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About Me

Richard Stobo

Teacher
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Played first class cricket for NSW and NSW Premier Cricket for Gordon District Cricket Club

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Q: I was fortunate to play under some terrific captains at representative and grade level, including Steve Waugh, Greg Dyer, Geoff Lawson, Phil Emery, Michael Cant, Darren Tucker, Marty Haywood, and others. Great as they were, however, there was none was better than Steve Day, at Gordon District Cricket Club.

Steve was a magnificent captain, and a great bloke. By the time he joined us in 1985, he had already successfully captained the NSW U19s and Northern Districts 2nd Grade (where, as a 21-year-old, he led a side with much older players to a Premiership).

Steve read the game superbly, was calm under pressure, tactically excellent, decisive, and – above all – understood and related to EVERY one of his players, both on and off the field.

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I was fortunate to play under some terrific captains at representative and grade level, including Steve Waugh, Greg Dyer, Geoff Lawson, Phil Emery, Michael Cant, Darren Tucker, Marty Haywood, and o ...
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Q: Gordon were playing Randwick at Coogee. Our opening bowler, Mark Aldridge (‘Needle’) was bowling to the great Richard Chee Quee. Needle had a short run but could bowl a really nasty short ball, and he did clean-up one or two blokes over the years. On this day, he sent one whistling past Cheek’s helmet. Needle followed through and had a word to Cheeks – I was at fine-leg and couldn’t hear it (I could never really understand what Needle was talking about at the best of times) but I got the gist that he didn’t rate Cheeks. I’m pretty sure that’s how Cheeks heard it as well.

What Cheeks did next was magnificent. He spun round to the stand and called for his white floppy hat. We had to wait while someone ran it out, and then ran Cheek’s helmet off. Needle was steaming by this time, and charged in to bowl another bouncer – of course – which Cheeks smashed out of the ground near the pavilion. Brilliant.