7 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Kim Dolton – the driving force behind Penrith Cricket Club’s first Women’s teams

Kim Dolton, the youngest of six children, four of them big brothers, was raised at Chester Hill in a fibro house ‘of the times’, the 60s. It turned out that she, and none of her brothers, would be the cricketer.

At Sefton High School, Kim was encouraged by Patsy May, a teacher who had played for Australia at both softball and cricket. Miss May bowled tidy outswing, and, in 1976 aged 29, played against England at Lord’s, taking the first wicket

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7 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith Cricket Club's first Women's teams: malthoid, mats and misses

At the start of the 1980s, Penrith Cricket Club hosted matches between men and women at Howell Oval with the aim of promoting women’s cricket.

In season 1986/87, a little bit of history was made when the Club fielded a team in the Sydney Women’s Cricket Association competition for the first time. Competing in Second Grade, the team faced a stiff challenge. Most of the players had come from indoor cricket, which surged in popularity in the 1980s, but few had played outdoor cricket before. They were a dedicated group, however, moulded by the tireless work of Kim Dolton on and off the field and often inspired by Bonnie Paniora’s up-front leadership.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3504/penrith-cricket-clubs-first-womens-teams-malthoid-mats-and-misses

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7 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Geoffrey Williams ‘Furry’ – A Crafty Slow Bowler

As a junior player for the Baulkham Hills club Geoff first appeared for Central Cumberland in the 1963/64 A.W. Green Shield team, but it was not until the 1966/67 season that he joined the club’s senior ranks. Debuting in Fourth grade and closing his initial season in Third grade. He was ‘an instant success’ capturing 54 wickets @ 12.63 (40 in 4ths and 14 in 3rds).

Like a lot of slow bowlers Geoff approached his cricket with an air of eccentricity, but he was a highly competitive player who simply loved to bowl, he thrived on plenty of work, and he was a marvellous fieldsman – ‘off his own bowling’.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3507/geoffrey-williams-lsquofurryrsquo-ndash-a-crafty-slow-bowler

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7 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Kashvi Gunawardane is another of the rising young quality batsmen that the Parramatta District Cricket Club has in it’s talent stable all of whom are staking their claims for permanent future berths in the club’s First grade team.

Kashvi is a slightly built left-handed batsman who usually opens the innings, he possesses the ability to score freely ‘all around the ground’ from a sound array of attacking strokes despatched with a surprising degree of power. As is the custom with the modern approach to batting he likes to ‘take the fight to the bowler from the get-go’ and when he’s set and in free-flow his progress is hard to contain. Kashvi is also a lively and sharp fieldsman.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3506/kashvi-gunawardane-ndash-a-maker-of-runs

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8 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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BWCUCC set the pace as the OEM Audio One Day Premiership gathers momentum

The OEM Audio One Day Premiership is up and running, and Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club have wasted no time asserting itself as a major force once again. As the club looks to go one better than last year's Grand Final loss to Lancaster Park.

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8 months ago

Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Women's Cricket Comes to the Gordon DCC - Part 3 (final)

As well as Price and Annetts the selectors saw fit to include Sally Moffatt, Sally Griffiths and Michelle Stenning in NSW teams. With many young women finding the club, junior teams were formed. The quality of the players was high meaning some of the girls were selected in junior representative teams. Jo Watts, Angela Burroughs and Monika Brogan wore the NSW blue cap for the first time.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3503/womens-cricket-comes-to-the-gordon-dcc-part-3-final

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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Graeme Thorpe and other players and curators of the 1980s - Penrith Cricket Club

Graeme Thorpe, ‘Thorpey’, as he was affectionately known, joined Penrith Cricket Club from Bankstown in 1978/79. He was like the movie character Rocky in appearance – a thatch of black hair, unruly and curled at the ends, with bright eyes and a weathered face. There was earnestness to his character, a serious air that conveyed the message that he meant business and if the going was going to get tough then he’d like an invitation to be there.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3501/graeme-thorpe-and-other-players-and-curators-of-the-1980s-penrith-cricket-club

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Rodney West is an asset to the Parramatta District Cricket Club. He is a rare specimen in the modern era of NSW Premier Cricket, an ex-player with an extensive personal cricketing background who in his post playing days actually ‘puts something back’ into his former club. This he does voluntarily because of his love for the game of cricket, and a genuine love and care for the welfare of the historical Parramatta Club – founded in 1843, NSW’s oldest living cricket club.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3502/rodney-west-ndash-loyalty-plus

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Alfred Walter Hall – A Club Asset

Alf Hall provided yeoman service to the Parramatta (Central Cumberland) District Cricket Club to whom he showed great allegiance over a twenty-year period, both on the field and in the administrative ranks.

