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Andre Burger
Andre Burger
Cricket Coach
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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ATTENTION: BOWLERS AND COACHES.

Unleash Your Bowling Potential at the PaceLab High Performance Workshop with Steffan Jones!

Are you ready to elevate your bowling? Join us from January 21st to January 23rd at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane for an exclusive workshop designed for bowlers who aspire to improve their bowling as well as Coaches wanting to learn about the PaceLab principles.

Under the expert guidance of Steffan Jones, a renowned figure in the world of cricket, the PaceLab High Performance Workshop offers a unique opportunity to refine your skills, understand advanced bowling techniques, and harness your true potential. This intensive training program is tailored for serious athletes seeking to enhance their speed, accuracy, and overall performance.

With cutting-edge equipment, personalized coaching, and a focus on biomechanics and fitness, you'll discover new strategies to outperform your competition. Spaces are limited, so don't miss this chance to be part of an elite group of cricketers taking their game to the next level. Book your spot now and be ready to bowl like never before!

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Shaun Graf
Shaun Graf
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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My best Grade Cricket team - Shaun Graf Melbourne and Perth 1976 - 2000

In Melbourne what’s now known as Premier Cricket used to be called District cricket but for sake of consistency of the recent headline I’m keen to participate and pick my Best Grade team of players I played with in District Cricket.

To position my career I made my First grade debut for St Kilda in 1976 and played with the Saints until I made my way to Perth to play with South Perth for the 1983/84 season.

After one season in Perth I returned to Melbourne to play for St Kilda and then joined Frankston for their first 3 seasons in 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1995/96 and then returned to St Kilda in 1996/97 before finishing up in 1999/2000.

So here's my Best Grade team comes from the players I played with at St Kilda and Frankston in Melbourne and South Perth in Perth.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/283/shaun-graf/blog/1766/my-best-grade-cricket-team-shaun-graf-melbourne-and-perth-1976-2000
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David Jebb
David Jebb
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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For a range of reasons, Jim Dixon from University of New South Wales Cricket Club was the best skipper I played with.

Whilst I didn’t play with him when he as the first-grade captain I did get to know him as a person who engaged with and led the whole club from firsts to 6th Grade and the clubs women’s teams.

In doing so he was always willing to provide both technical and tactical advice, as well as some high-quality mentoring of young players, whilst maintaining a good balance between seriousness and (usually off field) larrikinism.

When he decided to retire from 1st Grade, he made the very valuable club contribution of staying on as a player to skipper or just fit in with our lower grades - whatever the club required.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/948/david-jebb/blog/1906/david-jebb-ndash-my-best-captain
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Jody Martins
Jody Martins
Cricket Coach
Western Cape, South Africa
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Luke Pomfret is the Senior Regional Talent Manager at Sunrisers Cricket. He has worked with Northamptonshire CCC, where he was a Pathway Performance Coach, assistant Women’s 1st XI coach and Academy coach.

Luke has also worked as a Women and girls’ pathway scout for ECB, a support coach for Loughborough Lightening and with Chance to Shine in Lancashire. Luke has been involved in the progression of Women and Girls’ cricket from a young age, earning a Chancellor’s Scholarship from his university for his work in the community and commitment to promoting the participation of women in cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/696/jody-martins/blog/1902/luke-pomfret-grow-the-fundamentals-and-your-uniqueness
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Murray Bennett
Murray Bennett
Sydney, Australia
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The great man, Warren Saunders, gave me many great ideas in regard to captaincy, but the 2 mentioned below are ones that I never forgot and have passed these ideas onto other captains along the way.

1. At the start of a season, set your team a target for the number of wins that you need to have to achieve your goal of making the semi-finals or possibly the top 3-4 positions on the ladder. For the sake of argue, let's say 10 wins out of 15 games. In this way when you have a loss, it's not the end of the world, you simply need to refocus on the winning mentality to get back on the road that you have set out. I think this attitude helps sides not slide into self-doubt and lack of confidence. This also creates the mentality of always going for a win rather than having a fear of losing.

2. At the start of a season address all your players together. Explain your expectations for the season but particularly point out that you don't want to hear any whinging or complaints 2nd hand through someone's teammate, or parent or whoever. If you have a grievance, bring it directly to the captain as he is the only one who can fix it. If a complaint arrives 2nd hand it will be viewed very badly.

