Girls
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.

Kanga
Everything is set for a start on the 13th October. Full details are on the Kanga website section. We had a fabulous Information night at the Sports Club on Monday Night with Dominic Thornely attending - 55 people and photo's will be on the website shortly. We have 100 kids registered but can still take more registrations.

Junior boys
Day 2 of Round 2 kicked off on the weekend- results will be advised when available.

Seniors
Day 2 of Round 2 - here we go:

A1 74 lost to ARL 180 – the last of our 1-dayers to catch-up to the rest of the Competition. After a good win last week we came back to earth. We bowled well to hold ARL to a gettable score. Adam Walter and Amir Marzouk each with 3 wickets were our best. Not much in the batting with only another youngster (15 and 2 months), Ryan Blaker with 22 top scoring – on to next week.

A2 186 defeated ARL 129 – another powerful performance from this team defending a moderate score. Our bowling did it this match with Sam Baidya taking 4 wickets. We are on track to be up there at the end of the season.

Colts 5/207 defeated Normanhurst 100 – a very good win by this talented group of players who are already getting a reputation around the Association as an outstanding group of young people. Nick Bennett was the star with 97* but was well supported by Taylor Paton with 33. In the bowling Dylan Brogan got 5/20 with Tim Anderson 3/20. Nick also backed up with 3 catches. A very impressive win with a highlight being our ability to control the match.

B1 Blue 268 defeated B1 Red 116 – the Blues, promoted from B2 before the season started had a big win against a depleted Red side with 2 players unavailable due to injury. Batting on in recognition of the strength of the Blues, the boys set a formidable score. Great result for Dominic Burke who batted on to finish with 120*. Tim Connell did what he does best with 3/48 and Chandana got a couple of big wickets.

C1 4/247 defeated outright ARL 63 and 101. An outright win wrapped up by 2.15 pm on day 2 from this talented side that does not have a weakness. The damage was done last week when we needed 8 wickets on Saturday to get the 10 points. This week it was for the bowlers – Ben McNamara shifted up a gear and took 3/12 in one over and was well supported by Andrew Watt (2/23) and Sahil last week with his 2/14.

C2 234 defeated ARL 182. Our opening bowlers pair of Jacques and Jaskaran put the ARL batsmen under good pressure restricting their scoring to below 1 run per over for the first 10 overs. We didn’t have to worry about the inability to get LB’s and catches – all 8 the wickets taken on the day were bowled. Wickets were shared with Jacques (2/40), Isaac (2/21) and Faisal (2/23) all contributing. This side is developing into a very good side with strength in batting and bowling – keep it going fella’s.

C3 210 and 4 dec 91 defeated Kissing Point 136 and 1/72 – another big win from a team on a roll. James McBrien continues his golden patch from last season with 59 and Michael Hobern with 43. Duncan Moore took 3/19 as the standout bowler. In the 2nd innings, Tim Starr unleashed an awesome batting performance to smash 73 but not enough time to get the outright. Well done fella’s.

D2 124 and 87 lost outright Redfield 309 – we were smashed this match by a team playing well below where they should be. Despite the modest scores there were some good starts in both innings with Luke Christensen 24 and 18, Jon Van Blerk 23, Claudo Van Blerk 21 and Alok Pradhan 19. While a tough game we have the basis of a good team – against D Grade standard opposition.

Well done Gav
Congratulations to Gavin Taylor (A1) on being selected in Northern Districts Green Shield team – for the second year in a row. Good one mate.

I was there….
A comment from a senior player in one of the C Grade teams (names withdrawn to protect the innocent third parties involved) took the bottom of the barrel. After one of the players arrived late to the game he commented “….ask the wife why I was late”. The response from another senior player, ‘no need, she told me last night when you away’. It can only get better from there.

Talking about ducks
Gavin Taylor (A1) scored a golden yesterday (sorry mate) but this is becoming common. Two years ago he was out 1st ball (his first ever golden) when one of our Junior players at the game asked him if he had ever got one – the answer was no but that changed 30 minutes later. On to Saturday, Gav asked about ‘Lovey the Duck’ – team mascot for A1 who gets handed out to scorers of 0. It happened again – another golden. Might be something to learn here Gav.

Twice in a day
Peter Westerberg
Peter (D2) is another of that rare group of players building into Club icon status. While records on this one are difficult to source other than from long term memories of our long standing members Peter may well have set a Club record – being run out twice on the same day. Well done on making the record books Peter.

John Steel
John (C1) had the distinction of being retired twice on the same day. First after getting 100* 9this is OK) but then by the Captain after bowling 2 overs and taking a wicket in the 2nd over. Obviously a Captain who is very hard to please.

You know who your mates are
James Makin (A2) the Steve Menzies of WPHC who would rescue a drowning fly if he saw one, commented that the highlight of the good A2 win was Booney (another legendary figure). According to James, Booney was “...just being Booney – a loudmouth” (the intent was good here – not as bad as it sounds). He then commented on the big man’s great catch that missed his hands and got ‘stuck’ in the catching support of his chest.

“Desperately unlucky”
In an U12 game just completed the Team thumped Castle Hill with a massive score of 1/275. The one wicket to fall was a young bloke who was out for 4. According to people, at the game he was out to the only catch of the day and a brilliant one at that – the best quote is that he was “Desperately unlucky”.

Good one Kishore
Capt Kish (C1) has done it again – inspiring confidence into hapless batsmen at the other end while he is umpiring. Andrew Fiedler was batting (and doing it well). After an appeal for LBW, Kish raised his finger and commented softly “That’s not out – he hit it” – problem is that only the batsman heard the comment - just. Kish struck back later giving Andrew out LBW – this time from mid off about 30 seconds after the appeal.

Personal achievements
This will be updated once the scorecards come through this week.

Watch the following big ones coming up:
• Matt Dawson – 7 off his 200 wickets
• James Makin 60 to 3,000 runs
• Andrew Mills 28 to 2,000 runs
• Simon Smyth – 1 to 200 wickets

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

Jacques Visser C2 50 wickets

Ross Anderson C1 7,000 runs

Ryan Cherrie B1 150 wickets

Steve Baker C2 864 runs – 136 to 1,000

Jon Burns B1 291 wickets – 9 to 300

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

• 193 wickets – 7 off 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

James Makin
A2 • 2,940 runs – 60 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

• 245 wickets – 5 from 250 wickets
Iain Ryan B1 139 wickets – 11 off 150 career wickets

Simon Smyth A1 199 wickets – 1 from 200

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.

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 30, 2007 06:53 AM