The 2007-08 Season has now officially started – our 61st as a Club.

Umpires Training Course
One to note in your diaries.

Barry McDonald is running an Umpires Course for anyone interested in either knopwing the basics about Umpiring or getting a refresher. It is open to everyone – Junior Managers/Coaches, Senior players….

Details are:
• When: Wednesday 12th September
• Where: Pennant Hills Bowling Club
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff
• Cost: Nil – just turn up.

Congratulations
The Association recently elected 2 of our famous West Penno women as Patrons of the Association. Denise Annetts (Anderson), former Australian Women’s cricket great and Lisa Sthalekar (current Vice Captain of the Australian Women’s team and one of the elite world players).

Denise played for the Seniors and Coaches the U13 Blue side this year. Lisa played all her Junior cricket with us from U10s to U16s.

They join a distinguished short list of the Mayors of Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai and Baulhham Hills and two Life Members in this role. Well done ladies – we are proud of your achievements having 2 of the biggest names in World cricket part of our Club.

Kanga’s
So far we have registered just on 95 children – another excellent turnout. We have a ground capacity of 120 and these spots will fill up quickly so if you are thinking of playing then please let us know – contacts are on the Website under ‘Contacts’.

Girls
This year we will have at least 2 teams with more registrations still welcome.

Competition starts on Saturday 13th October running through to the 15th December. Games then recommence on the 2nd February until 1st March with Semi Finals / Finals played over 8th and 15th March 2008. This gives us 14 weeks of competition plus finals.

Junior boys
Not a great start to the season with rain affecting all matches. Next week, games will be played as 1-dayers. Details are:

Wet weather – procedures
For teams affected by wet weather match details are;
• Start time: 8.00am to 12.30 pm (8 overs in the last hour)
• Overs: 32 overs per side

Seniors
Wet day, no play, the end – an easy Round summary. All matches will be played as 1-dayers. Details follow:

Wet weather procedures
All matches that did not start will be played as a 1-day game next week. Details are:
• Start time: 1.00pm to 6.00 pm
• Overs / side: 35

It is most likely that it will be too dark after around 5.30 pm so suggest you move quickly between overs otherwise matches may well finish as a draw.

Good story but......
Got to hand it to Peter Westerberg (D2 legend) – the man who allegedly got blisters on his hand from rowing last year - he starts off a recent conversation by saying he had a great story about a player but then says he can’t tell me because it will end up on the website. It sure will and we will keep digging in true paparazzi style.

Personal achievements
After each match we will track the personal achievements of each player who has a significant personal milestone coming up. If you have one of these guys in your team keep a watch on the results so that they can be suitably recognised as the season progresses:

Name Grade Achievement
Sean Doohan A2 100 wickets Vs Kenthurst Semi Final 17/3/2007@ Turramurra Oval
Nathan Fathers C1 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview West 27/1/2007

Ross Anderson C1 6,936 runs – 64 to go for 7,000 runs

Steve Baker C2 824 runs – 176 to 1,000

Jon Burns B1 291 wickets – 9 to 300

Ryan Cherrie B1 149 wickets – 1 to 150 career wickets

Matt Dawson A1 • 2,811 runs – 189 off 3,000

• 189 wickets – 11 off to 200
Roger Friend D2 93 wickets – 7 to 100

Lachlan Gill B1 957 runs – 43 to 1,000

Chandana Jayasekera B1 944 runs – 56 to 1,000

Eric Junkkari B1 294 wickets – 6 to 300

James Makin
A2 • 2,821 runs – 179 to 3,000 runs

• 332 wickets – 18 wickets to 350
David Meizis
C1 935 runs – 65 to 1,000
Andrew Mills B1 1,972 runs – 28 to 1,000

Bruce Poehlsen B1 844 runs – 156 to 1,000

Kishore Rampersad
C1 • 3,763 runs – 237 to 4,000 runs

• 240 wickets – 10 from 300 wickets
Iain Ryan B1 139 wickets – 11 off 150 career wickets

Simon Smyth A1 197 wickets – 3 from 200

Jacques Visser C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Peter Whitehead A1 47 wickets – 3 to 50 career wickets

Craig Willmott C1 1,919 – 81 to 2,000 career runs

Coaching Courses

Northern Districts School Holiday course

When: Tuesday 2nd October to Thursday 4th October
Where: Waitara Oval, Waitara Avenue, Waitara
Time: 9.00 am to 3.00pm
Cost: $165 for full 3 days or $88 per day (9.00 am to 3.00 pm)

Registrations close Wednesday 26th September. The application form is on the website. The course is aimed at Girls and Boys aged 8 to 16 years of age

Please contact Arthur Souter on 9484-5609 if you are interested. The course has fully qualified coaches and includes Dominic Thornely – our Club Ambassador. We recommend this course as one worth considering.

Level 0
Entry level coaching course for people interested in knowing the Basics about coaching – ideal for mums and dads who want to know enough but not too much about the detail. Details are:

When: Sunday 7th October and Sunday 4th November
Where: Edward Bennett Oval (just behind the Sports Club)
Time: 9.00 am to Noon
Cost: Nil.

Please also contact John Coulthard (9484-2924) in you are interested in participating.

Level 1
We are also hosting a Level 1 Training Course at Edward Bennett Oval in November. The course is fully accredited with Cricket Australia and is run by Cricket NSW professional coaches. These courses are highly sort after. There are only a limited number of courses run across Sydney each year and this is the first in our area. Details are:

When: Sunday 11th and 25th November 2007
Where: Edward Bennett Oval (just behind the Sports Club)
Time: 9.00am to 4.00pm
Cost: Nil – provided you are coaching or intend to coach a side this coming season. Otherwise the cost is $120 per person.

Places are running out fast. We already have 16 nominations and there are only 4 places left. The course is available to anyone in the District so time is running out.

Please get back to Ross Anderson asap on 9476-0595 if you are interested in registering.

Kingsgrove Sports sponsorship
We are fortunate to have a sponsorship arrangement with Kingsgrove Sports Store at North Parramatta. Anyone associated with our Club is entitled to the following offer:

+ 5% discount on all cricket gear and clothing purchases just by mentioning our Club
+ once you give your details, 3 people will get their gear purchases for free to the value of $300 each

Kingsgrove is the best place in the whole area to buy cricket gear so if you are thing of getting any gear then go to Kingsgrove. They are located at

570 CHURCH STREET; NORTH PARRAMATTA.NSW.2151
Phone: (02) 9890-2311
Email: westside@kingsgrovesports.com.au

Website: www.kingsgrovesports.com.au

Website developers and graphic artists
We are privileged to have Peter Lees do all the website work for our Club. However, it is run by volunteers and we always need to involve others to share the fun.

If you have abilities in Perl scripting, graphic design or other web-related skills, and would like to contribute to your Club, please contact Peter (AT) wphccc.org

Posted by Ross Anderson on September 9, 2007 05:59 AM