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 sued the following number only:

Weather line number is 8230 0144

Greenway update
If you want to see a wet pitch then have a look at Greenway taken on Saturday after the Friday night deluge. It is worth seeing. Anyway the result of this is that after the current photo on the website was shown to Council they have they have agreed to relay the pitch to make it higher and re-astro turf it in time for next season.

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. And having the wire surrounds either replaced or repaired. Not sure if the astro has already been done but given fine weather it will be completed.

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
A great bowling effort by Vineet Suri (U13 Green) two weeks ago saw him take 6/0 off 4 overs against our Red side at Glenhaven. While not the best bowling performance in our Juniors history it is an outstanding effort – well done Vineet.

The season has started again but were also washed out on the weekend. The standing of our Teams follows with 1 Round to go before the Semi-Finals:

• 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 called off with a one-dayer to be played next weekend. The results are:

A1 Vs ARL – A1 was always going to be cancelled after Friday’s night’s rain. Fingers crossed that this 3 Vs 1 match gets underway next weekend.

A2 Vs St Ives – another blockbuster washed out. This time a 3 Vs 2 match with the winner going to 2nd place. By the way, have a look at the photo gallery to see the state of Greenway Park after the rain.

Colts
Red Vs Hornsby – another washout in a 3 Vs =4 game. Maybe next weekend.

Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – another washout. This time a =4 Vs 1 match. This is an important one with only one game to go for the Semi’s – probably the most important game for us this round in terms of the Semi’s.

B1 Vs Berowra – game washed out at Warrina Street Oval in a 2 Vs 4 shootout.

B2 Vs Berowra – a further washout in a big game – a 2 Vs 4 match-up.

C1 Vs Castle Hill RSL – washed out with a 1-dayer next weekend. This is a2 Vs 6 game.

C2 9/80 defeated Kissing Point 48 – for the second week in a row we have were scheduled to play on a field which was wrongly allocated. On arrival at Holland reserve we were faced with a “fields are closed” sign and had to hastily search for an alternative venue.

We found Kenthurst 2 field and managed to get the game under way an hour late. We won the toss and sent Kissing Point in to bat in humid, overcast conditions. Once again we bowled well, with Fergus Waterson picking up 5/7 of 7 overs and Jacques Visser with 3/14 off 7, to have Kissing Point all out for 48 in 26 overs. When we started out batting innings the overhead conditions which had helped us earlier now made things difficult and we were struggling at 39/8 before a 9th wicket partnership between Peter Lees (29*) and Mark Bell (10) got us across the line to win the match on first innings. We will continue batting next week on 9/80 with a real chance of getting an outright for this one.

C3
White Vs St Ives – a 1 Vs 6 match-up played on Sunday.

Blue 8/251 Vs Berowra – well, after a team bonding session in the Central Coast, we got to Berowra and won the toss & decided to bat. Chetan & Mike Fitzpatrick pushed the ball around in the wet out field, followed by Vikas. Claudio came in & was just getting settled before he had to walk back to the sheds. Vishnu & Michael were looking good, when Vishnu was caught. Michael supported both Rahul and Arun, before leaving the pitch on a great 75. Gary & Jonathan were able to bat the day out, so we will be back next week to try and complete what we have started.

D1 8/71 Vs St Ives 96 – this is a game we have to win in a 1 Vs 7 game. Playing on a slow Glenhaven track in ankle high grass, we started off reasonably well and managed to restrict St Ives to 96 all out, but picked up a few injuries to key players along the way which forced us to shuffle the batting order, and in the end we find ourselves in a spot of bother. We are still in it given that our regular number 3 batsmen (Allan Raffel) is due in next so hopefully we can hold in there to chase down the remaining runs. Key performances from Matt Dick with 4-14 and David Behelavanas 2-14.

D2 76 lost to Kissing Point –4/221 – Kissing Point won toss & bowled. Not our best day. Sent in to bat on the greasiest of wickets we were in trouble from the first ball, losing both openers without scoring and, in the circumstances, doing well to post a total of 76, Sam Thariani top scoring with 23. In reply Kissing Point made short work of plundering our bowlers, the short boundaries of this little field providing a bonus for batsmen prepared to hit over the top. Striving to stem the tide, Nikhil Suresh (2-46) and Ankit Grover (1-27) did a great job in difficult conditions, assisted by a good spell from Aparajit Bithiroy (1-36), claiming his first wicket for the club. Ben Pilipowski excelled in the field with two good catches at mid-on and mid-off.

With our semi-final hopes put to rest, our challenge next week will be to deny Kissing Point the outright they so badly want: a great opportunity to rediscover the disciplined and purposeful batting we know we are capable of.

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

Low scoring wins
The C2 game against Kenthurst was in the running for the lowest scoring result in our history. At 8/39 chasing 48 this was looking good until we skipped away. For the records, the lowest scoring result was on the 1/12/2000 when our A1 side Vs Castle Hill were rolled for 31 and then came out and rolled CHRSL for 53.

This game did make the record books though as it is the 3rd lowest score that we have dismissed a C2 side for in our history. The lower scores are 12 Vs Arcadia in 1967 and Kenthurst @ Kenthurst in the 2005 Final (19/3/2005).

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 12 are:
• A1: 3rd
• A2: 3rd
• Colts
o Red: 3rd
o Blue: = 4th
• B1: 2nd
• B2: 1st
• C1: 2nd
• C2 3rd
• 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
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 2,926 runs – 74 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 14, 2010 07:29 AM