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Career Report: Steve Colley
Tenure: 2006 – 2020
Primary Role: Top-Order Batsman / First Grade Captain

Steve Colley is widely regarded as one of the finest modern-era batsmen and leaders to wear the baggy red and green of the Stags. Over a highly decorated 12-season senior career at Gordon, Colley developed from a prolific junior academy product into an elite First Grade captain and representative player.

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Darren Wotherspoon 2005/06 season

Following the departure of Matthew Phelps in 2003, Manly experienced a period of instability at the top of the batting order that persisted for several seasons. In preparation for the 2005/06 campaign, the club moved to address this gap by recruiting accomplished top-order batsman Darren Wotherspoon from Norths.

A product of the Central Coast, Wotherspoon brought with him an impressive junior representative résumé, including selection in the Australian Cricket Academy. He subsequently established himself in Sydney Grade cricket and earned representation in the NSW Second XI.

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Jack O’Donoghue was one of those pugnacious cricketers who simply loved grade cricket. A loyal clubman to his core, a right-hander who opened the batting with determination, grit and a propensity to ‘give the ball a whack’, whether playing in First or Second grade, regardless of the pitch conditions.

A Popular and enthusiastic bloke, he represented Central Cumberland for almost a quarter of a century, from 1929/30 to 1951/52.

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Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club

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Manly Warringah 1947-48 First Grade team

The season marked a significant milestone for the club, with the First Grade side finishing fourth—its strongest result in 25 years and a clear indication of renewed competitiveness at the top level.

A notable highlight was the arrival of international cricketer Keith Miller.

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Melbourne, Australia

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Congratulations to Fitzroy Doncaster CC stalwart Jeff Harvey, who was awarded The Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the recent King’s Birthday Honours. Jeff’s award was for community service to a range of organisations. His service covers an extraordinary number of organisations, including St Vincent de Paul Society for over 45 years, the Rotary Club of Hastings Westernport, Salvation Army (assisting with Rotary projects), St Anne’s Catholic Church Seaford, Chelsea Baseball Club, a number of schools, and several cricket clubs, including Fitzroy, Fitzroy Doncaster, Prahran, Frankston Peninsula, Oakleigh and Baxter.

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Cumberland District Cricket Club – 3rd grade Premiers 1973-74 (now Parramatta).

Back Row – G. Storey, J. Dwyer, Mrs. P. Dwyer (Scorer), J. Aitken, M. Wood.

Front Row – A. Appathurai, R. Stevens, L. Renshaw, J. Affleck, I. Gibbs.

Absent – K. McDonald, M. Haire, G. Green

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Penrith Cricket Club

Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club

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Penrith Cricket Club’s Brewer Shield of 2011-12: A debut season to remember

Penrith’s Brewer Shield team made a stunning entrance into the SCA Women’s Competition in their debut season, capping an undefeated campaign with two premiership shields and the prestigious Spirit of Cricket Award.
The team’s formation began in the off-season when a group of eight players and their parents met to discuss entering the competition. To gain entry, the club was required to meet several criteria, including a minimum squad of 15 with 75% of players new to grade cricket.

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Brisbane, Australia

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Photo of the 1999-2000 Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club Limited Overs premiership winning team

Back Row - Keith Davis (Coach), Nigel Cummings (Manager), Troy Rafton, Michael Dann, Justin Poole, Chris Simpson, Scott O'Leary, Robert Smith, David Poole (President)
Front Row - Ryan Broad, Ken Healy, Scott Prestwidge (Captain), Boyd Williams, Ryan Poole, Ian Duncan
Absent: Stuart Law, Adam Dale

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Kye Thornley is a tall, strapping young right-arm fast bowler who possesses that most-sought-after attribute – raw pace. He is a novice young cricketer with a bright future beckoning. In the brief timeframe since his NSW Premier Cricket debut in 2021/22 he has already been a member of a First Grade Belvidere Cup winning team.

