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Peter Procopis

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

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A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to have an exchange with Greg Chappell about cricket. Greg suggested that the next frontier in performance would be in mental skills. I've been reflecting on that exchange recently. Through the prism of my two favourite sports, golf and cricket, the article below discusses the value of accepting imperfection while pursuing mastery. As usual, I encourage you to share your thoughts.

Like Golf, Cricket is definitely not a game of Perfect.

Dr Bob Rotella’s book, Golf is not a game of Perfect, contains numerous gold nuggets of wisdom for anyone serious about improving their sporting performance.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/946/peter-procopis/blog/2194/like-golf-cricket-is-definitely-not-a-game-of-perfect

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Steve Thomlinson

Teacher

Sydney, Australia

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Sydney Cricket Association - 3rd Grade - Round 10 1979-80
Sydney Cricket Club v Mosman Cricket Club at Rawson Oval on 10 and 17 January 1980

Sydney Cricket Club won by 4 wickets

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Cricket Australia Community

Melbourne, Australia

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Cricket Australia announce new nine-team national women's T20 competition scheduled to take place before WBBL|10

Cricket Australia has announced the format for a new national women's T20 competition, which will feature teams aligned with the eight Big Bash clubs along with the ACT.

The new nine-team competition is scheduled to take place immediately before the Weber WBBL season with each team playing four matches before the top four play off in the semi-finals and final.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4024852/act-meteors-join-wbbl-big-bash-clubs-in-new-national-nine-team-womens-t20-competition-cricket-australia

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Glenorchy Cricket Club

Hobart, Australia

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The club is delighted to announce our Captain/Coaches for season 2024/25

Josh Hartill will again lead our 1st Grade squad following a stellar 2023/24 season where he scored nearly 1000 runs, was runner-up in the Emerson Rodwell Medal, named as Captain in the CTPL team of the year as well as being a regular in the Tasmanian Second XI team.

Simon Palmer takes the reins of 2nd Grade after picking up the role mid-season last season. Simon brings a wealth of experience having been a top performer mainly in our 2nd Grade team over the last 15 years where he is on the verge of becoming our leading 2nd Grade run-scorer in with a strong season this year.

Damien West will be returning to the playing ranks and mentoring our 3rd Grade squad after leading our Junior Program the past six years. Damien has led 2nd Grade for several seasons in the past and will be hoping to continue to raise the bar set by Steve Sillifant and Jack Young in recent years who have done a fantastic job to lead the 3’s to two flags in the past three seasons.

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements before the week is out!!

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Northern Suburbs District Cricket Club

Brisbane, Australia

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Great photo of Northern Suburbs Under 18s Premiership team from 1983-84

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Jeremy Bray

Cricket Coach

Milverton, Skerries, Ireland

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Does anyone in the cricket community have a connection into the Australian Army ?

I have a question to ask for a family member who is currently in the Irish Cadets. Thank you

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Mike Swan

Sydney, Australia

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Scots College 1984 First XI GPS Premiers

Back Row – B. Semos, A.D.J. Thew, M.L Swan, D.J. Campbell, D.G. Robertson, R.L. Hartwig (Scorer)

Front Row – A.C. Lloyd-Jones, D. W. Pike, D.A. Statham (Captain), A.F.M. Chalmers, R.H. Blackman (Vice Captain), S.C. Hudson, D.S. Hutton

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Cricket NSW

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NSW Schoolboys cricket team - 1981

Back Row – P. Emery, G. Milliken, M. Adlam, Mr. Punch (Manager), A. Knight, S. Waugh, P. Ryan

Front Row – B. D’Jura, A. Lane, B. Patman, S. Jacobson, J. Rose

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Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Yallop’s declaration left South Australia with the shopping task of 271 runs to win off 24 overs. South Australian captain David Hookes, well known for his attacking flair was not impressed.

So much so, he elevated himself to opening the batting with Rick Darling.

What happened next became a moment in time as Hookes tore the Victoria bowler to shreds scoring 100 off just 34 balls to register the fastest century in the history of first class cricket. When Hookes brought up his century his opening partner Darling had scored just 7 runs.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/2193/david-hookes-a-moment-in-time-at-adelaide-oval

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, Australia

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club is pleased to announce that Gary Whitaker has been appointed as Head Coach for the 2024/2025 season.

This is exciting news for the club as Gary brings with him a wealth of Premier Grade coaching experience and success.

Gary will be forming his Coaching Staff, Plans and Schedules over the next few weeks.

Following his appointment, Gary expressed his delight at joining the Dolphins.

“Accepting the position of Head Coach for Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club is a tremendous honour and an exciting challenge.

The club has a rich history and a strong community spirit, and I am eager to build on its legacy of success.

I look forward to working with the clubs talented players and its dedicated volunteers to develop our strategies, enhance our performance, and achieve our goals.

Together, we will strive to uphold the club's values, foster a positive and competitive environment, and bring pride to our supporters.

Thank you for this opportunity; I am committed to making Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club the best it can be.”

Welcome to the Dolphins Gary & we wish you every success!

