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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Manly Warringah Waratahs First Grade team in 1954/55.

You may be able to see the grass bike track around the oval.

The Team: Brooks, Walker, Robertson (Captain), Hayson, Verity, Brown, Taylor, Davey, C Demonfort, P Philpott, A Demonfort

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Chris MacDougal is a former St George District Cricket Club first grade captain. Chris is the clubs first grade player number 409 and was a member of the 2012/13 first grade premiership winning team skippered by Kevin Pillay.

Chris was also the captain of the St George DCC premiership winning Poidevin Gray team in 2007/08

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/606/st-george-ldquoin-between-ballsrdquo-with-chris-macdougal

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Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Gavin Fitness a stalwart of Queensland Premier Cricket played 25 seasons of First Grade after making his debut as an 18-year-old in 1986.

Being a wicket keeper in Queensland in an era with the likes of Peter Anderson, Ian Healy, Peter Drinnen and Wade Seccombe was tough but Gavin was resolute in his desire.

He played 3 Sheffield Shield games for Queensland and was desperately unlucky not to be keeping in the final when Queensland won their first ever Shield in 1994/95 after Wade Seccombe return from injury.

Gavin is a premiership winning player and highly regarded by his peers.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1991/gavin-fitness-always-be-ready

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Waratahs in History – Matt Cranney

This fortnight Howzat Building Waratahs in History Q & A is with Matt Cranney. Matt (“Son of Errol”/Loose) played 19 seasons for the Tahs from 1992/1993 to 2011/2012. A local junior who started his career at the club when he was only 14. In the clubs 146-year history Matt sits in the top 20 of the highest run scorers for the club with over 6000 runs. He is also a top bloke!

How did your love of cricket come about as a child?
Simple, my Dad Errol. We were always a cricketing family. My two older brothers and I would play backyard cricket all year round. We had a great backyard for cricket and would have friends over for backyard competitions. Future club legends like David Gainsford, Geoff Tucker and Dave Gardiner who were my eldest brothers age would terrorise me with a half-taped tennis ball, but this put me in good stead for when I came down to grade as a 14-yo and would face them in the old Grahams reserve nets.

https://manlycricket.com/waratahs-in-history-matt-cranney

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Evan Bancroft

Business Owner

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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I was bowling to former Queenslander batting allrounder Glenn Trimble who played 2 one day games for Australia at Bottomley Oval in the 80s.

Glenn was one of the hardest hitters ever of a cricket ball and started one with 6, 6, 4, 6 before our captain Mal Freeman yells out “Banger pull a hammy.”

Next ball I knock his stumps over and walked him off all the way to the dressing room, sat next to him as he took his pads off.

Years later we were drinking in a bar together in Melbourne and some bloke asked him “was bowling those wides in the one day international in Perth, the most embarrassing moment of your career.

Glenn replied with “No, 2nd most, this prick here getting me out was the most embarrassing.”

Glenn was such a great player. If he was playing in the modern era of T20 cricket he would’ve been an absolute superstar.

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Mick Davis

Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia

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OK you’ve seen the batsmen now it’s time for fast bowlers. Let’s qualify first. They have to have played in Dubbo while I was here, and I have to have seen them live in a Dubbo team. So just for the record Don Nash is out. He came along in Dubbo after me.

I’m not doing spinners. I’ve not seen too many good ones. Most of them are part timers who don’t really turn the ball that much. Bowling slow to wait for a miss-hit for a catch at cow is not my idea of clever bowling. Glen Shepherd was probably the best I saw. Jame Patterson for Cyms and RSL back in the 80s was pretty good. Nick Duffy was phenomenal given his age. But this article is for the quicks.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1449/mick-davis/blog/1990/the-top-fast-bowlers-of-my-time-in-dubbo-mick-davis

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Nathan Pilon made his first class debut for New South Wales in the 2000/01 cricket season before moving to Melbourne and making his debut for the Victoria Sheffield Shield team in February 2006.

Pilon played 10 first class games taking 42 catches and 1 stumping and scored 338 runs at 19.88 with his highest score being 78.

In Sydney, Nathan Pilon playing for St George took 218 dismissals, 183 catches and 35 stumpings and scored 3,899 runs at an average of 33.