He was a popular and well-known figure around the Parramatta precinct being well-known as a prominent cricketer, local musician, a competitive snooker and billiard player, and for some years he was President of the Parramatta School of Arts.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3500/alfred-walter-hall-ndash-a-club-asset

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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Darren Reeves - Penrith's Top 50

Darren 'Zoidy' Reeves, who grew up in Blackheath, joined Penrith in the 1992/93 season, where he would play with the club until the end of the 1997/98 season.

Zoidy (in his first season) was a part of the Cats successful 1992-93 2nd Grade side, which took home the premiership. In a season where he debuted in 3rd grade, but would be promoted to 2s.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3497/darren-reeves-penriths-top-50

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8 months ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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54 Followers

Vale Michael McDermott - First Grade Player No.255

St George District Cricket Club is saddened to announce that Mick McDermott, 1st grade player No. 255 passed away on the 18th November, 2025 after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Despite just the one appearance in 1st Grade Mick had an illustrious and productive career for St George which also included 2nd Grade captaincy at a very young age.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/3493/vale-michael-mcdermott-first-grade-player-no255

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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19 Followers

Fergus Fergusson - cherish every moment

Fergus Fergusson is a 20-year-old fast bowler who's become a mainstay of the First Grade side in his third year with UTS North Sydney. His cricketing journey has taken him from the backyard in in Dunadoo in the Central West of NSW to North Sydney Oval via Kings School, where he captained the 1st XI. A popular clubman and dedicated trainer, Fergus has already taken 71 wickets for the club including two in the 2023/24 PGs Grand Final where we won the competition, and might just be the best no. 11 bat in Sydney!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3498/fergus-fergusson-cherish-every-moment

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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Steve Small - Penrith Cricket Club

Steve Small, known as 'Jack' came to Penrith as an established First Grader in season 1978/79 from the strong and successful Bankstown Club. He had everything the then struggling Nepean Club needed – attitude, talent to burn, a strong training ethic, and a hearty social instinct that had an immediate impact on the rest of First Grade and soon the Club as a whole.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3492/steve-small-penrith-cricket-club

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Left-handed opening batsman and part time finger spinner Will Jarman graduated from the Parramatta Cricket Academy and into the A.W. Green Shield ranks in seasons 2017/18 and 2018/19 – compiling 147 runs @ 29.40 (highlighted by a classy 82 v. Mosman) – he was also the team captain in 2018/19.

Will is a stylish batsman, exemplifying the qualities found in traditional openers

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8 months ago

Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Women's Cricket Comes to the Gordon DCC - Part 2

For that first 1982-83 season the club was able to field three teams – two in First Grade and the other in Second Grade. The two First Grade teams finished fourth and fifth and the Second Grade a creditable second. Jo Fitzsimmons was the club’s first President but only remained in that position for the first season. From 1983 until around 1991 the strength and drive in the club were Marilyn Brown, Erica Sainsbury and Karen Price as President, Deputy President and Treasurer respectively.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3489/womens-cricket-comes-to-the-gordon-dcc-part-2

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8 months ago

Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Vale Ron Werner

Ronald Werner died on Tuesday 6th January 2026 at Royal North Shore Hospital at age 94. Ron had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. I met with Ron in May 2024 when researching for my book “Service and Sacrifice- The Gordon District Cricket Club in the Second World War”. His memories of playing with Gordon District Cricket Club were very clear.

I wrote the following chapter about Ron, his career and his memories of the Gordon players of the day.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3486/vale-ron-werner

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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North Sydney has won only one Fourth Grade Premiership in its history, in 1968-69, with victory over Balmain under the leadership of Barry Cusack. Here we reproduce the season write-up in the club’s Annual Report, which includes a report on a roller-coaster final.

In winning the initial Fourth Grade Premiership in the club's history and in bringing Premiership honours for the first time since our First Grade success in the 1931-32 season, the Fourth Grade team brought new life and enthusiasm to all players and supporters alike.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3488/north-sydney-fourth-grade-premiers-1968-69

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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You don't see many sixes in Brewer Shield, but Sharon Julien knows how the clear the rope! Enjoy her maximum on the way to to 68* off 51 balls in a big win over Blacktown at Tunks Park before Christmas - and her teammates' delight!

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8 months ago

Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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22 Followers

Jarrod Walter’s 2005/06 Green Shield season ranks among the most outstanding performances in recent memory. He set a then club record with 445 runs, a benchmark later surpassed by Joel Davies, who amassed 501 runs in the 2018/19 season.

Jarrod’s tally included two centuries—an unbeaten 103 against Gordon (pictured) and 122 against Hawkesbury—as the team advanced to the grand final that year.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/338/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club/blog/3465/jarrod-walter-green-shield-record-leads-to-senior-success

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8 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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Kendal Vehicle Services Friday Night Cricket had a special night recently as BWCUCC were once again able to provide cricket packs to all of our youngest juniors. This would not be possible without our commercial partners, as well as a grant from the Mainland Foundation.

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