 134 and 1/24 – what a day with the boys ‘smoking’. Playing one short after Peter Stott had to go to hospital to have a baby (he had a boy today 25/10, his name is Scotty Stotty) we lost the toss and had to field.

Scott Henderson and Matt Spalding constantly beat the bat and were very unlucky, they bowled very quick but couldn't get the breakthrough. James Makin came on with the score at 0/65 and immediately took a wicket. Then Smoke Dawson came on and took two wickets in his first over and they were suddenly 3/83. They never recovered and were all out for 134 with James picking up 4 and Smoke 6.

With a fast outfield we put on 55 in the first 10 overs and our run rate never dropped. Gav Taylor was middling everything and we had 3 good partnerships to support him. He made 127* at better then a run a ball and after just 34 overs we declared on 3/186 and sent them in for 7 overs.

Again our opening bowlers beat the bat ball after ball, Hendo got a breakthrough in second last over of the day and next week we will push hard for an early outright victory.

A2 9/327 Vs Glenhaven – after losing the toss we got put into bat and made a solid start and ended up 9/327 with some good hitting towards the end. Matt Jobson promoted himself to open and smashed 83. Other highlights were Michael Banner with 49 and Michael McGregor with 34. Top effort from our boys, our 2nd score over 300 this season, with everyone chipping in with some runs. Great position to be in and should be able to knock off Glenhaven next week

Colts Red Vs Hornsby – Colts start up again on the 25th October after the HSC

Colts Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – Colts start up again on the 25th October after the HSC

B1 0/82 Vs Glaston-Glenorie 174 – back to form after a disappointing match last Round. Playing the extremely competitive GG who've dropped down from A2's we had them in early trouble at 2/21. They fought back well to be 3/89 at drinks due to some dropped chances and a lightning fast outfield. Scott Jobson came on and tied down an end bowling 18 straight overs taking 1/40. This was a great spell and really tightened the screws. Together with James Kealy (2/21 off 8) and Matt Thorndyke (1/10 off 7) we built up pressure that lead to wickets. After a great opening spell Rowan Keating came back into the attack to take a crucial wickets ending up with 4/40 off 14 overs. We finished them off at 174, a greatbowling effort. In reply we are in a strong position at 0/82 off 21 overs with Matt Thorndyke again superb on 46 not out, and Paul Tilley 26 not out.

B2 1/57 Vs Hornsby 226 – up against a team who had dropped down a grade, it wasn’t a promising start, going the whole first session without a breakthrough. But good persistence from everyone helped get the first wicket, and from there solid contributions from James (3/40), Benny Mac (3/50) and Ben N (2/24) helped us bowl them out for 226, although for the second week in a row, dropped catches have proved costly. With around 40mins to bat out the day, we finished 1/57 from 10 overs, with Alex the only man out for 34. A couple of other things of note from today. Firstly, Benny Mac finally took his first wicket for the season, after 4 matches and 40.1 overs without a scalp, he picked up 3 in 8 balls to get his tally up and running. Also, Alex Connell got out today for the second consecutive match whilst leaving (or attempting to leave) the ball – last match LBW, this time caught behind, each time having not looked like getting out until the only balls he didn’t try to hit for four.

C1 Vs Berowra – Sunday game. No play rain affected.

C2 Vs Normanhurst 307 – Normo won the toss and decided to bat. We bowled with discipline and applied pressure with wickets falling at regular intervals. One player who scored 220 not out a few weeks ago once again played a faultless innings scoring 143, before being trapped leg before by Jacques Visser. We ended the day on 0/4 in two overs. The challenge for us is to bat well next week and make a game of it. Special mention goes to Chris Williamson who bowled magnificently to record figures of 5/76 of 18 overs.

C3
White 3/153 defeated on first innings Berowra 77 – we are off to an excellent start, already with first innings points and a big lead over the previously undefeated Berowra. Winning the toss & bowling, we had Berowra in trouble early & never released our stranglehold on them. Taki Manolelis (3/26), got the early breakthrough, but the introduction of Chris Milocevic, filling in from Colts really set the cat among the pigeons. Berowra had no answer to his pace & accuracy, and he took 5/10 off 8 overs. Berowra out for 77. Our turn to bat and we made run scoring look much easier on a slow outfield. Pratah Sinnetamby (65) and Chris Milosevic (52 not out) have set up a big first innings lead, as we are 3/153 at stumps.

Blue Vs Normanhurst 8/275 – not getting better when it comes to the toss, lost it again and Normo chose to bat 1st, we were able to get some quick wickets, but in walked a young lad who played everything we threw at him, Russell had a busy day in the field chasing after the ball and Arun was able to bag him self 4/90 and Rahul managed 3/62. We are looking forward to day 2 where we canget on with the batting.

D1 0/4 Vs Hornsby 231 – details to follow. However, outstanding performances are Chris Grima 3/44 and Manod Wickramasinghe 4/46

D2 266 Vs St Ives – taking advantage of a depleted opposition attack and the fast outfield at Greenway we were rewarded with our best innings total of the season so far. Sam Thariani led the way with a masterful ( I quote a St Ives player ) innings of 97, ably assisted by Jake Hickman (49), the two combining to put on 97 for the second wicket, Sam steering us to 5-234 and laying the foundation of a total we can defend. Next week our bowlers will be tested when St Ives take their turn on this fast batting strip. Expect a thrilling finish.

An Off Day
Some 'interesting' short stories from our impressive B1 side:
• Our match against Normanhurst was one of those days where everything went wrong:
o Our batsmen particularly had an off day and frustrations showed. Upon reflection here are the highlights:
o Bronze...The Matts (Thorndyke and Scoular). After great starts to the season our guns bats were both out cheaply. Their frustration could be heard in the dressing room for minutes after their respective dismissals.
o Silver... Tim Worthington chopped one on to his stumps and was very disappointed with himself. His bat left the field 5 metres before he did.
o Gold... Scott Jobson copped a questionable lbw decision from an official umpire (the edge onto the pads could be heard from the sideline). His helmet got acquainted with the turf from about halfway off the field.

Maybe some angry pills before going out to bat might help the lads.

Junior achievements
Riley Miedler (U16) hit his first ever hundred of 101 no for WPHC White Vs WPHC Red. Well done Riley.

Fast scoring
Juniors
Gareth Linaker playing in the U16 T20 match on Tuesday hit 32 off 1 over at Campbell Park (full boundary). Sequence was 6-6-6-6-4-4 This the first recorded time that any player, Junior or Senior has taken 32 runs off a 6-ball over. Well done Gareth.

The all time record is 34 runs off a 6 ball over (plus 2 no balls) by Matt Scoular (Colts) on 27/1/2008 @ Storey Park.

@ Storey Park.

Seniors
Gav Taylor (A1) scored his first A Grade ton on Saturday. Some things about this ton worth knowing about:
• This is our 343rd century
• Gav brought up his 100 with 20 boundaries
• His 127* out of a team total of 3/186 was 68% of the team total – not a record but very good
• Gav is also the youngest player in our history to be chosen in A1 Grade at 15 years of age.

Well done Gav.

Thanks fella’s
In the C2 game last week special mention must go to Nikunj Patel who batted at #9 and made 48 not out (we declared thinking he had reached his 50 – only to find that Glenn Langley has no idea of scoring. Maybe next time Nick – maybe next time Glenn as the scorer.

With mates like this
Alex’s B1 Captain (Matt Thorndyke) commented “Alex Connell put in a dominating performance with the bat, until I fired him - trapped in front without playing a shot (from a rubbish leg spinner).” Good one Matt.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 3 will be updated during this week week. Standings as at the end of Round 2 are:
• 5 points:
o Matt Scoular (B1)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 4 points:
o Sam Croft (Colts)
o Nikunj Patel (C2)
o Ben Pilipowski (D2)
o Sam Thariani (D2)
• 3 points:
o Mark Bennett (B1)
o Michael Dale (3)
o Dinesh de Silva (C1)
o Peter Dick (C3)
o Arki Grover (D2)
o Geoff Richards (B2)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
o Michael McGregor (A2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Ian Nichol (D1 Blue)
o Tim Scoular (Colts)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o Lachlan Vile (D1 Red)

After each match we will list the top 10 based on cumulative points.

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 3 results will be updated as scorecards are completed. Round 3 standings will be updated throughout the week:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 154 – Sam Thariani (D2)
2. 148 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
3. 144 – Matt Scoular (Colts)
4. 143 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
5. 130 – Chetan Bhatt (D1)
6. 129 – Ankit Grover (D2)
7. 111 – Russell Ingram (C2)
8. 108 – Michael Dale (Colts)
9. 93 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 92 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 7 wickets @ 11.43 – John Steel (C1)
2. 7 @ 8.86 – Jacques Visser (C2)
3. 6 @ 11.67 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
4. 6 @ 8.33 – Geoff Richards (C3)
5. 6 @ 8.50 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 5 @ 10.00 – Geoff Starr (B2)
7. 5 @ 9.40 – Ian Nichol (D1)
8. 5 @ 14.60 – Ankit Grover (D2)
9. 4 @ 11.50 – Tim Anderson (Colts)
10. 4 @ 6.75 – Scott Jobson (B1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 3 catches - Andrew Miedler (C3)
2. 3 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 2 – Lalin De Silva (A2)
4. 2 – Peter Lees (C2)
5. 2 – Tim Millington (B1)

Personal achievements
Congratulations
Yet more milestones this weekend. Congratulations to Rowan Keating and Tim Millington, both B1, who scored their 1,000 runs – great effort fella’s. Also to Matt Jobson (A2) who brought up his 1,000.

