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3 years ago
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Round 9 of the 2023-24 NSW Premier Cricket season takes on a special significance for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club and Manly Warringah District Cricket Club.

On Saturday 16 December 2023 Western Suburbs and Manly will play an historic day night at Wade Park in Orange in the Central West of New South Wales, some 250 kilometres west of Sydney.

It is a tremendous initiative by both clubs and an exciting weekend for all cricket fans in Orange and surrounding districts.

The brainchild of Manly’s Vice President David Gainsford and Western Suburbs President Mike Swan. Both should be congratulated for their proactive support for regional cricket in New South Wales.

David Gainsford has a very strong connection with cricket in the country as he spent his early years in Narromine and his father Brian was a long serving Chairman of Country Cricket NSW.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1818/western-suburbs-and-manly-warringah-to-play-an-historical-nsw-premier-cricket-day-night-game-in-regional-nsw
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3 years ago
Cricket Australia Community
Cricket Australia Community
Melbourne, Australia
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Australia's squad has been locked in for the men's Under 19 World Cup in South Africa early next year

Australia have finalised their squad for January's ICC Under-19 World Cup, as they hunt a fourth title in the men’s competition.

The squad of 15 features a strong contingent of players who featured in the dual U19 Ashes series’ this year, with Australia winning eight games to England's three across all three formats.

The U19 Male National Championships wrapped up in Albury on Thursday, giving players one final chance to impress selectors before the World Cup in South Africa.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/3818980/australian-under-19-world-cup-squad-dixon-konstas-weibgen-south-africa
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3 years ago
Cricket NSW Masters
Cricket NSW Masters
New South Wales, Australia
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NSW Kookaburras Over 50s Division Four – National Championships in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023

Back Row - Michael Hungerford, Dean Pike, Lucas Parsons, Paul Munro, Morgan Youell, Craig Jenns

Front Row - Shane Broes, Mitchell Sturt, Darren Gladman, Brendon Briedenhann (Captain), Scott Aitchison

4 games – 2 wins, 2 losses

Round 1 v Victoria White – NSW Kookaburras won by 41 runs.
Round 2 v Queensland Droughmasters V – Queensland won by 6 wickets.
Round 3 v South Australia – South Australia won by 5 runs.

Final play off for 5th or 6th position v Western Australia – NSW Kookaburras won by 7 wickets.

Match Scorecards for Division Four -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/national-championships-2023-2024-summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-4/663086c0/FR%201
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3 years ago
Joe Maiorana
Joe Maiorana
Sydney, Australia
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A former Australian cricketer, Richard Bede McCosker was born on this day in 1946.

One of Australian cricket stars before the World Series came into being, he was a fine opening batsman who had plenty of spunk about himself. He had a solid all-round game and was particularly strong on the leg-side. Apart from having a fine array of shots, McCosker had a primitive openers' quality - temperament.

From northern NSW (Inverell), it was his decision to shift to Sydney that helped him spike his cricketing fortunes.
A former bank employee, Rick soon found out that breaking into the State team was no piece of cake. Hours of hard work and preparation coupled with some good fortune finally led to him getting a breakthrough opportunity and he never really looked back since then. A phenomenal run of form that included four successive First-class tons saw him earn an Australia call up for the Ashes series in 1974-75. Rick had a moderately successful debut series, and his composure impressed all those who saw him bat.

Rick cemented his spot over the coming years, having great success especially in Ashes contests. It appeared as if Rick was primed for representing Australia over a really long period of time but that wasn't to be. The World Series caravan lured him and once he retured from that, he was never the same player. It must also be said that the struggles started slightly before the WSC move, ironically during the Ashes tour in 1977. Nevertheless, he was a strong performer for Australia during his brief career. His spot was often under the scanner post WSC with plenty of competition for spots during that period. His form started dipping drastically and found himself out of the side though he did play a couple of ODIs in 1981.

After a few more seasons with New South Wales as captain, he retired after a successful career. One of the most memorable moments about Rick is his gutsy knock against England after being felled by a Bob Willis bouncer that broke his jaw.

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3 years ago
Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Peter Burkhart is the highest run scorer in the history of Western Suburbs District Cricket Club.

In total Peter scored 10,512 runs for the club, of which 8,850 were scored in First Grade at an average of 31.83 and 12 centuries.

