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3 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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The Burnside West Christchurch University Championship side heads into the 2025/26 season with plenty of confidence after a remarkable 2024/25 campaign.

Last summer was one to remember. The team lifted both the 2-Day Championship and the T20 trophy, while also reaching the semi-finals of the 50-over competition. The two-day title was all but wrapped up before Christmas, though a post–white ball break slump meant a nervous wait on the final afternoon. In contrast, the T20 final was a dominant performance — a 92-run victory on Hagley Oval.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1832/burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club/blog/3236/the-preview-bwcucc-championship

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3 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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The Foxes are preparing to bounce back in 2025/26 after a testing campaign last year. Injuries struck hard, with as many as five core players sidelined for much of the season, leaving the squad short-handed and forcing casual players into permanent roles.

Despite the setbacks, the squad grew in depth, and the side is now set to reap the rewards with a return to full strength this season. With over 1,700 games of experience across the squad, plus players pushing for over-age representative honours, the Foxes have no shortage of skill, knowledge, and motivation.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1832/burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club/blog/3235/the-preview-bwcucc-masters-foxes

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3 months ago

Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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RIP Eddie Harling

On the eve of what would have been his 58th season following Western Suburbs DCC, club stalwart Eddie Harling passed away in his Corrimal home at age 82 on 10 September 2025.

A Yorkshire native, Eddie arrived in Australia in 1967 as an assisted migrant, due his credentials as an Electrical Engineer. His started with the Sydney County Council.

Eddie originally settled in Ashfield, where he played some park cricket in his initial time in Australia before becoming a regular at Pratten Park and wherever Wests played cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/3231/rip-eddie-harling

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4 months ago

Victorian Premier Cricket

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Victoria Men's Premier Cricket Clubs - player movements, gains and losses for 2025-26

As the 18 Victoria Premier Cricket Clubs start their preseason preparations for the 2025-26 season the rumour mill is in full swing in terms of player movements and clubs gains and losses.

We’ve been in touch with the representatives of each club and here’s what we’ve been able to establish so far.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1249/victorian-premier-cricket/blog/3226/victoria-mens-premier-cricket-clubs-player-movements-gains-and-losses-for-2025-26

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4 months ago

CricConnect Stories

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Business Opportunity - CricConnect Queensland

Are you passionate about cricket, well-connected in the Queensland cricket community, and eager to build something of your own?

CricConnect, the digital cricket club, is looking for a Queensland Licensee to lead and grow our presence in the Sunshine State. Think of it like running your own digital business — with multi-layered opportunities to create, curate, and monetise content across clubs, players, coaches, fans, and the broader business community.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/56/cricconnect-stories/blog/3217/business-opportunity-cricconnect-queensland

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4 months ago

NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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NSW Men's Premier Cricket Clubs - player movements, gains and losses for 2025-26

As the 20 NSW Premier Cricket clubs move through preseason, and with just two weeks until the season begins, here’s the feedback we’ve received from club representatives on player movements, gains, and losses.

Bankstown

Gains – Tyran Liddiard (Penrith), Sam Grant (Penrith)

Losses - Ethan Deal (Sutherland)

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/3214/nsw-mens-premier-cricket-clubs-player-movements-gains-and-losses-for-2025-26

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4 months ago

CricConnect Stories

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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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.

http://bit.ly/4oVO1Df

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4 months ago

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!"

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/531/john-rogers/blog/3209/rip-ian-fisher

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4 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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The Preview: Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club Division Two Lions

Lions Eye Back-to-Back Glory

After breaking through for their maiden One Day title in a thrilling finish at Burnside Park last summer, the Lions are hungry for more success.

We caught up with skipper James Guild Inder to talk about the belief built last season, the team’s strengths, and the players to keep an eye on in 2025/26.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1832/burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club/blog/3205/the-preview-burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club-division-two-lions

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4 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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Cricket Express Partnership Renewed with Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

We’re proud to announce that our long-standing partnership with Cricket Express has been renewed through to 2028!

Cricket Express will continue as our official supplier of all playing uniforms, cricket gear, and equipment, helping to keep our members well-equipped for every match and training session.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1832/burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club/blog/3204/cricket-express-partnership-renewed-with-burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club

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4 months ago

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)

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/3185/bob-simpson-1936-2025

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5 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Samantha Arnold Life Member #24 - Penrith Cricket Club

Penrith Cricket Club is proud to acknowledge and celebrate the endorsement of Samantha Arnold for Life Membership – a historic moment as the first female player put forward for this honour in our Club’s history. Announced at our AGM – Monday 28 July 2025.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3175/samantha-arnold-life-member-24-penrith-cricket-club

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5 months ago

CricConnect Stories

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve been watching closely, and with great admiration, as the Century Champions League brought together some of the best emerging cricket talent from around Australia for two standout tournaments.

First up was The NextXI U23 tournament in Brisbane, where young players seized their opportunity to compete, impress, and put their names forward as future stars. The final saw the Comets deliver a dominant performance, bowling out the Marlins for 102 in 18.3 overs.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/56/cricconnect-stories/blog/3176/century-champions-league-shines-in-brisbane-and-mackay

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5 months ago

Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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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.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/3174/the-goat-nathan-lyon-returns-to-canberra-to-share-his-story-pathways-to-pro

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5 months ago

CricConnect Stories

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.

https://www.qldcricket.com.au/news/4334899/t20-max-joins-seven

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5 months ago

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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5 months ago

Sam Langston

Teacher

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.

https://1drv.ms/b/c/fed1def0c363cd47/ESi3l4q5r4BCtKkjTpxsLksBwB5UVUeX32T8MJ4PWht60Q

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6 months ago

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.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/3116/burton-and-awati-appointed-to-spearhead-sydney-cricket-clubrsquos-future

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6 months ago

Sutherland District Cricket Club

Sylvania, Australia

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Vale John Kenny

It is with great regret that we advise of the sad passing of John Kenny, father of former players Gavin & Justin, on Wednesday 11 June after a battle with dementia. John played 18 matches for the Club, taking 49 wickets at an average of 15.0 with his left-arm medium pacers, including a memorable season in 1982-83 when he captained 4th Grade.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/294/sutherland-district-cricket-club/blog/3065/vale-john-kenny

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7 months ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Season 2024-25 St George DCC Award Winners

Here are the St George DCC award winners for what was a season that included the KSC T20 Premiership and 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade all making Grand Finals.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/3053/season-2024-25-st-george-dcc-award-winners

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