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Newtown Cricket Club Dubbo Dubbo

Dubbo, NSW, Australia

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Stuart Webster made his first class debut for NSW in 1972 and played 23 games for the Baggy Blues.

He scored 1,215 runs at an average of 28.92 including a century on debut and 6 half centuries.

He was a member of Western Suburbs premiership winning teams in the early 1970s and has made a tremendous contribution to cricket in Western NSW especially Orange and Dubbo.

In Orange, the Western Zone Trophy for the Under 17s is played for the Stuart Webster Trophy.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/862/newtown-cricket-club-dubbo-dubbo/blog/782/stuart-webster-never-give-your-wicket-away

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St Kilda Cricket Club

Melbourne, Australia

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Photo of the 2016-17 St Kilda Cricket Club 3rd Grade premiership winning team after defeating Geelong by 235 runs in the final

Back Row - Ed Faulkner, Joel Murphy, Matt Stevenson, Will Taylor, Matt Hennig, Jackson Noske, Nick Bailey, Jim Cowie, Glenn Lalor (Coach).

Front Row - Jack Cunnington, Cal Rayner, Perry Colyer (Captain), Jackson Cooper, Nick Sloan, Lucas Meddings

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St Kilda Cricket Club

Melbourne, Australia

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Shaun Graf made his first grade debut for St Kilda Cricket Club during the 1976/77 and for the next 24 seasons forged a tremendous career playing first grade district cricket in Victoria and Western Australia, first class cricket in both states and played 11 one day international for Australia. He was named in the Australian Test team for the 2nd Test Australia v New Zealand and the 1st Test Australia v India in 1980/81 but was 12th man for both Tests

A highly talented all-rounder Shaun played 243 first grade games scoring 4,200 runs at 32.06 including 3 centuries and 17 half centuries. With the ball he took 382 wickets for Saints at 21.03 and took 5 wickets or more in an innings on 13 occasions.

Shaun had three seasons with Frankston Peninsula CC and took 52 wickets at 26.73 and scored 891 runs at 24.08.

All up in first grade cricket in Victoria Shaun took 434 wickets at 21.72 including 15 five wicket hauls, scored 5,091 runs at 30.30 and hit 3 centuries and 21 half centuries. He also took 147 catches.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/282/st-kilda-cricket-club/blog/148/shaun-graf-be-in-the-game

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Bankstown District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Bankstown District Cricket Club Limited Overs Premiers 1995-96

Back Row – Alan Campbell (Coach), Trent Woodhill, Greg Trevena, Nathan Bracken, Danny Waugh, Scott Grant, Brian Freedman (President)

Middle Row – Eris Dignam (Manager), Mark Waugh, Shane Deitz, Kevin Roberts, Steve Waugh, Marty Klump (Secretary)

Front Row – Wayne Holdsworth, Ken Hall, Steve Small, Dean Waugh (Captain), Brett Elliott, David freedman, Scott Thompson

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Joe Maiorana

Sydney, Australia

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Heavenly birthday legendary Richie Benaud
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He was an Australian cricketer who, after his retirement from international cricket in 1964, became a highly regarded commentator on the game.
Test career: 2201 runs @24.45 with 3 hundreds and 9 fifties & 248 wickets @27.03 with 16 five wicket hauls and 1 ten wicket haul, strike rate 77.0 (63 matches).
FC career: 11719 runs @36.50 with 23 hundreds and 61 fifties & 945 wickets @24.73 with 56 five wicket hauls and 9ten wicket hauls, strike rate 64.0 (259 matches).
Benaud was a Test cricket all-rounder ,
blending leg spin bowling with lower-order batting aggression. Along with fellow bowling all-rounder Alan Davidson , he helped restore Australia to the top of world cricket in the late 1950s and early 1960s after a slump in the early 1950s. In 1958 he became Australia's Test captain until his retirement in 1964.
* Best Test bowling average for an overseas spinner in Asia- 19.32 (minimum 30 wickets).
* First player reach 200 wickets and 2000 runs in Test Cricket, achieved this feat in 1963.
* Joint 4th best win/loss ratio as captain in Test Cricket- 3.00 (minimum 25 Tests as captain).

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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 9 1990-91 season - 29 December 1990 and 5 January 1991

Pictured - Wayne Mulherin who bowled 35 overs 14 Maidens and took 2 wickets for 53 runs for Petersham in their drawn game against Northern District

Mulherin was in tremendous form as he'd taken 5 for 11 off 18 overs in the previous round against UNSW and in round 7 against Campbelltown he took 4 for 4 of 14.5 overs. Incredible bowling figures.

Interesting to note there was no Christmas - New Year break with day one on the last Saturday of 1990 and day two on the first Saturday in 1991

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1576/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-9-1990-91-season-29-december-1990-and-5-january-1991

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Paul Ryan

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Like most Jay Kangar fell in love with cricket at a very early age and he just wanted to be on the field.

