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Lindfield District Cricket Club

https://www.ldcc.com.au/

Lindfield, Australia

Lindfield District Cricket Club (LDCC) is a single club entity which warmly welcomes both Junior and Senior players to play social and competitive cricket.

Our juniors play across Sydney's North Shore in the NSJCA competition in which we have been very successful. We annually field approximately 40 teams.

The seniors play in the Sydney Shires competition and are a foundation club- since 1923. We field 6 grades as well as Over40s, Over50s, and Over60s.

We are currently openly recruiting across seniors and juniors. Register at the link above!

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Q: Written by Peter Fitzsimons and assisted by Greg Cook in "Fitz's Files" in the Sydney Morning Herald 10/02/2024

"Lindfield... A Great Test Proving Ground"

Last Friday, 20-year-old Shoaib Bashir made his Test cricket debut for England, against India, where he took four wickets.

Shoaib is English-born of Pakistani heritage and hadn’t even been born when teammate Jimmy Anderson started playing Tests. But last summer Shoaib was playing for Lindfield in the Shires competition, effectively Division Two Sydney cricket. “A great lad,” Lindfield official Greg Cook tells me. “We gave him a Saab with questionable roadworthiness. I had to meet up and jump-start it for him a few times.”

And he formed such friendships with the Lindfield team that three of them dropped everything to fly to India to be there and watch every ball. Gotta love this city.

*The three Lindfield lads visited Visakhapatnam, the site of the second test, and witnessed Shoaib's first Test wicket, Indian captain Rohit Sharma. While over there, the Lindfield boys met up with Shoaib and gave him a trophy, left behind on presentation day. Quite the journey!*

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https://www.smh.com.au/sport/why-manu-won-t-be-the-last-league-player-signed-by-french-rugby-20240209-p5f3n5.html

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Shoaib Bashir- Lindfield Cricketer

Written by Peter Fitzsimons and assisted by Greg Cook in "Fitz's Files" in the ...

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Q: The Lindfield District Cricket Club was founded on the 18th July 1923 when a respected group of local Lindfield District residents met at the Chess Hall at Pacific Highway Lindfield and decided to create a cricket club for the enjoyment and advancement of cricket in the area. The idea had its genesis as a result of WW1 when local Lindfield males were engaged in the heat of battle on the fields of France. Such were the horrific circumstances of that engagement that these soldiers decided if they ever were able to return home they would create a cricket club so that their children and descendants could enjoy the simple pleasures of life, including playing the greatest game of all.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/809/lindfield-district-cricket-club/blog/738/lindfield-district-cricket-club-the-clubs-history

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Q: 10 runs to get, 6 balls to do it. I’m on strike as the rain whips into my face, through the metal grill of my helmet making it slightly difficult to see the ball. Its dark, wet, and 13 players and 2 umpires tough it out for one more over. But for me, I’ve had one of the greatest moments on the cricket field already. I opened the batting with my old man. We walked out together with the task set in front of us, ready to take on the world. While we enjoyed a solid 50-run partnership, I also had the extra privilege of seeing him get out before me. The result of the game didn’t matter to me because I was the happiest a cricketer ever could be. No century or five wicket haul could ever compete with the feeling of playing cricket with the person who introduced you to the game twenty odd years ago.

As a young cricketer, I grew up under the coaching of my dad who threw the ball to me while I tried to play my best Ricky Ponting hook shot, or my sharpest Michael Clarke cover drive

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/809/lindfield-district-cricket-club/blog/1511/out-caught-mccallum-bowled-mccallum

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OUT! Caught McCallum Bowled McCallum

10 runs to get, 6 balls to do it. I’m on strike as the rain whips into my face, through the metal grill of my helmet making it slightly difficult to see the ball. Its dark, wet, and 13 players an ...

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Q: Celebrating 100 years at Lindfield Cricket Club

The Great War, as were named at the time, lost such a high percentage of boys and men that almost no Australian family or community was without grief. The story goes that local Lindfield men in the Somme promised each other that if they were fortunate enough to make it back home, they would band together to build a local cricket oval for their community’s recreation and leisure. That is as grassroots as it gets.

Seven esteemed local businessmen were photographed in three-piece suits amongst the eucalyptus in 1907. The North Shore rail line had opened in 1890 and now the post war subdivisions were creating East Lindfield

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/809/lindfield-district-cricket-club/blog/1100/celebrating-100-years-at-lindfield-cricket-club

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Celebrating 100 years at Lindfield Cricket Club

The Great War, as were named at the time, lost such a high percentage of boys and men that almost no Australian family or community was without grief. The story goes that local Lindfield men in the ...

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Lindfield District Cricket Club - the clubs history

The Lindfield District Cricket Club was founded on the 18th July 1923 when a respected group of local Lindfield District residents met at the Chess Hall at Pacific Highway Lindfield and decided to ...