Trevor Chappell Reflects on Playing at Chatswood Oval
Gordon District Cricket Club | November 11, 2025
Trevor Chappell played with the Gordon DCC from the 1980-81 season until the end of the 1984-85 season. He scored 1095 runs in First Grade during that time at 35.52 and took 32 wickets at 23.91. His fielding was outstanding. It was whilst he was at the club that he was selected for New South Wales and Australia. Following his retirement, he returned to the club and coached both the women’s and men’s team giving much from his playing and coaching days.
“On one occasion at Chatswood Oval during a T20 match a ball was hit over the Trumper Pavilion out of the ground with the ball possibly landing on the railway line. Seeking to recover the ball I hurried in the direction of where it had gone. I climbed up the 10 foot retaining wall that ran along the edge of the oval and could not see the ball. I then walked along the top of the grandstand again without success. I was in a precarious position with nowhere really to go when I heard a girl who was sitting in the stand with her friends say, “Are you alright?” She thought I was going to jump onto the railway tracks. I told the girls what I was doing and thanked them for their concern. The ball was not located, and no, I would not jump onto the tracks no matter the state of a Gordon cricket match.”
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I took my first 1st grade wicket (Marshall Rosen lbw) at Chatswood Oval. When the new batsman came in the the skipper said to toss the ball up to him. he can't hit. As the ball disappeared onto the railway tracks, I looked at the skipper who said "Hmm, didn't know he could do that.
Another game we played at Chatswood Oval had the first day abandoned because burning cinders from bushfires were landing on the ground. The second day was abandoned because the ground was flooded.