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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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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, Australia

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Waverley - Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club team of 125 Years

Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club celebrated 125 years in the Sydney Grade/NSW Premier Cricket competition at an Anniversary Lunch at Doltone House on 12 March 2020.

The celebration culminated in the announcement of the Waverley/ Eastern Suburbs Team of 125 Years.

As part of the announcement Easts Dolphins shared the 50 contenders up for selection

The criteria for selection is arduous and reflects the community spirit in which the history and foundation of the Waverley/ Eastern Suburbs Cricket Clubs history has been built.

Alan Kippax pictured.

The team – congratulations to all

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/319/eastern-suburbs-cricket-club-sydney/blog/1975/waverley-eastern-suburbs-cricket-club-team-of-125-years

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, Australia

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On 15th September 1813 thirty-eight-year-old Henrietta Gregory was found guilty in the Old Bailey of forging a one-pound note and was sentenced to transportation and 14 years servitude in the colony. She was just one of 162,000 so dispatched. However, this sentence and subsequent transportation, routine at the time, was to change the course of both Australian men’s and women’s cricket because accompanying Henrietta was her nine-year-old son Edward William Gregory.

Edward William, reported to be somewhat of a cricket tragic, was to marry Mary Ann Smith in 1832 and they had six children, two of whom, Dave, born 15 April 1845 and Ned, 29 May 1839, were to become pioneers of Australian cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/319/eastern-suburbs-cricket-club-sydney/blog/1974/the-gregory-family-crickets-first-dynasty

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Sydney University Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Tuesday 10 June 1902.

The Fenners Ground, Cambridge University.

The Australians vs Cambridge University.

A bearded, greying batsman walks out to join wicket keeper Hanson Carter. Dr Roland James (Rowley) Pope is a former Test cricketer, playing his last 1st class game, more than seventeen years after appearing in his only Test Match.

A RETURN TO 1ST CLASS CRICKET.

It has been a diluted English summer filled with frequent rain showers interspersed with even heavier rain. The cold weather has seeped into the Australians' bones. Joe Darling and Bill Howell are in London, stricken with influenza. Monty Noble tries to recover in Brighton. Jack Saunders has quinsy and Dr Pope's instructions are that he be confined to bed.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/260/sydney-university-cricket-club/blog/1972/pope-helps-out

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Part 3 - The history of St George District Cricket Club 1941-42 to 1950-51

The St George District Cricket Club boasts a proud history which has now extended beyond a century.

When the club entered the first-grade competition in 1921-22, few could have predicted the success and prestige that would accompany it in the ensuing century. As the club celebrates its centenary of first grade across the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons there is an opportunity to celebrate many of the outstanding performances and moments that have occurred.

With this in view, it was decided to compile a list of 100 moments in 100 years.

Here's Part 3

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/1969/part-3-the-history-of-st-george-district-cricket-club-1941-42-to-1950-51

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Geoff Williams

Sydney, Australia

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In the early 70s I was playing for Central Cumberland District Cricket Club (CCDCC) against Balmain at the SCG. Balmain and NSW opening batsmen, Tony Steele, was in superb form and I have never heard a batsman sledge a fielding side the way Tony did that day. He would say things like " easy", "that is crap", "don't bowl that shit to me" etc. as he hit another boundary. He didn't shut up.

Our opening bowler, Bill Lothian, moved me to fine leg right on the boundary near the Brewongle Stand. Tony Steele saw this field change and practised playing a hook shot to which I cheekily responded by pretending to take a catch. Tony saw this a just gave a mocking laugh. Two balls later, Billy bowled a short ball which Tony hooked. I did not have to move, the catch was hit straight to me (it would have been a six these days). I really enjoyed mimicing Tony's mocking laugh as he trudged off the field.

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Dennis Hourn

Sydney, Australia

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It's 1975 and Tony Grieg, Waverley's captain, conspires with the players from the opposing team, Randwick, to play a trick on a fieldsman in the gloom of a Rothman’s Knock Out limited over match at Waverley Oval.

Tony bowls, the Randwick batsman Billy Knowles hooks and Tony screams to the visually challenged fieldsman who is fielding in the dark at deep fine leg, “Hournie Catch it, Catch it”. Hournie of course runs around in circles looking for the ball but it can’t be seen. At least by Hournie.

After an agonising twenty or so seconds and a fruitless search for the ball Hournie looks up and sees Greigy sitting on the pitch laughing his head off holding the ball up in the air.

The crowd and opposing team are also laughing because Greigy had cooked up a
scheme to bowl a “dummy” and for the batsman to play a ‘dummy’ hook shot. Everyone was in on the act except Hournie.

Tony dined out on that at many Waverley functions for years after.