After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies 75 for his 5,000 runs
• Amir Marzouk – 1 wicket for his 250
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 25 to his 1,000

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,783 runs – 217 runs to 2,000

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 249 wickets – 1 to 250

James McBrien
B2 964 runs – 36 to 1,000

Tim Millington
B2 945 runs – 55 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis
D1 831 runs – 169 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,727 runs – 273 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 978 runs – 22 to 1,000 career runs

Northern District Test Match lunch
The Annual Test Match lunch run by our parent Club Northern District is on again and we have been invited to have a table. Details are;
• When: Friday 27th November
• Where: Hornsby RSL
• Time: 12.00 noon to whenever
• Cost: $100 (includes food and drink)
• Clothing: collar and tie

Guest speakers will be Doug Walters and Wayne Phillips – very entertaining speakers.

If interested then please get back to Ross Anderson – it should be great fun.

Wet weather
With a bit of wet weather around the Association has advised us of the correct numbers for the Wet Weather Line.

If grounds are closed by council early, information may be on the:
• Hornsby & Ku-ring-gai Council grounds: 8230 0144 for seniors and juniors
• Baulkham Hills: 9843 0354

Unless grounds are closed everyone is still expected to turn up to the ground.

Juniors
Main achievements will be updated as they come through.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade 8/175 defeated Vs St Ives 173 – after a washout last weekend this was another 1-dayer and an important win. We kept St Ives to 173 in 40 overs with Adam Walter 4/49 and Scott Henderson 3/29 starring with the ball. This set us up for a good win. After a good start we crashed to 8/130. James Makin batting at 3 top scored with 40 but we still had a lot to do. Enter ‘man mountains’ Scott Henderson with 30* and ‘foot breaker’ Matt Spalding 24 and they put on 45 to get us across the line. A big win to put us back in the pack.

A26/128 defeated St Ives 126 – after bowling our way into a strong position on Day 1 the 1st day’s play was cancelled due the game being played on an ‘unauthorised’ ground. A strange decision given the long history of this type of outcome but reality.

After winning the toss we decided to put St Ives into bat. We bowled tightly, taking wickets regularly to have them all out for 126. Highlights were Dylan Brogan with 3/32 and Matthew Jobson 2/15. After losing a few wickets we consolidated, and made the runs after just 31 overs, with 4 wickets in hand. Our first win of the season.

Colts Red Vs Hornsby – Colts start up again on the 24th October after the HSC

Colts Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – Colts start up again on the 24th October after the HSC

B1 156 lost to Normanhurst-Warrawee 9/193 – another 1-dayer after being washed out last week. Something different for a change, this strong side lost a game in a very rusty performance after losing the last two weeks to wet weather. In the field we dropped numerous chances and struggled to build pressure. Matt Thorndyke (2/39) and Andrew Joyce (2/52) took wickets while Rowan Keating (1/18 from 8 overs) bowled economically. With the bat we lost too many wickets in quick succession to be 7/66 before Rowan Keating (44) and Andrew Joyce (31) put up a late fight back. The story of the game was basically ‘they catch and we don’t’ Looking to bounce back in a two-day game next Round. Big congratulations to Rowan Keating and tim Millington who both achieved their 1,000 run milstones.

B2 201 defeated on first innings Mt Colah 100 2/179 - not a great day for us on Sunday. Batting on, we pushed our first innings lead to 101, confident that this put us in a good position to push for an outright result. However, nothing really went our way in the field, with a couple of dropped catches and plenty of fortunate edges somehow avoiding fielders, Mt Colah pushed their score along to 179 before their batsman reached his century and stumps was called. The only wickets in the second innings coming from Tim Scoular (1/25) and James M (1/36).

C1 119 defeated Normanhurst-Warrawee 108 – after playing on a slow, wet ground with uncut grass where our 119 was worth over 200 Headen Park this week was dry and recently cut – low. With edges going for 4 this was a huge effort to get up. Our bowlers were superb. Andrew Watt took the honours with 3/26 (13 overs) and John Steel was superb with 2/26 (15) including the final wicket to bowl their top scorer with only 12 runs to go. Craig Hutchinson with 2/20 from 13 precise overs and Daniel Anderson with 2/7 (3) after his 5/32 in the morning, just strangled the run rate. A big win, especially given the difference in conditions.

C2 8/301 lost to Hornsby – 600 runs between both teams says it all. After batting on to get 300 on a fast Annangrove Oval Hornsby ran the total down with overs to spare. The tone was set with a straight driven 6 first ball in their innings and an opening partnership of 149 from 20 overs. Best bowlers for us were Chris Williamson 3/77 and Nik Patel with 2/44. Special mention must go to Nkujn Patel who batted at #9 and made 48 not out (we declared thinking he had reached his 50 – only to find that GST is not added to cricket scores Glenn!!!)

C3 148 defeated outright Normanhurst-Warrawee 57 and 66 – welcome back to the winners list – big-time. While St Ives were a few players down with injury this had no effect on the result – only the speed of the win – it was finished by 3.00pm. There were so many stars – Riley Meilder had match figures on 5/22 plus his 25 runs, Luke Herzog 3/9 plus top scoring with 27, Taki Manolelis 3/8. All up, an outright win clocked up by 3.00pm and in 24 overs. The other major achievement was final proof that the big change in Team performance can with a new Captain – well done to Brett Hawkins – his fist game as Captain and someone who clearly knows how to win.

D1
Blue 5/197 defeated WPHC Red 92 – the Blues continued the bowling attack with both Arun & Rahul wrapping things up. In the Red’s batting, Vikas Manchandas finished with a great 42, in came Arun Kumar top scored with a fantastic 51 (retired). Best bowlers for the Reds were Ian Nichol 3/14 & Rahul Sabherwal with 3/37. For the Reds, missing a few players this week Roger Friend with 2/20 was the best. Another highlight was the spirit of the 2 teams. In the words on Jonathan van Blerk “It's great to see a club that has members that can compete on the field and still enjoy each others company after the game, (even if it is to talk about the strategic use of the rabbit holes)”.

D2 195 defeated Castle Hill 121 – our first, well deserved win of the season was a far closer run thing than the 74 run margin might suggest. Starting one man short, and at one point reduced to just nine in the field, we were hard put to keep the lid on a strong Castle Hill batting line-up while our bowlers did their work. Ankit Grover got the big wickets and took 4 - 26. He was ably assisted by Nikhil Suresh, bowling his best yet to take 3 - 20, while, in just four overs, Ben Pilipowski gave us everything: a disasterous start followed by a great, fighting comeback, culminating in a double wicket maiden, only missing the hat-trick ball by the end of the opposition innings: he finished with 3 - 17.

The high standard of our fielding was exemplified by Ankit Grover's brilliant slips catch, while the prize for guts must go to Joshua Murray-Howard: felled by the ball in a piece of body-on-the-line fielding, he had to be sent off the field with blood streaming down his face, but was back on deck in no time, determined to help us finish off the job.

Simon Smyth – the wedding (the sequel)
The big day happened with Mel (Simon’s now wife) surprising everyone by saying ‘I do’ on the big day on Friday. As covered last week, Simon had his foot broken by (we think) big Matt Spalding’s size 15’s. So here we have Simon getting married with his foot broken. Enter the Best Man (didn’t know that you were that desperate Simon) Bill Peterkin who managed to outdo Simon by breaking his toe by kicking the dog just before the wedding. Photo’s of the big day will be on the website very soon.

It’s not out Riley
Talented Junior, Riley Miedler (C3) is rapidly learning the difference between a Bye and a dismissal. After the batsman was hit on the pad, young Riley, fielding at point, went up for a LBW appeal. The umpire raised his arm (to signal byes to the scorers) which cause Riley to scream with delight and start running in thinking that the umpire for raising his finger. He was the only person on the field confused which was quite embarrassing for him but highly amusing to everyone else.

Matt Spalding – making an impact
Got to hand it to the A1 ‘Man Mountain’ opening Bowler. Visions of his 18 ball maiden over in A1 3 seasons ago came back with his 9-ball effort on the weekend. This included a head high full toss to one of the St Ives players. Still a long way off the record 26 ball over effort by Chris Cavanagh way back in 1980/81.

“I didn’t mean to try and kill your son”
One of the full tosses in Matt’s over was the head high effort. Matt, showed all the class and understanding expected of a fast bowler and went across to the batsman’s mother at the break and offered the heart-felt apology “I didn’t mean to try and kill your son”. Well done big fella.

