We are now gearing up for another cricket season – our 79th as a Club. There is a lot happening with the major events being:

Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The big meeting of the year. Details are:
• When: Monday 29th June 2009
• Where: WPH Sports Club
• Time: 7.45 pm

This is where all the big decisions of the year are made so it is always worth coming along. It is also where all positions come up for election with anyone with an involvement with our Club can nominate for any position. Come along and have a chance a sharing a couple of ‘quiet ones’ with mates from last season.

Coming up
Club Registration Day

We take all Registrations for Kanga, Junior boys, Girls and Seniors on the day.

• When: Sunday 26th July 2009
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

Registrations are also taken on-line and details will; be available shortly about this option.

First Seniors Practice
Saturday 8th August at 103 Newline Road nets between 1.00 pm and around 4.30 pm.

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

Cricket NSW Level 1 Accreditation
Cricket NSW is running a Level 1 Coaching Course in September. Over the last few years we have run a Level 1 programme at Edward Bennett Oval and now have 29 qualified Level 1 coaches. It is an excellent course and is highly recommended.

• When: Sunday 13th September 2009
• Where: Montview Oval, Hornsby. Our grounds section on the website has the location.
• Time: 9.00 am to 5.00 pm
• Cost: $Nil if you coach a WPHC Team - otherwise the cost is $120 per person.
These courses have a maximum of 19 people per session (there is just the one) and we usually fill them out with WPHC folk alone in the past. The only condition we apply is that if you commit to go and don't turn up then we ask for the cost to be reimbursed which is only fair.

If you are interested then please get back to Ross Anderson (wisden@bigpond.com) your name and full contact details. There are still spots available but please move quickly if you are interested.

Association Award winners
Congratulations to the following players who won major Awards for last season:
Juniors and Representative
• Daniel Anderson:
o Baulkham Hills Shire Presidents Trophy (best all round performance in all competitions by a junior)
o Tom Richmond Trophy – leading Junior Representative Player
o Representative batting award (207 @ 40.4)
o Moore Shield (U14) batting award
• Marcus Creais – Junior Representative bowling award (11 wickets @ 5.73)
• Aditya Ramarkrishnan – U12 Club batting award (368 @ 73.60)
• Thomas Lee – U14 Club batting award (410 runs 2 82.0)
• Lachlan Vile – U15 Club batting award (302 runs @ 100.67)

Girls
• Felicity Trinh:
o Association and Club batting average (162 runs @ 58.33)
o Association and Club bowling average (14 wickets @ 5.21)
o Emerging Breaker selection.

Seniors Award winners
Club Awards
Congratulations to the following folks who won the major Senior Awards at our Presentation Night on the 8th May:
• Deepak Narsai – Presidents Award (Director Juniors)
• Scott Henderson – Player of the Year (A2 250 runs @ 25.0 and 37 wickets @ 11.6)
• Dylan Brogan – Outstanding Prospect (Colts 28 wickets @ 7.9

Association
The winners for each Grade will be announced at the Association AGM.

Association News
The Association is looking at introducing a number of new rules. A meeting with Club delegates was held in the first week of June and agreement was given to run with the following changers:
• A leg-side wide rule applying in 1-day games where there are official umpires
• Player ratings – giving greater flexibility to players to play 1 grade below their rating
• No changes to a player rating that was earned on previous season performances
• A new rule of ‘extreme heat’ situations
• Club Championship calculation is to be changed basically to make it more difficult for us to win the Championship – we have now won 6 straight. The new system favours smaller Clubs with successful teams in higher grades.

Cricket Poetry competition
A National competition is being run inviting cricketers to submit a poem celebrating an aspect of life in and around the game and sport of cricket, in settings of backyard cricket, beach cricket, club cricket or social cricket

Cricket Poet Arthur Salway wrote the wonderful “Reflections”

I bowl to my reflection in the outside kitchen door;
Then, switching to a batsman’s role, I face myself once more.
Was ever bowler quite so subtle with his sleight of hand?
Or ever batter quite so quick to read & understand?
Such wealth of cricket expertise by subterfuge concealed
Deserts me from the moment that I step onto the field!

A prize of $2,000 is on offer and the entries need to be submitted by the end of August with the top 20 Finalists being announced on the 25th September

If you are interested then please get back to Ross Anderson (wisden@bigpond.com) so that I can provide you with the consent forms.

Posted by Ross Anderson on June 28, 2009 07:06 AM