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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

Penrith cricket club represents the Penrith and Blue Mountains region in the NSW Premier Cricket Competition. The area is renowned for junior development and is one of Western Sydneys strongest teams. Penrith, Pride, Perseverance

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Q: Early heroes - Penrith Cricket Club

When Nepean played Lord Sheffield’s Englishmen some of the local ‘name’ players were William Peter Howell, known as ‘Bill’ or ‘Farmer Bill’, who would play for NSW and Australia; James Oatley Cleeve, who would play for NSW in an Inter-colonial match in 1882 v Victoria; and, the earliest recorded Nepean District player to play First-class cricket (1874), Edwin ‘Ted’ Evans.

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Early heroes - Penrith Cricket Club

When Nepean played Lord Sheffield’s Englishmen some of the local ‘name’ players were William Peter Howell, known as ‘Bill’ or ‘Farmer Bill’, who would play fo ...

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Q: Crown Jewels 1982-83

Happy 10th Anniversary! If it had been a wedding celebration it would have demanded tin, but the Club’s celebratory Decade in Grade brought home the silverware, the Crown Jewels of the NSWCA, the Sydney Smith Cup for winning the Club Championship and the Belvedere Cup for winning the First Grade Premiership, capping off the Club’s finest season in its short history.

There was more good news: Second Grade Semi-finalists, Third Grade Semi-finalists and Fourth Grade a win away from a Semi-final berth. Firsts won Team of the Year in The Sydney Morning Herald cricket awards. And, there were near misses: Graeme Beard and Ken Hall tied for third in the Herald’s Player of the Year; the Green Shield’s five wins and 30 points, one win from the Final, was the Club’s best result in this Competition

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Crown Jewels 1982-83

Happy 10th Anniversary! If it had been a wedding celebration it would have demanded tin, but the Club’s celebratory Decade in Grade brought home the silverware, the Crow ...

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Q: Penrith Cricket Club 4th Grade Premiers 1984/85

Back Row – Brett Howarth, Steve Richardson, Tony Dukes, John Saint, Darren Morris

Front Row – Chris Harper, Paul Thompson, Jon Llewelyn, Stuart Hogan, Mark Freeman, Andrew Williams

The Final was against Northern District, who had upset the Minor Premiers Wests in the other Semi-final. We therefore went in as No.1 team, handy in case of rain. The venue was Mosman’s ground, Rawson Oval. Jon Llewelyn remembers the Final as a real ‘heart stopper’. Penrith won the toss and fielded because there was some dew on an otherwise perfect batting pitch. It was a good call, for a while. “At 6/71 we could have been forgiven for feeling a bit cocky,” said Jon, who had most of the wickets. But, the tail wagged and they finished with 210. Bowling: Llewelyn 4/58, Mark Butler 2/36 and John Saint 2/66. Penrith at stumps were one run, none out. The hunt for the Cup resumed on Sunday morning, Jason Penrose and Tony Dukes at the crease, and, they were travelling smoothly until Tony nicked one; 1/34. Soon it was 2/49 and when Penrose, “poised and confident”, went for a well compiled 50, caught behind, we were 3/82

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Penrith Cricket Club 4th Grade Premiers 1984/85

Back Row – Brett Howarth, Steve Richardson, Tony Dukes, John Saint, Darren MorrisFront Row – Chris Harper, Paul Thompson, Jon Llewelyn, Stuart Hogan, Mark Freeman, Andrew Williams ...

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Q: Murray Rayner made his first grade debut for Penrith Cricket Club during the 1990/91 season and is the proud owner of the clubs first grade player number 111.

Murray was awarded the A.W Green Shield Player of the year award along with Geoff Sullivan in 1989/90 and in the same year won the Trevor Wholohan Fielding Award.

In 1991/92 Murray won the clubs Poidevin Gray player of the series award.

In all grades for Penrith Murray scored 3,080 runs and still holds the record for the most number of runs in a 2nd Grade season when he scored 899 runs in the 1992/93 season.