The Junkkari ball
We’ve heard of the Doosra, Wrong-un, toppy and so on but there is now another one. It happens that the Association Masters have termed a ball the ‘Junkkari ball’ named after our C1 superstar Eric Junkkari (then playing B1) who in 1997/98 watched a very slow looping ‘Chinaman’ delivery from Nugget Bailey (Kenthurst) at Thornleigh Oval slowly float through the air and with arms raised, he watched the ball trickle into the stumps with the bat raised. For the record, Eric was left out of the Semi Finals as he clearly had no idea what a bat was – how times have changed now.

Big spenders
Got to hand it to our A1 players. Ian Paterson, one of our A1 umpires was hand delivered a written note from the people who run the Kenthurst Canteen on the weekend letting our A1 know that the canteen will be closed for their December game. The reason is that our A1 has he consistent record of being the biggest eaters of any visiting Team. None better than Bill Peterkin who actually circles the Kenthurst games in the draw and has a huge appetite for their sausage rolls and hot dogs.

Quiet as a Church
In the C1 game things got a little willing – as they sometimes do. To lighten up the moment, Eric Junkkari made a comment along the lines “We are all just weekend hackers” but this was considered by the Umpires as ‘inciting a riot’ – everyone thought the comment was actually hillarious.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 3 will be updated during the week. Standings as at the end of Round 2 are:
• 5 points:
o Matt Scoular (B1)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 4 points:
o Sam Croft (Colts)
o Nikunj Patel (C2)
o Ben Pilipowski (D2)
o Sam Thariani (D2)
• 3 points:
o Mark Bennett (B1)
o Michael Dale (3)
o Dinesh de Silva (C1)
o Peter Dick (C3)
o Arki Grover (D2)
o Geoff Richards (B2)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
o Michael McGregor (A2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Ian Nichol (D1 Blue)
o Tim Scoular (Colts)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o Lachlan Vile (D1 Red)

After each match we will list the top 10 based on cumulative points.

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each will be listed. Round 3 results will be updated as scorecards are completed. Round 2 standings are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 154 – Sam Thariani (D2)
2. 148 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
3. 144 – Matt Scoular (Colts)
4. 143 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
5. 130 – Chetan Bhatt (D1)
6. 129 – Ankit Grover (D2)
7. 111 – Russell Ingram (C2)
8. 108 – Michael Dale (Colts)
9. 93 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 92 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 7 wickets @ 11.43 – John Steel (C1)
2. 7 @ 8.86 – Jacques Visser (C2)
3. 6 @ 11.67 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
4. 6 @ 8.33 – Geoff Richards (C3)
5. 6 @ 8.50 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 5 @ 10.00 – Geoff Starr (B2)
7. 5 @ 9.40 – Ian Nichol (D1)
8. 5 @ 14.60 – Ankit Grover (D2)
9. 4 @ 11.50 – Tim Anderson (Colts)
10. 4 @ 6.75 – Scott Jobson (B1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 3 catches - Andrew Miedler (C3)
2. 3 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 2 – Lalin De Silva (A2)
4. 2 – Peter Lees (C2)
5. 2 – Tim Millington (B1)

Captain’s Umpires Course
The next Umpires Course for Senior Captain’s is fast approaching. Details are:
• When: Tuesday 27th October & Wednesday 28th October
• Where: Montview Oval (Hornsby Heights)
• Time: 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm.

Just let Ross Anderson know if you are interested attending.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
Yet more milestones this weekend. Congratulations to Rowna Keating and Tim Millington, both B1, who scored their 1,000 runs – great effort fella’s.

After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies 75 for his 5,000 runs
• Amir Marzouk – 1 wicket for his 250
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 25 to his 1,000

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 240 wickets – 10 to 250

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,783 runs – 217 runs to 2,000

Matt Jobson
A2 909 runs – 81 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 249 wickets – 1 to 250

James McBrien B2 964 runs – 36 to 1,000

Tim Millington B2 945 runs – 55 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis D1 831 runs – 169 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,727 runs – 273 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 955 runs – 45 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 978 runs – 22 to 1,000 career runs

Northern District Test Match lunch
The Annual Test Match lunch run by our parent Club Northern District is on again and we have been invited to have a table. Details are;
• When: Friday 27th November
• Where: Hornsby RSL
• Time: 12.00 noon to whenever
• Cost: $100 (includes food and drink)
• Clothing: collar and tie

Guest speakers will be Doug Walters and Wayne Phillips – very entertaining speakers.

If interested then please get back to Ross Anderson – it should be great fun.

Durham Shield Reps (U19’s)
The Association needs players to complete the Durham Shield Rep side so if you are U19 and want to play some good standard cricket representing our Association please get in contact with Judy Gussey on jgussey@optusnet.com.au .

Found D2 Premiership Cap
If anyone is missing a D2 Premiership cap from 2006-07 then just let Ross Anderson know. It has been found and is help by Ben Frawley.

Juniors
Are in recess until Saturday 17th October when School holidays finish.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade Vs St Ives 4/91 – a solid start before rain intervened. After having Hornsby 3/15 they went the ‘slog’ and got the runs in 17 overs. Good bowling by Scott Henderson 2/20 and one wicket each to Matt Spalding and Adam Walter has us in still a good position.

A2 Vs St Ives 9/121 – after rocking up to the Glade both teams decided the pitch was in no condition to play on, so we played at Headen Park instead. They won the toss and batted, started well at 0/40 but we pulled them back to 9/121 before the days-end. Darren Morrow who hadn't bowled a ball since his winning grand final wicket last season came in with 6/22 off 14 and bowled brilliantly. Tim Rae snuck in with 2 wickets at the end. Real good result, these guys consider themselves a batting side and I'm sure we can knock off the runs next week once we get the 10th wicket!

Colts Red Vs Hornsby – Colts start up again on the 24th October after the HSC

Colts Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – Colts start up again on the 24th October after the HSC

B1 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – no play possible at Normanhurst Oval. To be a 1-dayer next weekend.

B2 5/153 defeated on first innings Mt Colah 100 – a good day for the boys. Bowling first, Mt Colah never looked comfortable or well set as we bowled them out for 100, with Tim Starr (5/24) and Mark Bennett (2/21) doing most of the damage. In reply, a blistering opening partnership of 73 from 11 overs between Nick Starr (12) and Alex Connell (63) meant the result was never in doubt. Alex also passed the 2000 career run mark during his innings. A solid 35 from Tim Scoular helped us to 5/153 at the close of play with still plenty of batting to come, with Ben Nolan being unluckily bowled on the last ball of the day.

C1 119 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 4/11 – a fascinating days play on a very slow and wet Headen Park where the runs could be at least doubled. Batting against a disciplined attack that lacked pace it was difficult to force the ball. It was even tougher with a freshly laid 5 metre square of new turf layed either side of the wicket. Daniel Anderson (DA) held the innings together with a chanceless 28 in just on 150 minutes and was the 8th wicket to fall. Gamini (29) and Craig Hutchinson (16*) put on an invaluable 45 for the 9th wicket with anything over 100 defendable. Our turn to bowl with 9 overs remaining. After having them 3/0 with superb bowling by Andrew Watt 2/5 (4 overs) and John Steel we showed how tough the batting was. The final wicket was a brilliant opportuntist piece by DA who threw down the stumps from point for a batsman out of his crease after an unsuccessful appeal. 131 runs, 14 wickets in 75 overs with good batsmen says it all. Given equal conditions next week this should be a good score.

C2 7/267 Vs Hornsby – a powerful batting effort from this talented side. Narendra Kulrarni set the scene with a very good 42 then enter Chris Milosevic (down from Colts) with 92 (his previous highest score was 97) and Tim Anderson with 34. Another highlight was a 7th wicket partnership of 105 between Chris and Nikunj Patel (28*). This should be enough to get us back into teh winners list.

C3 148 defeated on 1st innings Normanhurst-Warrawee 57 – welcome back to form with a bang. A comprehensive result. Fabulous bowling with 2 wickets a piece to – Riley Meidler, Chris Creais, Sid Sethi & Luke Herzog. A decent win on 1st innings but not as much of a lead as we'd hoped for to ensure a chance at an outright.

D1
Red 6/87 Vs WPHC Blue – on a slow Northholm field we got off to a reasonable start with Marco Delgado top scoring with 29 the boys suffered a middle order collapse before Peter Dick and Chris Grima steadied the ship. Looking forward to next week and believe this will be a close contest against WPHCC Blue, that shows good signs with a consistent bowling attack. Ian Nichol was the pick of a good bowling attack with 3/14. The real star was Jonathan van Blerk with 3 catches behind the wicket. Congratulations also to both teams on the way they played the game – always tough playing against our own Club but both Teams have done this well.

