Leichhardt Wanderers Cricket Club

October 17th, 2026. Welcome to Season 2026/27! Junior cricket is back for the Inner West of Sydney and the mighty Leichhardt Wanderers! Despite the shaky weather during the week, (almost) all games went ahead for round one. We also had a few instances of the PlayHQ scoring app falling before stumps - a nice reminder of why having a secondary paper scorebook is necessary! Please get in touch with the club if the e-scoring app glitches and you need to correct or finalise any e-

Season 2026/27 commences this weekend for our juniors! ⚠️ Important information for all below. Pre-season is over and the games start now! Well... let's hope so anyway. The rain has been on and off this week and still hanging around. With any luck, all our grounds remain open and cricket can be played! We'd like to wish everyone at the club all the very best for the season ahead - firstly coaches, managers, umpires, scorers, volunteers and supporters... but especially, our pl

Saturday Oct 10 (11am - 3pm) We’re now just over one week away from the first round of junior cricket! This weekend, we are opening up the clubhouse at Blackmore to provide one final major opportunity for club members to collect or purchase their uniforms ahead of the first round. Details are as follows: 🗓️ Saturday 10th October 🕛 From 11am to 3pm 📍 Leichhardt Wanderers Clubhouse @ Blackmore Oval, Leichhardt If you would like to pre-order uniform ahead of Saturday, please

This Saturday from 5pm! Join us this weekend to launch the new season of cricket at Leichhardt Wanderers! We greatly encourage as many players and families to attend as possible. It's a fantastic way to connect with the club your teams, whether returning or new! It's also a really great way to support the club - we only host a handful of events at the clubhouse each season, so greatly appreciate your presence to help us raise some funds to put towards running our great club.

Reminder that today - 31st August - is the last day to register in order to secure your team allocation. (Registrations will remain open after this date and through September, however team allocation will occur on a best-efforts basis). Are you in private school or have other commitments on Saturdays? If so, join one of our Sixers Cricket League mixed teams on Sundays! We have the option for our junior players to form mixed teams in U13, U15 or U17, all who play on either Sun

Reminder to register for the 2026-27 season as soon as possible! As winter sports approach their final weeks, cricket is ramping up (note: ramping not encouraged 😁). There's a lot happening in the local cricket community and at Leichhardt Wanderers Cricket Club - read on for all the details! Firstly, we'd like to welcome all of the new families to the club; if this is your first newsletter, we hope you enjoy reading our updates as we approach the commencement of the season a

All registrations for Leichhardt Wanderers junior and senior cricket are now open for the upcoming 2026-27 cricket season! Don't delay! Register by 31st August 2026 in order to secure your team allocation. Read on below for more details. Registrations Given the options available to players - especially for our juniors - we have revamped and expanded the registration information on our website to assist you with learning about our various cricket offerings and helping you by e

May 26th, 2026. Cricket NSW has confirmed that associations can now proceed with girls’ representative trials. IWHJCA Girls rep teams are a joint venture with CWSCA (Canterbury & Western Suburbs Cricket Association). Nomination Process From this season, players must nominate one association only before trialing and may trial with one association for the season. Associations are required to ensure that their trialists have completed a nomination form for their association, ava

March 21st / 22nd, 2026. There you have it, our 2025/26 season of junior cricket is now complete! A bit of wild weather caused some havoc over both days this weekend, which was a little disappointing for some games, however thankfully (at least for LWCC!) did not decide any grand final results. Along with all our final round match reports, including our U11 Girls local derby, we have three junior Grand Final match reports featured below. Our U10 Reds were very brave in defeat

March 14th / 15th, 2026. What a weekend of cricket! Six semi-finals featuring seven LWCC teams in the IWHJCA competitions saw three teams qualify for their grand finals this coming Saturday. However, even for those who didn't win their semis, some high-quality, competitive cricket was played and they gave it their all, no matter who they were up against. That is Wanderers spirit! The same can be said for our senior B-grade side, who whilst they went down against the Western J

