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3 years ago
Murray Bennett
Murray Bennett
Sydney, Australia
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The great man, Warren Saunders, gave me many great ideas in regard to captaincy, but the 2 mentioned below are ones that I never forgot and have passed these ideas onto other captains along the way.

1. At the start of a season, set your team a target for the number of wins that you need to have to achieve your goal of making the semi-finals or possibly the top 3-4 positions on the ladder. For the sake of argue, let's say 10 wins out of 15 games. In this way when you have a loss, it's not the end of the world, you simply need to refocus on the winning mentality to get back on the road that you have set out. I think this attitude helps sides not slide into self-doubt and lack of confidence. This also creates the mentality of always going for a win rather than having a fear of losing.

2. At the start of a season address all your players together. Explain your expectations for the season but particularly point out that you don't want to hear any whinging or complaints 2nd hand through someone's teammate, or parent or whoever. If you have a grievance, bring it directly to the captain as he is the only one who can fix it. If a complaint arrives 2nd hand it will be viewed very badly.

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3 years ago
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Hamish Solomons is the very proud owner of Cap Number 355 for St George District Club. He’s a Life Member of St George and it’s where he scored 3,251 runs and took 334 wickets across the grades he played.

What’s been your most memorable moment in cricket?

Captaining the premiership season of 2005/06 where we witnessed firsthand the emergence of Trent Copeland the bowler who had been my wicket keeper the season before. I actually wrote a piece about Trent and had the pleasure of delivering the nomination for Trent to become a Life Member at St George

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1029/hamish-solomons-better-than-yesterday
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3 years ago
Brad Bannister
Brad Bannister
Teacher
Corrowong, NSW, Australia
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As I sat watching Shane Warne’s Memorial Service, I still can’t quite believe he has passed.

Many of his exploits have been shared, but I thought it timely to share a personal yarn.

I didn’t know Warne, but in November of 1999, I was playing cricket in Brisbane and was lucky enough to be asked to be a net bowler for Australia for the first test of the summer at the Gabba v Pakistan.

It also happened to be the debut test for Adam Gilchrist. Even though they had played many ODI’s with each other they decided it was pertinent to spend a bit of time bowling to Gilly as the keeper and go through the varieties he would be tossing up in the game.

Well, these two legends of the game grabbed another of the net bowlers (in hindsight, I’m glad it wasn’t me) to bat against him with a stump. This ‘other’ net bowler was a quality first grade cricketer who had arrived in Brisbane at the same time as me, but had come from the much stronger Sydney First Grade Competition and played first class cricket for NSW.

Shane asked the guy to pad up and bat against him with a stump. Gilly parked himself behind the stumps and the batsman confidently asked Shane whether he should deliberately miss them and occasionally hit a few?

Shane gave Gilly a wry smile and said to the batter, “how about you just go down there and do your best champ.”

Well, let’s say that for the next forty minutes, this guy tried his absolute best to hit every ball with his stump. He missed every one, the harder he tried the further he missed by. The longer the session went the more the rest of the team and us hangerons stopped what we were doing to mill around and watch. The boys were egging everyone on, and the batter became more and more embarrassed. He left the net session with his tail firmly between his legs.

A classic example of never pushing a genius.

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Cricket NSW
Cricket NSW
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NSW 1992-93 and 1993-94 Sheffield Shield and Mercantile Mutual Champions - 30 year reunion

4th Row – Gavin Robertson, Phil Alley, Tristan Alley (Phil’s son)
3rd Row – Warwick Adlam, Pat Farhart, Neil Maxwell, Mark Patterson
2nd Row – Michael Bevan, Richard Chee Quee, Steve Waugh, Randal Green, David Freedman, Phil Emery, Trevor Bayliss
Front Row – Steve Rixon, Brad McNamara, Adrian Tucker, Rodney Davison, Mark Taylor, Wayne Holdsworth

On Friday 22nd September 2023 at The Four in Hand Hotel in Paddington, Sydney, Cricket NSW sponsored a terrific 30-year reunion of the 1992-93 and 1993-94 successful NSW teams.

Over the 2 seasons NSW won the two Sheffield Shield competitions and the two Mercantile Mutual One Day competitions.

In 1992-93 NSW defeated Queensland in the final of the Sheffield Shield and Victoria in the Mercantile Mutual One Day competition.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/154/cricket-nsw/blog/1530/nsw-1992-93-and-1993-94-sheffield-shield-and-mercantile-mutual-champions-30-year-reunion
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3 years ago
International Cricket Academy League - ICAL
International Cricket Academy League - ICAL
Cricket Coach
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The International Cricket Academy League (ICAL) facilitates cricket tournaments held globally in several locations throughout the year. The sole focus is to encourage Academies to bring out their best players, but also provide the coaches with a chance to provide game awareness coaching and review games frequently.