D2 192 Vs Castle Hill 3/23 – after winning the toss and batting we are in a solid position with Sahil Talpade scoring his first ton with 104 (our 342nd century). Our turn to bowl and Ankit Grover bowled very well with 3/10 to set us well for our first win.

Simon Smyth – the wedding
Wedding bells
Got to hand it to Simon (A1 and former Senior’s Director) and his lovely partner who have scheduled their wedding next Friday. The reason is to make sure the A1 boys are able to turn up and play the next day. Great Club spirit but we are all looking forward to seeing how A1 backup on Saturday after the night before.

The publicity
After Brett White’s (Melbourne Storm player) decision to delay his wedding, 2MMM opened the lines for good stories about wedding’s. One of our players (won’t mention your name Tim) ‘phoned the radio station to share this wonderful scheduling.

Not a leg to stand on
Got to hand it to Simon who had his Buck’s night last Saturday night. Somehow, Simon managed to break his foot which will put him out of action for 9/12 weeks. Problem is that no one remembers how it happened other than hazy memories about Matt Spalding’s size 15 feet stumbling over Simon sometime between 10.30 am on Sunday and 3.30 am on Monday – must have been some party.

The run chase
Peter Westerberg (D2 Captain) is one of our most popular players and is involved in one of the Club’s great milestone achievements. He already has the record for the most number of consecutive game appearances – he has not missed a game since his debut in 2002-03. But he is also approaching his 100 run milestone. Only 16 runs to go but the challenge is to get there before his 100th innings (now sitting on 79 innings) – no pressure Peter.

The ‘Sting’
Steve Matosic (C3) was ‘chatting to one of the Normo batters who had been batting for about 16 overs and had not hit a boundary at Greenway. The run of the tape went something like this:

Steve: "Hey mate, I'll give you five bucks if you hit a boundary next ball"
Normo batter: Very watchful, plays defensive.
Steve: " Hey mate, double or nothing, ten bucks"
Normo batter: begins to twitch but again plays defensively.
Steve: "Hey mate, I'll make it a slab if you hit one this ball".
Normo batter: More twitching, decides to have a swipe at the next ball.
Result – bowled off stump.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Current points as at the end of Round 2 are:
• 5 points:
o Matt Scoular (B1)
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• 4 points:
o Sam Croft (Colts)
o Nikunj Patel (C2)
o Ben Pilipowski (D2)
o Sam Thariani (D2)
• 3 points:
o Mark Bennett (B1)
o Michael Dale (3)
o Dinesh de Silva (C1)
o Peter Dick (C3)
o Arki Grover (D2)
o Geoff Richards (B2)
o Geoff Starr (B2)
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
o Michael McGregor (A2)
o Amir Marzouk (A2)
o Ian Nichol (D1 Blue)
o Tim Scoular (Colts)
o Pratah Sinnetamby (C3)
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o Lachlan Vile (D1 Red)

After each match we will list the top 10 based on cumulative points.

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers after each Round 2 are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 154 – Sam Thariani (D2)
2. 148 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
3. 144 – Matt Scoular (Colts)
4. 143 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
5. 130 – Chetan Bhatt (D1)
6. 129 – Ankit Grover (D2)
7. 111 – Russell Ingram (C2)
8. 108 – Michael Dale (Colts)
9. 93 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 92 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 7 wickets @ 11.43 – John Steel (C1)
2. 7 @ 8.86 – Jacques Visser (C2)
3. 6 @ 11.67 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
4. 6 @ 8.33 – Geoff Richards (C3)
5. 6 @ 8.50 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 5 @ 10.00 – Geoff Starr (B2)
7. 5 @ 9.40 – Ian Nichol (D1)
8. 5 @ 14.60 – Ankit Grover (D2)
9. 4 @ 11.50 – Tim Anderson (Colts)
10. 4 @ 6.75 – Scott Jobson (B1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 3 catches - Andrew Miedler (C3)
2. 3 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 2 – Lalin De Silva (A2)
4. 2 – Peter Lees (C2)
5. 2 – Tim Millington (B1)

Captain’s Umpires Course
The next Umpires Course for Senior Captain’s is fast approaching. Details are:
• When: Tuesday 27th October & Wednesday 28th October
• Where: Montview Oval (Hornsby Heights)
• Time: 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm.

Just let Ross Anderson know if you are interested attending.

Personal achievements
Congratulations
To both Peter Heidegger (C2) and Marco Delgado (D1) on reaching their 1,000 run personal milestone – great effort fella’s.

Also a special landmark to Alex Connell who clocked up his 2,000 runs - great effor Alex.

After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies 75 for his 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 8 to his 1,000
• Amir Marzouk – 1 wicket for his 250
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 25 to his 1,000
• James McBrien - 36 to his 1,000 runs.

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Annangrove 10/10 09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Simon Davies

A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,770 runs – 230 runs to 2,000

Matt Jobson
A2 909 runs – 81 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Rowan Keating
992 runs – 8 to 1,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 249 wickets – 1 to 250

James McBrien B2 964 runs – 36 to 1,000

Tim Millington
B2 951 runs – 49 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis
D1 831 runs – 169 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 2,727 runs – 214 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 947 runs – 53 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 975 runs – 25 to 1,000 career runs

Casual job available
Hornsby Shire Council is looking to take on an Assistant Turf Wicket Curator on a casual basis.
The position will offer up to 38 per week commencing in October and going through to February 2010. Anyone interested should contact Geoff Witt, Co-ordinator of Parks Service Unit on 9847 4811.

Juniors
Representatives
Congratulations to the players in the U15 Age Division – of the 24 players chosen in the Weblin Shield and IDCA Teams we have 13 players in this squad including 8 of the 12 in Weblin Shield. This is an amazing achievement so well done.

Leadership depth
A Club first – also in the U15 Rep Squads. For the 1st time in our History, the Captains of the Shield and IDCA Teams in an Age Group come from the one Team - the U15 Blue's! Congratulations to DA (Weblin Shield Captain), James Madden (Weblin Shield Vice Captain) and Sid Sethi (Captain U15 IDCA) Team.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade drew with Hornsby – no play.

A2 6/239 drew with Kenthurst – wet day, no play, the end.

Colts Red 152 defeated Kissing Point 113 – Sunday game that may not go ahead due to turf wickets.

Colts Blue 58 lost on first innings to Berowra – Sunday game also being played on turf.

B1 351 Vs Hornsby 1/6 – washed out day 2.

B2 6/84 drew with Pymble 108 – no play due to wet weather.

C1 0/125 defeated on 1st innings Vs St Ives 0/125 – no play due to a wet Samuel king Oval.

C2 127 lost to Berowra 178 – playing at Arcadia, both WPHCCC and Berowra agreed that we wanted to play cricket in spite of the weather. We consequently played day 2 in an incessant, freezing drizzle from the first ball. After commencing the day at 54/2 we lost wickets steadily to be all out for 127, chasing 182 for victory. The heavy outfield resulted in numerous powerfully hit shots ending up a 2's and if the conditions had been comparable we might have been much closer to the target score.

C3 174 drew with Glenhaven 4/53 – no play at Greenway Park.

D1
Blue 2/275 drew with ARL – no play at Northholm Grammar.

Red 114 drew with Berowra 2/114 – no play at Foxglove South

D2 162 lost to Galston-Glenorie 8/172– a match that went ahead despite the weather as both sides felt they had something worth playing for, and, as predicted, it went down to a close finish with Galston-Glenorie passing our score with just three wickets in hand. Ben Pilipowski wasby far the best of our bowlers with ten overs, four maidens, 4/18, while Nikhil Suresh chipped in with a handy 2/22. Sam Thariani put in a great effort behind the stumps, and Sam Shearer was once again outstanding in the field. In all, this was lion-hearted performance by our boys in pretty atrocious conditions, and playing one man short, that has boosted our confidence and left us convinced that this Galston-Glenorie side is a team that we can beat.

Quote of the week
Noteworthy comments from Steve Baker (C2):
“To get a boundary you would have to hit it 90% of the way to the boundary on the full.” That cleared things up for us a bit, we were thinking you would have to hit it 100% of the way to the boundary to get a 4. If only he had spoken earlier many of those 2's could have been 4's.

What a choice
Spare a thought for John Steel (C1) – a passionate Parramatta supporter who has been waiting 28 years to see a possible win in Sunday’s Grand Final only to have a wedding scheduled at the same time. Sounds like an opportunity to call in sick.

The Kenthurst B2 boys made the right decision last week – they played a 1-dayer to free up this weekend.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. The points allocated (all 3 point allocations for week 1) for Round 1 are:
• Carl Madsen (Colts Red) – all 3 points
• Michael Dale (Colts Blue
• Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• Mark Bennett (B1)
• Dinesh de Silva (C1)
• Chris Williamson (C2)
• Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
• Lachlan Vile (D1)
• Ian Nichol (D1 Blue)
• Arkit Grover (D2)

After each match we will list the top 10 based on cumulative points.