Peter is the proud owner of Western Suburbs First Grade cap number 532 and a Life Member of the club

Peter was also regarded as one of the best fieldsman in Sydney Grade Cricket. So good was his fielding it prompted former Australian Cricket captain Michael Clarke to say “he’s one of the best fieldsman I’ve ever played with”

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/1815/peter-burkhart-singles-singles-singles
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3 years ago
Victorian Veterans Cricket
Victorian Veterans Cricket
Victoria, Australia
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Victoria Over 50s Division One – National Championships in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023

Back row - Scott Taylor (Manager), Alex Jesensek (WK), Brad Taylor, Paul Whybird, James Morris, Anthony Bloomfield (Vice Captain), Peter Dell, Alan Pearce

Front Row - Richie Saniga, Shane Beggs, Andrew Sharp, Paul Evans (Captain), Ty Watts, Grant Dew

4 games – 3 wins, 1 loss

Round 1 v ACT – Victoria won by 7 wickets.
Round 2 v Western Australia – Victoria won by 19 runs.
Round 3 v NSW - Victoria won by 2 wickets with only 2 balls remaining.

Grand Final v Queensland – Queensland won by 11 runs.

Match scorecards -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/national-championships-2023-2024-summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-1/07234bb2
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3 years ago
UNSW Cricket Club
UNSW Cricket Club
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Wagga Wagga in the Riverina region of New South Wales has been the breeding ground of many Australian sporting champions and Geoff Lawson is a proud member of the Wagga Wagga sporting cohort.

From concrete pitches and cork balls, Geoff’s love of the game spans many decades and he’s made a tremendous contribution to the game on and off the field.

Geoff Lawson left Wagga Wagga and made his way to the University of NSW where he made his first-grade debut in 1975 and went on to take 215 first grade wickets for UNSW at an average of 17.66.

At 20 years of age in 1977/78 Geoff made his first-class debut for NSW and on 28 November 1980, he became Australian Test Cricketer No 309 when he made his Test debut against New Zealand at the Gabba.

In 46 Tests for Australia, Geoff Lawson took 180 wickets at 30.56 with best figures of 8 for 112. He scored 894 runs with the highest score of 74.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/230/unsw-cricket-club/blog/248/geoff-lawson-in-doubt-bounce-lsquoem
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3 years ago
Cricket NSW Masters
Cricket NSW Masters
New South Wales, Australia
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NSW Over 50s Blues - Division One – National Championships in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023

Back Row – Simon Waddington, Mitchell Woods, Scott McIntosh, Steve Mace (Captain), Glenn Giddings, Stephen Wark.
Front Row – Simon Neich, Darren Shaw, Ash Hardy, Tony Clark (Vice Captain), Chris Patterson, Phillip Melville

4 games – 2 wins, 1 loss and 1 tie.

Round 1 v Western Australia – NSW Blues won by 6 wickets.
Round 2 v ACT – NSW Blues won by 12 runs.
Round 3 v Victoria – Victoria won by 2 wickets with only 2 balls remaining.
Final - Play off for 3rd and 4th v South Australia – match tied.

Check out all the scorecards -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/national-championships-2023-2024-summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-1/07234bb2
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3 years ago
Queensland Veterans Cricket
Queensland Veterans Cricket
Brisbane, Australia
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Queensland Over 50s Division One National Champions

Queensland Over 50s defeated Victoria by 11 runs to win the Division One Grand Final of the Over 50s National Championships held in Melbourne 3 December to 7 December 2023.

Back Row – Mark Horswill (Manager and Scorer), Simon Milton, Chris Lanagan, John Short, Jason Simmons, Damien Meek, Chris Holding (Vice Captain) Craig Trindall

Front Row – Ashley Sippel, Andrew Kratzmann, Clint Keble (Captain) Mark Kratzmann, Shane Riley

Grand Final Scorecard -
https://www.playhq.com/cricket-australia/org/veterans-cricket-australia/summer-202324/o50-national-veterans-cricket-championship-division-1/game-centre/286a2ac5
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3 years ago
Dustin Gaskell
Dustin Gaskell
Managing Director
Brisbane, Australia
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Exciting News Announcement from the USA for Gabba

The Chennai Super Kings Cricket Academy is completed !!

