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9 months ago
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
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Armidale, Australia
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Waratahs Cricket Club of Armidale - now The Tahs Inc - has an interesting and very accessible history.
With one of the most extensive set of club records of any Australian sporting club, our history is revered and often looked over. It always informed each new group of custodians and linked players over the ages, revering with great equity each member of the Waratahs family.
One of the reasons this ethos was developed and maintained were its leaders, on and off the field. Another was the creation of the Yearbook, issued annually at the Presentation Dinner since 1972. After the speeches were finished and the trophies handed out, a quiet would always descend over the room as everyone first checked their stats, then read the reports and finally thumbed through the records section to see what performances had joined the pantheon of the greats.
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Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Christchurch, New Zealand
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The Burnside West Christchurch University Premiers head into 2025/26 looking to build on one of the most successful campaigns in club history. Last season, the side claimed two trophies and reached the final in the third competition — a testament to their consistency and depth across formats.

Rather than a complete overhaul, the focus this summer is on fine-tuning and giving opportunities to the next generation. With key players moving on to higher honours or time away, the stage is set for fresh faces to step into bigger roles.

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9 months ago
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Burnside West Claim Mud Cup Crown in Blenheim

Twelve months on from falling just short, Burnside West Christchurch went one better at Horton Park, lifting the 2025 Mud Cup after an unbeaten campaign capped by a tense 12-run win over hosts Marlborough in Sunday’s final.

The campaign began on tricky footing in a low-scoring arm wrestle with Marlborough. Burnside’s innings looked in danger of collapsing before Tim Seeto, fresh off a winter on the hockey turf, steadied and counter-punched his way to an unbeaten 40.

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Penrith Cricket Club
Penrith Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Emergence of a Future Captain in a Winning Campaign: 2009/2010

A quote from the youngest (Ryan Gibson): "Blakey, it's taken you over 50 games in PG'd to win this comp, I've won it in 5 games."

Right off the bat, I'm going to say, this season the boys deserved to win this competition. The achieved victory was a culmination of a few seasons' work/preparation. Led beautifully through 2 different skippers over the past 2 seasons, the lads this season slowly warmed into the comp, before blowing away 3 strong teams in the Finals.

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9 months ago
St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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The Annual O’Reilly Oration was held in the Booth Saunders Pavilion on Friday 19 September. A full house of 126 heard from guest speaker, St George Life Member, Moises Henriques. He was later joined in a panel discussion by Cricket Australia Chair, Mike Baird AO and Cricket NSW Chair, John Knox.

The O’Reilly Oration was inaugurated in 2005 as a way of remembering the enormous contribution that Bill O’Reilly made to St George DCC and indeed the game across Australia and the world. Speakers have always been encouraged to follow in the O’Reilly tradition of providing forthright, considered opinions that challenge the status quo. That tradition continued in 2025.

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9 months ago
Peter Langston
Peter Langston
Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia
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Happy birthday Ian Michael Chappell.
Thank you.
For many of us, those 70’s punks who undid their top three buttons and grew a moustache, this guy was our hero. He gave Australian cricket a rock ‘n roll backbeat it still thumps along to today. Still able to deliver a two fingered salute in sausage gloves, his was the take no prisoners attitude which transformed Australian cricket, finally stood up to the Australian version of the conservative, self-serving control of what Botham called the “pink gin brigade” and fought for the game, his country and his players … even in the face of the deity of Bradman.
His batting average might be considered only reasonable by the lofty standards of today’s game, played as it is on drop in tame pitches and shortened boundaries with high tech bats as thick as his was wide and helmets and bowling restrictions. Sure, the modern superstars might well have been successful against Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith, John Snow etc … but they wouldn’t be skiting of averages in the fifties. Reverse the time slip. What would Chappell have done today?
To judge him by his batting average would be to entirely miss the point.
He made a career out of the fight, batting in the heat of the engine room, after the ship had hit an iceberg and the band had started playing the first chords of Auld Lang Syne. So many times in at 1 for not much.
It was then the shit in his eye sparkled strongest, dazzling the quickest bowlers into doubt, taming opposition captains with a resilience we all hoped we could garnish into our own game on suburban parks, with our copycat Grey Nicks.
It was a legacy he would expand into words spoken and written in commentary of those who followed, always forthright, not always agreeable but undeniably consistent of the man.
He once said all current players should get down on one knee at the mention of Kerry Packer’s name. If that be so, it’s the Mecca job for “the fecking cowboy!”
All hail Chappell

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9 months ago
St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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23 September 1911, Mayor Blackshaw bowled the first cricket ball at the official opening of Hurstville Oval, with St George XV playing a First Grade X1. Les Blackshaw worked tirelessly to have a suitable first grade cricket oval in the district, not only as an Alderman but also through fundraising and volunteering to tend the soil and plant fifty trees, mainly along the Dora Street boundary.