The elite
Starting from this week we will update the top 10 cumulative run scorers and wicket takers after each Round. These are as as the end of Round 2:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 154 – Sam Thariani (D2)
2. 148 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
3. 144 – Matt Scoular (Colts)
4. 143 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
5. 130 – Chetan Bhatt (D1)
6. 129 – Ankit Grover (D2)
7. 111 – Russell Ingram (C2)
8. 108 – Michael Dale (Colts)
9. 93 – Amir Marzouk (A2)
10. 92 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 7 wickets @ 11.43 – John Steel (C1)
2. 7 @ 8.86 – Jacques Visser (C2)
3. 6 @ 11.67 – Nikunj Patel (C2)
4. 6 @ 8.33 – Geoff Richards (C3)
5. 6 @ 8.50 – Tim Starr (B2)
6. 5 @ 10.00 – Geoff Starr (B2)
7. 5 @ 9.40 – Ian Nichol (D1)
8. 5 @ 14.60 – Ankit Grover (D2)
9. 4 @ 11.50 – Tim Anderson (Colts)
10. 4 @ 6.75 – Scott Jobson (B1)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 3 catches - Andrew Miedler (C3)
2. 3 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
3. 2 – Lalin De Silva (A2)
4. 2 – Peter Lees (C2)
5. 2 – Tim Millington (B1)

Captain’s Umpires Course
The next Umpires Course for Senior Captain’s is fast approaching. Details are:
• When: Tuesday 27th October & Wednesday 28th October
• Where: Montview Oval (Hornsby Heights)
• Time: 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm.

Just let Ross Anderson know if you are interested attending.

Personal achievements
After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies 75 for his 5,000 runs
• Marco Delgado 24 for his 1,000
• Peter Heidegger needs just 3 for his 1,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 8 to his 1,000
• Amir Marzouk – 1 wicket for his 250
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.
• Chris Williamson – 25 to his 1,000

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Alex Connell
B1 1,943 runs – 57 to 2,000

Simon Davies
A1 4,925 runs – 75 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Marco Delgado D1 966 runs – 24 to 1,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,770 runs – 230 runs to 2,000

Peter Heidegger C2 997 runs – 3 to 1,000 runs

Matt Jobson
A2 909 runs – 81 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari
C1 331 wickets – 19 to 350

Rowan Keating
992 runs – 8 to 1,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 249 wickets – 1 to 250

Tim Millington
B2 951 runs – 49 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis
D1 831 runs – 169 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,871 runs – 129 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,727 runs – 214 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 947 runs – 53 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 975 runs – 25 to 1,000 career runs

Casual job available
Hornsby Shire Council is looking to take on an Assistant Turf Wicket Curator on a casual basis.

The position will offer up to 38 per week commencing in October and going through to February 2010. Anyone interested should contact Geoff Witt, Co-ordinator of Parks Service Unit on 9847 4811.

Season fees
Thank you to everyone who has paid season fees. A friendly reminder that they increase by $50 for all Seniors fees outstanding on this coming Friday. If fees are outstanding the best way to pay is via the online facility under ‘Player Registration’.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade 134 lost to ARL 140 – the first of 2 one-dayers to catchup to the rest of the competition. Considering we had 5 players unavailable and were playing against last season’s Premiers this was a very good effort. Bowling first we did well with the ball and in the field with Nick Bennett, Scott Henderson (making his A1 debut), Simon Smyth and Peter Whitehead each taking 2 wickets. Batting second on an already poor and deteriorating wicket we got off to a flyer being 0/31 after 4 overs with Gav. Taylor and Peter Whitehead but the momentum shifted with the loss of these wickets. Well done to Scott Hendo who top scored with 27 and Nick Bennett with 26. Looking good for this season.

A2 6/239 Vs Kenthurst – another good batting effort shows the strength of the batting this season. Michael McGregor with 86 continued his very good form and got good support from Suji Dissanayake with 55. Everyone else got solid starts. After getting a draw last week after setting 311 we will be looking at giving ourselves as much time as possible to get the 10 wickets.

Colts Red 152 defeated Kissing Point 113 – difficult early season strips seemed to be commonplace this Round and it was no different at Berowra Oval. Kissing Point batted first and enjoyed the slightly better conditions but Isaac Malamel (3/21), Sam Croft (2/17) and Tim Anderson (2/5) all contributed to the regular fall of wickets. Matt Bennetts and Rob Aitken put 40 runs on for the opening partnership with Tom Blissenden (23) and Sam Croft (33) batting intelligently on a deteriorating pitch to see us safely pass the target. Early wickets next week might provide the opportunity to strive for an outright victory.

Colts Blue 58 lost on first innings to Berowra 7/197 – we had been forewarned about how badly the pitch had played yesterday, and anticipated the ball to keep low all the time, but our preparedness was not enough to handle this treacherous surface. Shsahankh and Thiru opened the innings and got off to a good few overs, until a lobbed shot from Shashankh's bat was busily watched by Thiru - and he did not hear Shashankh's call for a run, and ended running him out. Mike Dale, the centurion from Round-1 was the next to go, bowled again by one that kept low. Tim Scoular was our best top-scoring with 21. WPHCC knew that we could also achieve similar results, and Tim and Chris bowled extremely well, backed by excellent all-round fielding, and at one point Berowra were 3/40, but some lucky escapes saw Berowra carefully overtake our total and move on to 7/197 off 47 overs.

B1 351 Vs Hornsby 1/6 – a great batting effort after Hornsby interestingly sent us into bat. Matt Thorndyke was again superb at the top of the order scoring 64, while Tim Millington provided great support scoring 42. These two laid a perfect platform for the rest of the boys to really get stuck in later in the innings, and it also provided time for Matt Scoular to finish off his Maccas. Matt was the star of the day scoring a fantastic 92 featuring 15 fours. Together with Rowan Keating (39) they put on a 129 run partnership which well and truly took the game away from Hornsby. Andrew Joyce provided some great hitting down the order scoring a quick fire 59 leaving us with an imposing 351 off only 68 overs. This left Hornsby with a tough 30 mins at the crease. Rowan Keating took the new ball and didn't disappoint. The first ball of the innings was a rip snorting bouncer which took the glove of their opening bat (who scored 139 last game). At the close of play Hornsby are struggling at 1/6.

B2 6/84 Vs Pymble 108 – terrific effort in the field to roll Pymble for 108. Geoff Richards and Tim Starr both bowled superbly claiming 4 wickets each. In reply we got off to a solid start however some late loss of wickets in fading light saw us under pressure before we steadied the ship to be 6 – 84 at stumps. With batting still in hand hopefully should see us complete the job. Our B2’s are one of those understated sides who fly below the radar but will be there at the end of the season due to the depth of their batting and bowling plus experience.

C1 0/125 defeated on 1st innings Vs St Ives 0/125 – after a slow start to the season this side showed what is expected of them this season with a powerful day 1 effort. Our bowling was consistently good with all 4 bowlers used taking wickets – John Steel with 4/24, Eric Junkkari 2/30, Craig Hutchinson 1/10 and Jas Singh 1/19. We shut St Ives out in just 34 overs. Our turn to bat the momentum was continued. Eric Junkkari (56*) and Daniel Anderson (DA) with 55* were flawless and put on 125 without giving a chance. With an imposing batting order this should be the start of more successes throughout the season.

C2 2/54 Vs Berowra 178 – we bowled well with with Jacques Visser getting 3/20, Chris Williamson 2/20 and the rest shared amongst 5 other bowlers, all of whom bowled with discipline to put pressure on Berowra throughout. Jacques also had a good day at the office. His first wicket was from a powerfully hit shot back over the bowler, which ricocheted off the non-strikers helmet and looped into Peter Lees' hand as he was running to chase what he thought was a ball disappearing into the distance. The next 2 wickets were from consecutive balls to dismiss the no 9 & 11 batsmen – leaving him on a hat trick in this next spell. We closed the day on 54-2 with another quick-fire 30 runs from Russel Ingram. We should be in a good position to win this one if we bat sensibly next week.

C3 174 Vs Glenhaven 4/53 – after struggling to competitive score we struck back to be well placed overnight – with a bit of work to do. Brendan Harken with 54 and Sid Sethi, fresh from an U15s game got a busy 33. Taki Manolelis has two of these wickets and another early one nest week will set this game up well.

D1
Blue 2/275 Vs ARL – the boys are on a roll. After a good opening start of 61 this was just the beginning. Mike Fitzpatrick came in at number 3 and with a shaky start, gave them about 8 chances to catch him out before they obliged with Mike on 47. In came Claudio van Blerk who eased himself in and gradually opened up and managed to get 3 x 6's. We eventually declared at 2/275 with Claudio on 48 and Chetan Bhatt on a well earned 120 (our 341st century). We managed to get 4 over's in before they decided they did not want to play anymore and called bad light and walked off with their wickets. After their 1st taste of Finals cricket last season the fat lady is already starting to warm up.

Red 114 Vs Berowra 2/72 – finding ourselves in a tough climb after posting a low score, but it could have been worse if not for the superb efforts by Peter Dick 25, Allan Raffel 16 and Perry Waldron 13. Also a great one handed catch by Roger Friend to dismiss their best batsman has given us a sniff of hope for next week.