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Murray Rayner - it’s never as hard as it seems, play every ball and it will get easier

Murray Rayner made his first grade debut for Penrith Cricket Club during the 1990/91 season and is the proud owner of the clubs first grade player number 111.Murray was awarded the A.W Green ...

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Q: Paul Thomas - Penrith first grade cap No 79

When he retired Paul Thomas had taken 687 wickets for Penrith, the Club’s highest wicket-taker. We can add to that: took five-wickets-in-an-innings 28 times. But, these are just a beautiful set of numbers. It’s the character of the cricketer, and the patient manner in which he negotiated his career path, that makes ‘Thommo’ an ideal role model for aspiring young cricketers, especially spin bowlers. It was a pathway with the occasional bump. As a young boy he idolised the left-arm swing bowling of the great Australian all-rounder Gary Gilmour, and bowled it for St Dominics. “There was not a lot of power in my slight frame and Bob and I soon realised there was no future in it.”

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Q: Double Trouble - Penrith Cricket Club 1979 - 80

The First Grade made the Final again, a major achievement; but there was major disappointment too: not only was the Final lost, and heavily at that, in the Club Championship we dropped from sixth in the previous season to eleventh, reflecting a poor Second Grade result.

Thirds and Fourths both improved and, the Poidevin-Gray had its best result since inception. In the Green Shield, Richard Magin was outstanding, winning the Cricketers Club of NSW Award as best batsman of the Green Shield Series and was selected in the Combined Green Shield Firsts to play Country. Also at the youth level, the Club helped organise locally, and stage, a very successful schoolboys' knockout competition. The inaugural winners were St Marys High. Management hoped it would become an annual event with more teams.

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Double Trouble - Penrith Cricket Club 1979 - 80

The First Grade made the Final again, a major achievement; but there was major disappointment too: not only was the Final lost, and heavily at that, in the Club Championshi ...

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Q: Very tall, and rather gangly, Peter Clough could be a deceptively quick and bouncy fast-medium bowler. Because his action looked awkward, even ungainly, a tangle of arms and pumping legs, batsmen often underestimated the genuine threat his immaculate line and length posed. In 1978/79 he played for a Combined Universities team against the England touring team and struck the famous Geoff Boycott in the head with a bouncer.

His love of life made him a popular player. He had a ‘quickie’s’ streak of aggression likely to stir any opponent, but not always understood by umpires and officials. His team-mates called him ‘Wingnut’ (prominent ears) but for most of his time with Penrith he was simply ‘Goober’.

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Peter Clough - Penrith First Grade cap number 39

Very tall, and rather gangly, Peter Clough could be a deceptively quick and bouncy fast-medium bowler. Because his action looked awkward, even ungainly, a tangle of arms and pumping legs, batsmen o ...

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Q: When management decided in 1988/89 to create, and financially back, a Development Squad for local Junior players aged up to 15, it would train on Tuesday afternoons from May through to August at the St Marys Indoor Cricket Centre. In March, about 30 youngster’s trialled and a squad of 17 was chosen. Head coaches were John Rennie and John Benaud, assisted by other senior players. The immediate aim was to strengthen the AW Green Shield, but long term to unearth players with First-class potential. In other words, a cricket production line.

A stand-out feature of the Development Squad was its balance, which was based around the ‘mix’ of an Ashes Squad. John Benaud had recently been involved in the 1989 Ashes selection and he and John Rennie agreed it was worth trying—a mix of seven bowlers, pace and spin, a minimum of three batsmen with potential to open, five other batsmen, and two keepers. There had to be at least one wrist-spinner in the mix, and all-round potential was encouraged. The coaches also had regard for age; some of the boys were as young as 12, but it was felt they were physically and mentally strong enough to cope against the older boys. The first squad was: Jason Benton, Garry Sheen, Todd Marshall, Russell Holley, Geoff Sullivan, Jason Bishop, Ben Rennie, Scott Roseby, Daniel Abercrombie, Ken Thomas, Brian Starkey, Murray Rayner, Brett Leathen, Brad Astill, Michael Nicholls, Adam Bowyer, Caine Bracken.