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Hamish Solomons is the very proud owner of Cap Number 355 for St George District Club. He’s a Life Member of St George and it’s where he scored 3,251 runs and took 334 wickets across the grades he played.

What’s been your most memorable moment in cricket?

Captaining the premiership season of 2005/06 where we witnessed firsthand the emergence of Trent Copeland the bowler who had been my wicket keeper the season before. I actually wrote a piece about Trent and had the pleasure of delivering the nomination for Trent to become a Life Member at St George

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1029/hamish-solomons-better-than-yesterday
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Brad Bannister
Brad Bannister
Teacher
Corrowong, NSW, Australia
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As I sat watching Shane Warne’s Memorial Service, I still can’t quite believe he has passed.

Many of his exploits have been shared, but I thought it timely to share a personal yarn.

I didn’t know Warne, but in November of 1999, I was playing cricket in Brisbane and was lucky enough to be asked to be a net bowler for Australia for the first test of the summer at the Gabba v Pakistan.

It also happened to be the debut test for Adam Gilchrist. Even though they had played many ODI’s with each other they decided it was pertinent to spend a bit of time bowling to Gilly as the keeper and go through the varieties he would be tossing up in the game.

Well, these two legends of the game grabbed another of the net bowlers (in hindsight, I’m glad it wasn’t me) to bat against him with a stump. This ‘other’ net bowler was a quality first grade cricketer who had arrived in Brisbane at the same time as me, but had come from the much stronger Sydney First Grade Competition and played first class cricket for NSW.

Shane asked the guy to pad up and bat against him with a stump. Gilly parked himself behind the stumps and the batsman confidently asked Shane whether he should deliberately miss them and occasionally hit a few?

Shane gave Gilly a wry smile and said to the batter, “how about you just go down there and do your best champ.”

Well, let’s say that for the next forty minutes, this guy tried his absolute best to hit every ball with his stump. He missed every one, the harder he tried the further he missed by. The longer the session went the more the rest of the team and us hangerons stopped what we were doing to mill around and watch. The boys were egging everyone on, and the batter became more and more embarrassed. He left the net session with his tail firmly between his legs.

A classic example of never pushing a genius.

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Cricket NSW
Cricket NSW
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NSW 1992-93 and 1993-94 Sheffield Shield and Mercantile Mutual Champions - 30 year reunion

4th Row – Gavin Robertson, Phil Alley, Tristan Alley (Phil’s son)
3rd Row – Warwick Adlam, Pat Farhart, Neil Maxwell, Mark Patterson
2nd Row – Michael Bevan, Richard Chee Quee, Steve Waugh, Randal Green, David Freedman, Phil Emery, Trevor Bayliss
Front Row – Steve Rixon, Brad McNamara, Adrian Tucker, Rodney Davison, Mark Taylor, Wayne Holdsworth

On Friday 22nd September 2023 at The Four in Hand Hotel in Paddington, Sydney, Cricket NSW sponsored a terrific 30-year reunion of the 1992-93 and 1993-94 successful NSW teams.

Over the 2 seasons NSW won the two Sheffield Shield competitions and the two Mercantile Mutual One Day competitions.

In 1992-93 NSW defeated Queensland in the final of the Sheffield Shield and Victoria in the Mercantile Mutual One Day competition.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/154/cricket-nsw/blog/1530/nsw-1992-93-and-1993-94-sheffield-shield-and-mercantile-mutual-champions-30-year-reunion
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International Cricket Academy League - ICAL
International Cricket Academy League - ICAL
Cricket Coach
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The International Cricket Academy League (ICAL) facilitates cricket tournaments held globally in several locations throughout the year. The sole focus is to encourage Academies to bring out their best players, but also provide the coaches with a chance to provide game awareness coaching and review games frequently.

The whole process is to allow academy players to fast-track their progress by playing more cricket. It is an opportunity for cricket academies to promote and develop their coaching brand and showcase their talent.

ICAL's aim is to unite many cricket academies across the globe to be able to compete and develop players through playing regular tournaments under the guidance of their coaches.

Tournaments for 2024
ICAL India - Bangalore
ICAL Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy - Barbados

Click to find out more -
https://www.internationalcricketacademyleague.com
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