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UNSW Cricket Club
UNSW Cricket Club
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Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales has been the breeding ground of many Australian sporting champions and Geoff Lawson is a proud member of the Wagga Wagga sporting cohort.

From concrete pitches and cork balls, Geoff’s love of the game spans many decades and he’s made a tremendous contribution to the game on and off the field.

Geoff Lawson left Wagga Wagga and made his way to the University of NSW where he made his first-grade debut in 1975 and went on to take 215 first grade wickets for UNSW at an average of 17.66.

At 20 years of age in 1977/78 Geoff made his first-class debut for NSW and on 28 November 1980, he became Australian Test Cricketer No 309 when he made his Test debut against New Zealand at the Gabba.

In 46 Tests for Australia, Geoff Lawson took 180 wickets at 30.56 with best figures of 8 for 112. He scored 894 runs with the highest score of 74.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/230/unsw-cricket-club/blog/248/geoff-lawson-in-doubt-bounce-lsquoem
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Veterans Cricket NSW
Veterans Cricket NSW
New South Wales, Australia
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NSW Over 50s Blues - Division One – National Championships in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023

Back Row – Simon Waddington, Mitchell Woods, Scott McIntosh, Steve Mace (Captain), Glenn Giddings, Stephen Wark.
Front Row – Simon Neich, Darren Shaw, Ash Hardy, Tony Clark (Vice Captain), Chris Patterson, Phillip Melville

4 games – 2 wins, 1 loss and 1 tie.

Round 1 v Western Australia – NSW Blues won by 6 wickets.
Round 2 v ACT – NSW Blues won by 12 runs.
Round 3 v Victoria – Victoria won by 2 wickets with only 2 balls remaining.
Final - Play off for 3rd and 4th v South Australia – match tied.

Check out all the scorecards -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/national-championships-2023-2024-summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-1/07234bb2
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Queensland Veterans Cricket
Queensland Veterans Cricket
Brisbane, Australia
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Queensland Over 50s Division One National Champions

Queensland Over 50s defeated Victoria by 11 runs to win the Division One Grand Final of the Over 50s National Championships held in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023.

Back Row – Mark Horswill (Manager and Scorer), Simon Milton, Chris Lanagan, John Short, Jason Simmons, Damien Meek, Chris Holding (Vice Captain) Craig Trindall

Front Row – Ashley Sippel, Andrew Kratzmann, Clint Keble (Captain) Mark Kratzmann, Shane Riley

Grand Final Scorecard -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-1/game-centre/286a2ac5
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Dustin Gaskell
Dustin Gaskell
Managing Director
Brisbane, Australia
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Exciting News Announcement from the USA for Gabba

The Chennai Super Kings Cricket Academy is completed !!

A state-of-the-art 12-lane indoor cricket academy in Dallas, Texas, USA!

This magnificent facility features two WICF Indoor courts with international length runups, providing the ultimate training environment for aspiring cricketers in the USA.

With the Gabba exclusive green-beige exclusive playing surface, this academy offers exceptional playing conditions, giving you the thrill of playing on a world-class facility, just like the ICC Academy in Dubai!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/691/dustin-gaskell/blog/1810/exciting-news-announcement-from-the-usa-for-gabba
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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Recently I watched a young left arm medium pace bowler bowl to a right-hand batter with 7 fielders on the offside and only 2 on the leg side and it immediately reinforced how important the relationship between a bowler and captain is.
The young left arm bowler had taken the new ball and had the nice natural action to swing the ball into right hand batters.
The field set was 3 slips, a gully, a point, a cover and mid off and on the leg side was a mid-wicket and fine leg.
Left arm swing bowlers are so valuable as they ask so many questions of the batters. Is the ball going to swing into my pads or will it hold its line and straighten towards the slips.
If the bowler gets it right, they have LBW and bowled in play as well as a catch to the wicket keeper, slips, gully, or point.
However, the captain needs to give the bowler the confidence of being able to attack the stumps. If they stray just a fraction with only one fielder at mid-wicket in front of square on the leg side, it makes it easier for the batters to score runs.
It may mean the bowler starts concentrating bowling a 5th or 6th stump line which might negate the opportunity to swing the ball. Its not what any team wants for the new ball bowlers.
Personally, I’d have liked to see the captain remove the fielder at cover and put them at mid on and have a straighter mid-wicket and a fine leg.
It makes it a 6 – 3 field and will give the bowler more confidence of being able to pitch the ball up and swing the ball as they have the added protection of a mid-on and mid-wicket to minimise scoring opportunities and keep the pressure on the batter.
As there is now a gap in the field at cover it might encourage the batter to start playing cover drives which is exactly what the left arm bowlers wants because if the batter doesn’t execute the cover drive correctly, a catch behind the wicket may not be too far away.
Also with mid-wicket relatively straight the batter may look to score through square leg which may mean they start playing across the line to balls pitching on off or middle stump and the LBW and bowled is back in play.
It’s very important for the captain to get their field right in supporting their bowlers but it’s also important the captain creates an environment where bowlers have the confidence to speak up about how they’re looking to dismiss the batter and the field settings they’d like.
Communication is the key.

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Luke Jecks
Luke Jecks
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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What is the true purpose of Coaching?