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Q: Officially, he was Ralph James Clough MLA, but it was a rarity to find anyone who preferred Ralph to the more knockabout ‘Mick’. It was a throwback to his father, Michael Roland Gordon Clough—‘little Mick’. Mick Clough was a cricket lover from a cricket-loving family. His next greatest love was the Australian Labor Party. Those with ‘an eye for a cricketer’ thought him an enormous talent, a seriously dangerous right-hand batsman, but his early cricket career was limited because he lacked the discipline to make the most of his talent. “I preferred to go in search of good times,” he confessed to his sons Peter and David, when advising them on the best way forward in the game. A commonly-told family story recounts an offer from a Perth Grade Club “to come and play with our Second Grade team”. Mick rejected it to play Park cricket with the team from the Telegraphist’s Office—because they had a keg after every game.

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Mick Clough

Officially, he was Ralph James Clough MLA, but it was a rarity to find anyone who preferred Ralph to the more knockabout ‘Mick’. It was a throwback to his father, Mi ...

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Q: Back Row – Bob Clarence (Manager), Mark Gouldstone, Barry Coad, Scott Dickson, Greg Sheens, Glen Dixon, Tony Middlebrook

Front Row – Craig Tuckerman, Michael Wholohan, Peter Ryman, Trevor Bayliss (Captain), Paul Thomas, Stuart Hogan, Darren Morris

The Poidevin-Gray is, like its little brother the AW Green Shield, a quality Competition and one whose continuing strength is absolutely vital to preserving high standards in the Grade game. There were five rounds played in a 60/60 format; lose a match and it was pretty much sudden death. Very often, since the age restriction remains Under 21, PG teams can appear unbeatable on paper because they contain a large number of higher-Grade players.

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Penrith Cricket Club Poidevin Gray Premiers 1983-84

Back Row – Bob Clarence (Manager), Mark Gouldstone, Barry Coad, Scott Dickson, Greg Sheens, Glen Dixon, Tony MiddlebrookFront Row – Craig Tuckerman, Michael Wholohan, Peter Ryman, Trevor ...

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Q: This was a defining season in the Club’s young history, indeed a magical season! Four major events occurred:

The Club changed its name from Nepean to the ‘Penrith District Cricket Club’;
Penrith Rugby Leagues Club became our Major Sponsor;
Penrith City Council agreed to an Annual Grant of $11,000 to allow the Club to improve and better maintain Howell Oval and Cook Park.
the First grade won the Minor Premiership, then went on to win the Premiership!

It was the first occasion that any sporting team from the Penrith District had won a metropolitan First Grade Premiership in any sport.

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Panther Power - Penrith Cricket Club First Premiership 1978-79

This was a defining season in the Club’s young history, indeed a magical season! Four major events occurred:the Club changed its nam ...

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Q: Celebrating 50 years - Penrith Cricket Club team of the first half century

Saturday 8 October 2022 - What a brilliant night we had celebrating 50 years of our club!

What was evident last night through our guest speakers was how much playing for Penrith has meant to them and their families. We heard former first grade captains reflect upon their time with the club and talk about the importance of playing with their mates! So many fun stories and conversations continued into the early hours of the morning.

Michael Wholohan did a great job as MC highlighting the history of the club.

Congratulations to our club legends selected for the Penrith Cricket Club Team of the First Half Century! Each member's phenomenal record, achievements and contribution to the Club are inspirational and proudly represents the essence of our Penrith Club.

Could you Imagine turning up to Howell Oval on Saturday morning to face this very formidable team?

Congratulations to these fine cricketers!

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Q: Check out this late 1960s photo of Howell Oval

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Q: Penrith Cricket Club won the 2009-10 Poidevin Gray Shield after beating St George in the Final at Hurstville Oval on 14 March 2010.

