Page 30 - WPHCC 2023-2024 Cricket Season Yearbook

Anecdotes
On top of the World
In November Nirav Desai (D1 Blue) and dual Premiership winning Captain (D2) made it to the Mt Everest Base camp.
Base Camp is no ‘walk in the park’. It is 5,364 metres above sea level – Mt Kosciuszko, our highest peak is 2,228 metres above sea level. If that isn’t hard enough between 5 and 15 people die along the way due to altitude. The trek is 130 kilometers long and takes around 12 days to help with acclimatization! Also, between 5 and 15 people die on the trek each year due to acute mountain sickness. So, this is no easy trek.
Nirav made it to Base Camp. Nirav also had his photo taken with the famous West Penno Baggy Blue. Our players have had their photos taken all over the world proudly wearing their West Penno colours but none, so far at this altitude.
Well done Nirav!!
Photo: Nirav at Mt Everest Base camp with West Penno Premiership cap – November 2023
Space Cadets
First up – our theme Music for this important Award –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtVBCG6ThDk
Nick Starr (A1 & A2)
Got to hand it to Nick Starr – star A1 & A2 player. With circumstances now allowing Nick to play again after a time away from playing he needed to register. So far so good. Problem is that Nick initially registered in the All-Girls Cricket Blast program – a soft ball comp for Girls aged between 4 and 9 years. What makes this an even more noteworthy achievement is that Nick managed to complete the Rego – including details of parents / Guardians.
What better way to start the season than to have a Captain arrive late to a game thinking it was still a 1.00 pm start rather than 12.30 pm while the Juniors are not playing – freeing up ovals.
Eric Junkkari (C3 Red)
To quote Andrew Fiedler (Sklipper):
“Early in the day as Eric was enduring the opening bowlers’ spell, he copped one in the nether regions, and went down like a bag of you-know-what.