Have you ever stopped to think, "Why is customer service vital to a business? What's its true purpose?" I obsessed with this at Naked Wines until we settled on the simple answer - REPEAT BUSINESS. Once we pinpointed this, we transformed every customer interaction into an opportunity to ensure their return. Our customer service team understood their ultimate purpose and could measure their value and success, and we could shift from seeing service as a cost of business and more as an investment with return.

Now, diving into the world of Coaching and Education with SLOCOACH, I find myself asking a similar question: "What's the key reason for Coaching?" And I we've settled on a single answer - PARTICIPATION!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1362/luke-jecks/blog/1809/what-is-the-true-purpose-of-coaching
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Armidale District Cricket Association
Armidale District Cricket Association
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St Peters Cricket Club Armidale 1959-2000

The early history of the Club is yet to be researched as there is evidence that the Club played, as an Anglican Church team in Armidale, in the early 1900’s. The church association continued in the latter half of the century. The Rev Colin Wellard and Verger, Walter Gerken as a benefactor contributing ten pounds, were instrumental in supporting the club's re-emergence after a meeting instigated by Peter Poggioli in the Cathedral vestry following a pre summer Sunday service. In acknowledgement of the sensitivity of the arrangement the first "unofficial" commercial sponsor of the club was Cyril Fitzgerald, licensee of Tattersalls Hotel.

In 1959, St Peters competed in the B Grade of the New England Cricket Association (later Armidale) and in 1960 nominated to play A Reserve, as the second grade competition was then called. Peter Poggioli, later mayor of Armidale, was the team captain in the inaugural years and was succeeded as team leader by Peter Hutchinson.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Randwick District Cricket Club 3rd Grade Minor Premiers and Finalists 1977-78

Youth overcomes experience; 3rd Grade lose Grand Final in surprise result.

It was felt that 3rd Grade was the most likely of all the grades to take out the premiership. Ending as minor premiers and with a team comprising nine players with 1st Grade experience, they were expected to have too many guns for the young Western Suburbs team in the Grand Final, especially having beaten them in the preliminary rounds. Not to be, with the inexperienced Wests running out convincing winners.

Minor premiers

Captained by the experienced 33 year old, John Johnson, who was returning to the club after a gap of four years due to family illness, the side had two outright victories among its 10 wins. It won the last six matches to take the minor premiership by a clear margin, with eight points to spare over Wests.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/1808/randwick-district-cricket-club-3rd-grade-minor-premiers-and-finalists-1977-78
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Shaun Graf
Shaun Graf
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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I was fortunate for most of my captaincy years at St Kilda I had top quality spinners, a young Shane Warne, Mark Osborne, former St George, and Vic player (right arm off spin), Peter Cox, former Vic (left arm orthodox), and John Emburey, former England, Middlesex right arm off spinner.… so not a bad lot!
Spinners were so much more fun to captain as you and they, always enjoyed setting a trap for the bats, attacking fields and luring them into the net – Warne’s flipper, Emburey’s arm ball, Cox’s doosra and Ossie’s fast, over spinning straight ball … the opportunities to set batters up was fascinating to watch, using the field to create false shots, building pressure then using these type of deliveries sparingly so as to get maximum impact when delivered!
In a Grand Final against Collingwood, both Warne and Osborne had bowled many overs, beat the bat, false shots etc however they couldn’t get out the last couple of batsmen, one being on over a hundred, a left-hand bat that had played for Vic. The state of the match was that in the last session (2 hours) of the final we needed two wickets, however they were playing for a draw as they were the top team at the end of the home and away season. So we really had to try and prise them out.
We were into the last hour needing a wicket desperately so instead of rotating my spinners or bringing on a quick I went to a part time left arm googly bowler, an experienced player, opening bat David Robinson (Vic/Tas) who bowled the occasional leggie.
In actual fact he got 3 wickets in a previous flag, which we won years earlier, so not the worse but like all left arm leggies they can bowl some crap but their most consistent and best ball is usually a wrong’un!
We spoke at the top of his mark, because he could bowl the wrong’un more comfortably we decided that to the in-batter, the left hander, he’d bowl all wrong’uns coming back into him then the 5th ball bowl the traditional leg break across the leftie, couldn’t have gone to plan better, he played all the wrong’uns well but by the 5th ball he was confident, did not look as closely and did not read the leg break which he played forward expecting it to come into him…wrong, outside edge, nicked to me at 1st slip and the rest is history …. Champagne and a a flag and a place in St Kilda’s rich history

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Andrew Gode
Andrew Gode
Business Owner
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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My Best Grade team - Andrew Gode 2007 to 2020

I made my debut for Valley District Cricket Club in 2007 and over the years have played with some fantastic players.

With some down time I thought I reflect on who would make my best team. It was also a bit of fun and brought back some great memories.

Here’s my best Valley team from players I played with, in batting order:

1. Nick Kruger

My first captain at Valley. Brutal opening batsman who punished bowlers throughout the competition before moving to Tasmania where he ended up being part of a Sheffield Shield winning team. Rather sizeable cranium as well

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1360/andrew-gode/blog/1806/my-best-grade-team-andrew-gode-2007-to-2020
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