St George finish on top of the ladder with Penrith one point behind.

St George won the toss and batted first to score 146 from their 50 overs. Blake Fitzgerald top scored with 43 while Damian Carroll made 40 not out.

Pat Cummins was the pick of the Penrith bowlers taking 3 for 35 from his 10 overs.

Penrith only needed 43 overs to score the winning runs with Jordan Silk top scoring with 58 and Tim Sutton scored 35.

Penrith only lost 4 wickets to take the champions title and it was the first Poidevin Gray Shield win since 2000/01.

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Q: Jordan Watson has come through the Cricket NSW Pathways and represented NSW Metropolitan Under 17s and 19s at National Championships.

A tall 6-foot 5-inch batter Jordan can bat anywhere from opening to the middle order.

Jordan has captained the Penrith Poidevin Gray team and after a couple of seasons in first grade he's looking forward to a rewarding and run scoring 2023-24 season.

Who is the best wicket keeper you’ve had the good fortune to play with?

Tyran Liddiard. Safe as houses

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Pocket Profile: Jordan Watson - Penrith Cricket Club

Jordan Watson has come through the Cricket NSW Pathways and represented NSW Metropolitan Under 17s and 19s at National Championships.A tall 6-foot 5-inch batter Jordan can bat anywhere from ...

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Q: Greg Sheens is Penrith first grade player number 88 after making his first grade debut against North Sydney.

A local junior Greg came through the grades at Penrith and has a wonderful historical connection to the club.

In 1983/84 Greg was awarded the Penrith Rookie of the Year award. In 1987/88 he was the clubs Poidevin Gray Player of the Year and in 1989/90 he won Penrith most outstanding all-rounder.

Greg took 226 wickets for Penrith across all grades.

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Greg Sheens - at least look like a cricketer

Greg Sheens is Penrith first grade player number 88 after making his first grade debut against North Sydney.A local junior Greg came through the grades at Penrith and has a wonderful histori ...

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Q: Paul Goldsmith is Penrith First Grade cap number 116 and he took 452 wickets at an average of 22.58 including 13 five wickets hauls. In all grades for Penrith he took 572 wickets at 22.43.

In 2018/19 Paul was awarded the Perce Hargraves Club Person of the Year Award and continues to make a significant contribution as President of Penrith Cricket Club.

Who was the best captain you had the good fortune to play with?

Easy one, Trevor Bayliss. It’s fairly obvious based on what he has achieved as a coach but he has such a great cricket mind and was always a step ahead of the batsman. He was big on getting players to think about their own game and made everyone a better player.

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Q: The Bayliss Factor - Penrith Cricket Club 1985 -86

Perhaps one day Trevor Bayliss would look back on this season as pivotal in what was to become an illustrious career. On his way to a 500-plus run summer he was selected in the NSW Colts (versus WA) and the NSW 2nd XI (versus Victoria), but the real indicator of the selectors’ opinion of him was his selection (with Steve Small) in a NSW XI to tour Zimbabwe. In those days Zimbabwe was a genuine emerging International opponent, not the cricketing and social basket case it would become by the turn of the century.

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The Bayliss Factor - Penrith Cricket Club 1985 -86

‘Go west young man’ was once the ringing demand of leaders keen to stir the pioneering spirit. Now, the New South Wales Cricket Association got the message and admitted three new Clubs to the S ...

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Q: Phil Blizzard - Penrith Cricket Club first grade player number 73

One of the useful factors in any bowling ‘balance’ set-up is the presence of a left-arm new ball bowler, either quick, a swing merchant, or both if you’re lucky.

Early on Penrith’s best were Ken Hall and Graeme Pitty, and in the lower Grades Steve Hider.

