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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith Cricket Club 2nd grade premiers 1998-1999. A title under the tutelage of Whologang

P for Penrith, P for Pride - P for Perseverance: pretty profound words those! Those words were, of course, to become part of the now famous Panther victory song, which in the end was to be bellowed out a total of 13 times, including after the qualifying semi-final, the semi-final and the final! Yes, P also stands for Premiership, which is what the Second Grade XI took back to the hallowed Howell Oval turf.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3144/penrith-cricket-club-2nd-grade-premiers-1998-1999-a-title-under-the-tutelage-of-whologang

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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UTS North Sydney is delighted to welcome Simon Keen as Men’s Club Coach. Simon had an illustrious Grade career, scoring 5,709 runs predominantly for Bankstown (but with a few T20s for the Bears thrown in!) and taking 222 wickets, and played professional short-form cricket in NSW and New Zealand as well as representing Australia Under 19s. More recently, he has coached The Entrance, who have won the Central Coast First Grade competition for the last three seasons.

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith Cricket Club 1996/97 - 5th grade bring home the bacon

What a great victory for the Fifth Grade team, and what a great victory for the Club's youth policy. Coupled with the Green Shield triumph, the season's performance by the young cricketers in the club has been nothing short of outstanding. The aim of the Fifth Grade has always been to transition junior players into senior cricket and develop skills for later years. To ultimately win the final against a much more experienced team demonstrated clearly the rapid progress that the team made.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3142/penrith-cricket-club-199697-5th-grade-bring-home-the-bacon

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Steve Green

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Simple. Strong. Saints: The Power of a Team Song

There’s something special about a team song. For about 14 seasons at Saints, I had the privilege of leading ours—starting in the 2s before finally earning my spot in 1st grade. When Chadd Porter passed the honour on to me, it wasn’t just about belting out words after a game. It was a badge of honour, a tradition carried forward by passionate Saints before me.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1095/steve-green/blog/3141/simple-strong-saints-the-power-of-a-team-song

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith, the early history: A second premiership 1982/83

This was a truly amazing performance, the team's points score being a margin of 30 clear of their nearest rivals. Their 12 consecutive wins were a record for the club in any grade and would take some beating in the summers to come. In a sensible move, the NSWCA had decided that all Finals were to be at neutral grounds. Penrith's Semi-final was against Randwick at the Uni of NSW's Village Green but a wash out propelled the club into the Final against Bankstown at Hurstville Oval.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3136/penrith-the-early-history-a-second-premiership-198283

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Sam Langston

Teacher

Tamworth, Australia

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Australian cricket’s long-form future is hanging by a thread, even if most don’t want to see it. We keep talking about the Baggy Green like it’s untouchable, but with the way we’re treating the Shield, our coaching pathways and grassroots, it’s anything but safe. This post is a hard look at why — and what happens if we keep ignoring the warning signs.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1841/sam-langston/blog/3138/the-baggy-green-is-sacred-so-why-arent-we-protecting-it

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Hawkesbury Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Nygel Shah is a very promising young leg spinner allrounder.

In round 15 of the 2024-25 NSW Premier Cricket season Nygel made his first-grade debut for Hawkesbury Cricket Club against Campbelltown.

Let’s find out about Nygel’s journey in the game so far.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/466/hawkesbury-cricket-club/blog/3139/pocket-profile-nygel-shah-hawkesbury-cricket-club

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Sam Langston

Teacher

Tamworth, Australia

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Hi all. I’ve recently emailed Ben Oliver at CA High Performance Team, sharing my ideas on how to grow long-form cricket.

I can’t post the whole email due to it being too long but this is the exec summary of the email. I’ve put a link to the full email at the bottom of the post. Let me know if the link doesn’t work.

Just posting to share ideas and have a conversation.

Executive summary
I’m writing to outline a practical, long-term strategy to protect and elevate Australia’s Test dominance.

This approach embeds:
Expansion of the Sheffield Shield to 12–14 rounds to deepen red-ball resilience and grow selection data.

Formal CA-funded county placements, paying full player contracts to systematically embed 6–8 emerging Australians under Dukes balls.

A roaming CA development coach across counties to maintain technical standards and directly manage workloads.

Carefully structured BBL participation for this specific cohort to preserve multi-day habits.


These initiatives together form a world-leading system that no other Test nation is pursuing, directly shaping players like Hunt, Kellaway, Konstas, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann and Webster into a sustained Ashes and WTC force.

https://1drv.ms/b/c/fed1def0c363cd47/ESi3l4q5r4BCtKkjTpxsLksBwB5UVUeX32T8MJ4PWht60Q

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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Waverley's David Lucas takes 7 for 16 as Balmain is bowled out for 29

Sydney Grade Cricket scores for Round 7 in 1987-88

Round 7 was played on 14th and 21st of December 1987

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Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Gordon District Cricket Club 2004-5 First Grade Report

With a productive off-season the Stag's were looking to continue the good work which had been done by the recently retired Matthew Nicholson. There would be new players blooded throughout the year with season 2009/10 going to be a bit of an unknown. A new Skipper was inducted in Beau Casson and the side would start the season with a blend of experience (including two test players in Casson and Flynn) mixed with youth (17 y.o Chad Soper).

