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7 months ago
Belmont District Cricket Club
Belmont District Cricket Club
Newcastle, Australia
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A blast from the past- Jamie Heath's first 1st grade 5 wicket haul.

Belmont Cricket Club's teenage bowling sensation shone despite miserable conditions. Chasing Wallsend's 1st innings total of 151, Belmont were always going to be facing a mammoth task due to poor weather conditions and a rain-affected pitch. In what was described as an ordinary batting effort by many, Belmont could only muster a total of 9d-58. Belmont batsman Eric Tyrell posted a high score for the Belmont innings of 36 no in these conditions, proving to be the only shining light from the innings.

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7 months ago
Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Cricket was played in the Nepean District as early as the 1870s when matches were organised between towns by mutual arrangement. But for the local cricket people, the biggest moment came in the 1891/1892 season when it was proposed that an English team, managed by Lord Sheffield and captains by the redoubtable cricket master Dr W G Grace , toured Australia and would play a match against a Nepean 13 on the 16th/17th February 1892. As might be imagined, much had to be done to bring off such a historic match. Thirty persons attended a meeting chaired by Mayor Judge in the Council Chambers where Alderman TR Smith happily announced that the Englishmen has closed with his offer of one hundred pound for a two day match.

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7 months ago
UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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From The Vault: Bears claim the David Sherwood Cup - 5th grade premiers

In March 2020, Patrick Lindsay reflected on an unusual Premiership for the Bears Fifth Grade side.

After 15 Rounds of the regular season, Fifth Grade have been crowned Champions and holders of the David Sherwood Cup for the first time since 1974-75. Obviously there is a large degree of hollowness felt as a result of this outcome, which is of course due to the cancellation of the finals due to the COVID-19 virus.

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7 months ago
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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When left-arm swing bowler Jake Wilson had the last Hawkesbury batsman caught in round eight of the 2012-13 season to give him innings figures of 5-11, he marched into the Randwick Petersham record books. Not only did that wicket give him 100 in 1st Grade but he achieved the milestone quicker than the two bowlers who had reached the century mark before him. While both Andrew Harrison and James Byrne brought up their “bowlers ton” in four and a half seasons, Jake did it in just two and a half. His 100 wickets came up in his 55th game for Randwick Petersham from a total of 542.4 overs.

Jake Keiran Wilson was born at Darlinghurst on 6 December 1981. A product of Port Hacking High School, Jake developed his game with St George, rising to 2nd Grade where he had a number of impressive performances in taking 147 wickets

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7 months ago
St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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St George DCC First Grade Player No.78 - Ray Little

Raymond Cecil James Little was born in Uralla (between Armidale and Tamworth) on the 7th of October 1914.

It is stated that he moved from Newcastle to St George where he made his first debut in the season of 1933/34. No doubt he would have gained the attention of the cricketing folk in Sydney when in February of 1932 he scored a century against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club (The MCC) team featuring many English greats such as Jack Hobbs, The Nawab of Pataudi, Bill Voce, Maurice Leyland and was captained by Bob Wyatt.

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7 months ago
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sylvania, Australia
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Progression of Sutherland's Club Record Scores

St.George 5/366 dec. (Brian Booth 103, John Rogers 95, Graham James 54, Billy Watson 52, Rod Luckman 45 no, Grant Le Huray 2-35, Ted Cotton 1-38, Norm O’Neill 1-58, Stan Gilchrist 1-91) d. Sutherland 280 (Norm O’Neill 168, Don Harkness 30, Bob Bain 25, Vic Cristofani 2-39, Rod Luckman 1-0, Brian Booth 1-13, John Martin 1-43, Keith Francis 1-65, John O’Reilly 1-79).

Norm O’Neill’s innings of 168 was made in 197 minutes with 27 fours and 1 six. It remained the club record score until 7 January, 1984 when Phil Weatherall scored 173 n.o.

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8 months ago
Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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In celebration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War 2 the following is a story about the Gordon District Cricket Club’s own Flying Ace, Jack Quigley, who later became one of its highest scoring batsman.

While being a late entry to the war, having arrived in the UK in mid 1944, Jack certainly made up for it by making over 50 raids into enemy territory in his single engine aircraft including his last one only two days before the German surrender.

After arriving in the UK following over a year of training in Australia and the USA, his first job was to learn how to fly the RAF designated single engine aircraft for which he was posted in July 1944 to the RAF base at Heston near London.

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8 months ago
St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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100 Moments in 100 Years of St George First Grade - Part 3 - 1991/92 - 2001/02

Thanks to St George DCC Historian and Published Author, Nathan Anderson here is part 3 of his 100 moments in 100 years of 1st Grade Cricket. Another wonderful decade of cricket between 1991-92 and 2001-02.

1. Craig McComb (153) and R Trewartha (119) combine for a record-breaking 6th wicket partnership. The pair compile 284 runs against Western suburbs, which is a club record first grade partnership at the time. (1991-92)

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8 months ago
Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Players of Note in the Shadows (Part 2)

The club has had three Test wicketkeepers. Phil Emery, another loyal clubman and outstanding NSW captain, has certainly left his mark on the club. There was his leadership, wicketkeeping, batting and most noticeably his ability to bring together players from different occupations and skill sets to become members of Gordon premiership teams. We should not forget Adam Gilchrist, who learnt his early cricket at Gordon before moving to Western Australia and becoming a wonderful batsman and wicketkeeper for Australia.

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Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Players of Note in the Shadows (Part 1)

When the Gordon District Cricket Club entered the Sydney Grade cricket competition in the 1905-06 season it was the 20th club in the competition and the 16th in First Grade. There was obviously a level of expectation and a sense of anticipation that the club would develop, as it was the only club on the North Shore after the North Sydney DCC.

In those formative years there were cricketers who had already made their mark. Dr Gother Clarke and Bob Hickson needed no introduction. Clarke, a left-arm slow bowler, and Hickson, an opening bat, had both played for New South Wales. During the season Frank Iredale, a former Australian player, along with Keith McPhillamy and Gordon Black, both former NSW players, joined the club.

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8 months ago
Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Pocket Profile - Ray Dent - Penrith Cricket Club

I started my junior career playing for Glenmore Park in (U8’s), where I played 8 seasons for the Redbacks. In (U15’s) I then started my senior career for Glenmore park playing alongside my dad and uncle. I then moved to Panthers cricket club to continue playing seniors with my dad and uncle. During this time I also played representative cricket for the Penrith Junior Cricket Association from U12’s to U15’s and U17’s where I was given the privilege to captain in my final junior rep season. I also represented Penrith in various cricket carnivals including Ballina, Newcastle, Orange and Canberra. I made my Grade debut for Penrith on the 13th of November in 2021 against Gordon in the Metro cup. This is now my third year of Grade cricket with the club after missing last year to an acl reconstruction. I had surgery in February and was cleared to return halfway through this season in November and enjoyed every second of it with the club.

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