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Horticulturist Job Opportunity – Canterbury Bankstown Council

The Role
Enjoy working outdoors and leading a team? We’re looking for a Crew Leader to guide and support our outdoor team in maintaining and improving Council’s parks, sports fields, ovals and turf wicket areas.
You’ll be hands-on, working shoulder-to-shoulder with your crew to maintain and elevate beloved community hubs alongside Belmore Sportsground, Waterworth Park (home of NSW Touch), Memorial Oval, Sefton Golf Course and other high-profile parks, ovals and turf wicket areas.
Full-time permanent role, working a 9-day fortnight. Allowance included.

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John Rogers
John Rogers
Melbourne, Australia
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RIP Ian Fisher

I first noticed it when my all-powerful St George team was winning a hat-trick of Sydney 1st Grade Premierships. We’d unearthed a young spinner who before he was aged 20 had taken more wickets in Sydney grade than anyone of that age had ever done before. Kerry O’Keeffe. The same Kerry O’Keeffe used to say he had nightmares about bowling to Ian Fisher. He’d have a couple of wickets up his sleeve and in would come Fish. A few balls later there’d be a little skip down the pitch, the beautiful sound of the middle of a cricket bat hitting a cricket ball, and very soon afterwards the sound of a cricket ball crashing into a picket fence wide of wide of long-on. In mid-pitch, the head of I Fisher would swing around, eyes a-gleam, chin out, eyeballing everyone, as if to say: "bring it on!"

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Bob Simpson 1936-2025

One of Australia’s finest opening batsmen and most brilliant slip fielders, Bob Simpson, passed away on Saturday 16 August 2025. He was 89.

Bob was a product of the Marrickville District Cricket Club. Bobby first played in Marrickville’s A W Green Shield under 16 years team as a 13 year old in 1949-50. Two years later in the 3rd Grade team of the newly created Petersham-Marrickville DCC Bobby impressed selectors with the 219 runs he scored after just a few matches and promoted him directly into the 1st XI shortly after his 16th birthday. (Photo: Bobby Simpson aged 16)

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The Goat: Nathan Lyon returns to Canberra to share his story. Pathways to Pro

Nathan Lyon is returning ‘home’ to Canberra. The place where his journey to professional cricket really began, and he’s bringing some of the people who helped shape that journey with him.

On Tuesday, 12th August, from 7pm to 9:15pm at the Bradman Room, Manuka Oval, Canberra, Nathan will be hosting a live seminar called Pathways to Pro.

A night designed for young players and their families to hear what it really takes to turn a passion for sport into a professional career.

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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This is massive news. So cool and congratulations and well done Queensland Premier Cricket and Seven Network

The KFC T20 Max competition will scale new heights as it makes a fresh broadcast home on the Seven Network this month.

For the first time since its inception in 2022, the KFC T20 Max competition will be streamed live and free on 7plus Sport, in a major boost for Queensland Premier Cricket.

Selected men’s and women’s matches will be broadcast through 7plus Sport across the competition which gets underway on Wednesday 20 August and continues through until Saturday 6 September.

The breakthrough agreement with Seven was welcomed by Pete Lock, Queensland Cricket’s General Manager – Commercial, Marketing & Corporate Affairs.

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Stuart Cope
Stuart Cope
London, United Kingdom
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Hands down one of the greatest test series of all time.

Putting loyalties aside, it's a fair result.

Two evenly matched teams going hard, each session meant something across all five tests.

The ebbs, the flows, the drama, the skill and desire.

White ball cricket has it's place but it doesn't have the jeopardy of test match cricket, it sits as the format of the game that is unrivalled.

The hippocampus is the part of the brain that stores memory, I can barely remember which franchise won what league in a certain year. I can however remember every great test series since I started watching cricket 30 years ago.

The reason is that Test Cricket makes you feel something.

It's called a 'Test' for a reason.

Well played India.

Simply EPIC.

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Sam Langston
Sam Langston
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Tamworth, Australia
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Hi all. I’ve recently emailed Ben Oliver at CA High Performance Team, sharing my ideas on how to grow long-form cricket.

I can’t post the whole email due to it being too long but this is the exec summary of the email. I’ve put a link to the full email at the bottom of the post. Let me know if the link doesn’t work.

Just posting to share ideas and have a conversation.

Executive summary
I’m writing to outline a practical, long-term strategy to protect and elevate Australia’s Test dominance.

This approach embeds:
Expansion of the Sheffield Shield to 12–14 rounds to deepen red-ball resilience and grow selection data.

Formal CA-funded county placements, paying full player contracts to systematically embed 6–8 emerging Australians under Dukes balls.

A roaming CA development coach across counties to maintain technical standards and directly manage workloads.

Carefully structured BBL participation for this specific cohort to preserve multi-day habits.


These initiatives together form a world-leading system that no other Test nation is pursuing, directly shaping players like Hunt, Kellaway, Konstas, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann and Webster into a sustained Ashes and WTC force.

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Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Burton and Awati Appointed to Spearhead Sydney Cricket Club’s Future

Richard Burton has been appointed as Director of Cricket, responsible for developing, leading and overseeing the club’s Premier Cricket programs, fostering a culture that delivers upon the club’s vision of leading the men’s and women’s club championships and premierships.

Rohan Awati has been appointed as Head Coach – Youth Development, a new role created to focus on identifying and nurturing young local talent within the men’s program and delivering success within the Green Shield and Poidevin-Gray competitions.

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