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North Hobart Cricket Club
North Hobart Cricket Club
Hobart, Australia
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North Hobart Cricket Club - 1997- 98 Kookaburra Cup State Limited Overs Premiers

Back Row - Mathew Davis, Andrew Saballus, Damian Mizzen, Troy Cooley, Lyndon Beard, Stuart Coburn, Stuart Alexander, Paul Collins.

Front Row - Dan Marsh, Todd Pinnington, Myles Harry (Captain), Tony Judd.

North Hobart won the toss and batted and scored 7 for 192. In reply Launceston was bowled out for 190.

The photo was taken at a small convict tourist village called Richmond at a local place who did photography in convict style.

Match scorecard -
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Campbelltown Camden District Cricket Club
Campbelltown Camden District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Round 6 vs Bankstown (30/11/85 & 1/12/85)
(by Paul Bourke “Bourkey” First Grade Cap No 3.)


Campbelltown made an encouraging entry into the Sydney First Grade Competition in the 1985/6 season. Round 1 saw a solid win (by 81 runs) over another newcomer Hawkesbury, and Round 2 resulted in a draw after Day 2 was washed out. This game was evenly poised against Fairfield who were also in their debut season. Round 3 against the strong Penrith team exposed several deficiencies in our play but rain saved us to escape with a draw. Round 4 against Parramatta really rammed home how far we were off the pace against a solid, competitive side. To lose 7/11 in the last hour of play on a good batting wicket illustrated the lack of depth in our batting line up as we were beaten outright.

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Howzattt Cricket
Howzattt Cricket
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Howzattt presents - Profiles of Champions - Daniel Styer

“Never give up”

Name- Daniel Styer

Age- 41

City/Town- Cape Town

Provence- Western Province

Employment- Coach at All Rounder Cricket Academy.

Cricket Teams played for- Cape Town vets, Claremont CC 1s and 2s, Bergvliet 1s.

Cricket Career Highlights- Batting in a league game were we were 46-6 and I made 63 to take the score to 244 all out and we won

Brief description of your cricket skill - I am a fast bowler and seam it both ways. I bat in the lower order and can hold my own.

Other sports- Rugby, Soccer, Athletics.

Interest/hobbies- Golf and Braaing

My sporting Hero is Allan Donald

Favorite quote: Never give up.

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Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
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Armidale, Australia
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From Father Andrew Davis (#354) this lovely story which is so representative of Waratahs.

“A photo from today's Anzac Day ceremonies in Armidale. Dad (Rod Davis - pictured right) with Ron Woods (#610 - pictured left), former Armidale police chief and father of Andrew (#607).
While not a playing member, Dad fielded once or twice for WCC when we found ourselves short, including (infamously) in a 1st grade game at Lambert when we were unexpectedly down a man. Following our ask for assistance and having gone home to get his old creams and boots, his on-field exploits included dropping a shin-high catch at shortish square leg.
He was pretty grumpy for the rest of the day, including when at the pub, having being urged to have a beer with the boys after the day's play - not aided by Tim Muldoon (#296) ribbing him continually knowing he was grumpy. Dozer of course had known Dad for many years since Tim and I had gone to school together and, suffice to say, Dad knew Tim's humour.
When I travelled down to last year's reunion, I did ask Dad if he remembered filling in - response, "I should have taken that bloody catch". 🙂”

We just love to hear and post these stories. Please, if you have a Waratahs yarn, send it to thetahs@gmail.com

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Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Charles Kelleway was born in Lismore and played in 26 Test matches for Australia in the years 1910 to 1928. He initially made his name with New South Wales, before starting his Test career when South Africa first visited Australia in 1910. A very sound batsman, invaluable for opening the innings or facing a crisis, he possessed unlimited patience combined with a limited but effective range of shots. His bowling, by contrast, was lively and animated. Tall, with a loping run and high delivery, he bowled with good length and swerve. He seldom bowled two balls from the same angle, and he troubled the best batsmen.

Charles first played against England in the 1911 season, when the team captained by P. F. Warner won four of the five Tests. Kelleway’s best effort in eight innings was 70 and six wickets cost him 41.50 apiece; but coming back to England in 1912 he made 360 runs in six Test matches, with 114 at Manchester and 102 at Lord’s.