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3134/gordon-district-cricket-club-2004-5-first-grade-report

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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100 Moments of 100 years of St George First Grade Cricket 1921-22 to 1930-31

The Finale of our 10 part series covering the very beginning of St George DCC. After 10 years of 2nd Grade the club was finally admitted into First Grade. Here are some of the highlights of those first 10 year.

With thanks to Club Historian Nathan Anderson

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Chris Singh. Two hat-tricks….in the same match!

At the conclusion of the 2015-16 season, Chris Singh announced that after 22 years of Sydney Grade Cricket he had decided to hang up his boots. As a player who had an outstanding career in the lower grades, he was cheered for his achievements but sorely missed in the seasons which followed.

Chris Sumit Singh was born in Suva, Fiji on 16 March 1977

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith Cricket Club in 1982-83. A record and Aussie Goalkeeper

Under the bright Sydney skies, Penrith delivered a masterclass in batting dominance, scripting a tale for the history books. The scoreboard flashed 1/377, an imposing total that would send shivers down the spine of any opposition.

At the heart of this demolition? Trevor Bayliss and Brian Wood—two maestros wielding their willows with sheer elegance and brute force. Bayliss, a picture of relentless concentration, carved out a record 204 not out,

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3132/penrith-cricket-club-in-1982-83-a-record-and-aussie-goalkeeper

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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We continue our Annual Report "Interview With A Champion" series and with the release of our 24-25 report we are pleased to bring you our latest effort where we caught up with champion St George batsman, Blake Nikitaras.

St George DCC 1st Grade Player No.449

Put simply, if you did not at least see the highlights package of Blake Nikitas batting our 1st Grade team to the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup you have simply not lived. It must go down as one of the most memorable innings in St George history.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/3131/interview-with-a-champion-blake-nikitaras

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Adam Crosthwaite

Founder

Melbourne, Australia

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Welcome Century Champions League: Celebrating the Next Generation of Cricket Talent Together

We’re excited to share that The Brand Bar Sport has acquired Century Champions League (CCL) in a part ownership stake, further expanding our presence in the sporting landscape.

A league built for the bold, the skilled, and the champions of tomorrow, CCL is shaking up the game with a festival-style, short-form cricket experience that puts amateur and youth talent in the spotlight. These are franchise based tournaments with franchises owned and operated by owners across the country. In just a few weeks, this spotlight turns to Brisbane starting on Friday 25th - 27th of July for the Next XI U23 competition,

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/255/adam-crosthwaite/blog/3130/welcome-century-champions-league-celebrating-the-next-generation-of-cricket-talent-together

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Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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A 4th Grade premiership in the centenary year of this proud old club. Happy days. Having been so close in 2003-04, it was a just reward for Captain Reynolds to lift the Reid Cup at Killara Park on 3 April 2005. And the crushing victory in the Final – by nine wickets – underscored the fact that this was the best performed side in the competition all year. Only one loss was recorded, to Bankstown in Round 7 in a one-day game, while the runners up, Randwick-Petersham were defeated by Gordon twice at the business end of the season.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3128/gordon-dcc-fourth-grade-premiers-2004-05-and-something-about-a-ferrari

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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North Sydney Third Grade travelled to Merrylands Oval for a regulation two-day match in Round 8 of the 2009/10 Sydney Grade Cricket season. The Bears were mid-table with three wins, three losses and a draw. But they were in good form having won their last two, including an outright the prior round vs Penrith.

The selected Bears team was choc full of doyens, featuring a future President, Vice President, Treasurer and Committee member. The selected side was to also include current Bears First Grade spearhead James Campbell, who was to come into the side as skipper Jason Keane was unavailable with a niggle

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3129/north-sydney-third-grade-bowled-out-for-8

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Pat Rodgers

Teacher

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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The Erratic Syd Emery by Pat Rodgers

Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.

LORDS 1912
Syd had been warned about the chance of rain interrupting play during a so-called English summer. The dampness in the air on the first morning of the Lord’s Test on 24 June 1912 seemed to confirm this. He and his teammates had entered the field with black mourning bands on their left upper arms in memory of their friend Ernest Hume

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Matt Hilder came from the Petersham-Marrickville side of the merger with Randwick in 2001 to form Randwick Petersham. He was an experienced 22-year-old Sydney Grade cricketer, having started as an A W Green Shield boy with Parramatta DCC in 1993-94. He joined Petes in 1998-99, playing lower grades and Poidevin Gray Shield until the creation of Randwick Petersham. He finished second in the 2nd Grade batting aggregate with 300 runs in 2000-01, playing with the likes of David Bourke and Dean White, a season after putting on 141 in a partnership with Steve Yates for the first wicket against Manly in a PGs match. He was a valued player with Petersham-Marrickville and remained as such with Randwick Petersham.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/3126/matthew-hilder

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Patrick Pisani

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When a Canadian Club Cricket Team Played Australia Led by Greg Chappell and Dennis Lillee in 1975

This was going to be a game against The Australian National Team comprised of some of the most accomplished cricketers ever to play Down Under who were visiting our ground at Armour Heights. It was their third game in three days in Toronto. Many of these Aussies had lost on the same ground two days before: Greg Chappell, Lillee, Higgs, Marsh, Walker, Laird, Turner and McCosker.

It was their last game before heading off for the headline series, the Inaugural World Cup which would take place in England in a few days.

Australia was going to bat first. I had the honour of being one of the opening bowlers along with Basil Peters. And it wasn’t just an honour. I knew if the captain was giving me the new ball that I had a job to do.

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