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Craig Dodson

Business Advisor

Melbourne, Australia

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The Book is a celebration of cricket and the fantastic people and clubs that help underpin it.

My mate ‘CAT’ says it is the best (and only) book he has read since year those bloody year 10 English Teachers at Mount Austin High School in Wagga Wagga forced him to read.. High praise indeed.

The Book is the best attempt by an average bloke and amateur writer to simply have a crack at something that was on the bucket List.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/175/craig-dodson/blog/1417/do-you-love-club-cricket-i-do-so-much-so-that-i-wrote-a-book-about-it

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last year

Craig Dodson

Business Advisor

Melbourne, Australia

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We were taking the field against the Primary Club (A great Australian Cricketing Charity) and I was pleasantly waiting at the top of my mark when the whispers started to race around my teammates as the new batsman strode to the crease at one for bugger all.

‘Is that Tony Dodemaide’? There was no sight of a 1980s style mullet from my vantage point so I couldn’t be sure until he was 22 yards away. Yes, a confirmed sighting of the bowling all-rounder who graced the test arena 10 times and wore the canary yellow cap for 24 ODIs.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/175/craig-dodson/blog/2199/my-straight-breaks-to-dodemaides-kookaburra

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Newcastle District Cricket Association

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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Newcastle Representative team - NSW Country Championships winners 2017-18

Back Row - Nick Foster, Andrew Sommerville, Shane Burley (Coach), Pat Darwen, Dave Redden (Manager), Jed Dickson, Ben Balcomb, Daniel Morton, Jonty Durrheim

Front Row - Dylan Hunter, Nathan Price, Mark Littlewood (Captain), Jeff Goninan, Burt Cockley, James Rushford

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Andrew Ward

Managing Director

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NSW CAS Schoolboys Cricket team - 1988

J. Moir (Manager), D. O’Toole (Trinity), K. Roche (Waverley), M. Webber (St Aloysius), M. Bland (Knox), T. Watkins (Trinity), P. Burkhart (Trinity Vice-Captain, J. Howard (Knox) Captain, M. Jensen (Trinity), A Ward (Barker), G. Twining (Trinity), A. Wimalaratna (Cranbrook), K. Thomas (Waverley), S. Farthing (Cranbrook), M. Shaw (Knox) Scorer

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Paul Ryan

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Mark Atkinson left NSW at the beginning of the 1991/92 season to play cricket in Tasmania without a contract or a promise. By February that season he was selected to make his first class debut for Tasmania to play Pakistan.

An excellent gloveman and very effective batsman Atkinson proceeded to carve out a tremendous first class career during a successful era for Tasmanian cricket.

After 95 first class games Atkinson holds the record for the most number of dismissals for Tasmania with 290 dismissals – 261 catches and 29 stumpings.

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Mike Swan

Sydney, Australia

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9 Followers

NSW Combined GPS First XI Cricket team – 1985

Back Row – Mr. M.J. Punch, P.J. Palmer, S.J. Cook, J.A. Kocx, J.W. Bray, D.C. McCredie, L.J. Moffat

Front Row – T.J. Vandeleur, D.B. Gainsford, J.P. Dight, M.L. Swan, P.J. Rodger, B.W.A. Semos, S.B. Skinner

Absent – C. Randall

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Queensland Cricket

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Queensland Colts v NSW Colts – Sydney 1992

Back Row – Ken Duffy (Umpire), Wep Harris (Assistant Manager), Jeff Thomas, Paul Spence, Brian Hawke, Martin Love, Jimmy Maher, Andrew Symonds, Toot Byron (Coach), Clive Cruickshank (Umpire).

Front Row – Matthew Goggin, Wade Seccombe, Chris Holding (Captain), Shawn Flegler, Mark Shackel, Matthew Fraser

The game was played at Hurstville Oval – 23, 24, 25, 26 November 1992

Queensland won the toss and elected to bat.

