Penrith Cricket Club

1.   The Club is proud to announce that Matthew Halse, long-time stalwart of the Club, has been endorsed as the First Grade Captain for Season 2012/13. 

Matthew is a fierce competitor with 4,564 runs under his belt together with 366 wickets & offers a wealth of experience in the captaincy & nurturing role.  Congratulations & all the best for the coming Season Matthew.

2.   Former Club player of many seasons, Jarrod Lee, returns to the Panther lair for Season 2012/13.  We hope that the coming season will be a most successful one for you with the Cats... welcome home.

There is a job opportunity available for anyone wanting to get started in the work force!

Initial trial period with opportunity to advance to full-time employment with mobile phone & vehicle.

For further information, please contact:     Michael Cairns  on  0468 840 491    

1.        The Trevor Wholohan Room

This beautiful room with a Clubhouse feel is designed to seat 120 guests. 

The room is decorated with memorabilia and has an outlook over Howell Oval, the districts premier Cricket ground.

The room has a full commercial kitchen for food preparation or warming.

Catering can be arranged separately and the room will be supervised by our friendly and experienced staff.

Perfect for Club or Private functions.

2.        The Indoor Centre

The Centre boasts 2 full size Indoor lanes with extended run ups and 2 Bowling Machines.

The high tech building allows in natural light with roller doors on the front and sides to provide natural ventilation and a bright open atmosphere.

          The Centre also has side and upstairs viewing areas perfect for clubs, teams and individuals.

          Open all year round from 10am til 9pm Monday to Friday and weekends when available.     

           Private and Group Coaching is available.

3.         Ground Hire

The ground at Howell Oval is available for private and Corporate use during the season when available.

The Club house and full amenities are provided.

BBQ facility is available or you can be catered for.

Prices are available on request.

Email the Club on   contactus@penrithcricketclub.com.au     to notify us of your requirements and we will contact you to discuss we can best serve your functions needs.

Our Annual Presentation night is to be held Saturday, 16th June, 2012.

Would all members please diarise the event so as not to miss out... formal invitations will be sent in early course.

Barry came down from Dubbo with his parents all those almost-30 years ago to further his education, and on the way he stuck his nose in at the Penrith Cricket Club, where he showed enough talent to be chosen in the Club’s very first Poidevin-Gray premiership-winning team—captained by none other than Trevor Bayliss! His talent soon saw him promoted to Second Grade and his sparkling 124 against Petersham-Marrickville (now Randwick-Petersham) shot him into First Grade for the second half of the 1983-84 season. He went on to score nearly 4000 runs for the Club.

Now he’s 48 and not quite as fit as he used to be, yet this season he accepted the challenge to help in the development of some very good young cricketers. The Colts is a challenge because the make-up of the team is always very flexible, those Friday night dropouts in the higher grades creating mayhem. The team finished third and has won both the preliminary final and the semi most convincingly, outright. Coady has moulded them well. There have been century batting efforts from Ashlyn Govender and Josh Dowd and some excellent pace bowling by Alex Henry and Jackson Edwards. Coady made 30 in the second innings of the semi against North Sydney. Not much to write home about? Thing is, it was one of those back-to-the-wall innings that initially dragged the team out of a difficult spot—5/42, and a paltry overall lead of just 89 and plenty of time to play. Then he and son Lachlan put on nearly 50, a partnership that pretty much scuttled North Sydney’s outright hopes.

Gordon will be tough at the weekend. Coady is philosophical: “Win lose or draw we have all enjoyed this year greatly.” So says the rest of the Club.

They came from the country to play at Penrith, where they became two of the Club’s finest players and today, years after their careers waned, they remain firm friends. Trevor Bayliss (Goulburn) and David Taylor (Dubbo) scored nearly 20,000 runs between them. Now they are putting something back into the game that gave them, and those who watched them, so much pleasure.

TB returned home this season, after a successful coaching stint with Sri Lanka, to start developing some new coaching initiatives. Long term the Club will be stronger for his input, and will play better cricket. He will be splitting his time at Penrith with coaching gigs in the IPL (Kolkata Knight Riders) and the BBL (Sydney 6ers). In late June he will run his eyes over the PGs squad.

Shakey Taylor is now looking at the game from a different perspective—umpire! And, that’s not a seeing eye dog with him! He has risen rapidly through the ranks to First Grade status. He will be umpiring higher grades in the preliminary finals now under way. Prospects look good for a representative opportunity in the near future.

They are a great example to all Club cricketers of any age: to keep the game strong at any level you’ve got to stay involved.