A state-of-the-art 12-lane indoor cricket academy in Dallas, Texas, USA!

This magnificent facility features two WICF Indoor courts with international length runups, providing the ultimate training environment for aspiring cricketers in the USA.

With the Gabba exclusive green-beige exclusive playing surface, this academy offers exceptional playing conditions, giving you the thrill of playing on a world-class facility, just like the ICC Academy in Dubai!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/691/dustin-gaskell/blog/1810/exciting-news-announcement-from-the-usa-for-gabba
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3 years ago
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Recently I watched a young left arm medium pace bowler bowl to a right-hand batter with 7 fielders on the offside and only 2 on the leg side and it immediately reinforced how important the relationship between a bowler and captain is.
The young left arm bowler had taken the new ball and had the nice natural action to swing the ball into right hand batters.
The field set was 3 slips, a gully, a point, a cover and mid off and on the leg side was a mid-wicket and fine leg.
Left arm swing bowlers are so valuable as they ask so many questions of the batters. Is the ball going to swing into my pads or will it hold its line and straighten towards the slips.
If the bowler gets it right, they have LBW and bowled in play as well as a catch to the wicket keeper, slips, gully, or point.
However, the captain needs to give the bowler the confidence of being able to attack the stumps. If they stray just a fraction with only one fielder at mid-wicket in front of square on the leg side, it makes it easier for the batters to score runs.
It may mean the bowler starts concentrating bowling a 5th or 6th stump line which might negate the opportunity to swing the ball. Its not what any team wants for the new ball bowlers.
Personally, I’d have liked to see the captain remove the fielder at cover and put them at mid on and have a straighter mid-wicket and a fine leg.
It makes it a 6 – 3 field and will give the bowler more confidence of being able to pitch the ball up and swing the ball as they have the added protection of a mid-on and mid-wicket to minimise scoring opportunities and keep the pressure on the batter.
As there is now a gap in the field at cover it might encourage the batter to start playing cover drives which is exactly what the left arm bowlers wants because if the batter doesn’t execute the cover drive correctly, a catch behind the wicket may not be too far away.
Also with mid-wicket relatively straight the batter may look to score through square leg which may mean they start playing across the line to balls pitching on off or middle stump and the LBW and bowled is back in play.
It’s very important for the captain to get their field right in supporting their bowlers but it’s also important the captain creates an environment where bowlers have the confidence to speak up about how they’re looking to dismiss the batter and the field settings they’d like.
Communication is the key.

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3 years ago
Luke Jecks
Luke Jecks
Founder
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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What is the true purpose of Coaching?

Have you ever stopped to think, "Why is customer service vital to a business? What's its true purpose?" I obsessed with this at Naked Wines until we settled on the simple answer - REPEAT BUSINESS. Once we pinpointed this, we transformed every customer interaction into an opportunity to ensure their return. Our customer service team understood their ultimate purpose and could measure their value and success, and we could shift from seeing service as a cost of business and more as an investment with return.

Now, diving into the world of Coaching and Education with SLOCOACH, I find myself asking a similar question: "What's the key reason for Coaching?" And I we've settled on a single answer - PARTICIPATION!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1362/luke-jecks/blog/1809/what-is-the-true-purpose-of-coaching
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3 years ago
Armidale District Cricket Association
Armidale District Cricket Association
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St Peters Cricket Club Armidale 1959-2000

The early history of the Club is yet to be researched as there is evidence that the Club played, as an Anglican Church team in Armidale, in the early 1900’s. The church association continued in the latter half of the century. The Rev Colin Wellard and Verger, Walter Gerken as a benefactor contributing ten pounds, were instrumental in supporting the club's re-emergence after a meeting instigated by Peter Poggioli in the Cathedral vestry following a pre summer Sunday service. In acknowledgement of the sensitivity of the arrangement the first "unofficial" commercial sponsor of the club was Cyril Fitzgerald, licensee of Tattersalls Hotel.

In 1959, St Peters competed in the B Grade of the New England Cricket Association (later Armidale) and in 1960 nominated to play A Reserve, as the second grade competition was then called. Peter Poggioli, later mayor of Armidale, was the team captain in the inaugural years and was succeeded as team leader by Peter Hutchinson.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/237/armidale-district-cricket-association/blog/216/st-peters-cricket-club-armidale-1959-2000
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