D2 162 Vs Galston-Glenorie – finding ourselves up against much a tougher bowling attack than we faced in Round 1, we struggled to 5 - 62 when Sam Thariani (85) and Luke Christensen (33) came together for an 88 run partnership that put us well and truly back in this match, finishing with 162 to give us something reasonable to bowl to next week. Sam's superb, controlled back-foot play provided an invaluable foundation for our innings while Luke's lusty hitting and great running between wickets was the perfect complement to wrest control of the game from the Galston-Glenorie bowlers. If our bowlers can rise to the challenge a tight finish awaits next week.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. The points allocated (all 3 point allocations for week 1) for Round 1 are:
• Carl Madsen (Colts Red) – all 3 points
• Michael Dale (Colts Blue
• Matt Thorndyke (B1)
• Mark Bennett (B1)
• Dinesh de Silva (C1)
• Chris Williamson (C2)
• Pratah Sinnentamby (C3)
• Lachlan Vile (D1)
• Ian Nichol (D1 Blue)
• Arkit Grover (D2)

After each match we will list the top 10 based on cumulative points.

As a batsman he makes a great bowler
Got to hand it to Jacques Visser (C2). Jacques, as a bowler is in the form of his life but not real keen on facing the quicker stuff. Have a look at the Photo Gallery and see the latest photo posted on the site. The only conclusion in seeing the fear in Jacques eyes facing Nikunj Patel in the nets is that as a batsman he makes a great bowler.

Eric Junkkari – the new Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley is a legend in our Club with countless stories of this exploits on the field. Tony is now in Perth but enter Eric (C1). His latest efforts follow:

When you are ready
Eric’s first up effort was yesterday. While opening the batting he played and missed at one – not unusual for Eric. To correct the technique he stepped to the side of the pitch and kept practicing the shot until it was perfect. Problem is that the bowler was almost about to deliver the ball and Eric was still practicing. He finished the day with 56* so it must have worked.

New bat
Eric also has a new bat that looks pretty good. After extolling the virtues of the willow he hit one on the toe of the bat and then complained about the lack of centre in the bat – wonder why.

Speaking of Tony Hadley
Even when the great man is in Perth he still makes the headlines. This time he bought himself a new bat with a plastic sleeve. For reasons known only to Tony he then removed the sleeve taking with it the face of the bat and then wanted advice on whether to oil the bat or not.

Personal achievements
After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Amir Marzouk – 1 wicket for his 250
• Simon Davies 84 for his 5,000 runs
• Peter Heidegger needs just 6 for his 1,000 runs
• Marco Delgado 27 for his 1,000
• Chris Williamson – 36 to his 1,000
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Alex Connell
B1 1,943 runs – 57 to 2,000

Simon Davies
A1 4,916 runs – 84 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson
A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Marco Delgado D1 963 runs – 37 to 1,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,770 runs – 230 runs to 2,000

Peter Heidegger C2 994 runs – 6 to 1,000 runs

Matt Jobson
A2 889 runs – 111 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari
C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350 (check)

Rowan Keating
953 runs – 47 to 1,000
Peter Lees
C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 249 wickets – 1 to 250

Tim Millington
B2 951 runs – 49 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis
C3 829 runs – 171 to 1,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,865 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,768 runs – 232 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 940 runs – 60 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson
C2 964 runs – 36 to 1,000 career runs

Season fees
A final reminder that from this Friday (25th September) fees will be increased by $50 for all Seniors fees outstanding. If fees are outstanding now the best way to pay is via the online facility under ‘Player Registration’.

Association Rep Trials – U19 & U23 & Open Age groups
The Association is running Rep Trials as follows:
• When 27th September
• Where: James Park, Hornsby (next to Hornsby Hospital)
• Time: 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm

It would be super to get a good representation from our Club.

The Trials do cut across a scheduled Colts game. This is no problem. If you are affected please contact Judy Gussey direct on jgussey@bigpond.net.au .

Seniors Results
A1 Grade Vs ARL – game starts on 26/9 when turf wickets are available

A2 311 drew with ARL 7/201 – rain stopped play with 5 overs left in the day that made sure of the 'result'. Just couldn't get enough early wickets! Suj Dissanayake with 2/32 bowled really well, supported by Rohan Dixit with 2/50 who looked very dangerous late in the day.

Colts Red 142 lost to Vs Berowra 149 – a really enjoyable game against the Berowra Fiedler’s, except for the eventual result. Rob Aitken (27) and Carl Madsen (37) set things up beautifully early for an achievable run chase but a middle order collapse increased the pressure on the lower order. Sam Croft (26) and Tim Anderson (21) delivered another opportunity but we fell a fraction short. Probably one that got away but it should be mentioned that a dump of topsoil on the ground following the first week's play made the area surrounding the pitch resemble a beach with the ball difficult to get away without going into the air. Despite the loss a very solid effort against a useful opposition.

Colts Blue Vs Hornsby 8/318 – scores to come

B1 7/223 defeated ARL 116 & 4/83 – starting the day at 2/92 Matt Thorndyke and Tim Worthington produced a steady start getting us past Asquith's first innings total. Tim eventually fell for 42, a great knock in his first innings for the Club. We then had a collapse losing a further four quick wickets to be left at 7/147. Matt produced a devastating 52 not out off around 30 balls including 10 fours and a six. Together with Matt T they pushed our total to 7/223 off only 44 overs - their partnership was an unbeaten 76 off only 8 overs! Matt T was the rock off the innings remaining 79 not out before unselfishly declaring to push for outright points. A couple of quick wickets to Ryan Cherrie (2/25) had Asquith in a bit of trouble early on before they shut-up shop. Scott Jobson was again impressive taking 2/3, however we put down a few catches which hurt our chance of an outright win. The game was called off in fading light/smoke with ARL at 4/83 off 30 overs. This was a solid effort considering we were missing our two regular opening bowlers this week. Overall a great start to the season with plenty of promising displays.

B2 194 and 2/98 defeated St Ives 170 – a thriller defending a modest score with experience seeing us across the line. Geoff Starr took 4/25 from 12 overs and great support from Geoff Richards 2/25 and Tim Starr 2/35. In the 2nd innings we did it comfortably with Adam Walter 40* and Tim Starr 39* showing the depth we have in this Team.

C1 228 lost to Vs Hornsby 282 – just not enough to run down this big score although we showed enough to suggest that we will be up there this season. Dinesh De Silva top scored with 55 with a lot of players chipping in – Ross A 33, Wayne Seabrook 32 (retired) and lots of 20s. With John Steel and Craig Hutchinson coming back it will take a very good side to beat us. In this case take out the 150 by a Hornsby player and that was the only difference.

C2 9/292 defeated Kenthurst 282 – a great result running down 282. After Kenthurst posted 282 last week we made a solid start with Russel Ingram scoring a quick fire 81 in the first 16 overs to set a platform for the second week. Chris Williamson played a measured innings, scoring 61 runs. Most importantly he occupied the crease for 62 overs to hold down the one end while Narendra Kulkani made 57 to get us to 258/5 before a mini collapse had us needing 24 runs with 2 wickets in hand late in the day. Up stepped Nikunj Patel who blasted 17 from 2 overs to get us across the line. A solid start to the season.

C3 284 lost to Kenthurst 7/355 – after a good start we had a very experienced Kenthurst side 6/176 at tea, and looking good. However, we ran out of legs in the bowling department & Kenthurst got away from us (& batted on to rub salt into the wound) to finish 7/355. Best bowler was Michael 'Kramer' Richards with 3/57.

D1
Blue 7/259 defeated St Ives – we got up in this game and scores will follow.

Red 9/288 drew with Normanhurst/Warrawee 5/216 – a draw after bad light and smoke stopped play. Notable performances with the ball were Manod Wickramasinghe 2/30, Chris Grima 1/32, Roger Friend 1/24. The team has come together quite nicely and most pleasing to see that whilst everyone is competitive, there is a vibe good team spirit coupled with fun and laughter throughout the first round. The Red’s field a higher percentage of older blokes that compete weekly for the “Young Gazelle” award. This week the honours go to David Behelevanas for a spectacular “body on the line” dive, (David has also earned the nickname of Mr Bales) and he was closely followed by Perry Waldron (also nicknamed the ManWall) for his ability to stop everything directed his way (above waist), and for taking a cracker catch at Gully.

D2 160 and 4/204 lost to Hornsby 204 and 2/15 - a great fight-back from us today put us right back in this game thanks to a superb unbeaten 88 from Ankit Grover and another solid opening stand of 58 from openers Sam Thariani (44) and Ben Pilipowski (37). Reaching 4 - 204 in our second innings we declared to put a depleted Hornsby back in for the final hour and had them reeling at 2 - 15 with just five wickets left in hand when the heavens opened (pitch darkness, thunder, lightning, torrential rain, blinding hail), finally driving us off the field with ten nail-biting overs left to play. At the end of the day it was Hornsby, not us, who had reason to thank the weather gods! Bowling honours for this match go to Ankit Grover (3-65 & 2-8) and Ben Pilipowski (3-45).

