Executive Officers Role
The Association has advertised for a part-time paid Executive Officer’s position within the Association. This will be a paid position and involves 40 weeks work at 16-20 hours of effort per week.

Responsibilities
• Association Secretary
• Registrar
• Grounds Officer
• Score taker

Applications
Close by 25th January to HK&HDCA, PO Box 72 Hornsby 1630

Level 2 Coaching
Cricket NSW is about to run one of their highly sought after Level 2 coaching courses. The course involves:
• Residential sessions at Sydney Academy of Sport between:
o Friday 30th May and Sunday 1st June
o Friday 13th June and Sunday 15th June
• Residential programme between Wednesday 9th July and Sunday 13th July at Kinross School Orange

Cost
$600 but the Club will fund this for anyone who will use the qualification to have an active coaching role in the Club rather than just a team.

Next steps
If you are interested then let Ross Anderson know by the 10th February but hurry as spots will go quickly.

Girls
The Girls are on a break over the Christmas / New Year and start again on Saturday 2nd February.

Junior boys
The standings after Round 7 are – Round 8 has yet to be updated:
• U16s – White (2nd), Blue (4th)
• U15s – Blue (1st), Red (8th)
• U14s – White (1st), Blue (4th), Red (7th )
• U13s – Gold (=1st) Blue (6th), White (11th ), Green (13th )
• U12s – Red (4th), Blue (7th ),White (11th), Green (12th)
• U11s – Gold (1st), Green (=3rd), White (5th ), Red (13th), Blue (15th )

The Juniors now go into recess during the school holidays and start again on Saturday 2nd February 2008.

Tamworth trip
A combined WPHC U13 and U14 team was invited to participate in the Tamworth Cricket Carnival over the early New Year. This is a tremendous honour being invited into this major Carnival. The boys made such an impression they have been asked to come back again next season. We will get a write up and photo’s onto the website shortly so keep a watch out.

Kanga
A few years ago our Kanga’s were used in a Milo advertisement. Our photo gallery has a record of this fabulous day. We have now been asked to support an updated ad that will be produced in early 2008 so looks like some of our Kanga’s will get their moment of stardom. Stay tuned.

Seniors
Another rain affected weekend with all games washed out. Games for next week, all with a noon start, are:

A1 Vs CHRSL @ Kenthurst

A2 Vs Kissing Point @ Auluba

Colts Vs Kenthurst @ Storey Park

B1 Blue Vs St Ives @ Hassell Park

B1 Red Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst

C1 White Vs Pymble @ Bannockburn

C1 Red Vs Thornleigh @ Thornleigh

C2 Vs CHRSL @ Arcadia – please note ground change

D2 Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Dural Park

Fees
A reminder for those folks who have not yet paid their fees, our large Association bill is now due for payment. Your Captains will be approaching anyone with fees still outstanding. For Seniors these are $250 and Juniors $190. The early payment discount incentive of $20 has now passed. After this coming match priority for selection will be given to financial players. Thanks for your help.

Star on the rise
In addition to having a tremendous group of experienced players, our core strength as a Club continues to rest with our rising young stars coming through the Juniors via Kanga. The latest young player to make an impact is Michael Richards from the U15’s.

After taking a Club record 7/2 (our best ever Club bowling performance for anyone taking 7 wickets in a game – over 61 years!) in a morning game for the U15 Blues, Michael played C1 last Round. In this match he took 4/6 bowling his Off spin. This was first his bowling appearance in Seniors – fantastic stuff mate.

Fast scoring – another record
We have some amazing records of fast scoring. The record number of runs off an over by a WPH Senior player(s) is 30 by Ian Paterson and Roger Friend (D1) back in 2004 at Arcadia.

In A2 last week, batting sensation Ronan Barrett (A2) hit 6 fours in succession in one over to win the game. The match was played at Greenway. This is the equal 2nd highest number of runs scored in an over equalling the effort of man mountain, Martin Boon, also in A2, in 2006 (Greenway). It is also the first time anyone has scored 4 runs off every ball in an over. Well done Ronan.

No time to be nervous
C1 White had a ground change and had to race off to another venue minus a player who couldn’t make it to the changed ground. Enter Daniel Fiedler (U14) to make save the day. In the words of his dad (Andrew – himself a WPHC super star):

“Thirteen year old Daniel Fiedler made his senior debut last week. Daniel arrived at Arcadia, jumping out of the car to bat, as our last man was just out. The poor kid had to quickly chuck his pads on and run out onto the field for his debut with absolutely no preparation whatsoever. Managed to make 1 n.o.. I asked him if he was nervous.....he said he didn't have time to be.”