He batted and bowled. He was the wicket-keeper and if his team was batting he was happy to the umpire.

At 27 he traded the white pants in for a black pair and became an umpire in Queensland Premier Cricket.

What advice would you offer a young 20-year-old who has the ambition of umpiring Test Cricket?

Patience as it’s a long way to the top to umpire Test matches and ask as many questions as you can to learn as much as possible.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1575/jay-kangur-always-wanted-to-umpire

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Chris McLean

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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My best grade team - Chris McLean 1990s - 2000s

We played a very aggressive brand of cricket and were very successful. We definitely won a lot of games that we should not have purely through the “mental disintegration” side. It certainly did not encourage sportsmanlike behaviour. I think they made me captain one year just because I could deal with the judiciary better than other guys in the team…

The team is definitely biased toward the Sandgate players because we won so often and those who played well against us consistently over those years. There are heaps of players who got me out for fun who are not in this team - Brett Boardman, Rendle O’Connell, Sticks Argent, Darin Turner, Brett Henschell… it is a long list - and Gators who were instrumental to our success like Paul Pink, Brett Mortimer, Murray Kent, Trent Ryan and Jon Isoardi.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1242/chris-mclean/blog/1574/my-best-grade-team-chris-mclean-1990s-2000s

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, Australia

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Lee Kirk made his first grade debut for Waverley Cricket Club during the 1991-92 season. Waverley Cricket Club is now known as Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club,

From 1991 to 2007 Lee scored 5,320 first grade runs at an average of 24.85 and hit 5 centuries and 27 half centuries.

Lee was awarded the tremendous accolade of being nominated in the top 50 players for Waverley/Eastern Suburbs team of 125 years.

Lee Kirk is Waverely/Easts first grade player number 550 and is a very proud Life member of the Club

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/319/eastern-suburbs-cricket-club-sydney/blog/563/lee-kirk-never-took-a-backward-step

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Mid North Coast Veterans Cricket

Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

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There are 7 members of this team who are either currently playing MNC Vets Cricket (Rob Relf, Scott Allardice, and Tim Fraser) or will play MNC Vets Cricket in the near future (Anthony Relf, Matthew Bowden, Stacey Groves and Matthew Cranfield).

The Coach, Noel "Log" Monro is a Gloucester local, and he watches the MNC Vets Cricket tournaments through the Gloucester Bowling Club window.

Below is a recent facebook post by Noel "Log" Monro regarding our Gloucester curator Ken "Swampy" Garland:

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/955/mid-north-coast-veterans-cricket/blog/1571/gloucester-high-schools-1985-under-14s-cricket-regional-champions

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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David Chardon made his first grade debut for Petersham Marrickville Cricket at the age of 16 during the 1967-68 season and went on to become one of the greats of Sydney Grade Cricket,

In a career spanning 1967 to 1990 David Chardon took 793 wickets at an average of only 19.67 and took 5 wickets in an innings on 37 occasions. Incredibly David only played one first class game for NSW.

David is 8th on the list of all-time wicket takers in NSW Premier Cricket. In fact, the bowlers that sit above David are all spinners and that makes him the leading fast bowler in wickets taken in the history of NSW Premier Cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/353/david-chardon-never-give-up

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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 8 1990-91 season - 22 December 1990

Pictured - Barry Coad who scored 131 in Penrith 86 run win over North Sydney

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1566/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-8-1990-91-season-22-december-1990

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Western Suburbs Cricket Club has a very proud history on connecting with young cricketers making their way from the country regions to the big smoke of Sydney.

Since the 1970’s Gary Gilmour, Steve Rixon, Peter Toohey and the late Phillip Hughes have journeyed from the regional townships of NSW to join Western Suburbs and ultimately go onto the wear the Baggy Green and play Test Cricket for Australia.

There have also been several players go on to represent New South Wales and James Rainey Munro Mackay may well have been the first.

James, known as Sunny Jim Mackay because of his charming disposition and happy temperament was born in Northern NSW in Armidale in September 1880.

At a very early age, he built quite the reputation as an outstanding batsman and in 1900/01 season before moving to Sydney his scores included 104*, 128*, 108*, 200* and 65* - 605 runs without losing his wicket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/278/sunny-jim-mackay-western-suburbs-batting-genius-from-the-bush

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Hawkesbury Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Tom Decent made his first grade debut for Hawkesbury Cricket Club during the 2010/11 season as a 17 year old wicket keeping batsman.

In the season prior to making his first grade debut Tom had the good fortune of playing in the NSW Under 17 team with future Australian Test players Pat Cummins and Kurtis Patterson.

