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2 years ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Part 1 - The history of St George District Cricket Club 1921-22 to 1930-31

The St George District Cricket Club boasts a proud history which has now extended beyond a century.

When the club entered the first-grade competition in 1921-22, few could have predicted the success and prestige that would accompany it in the ensuing century. As the club celebrates its centenary of first grade across the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons there is an opportunity to celebrate many of the outstanding performances and moments that have occurred.

With this in view, it was decided to compile a list of 100 moments in 100 years.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/1306/part-1-the-history-of-st-george-district-cricket-club-1921-22-to-1930-31

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2 years ago

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Heroes of the Ages - Ernie Toshack, a member of Don Bradman’s 1948 “Invincibles”, holds a special place in the history of Randwick Petersham Cricket. Not because of his first-class and Test cricket on-field exploits, but because he is the only cricketer to have played first-class cricket while a member of the three clubs behind Randwick Petersham – Petersham, Marrickville and Randwick.

At 29 he ventured to Sydney to play Grade Cricket. Surprisingly, his first choice club Petersham couldn’t find a spot for him and it was Marrickville where Ernie made his Grade debut – in 3rd Grade. In the only match he played in that grade, he took 10 wickets (6-40 and 4-16) against Glebe. Promoted to 2nd Grade he took 9-94 in his only game and was immediately promoted to 1st Grade where he took 7-35 in a losing 1st Grade match against University. His 6-22 to dismiss Manly for just 59 however, resulted in a resounding win for his team.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/1305/ernie-toshack-randwick-petersham-cricket-club-heroes-of-the-ages

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2 years ago

Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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One of the key ingredients in the art of captaincy is to ask questions and challenge the opposing captain and team into doing things they otherwise wouldn’t normally do.

The Ashes series between Australia and England is two days into the 4th test, and I’ve been fascinated by how Ben Stokes, as England captain, has got into the minds of Australia.

Forget Bazball, it’s Ben Stokes.

Australia is playing unrecognisable Australian cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1304/ben-stokes-has-australia-playing-unrecognisable-australian-cricket

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2 years ago

Jody Martins

Cricket Coach

Western Cape, South Africa

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Amy Price - Game Understanding

In this episode, Jody is joined by Amy Price. Amy works as a Coach Developer for the FA with coaches in the senior women’s professional game, Grey Matters and she coaches the U14 Fulham Team. Amy holds a Masters’s and DProf & PhD.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/696/jody-martins/blog/1301/amy-price-game-understanding

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2 years ago

Jody Martins

Cricket Coach

Western Cape, South Africa

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Joey Hewitt - Deep Dive Into Mental Training

Joey Hewitt is a former professional basketball player who has travelled to Australia, England, and Mexico to pursue his basketball career. A graduate of Whitman College, Joey is the winningest player in D3 history with an overall record of 112 wins and only 10 losses over a 4-year span. A 3-time Northwest Conference all-league selection, pre-season All-American, and 1st team All-Academic student.

Joey has his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and his Master's of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Loughborough University in the UK.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/696/jody-martins/blog/1300/joey-hewitt-deep-dive-into-mental-training

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2 years ago

Darren Berry

Cricket Coach

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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My best Victorian team - Darren Berry 1990 to 2004

For 15 years I was a very proud member of the Victorian Cricket team and played with many great cricketers.

It was tough process to pick my Victorian team during my time and some gun players unfortunately missed out.

So here goes, in batting order my best Victorian team from 1990 to 2004.

1. Warren Ayres
Technically correct beautiful on the eye. Should have played more games for Victoria IMO. All-time leading run scorer in Melbourne grade cricket and now doing good things in coaching field.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/978/darren-berry/blog/1303/my-best-victorian-team-darren-berry-1990-to-2004

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2 years ago

Dean Tuckwell

Travel Agent

Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

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Australian Test player number 390 gives a very modest account of his career.

Perhaps Nathan Hauritz was destined to be a cricketer having been delivered into the world by Carl Rackemann’s mother “Dragon” at The Wondai Base Hospital in 1981.

He certainly impressed as a young player representing Queensland at under 17 and 19 levels and touring England and Sri Lanka with the Australian under 19 side before attending the Cricket Academy in Adelaide.

