Wet Weather line
There appears to be an old wet weather 'phone number floating around that is causing some grief to an elderly couple who were inundated with calls on the weekend.

It would be appreciated if everyone used the following number only:

Weather line number is 8230 0144

Congratulations
For the 1st time, our Association is playing in a representative game between the HK&HDCA Vs the Sydney Morning Cricket Association on Sunday 28th February. The match is being played at Jubilee Oval Glebe. It is an Open Age Representative fixture in which the best players presently not playing A1 (the top grade) are selected from both Teams. Being the inaugural fixture is good enough but to be selected in this group is outstanding. The selections are the best young talent in the Association who are well on the pathway to significant cricket achievement. The West Penno players playing are:
• Daniel Brain (Colts)
• Sujith Dissanayake (A2)
• Amir Marzouk (A2) – was chosen but is unavailable

Well done fella’s.

Wet grounds
Have a look at the Photo gallery to see Greenway in all its flooded glory on Saturday. Apart from being a good snapshot of the weekend round we are using it as a justification for a new pitch that is actually placed above the level of the surrounding ground.

Net repairs
The nets at the WPH Sports Club are being repaired next week. We are having the torn surface where the batter takes guard replaced in all 3 nets. This will now happen on Tuesday 9th February so the nets will be out of action all day Tuesday – given fine weather.

Senior Competition Survey
The Senior Competition is running a Survey of all Registered players to get input into the way the Competition is run next season. Al Senior players will get the survey by email this week and need to respond to Steve Wilson by Sunday 26th February. We encourage everyone to spend a few minutes filling out the survey as it is our chance to determine what the Comp will look like next season.

Presentation days
Juniors
One for the diaries:
• When: Sunday 14th March
• Where: Campbell Park (Cherrybrook Community Centre is the wet weather fallback)
• Time: 11.00 am or 2.00 pm at Cherrybrook if it is wet

This is a big day with upwards of 600 people coming along with free drinks, sausage sizzle and entertainment for the kids. More details will come from your Team Manager so stay tuned.

Seniors
Another one for the diaries:
• When: Friday 7th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL (Sovereign Room)
• Time: 7.30 pm kickoff

This is one of the highlights of the year and every year it just gets better. Players, families and friends are most welcome. One of the good things also is the large number of partners and parents who turn up with the younger players especially. More info will follow on this one so stay tuned.

Juniors
The season has started again but were also washed out on the weekend. The standing of our Teams follows:

• U16’s: 1st (White), 5th (red) and 6th (Blue)
• U15’s - 4th (Blue), 7th (White), 11th (Green)
• U14’s - 3rd (Blue), 4th (Red), 5th (Green) and 11th (White)
• U13’s 1st (Gold), 4th (Green), 9th (red), 11th (Blue), 14th (White)
• U12’s - 3rd (Red), 4th (Blue), 10th (Green), 11th (Gold)
• U11’s - 2nd (Gold), 4th (Blue), 8th (Green), 14th (Red)

U10 and U9’s play a non competition game.

Seniors
After a weekend of heavy rain most games were draws except D1 where they actually got underway and won. The results are:

A1 9/297 drew with Kenthurst – no play on the turf was possible. While still established in the top 4 the fact that every other game got a result last weekend is a pain making next weekend’s big match-up against ARL who are the 4 season in a row premier a big game for us.

A2 179 drew with Kenthurst 2/33 – no play possible at Dural Park. Next week’s game is against St Ives in a 3 Vs 2 game that will go a long way to determine the make-up of the top 4.

Colts
Red defeated on forfeit Kissing Point – next weekend we play Hornsby in a 3 Vs 5 game.

Blue drew with Berowra – a Sunday game but most unlikely that we play. Next game is against the top team Normanhurst-Warrawee in a 4 Vs 1 match.

B1 drew with Kissing Point 9/234 – another washout so a real shame against the top team and in a game that we rated our chances. Next week we play Berowra in a 2 Vs 4 shootout.

B2 180 drew with Castle Hill RSL 1/12 – another washout. Next week we our game is against Berowra in a 2 Vs 4 game.

C1 226 drew with Kissing Point – another washout in a very tight competition. A real shame as we were playing the last placed Team. Next week is another big game against Castle Hill in a 2 Vs 6 game.

C2 130 defeated Castle Hill RSL 116 – after a delay of 1 hr to get the pitch dry we resumed bowling against Castle Hill who were on 0/17 from last week. We kept the bowling tight and managed to dismiss them in the 53rd over for 116. A great display of swing bowling from Jacques Visser, who bowled 16 consecutive overs from one end, to post figures of 7/45. This is the 131st time in our history that 7 wickets or better has been taken in an innings – well done Jacques. He was well supported by Nik Patel (1/31 off 14) and Chris Williamson (1/30 off 14). A good win for us leading into the back end of the season.

C3
White 8/343 drew with Mt Colah – in what was looming as a crushing victory no play was possible. Next week we play St Ives in a 1 Vs 6 match-up.

Blue drew with Kissing Point 112 – no play this week. Next week we play Berowra in a 2 Vs 5 game.

D1 7/248 defeated outright Kissing Point 113 & 106 – we were keen to collect maximum points against bottom placed kissing point, hence endured a stop start affair in the field in the rain. In the end, mission accomplished as we collected 10 points which now puts us joint first. It was not easy bowling with a ball that resembled a block of soap so we brought on the slower bowlers aka Perry Waldron, (the pick of the bowlers), to break a crucial partnership and finish with 3/9. Whilst this win puts us joint first, we hope to maintain our winning streak and improve our run rate in the 2 remaining games. Next week we play St Ives in a 1 Vs 7 match.

