Christmas and New Year Best wishes
On behalf of our Club Executive may all of our players, parents and supporters have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year. For those going away drive safely on the road and see you in 2010.

Cricket Clinic
The annual and very well run Northern Districts Cricket Clinic is fast approaching. This is one of only 2 Programs endorsed by our Club. The dates for the clinic these holidays are:

• Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January, 2010 (final week of the summer holidays).

Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp
There is also a 5 day Holiday Fun ‘N’ Skills Camp (Monday 18th Jan - Friday 22nd Jan) being run at Turramurra Public School in the same week of the holidays. The booking process for the holiday camp is exactly the same as it is with the cricket clinic.

Registration
To register your child/ren, please contact the following:

SPORTSPRO P/L
PO BOX 586
FRENCHS FOREST NSW 1640
FAX NO: (02) 9453 1454

If you require any further information about the cricket clinic or holiday camp please contact Steve Riddett on 0403 757 530 or the office on 9453 1451.

Juniors
The season starts again on Saturday 31/1/2010 when school resumes.

Points standings as at the end of Round 7 are:

U16’s
• White (1st), Red (5th), Blue (6th)

U15’s
• Blue (4th), White (7th), Red (8th), Green (11th)

U14’s
• Blue (3rd), Green (4th), Red (5th), White (11th)

U13’s
• Gold (1st), Green (3rd), Red (8th), Blue (12th), White (14th)

U12’s
• Red (3rd), Blue (4th), Gold (9th), Green (11th)

U11’s
• Gold (2nd), Blue (4th), Green (7th), Red (15th)

Under 10’s and 9’s do not play competition cricket.

Seniors
Thoughts of things grand
Got to hand it to Ben McNamara, star B2 opening bowler. While updating himself with all things West Penno on the website in Thailand, the tearaway noticed that he had taken 5 catches so far this season. To get in early on the Player of the Year Points for the match, Ben allocated the points himself “I'm giving myself 3 points, 2 points and one point cause I'm drunk and my name appeared on the club website for taking 5 catches."

Such enthusiasm.

Best debut of the season
The best debut performance in many a year came from Peter Flook (U16) playing C3 last match. Peter bowled 2.5 overs and took 5/4 Vs Kenthurst at Holland Road including their gun bat. Well done Peter.

Spare a thought for Andrew Fiedler (C3 Captain) who has been playing for 28 years to get his best bowling figures of 4/7 only to be pipped for match honours in 2.5 overs of inspired bowling in a debut performance.

Player of the Year
In Seniors, the Player of the Year is determined by a 3-2-1 points allocation at the end of each match. Points at the end of Round 8 are:

• 13 points:
o Rowan Keating (B1 & Colts)
• 11 points
o Carl Madsen (Colts)
• 10 points
o Chris Williamson (C2)
o John Steel (C1)
o Sam Thariana (D2)
• 9 points
o Tom Blissenden (Colts)
o Michael Dale (Colts)
o Russel Ingram (C2 & Colts)
o Andrew Joyce (B1)
o Scott Henderson (A1)
o Nik Patel (C2)
o Pratah Sinnentamby
o Matt Thorndyke (B1)

MyCricket achievements
National figures
Was going through the national figures for MyCricket and some interesting ones came up:
• Highest Score – 299 by a B Grade Victorian player
• Best bowling performance – 9/0 by a North Melbourne U15 player
• Highest batting average – 423 by another Victorian playing for Burwood Uniting

Our own Russel Ingram (C2 & Colts) with his 223 has scored the 10th highest score in Australia this season. Well done Russel.

Club Champion Player points
MyCricket allocates points based on runs scored, wickets taken, 50’s, assisted wickets and so. The standings for each Grade are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor – 43.0 points (8th ranking in A Grade)
• A2 – Matt Jobson – 60.70 points (2nd ranking)
• Colts – Michael Dale – 44.90 points (2nd)
• B1 – Rowan Keating – 65.40 points (1st)
• B2 – Alex Connell – 59.30 points (2nd)
• C1 – Daniel Anderson – 52.10 points (3rd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram – 101.60 points (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler – 53.90 points (6th)
• D1 – Lachlan Vile – 53.40 points (6th)
• D2 – Sam Thariani – 72.20 points (1st)