Queensland Colts first innings – 272

NSW Colts first innings – 415

Queensland Colts 2nd innings – 352

NSW Colts 2nd innings – 5 for 211

NSW Colts won by 5 wickets.

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Geelong Over 50 Cricket Club

Geelong, Victoria, Australia

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David Roach has played the majority of his junior and senior cricket in Melbourne and Geelong and he continues to enjoy and give back to the game.

He’s been a captain coach for most of his career and is the current President of the Geelong Over 50s Cricket Club. In March 2024 David was awarded Life Membership of the Geelong Over 50s Cricket Club.

An aggressive batter and loyal teammate David Roach is the very proud owner of cap number 55 for the Australian Over 50s cricket team.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1577/geelong-over-50-cricket-club/blog/2198/david-roach-you-can-always-improve

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Queensland Cricket

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Queensland Colts v NSW Colts – Brisbane 1991

Back Row – Matthew Goggin, Scott Muller, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Harris, Toot Byron (Coach)

Front Row – Wade Seccombe, Daniel Coleborn, Mark Shackel, Peter Skuse (Captain), Matthew Fraser, Chris Holding, Brad Klosterman

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Toombul District Cricket Club

Brisbane, Australia

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Toombul District Cricket Club First Grade premiers 1991-92 - Toombul defeated Easts in the grand final at the Gabba

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Mike Swan

Sydney, Australia

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9 Followers

NSW Combined GPS Second XI Cricket team – 1984

Back Row – Mr. R. Whiley (Shore), M. Swan (Scots), D. Wilson (Newington), D. Frawley (St Ignatious), C. Martignoni (Sydney Grammar), D. Sutton (Scots)

Front Row – C. Randall (Sydney Grammar), S. Cook (Newington), D. Hamblin (St. Josephs), B. Cottle (Newington), S. Skinner (Sydney Boys High), D. Cullen (St Josephs), P. Sheridan (St Ignatious)

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Veterans Cricket NSW

New South Wales, Australia

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Darren Smith plays Over 50s cricket for the Port Jackson Cricket Club and has represented NSW and Australia Over 50s cricket teams.

In 2017 at the NSW Over 50s state championships Darren won the region player of the championships and was selected in the NSW Over 50s team shortly after.

He was a member of Australian Over 50s 2018 World Cup win in Sydney in 2018 and was also in the 2020 Australian Over 50s World Cup squad to play in South Africa where unfortunately the World Cup was cut short due to Covid.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/168/nsw-veterans-cricket/blog/91/darren-smith-make-something-happen

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Queensland Cricket

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Queensland 1990-91 Under 19 cricket team that played in the Australian National Championships in Sydney

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Throughout the life of any club, its history will reveal that many of its greatest wins were the result of high-scoring batting partnerships. And while Randwick Petersham has been operating for only 23 seasons following a merger between Randwick and Petersham-Marrickville in 2001, the club has chalked up some impressive 1st Grade partnerships. Of its 10 record partnerships, nine resulted in wins while the other was in a drawn match. Here’s how the record partnerships played out.

1st Wicket 254 (also club record): Round 4, 2016-17 v Blacktown Mounties at Joe McAleer: WON 5-378 to 9-373 dec

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/2197/randwick-petersham-cricket-club-mdashbest-1st-grade-partnerships-in-its-first-23-seasons-to-2023-24

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Sydney Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Photo of the Balmain District Cricket Club 2001-02 First Grade cricket team

Back Row – Greg Mail, Warren Buttigieg, Neil Maxwell, Richard Burton, Richard Colbran, Nathan Bracken, Matthew Schenke, Steve Karam, John Di Michael, Greg Hayne

Front Row – Ben Schultz, Gavin Robertson, Andrew Fitzhenry

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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One of the great natural talents of his generations, Gary Gilmour was a clean striker of the ball, lively swing bowler and brilliant fieldsman.