D2 181 drew with Normanhurst-Warrawee 0/2 – no play. Next week we play Kissing Point in a 7 Vs 3 match.

Player of the Year
The regular updates have now been closed off for the season with the winner announced at the Presentation Night.

T20 it is not
Spare a thought for Peter Heidegger’s C2 Team who had the misfortune to play at Glenhaven on Sunday. With Caterson 2 it is the slowest ground in the Comp. Anyway, our boys batted last week and scored 130 in 61 overs. This was positively rapid scoring on the same ground for the Saturday game between our Blue side and Kissing Point who scored 112 in 70 overs and this included 3 sixers!

Winning friends
Peter Westerberg (D2 Captain) had to front the Association on Tuesday night to resolve a Protest over the result – was it a tie, win or loss – brought about by the Opposition who claimed a win. But no one ever wins an argument about score books when Peter is concerned.

The result of the appeal was a tie – a win for us. But to quote Peter:
“Shook hands with opposite number as you would expect & disappointed committee members who were hoping to see a brawl.

As Shakespeare put it:

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake.

The club's honour is safe.”

Thinking of Premierships
For the 11 of our 12 Teams still in the running to play in the Semi Finals the following list shows our last Teams to take out a premiership. Good luck this season:

• A1 – 2002/03 season (Chris Thomas was the Captain)
• A2 – 2008-09 (Matt Jobson)
• Colts – 2007-08 (Nick Bennett)
• B1 – 2006-07 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• B2 – 2000-01 (Mark Taylor)
• C1 – 2003-04 (Dale van den Boogaard)
• C2 – 2008-09 (Andrew Fiedler)
• C3 – No Premierships – comp started 5 years ago
• D1 – 2003-04 (Roger Friend)
• D2 – 2006-07 (Rob McBrien)

The elite
The latest top 10 cumulative run scorers (Seniors) and wicket takers as at the end of Round 12 follow.

Top 10 batsmen
1. 649 @ 81.13 – Russell Ingram (C2 & Colts)
2. 490 @ 40.83 – Sam Thariani (D2)
3. 464 @ 58.00 – Matt Scoular (B1)
4. 414 @ 37.64 – Allan Raffel (D1)
5. 398 @ 66.30 – Lachlan Vile (D1)
6. 398 @ 44.22 – Gavin Taylor (A1)
7. 374 @ 62.33 – Brendan Harkin (C3 White)
8. 373 @ 62.20 – Daniel Anderson (C1)
9. 365 @ 33.18 – Sahil Talpade (D2)
10. 356 @ 32.36 – Michael McGregor (A2)

Top 10 bowlers
1. 31 @ 12.97 – Rowan Keating (B1)
2. 27 @ 11.11 – Rahul Sabherwal (C3 Blue & D1)
3. 26 @ 13.88 – Nik Patel (C2)
4. 26 @ 14.04 – Scott Jobson (B1)
5. 25 @ 14.76 – John Steel (C1)
6. 25 @ 15.44 – Jacques Viser (C2)
7. 23 @ 9.87 – Tim Starr (B2)
8. 22 @ 10.82 – Matt Dawson (A1)
9. 22 @ 15.23 – Arun Kumar (C3 Blue)
10. 21 @ 15.71 – Chris Williamson (C2)

Top 5 catches (non wicket keeping)
1. 9 – Tim Millington (B1)
2. 8 – Nik Patel (C2)
3. 8 – John Steel (C1)
4. 8 – Brett Hawkins (C3)
5. 8 – Lachlan McBrien (B2)

Champion Player
Just before Christmas we updated the ‘Champion Player’ stats from MyCricket. The standings by Grade as at the end of day 1 of Round 12 are:
• A1 – Gavin Taylor with 56.80 points and 8th overall in A Grade
• A2 – Matt Jobson 79.60 (1st in A2 Grade)
• Colts – Michael Dale 48.70 (2nd)
• B1 – Andrew Joyce 79.40 (2nd)
• B2 – Tim Starr 67.50 (4th)
• C1 – John Steel 81.20 (2nd)
• C2 – Russel Ingram 101.60 (1st)
• C3 – Riley Miedler 72.90 (4th)
• D1 – Allan Raffel 78.40 (2nd)
• D2 – Sam Thariani (81.00)

Competition table
Standings after Round 11 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 2nd
• C3:
o White 1st
o Blue: 2nd
• D1: = 1st
• D2: 7th

With 2 Rounds to go we have 11 of our 12 Teams in the Top 4 – well done fella’s.

Personal achievements
Congratulations to Greg Stoneham (400 wickets) and Mark Bell (50 wickets) on their outstanding achievement in Round 11.

A couple of big ones are coming up:
• Simon Davies – 6 runs to 5,000 runs
• Rowan Keating – 5 wickets to his 100
• Peter Lees – 54 runs to 3,000 runs
• Peter Westerberg – just 10 for his 100 runs

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
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

Greg Stoneham
C1 400 wickets Vs Berowra @ Warrina Street 24/1/2010

Mark Bell C2 50 wickets Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee 2 Glenhaven 23/1/2010

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

95 wickets – as at Round 12

Simon Davies
A1 4,994 runs – 6 runs to 5,000

Peter Lees
C2 2,946 runs – 54 to 3,000 career runs

Nathan Fathers
C1 1,911 runs – 89 runs to 2,000

Simon Smyth
A1 1,945 runs – 55 to 2,000 career runs

231 wickets – 19 wickets to 250 career wickets

John Steel
C1 91 wickets – 9 to 100 wickets

Andrew Watt C1 972 runs – 28 to 1,000 runs

Peter Westerberg D2 90 runs – 10 to 100

Posted by Ross Anderson on February 7, 2010 06:07 AM