March 7th / 8th, 2026. After 15 rounds of cricket from October to March, our Inner West Harbour cricket regular rounds come to a close. For some, this means the end of the season. We sincerely hope you've all enjoyed your season and have loved your cricket. We hope you've made some new friends, whether team mates, club mates, or opposition. We hope you've learnt some new things from our fabulous coaches and continued to develop your game. We also hope to see you again next s

February 28th / March 1st, 2026. Things are heating up now! (Not literally though... with a spot of rain on Friday spoiling the penultimate round for our U10s and our keen U9s - very disappointing!). For our IWHJCA comps, this weekend will be the final round of the season for many teams who're out of the running for finals. We hope you've enjoyed your cricket - give it everything you've got for your games this weekend! For others, it all comes down to Saturday to see if they

March 2nd, 2026. As we approach the end of the cricket season, we hope that it has been an enjoyable time. The Association will now commence boys representative trials for all age groups for the 2026-27 season. Note: information for girls rep trials for the 2026-27 season will be announced in late-March 2026. Eligibility Must intend to register with an IWHJCA club (Leichhardt Wanderers, Concord Briars, Iron Cove Balmain Tigers and Ryde Hunters Hill Pirates) for season 2026-27

February 21st / 22nd, 2026. As many of you would have seen, last week, Leichhardt Wanderers Cricket Club launched Pitch Perfect: Girls Cricket Academy . This is a super exciting new project for our club to be part of and designed to give our girls a fantastic opportunity to develop their cricket skills in the off-season, led by a professional coach and held at a professional cricket facility. We are pleased to say, we've had overwhelming support from our players, getting thei

February 14th / 15th, 2026. Winter Olympics fever is gripping the nation, as Australia is having its 'best ever' campaign at Milano Cortina. (So far, 3x gold, 1x silver and 1x bronze - not bad for the world's driest inhabited continent, with 70% of its land classed as arid or desert!). What resonates most with me are the stories from the athletes and their families. The athletes all speak about the spark that was ignited when they discovered their chosen sport, and the pride

February 7th / 8th, 2026. Another weekend of junior cricket in the books! We love reading these match reports every weekend, and we hope that our club community enjoys reading them too. Our coaches and managers seem to enjoy writing them too - win, lose (or tie!), there is always an element of fun and plenty of positivity written in to the weekly match reports ('short stories' if you will). We appreciate everyone putting their time and energy into these and we'll continue to

Jan 31st / Feb 1st, 2026. Yes... welcome back... welcome back to LWCC's summer of cricket! It's great to have club cricket back and it seems as though it wouldn't be a summer weekend in Sydney without the combination of sunshine, sweltering heat and humidity, followed by a torrential rainstorm to finish off! Our first match reports of 2026 are below, with plenty of exciting cricket being played. We welcome some new players to the club in the new year and some new team formati

Happy new year to our Leichhardt Wanderers cricket community and welcome back for 2026! 2026 is a big year for the Wanderers, as it marks 115 years since the club's inception. Obviously cricket is a much more recent undertaking, however rugby league at LW has been going strong since 1911! As one club, we will celebrate this milestone collectively in 2026 (more on this below). We hope everyone enjoyed the holiday period and some down time from junior cricket. No doubt plenty o

December 13th / 14th, 2025. We've officially reached the half-way point of the 2025/26 season, which also marks the end of club matches for 2025! We hope everyone is enjoying their cricket and looking forward to returning in 2026. Of course, everyone deserves a much needed break, which is a great opportunity to refresh for the second half of the cricket season (particularly for parents and coaches, let alone our players!). Put your feet up and settle in for the Ashes; with th

December 6th / 7th, 2025. Well that was a hot one! Somewhat of a shame that we had to abandon a host of matches on Saturday, although some of our early morning junior teams were lucky enough to get a game in before the stifling heat took hold. Read on below to catch all the weekend's action - plenty of fantastic match reports on offer! Thank you so much for everyone who braved the heat to come down to Blackmore on Friday night for a cold drink and our BBQ. It was great having