Tom retired from cricket at the age of 23 to concentrate on a journalism career where you can now find him on the other side of the boundary writing about cricket and other sports.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/466/hawkesbury-cricket-club/blog/672/tom-decent-loved-the-heat-of-the-battle

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Paul Ryan

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Kasturi Kolte lives in Pune, Maharashtra, India and has worked in IT for the past 15 years.

Kasturi is a very passionate sports fan and loves cricket. She has played in India and in the United Kingdom during her time studying in Birmingham.

Who were the best 2 batters you’ve played against?

Mithali Raj – She has always been an inspiration to the young and old and me when I started playing. She had the best technique with batting along with determination of scoring every time she came to bat.

Harmanpreet Kaur (Current captain of India) – played against her when she used to play for domestic cricket. She always carried a great confidence and the perfect body language required for a batsman. She had aggression in her batting which she maintained throughout making the bowlers nervous

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1565/kasturi-kolte-take-life-as-it-comes

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Kensington District Cricket Club

Adelaide, Australia

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On Friday 29th September 2023 at the Kensington District Cricket Club Brown Tie Ball at Adelaide Oval the club unveiled their Team of the Century and major contributors.

100 years of brown and gold history, success, and stories.

Congratulations to all award recipients and to the organising committee.

The Kensington District Cricket Club is deeply honored to announce Barry Nugget Rees as Team Manager for the Kensington Team of the Century.

Nug, we absolutely adore you and this club simply would not be the same without you. We are so grateful for your immense contributions over many years and can't wait to see you at the club soon.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/732/kensington-district-cricket-club/blog/1561/kensington-district-cricket-club-ndash-team-of-the-century

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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 7 1990-91 season - 15 and 16 December 1990

Pictured - Jeff Cook who scored 106 for St George in their drawn game against Sutherland at Hurstville Oval

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1559/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-7-1990-91-season-15-and-16-december-1990

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Joe Maiorana

Sydney, Australia

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Interviewer: Who else influenced your career?

Brian Charles Lara: Former West Indies opening batsman Joey Carew. When he saw me playing for the Fatima College junior teams, captained by his sons, he took keen interest in me, got me membership of Queen's Park, the island's strongest club team, and then monitored my development.

Apart from cricket, I was a good soccer player and wanted to win selection to the national youth training squad, but my father insisted that my future lay with cricket and persuaded me to stick to it.

When my father passed away in 1988, I was deeply hurt and then decided to make a lasting impression on the game.

I dedicated my 375 to his memory. But for my father, I would have been nowhere.

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Paul Ryan

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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On the 23 November 1985 I made my Sydney Grade Cricket debut playing for Western Suburbs 3rd Grade against North Sydney at Blick Oval. 109 runs and a win and life in Sydney was off to a good start. 8 days prior I’d finished the HSC in Armidale in Northern NSW.

Next game we played Northern District at Blick, and I was run out for 27 and it was my last game at Blick Oval.

But now 38 years later I’m back baby.

Tomorrow, round one of the 2023-24 NSW Premier Cricket season and I’ve got the privilege of skippering Western Suburbs 3rd grade against Hawkesbury at Blick Oval.

The past 2 seasons I've captained Western Suburbs 2nds and now I’m returning to where it all started.

I can’t be sure, but I really don’t think much has changed, a coat of paint in the dressing sheds perhaps.

Whilst the excitement and nervous energy of starting a new season is not as high as it once was, it’s great to be still playing and hopefully contributing.

The game is a lot younger these days and why I believe it’s so important to have as many experienced players as possible supporting and helping the youngsters.

It’s terrific to see several players in their 50s out on the park, challenging themselves and guiding the youngsters.

Tony Clark at Bankstown, Phil Melville at Northern District and Steve Wark at St George are incredibly into their 5th decade of continual grade cricket. I, along with Simon Waddington at Manly, Brett James at Sutherland, Mark Lewis at Western Suburbs, Matt Lewis and Trevor Whittall at Campbelltown have all had a spell and returned. There may well be others in their 50s playing NSW Premier Cricket and apologise if I’ve missed including you. I also know of many others contributing greatly I country cricket NSW.

It starts again tomorrow. In 1985 I needed a Gregory’s to get to Blick. Hopefully the lads will stick around for a beer or soft drink after the game. Giddy up, cricket is back.

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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This fortnight Howzat Building Waratahs in History Q&A saw us speak with Robert Parkinson, a club member for 7 ½ years. Rob and his brother Sean moved down from Taree to play for the Waratah’s in 1989.

Rob and Sean have a unique record with Manly taking all 10 wickets between them on their debut in 5th Grade.

Rob has lived in Newcastle for the past 26 years. Rob plays in the Newcastle Grade cricket competition with his sons Will & Noah, they play for Newcastle City Cricket Club. Rob captained the 3rd grade team last season.

We sat down with the original “Parko” for a chat through his time at Manly.

https://manlycricket.com/waratahs-in-history-rob-parkinson

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