A batting all-rounder in his early days, it was his tidy off-spin bowling that propelled him to the Queensland side in 2001 and by weight of his obvious potential and solid performances he was ultimately rewarded with an Australian one-day cap in 2002, aged 20.

An injury to Shane Warne gave Nathan a break for his Test debut in 2004 in Mumbai where he took 5 wickets in a famous victory. Test opportunities for spin bowlers were difficult to come by in the Warne and McGill era but upon McGill’s retirement in 2008 he was regularly Australia’s first choice slow bowler for a 2 year period playing his last Test in Mumbai in 2010.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/69/dean-tuckwell/blog/1302/nathan-hauritz-ldquoricky-ponting-always-found-a-way-to-instill-belief-in-me-even-when-i-didnrsquotrdquo

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2 years ago

Redlands Tigers Cricket Club

Brisbane, Australia

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The Tigers history is a long, rich and varied one which we value greatly. This edition of the Tigers Captains series steps back in time to a very different era of the club.

Mal “Rowdy” Freeman led our top team during a very successful period when the club had a different name, home ground, logo and colours to the ones we are known by in the present.

If you look closely you can still see plenty of traces of the old days around our club today.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/404/redlands-tigers-cricket-club/blog/412/tigers-tales-1st-grade-captain-mal-freeman-cap-475

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2 years ago

Jimmy Maher

Managing Director

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Jimmy Maher - my greatest ever Queensland cricket team

Dean Tuckwell introduction

"Jimmy Maher first played for Queensland as an 18 year old and played in the Bulls’ first ever Sheffield Shield win the following season. He played in a further 4 winning finals including captaining the 2005/06 defeat of Victoria when he scored 223 in a man of the match performance. Queensland has had no more passionate player and he was an integral element of the state’s most successful era. Perhaps unsurprisingly he has selected 7 former teammates in his greatest ever side."

1. Matt Hayden
2. Bill Brown
3. Greg Chappell
4. Peter Burge
5. Allan Border - Captain
6. Martin Love
7. Ian Healy - Wicket Keeper
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Craig McDermott
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Carl Rackemann
12. Michael Kasprowicz

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2 years ago

Ross Wallace

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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My Best Grade team - Ross Wallace 1971 to 1984

I was lucky enough to play First Grade cricket in Brisbane from 1971 to 1984. During this time I played with Sandgate, Valleys & Souths as well as having 2 seasons with the Colts set up under Brian Gaskell.

I have selected my “Grade Cricket Best 11” from all clubs not just the ones I played with, so I hope I have not upset anyone & more importantly I hope I have not missed a player I have forgot about. Obviously not having “My Cricket” in those days made the memory work a bit harder.

1. Sam Trimble (Souths) - Captain

Great opening bat for club & Queensland. Real guts player & a great bloke to talk to. The holder of many records & a pleasure to play with.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1137/ross-wallace/blog/1298/my-best-grade-team-ross-wallace-1971-to-1984

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2 years ago

Queensland Veterans Cricket

Brisbane, Australia

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Gill Chapman continues to make indelible contribution to the game of cricket and the community. He’s been involved with Valley District Cricket Club for 57 years to date, plays Veterans cricket, toured with the Australian Over 60s and is a life member of Queensland Veterans Cricket. He played rugby League for Wests back in the 60s and 70s and was also a rugby league referee.

Who have been the best three fast bowlers you have played against so far?

Tony Dell, Ian King and Ross Duncan, the master of swing and control, were all great bowlers. Delly was awkward and King was sharp.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/337/queensland-veterans-cricket/blog/1297/gill-chapman-a-lifetime-passion

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2 years ago

UNSW Cricket Club

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UNSW Cricket Club Poidevin Gray cricket team 1976-77

Back Row – Nigel Perger, Neville Jansson, Dave Meagher, Greg Livingstone, Geoff Kirkwood, Mick Watt, John Carmichael
Front Row – Peter Jourdain, Mick Bryce, Jim Robson (Captain), Geoff Lawson, Steve Howard

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2 years ago

Brad Haddin

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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My first Shield game with Steve and Mark Waugh