Tasmanian Phil Blizzard, wife Alice and daughter Rachel came to the Club on the back of a friendship with Steve Small, one forged when Steve was down south trying to break into the First-class scene. They liked it so much they stayed long enough to add two more to the family, Brendon and Stephen. (By coincidence Steve Small has a son, Brendon.) Long enough, too, for Phil to win a spot in the NSW Sheffield Shield team. But, as well as things went, life could never be good enough to satisfy Phil’s absolute love in life: a good fishing ground. Tasmania was ‘the only place’, and his stories about the size of the mud crabs and trout were legendary.

His early potential won him U/19 selection for Tasmania and he toured Sri Lanka with the Australian U/19 team. In maturity his pace was more medium than fast, but he could swing the ball in and away from the batsman. Ken Hall said: “What a great bowler. Many times the batsmen just didn’t know what he was doing”. He had that wonderful attribute of breaking the back of a batting order: in two seasons he six times took more than five wickets in an innings, the best 7/62 against Sydney. There was also the occasion when he took 6/13 against Campbelltown, who were 9/23 in reply to Penrith’s 179. Unbelievably, Phil failed to receive the umpires’ nomination for the player of the match. That went to an opposing batsman who was … seven not out!

He could bowl long spells in trying conditions and was a handy low-order batsman. For Penrith he scored 192 runs @ 17.45 and took 76 wickets @ 20.23; 13 catches. First-class (Tasmania/NSW): scored 569 runs @ 15.37, highest score 51 and took 63 wickets @ 40.44, best 4/62.

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Q: ON SAFARI: In June, 1992, at Trelawney in Zimbabwe, four ex-Penrith captains turned out for the Australian Old Collegians in a match against the locals.

They are (l to r) John Benaud, Tim Sullivan, Steve Kennaugh, (front) Ron Halse.

The tour would last two weeks, then continue for another three in England.

It was the catalyst for a social cricket bond between the Club and the AOC, which would endure into the future. Players like Luke Morrissey, Geoff Sullivan, Dale Turner, Rod Evans, Shane Stanton, Warren Buttigieg, Paul Goldsmith, Trevor Bayliss, Ryan Smith and Kevin Geyer toured mainly into NSW country areas to promote the game.

Typically the tour lasted a week, leaving by 16-seater Thrifty hire bus early on a Monday morning, playing three matches in relatively close centres (Mudgee, Orange, Dubbo, Cootamundra, Wagga, Armidale, Port Macquarie, Gloucester) and returning on a Friday.

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Q: Greg Douglas, newly-wed and seeking affordable housing, came to Penrith from the inner-city Club Western Suburbs, one famous for a tradition of uncompromising toughness practised by such names as Simpson and Wellham, Rixon and Toohey. When ‘Dougo’ arrived in the 1990/91 season he had been brushing shoulders with Dirk Wellham, once a successful NSW captain and Test batsman, and a cricketer notable for encouraging his team mates to engage opponents with a cold, steely eye, and, when appropriate, place a foot on the throat until condition is terminal. Dougo admired the philosophy, but applied it with more personality than his mentor.

He was instantly likeable, with twinkling eyes and a booming laugh, and built like a small tank, arms like hams, although when it became common knowledge that he sold Cadburys chocolates for a living a braver team mate called him “roly-poly”. He once confessed to eating so much chocolate it gave him a headache. In an Annual Report the President thanked him “for his efforts in organising soft drinks and confectionery for the canteen“.

Not too keen on this image—upon arrival, after half a season in Firsts, he had been appointed Second Grade captain and announced that “players need to take a long hard look at themselves, their cricket and their training”—Dougo went on a diet and dropped heaps of weight. “I’ve never eaten so many buckwheat pancakes in my life,” he told Tim Sullivan.

He brought a hard edge to the Seconds. Pre-season, he committed to wintry Sunday morning training sessions at Nepean High School. He worked individually with players, tweaked their games. Accordingly, his players loved playing with him and for him. He drove the team because he was always in the action. From beyond the boundary you’d hear ‘DOWN!’ in a bass roar from the slips as a drive scudded towards a fielder. Or, ‘CATCH!’ when it was in the air. He was an outstanding fielder anywhere, and possessed a flat, hard, accurate throw.

