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Penrith win Poidevin Gray over arch rivals in 2000-01.

There was an air of expectation from those associated with the team last year that this season might produce something special. I can assure you that the expectations the team placed on themselves were far greater. To play in a semi-final series or contest, yet another final was not going to be good enough. Premiership victory was the only thing that was going to satisfy them. Sometimes self-imposed expectations or "pressure", as some experts call it, can have a detrimental effect on performance. On this occasion, not so. The rest is history.

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St George Cricket Club

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St George First Grade Player No.86 - Percy Ford

Percy Ford began his career with St George as a 13-year-old teenager in the season of 1928-29 in our Poidevin Gray Shield side where he continued to play in that side until 1934-35.

He showed a great amount of potential as an allrounder.

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Who was the most talented player you played with who never got the opportunity to play test cricket for their country?

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Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club Morning Grades Statistical Team of the Year
The morning grade sides at BWCUCC had an incredible successful season. The Premiers & Championship sides won the 2-Day & T20 titles & the Div 2 Lions lifted their first One Day title.

Here is a morning grades 2024/2025 team of the season, purely off statistics.

1) Nick Gibb (Prems/Champs)

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3 months ago

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Callum Hill: My Greatest XI

Callum Hill has worn many hats over his nine-year senior cricket journey. Hailing from Te Awamutu in country Waikato and schooled at Christchurch Boys High School down in Canterbury. His career began with the Melville Cricket Club in Hamilton where he was a junior and his father, Fraser, played 150 games.

Callum notched up over 90 First Grade appearances won two Premierships and represented both Hamilton and Waikato Valley in the Hawke Cup.

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3 months ago

Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

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At the recent 24th annual general meeting of Randwick Petersham Cricket Club, Michael Whitney AM, was elected President for a 25th term. This places him equal fourth on the list of long-serving presidents of NSW Premier Cricket clubs. Only Austen Hughes (Northern District) with 34 years; Aubrey Oxlade (Manly-Warringah) with 33 and Sydney Bull (Balmain) with 28, have served longer terms. On the 25 years list, Mike joins David Thomas (Manly-Warringah), Brian Freedman (Bankstown) and Bevan White (North Sydney).

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3 months ago

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Vale Nancy Lovitt - Cricket Mum Made of Heaven.

World Series Cricket at the Sydney Showground Moore Park was an absolute bonanza for a young cricket fan, although Nancy not initially convinced of this new regime. She soon changed.

Nancy had become a total cricket convert. Rod Marsh and Dennis Lillee, her early favourites.

Ultimately Nathan Lyon and Brad Haddin her new favourites. Fellow Country NSW people made good. “Gee Nathan is a good cricketer” often her words. She also had a soft spot for "Smithy" (Steve Smith).

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Barry McDonald had the rare distinction of setting a club wicket-keeping record in his first full Grade Cricket season with Petersham-Marrickville and establishing another, 19 seasons later in his last. In 1954-55, the 18-year-old dismissed 30 4th Grade batsmen behind the stumps, catching 15 and completing an amazing 15 stumpings

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3 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Gordon District Cricket Club

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A Tribute to the Late Bob Thomas - "Rusty" Penrith's 8th Life Member

Bob Thomas between the Waugh brothers, Steve and Mark.

Bob Rusty Thomas came to Penrith in 1959 as an employee of the Commonwealth Bank, his only full-time employer in his lifetime. As a young man, he was on the relieving Staff with the bank and had many of his appointments in the country. Penrith was his first permanent position in a specific Branch with the bank. Bob fell in love with Penrith and resided here for the rest of his life.

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Gordon District Cricket Club

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The Gordon District Cricket Club seemed to be always blessed with very good wicketkeepers. Each of these Australian wicketkeepers who played for the club, Bert Oldfield, Brian Taber, Adam Gilchrist, and Phil Emery, brought distinct skills and qualities to their craft, adapting their approaches to the eras in which they played. Here’s a comparison of their wicketkeeping styles, strengths, and impact on the game.

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On Saturday August 3, 2024, Tom Pritchard, the last Rat of Tobruk died aged 102. Tom served in the 2/5th Australian Field Ambulance during the siege of Tobruk in 1941. Gordon cricketer Victor Taylor served in the 2/13th Battalion at the same time as Tom, however died in 1952 at the age of 33 still suffering from the effects of his time in the war.

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3 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Burnside West Christchurch University CC top-10 wicket takers (5-1) Part II

Here are the top five greatest wicket takers in the club's history.

=4. MA Hastings and D Reese – 423 wickets

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Enjoy all the wickets and a Sam Alexander special match report from an incredible day in November 2022 when the UTS North Sydney Bears' First Grade side defeated Gordon by just 7 runs in a match where 423 were scored.

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3 months ago

Craig Hughes

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My best Grade team - Craig Hughes

Thinking back and trying to formulate my best Sydney first grade team, I’m finding it quite difficult as I’ve played with so many outstanding cricketers.

Playing at three different clubs, Campbelltown, Parramatta and Mosman doesn’t help as player allegiance changes somewhat, which can tamper with my selection. So to combat that I have just selected the team I’d least like to bat or bowl against at the peak of their powers.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1015/craig-hughes/blog/1120/my-best-grade-team-craig-hughes-1987-2003

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3 months ago

St George Cricket Club

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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St George Cricketers - Educators on the pitch and behind the pickets

When one considers that some 485 players have appeared in first grade for the St George District Cricket Club since the 1921-22 season when the club entered the first-grade competition there have only been around thirty known players that were school teachers. That equates to 6.1 % in its history. Some players had cameo appearances in first grade whilst others a lengthier sojourn.

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3 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Gary Whitaker

In a Randwick Cricket Club career spanning 17 years between 1984 and 2001, Gary Whitaker has many fond memories. And although there were some spectacular moments during that period, there are two which stand out. One was his debut match for Randwick when he made an unconquered century and the other was when he met his wife Robyn, who came to Randwick to assist the club with some injury rehabilitation to a number of players. While he had met her previously when playing rugby, the relationship blossomed and as they say in the good books–the rest is history.

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In 2022, Bernadette Robson joined the UTS North Sydney Bears, but she fell in love with cricket long before that…
Since joining the club, Bernadette (Bernie) has immeasurably contributed to the women’s side. Both on and off the field, she leads fiercely with a tough, yet kind approach that brings confidence to the whole team.

From being crowned Women’s 3rd Grade Player of the Year in her first season with the club to captaining the side, there is no doubt that Bernie performs on the field.

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Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club top-10 wicket-takers (10-6) - part one

Now it’s time to turn the spotlight to the bowlers – the men who have steamed in and spun webs, dismantled up line-ups and carved out legacies.

Since joining the Christchurch Metro competition in 1905, BWCUCC has been blessed with some of Canterbury’s finest exponents of the craft.

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Penrith Cricket Club

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Penrith Cricket Club 2nd grade premiers 1998-1999. A title under the tutelage of Whologang

P for Penrith, P for Pride - P for Perseverance: pretty profound words those! Those words were, of course, to become part of the now famous Panther victory song, which in the end was to be bellowed out a total of 13 times, including after the qualifying semi-final, the semi-final and the final! Yes, P also stands for Premiership, which is what the Second Grade XI took back to the hallowed Howell Oval turf.

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