Club standings
The top 10 standings for all games in West Penno are:
1. 113.80 points – Daniel Anderson (U15 & C1)
2. 101.60 points – Russel Ingram (C2)
3. 89.10 points – Riley Miedler (U16 & C3)
4. 77.90 points – Suri Vineet (U13)
5. 76.20 points – Lachlan Vile (U16 & D1)
6. 74.20 points – Sam Thariani (D2)
7. 71.20 points – Rowan Keating (B1)
8. 71.10 points – Chris Williamson (C2)
9. 62.70 points – Matt Jobson (A2)
10. 60.40 points – Taki Manolelis (C3)

The elite
The top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at Round 8 are:

Top 10 batsmen
1. 586 @ 117.20 – Russell Ingram (C2)
2. 452 @ 45.20 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 318 @ 39.75 – Michael McGregor (A2)
4. 315 @ 52.50 – Matt Scoular (B1)
5. 310 @ 44.29 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
6. 293 @ 48.83 – Alex Connell (B1)
7. 282 @ 35.25 – Rowan Keating (B1)
8. 280 @ 40.00 – Matt Thorndyke (B1)
9. 274 @ 91.3 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
10. 259 @ 32.38 – Allan Raffel (D1)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 27 @ 11.04 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 23 @ 8.78 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 & D1)
3. 20 @ 8.55 – Tim Starr (B2)
4. 20 @ 10.20 – Matt Dawson (A1)
5. 20 @ 14.00 – Nik Patel (C2)
6. 20 @ 14.80 – John Steel (C1)
7. 17 @ 13.00 – Taki Manolelis (C3)
8. 17 @ 13.29 – Arun Kumar (
9. 17 @ 13.59 – Scott Henderson (A1)
10. 17 @ 16.18 – Jacques Visser (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 7 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
2. 6 – James McBrien (B2)
3. 6 – John Steel
4. 5 – Mark Bell (C2)
5. 5 – Ben McNamara
6. 5 – Tim Millington (B1)
7. 5 – Daniel Anderson

Competition table
Standings after Round 8 are:
• A1: 4th
• A2: 3rd
• Colts Red: 3rd
• Colts Blue: 4th
• B1: 3rd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 6th
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: 3rd
• D2: 6th

We now have all Teams in the top 4 except C1 and D2 who are just out of the top 4 at almost the half-way mark – a fantastic achievement.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Faisal Shamis who scored his 1,000th career run – well done mate.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Peter Westerberg – just 12 for his 100 runs before his 100th innings (88 innings and counting)
• Simon Davies – 42 to 4,000 runs
• Mark Bell – 1 to 50 wickets

Gavin Taylor A1 Scored 1000th run Vs Kenthurst @ Kenthurst 28/2/09

Peter Heidegger C2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby 2 Annangrove 10/10/09

Marco Delgado D1 1,000 runs Vs WPHC Blue @ Northholm Grammar 10/10/09

Alex Connell
B1 2,000 runs Vs Mt Colah @ Mt Ku-ring-gai 11/10/09

Rowan Keating
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Tim Millington
B1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 17/10

Matt Jobson
A2 1,000 runs Vs Glenhaven @ Headen Park 24th October

Amir Marzouk A2 250 wickets Vs St Ives @ The Glade 18/10/2009

James McBrien
B2 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview East 31/10/2009

Matt Dawson
A1 250 wickets Vs Castle Hill RSL @ Berowra 1/11/2009.

John Mitchell C1 50 wickets Vs Kissing Point @ Mimosa Oval 7/11/2009

Chris Williamson
C2 1,000 runs Vs Castle Hill @ Montview Oval West 15/11/2009

Scott Jobson
B1 100 wickets Vs Berowra @ Thornleigh Park 21/11/2009

Faisal Shamsi
D1 1,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee @ Normanhurst Oval 19/12/2009

Mark Bell C2 49 wickets – 1 to 50

Simon Davies
A1 4,958 runs – 42 runs to 5,000

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,855 runs – 145 runs to 2,000

Andrew Percival B2 884 runs – 116 to 1,000

Leigh Van den Broeke
A2 2,774 runs – 228 to 3,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 88 runs – 12 to 100

Posted by Ross Anderson on December 28, 2009 07:35 AM