The whole process is to allow academy players to fast-track their progress by playing more cricket. It is an opportunity for cricket academies to promote and develop their coaching brand and showcase their talent.

ICAL's aim is to unite many cricket academies across the globe to be able to compete and develop players through playing regular tournaments under the guidance of their coaches.

Tournaments for 2024
ICAL India - Bangalore
ICAL Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy - Barbados

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Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Ian Fisher - Sydney University Cricket Club Hall of Fame Article

Ian Fisher is the supreme example of a player who was initially and strangely rejected and unwanted by the Club and yet who returned to bolster the 1st Grade’s fragile batting, to captain 1st Grade to positions of strength, to inevitably top the aggregates, to inspire his younger charges with tactical awareness and belligerent left-hand batting.

In 1970-71, for example, the side relied almost exclusively on Fisher who scored 851 runs. The next in aggregate was Ian Foulsham with 298. When Ian scored 120 against the strong St George side in 1972, the other ten batsmen dribbled out 94 runs. Against Randwick in 1973, on a soft and grassy pitch, his 119 not out included 97 after lunch in even time. In his 100 not out in 1974 against a Northern District side that contained three NSW bowlers, his second 50 was plundered from only 17 balls of destructive mayhem

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/260/sydney-university-cricket-club/blog/1898/ian-fisher-sydney-university-cricket-club-hall-of-fame-article
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Patrick Skene
Patrick Skene
Marketing Director
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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A salute to the Pakistan cricket team for providing an unexpectedly compelling series & playing in the true spirit of Test cricket. With limited preparation and missing a number of their key players, they fought tooth and nail in every Test and were a revelation on and off the field, proving that hard test cricket can be played without the aggro.

“The respect shown by the opposition throughout this series has been second-to-none,” Adam Gilchrist said on Fox Cricket.

“This series has been played in terrific spirit.” Mark Waugh added.

Captain Pat Cummins noted the sense of fraternity: "Out in the middle I think both teams play quite similarly, play hard but everyone's ready to joke with each other and have a bit of a laugh and not take it too seriously if the moment doesn't require it to be."

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/505/patrick-skene/blog/1897/a-salute-to-the-pakistan-cricket-team
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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The role of a cricket captain can be defined in many ways and can vary from captain to captain.

From my perspective, the role of a captain is threefold.

Firstly, the captain needs to ensure their own performances are worthy of being selected for the team. Don’t take it for granted; your place in the team is secure just because of the captaincy. You’re a player first, and depending on your skills, you need to be scoring runs, taking wickets, wicket keeping or fielding well, and making a valuable contribution to the team.

Secondly, it’s part of a captain’s role to help each player on the team become a better player.

Some cricket clubs have the good fortune of a club coach and perhaps a team of coaches. Many don’t.

If a club has a coaching structure in place, captains need to work very closely with the coaches to identify and communicate with the players on how they can individually improve.

Captains should never abdicate all responsibility to the coaches because, as captain, you’re the one out on the field with the players, and they’ll be looking for your support in the heat of the battle.

If a player or players aren’t performing, ask yourself why and what you can do to help the player. A good captain doesn’t take the easy option of just dropping the player from the team.

When was the last time you communicated with all your players outside of a training session or game day?

If it’s a technical issue within their game, share your thoughts with the coaches.

If it’s not a technical issue, take the time to show you care. Ask questions and talk to them about life outside of cricket.

You never know how a conversation or a quiet word of encouragement can help.

Communication and caring are such powerful ingredients in building a player’s confidence and building a team.

Thirdly, encourage your players and the team to compete and play to win games of cricket.

Helping players understand their roles and talking through game plans is obviously vital to any team’s success, but if a captain can do points one and two well, winning and enjoying games of cricket becomes a lot easier.

Best wishes to all captains and aspiring leaders. I hope this might add some value to some of you.

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3 years ago
NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Allrounder John Saint from Sydney University Cricket Club won the 1993-94 Bill O'Reilly Medal for the best and fairest in Sydney Grade Cricket.

The top 5 point scorers in 1992-93 were:
28 points - John Saint - Sydney University Cricket Club
26 points - Shane Lee - Campbelltown Cricket Club
25 points - Anthony Kershler - Hawkesbury Cricket Club
24 points - Scott Thompson - Bankstown District Cricket Club
22 points - Tom Shiner - Western Suburbs District Cricket Club

Bankstown District Cricket Club won the teams award with 96 points and Randwick were second with 92 points

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