Maybe a loss on paper but this game has been a real confidence booster for us, proving that we can put up a fight when we have our backs to the wall and that there is depth and talent in this young team. We have a lot to look forward to in the season ahead.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year this will be done by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. From next weekend we will give a running total of the top 10 and their points until the last 3 Rounds. So this is one to watch out for.

Record day
Last weekend was a big one for records:

Last wicket partnership
Tim Leyshon is making a habit of being involved in last wicket records. Last weekend he (47) and Rohan Dixit 26*) set a Club A2 last wicket record of 76 the previous 73 run partnership by Greg Joyce and David Robinson way back in 1981/82.

Tim also holds the All-Grade Association 10th wicket record (scored in B1) of 156 runs back in 2000/01.

Highest score by a Junior
How about the first up effort of Lachlan Vile in D1. Lachlan is just 14 years old and scored 141 last weekend. This is the highest score by a 14 year old, playing Seniors, in our history. This beat the previous record on 96* by Matt Barr way back in 190/91 playing C1. Well done Lachlan.

Missing 10 runs
Spare a thought for Daniel Anderson (DA) – U15 Blue and C1. DA scored 102 in the morning for his first ton but it wasn’t known until after the innings when the scorers realised they had missed 10 runs. So going from missing out on 92 to actually scoring the big one after the Teams innings it will be a memorable milestone.

Got to have the Macca’s
Matt Scoular is fast developing a reputation as a hitter after taking 33 runs off an over last season. This time he scored 52 of 30 balls including taking out a car (Arcadia Oval). But good to see Matt has his priorities right coming in to bat at 7 wickets down – he had to finish his Macca’s before batting – mini batting collapse or no batting collapse.

Not even working up a sweat
Good to have Wayne Seabrook (C1) back playing for the chance to have a game with his talented son. Wayne last picked up a bat 20 years ago and wasn’t too keen on running between wickets to get to his automatic retirement score of 30. He batted for about 3 overs, scored 7 boundaries, almost cleaned up a few blokes with drives and all this without even raising a sweat.

Personal achievements
After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. A couple of big ones are coming up:

• Simon Davies 84 for his 5,000 runs
• Peter Heidegger needs just 6 for his 1,000 runs
• Marco Delgado 27 for his 1,000
• Chris williamson 36 to his 1,000
• Peter Westerberg – just 16 for his 100 runs.

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Alex Connell B1 1,943 runs – 57 to 2,000

Simon Davies A1 4,916 runs – 84 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Marco Delgado D1 963 runs – 27 to 1,000

Nathan Fathers C1 1,748 runs – 252 runs to 2,000

Peter Heidegger C2 994 runs – 6 to 1,000 runs

Matt Jobson A2 889 runs – 111 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350 (check)

Rowan Keating B1 953 runs – 47 to 1,000

Peter Lees C2 2,790 runs – 210 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 248 wickets – 2 to 250

Tim Millington B2 945 runs – 55 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis D1 829 runs – 171 to 1,000

Simon Smyth A1 1,865 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 2,768 runs – 232 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 940 runs – 60 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson C2 964 runs – 36 to 1,000 career runs

Season start
The Season for both Seniors and Junior boys is now underway on a hot start to the season.

Season fees
A reminder that after next weekend (25th September) fees will be increased by $50 for all Seniors fees outstanding. If fees are outstanding now the best way to pay is via the online facility under ‘Player Registration’.

Junior results
U16 Blue WPHC Blue 7/324 Vs Castle Hill 2/14 – just to one score this week so far. What an effort – Alex Rashleigh scored yet another to – 104 in just 13 overs, and Sahil Talpade 88. All up 338 runs in a day’s play. Brilliant effort folks.

Seniors Results
A1 Grade Vs ARL – game starts on 26/9 when turf wickets are available

A2 311Vs ARL – a fabulous start to the season by the defending Premiers. After being 9/235 we put on 76 for the 10th wicket. Amir Marzouk top scored with 76, Tim Rae 51, Lalin De Silva 43 and Alex Robertson 35. The highlight though was a 76 run last wicket partnership between Tim Leyshon 47 and Rohan Dixit with 26*. This was just 20 short of the Association A2 record set in 1970/71. It has though set a new A2 Club record beating the 73 run partnership by Greg Joyce and David Robinson in 1981/82. Well done fella’s.

Colts Red Vs Berowra 149 – there had been a lot of talk at the pre season training sessions about the bowling form of Carl Madsen and an expectation that it was going to be a big season for him as the strike bowler. He demanded use of the new ball and took his 'net' form to the game with a tremendous 4/16 off 14 overs. Parneet Bhatia added a handy 3/11 off 9 overs and along with Tim Anderson's 2/41, Berowra were bowled out for 149. A modest total to chase next week and should be achieved with sensible batting.

Colts Blue Vs Hornsby 8/318 – fiedling with 9 players was always going to be tough. Chris Milosevic was the pick of the bowlers with 3/38 with Peter Yeates unlucky to have a couple of catches dropped, and numerous times missed the stumps by millimetres. Mike bowled second best with great heart, and got a couple of early wickets too. After 20 overs, Hornsby were 3/54, and after 35, they were 5/158, then 7 for 241 and finished the day after 69 overs were bowled and it became too dark to play.

B1 2/92 Vs ARL 116 – Asquith won the toss and batted. Rowan Keating (3/14) producing an awesome spell of fast bowling, leaving Asquith on the ropes at 4/16. A fifty run partnership got them back into the game, before Scott Jobson (2/24) took a couple of crucial wickets to put us back on top. Asquith struggled their way to 116 with Andrew Joyce (3/20) taking two important wickets at the end of the innings, the last to an asbolute screamer from Rowan Keating. In reply we lost a couple of early wickets but are now 2/92 with Matt Thorndyke currently 44 not out, continuing his great form from last season. Tim Worthington in his first season with us showed some great hitting ability and is 27 not out. We are in a very strong position heading into next week with plenty of batsman to come.

B2 194 Vs St Ives 3/34 – we struggled early until some good batting from Mark Bennett (42) and Craig Hutchinson (33), to give us a competitive score. At 3/34 (Geoff Starr 2 and Tim Starr 1) the game is well balanced. An early wicket next week and the balance swings our way. Irrespective of the result of the game this side will have a big year.

C1 Vs Hornsby 282 – one of those games at a fast Campbell Park where runs come easily on one of the best batting pitches around. Their innings was dominated by a player who scored 150 who took full advantage of the 3 missed sharp chances. This innings aside, we did well. The bowling has depth will cause damage this season. Jaskaran Singh took 3/40 and did early damage but also John Steel 3/56, Andrew Watts 2/30, Dinesh De Silva 1/36 and Kishore 1/50 are quality bowlers. Fielding was average but the ground was very bumpy due to lack of grass and this made fielding very difficult. In the fielding, Wayne Seabrook took 2 good ones at slip in his debut match and Daniel (DA) took two very good outfield catches. Our batting depth is awesome so with a bit of luck this score is gettable especially on this ground.

C2 2/109 Vs Kenthurst 282 – this will be a high scoring game on a postage stamp sized ground. In the bowling, Jacques Visser starred with 4/42 did very well. In reply we are in a position to run this total down. Russell Ingram wasted no time with a hard hitting 81 that included 4 sixers and 11 x 4’s. Almost 400 runs scored in the day – says it all. A good start next week and this is game on.

C3 284 Vs Kenthurst – a good start with runs well spread. Pratah Sinnetamby top score on debut with 59 but with good back-up – Faisal Shamis 41, Michael Richards 35, Marcus Creais 32. The game was setup with a 102 run opening stand and we never looked back. With a good bowling attack we are in a very good position get a win first up.

D1 Blue 7/259 Vs St Ives – Good start yesterday, we got off to a fairly stable start, after losing our openers; Claudio & Vikas came in and steadied the ship. With a huge six into Mona Vale road that happened to miss traffic. Claudio ended on 26 & Vikas left the middle on 26. Vishnu saw the day out & was joined by Michael. I’m not sure who was seeing the ball better as they both looked in control. Michael left the field on a great 57 and Vishnu, was caught at the end on 91.

D1 Red 9/288 Vs Normanhurst/Warrawee – a very good start to the season with 14 year old Lachlan Vile scoring his maiden ton in seniors with 141 - the 339th in our history - well done Lachlan. He got good support from Marco Delgado 34 and Roger Friend 31. This should be enough to give us a good target to bowl to.

D2 160 lost to Vs Hornsby 5/186 – our openers, Ben Pilipowski (27) and Maisam Thariani (25) got us off to a great start putting on 50 for the first wicket which augurs well for the season ahead. Ankit Grover (top scoring with 40) and Bruce Caldwell (38) also delivered the goods, showing that we do have the makings of a decent batting side. In the bowling we struggled a bit with Ben Pilipowski the best of our bowlers, taking 3-45 and capping off his day with a blinder of a slips catch. We may have lost the first innings but there is a lot more cricket still to come in this game.