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Coaches Association HKHDCCA

Cricket Coach

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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The Coaches' Association (HKHDCCA) wishes to pay tribute to its Head Coach, Rod Hokin, who has decided to stand down from the role after 14 years of wonderful volunteer service on our Executive Committee. Rod is a Cricket Australia High Performance (Level 3) accredited cricket coach and Life Member of the Coaches’ Association, who has led our team of qualified coaches superbly since our inception in 2010. He has also been an inspirational Head Coach at so many of our school holiday junior cricket clinics over the years, as well as three U/15 Boys overseas cricket tours to Sri Lanka (2015), Barbados (2017) and India (2019).

Our new Head Coach for 2024-25 onwards will be announced at our AGM on 19 June 2024 at Vikings Sports Club,

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1307/coaches-association-hkhdcca/blog/2192/thank-you-rod-hokin-ndash-head-coach-2010-ndash-2024

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Cricket NSW

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NSW Imparja Cup cricket team 2007 - Alice Springs

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Steve Thomlinson

Teacher

Sydney, Australia

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The 2024 Sydney Cricket club reunion - a marvellous catch up at the Harts Pub in the Rocks in Sydney

Peter Kalina, Paul Kalina, John Nilan, Austin Morey, Neil Lewis, Owen Ridge, Ron Moroney, Ian Fisher, Gary Olsen, Steve Thomlinson, Arthur Jubb, Nigel Waterlow

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Rajesh Kumar

Founder

Sydney, Australia

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A little proud dad moment.

In the the midst of zillion things happening around me, I'm super happy to share the great news that Kaya has been honoured with the ‘Junior Female Player of the Year’ and the ‘Best Batter of the Year' award by Cricket NSW for U13 girls. I believe, she might be the youngest recipient in the history of Cricket NSW to receive these awards. This has been a fabulous present for her 12th birthday.

Congratulations to all the other super talented award winners as well - it was truly an outstanding and jam packed event!

Throughout the rep season, Kaya broke numerous records, notably becoming the highest aggregate run scorer in junior girls rep/district cricket history, including U15, with an impressive 399 runs at an average of 99.75 with a strike-rate just over 100%. This includes a quick fire of 106*, playing just 9 games of 30 over Mollie Dive matches, and also making her the youngest to achieve this milestone. Kaya has also had taken 7 wickets along with 9 catches as a Vice-Captain for Parramatta. In addition, she has done some handy contributions playing in U15 comp as well.

Also, Kaya scored more than 1,000+ runs 2 years in a row and taken several wickets (61+42) playing club matches with boys and senior girls too.

I'd like to extend my gratitude to all the coaches at PDCA and PWGCC for allowing her to train with the grade players. Without your support, her success wouldn't have been possible.

Hope she continues to play the game we love this way for some more years... although she's the top basketball player in the state.

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Cricket Tasmania Community

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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We're on the lookout for a Marketing & Content Manager to help us drive fan engagement and achieve strategic outcomes at Cricket Tasmania!

The position will be responsible for the development, implementation and management of Cricket Tasmania's Marketing and Content strategies, and will be a key component of our Marketing and Communications team.

If this role sounds like it could be for you (or a friend), find out more here:

https://cricket.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/6/home/requisition/1674?c=cricket

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Toombul District Cricket Club

Brisbane, Australia

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Chris Holding is Toombul District Cricket Club first grade player number 488 after making his debut during the 1989–90 Brisbane Grade Cricket season.

A very talented right-hand batter, Chris celebrated his first hundred in first grade in the grandest of style when he steered Toombul to their first premiership in first grade for 28 seasons when they defeated Easts in 1990–1991.

Chris spent several seasons in the Queensland Sheffield Squad and played Queensland 2nd XI cricket, demonstrating his batting talent, and run scoring.

Chris was selected for the Australian Over 50s cricket team to tour New Zealand in March 2024

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/371/toombul-district-cricket-club/blog/2191/chris-holding-back-yourself-in-everything-you-do

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Cricket NSW

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NSW Imparja Cup cricket team 2006 - Alice Springs

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Dennis Hourn

Sydney, Australia

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On Saturday 2 September 1939 a testimonial game was played at Waverley Oval for Alan Kippax.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/239/dennis-hourn/blog/2190/alan-kippax-testimonial-game-in-1939-at-waverley-oval

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Queensland Cricket

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Job Opportunity - Queensland Cricket

Queensland Cricket is seeking an experienced, passionate, and outcome focused General Manager - Community Cricket & Infrastructure to inspire the next generation of cricket players and grow cricket participation across all levels of the game in Queensland.

If you are interested in finding out more, we’d love to chat with you.

https://cricket.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/11/home/requisition/1673?c=cricket

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Brett Geeves

Business Development Manager

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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As news broke that Virat Kohli is a heck of a bloke, the collective Australian cricket audience gasped in horror.

How could it be? We can’t be wrong, can we!!??

This is the guy who stole Agro’s eyebrows and fast-moving mouth. He’s the man responsible for some of the ghastliest high-pitched squealing heard as a form wicket celebration. He’s the same man who called Steve Smith a cheat before, well, you know, he got caught cheating..

How could we be so wrong!!??

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1371/brett-geeves/blog/2189/kohli-and-sehwag-operated-different-business-models

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