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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Western Suburbs can lay claim to 33 Test Internationals passing through the gates of Pratten Park and playing for the Magpies…

20 of these International Players represented Australia while active as a Western Suburbs Player and, remarkably, two Angus Fraser and Monty Panesar were selected for England while in the Wests ranks.

Mitchell STARC, who debuted in Wests First Grade in 2007, continues to spearhead the Australian attack.

However, it all started in March of 1877, in the First Test match in Melbourne, when Tom GARRETT debuted at age 18 years and 232 days…which still makes him the youngest representative to play for Australia against England. Tom was educated at Newington College while the School was still at ‘Newington House’, in the Sydney suburb of Silverwater.

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Paul Ryan
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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At the completion of the 2024-25 Premier Cricket season around Australia which premier cricket club across the states playing first class cricket will be able to claim to be the best first grade premiership winning cricket club in the first 25 seasons of this century.

A quick review around the states since the 2000-01 season and there’s been 138 premier premierships won by 59 premier cricket clubs across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, and Queensland.

The premier premierships are for the two- or four-day grand finals and don’t include one day premierships.

There are 88 premier cricket clubs around Australia, so it means 29 clubs have not won a first-grade premier premiership since 2000-01 or longer.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1643/which-premier-cricket-club-in-australia-will-win-the-most-first-grade-premierships-in-the-first-25-seasons-of-this-century
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Georges River District Cricket Club
Georges River District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Bruce Whitehouse has made an immense contribution to cricket on and off the field as a player, administrator and umpire.

Bruce was awarded Life Membership of George River Cricket Club in 1993/94, he’s a former President of the club and has been inducted as a Blue Bag legend

Who played the best innings you’ve seen firsthand playing with or against?

I saw a fantastic dig umpiring by Josh Clarke playing for Wests against Sutherland in 2019/20 where he scored a chanceless 176.

In 4th grade last year in the semi final Sydney Univeristy managed 4 for 315 and declared. Day 2 saw Sutherland 6 for 31 before lunch needing to hang on for a draw to go through to the final. Skipper James Hawksworth batted out the day remaining unbeaten on 110 with Sutherland ending on 9 for 231 and booking a spot in the final. An amazing dig!!

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NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The top 20 runs scorers and wicket takers in the history of NSW Premier Cricket

The team at Cricket NSW and NSW Premier Cricket do a magnificent job in maintaining an incredible database of information and historical statistics for all performances in NSW Premier Cricket and Sydney Grade Cricket.

Let’s take a look back at the statistics in the history of NSW Premier Cricket with the database updated as at the completion of the 2022-23 season.

Pictured - Greg Mail and Hugh Chilvers

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1642/the-top-20-runs-scorers-and-wicket-takers-in-the-history-of-nsw-premier-cricket
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NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 14 1990-91 season - 23 February and 2 March 1991

Pictured - Michael Bevan who scored an unbeaten 164 not out for Campbelltown in their 4 wicket win over Mosman at Rawson Oval.

Mosman declared 9 for 369 was run down by Campbelltown scoring 6 for 373 off 88.5 overs

In a CricConnect interview with Mosman Scott Jacobson he was asked “Who played the best innings you’ve seen firsthand with or against?

"Michael Bevan belted us to all parts of Rawson Oval scoring 160 playing for Campbelltown. We had a great attack led by Greg Rowell, Gary Bensley, Dudley Slater, Phil Clune and Andrew Martyr and reached the final that year

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Paul Maraziotis was one of the finest batters in NSW Premier Cricket to sadly not be selected to play for class cricket for his state. There are 11,660 First Grade runs, 23 hundreds, 61 half centuries reasons over 21 seasons at an average of 37.49 to suggest he must’ve been very close.

Mazza played 366 innings for Penrith, Bankstown, Blacktown and Sydney and is well placed in the top 10 NSW Premier Cricket Run Scorers of all time. At the time of publication, he sits at No.8.

Born September 1974. Mazza made his first grade debut for Penrith at the age of 18. He played for NSW Under 19’s the following year and lined up against future stars like Ricky Ponting, Michael Divenuto, Andrew Symonds, Brad Hodge, Martin Love just to name a few.

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CricConnect Stories
CricConnect Stories
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sometimes you hear snippets of information and think that’s gold, there’s a tale to be told.

The names Lillee and Marsh are synonymous with Australian cricket. Two Australian cricketing legends welded together as a combination as batsman were “Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee”.

But where did it all start, and here’s the great cricket trivia question.

Who was the first batsman in first-class cricket to be “Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee?”

It happened on 2 November 1969 in a Sheffield Shield game at The Gabba between Western Australia and Queensland.

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Boneo Cricket Club
Boneo Cricket Club
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
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For well over 40 years as a player, umpire and commentator Neil Williams has made a tremendous contribution to cricket within the Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association.

Tell us briefly about your cricketing journey?

3 clubs. As I mentioned Blackburn South, where I captained the Under 16s, we played in a Grand Final against Warrandyte; they were too good for us. I had three years of seniors, firsts and seconds. Playing in a Premiership in C1 (third division of first elevens) in Reporter District; mainly on matting.

When my parents moved to Mt Eliza in 1969, I was across the road from Howard Parker Oval, where Mt Eliza had its home ground. I ended up playing for them for 12 years. We were a very strong club, and I was fortunate enough to play finals every year and a few premierships in the seconds.

In 1980 I decided to reduce travel as I was living in Cape Schanck, so I went to Boneo, where I spent over 20 years (punctuated by 8 or 9 seasons of umpiring in the MPCA)

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