Moscow Circus
Hornsby Shire Council have 1,000 tickets available for sale with all proceeds going towards our own local Hornsby Hospital. Ph 02 9477 9823 to purchase tickets. Enquiries: nberman@hornsby.nsw.gov.au

Dates for the diary

Club AGM
• When: Monday 21st June
• Where: WPH Sports Club
• Time: 7.45 start

This is the most important meeting of the year where our direction for next season is determined. It is also a great chance of catching up with everyone before the season gears up again.

Club Registration Day
• When: Sunday 1st August
• Where: Oakhill Drive Public School, Oakhill Drive, Castle Hill
• Time: 1.00 pm to 4.30 pm

This is our big Rego Day for the whole Club. It will be well publicised so keep a look out for times and dates from early July.

Registrations 2010-11 Season

“REGOMANIA”

BE PART OF THE ACTION & WIN, WIN, WIN!!!

To encourage pre-season registration and as a thank you for doing so, the Club is offering the opportunity to win prizes for some lucky players.

Every player, whether they be in our Kanga, Girls, Junior Boys or Senior Divisions, who registers to play in season 2010 – 2011, and pays their full registration fee will be allocated a Registration Number.

These registrations can be made personally at our Registration Day to be held on Sunday 1st August at Oakhill Public School from 12.30pm to 4pm,
or online at our website www.wphccc.org

In early September, prior to the start of the Junior Boys and Seniors Competitions, which traditionally start on the second Saturday in September,
These numbers will be placed in a draw for the following prizes:

1st - Framed bat autographed by Adam Gilchrist (number 1 of 30 bats)
2nd – Bat autographed by the complete NSW State team players
3rd to 10th prize - details to be provided shortly

Register and give yourself the opportunity to win these fabulous prizes

Award winners
Congratulations to everyone who played, in all Grades last season. A special thanks also to everyone who contributed in some capacity as a volunteer. At last estimate we had just on 275 people who contributed in some tangible way to making our last season such a success.

Individual achievement though is a big part of our game so congratulations to these folk on their outstanding individual achievements:

Club
Presidents Award for Service to the Club (Jim Fuggle Award) – to be announced on the 7th May

Girls:
• Lisa Stalakhar Player of the Year Award – Anthea Staines

Junior Boys
• Junior Player of the Year (John Coulthard Award) – Joshua Mathias
• Charles Booth Memorial Award (U13) – Campbell Blue

Association Award Winners
• U11 bowling aggregate – Harrison Broughton 15 wickets @ 5.07
• U14 batting aggregate – Ray Khamis 402 runs @ 50.25.

Seniors
• Player of the Year – Allan Raffel
• Outstanding Prospect (U21) – Daniel Anderson

Association Award winners
• B1 Grade batting average – Matt Scoular 500 runs @ 50.00
• B2 Bowling average – Geoff Richards 30 wickets @ 10.07
• C2 Batting average – Russel Ingram 612 runs @ 87.43
• C3 Batting average – Brendan Harkin 524 runs @ 65.50
• C3 Bowling average – Arun Kumar 34 wickets @ 11.82
• D1 Batting average – Lachlan Vile 489 @ 48.90

Trivia
The HK&HDCA website has some very interesting numbers:

Association level
• The HK&HDCA has approx 3,500 registered players:
o Sydney Shires Cricket has around 1,300-1,500 players members covering all areas of Sydney.
o Afghanistan recently completed a remarkable qualification for the next World Cup T20 and currently has 12,000 playing members – putting HK&HDCA at 30% of the entire countries playing numbers.
o Our neighbours Northern Sydney Cricket Association had 1,335 playing members in 2009/10, while the North Shore Junior Cricket Association had 1,914 playing members (not including Kanga Cricket/In2Cricket/CricHit programs).
o South Eastern Junior Cricket Association was the only Association to nab two Junior 1st’s Representative Premierships (Gee & Moore Shield in 2009/10); their numbers stand at 963 players (again, not including Junior Development programs).
• In 2009/10 we hosted and participated in approximately 1,653 matches of cricket.

WPHC perspective
• Our registrations are 817 players – 23% of the Association total player strength
• Excluding Kanga we participated in 539 matches – 32.6% off all games played in the Association
• The average length of a match is around 3.5 hours (across Juniors and Seniors) and factoring in a few rain outs and early finishes. This equates to approx. 1,886.5 hours of cricket
• This is equivalent to 78.6 days of consecutive cricket (played 24/7) and 11.2 weeks of cricket (played 24/7 without a break).

Our website
A special thanks to Peter Lees for his tremendous work on developing and maintaining our great website. Some trivia you might be interested in:
• In March this year we got the biggest monthly hit volume of 3,465 and get between 2,700 to 3,200 throughout the season
• Visitors view on average 3.32 pages / visit
• 30.12% of all visits are new
• Top landing page is the Club news
• Outside Australia we get regular hits (30+ / month) from Ireland, India, Ukraine, Netherlands and the Russian Federation!
• The most popular time that people access the website are:
o Day: Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday
o Time: 4.00 pm followed by 2.00 pm then 1.00 am

MyCricket website
Last season was the first season with all states & territories on board. The website usage statistics as averaged over 315,000 unique visitors and over 12 million page impressions each month. The number of clubs and associations utilising our free MyCricket websites continues to grow with over 1000 MyCricket websites currently in use.

Posted by Ross Anderson on May 25, 2010 07:33 AM