Away
I will be away on business until the 18th October so there will be delay in updates for a couple of weeks.

Bradman Oval match
As one of the ‘events’ to celebrate our 60th Anniversary coming up this season we have booked Bradman Oval for Sunday 3rd December as a Club Day. So stay tuned and we will keep you informed of next steps.

Centenary cricket match
Hornsby Shire celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. One of the celebrations is a special Centenary cricket match involving a number of local cricketing identities – Trevor Chappell, Bob Holland, Paul Wade (ex Socceroo Captain), Matt Dunning and many more. Details of the match are:
• When: Sunday15th October
• Where: Waitara Oval
• Time: between 10.00am and 3.30pm

Come along and enjoy the day.

Web update
We continue to get a record number of hits on the website. In September we had 3,558 hits – a September month record. Our all time record is 3,798 in October last year.

Girls update
Our Girls are also tracking very well. We will probably have 2 teams this year (a B and C grade side). The girls kick off on the 21st also. Looks like a good season coming up.

Juniors
The Juniors go into recess over the school holidays and go back to the field on Saturday 14th October.

Kanga update
Kanga is about to kick off on the 21st October. We have a capacity turnout with 112 children playing – all on Edward Bennett Oval. Unfortunately we have had to turn a number of children to Beecroft to give them a game but when the game is this popular at least the kids are playing.

We also had a fabulous volunteers update last week. How about this one – 65 volunteers our of 112 families – must be almost a world record!

Seniors

Round 3 kicks off this weekend. The draw is:

A1 Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst
A2 Vs Galston-Glenorie @ Les Shore 1
Colts Vs – to be advised
B1 Blue – Kissing Point @ Auluba
B1 Red – Normanhurst @ Normanhurst
B2 Vs Mt Colah @ mt Ku-ring-gai
C1 Vs Hornsby 2 Montview West
C2 Vs Normanhurst @ Annangrove
C3 Vs tba
D2 – tba

A light moment
Two 90 year old men, Nev and Vic, have been friends all their lives. Vic is dying, so Nev comes to visit him every day.

"Vic," says Nev, "You know how we have both loved cricket all our lives, and how we played together for so many years. Vic, you have to do me one favour.

When you get to Heaven, and I know you will go to Heaven, somehow you've got to let me know if there's cricket in Heaven."

Vic looks up at Nev from his death bed, and says, "Nev, you've been my best friend many years. If it is at all possible, I'll try to let you know."

Shortly after that, Vic passes on.

At midnight a couple of nights later. Nev is sound asleep when he is awakened by a blinding flash of white light. A voice calls out to him, "Nev....Nev...."

"Who is it?" says Nev sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"

"Nev, it's me, Vic."

"Come on. You're not Vic. Vic just died."

"I'm telling you," insists the voice. "It's me, Vic!"

"Vic ? Is that you? Where are you?"

"I'm in heaven," says Vic , "and I've got to tell you, I've got really good news and some bad news."
"So, tell me the good news first," says Nev.

"The good news is that there is cricket in Heaven. Better yet, all our old chums who've gone before us are here too.

And better still, we're all young men again.

Even better, it's always springtime and it never rains or snows.

And best of all, we can play cricket all we want and we never get tired!"

"Really?" says Nev, "That is fantastic, wonderful beyond my wildest dreams!

But, what's the bad news?" asks Nev.

"You're opening the batting next Tuesday".

Coach required
Folks we need 1 more coach for our juniors. This is for our Girls B Grade Team. The Girls are between 13 and 16 so if anyone is interested then please let Ross Anderson know.

All the info you need
Just a final reminder that you can track at any time all the info you need to know about how your team is performing throughout the season – both Juniors and Seniors.

This site has everything you need to find out what is happening throughout the season:
• Competition tables
• Draw
• Comparative results – how other teams are going and who has starred in these teams
• Cumulative batting and bowling

The site URL is http://www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca/. and then just log into WPHC

Personal achievements
Most teams have update their scorecards to Round 2 so the latest standings are below. There are some big milestones coming up:
• Michael Banner is now only 69 short of his 3,000 career runs
• Eric Junkkari needs 5 for his 300 wickets
• Ben Nolan needs 6 for his 200 wickets
• Matt Spalding only 3 for his 100 wickets

Name Grade Achievement
Michael Banner A2 2,931 runs – 69 to 3,000 career runs

Martin Boon B1 1,795 – 205 runs to 2,000 career runs

Ryan Cherrie B1 137 wickets – 13 to 150 career wickets

Simon Davies A1 4,916 runs – 84 to 5,000 – the 4th player to reach this landmark

Matt Dawson A1 174 wickets – 26 to 200

Lachlan Gill B1 873 runs – 127 from 1,000 career runs

Gavan Hassett B1 2,918 runs – 82 to 3,000 runs

Eric Junkkari B1 295 wickets – 5 to 300

Tim Leyshon B1 1,834 runs – 166 runs to 2,000

Amir Marzouk A1 2,813 runs – 187 to 3,000

James Meilnik B1 884 runs – 116 to 1,000

Daniel Moye B1 1,782 runs – 218 to 2,000

Ben Nolan B1 194 wickets – 6 to 200

Matt Nolan B1 800 runs – 200 to 1,000

Nathan Orton A2 82 wickets – 18 from 100

Simon Smyth A1 184 wickets – 16 from 200

Matt Spalding A1 97 wickets – 3 to 100

Tim Rae A1 77 wickets – 23 to 100

Leigh Van den Broeke A2 1,894 runs – 106 to 2,000

Craig Willmott C2 1,751 runs – 249 runs to 2,000

Posted by Ross Anderson on October 6, 2006 08:30 AM