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2 years ago

Flinders Cricket Club

Mornington, Victoria, Australia

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Dwayne Field is a multiple premiership winning player with 3 flags at Flinders Cricket Club and 2 at Heatherhill CC.

A tremendous ambassador for the club on and off the field Dwayne is a very proud Life Member of Flinders Cricket club.

Who are the two players you admired most in terms of skills and competitive spirit in the competitions you played?

Shane Beggs (Flinders) – most competitive I’ve played with or against. Hardest trainer I’ve seen (still now at 50). It’s no fluke why he has been one of the all-time MPCA greats!!

Matt Gale (Flinders) – for a guy to come back and play at this standard and just give his all every game shows great character. Makes his teammates better by just backing them in. Love his aggressive attitude on the field!!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1246/flinders-cricket-club/blog/1586/dwayne-field-be-yourself-and-have-fun

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2 years ago

Flinders Cricket Club

Mornington, Victoria, Australia

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Clint Munday epitomises the Australian spirit of getting back up and having a go.

He’s played all his cricket at Flinders Cricket Club. He’s played, he’s been an administrator and he’s an inspiration to many.

I became Flinders CC president in 2015/16 season and spent five seasons in that position, before I moved away from the area and it became too much of an effort to get to the club. From 1991 to 2020 I spent 27 years as either player or on the committee holding different positions. Also spent nine seasons on the MPCA board and coaching numerous junior representative sides and manager of the second Country Week side for six seasons.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1246/flinders-cricket-club/blog/1585/clint-munday-an-inspiration-to-all

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2 years ago

Scarborough District Cricket Club

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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Scarborough District Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1976-77

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2 years ago

Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club - WACA Under 17 Champions 2005-06`

Back Row - Joshua Lauren, Nicholas Allen, James Sansalone, Jason Hart, Patrick Donovan, Jarryd Morris, Stephen Hennessy.

Front Row - Graeme Allen (Coach), Luke Smailes, Stefan Collins (Vice Captain), Tim Monteleone (Captain), Anthony Murphy (Vice Captain, Perry Colyer, Frank Collins (Assistant Coach).

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2 years ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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On Saturday 17 September 2022 St George District Cricket Club celebrated their “Centenary of First Grade”

During the day St George First Grade hosted a NSW XI at Hurstville Oval.

Batting first NSW scored 238 and after losing two early wickets St George seemed to be cruising to victory with Blake Nikitaras scoring a century and Moises Henriques finishing with 91 not out.

However a big batting collapse saw the game go to the wire with St George scoring the winning runs at the death 9 wickets down.

During the lunch break the club unveiled a section of the boundary pickets where plaques commemorate all 467 first grade representatives in the clubs 100 years of 1st Grade.

Former Australian Test cricketer Murray Bennett and former St George District Cricket Club President proudly displays his First Grade Player No 247

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/1584/st-george-district-cricket-club-centenary-of-first-grade-celebrations

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2 years ago

Cricket Australia Community

Melbourne, Australia

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Australian Under 19 team 1988 - World Cup Winners

Back Row – Wayne Holdsworth, Brian McFadyen, Michael Collins, Alan Mullally, Brett Williams, Lachlan Ferguson, Darren Berry, Adrian Tucker

Front Row – Tim Bower, Joe Scuderi, Jack Potter (Coach), Stuart Law (Vice Captain, Geoff Parker (captain), Brain Taber (Manager), Huntley Armstrong, Darren Playle

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2 years ago

NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 9 1990-91 season - 12 and 19 January 1991

Pictured - Jamie Baker who scored 119 opening the batting for UNSW in their 90 runs first innings win over Penrith at Howell Oval

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1583/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-10-1990-91-season-12-and-19-january-1991

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2 years ago

Paul Ryan

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Dominic Thornley made his first class cricket debut for New South Wales in December 2003.

In a tremendous career Dominic played 83 first class and 100 one day games for NSW and must have been very close to Australian selection in both formats.

In the 2005/05 season Dominic scored 1,065 first-class runs at an average of 62.65 including 4 centuries.

In first-class cricket Dominic scored 5,166 runs at an average of 42.69 and hit 10 centuries and 29 half centuries. In one day cricket he scored 2,406 runs at 29.34 with 2 centuries and 15 half centuries.

With the ball Dominic took 56 wickets in first-class cricket and 52 in one-day cricket.

In NSW Premier Cricket from 1996 to 2013 Dominic scored 7,407 runs at 44.89 including 15 centuries and 43 half centuries. He also took 262 wickets.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/522/dominic-thornley-test-the-boundaries

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2 years ago

Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club 4th Grade Premiers 1984-85

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2 years ago

Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Brisbane

Brisbane, Australia

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club A Grade Premiers 1936-37

Back Row – T.K. O’Sullivan, D.L. Cox, G.G. Cook, C. J. Bryce, R.F.K. Rushbrook, N. E. Arthy, J.J. O’Sullivan
Front Row – T.R. Williams (Hon, Secretary), O.L. Cameron, R.A. Cummins (Captain), R. J. Hartigan (President), F.M. Brew (Vice-Captain), A Fisher, L. Smelt (Scorer)

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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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2 years ago

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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