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Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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In the writing of my book “A Cricket Club at War”, many of the facts of the war were provided by Gordon cricketer Clifford Mervyn Geddes. The main reason for this was that Cliff kept a record of events in his diary which is available to download from the State Library.

Cliff’s story was one of the exceptional ones during the First World War as he was one of the first to enlist, landed on April 25 at Gallipoli after his boat was sunk, was sent home with a heart problem in January 1916 and returned to the Western front in October 1917, where he saw out the war until his return home in June 1919.

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Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Richard Stobo made his first grade debut for Gordon Cricket Club during the 1983/84 season and went onto take 396 first grade wickets at an average of 21.18. His best figures was 7 for 20 and he took 5 wickets or more in an innings on an incredible 24 occasions.

Richard made his first class debut for NSW during the 1989/90 season and played 6 first class games and two one day games for the Baggy Blues.

A highly skilled and tireless fast bowler Richard thrived on the competitive battle and played in an incredibly strong era of cricket in NSW.

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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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When Charlie Crispo and Allen Cooper walked onto Hurstville Oval on 27 September 1919, the warm greeting they received from the crowd was not simply for the beginning of a cricket match. The “Diggers”, led by Wally Louden, were an XI made up of members and ex-members of the St George DCC who had been on active service during the First World War. At 4pm, play was adjourned for the unveiling of the St George DCC roll of honour. The roll contained the names of members of the club who had served their country in the terrible conflict. Not all of them had returned home. The honour roll has since been lost, however, efforts are now being made by the club to produce an honour roll to commemorate the service of these men, as well as those who served in other conflicts whilst playing with the club.

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South Brisbane District Cricket Club
South Brisbane District Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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Alan MARSHAL

Born – 12/06/1883, Warwick

Enlisted – 19/10/1914 (30 years of Age)

Service number 163

First Grade Number 14

Served with the 15th Battalion in Gallipoli as a Private.The Club’s first premiership came in 1900-1901 when the Club won the First Grade Premiership.

No doubt the most outstanding player for South Brisbane in the early years was Alan Marshal who in 1904/05 scored 221 runs for South Brisbane against Nundah. This score stood as the highest individual score until it was surpassed by Glenn Trimble who scored 230 n.o. against Wynnum-Manly in 1986-87. He was a tall man, standing at 6ft 3.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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When wicketkeeper Alan Campbell completed a massive 58 1st Grade dismissals behind the stumps in 1981-82 he broke his own record set the previous year by an impressive 17 wickets. And while the official Sydney Grade Cricket record was 64 set by Bill Englefield from Northern District in 1942-43, it was recognised that that feat was established in a season of one-day matches. The Randwick club claimed that Campbell’s performance had never been matched before in predominantly two-day match competitions and should be considered the new record. It was a claim beyond argument.

Alan Campbell came to Randwick in 1979-80 after six seasons with Sutherland.

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Valley District Cricket Club
Valley District Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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Chris Lanagan made his first-grade debut for Valley District Cricket Club in 19894-95 and is the proud owner of first grade cap number 621.

A right arm swing bowler Chris took 210 first grade wickets at an average of 24.24. He took 138 wickets at 27.16 in two-day cricket and 72 wickets at 18.65 in one day cricket.

In all formats Chris took 395 wickets for Valley DCC.

Chris plays veterans’ cricket in Queensland and was a member of the successful Queensland team that won the Over 50s Division One national Championships in Melbourne in December 2023.

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Phil Marks
Phil Marks
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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My Best Grade team - Phil Marks 1979 to 2000

I played first grade from 1979 to 2000 across three clubs, Manly, Balmain and North Sydney. I played with some wonderful cricketers and had real trouble narrowing it down to eleven. Starting my career as an allrounder I’ve picked 4 of them in this side for variety to cover all conditions. Plenty of runs in the top and middle order, fire power and subtlety with the ball and natural talent in the field.

1. Greg Hayne - Balmain

Boris was an opening bowlers nightmare, very organised with an uncomplicated technique. Punished the new ball bowlers if they missed their spots and loved batting for long periods. Amazing Premier cricket batting numbers.

2. Scott Hookey – North Sydney

Devastating hard hitting batter with an attitude to match. Loved a scrap with the bowlers and started many, most of which he won.

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