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2 years ago
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sylvania, Australia
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Tim Freeburn made his first grade debut for Sutherland District Cricket Club on 25 September 2004 and the proud owner of first grade playing number 208.

He played grade cricket for Parramatta, Sutherland and Bankstown and is now the co-founder and Managing Director of Sesión Tequila

Who are the two players you admired most in terms of skills and competitive spirit in the competitions you played?

Phil Jaques - there’s not a bloke who worked harder or put in the hours Jaquesy did and still does with his coaching.

Nic Madinson - was one of the most skilful players I got to play with. He’s still going well and will be back in the Australian team this year.

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2 years ago
Newcastle and Hunter Districts Veterans Cricket Club
Newcastle and Hunter Districts Veterans Cricket Club
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Greg Thrift was born and bred in the Hunter Valley of NSW, Singleton in fact.
He has a great passion and love of Cricket and continues to play and contribute in many ways.

I have a basic theory developed from Doug Walters’s book I read years ago. If it looks like it’s got runs on it, don't waste time blocking it, you've done the work, put into practice.

For example one Sunday morning playing John Bull Shield against Upper Hunter my captain Gordon Whatham told me to play myself in and there's a hundred out there today if you want it. The first ball went over long on for six, I didn't get a ton, I got 97

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2 years ago
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Rodney Davison joined Randwick in 1991-92 having hit 700 runs the previous season with Sutherland. It was somewhat of a conservative start for the young opening batsman hitting four half-centuries in a total of 490. However, net season his name was planted firmly in the minds of State selectors when he rattled up 702 runs for the season including scores of 150* and 135* in the first two rounds playing Petersham-Marrickville and NDs. Those scores were followed up by four half-centuries before he unfortunately broke a finger and missed a couple of games. After four rounds he was averaging 227.50 in a total of 455. In the newly introduced one-day Resch’s Cup competition he hit sensational 106* v Penrith.

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2 years ago
Lyall Gardner
Lyall Gardner
Sydney, Australia
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RECORD: 390*runs in 2005-06 by Greg Mail (200*) / Matthew Phelps (200*) for Sydney University 1-447 declared against Mosman 263 at Rawson Park in round 13 on 11-18 February 2006.

Winning the toss and batting, Sydney University lost its first wicket at 57. That brought together skipper Greg Mail and Matthew Phelps. At the end of 88 overs, the innings was declared at an extraordinary 1-447 with each player 200* in a massive unconquered partnership of 390. It broke the previous Sydney 1st Grade record of 333 which had stood for 110 years to the credit of Australian Test cricketer, Frank Iredale (140) and NSW representative, Wally Farquhar (223), playing for Central Cumberland (3-485) against Burwood (352) on 1 February 1896 at Parramatta. The Mail-Phelps record is the second highest partnership for any wicket in the history of NSW Premier Cricket behind Victor Trumper and Dan Gee’s first wicket record of 423. And in becoming a new record for any wicket with Sydney University, it also smashed the previous 2nd wicket partnership record of 236 standing to the credit of Ed Cowan and Ian Moran against Campbelltown-Camden in 2002-03.

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2 years ago
Tony Goodfellow
Tony Goodfellow
Ballina, New South Wales, Australia
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When I first started playing grade cricket for my old club Northern Suburbs, back in Canberra, during the seventies, this infamous match from March 4, 1967, was mentioned quite a lot.

Northern Suburbs were vying for a place in the semi-finals and in the last game of the regular season they had to beat Kingston, outright, over the four innings to squeeze the Australian National University (ANU) out of the top four.

Kingston was all out for 150 runs in reply to Norths first innings of 194 and batting for a second time, Norths declared at 5 for 59, leaving Kingston 71 minutes to score 104 runs for outright victory.

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2 years ago
Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, Australia
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Tim Ebbeck was a wicket keeper who made his first grade debut for Northern District Cricket Club in 1979/80 at the age of 19.

For 11 seasons Tim was the first grade wicket keeper and he was as they say about keepers “the drummer in the band” through one of the club’s most successful eras when they won back to back premierships in 1985/86 and 1986/87.

He finished playing at the age of 30 and has carved out a very successful career in business.

Tim has made an enormous contribution to the club both on and off the field so let’s find out about Tim’s journey in the game.