Not a lot of running
Got to hand it to Russell Ingram (C2). On a hot day, Russell had to bat second after the Team was chasing 282. In the short time he batted his 81 runs included 68 runs in boundaries – 4 x 6’s and 11 x 4’s. With 4 more games at Holland Oval it might be worth keeping a record of the number of boundaries he scores this season.

Eyes checked
Matt Dawson (A1 and Club Captain) sent a pre-season note out to all of his players asking that they get their eyes checked before the season starts – obviously something to do with last season’s fielding performances. Doing the right thing Matt, had his checked and now wears glasses.

First injury
It has only taken 1 Saturday and we have our first injury. Young Daniel Anderson (DA) from C1 came back to the Club after the game and managed to burn his tongue on a hot potato wedge. He might recover. The older blokes do not have this problem – a cold beer being the immediate relief.

Match Reports
One of our popular sections is the Match Report section on the website. If you are keen to see a regular match report on your game – Juniors, Girls or Seniors then just let ross Anderson know and it can be set-up easily.

Captains Course
A Captain’s course this year is set as follows:
• When 22nd and 29th September (Tuesdays)
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby Heights
• Time: 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm

All Senior Captains are required to do this course and we usually get a get number of Junior players also keen to get their Umpires qualification. More details will follow.

Personal achievements
After each game this will be updated so that we can track these achievements over the season. At the end of the year these folk who achieve the milestone will receive a trophy.

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Alex Connell B1 1,943 runs – 57 to 2,000

Simon Davies A1 4,916 runs – 84 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Marco Delgado D1 929 runs – 71 to 1,000

Nathan Fathers C1 1,748 runs – 252 runs to 2,000

Peter Heidegger C2 981 runs – 19 to 1,000 runs

Matt Jobson A2 879 runs – 121 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350 (check)

Rowan Keating B1 953 runs- 47 to 1,000

Peter Lees C2 2,780 runs – 220 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 248 wickets – 2 to 250

Tim Millington B2 945 runs – 55 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Faisal Shamis D1 788 runs – 212 to 1,000

Simon Smyth A1 1,865 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 2,727 runs – 273 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 940 runs – 60 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson C2 903 runs – 97 to 1,000 career runs

Season start
The Season for both Seniors and Junior boys starts next Saturday – the 12th September. Details about. The Girls will start in October.

Clothing
Every player is required to wear please the Club playing shirt and Club cap or standard white hat – in all grades from Seniors to Kanga. Last season we had a few variations start to appear that is a bit tacky. Supplies are readily available – just ask your Manager / Captain (in Seniors)

Draw
Juniors
Has now been released and distributed through your Team Managers. If you haven’t heard from your Manager by early next week then best if you follow it up.

Seniors
Is now available. Please go to the Association website http://www.hkhdca.com.au under Fixtures and all the details are there.

Match Reports
One of our popular sections is the Match Report section on the website. If you are keen to see a regular match report on your game – Juniors, Girls or Seniors then just let ross Anderson know and it can be set-up easily.

Registrations
Kanga
We are fast approaching capacity so if interested then please move quickly by contacting our Kanga Co-ordinator – details are on the website under Kanga.

Boys – most teams are full but it is worth contacting our Age Convenor to see the current status if you are keen to play – there may be an opportunity.

Junior Girls
Registrations are still open with 3 Teams likely to be entered:
• 1 in C Grade (soft ball) and
• 2 in B Grade (hard ball).

Contact details to find out more information are on the website in the Girls section.

Seniors
Spots are always available as a fill-ins but full-time positions in a team are difficult as we have a full compliment. If you are interested in playing then please contact our Organisers – details are under Seniors on the website.

Captains Course
A Captain’s course this year is set as follows:
• When 22nd and 29th September (Tuesdays)
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby Heights
• Time: 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm

All Senior Captains are required to do this course and we usually get a get number of Junior players also keen to get their Umpires qualification. More details will follow.

Personal achievements
Over this season, we have a number of our folks who are close to personal milestones. We will track these over the season. At the end of the year these folk who achieve the milestone will receive a trophy.

Mark Bell C2 44 wickets – 6 to 50

Alex Connell B1 1,943 runs – 57 to 2,000

Simon Davies A1 4,916 runs – 84 runs to 5,000

Matt Dawson A1 239 wickets – 11 to 250

Marco Delgado D1 929 runs – 71 to 1,000

Nathan Fathers C1 1,748 runs – 252 runs to 2,000

Peter Heidegger C2 981 runs – 19 to 1,000 runs

Matt Jobson A2 879 runs – 121 to 1,000 runs

Eric Junkkari C1 329 wickets – 21 to 350

Peter Lees C2 2,780 runs – 220 to 3,000 career runs

Amir Marzouk A2 248 wickets – 2 to 250

Tim Millington B2 945 runs – 55 to 1,000 runs

John Mitchell C1 45 wickets – 5 to 50

Matt Nolan B2 890 runs – 110 to 1,000

Andrew Percival B2 866 runs – 134 to 1,000

Alistair Rayment 185 wickets – 15 to 200 wickets

Faisal Shamis D1 788 runs – 212 to 1,000

Simon Smyth A1 1,865 runs – 135 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst
28/2/09

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 2,727 runs – 273 to 3,000 runs

Andrew Watt C1 940 runs – 60 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 84 runs – 16 to 100

Chris Williamson C2 903 runs – 97 to 1,000 career runs

Season start
The Season for both Seniors and Junior boys will start on Saturday 12th September. Details about Teams and training will follow soon. The Girls will start in October.

Clothing
Every player is required to wear the Club playing shirt and Club cap or standard white hat – in all grades from Seniors to Kanga. Last season we had a few variations start to appear that is a bit tacky. Supplies are readily available – just ask your Manager / Captain (in Seniors)

Seniors
Our last practice session of the season is this coming Saturday – the 5th September. Details are:
• Where: Sports Club nets at 103 New Line Road West Pennant Hills
• When: starting from 1.00 pm and finishing around 4.00 pm / 4.30 pm
• More information: contact Ross Anderson on 9476-0595

Selections
Teams will be announced at 1.30 pm at the Sports Club nets on Saturday 5th September so try and make it along. Once Teams are selected they will break-up into Teams and train together so that by the 1st game everyone is all set to go.

Registrations
Current status is:
Junior Boys – just about closed for all Ages. If you are still interested in playing, please contact our Divisional Age Co-ordinators – contact details are on the website under ‘Junior Boys’ – there are often gaps due to people moving, injuries and so on.

Registrations have again been strong with the following Teams being entered:
• U9 6 teams
• U10 5
• U11 4
• U12 4
• U13 5
• U14 4
• U15 4
• U16 3
• Total teams 35

It is especially good to see a record number of 6 teams registered in the U9’s and 3 teams in the U16s. This is an equal record number of Teams we have entered

Junior Girls – open
Registrations are still open with 3 Teams likely to be entered:
• 1 in C Grade (soft ball) and
• 2 in B Grade (hard ball).

Contact details to find out more information are on the website in the Girls section.

Kanga – open
We take Registrations right through August / September. Details are on the Kanga section of the website. So far we have 90 children registered.

Seniors – open
Registrations are generally taken throughout the year. We will be entering a record 12 teams this season:

A1, A2, Colts (x2), B1, B2, C1, C2, C3, D1 ( X2) and D2.

Captains Course
A Captain’s course this year is set as follows:
• When 22nd and 29th September (Tuesdays)
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby Heights
• Time: 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm

All Senior Captains are required to do this course and we usually get a get number of Junior players also keen to get their Umpires qualification. More details will follow.

Kingsgrove Sports Store
Kingsgrove Sports has been a fantastic supporter of ours for many years. In addition to being the best cricket equipment / clothing supplier in our area by a long way just mention that you are a WPH Club member and you get a 5% discount on all purchases plus access ofcourse to a superb range of gear. Kingsgrove also supports us which means we get a double benefit. So if you need gear then Kingsgrove Sports Centre is the only place to go to.

Kingsgrove is located at:
• Where: 570 Church Street, Nth Parramatta
• ‘phone: 9980-2311
• Website: www.kingsgrovesports.com.au

Cricket NSW position vacant
CNSW has advised us that they are looking for “a passionate individual to take on the full-time role of Administration Officer of the NSWCUA.

You will be working with a team that comprises Education and Development, Training and Examinations, Technical and High Performance of Umpires and Scorer Training and Development.

Expressions of interest should be forwarded by 1700hrs, Thursday 3rd September 2009 which should include a 1 page letter of introduction and an accompanying CV of no more than 5 pages, with both documents merged as one file attachment. This information should be sent electronically to:

Darrell.Hair@cricketnsw.com.au

NSWCUSA
PO Box 230
Paddington NSW 2021