A Grade on a roll
Every team has stories of what has been/what might have been this season but just a brief one on A1 this season. After winning some good games and getting flogged in others they have fought back to now be in the top 4. With their full strength team now back in action if there are odds on offer back them to make the top 4 and if they do – win the Comp – take them. Well done fella’s – lots of character and guts to come back.

Top 10 run scorers
1. Nick Bennett (Colts) 443 @ 110.75
2. Michael McDowell (C1 White) 306 @ 51.00
3. Dan Moye (B1) 276 @ 39.43
4. Taylor Paton (Colts) 254 @ 50.80
5. Dom Bourke (B1) – 248 @ 27.56
6. Andrew Mills (B1) – 241 @ 20.08
7. Tim Starr (C1 Red) – 230 @ 20.91
8. Geoff Starr (C1 Red) – 225 @ 32.14
9. Ross Anderson (C1 White) 217 @ 36.17
10. Matt Scoular (Colts) – 207 @ 20.70

Top 10 Bowlers
1. Ben McNamara (C1 White) – 20 @ 13.70
2. Isaac Malamel (C2) – 18 @ 15.94
3. Jacques Visser (C2) – 18 @ 23.56
4. Jaskaran Singh (C2) – 17 @ 13.29
5. Nick Bennett (Colts) – 16 @ 7.63
6. Bran Ramachandran (D2) – 16 @ 18.50
7. Andrew Watt (C1 White) 16 @ 18.75
8. Dylan Brogan (Colts) – 15 @ 9.93
9. Peter Stott (A1) – 15 @ 12.80
10. Andrew Joyce (B1) – 15 @ 13.60
11. Matt Dawson (A1) – 15 @ 15.60.

Club Championship
At the half-way mark we are doing very well and are on track for back to back Club Championship wins. The table at the end of Round 9 is:

1. WPHC 1120
2. Kenthurst 935
3. St Ives 842
4. Hornsby 810
5. Normanhurst-Warrawee 791
6. CHRSL 780
7. Berowra 741
8. Asquith RL 687
9. Kissing Pt 685
10. Galston-Glenorie 454

Points table
Just a reminder that you can get this info from www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca - the table as at the end of Round 8 is:

• A1 – 32 points (= 4th)
• Colts – 39 points (1st)
• A2 – 39 points (3rd)
• B1 Blue – 39 points (2nd)
• B1 Red – 23 points (6th )
• C1 White – 53 points (1st)
• C1 Red – 41 points (3rd)
• C2 – 45 points (1st )
• D2 – 11 points (7th)

Personal achievements
I have been away for a couple of games and in that time there have been some wonderful personal achievements:

• Matt Dawson (A1) has achieved:
o 3,000 runs (12/1/08) and
o took his 200th wicket (22/12) – placing Matt at number 27 in the all-time wicket takers list!
• Chandana Jayasekera (B1) – scored his 1,000th run on 12/1.

The big one coming up is:
• Roger Friend 1 off his 100 wickets
• Steve Baker 57 to his 1,000 runs.

Name Grade Achievement
Sean Doohan A2 100 wickets Vs Kenthurst Semi Final 17/3/2007

Nathan Fathers C1 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby

Jacques Visser C2 50 wickets Vs Hornsby

Ross Anderson C1 7,000 runs Vs ARL

Ryan Cherrie B1 150 wickets Vs Mt Colah

Andrew Mills B1 2,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee

Simon Smyth A1 200 wickets – Vs Berowra

Adam Walter A1 100 wickets Vs Berowra

Matt Dawson A1 • 3,000 runs – Vs Kenthurst
• 200 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee•
Chandana Jayasekera B1 Red 1,000 runs Vs St Ives

James Makin
A2 • 3,000 runs Vs Kenthurst
• 339 wickets – 11 wickets to 350
Kishore Rampersad
C1 • 250 wickets – Vs Castle Hill RSL
• 3,850 runs – 150 to 4,000 runs
Steve Baker C2 943 runs – 57 to 1,000

Roger Friend D2 99 wickets – 1 to 100

David Meizis
C1 946 runs – 54 to 1,000
Bruce Poehlsen B1 Blue 888 runs – 112 to 1,000

Peter Whitehead A1 47 wickets – 3 to 50 career wickets

DCA website – points table
Now that the season is well underway anyone can track how their teams are going in the Competition in Both Seniors, Juniors and Girls by accessing the following website: www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca and then just go to WPHCCC and then your team.

Alternatively, just go to Links on our website and it is the first entry.

Probably worth locking this into your favourites and checking after each game for the standings.

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 January 20, 2008 06:31 AM