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Bruce Francis

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Tony Greig’s first game for Waverley in season 1975-76: Waverley 33 and 86. St George 1-36 and 0-24.

Second game; tame draw

Third game versus Gordon, was one of the best games I have played in.

Greig won the toss and chose to bowl

Gordon were 8 for 18 and then fast bowler Barry Thompson hit four sixes. Gordon all out for 52. Greig 7 for 38.

The team insisted Greig bat at number six so he could bat on a dry wicket the following week.

End of first over Greig not out nought having faced one ball. Waverley four wickets for one run. Len Richardson (NSW & QLD opener) 0; Ron Crippen (NSW opener & number 3) 0; Greg Besomo 0; Bruce Francis 0. Barry Thompson four wickets for one run.

Stumps Waverley chasing 52 were 8 for 48 with Dennis Hourn and Dick Rowland the not out batsmen with David Hourn to follow.

Following week: Waverley dismissed for 60.

Gordon second innings 125. David Hourn 7 for 54.

Waverley 6 for 121 won outright. Greig 63 and Mick Beningfield 23 not out.

Waverley 10 points and running second in competition

Every over felt like I imagine the last over of a twenty/20 match would feel.

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Les Eastaway

Taree, New South Wales, Australia

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A Catch and a Handshake

It is well documented in Manning cricket and the St George District Cricket Club about the career of Jon Jobson.

His ability as a junior in the Manning caught the eye of judges further afield. A talent scout from Saints sounded out Jon and his family about his cricketing future in the early 1970s.

However, we shall step back in time a decade or so.

The NSW Sheffield Shield team was heading north to play Queensland in a Shield encounter. A stopover game in Taree was planned against a Manning/Mid Coast XII. It was October, 1962.

Among a galaxy of state stars, the team included Brian Booth and Warren Saunders, St George clubmen. To add further appeal to the match, the Shield side included Johnny Martin, a local Manning champion.

One member of the Manning side was Andy Jobson, Jon’s dad.

Warren and Brian peppered the local attack to the tune of 89 and 97 respectively, Brian Booth eventually falling to a catch by none other than Andy Jobson.

This interlude in play may have fallen innocently on young Jon, in the crowd at less than seven years of age.
The catch was Part 1 of the intervening connection of fate.

The talent scout from St George to meet and discuss Jon’s future with his family happened to be Brian Booth several years later.

The family handshake to join Saints became Part 2 of an engrossing and fateful turn of events.

Jon’s time during a fine career took effect under the guidance of both Warren and Brian, years earlier as opponents of Dad Andy.

Jon’s roles in his new club included that of a fine batsman, 1st Grade Premiership Captain, Club President, CEO, and Life Member and St George CC Hall of Fame.

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Tim Ebbeck

Company Director

Central Coast, NSW, Australia

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I was still at school when I first met the great Neil Marks.

There was some discussion between my school principal at St Leo's College, the truly inspirational Brother Brian Berg, and Neil about whether I should be playing grade cricket or continuing to focus on school cricket. As much as I felt I let down Brother Berg, I decided to focus on grade cricket with the Club. I had always wanted to represent Northern District Cricket Club based at what was then known as Waitara Park, later known as Mark Taylor Oval.

What an education. I was blessed to have Brian Berg as a school principal and cricket mentor. He was the most brilliant school principal, an Australian Schoolboys selector and manager, rolled a terrific wicket at the school #1 oval himself, took the First X1 away for country trips and had us stay in a local pub and engage with the locals rather than be billeted out, and a wonderful advocate for the Western Suburbs District Cricket Club and the legendary Wally Welham which was challenging! Imagine that sort of leadership from a Christian Brother! But that was the wonderful Brian Berg. Education was about like experiences.

And then to have the privilege of spending so much time with Neil was just more priceless life experience

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/113/tim-ebbeck/blog/1963/neil-marks-rip-old-mate-and-thank-you

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Fairfield Liverpool Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Fairfield Liverpool Cricket Club Poidevin Gray Premiers 1997-98

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John Rogers

Melbourne, Australia

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Neil Marks’s “hole-in the-heart” issues back in 1959, was big news in Australia.

That the new "young Bradman" from the previous season - after 7 innings for NSW he was averaging 98 - would be flying to the famed Mayo Clinic in America for an operation, drew a widespread, collective, outpouring of concern - including from me as a kid growing up in the (then) country town of Gosford.

So too did the news that the operation was a success, but that first class cricket for Neil, let alone playing for Australia, was out of the question.

The year before, In early December 1958 in Brisbane, a new-look Australian team was facing off against Ashes' holder England - and. cricket was dominating the air-waves. Australia had a new young captain in Richie Benaud and Australia’s newest sporting superstar Norm O’Neill was making his test debut.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/531/john-rogers/blog/1962/rip-neil-marks-unbowlable

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