At three Clubs, Wests, Penrith and Balmain, from 1981/82 through 17 seasons, his career in First Grade was somewhat stuttering, perhaps one of those players selectors see as “never quite ‘there’”. Ironically his best First Grade season at Wests was 1989/90, the one previous to coming to Penrith, when he scored 487 runs @ 34.78. At Penrith, when he captained the Seconds for three seasons from 1991/92, he scored 1424 runs @ 31.64, and took 30 catches.

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Celebrating 50 years - Penrith Cricket Club team of the first half century

Saturday 8 October 2022 - What a brilliant night we had celebrating 50 years of our club!What was evident last night through our guest speakers was how much playing for Penr ...

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Greg Douglas - the enforcer

Image - Dougo the Enforcer. The famous front foot pull on show at Waitara, batting for Wests in the early 80s. Not pretty, but pretty effective.John Benaud likened Dougo’ ...

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Young Guns - Penrith Cricket Club 1991-92

When management decided in 1988/89 to create, and financially back, a Development Squad for local Junior players aged up to 15, it would train on Tuesday afternoons from May through to August at th ...

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That winning feeling – Geoff Sullivan

By Geoff SullivanAW Green Shield success led to my selection in the NSW U/17 team. I wa ...

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Penrith Cricket Club Poidevin Gray Premiers 2009-10

Penrith Cricket Club won the 2009-10 Poidevin Gray Shield after beating St George in the Final at Hurstville Oval on 14 March 2010.St George finish on top of the ladder with Penrith one poin ...

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Paul Thomas - Penrith first grade cap No 79

When he retired Paul Thomas had taken 687 wickets for Penrith, the Club’s highest wicket-taker. We can add to that: took five-wickets-in-an-innings 28 times. But, these are just a beautiful set o ...

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Stephen Kennaugh - all achievements come from hard work

Stephen Kennaugh is the proud owner of Penrith first grade cap number 100 and the first player in Penrith history to score 5,000 runs and take 300 wickets.In 1989/90 Stephen was joint winner ...

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Gary Donlan - touch opponent

Gary was a likeable rogue, a bit of a larrikin in every sense of the typically Aussie word. He played rugby league as a youngster, where he was a strong running centre with St Mary’s in the Metro ...

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Steve Frances - Penrith Cricket Club first grade player number 27

Steve Frances playing for NSW Army team v NSW Police at Victoria Barracks, Paddington in March 1987. He was caught behind off the bowling of former Penrith teammate, NSW Police Officer and Hawkesbu ...

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Luke Morrissey - concentrate on the process

Luke Morrissey is the owner of Penrith first grade player number 142 having made his debut during the 1998/99 season.A wicket keeping batsman Luke took around 450 first dismissals with the g ...

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Penrith Cricket Club 2nd Grade Premiers 1992-93

Back Row - Grant Parmenter, Peter Sredojevic, Phil Chie, Brett Wheeldon, Jason Conn, Andrew BennettFront Row - Matt Langdon, Da ...

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Penrith Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1982-83

Back Row - Graeme Beard, Ken Hall, Ian Monaghan, Graeme Pitty, Greg Monaghan; Front Row - Greg Gavin, Trevor Bayliss, Ian Davis (Captain), Graeme Thorpe; Insert - Gary Donla ...

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1987 Other Ashes Tour - Penrith Cricket Club

Image: Official business. Plate mementos all round upon arrival at ‘the other’ Penrith; ...

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Paul Goldsmith - understand your own game

Paul Goldsmith is Penrith First Grade cap number 116 and he took 452 wickets at an average of 22.58 including 13 five wickets hauls. In all grades for Penrith he took 572 wickets at 22.43.In ...

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Barry Coad - keep the ball on the ground

Barry Coad made his first grade debut for Penrith in 1983 and is Penrith first grade player number 71.At the completion of the 1982/83 Barry was awarded the John R Turk Trophy for the Rookie ...

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