The fact that he was a left hander from Newcastle in New South Wales invited comparisons with Alan Davidson. At his peak, he was a superb cricketer, and his relatively short career was littered with memorable performances: 122 against South Australia on his first class debut in 1971-72; 52 and 4-75 on his test debut against New Zealand in 1973-74; a mesmerising spell of 6-14 against England in the 1975 World Cup semi-final and five wickets against the West Indies at Adelaide in 1975-76; and a brutal century against new Zealand in Christchurch in 1977.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/2196/gary-gilmour-was-a-match-winner

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Mike Swan

Sydney, Australia

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Scots College 1985 First XI cricket team

Back Row – P.J.A Jobling, T.A.H Saywell, N. Kapos, S.T.R Gordon

Front Row – A.D.J Thew, B.W.A Semos, M.L Swan (captain), A. Chalmers Esq, D.J Campbell, D.B Starkey, J.B Robertson

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Steve Thomlinson

Teacher

Sydney, Australia

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1 Followers

Sydney Cricket Association - 3rd Grade - Round 10 1979-80
Sydney Cricket Club v Mosman Cricket Club at Rawson Oval on 10 and 17 January 1980

Sydney Cricket Club won by 4 wickets

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Northern Suburbs District Cricket Club

Brisbane, Australia

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Great photo of Northern Suburbs Under 18s Premiership team from 1983-84

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Mike Swan

Sydney, Australia

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9 Followers

Scots College 1984 First XI GPS Premiers

Back Row – B. Semos, A.D.J. Thew, M.L Swan, D.J. Campbell, D.G. Robertson, R.L. Hartwig (Scorer)

Front Row – A.C. Lloyd-Jones, D. W. Pike, D.A. Statham (Captain), A.F.M. Chalmers, R.H. Blackman (Vice Captain), S.C. Hudson, D.S. Hutton

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NSW Combined GPS First XI Cricket team – 1985

Back Row – Mr. M.J. Punch, P.J. Palmer, S.J. Cook, J.A. Kocx, J.W. Bray, D.C. McCredie, L.J. Moffat

Front Row – T.J. Vandeleur, D.B. Gainsford, J.P. Dight, M.L. Swan, P.J. Rodger, B.W.A. Semos, S.B. Skinner

Absent – C. Randall

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Queensland Colts v NSW Colts – Brisbane 1991

Back Row – Matthew Goggin, Scott Muller, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Harris, Toot Byron (Coach)

Front Row – Wade Seccombe, Daniel Coleborn, Mark Shackel, Peter Skuse (Captain), Matthew Fraser, Chris Holding, Brad Klosterman

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Toombul District Cricket Club First Grade premiers 1991-92 - Toombul defeated Easts in the grand final at the Gabba

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Queensland 1990-91 Under 19 cricket team that played in the Australian National Championships in Sydney

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Scots College 1985 First XI cricket team

Back Row – P.J.A Jobling, T.A.H Saywell, N. Kapos, S.T.R Gordon

Front Row – A.D.J Thew, B.W.A Semos, M.L Swan (captain), A. Chalmers Esq, D.J Campbell, D.B Starkey, J.B Robertson

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Sydney Cricket Club v Mosman Cricket Club at Rawson Oval on 10 and 17 January 1980

Sydney Cricket Club won by 4 wickets

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Scots College 1984 First XI GPS Premiers

Back Row – B. Semos, A.D.J. Thew, M.L Swan, D.J. Campbell, D.G. Robertson, R.L. Hartwig (Scorer)

Front Row – A.C. Lloyd-Jones, D. W. Pike, D.A. Statham (Captain), A.F.M. Chalmers, R.H. Blackman (Vice Captain), S.C. Hudson, D.S. Hutton

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NSW Combined GPS First XI Cricket team – 1985 Back Row – Mr. M.J. Punch, P.J. Palmer, S.J. Cook, J.A. Kocx, J.W. Bray, D.C. McCredie, L.J. Moffat Front Row – T.J. Vandeleur, D.B. Gainsford, J.P. Dight, M.L. Swan, P.J. Rodger, B.W.A. Semos, S.B. Skinner Absent – C. Randall