This was the beginning of a lifetime association with St George District Cricket for Blackshaw. Spanning 61 years until 1968, Blackshaw became known as “Father of Cricket in the District”, according to St George District Cricket Club.

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9 months ago
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
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Armidale, Australia
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In 1976, GRAHAM FROST (#333) made 26 on debut for B grade v Centrals in a one day game. In what was the first game in an 18 year career for Waratahs, which although spanning every grade, was dominated by his outstanding performances in A/1st grade.

Originally a middle order player, he soon became a regular opener in the top grade, his batting marked by his elegance and grace. Frosty is the 5th highest run scorer overall for Waratahs (4,781 runs) and also the 5th highest in 1sts (2,974). He made 5 hundreds for the club and famously 6 scores in the 90's. He batted in 10 century partnership (two each with the Rogers - Sattler and Roan), including the highest partnership ever recorded for Waratahs, 293 unbeaten with Tim Muldoon (#296). He is one of only three batsmen to score more than 150 twice. He six times won end of season batting trophies.

Frosty had safe hands in the outfield but was a very reluctant wicketkeeper, only taking the gloves when there was no one else. Despite that, he twice held 5 catches in an innings behind the stumps. His 131 catches for the club trail only Albert Hofkamp (#476), Alan Gray (#26) and Terry Betts (#205).

The organiser of the reunion dinner which led to the formation of The Tahs Inc in 2023, he has always been a clubman first. Its no surprise that when more than seventy ex Waratahs players voted in 2010 for the best Waratahs side ever, he was included.

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9 months ago
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Jim Stone enjoyed a long fruitful wicket snaffling career with the Parramatta District Cricket Club (then known as Central Cumberland), commencing with the Club’s Shires team in 1927/28 and finishing in Second grade in1947/48.

Second grade was his playground, and he harvested a bumper crop of wickets at that level, over a prolonged period he was outstandingly consistent and prolific. The crafty leg-spinner and handy lower-order batsman set bowling records in Second grade for Parramatta that have stood the test of time. The most career wickets in 2nd grade 565 wickets @ 14.75, the best bowling average in a season 8.73, claimed 50+ wickets in a season on five occasions, and captured ten wickets in a match four times.

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9 months ago
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Seeto, Winter, Zohrab Lead Burnside West's Mud Cup Charge

Horton Park in Blenheim will again play host to Burnside West Christchurch University CC, Saint Albans, Sydenham and Marlborough’s Hawke Cup side. It’s a competition that prepares sides for the season ahead and offers locals a fantastic spectacle.

For Burnside West, the trip north is no casual exercise. Coach Carl Huyser has named a 16-man squad brimming with intent, the club chasing both sharpness and silverware after finishing runners-up in last year’s edition. There’s a desire to start on the front foot – in the hope that momentum in September can translate into history in March, where BWCUCC will look to become the first club in history to win four Two-Day Premierships in a row.

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9 months ago
Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Having written two books about the Gordon cricketers who fought in World War I and World War II, there are of course many stories of bravery and heroism. Not suggesting in any way that Basil Sheidow was not brave or would have been a hero given the opportunity, his service in World War II was definitely ‘unusual’.

Being keen to serve his country, Basil looked at the study opportunities he might be able to secure to give him a reasonably safe role in the war in the UK. While having no known skills in this profession, he decided on studying to be a ‘nursing orderly’ and upon receiving a certificate, he enlisted. Unable to find an AIF division to take him the enlistment officer decided he should go into the Airforce and be posted to the UK.

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Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Jack Treanor – A Leg-spinner of the highest order

Jack Cassimar Treanor was born on 17th August 1922 at Darlinghurst and died on 7th November 1993 at East Ballina, NSW. He was a right-hand leg-spin bowler and moderate left-handed batsman.

Treanor bowled in a similar manner to the former great Test leg-spinner Bill O’Reilly, pushing the ball quickly through the air and bowling with great accuracy. Not being a big spinner of the ball, he relied on trapping the batsman around the crease line – utilizing a combination of the accuracy, nip off the pitch and a bouncing top-spinner to detonate the batsman’s downfall. A dedicated bowler he had ‘scant respect’ for batsmen – ‘they were his sworn enemies’.

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