The very busy schedule of the test players meant we didn’t get to see a lot of them, but it was great for us young blokes when we did get access to them. Their knowledge and experience was invaluable and I soaked it up. Because of their commitments against touring Pakistani and Indian teams, I didn’t get to play with the Waugh twins until our fifth Shield match of the season. We were at the WACA having a hit a couple of days before the game when Steve Waugh bowled me a bouncer. I ducked, thinking, What’s going on?? Is it some kind of softening-up ritual? He bowled me another one. Okay, I was getting rattled now. We’d hardly spoken, but had I done something to annoy him somehow? Did he just not like me? Then he sent down another bouncer. I moved from wondering if he was cranky to getting fired up myself. Tugga, as he was known to us, was the captain of the Australian team, an amazing cricketer we all looked up to. But in that moment I thought, Steve Waugh or not, if he does that again I’m going to hit him out of the net. Sure enough, the next ball was another bouncer and sure enough I hit it out. He gave me a satisfied nod and said, “I heard you had a good pull shot; I just wanted to check it.”

The above are extracts from Brad Haddin book "My Family’s Keeper" and published with approval. You can purchase the books through Harper Collings Publishing

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2 years ago

Dr. Ashutosh Misra

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Queensland Cricket - Goodwill Trophy 2023 on 4 August 2023 at Allan Border Oval in Brisbane

We are thrilled to receive an overwhelming support from the Queensland Government, Queensland Police Service, Cricket Australia, Queensland Cricket, corporate sponsors and our diverse multicultural community champions for the Goodwill Trophy 2023.

Please bring your family and friends at the Home of Cricket for a celebration of diversity, inclusion and a rich mosaic of cultures blended together by an exciting T20 match between IAIE XI and QPS XI.

Friday, 4th August, 5.00 pm, Allan Border Field, Albion

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1136/dr-ashutosh-misra/blog/1296/queensland-cricket-goodwill-trophy-2023-on-4-august-2023-at-allan-border-oval-in-brisbane

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2 years ago

Lennox Mugumira

Cricket Coach

Bugembe, Eastern Region,, Uganda

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Today I share a success story.

One of our own Calvin a 14-year-old hit 66 runs to grant his team a win in the ongoing qualifiers.

This is a milestone for Cricket2Nurture in Uganda.

Calvin was among our first trainees when we started and only had one bat between 20 kids and used bricks as stumps.

It is really inspiring to see one of our participants reach such a stage and we have been fueled to do more.

On this note talent awareness is on. At C2N we believe that it's more than just cricket.

The world should get ready to receive responsible, caring, happy, educated, and happy men and women by using cricket as a masterpiece.

At the end not all will become professional cricketers but rather instil a spirit of togetherness in society that sport brings.

As a virus, Cricket to Nurture shall spread the love, joy, passion, engage, equip and empower the younger generation.

Join our cause with kind words, donate equipment, sponsor a kid, sponsor programs.

We believe many more lives can be changed under Cricket2Nurture.

"Joy shared is joy doubled and sorrow shared is sorrow halved."

"It is easy to build strong children than repair broken men."

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2 years ago

Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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I only remember Australian batters like Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Mark Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, and Michael Clarke all walking off the field relatively quickly after they'd been dismissed.

Of course, they'd have been disappointed and frustrated at not being able to score more runs. It was their job and what they trained so hard to do.

But for whatever reason, they made a mistake, received a good ball, got mixed up on a silly run out or were on the wrong end of a dubious decision; that's cricket. It's part of the game.

What is also part of the game is when your turn to bat has ended, walk off the field quickly as it's now an opportunity for your team mate to take strike and score runs.

This may sound a little obscure, but my reasoning stems from observing the 'slow walk-off' from a couple of the Australian batters after they've been dismissed.

Are they any more disappointed and frustrated than their predecessors? I doubt it.

Hopefully, the 'slow walk off' doesn't become the norm for men, women, boys, and girls in state, premier, club, community, and junior cricket.

As a good mate used to share with the batter who'd just been dismissed, "off you pop."