Kye’s ascent to date has been quite remarkable. He only made fleeting appearances in Parramatta’s A.W. Green Shield team over two seasons – 2019/20 and 2020/21 – for the sum of 7 runs @ 7.00 and 2 wickets @ 22.67 – figures that provide little indication as to how well he was deemed to rise in the next few seasons.

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UTS North Sydney First Grade 2025/26 season wrap.

There are seasons defined by silverware, and seasons defined by something harder to put on an honour board — and 2025/26 was, for the UTS North Sydney First Grade unit, a season of the second kind. We finished tenth of twenty in the Belvidere Cup and bowed out of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup at the pool stage, and yet this was a summer rich in individual brilliance, in the blooding of the next generation, and in the kind of fine margins that, had a few fallen our way, would have told a very different story.

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Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club

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Manly Warringah strong showing in the 1943-44 Green Shield season

During the 1943/44 Green Shield competition, Manly delivered a commendable performance, finishing third after an impressive period in which the club had held the Shield for two consecutive seasons. Although unable to secure a third straight title, the team maintained a high standard of play across both batting and bowling.

Manly’s batting unit proved productive throughout the season, compiling a total of 1,208 runs for the loss of 72 wickets, resulting in a team average of 16.77. In comparison, their opponents managed 1,092 runs but lost 109 wickets in the process, averaging just 10.00—an indication of Manly’s effectiveness with the ball.

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Brisbane, Australia

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Wynnum Manly District Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1981-82

Back Row – Peter Monaghan, John Maguire, Mark Gaskell, John Hamill, Carl Rackemann, Ian Martin, Glen Cohen, Ian Kelly, Ian Moore, Ian Gallagher.

Front Row) – Noel Gorman (President), Alan Jones, Wayne Broad, John Bell, Greg Ritchie, Bill Albury, Katie (scorer)

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Ross Elliot joined us in 2019-20 as a 23-year-old from Geelong City Cricket Club, moving to the Harbour City to study for a Master of Finance degree at University of NSW. He made his debut with the club in 3rd Grade, scoring 140 runs with his best score 36 from nine matches. He also held six catches receiving a comment from his skipper Ben Stares that he “had the best set of hands that I have ever played with”. He held another nine the following season when he headed the 3rd Grade batting with 232 runs with a top score of 79.

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Gervys Rignold Hazlitt – A Scholarly Cricketer

Gervys ‘Gerry’ Hazlitt was born on 4th September 1888 at Balmain in Sydney and died 30th October 1915 at Parramatta. Never having a robust constitution, he died of heart disease at the young age of 27 years whilst walking in the grounds of The Kings School where he was employed as a School Master.

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Beginning his association with Manly in 1943, Jimmy Burke went on to enjoy an extraordinary career with the club that spanned more than three decades, concluding in 1974. During this time, he amassed 7,404 runs at the remarkable average of 43.81, underlining both his consistency and class as a batter. His tally included 14 centuries, further highlighting his ability to convert strong starts into significant innings.

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Penrith Cricket Club

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Penrith Cricket Club 2017-18 Metropolitan Cup Premiers

By Peter Tracey

To win a competition after using 32 players throughout the season is a testament to the strength of the club's junior base and is a great sign for the club in the years ahead. With the club having a large number of players unavailable at times during the year, the Metro boys never really had the same team two games in a row. Some weeks, the side had 6 or 7 new players in it.

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Ash Burton is an inspirational cricketer. He has all the attributes to inspire. He is dedicated, loyal, patient, committed, enthusiastic and talented. And apart from all that, he is a real team man who works hard on his game, rolls with the punches and enjoys the successes which inevitably follow.

On Saturday 18 October 2025, in the round 4 match against Mosman at Allan Border Oval, he was in the 1st Grade lineup. It was his 62nd match in 1st Grade and 45th in the principal Belvidere Cup competition.

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney

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George Cranney was an unassuming and modest man his record of service for the club was peerless – for such a long time he was the heart and soul of the Central Cumberland District Cricket Club.

He made a ‘priceless’ contribution to Cumberland (Parramatta) over a fifty year timeframe.

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