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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Part 4 - The history of St George District Cricket Club 1951-52 to 1960-61

The St George District Cricket Club boasts a proud history which has now extended beyond a century.

When the club entered the first-grade competition in 1921-22, few could have predicted the success and prestige that would accompany it in the ensuing century. As the club celebrates its centenary of first grade across the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons there is an opportunity to celebrate many of the outstanding performances and moments that have occurred.

With this in view, it was decided to compile a list of 100 moments in 100 years.

Here's Part 4

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/1992/part-4-the-history-of-st-george-district-cricket-club-1951-52-to-1960-61
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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Gavin Fitness a stalwart of Queensland Premier Cricket played 25 seasons of First Grade after making his debut as an 18-year-old in 1986.

Being a wicket keeper in Queensland in an era with the likes of Peter Anderson, Ian Healy, Peter Drinnen and Wade Seccombe was tough but Gavin was resolute in his desire.

He played 3 Sheffield Shield games for Queensland and was desperately unlucky not to be keeping in the final when Queensland won their first ever Shield in 1994/95 after Wade Seccombe return from injury.

Gavin is a premiership winning player and highly regarded by his peers.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1991/gavin-fitness-always-be-ready
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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Waratahs in History – Matt Cranney

This fortnight Howzat Building Waratahs in History Q & A is with Matt Cranney. Matt (“Son of Errol”/Loose) played 19 seasons for the Tahs from 1992/1993 to 2011/2012. A local junior who started his career at the club when he was only 14. In the clubs 146-year history Matt sits in the top 20 of the highest run scorers for the club with over 6000 runs. He is also a top bloke!

How did your love of cricket come about as a child?
Simple, my Dad Errol. We were always a cricketing family. My two older brothers and I would play backyard cricket all year round. We had a great backyard for cricket and would have friends over for backyard competitions. Future club legends like David Gainsford, Geoff Tucker and Dave Gardiner who were my eldest brothers age would terrorise me with a half-taped tennis ball, but this put me in good stead for when I came down to grade as a 14-yo and would face them in the old Grahams reserve nets.

https://manlycricket.com/waratahs-in-history-matt-cranney
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3 years ago
Evan Bancroft
Evan Bancroft
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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I was bowling to former Queenslander batting allrounder Glenn Trimble who played 2 one day games for Australia at Bottomley Oval in the 80s.

Glenn was one of the hardest hitters ever of a cricket ball and started one with 6, 6, 4, 6 before our captain Mal Freeman yells out “Banger pull a hammy.”

Next ball I knock his stumps over and walked him off all the way to the dressing room, sat next to him as he took his pads off.

Years later we were drinking in a bar together in Melbourne and some bloke asked him “was bowling those wides in the one day international in Perth, the most embarrassing moment of your career.

Glenn replied with “No, 2nd most, this prick here getting me out was the most embarrassing.”

Glenn was such a great player. If he was playing in the modern era of T20 cricket he would’ve been an absolute superstar.

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3 years ago
Mick Davis
Mick Davis
Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
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OK you’ve seen the batsmen now it’s time for fast bowlers. Let’s qualify first. They have to have played in Dubbo while I was here, and I have to have seen them live in a Dubbo team. So just for the record Don Nash is out. He came along in Dubbo after me.

I’m not doing spinners. I’ve not seen too many good ones. Most of them are part timers who don’t really turn the ball that much. Bowling slow to wait for a miss-hit for a catch at cow is not my idea of clever bowling. Glen Shepherd was probably the best I saw. Jame Patterson for Cyms and RSL back in the 80s was pretty good. Nick Duffy was phenomenal given his age. But this article is for the quicks.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1449/mick-davis/blog/1990/the-top-fast-bowlers-of-my-time-in-dubbo-mick-davis
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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Nathan Pilon made his first class debut for New South Wales in the 2000/01 cricket season before moving to Melbourne and making his debut for the Victoria Sheffield Shield team in February 2006.

Pilon played 10 first class games taking 42 catches and 1 stumping and scored 338 runs at 19.88 with his highest score being 78.

