Our season finished last month but there is still a lot happening. The following info has all the details.

Coming up
Seniors Presentation Night
Our Presentation Night is on as follows:
• When: Friday 8th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL, Sovereign Room
• Time: 7.30 pm
• Cost: $40 / head covers the cost of a 3 course meal

A separate note will be sent to everyone soon after Easter. All we need is confirmation that you are attending and to come along once the commitment is given. Our special guests on the night will be Dominic Thornely and Dean Gilchrist.

Annual General Meeting
The big meeting of the year. Details are:
• When: Monday 6th July 2009
• Where: WPH Sports Club
• Time: 7.30 pm

This is where all the big decisions of the year are made so it is always worth coming along.

Club Registration Day
Is not all that far away – Sunday 26th July 2009 at Oakhill Drive Public School. Think about it but this is only 4 months away.

First Seniors Practice
Saturday 8th August at 103 Newline Road nets.

First game
The Season kicks off for Seniors and Juniors on Saturday 12th September.

Quotes / comments / events of the season
To finish off the season there were some classic quotes / comments / things that happened. The following are some of the better ones:

Keeping it in the family
Our C2 side is a family affair. Get a load of this one. Taking the field in a match at Annangrove there were 4 Creais' (David, James, Marcus and Chris) on the field. With 2 Fiedler’s (Andrew and Daniel), 2 Miedler’s (Andrew and Riley) & 2 Starr’s (Geoff and Nick) you can only imagine the scorer’s life.

Not sure if the 4 Creais’ is a Club record but it would be up there. This still has a long way to go from the early teams of the Association though. The South Colah Cricket Club had 18 sons of Patrick and John Duffy (Duffy Ave) of Thornleigh, Dural CC was sustained by the seven sons of Thomas Best, Pennant Hills CC by the 10 sons of Arthur Thompson (Thompson Corner) and Castle Hill CC by the eleven sons of John James.

“You know you are in trouble when......”
Our ‘father/son’ C2 side is a very good young side (fathers excluded) but with Age and Association bowling restrictions they often lacked the killer punch to put sides away. In one game, after using 9 bowlers, to quote Andrew Fiedler, “you know you are in trouble when both wicket keeper’s bowl”.

Big hitting
Russell Ingram (C3) scored 36* but.....in this he scored 5 sixes with 4 coming from one over in five balls with 3 lost balls. One massive six went over square leg (Caterson 4) that cleared the top of several of the tall gum trees that surround the ground (they would be at least 20m high trees). The scoring sequence was: dot, 6 (ball lost), 6 (ball lost), dot, 6 (ball lost), 6. This is the equal greatest number of 6’s in an over by a West Penno player equalling the record set on 12/1/2008 (A2 Vs Galston-Glenorie 2 @ Mt Ku-ring-gai) when Ronan Barrett hit 4 in the 16th over to win the game. Well done Russell.

When asked about his innings and some of his shots by Captain Peter Heidegger back at the Club, he made the remark "my on side shots are actually quite weak."

5/0
How about James Kealy’s (B1). Playing at Mt Ku-ring-gai Oval James achieved Club first in taking 5/0 against the 4th placed Mt Colah. Using the windy conditions to perfection this performance is the 1st time in our history that this has been achieved. The previous nearest was the 7/11 by Ryan Cherrie Vs Kenthurst in the 2004/05 C2 Final or the 8/4 by Don Lamb who took 8/4 for B1 against Castle Hill in 1962/63. Well done James.

Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee
Got to hand it to the wonderfully talented Gavin Taylor (A1) – our youngest ever A1 Grader. To put this in context, Gav goes to The Kings School and the only way he gets out of playing cricket for the School (so he can play for us) is to do swimming. Unfortunately, just before the game, he had to swim 4 kilometres in squad training. While opening the batting (he scored a courageous 30 in an 80 partnership) he started getting bad cramps. To make things worse Gav was then stung by a bee on the shoulder. While amusing, from a distance, he ended up dropping the bat after every shot due to the pain.

Bradman Oval quotes
Over the Australia Day long weekend some of our long term volunteers played a game at this famous ground. Here are some of the good quotes that came out of the day:

John Coulthard's revenge
About 2 years ago Peter Westerberg put John out of action for 6 months with a strained back muscle trying to reach one his cricket balls. This time, when half way through his first run, Peter went down like a shot rabbit with a strained muscle. Revenge is sweet.

"Fiedler's don't bowl off long runs"
Greg's Fiedler's disappointment with his brother Andrews' bowling off a 'long' run - all of 5 paces.

"You know this pitch doesn't spin - try the other one"
The quote of the day by Greg Fiedler (again) after Peter Westerberg bowled a ball that pitched on the adjoining pitch.

"Lord McDonald"
The best welcome of an opposing Captain by the fielding side – John Coulthard's official welcoming of Barry McDonald to the crease to start his batting spell – "Gentlemen, may we welcome the opposing Captain, Lord McDonald". John just got a welcoming clap.

"Coming to the end of his spell"
Greg Fiedler's comment after 4 balls of his son James' 1st over that had already gone for 18 runs. The over cost 25 runs after Matt Dawson had a bit of fun.

Posted by Ross Anderson on April 12, 2009 06:17 AM