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2 years ago
Tony Goodfellow
Tony Goodfellow
Ballina, New South Wales, Australia
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Ian Canney was regarded as one of the finest batsmen in ACT cricket in the sixties and seventies.
In my early years at Norths, I was in awe of him in the nets, thinking how you would get a ball past that front pad and bat, that appeared to be glued together.
On practice nights, if the turf nets at Majura or Dickson were a bit dodgy, which was most of the time, Ian Canney would look decidedly uncomfortable against the short stuff from quick bowlers like the aptly named, Randal Strongman. Generally speaking, Canney wasn’t on his ‘Pat Malone’ there.
However, it was a completely different story when the spinners were on, and Norths did have some very fine spinners in Graeme Smith and Graham Read.
Ian Canney had sublime footwork to spin bowling of any kind, so it was no surprise to learn that on February 1, 1968, the tall right-handed ‘John Newcombe’ lookalike, playing for the Southern NSW XI against the touring Indians, peeled of a magnificent unbeaten century at Manuka Oval.
In severe heat, watched by a reported 2,000 spectators, Canney took full toll of a typical Manuka batting pitch and a lightning-fast outfield, to punish a near Test bowling lineup, which included the great Bishan Bedi. Canney stroked 15 fours to run the Indians ragged in the dry Canberra heat.
On reaching his century, the Southern XI captain, Kevin McCarty, retired Canney and after his departure, the locals batting fell away.
Remarkably, Canney’s unbeaten 101 which took only 128 minutes, was his first century in either First grade or representative cricket.
The star-studded Indian batting lineup chased down the local team’s total with five wickets in hand, but, the talking point for many years was Ian Canney’s batting on that hot Thursday in February 1968.

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2 years ago
Mosman Cricket Club
Mosman Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Mosman Wales on a roll – October 2001

The Mosman Cricket Club is enjoying one of its most successful starts to a season for some years now.

The Whales passed the hefty Northern Districts total of 377 runs with sixteen overs still up their sleeve.

Mosman had two centurions on the day, Michael Gerits and the prolific Martin Haywood. They were backed up by Shane Lee who completed a handsome 82, while Herman Schliebs finished unbeaten on 47.

Haywood was generous in his praise for Gerits.

“Michael is clearly one of the competition’s most under-rated cricketers, and week-in, week-out performs outstanding feats with both bat and ball,” Haywod said.

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2 years ago
John Rogers
John Rogers
Melbourne, Australia
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A golden era in Australian club cricket

As most cricket experts will tell you, comparing standards and statistics of different eras is pretty pointless. Comparisons across eras are unfair because too many things change over time. Fair enough, but there is much evidence that backs the assertion that the 1950s and 60s were the heyday of first-grade cricket in Australia.

These days, premier league cricket, as first grade is called now, is played with great intensity by players who are much bigger, stronger and fitter than ever before. But today’s compétitions lack two things that characterised club cricket in the 50s and 60s.

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2 years ago
Redlands Tigers Cricket Club
Redlands Tigers Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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Redlands Tigers Cricket Tales - One Fine Day in 1999

Two former Easts/Redlands players share their recollections about the team that won the One Day premiership against University of Queensland in 1998/99.

Paul Stenhouse (first-grade cap #497)

A great mix of experience and youth on that side and some seriously good players. I think six guys played first-class cricket with two representing Australia.

This was the first trophy in the top grade for Easts-Redlands. It was very special because I was a member of the 1989-90 First Grade premiership side, which was the last trophy for Easts top grade before the merger.

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2 years ago
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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David Somerville was a fast bowler with a good turn of pace. “Speed-gun” measurements weren’t available in his day, but good judges claimed he would have nudged 140 km if timed. Certainly Bankstown felt the full force of his thunderbolts in 1989-90 when he took 7-68 off 25 overs on an unresponsive Coogee wicket to set up a solid win for his team. Four of his wickets were clean bowled with a fifth caught and bowled.

In 1988-89, a work move to Sydney and a desire to test himself in Sydney Grade Cricket, brought Somerville to Randwick. The opportunity to perform under the watchful eye of former Test fast bowler Mike Whitney, was another attraction for the young quick.

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2 years ago
South Launceston Cricket Club
South Launceston Cricket Club
Launceston, Australia
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Shaun Young made his Test debut for Australia in the 6th Test of the 1997 Ashes Tour against England.

As Australian Test cricket player 372 Shaun played the 6th Test which England won by 19 runs.

In a very successful first class career from 1991 to 2002 Shaun played 138 first class games and scored 7,212 runs at an average of 37.95. He scored 14 hundreds and 44 half centuries.

With the ball he took 274 first class wickets at 35.82 with best figures of 7 for 64. He took 5 wickets or more in an innings on 8 occasions and took one ten wicket haul in a game.

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Mosman Cricket Club
Mosman Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Mosman Cricket Club enjoyed one of its most successful weekends this season with four of the club’s five teams claiming victory over their Parramatta rivals.

Most importantly, Mosman’s first XI enjoyed a 10 point outright victory, which pushed them into outright fourth position on the table.

From an individual viewpoint, there were many outstanding performers in the first XI victory.

Big Martin Hayward enjoyed a return to form with a polished century. He was well supported by a cavalier innings of 72 from Peter Schliebs, and a steady half-century from Ben Sullivan.

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