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Queensland Colts v NSW Colts – Brisbane 1991 Back Row – Matthew Goggin, Scott Muller, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Harris, Toot Byron (Coach) Front Row – Wade Seccombe, Daniel Coleborn, Mark Shackel, Peter Skuse (Captain), Matthew Fraser, Chris Holding, Brad Klosterman

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Toombul District Cricket Club First Grade premiers 1991-92 - Toombul defeated Easts in the grand final at the Gabba

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Queensland 1990-91 Under 19 cricket team that played in the Australian National Championships in Sydney

Photo of the Balmain District Cricket Club 2001-02 First Grade cricket team Back Row – Greg Mail, Warren Buttigieg, Neil Maxwell, Richard Burton, Richard Colbran, Nathan Bracken, Matthew Schenke, Steve Karam, John Di Michael, Greg Hayne Front Row – Ben Schultz, Gavin Robertson, Andrew Fitzhenry

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Scots College 1985 First XI cricket team Back Row – P.J.A Jobling, T.A.H Saywell, N. Kapos, S.T.R Gordon Front Row – A.D.J Thew, B.W.A Semos, M.L Swan (captain), A. Chalmers Esq, D.J Campbell, D.B Starkey, J.B Robertson

Sydney Cricket Association - 3rd Grade - Round 10 1979-80 Sydney Cricket Club v Mosman Cricket Club at Rawson Oval on 10 and 17 January 1980 Sydney Cricket Club won by 4 wickets

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Great photo of Northern Suburbs Under 18s Premiership team from 1983-84

Scots College 1984 First XI GPS Premiers Back Row – B. Semos, A.D.J. Thew, M.L Swan, D.J. Campbell, D.G. Robertson, R.L. Hartwig (Scorer) Front Row – A.C. Lloyd-Jones, D. W. Pike, D.A. Statham (Captain), A.F.M. Chalmers, R.H. Blackman (Vice Captain), S.C. Hudson, D.S. Hutton

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NSW Combined GPS First XI Cricket team – 1985

Back Row – Mr. M.J. Punch, P.J. Palmer, S.J. Cook, J.A. Kocx, J.W. Bray, D.C. McCredie, L.J. Moffat

Front Row – T.J. Vandeleur, D.B. Gainsford, J.P. Dight, M.L. Swan, P.J. Rodger, B.W.A. Semos, S.B. Skinner

Absent – C. Randall

Queensland Colts v NSW Colts – Brisbane 1991

Back Row – Matthew Goggin, Scott Muller, Michael Kasprowicz, Andrew Harris, Toot Byron (Coach)

Front Row – Wade Seccombe, Daniel Coleborn, Mark Shackel, Peter Skuse (Captain), Matthew Fraser, Chris Holding, Brad Klosterman

Scots College 1985 First XI cricket team

Back Row – P.J.A Jobling, T.A.H Saywell, N. Kapos, S.T.R Gordon

Front Row – A.D.J Thew, B.W.A Semos, M.L Swan (captain), A. Chalmers Esq, D.J Campbell, D.B Starkey, J.B Robertson

Sydney Cricket Association - 3rd Grade - Round 10 1979-80
Sydney Cricket Club v Mosman Cricket Club at Rawson Oval on 10 and 17 January 1980

Sydney Cricket Club won by 4 wickets

Scots College 1984 First XI GPS Premiers

Back Row – B. Semos, A.D.J. Thew, M.L Swan, D.J. Campbell, D.G. Robertson, R.L. Hartwig (Scorer)

Front Row – A.C. Lloyd-Jones, D. W. Pike, D.A. Statham (Captain), A.F.M. Chalmers, R.H. Blackman (Vice Captain), S.C. Hudson, D.S. Hutton