Playing for Carlton CC in Melbourne Pilon holds the clubs wicket keeping record with 278 dismissals, 247 catches and 31 stumpings. With the bat he scored 7,107 runs at an average of 36.63.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/418/nathan-pilon-st-george-district-cricket-club-wicket-keeper-of-the-century

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Mick Davis

Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia

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The top batsman of my time in Dubbo - Mick Davis

By popular demand (well really just one reader but I still think it’s pretty cool) I have been asked to rate the best batsmen of my time. So, let’s qualify this. I must have seen them live; they have to have had an impact on me and they had to play cricket in Dubbo. Those three criteria get them a look. After that I am picking on who made a great impression on me. Not just who might have had the best stats. So, I am looking at things like stats, technique, attitude, their impact on the game and reputation.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1449/mick-davis/blog/1988/the-top-batsman-of-my-time-in-dubbo-mick-davis

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Murray Rayner made his first grade debut for Penrith Cricket Club during the 1990/91 season and is the proud owner of the clubs first grade player number 111.

Murray was awarded the A.W Green Shield Player of the year award along with Geoff Sullivan in 1989/90 and in the same year won the Trevor Wholohan Fielding Award.

In 1991/92 Murray won the clubs Poidevin Gray player of the series award.

In all grades for Penrith Murray scored 3,080 runs and still holds the record for the most number of runs in a 2nd Grade season when he scored 899 runs in the 1992/93 season.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/1987/murray-rayner-itrsquos-never-as-hard-as-it-seems-play-every-ball-and-it-will-get-easier

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Paul Thomas - Penrith first grade cap No 79

When he retired Paul Thomas had taken 687 wickets for Penrith, the Club’s highest wicket-taker. We can add to that: took five-wickets-in-an-innings 28 times. But, these are just a beautiful set of numbers. It’s the character of the cricketer, and the patient manner in which he negotiated his career path, that makes ‘Thommo’ an ideal role model for aspiring young cricketers, especially spin bowlers. It was a pathway with the occasional bump. As a young boy he idolised the left-arm swing bowling of the great Australian all-rounder Gary Gilmour, and bowled it for St Dominics. “There was not a lot of power in my slight frame and Bob and I soon realised there was no future in it.”

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/528/paul-thomas-penrith-first-grade-cap-no-79

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Cricket NSW

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Week 18 – ‘The Opening Spell’

First ball – If at first you don’t succeed!

The old saying “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” was taken to the extreme on Saturday, when Jordan Daly made his first-grade debut for Manly-Warringah against Sydney University.

The 29-year-old had made his first appearance in NSW Premier Cricket in fifth-grade in January 2009, scoring 19 (not out) against Mosman. In the intervening 15 years, Jordan had played a further 179 games in all grades, mostly in second (69 games) and third grade (87 games).

He has scored six centuries, five in third-grade and one in second-grade. His highest score was the first of these, 150 (not out) in third-grade against UNSW in the opening round of 2012-13.

https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/3882769/week-18-the-opening-spell

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Cricket NSW

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NSW Colts Cricket Team – December 1976

Back Row – Phillip Antman, Mark Perry, Jon Jobson, Michael Murfin, Geoff Wright, Graeme Pitty, Murray Bennett

Front Row – Ray Phillips, Bob Vidler, Andrew Hilditch (Captain), Allan Border, Phil Slocombe

Match scorecard -

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/154/cricket-nsw/blog/468/nsw-colts-cricket-team-ndash-december-1976

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Joe Maiorana

Sydney, Australia

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The Australian players celebrate with some beers on the dressing room balcony at the end of the 6th Test match between England and Australia at The Oval, London, England, 29th of August 1989. The match ended in a draw and Australia regained the Ashes, winning the six-match series 4-0.

Identified are (front row, left-right): Dean Jones, Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor, Carl Rackemann. Back row, Tim Zoehrer, Mike Walsh (scorer) and Allan Border.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Marrickville District Cricket Club First Grade team 1921-22

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Armidale District Cricket Association

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Armidale Cricket 1850-1898

Armidale has always been prominent, from a cricketing point of view, and for a town of its size has taken a leading position.

1. In the early days, as back as the fifties, several of the pioneers were cricket enthusiasts, notably the Marsh family of Salisbury Court and the Taylors of Terrible Vale. These stations each had a cricket team and matches between these country teams and the town team were frequent, and in later years these contests still went on. Salisbury Court and Terrible Vale were the first to use the matting wicket, which was the means of materially improving the game, as good cricket was impossible on the old chipped, bumpy wicket which did duty before the introduction of the mat.