In Sydney, Nathan Pilon playing for St George took 218 dismissals, 183 catches and 35 stumpings and scored 3,899 runs at an average of 33.

Playing for Carlton CC in Melbourne Pilon holds the clubs wicket keeping record with 278 dismissals, 247 catches and 31 stumpings. With the bat he scored 7,107 runs at an average of 36.63.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/418/nathan-pilon-st-george-district-cricket-club-wicket-keeper-of-the-century
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3 years ago
Mick Davis
Mick Davis
Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
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The top batsman of my time in Dubbo - Mick Davis

By popular demand (well really just one reader but I still think it’s pretty cool) I have been asked to rate the best batsmen of my time. So, let’s qualify this. I must have seen them live; they have to have had an impact on me and they had to play cricket in Dubbo. Those three criteria get them a look. After that I am picking on who made a great impression on me. Not just who might have had the best stats. So, I am looking at things like stats, technique, attitude, their impact on the game and reputation.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1449/mick-davis/blog/1988/the-top-batsman-of-my-time-in-dubbo-mick-davis
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3 years ago
Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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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.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/1987/murray-rayner-itrsquos-never-as-hard-as-it-seems-play-every-ball-and-it-will-get-easier
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Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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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 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.”

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/528/paul-thomas-penrith-first-grade-cap-no-79
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3 years ago
Cricket NSW
Cricket NSW
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Week 18 – ‘The Opening Spell’

First ball – If at first you don’t succeed!

The old saying “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” was taken to the extreme on Saturday, when Jordan Daly made his first-grade debut for Manly-Warringah against Sydney University.

The 29-year-old had made his first appearance in NSW Premier Cricket in fifth-grade in January 2009, scoring 19 (not out) against Mosman. In the intervening 15 years, Jordan had played a further 179 games in all grades, mostly in second (69 games) and third grade (87 games).

He has scored six centuries, five in third-grade and one in second-grade. His highest score was the first of these, 150 (not out) in third-grade against UNSW in the opening round of 2012-13.

https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/3882769/week-18-the-opening-spell
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3 years ago
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Founder
Armidale, Australia
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Vale Jack Trestrail

Sadly, Jack Trestrail (#303) has passed away in Brisbane, gradually leaving us after being subdued by dementia for sometime.

Tressy was a fine cricketer, making a name for himself in the Ex Services sides of the second half of the 1960's. Just to get a game for that team was an achievement as they were among the strongest club teams Armidale has seen. Earlier, he had been in the Easts stable.

Jack played the first of his 10 seasons with Waratahs in 1975 and was a handy allrounder in A grade until he made the move to A-Res grade in 1980, as a cornerstone of the legendary Waratahs Vets for two seasons. Not to leave it at that, when the Vets concept ended, he took his place with distinction in 2nd grade, making nearly 1,400 runs at 41 with 4 hundreds over the next three seasons before retirement. In all, he made 2,459 runs@27, took 124 wickets@17 and held 44 catches.

Club members will remember him for different reasons. Andrew Davis remembers the part Jack played in his foremost personal highlight at Waratahs, a 2nd grade 5th wicket record partnership of 142 v TAS in November of 1983, when his batting partner made 111 of his 530 runs that season. His 3rd grade Vets team mates would remember Tressy and Brian Joice opening the bowling and both bowling unchanged through two innings of a semi final v Churches and not content with rolling them for 91 & 74 - his own contribution 6-48 & 3-29 of nearly 30 overs for the weekend), then guiding the side home with a steady 39 not out as Waratahs scored 9-97 and won by just the one wicket. His players will recall his captaincy in 2nds was all positivity and encouragement. Others remember his kindness away from the field, as a rare businessman in the financial sector with a heart.

He was a bloke who loved to compete and he could be fierce in a scrap, one that you'd rather have on your side but he also loved to play the game for the fun which came from playing with his mates ... and of course, stirring the opposition!

Its ironic, that while in the end he had trouble remembering, he's a Tah we won't ever forget.

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