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2 years ago

Shane Lee

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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In 1998 John Buchanan drafted in an American AAA baseball player and former Major League Baseball coach by the name of Mikey Young as our new fielding coach. Mikey was your typical fast talking, tobacco chewing American sports coach that wore a big bright white smile and an old leather baseball glove on his left hand.

The Australian Cricket team had arrived at the Gabba for a pre-season camp of which fielding was going to be a major part.

John Buchanan said with his slight lisp “Boyz Mikey Young is going to take us through some fielding drills today, and he will be spending the entire season with the team as our new specialist fielding coach. Please make him welcome.”

What Mikey said next in his broad American accent still makes me laugh but also still amazes me today;

“Hey Warno, I watched you on TV last night. The crowd loves you man. I watched you run after the ball in the outfield Warno (You’re not that fast Warno), then pick up the ball, off balance Warno and throw the ball into the catcher like a parabola. Do you know what that is Warno? That parabola throw means time. You won’t run anyone out and you will blow your arm out Warno and you won’t be going to the bank. I bet you like going to the bank Warno?”

The look on Warney’s face was priceless as all the boys sniggered.

“Hey Ricko (Mikey is now talking to Ricky Ponting), I watched you in the field. You’re good man. And faster than Warno. Why do you walk in every ball in the field?”

In 20 years of my then cricket life, no one had ever asked the question. Why do we all walk in, in the field?

“I start deeper in the field, then walk in to create momentum and try to anticipate where the batsmen will be hitting the ball to hopefully create a catch and/or a run out”

“So you’re talking about deception Ricko?”

“Yeah I guess so.”

“Only one problem with that Ricko, you do it every frigging ball. Where is the deception in that? You are also walking in ten metres every ball and if you spend one hundred overs in the field, you are walking an extra six kilometres you don’t need to be walking Ricko. Listen, think like a tennis player returning serve. Take two steps, split step and then go”

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2 years ago

Normanhurst-Warrawee Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Normanhurst-Warrawee Cricket Club - T20 Premiers 2010-11

Left to right - Murray Watts, Mike Griffin (President), Sol Tomlinson, Brett Turpin, Tom Williamson, Bruce Wood (Manager), James Brackin, Steve Smith (Captain), Matt Nelson, Glen Holden, Craig Hodges, Rob Waight, Daniel Wood & Michael Brown.

This is the Normanhurst-Warrawee CC A Grade team that won the inaugural Hornsby Ku-ring-gai & Hills District Cricket Association's (Division 1) T20 competition in 2010-11, defeating Castle Hill RSL CC in the Final.

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2 years ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Jim Dayhew is a very proud former player of St George District Cricket Club. With strong family ties with the club we wanted to find out more about Jim’s passion and insights into the game.

My greatest thrill was to play a few seasons with St George DCC in my mid-20s. I was an eager and lighting medium pace opening bowler, who could do a bit in the right conditions. I played in the lower grades and was a mentor to the Greenies, where I was a coach. I’ve coached ever since in the schools where I’ve taught and set up a couple of Academies.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/1293/jim-dayhew-always-family

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2 years ago

Stuart MacGill

Cricket Coach

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Episode 1 - Wickets with Stuart MacGill, Shane Lee and Jack Sharp - How is begins, Bazball is bull#4t, Old Trafford Preview, Around the Cricket World in 4 minutes

Here it is. The first episode. Shane Lee, Stuart MacGill, and Jack Sharp, hitting the big topics in cricket, previewing the 4th test. Hitting the big stats, big opinions, in 4 mins per topic, the time it takes for an over.

Previewing the ashes, who's in and who's not. We take a spin around the cricket world, giving you our take on the latest news.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/988/stuart-macgill/blog/1292/episode-1-wickets-with-stuart-macgill-shane-lee-and-jack-sharp-how-is-begins-bazball-is-bull4t-old-trafford-preview-around-the-cricket-world-in-4-minutes

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UNSW Cricket Club Poidevin Gray cricket team 1976-77

Back Row – Nigel Perger, Neville Jansson, Dave Meagher, Greg Livingstone, Geoff Kirkwood, Mick Watt, John Carmichael
Front Row – Peter Jourdain, Mick Bryce, Jim Robson (Captain), Geoff Lawson, Steve Howard