2. Some time after the gold discovery at Bakers Creek Gold Mine in 1887, Hillgrove took an active part in cricket, and Mr George Smith offered a valuable cup, to be played for between teams in Armidale, Hillgrove, Uralla and country teams. This competition, which was extended over 3 years, was the means of giving the game a fillip, and ultimately the Armidale team won the Cup, which was presented to the club at Hillgrove, at a dance given by Mr Smith and the Hillgrove cricketers.

From The Jubilee Souvenir of the Municipality of Armidale 1863-1913 (p.64)
• The Armidale Cricketers Association was formally birthed on the 1-Sep-1899. The first competition was organised in two divisions:
1. Town: Armidale, Orientals, Hillgrove, Dumaresq, Uralla, T.A.S., West End
2. Country: Black Mountain, Ollera, Guyra, Wandsworth, Booralong

For 1911-12 the Junior Competition included a Hillgrove side. As well as sides from Brick Villa, De La Salle College and T.A.S.

• In the 1947-48 midsummer competition, additional teams were entered by Armidale Timber Co. And Hillgrove.
(Association Records)

Pictured - T.A.S First XI cricket team 1895

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Joe Maiorana

Sydney, Australia

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Martin Crowe

Batting average after 10 Tests: 20.68

Career average: 45.36

It took Crowe 5 Tests for his career average to cross 10, and 21 Tests to go past 30. With one Test century in 3 years, the pressure was on a young Crowe, but things turned around on the 1985 tour of the West Indies when he smashed 188 v an attack comprising Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall, and Joel Garner.

By his 34th Test, his average had crossed 40, and he ended his career as New Zealand’s leading run-getter, eventually averaging in excess of 45 from 77 Tests.

Vintage Cricket

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Sutherland District Cricket Club

Sylvania, Australia

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Sutherland District Cricket Club 2nd Grade Premiers 1996-97

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Sutherland District Cricket Club

Sylvania, Australia

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Matthew Bradley - Sutherland District Cricket Club Cap No 172 and Life Member

On 12 July 2015 at the Sutherland District Cricket Club Annual General meeting for the 2014-15 season Matthew Bradley was nominated for Life Membership of the club.

Here is Matthew Bradley Nomination for Life Membership as presented by Mathew Duff.

Matthew Bradley joined Sutherland in 1991-92, when he played five matches in AW Green Shield. The following season, he was captain of the AW Green Shield team that won the premiership. He also played a full season of grade cricket, split between 4th and 5th Grades, scoring 558 runs. Combined with his 320 runs in AW Green Shield, his overall season aggregate was 878 runs - at the time, the fourth highest in the Club's history

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/294/sutherland-district-cricket-club/blog/1980/matthew-bradley-sutherland-district-cricket-club-cap-no-172-and-life-member

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Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Greg Davidson played first grade cricket for Parramatta from 1989 to 2008. Highly respected by his team mates and those in opposition Greg took 333 wickets at an average of 27.45. His best figures in first grade was 6 for 57.

Upon retirement Greg ventured into umpiring and is now a first-class umpire and one of 12 that form part of Cricket Australia National Panel.

Who’s been the biggest influence in your cricket career?

Apart from my parents, I had 3 coaches in Ron Dunn, Eric Myatt and Max Crittenden growing up who taught me the fundamentals of the game and how to win and lose gracefully. Later in life Bob Simpson, Ron Wright, Michael Hair, Darren Goodger and Simon Taufel have been instrumental in my development and progress as player, umpire and human being.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/420/greg-davidson-no-short-cuts-be-true

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Shane Lee

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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As the years wear on, some stories become folklore. The original version of the tale is enhanced and embellished into a legendary yarn. Sometimes, the story itself takes on its own life and becomes bigger than Ben Hur!

Wayne ‘Cracker’ Holdsworth stormed onto the domestic cricket scene in 1989, taking six wickets on debut for NSW in a performance even Ben Hur would have been proud of!

Wayne’s nickname ‘Cracker’ according to his mother is derived from hitting numerous batsmen on the head with his fast bowling feats. Smashing helmets and intimidating batsmen with raw pace and aggression his superpower in the game of cricket. His team mates having a different version of the chosen nickname

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/538/shane-lee/blog/1979/absolute-cracker

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