West Pilbara Cricket Association target title and promotion at Country Week

The West Pilbara Cricket Association have set their sights on a finals berth and promotion as they gear up to take on the State’s best at this year’s Country Week. Two teams — competing in B and D grades — will head to Perth to represent West Pilbara in the competition from January 16 to 21, with B grade facing Peel and D grade facing Bunbury on the first day. WPCA captain Jordan Perkusich said he had high hopes for the week-long competition. “Last season we just won the one game and just avoided relegation, so this year it’d be nice to win a couple more and hopefully push for the finals,” he said. “Our overall goal would be to win and get promoted to A grade for next season and looking at the squad that we’ve got, it’s a very strong squad and if we can just grow on last year, that’ll set ourselves in a really good position for a couple years to come.” Perkusich said the team had been training twice a week in preparation. “There’d been really good turnouts and there’s been great standards,” he said. “The tough part is when you mix all the guys from different teams into the one representative side, some of the guys haven’t played together and don’t really know each other, but one thing I do know is that everybody is there for the right reasons and same goals and we’ve gelled really well together.” WPCA recently retained the North West Cup after dismantling Broome, Port Hedland and Newman over three rounds in October last year.