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2 years ago

Paul Ryan

Founder

Newcastle District Cricket Association

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A cricket club in Newcastle has a vacancy for a head coach for the 2024–25 season.

If you’re an accredited coach (level 2 or 3) or a player who’d like to get into coaching and be a player/coach this could be a great opportunity.

If you’d like to know more, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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2 years ago

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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Photo of the Newcastle Colts team that played in 2011-12 NSW Country Colts Carnival in Wollongong,

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2 years ago

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The Olly Cooley Medal is awarded to the best first grade player of the Western Australia Premier Cricket season.

In the 48 seasons since Tony Mann from Midland Guildford Cricket Club won the inaugural Olly Cooley for the 1976-77 season, which premier cricket club has had the most players who have won the prestigious Olly Cooley Medal?

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2 years ago

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The Bill O’Reilly Medal is awarded to the best first grade player of the NSW Premier Cricket season.

In the 57 seasons since Bob Simpson won the inaugural Bill O’Reilly for the 1967-68 season, which premier cricket club has had the most players who have won the prestigious Bill O’Reilly Medal?

Hint – there are 3 clubs with the same number of Bill O’Reilly Medalists

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2 years ago

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The Peter Burge Medal is awarded to the best first grade player of the Queensland Premier Cricket season.

In the 33 seasons since Harley Hammelman from South Brisbane Cricket Club and Robert McGhee from Toombul District Cricket Club were joint winners for the inaugural Peter Burge for the 1990-91 season, which premier cricket club has had the most players who have won the prestigious Peter Burge Medal?

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2 years ago

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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The Jack Ryder Medal is awarded to the best first grade player of the Victoria Premier Cricket season.

In the 52 seasons since Ron Bird from Collingwood Cricket Club won the inaugural Jack Ryder Medal for the 1972-73 season which premier cricket club has had the most players who have won the prestigious Jack Ryder Medal?

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2 years ago

Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club 2nd Grade premiers 2004-05

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2 years ago

South Launceston Cricket Club

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club Poidevin Gray Premiership winning team 1968-69

Back Row – P Stephenson, K Nichol, R Honeyman, P Spraggs, G Beard, K Turner

Front Row – R Andrew, N Coltman, P Harvey (Captain), F Turner, A Fraser, I Felton

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2 years ago

Launceston, Australia

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North Tasmania Cricket Association Hall Of Fame Inductee - Mark Nutting

The recent Cricket North Presentation Function was a special one for the Knights with club legend, Mark Nutting, being inducted into the NTCA Hall Of Fame!

Mark/Nuttsy/Zero is SLCC 1st Grade men’s player #587. He played a whopping 26 seasons for the Knights between 1988 and 2018.

He finished his playing career as our all time leading games and 1st Grade runs record holder. Both records he holds to this day.

Mark's career stats and achievements:
322 games (SLCC record)
10,150 runs at 31.23 (SLCC record)
275 wickets at 19.70
13 x 100s, 53 x 50s
5 x Cedric Knight Medallist
7 x Club Champion
2008/09 NTCA Player Of The Year
10 x NTCA Team Of The Year
4 x Premiership Player (2 as playing coach)

Mark also played 3 seasons for Lindisfarne in the TCA during the middle of his career. He broke the TCA record at the time for the most runs in a season and won a premiership in his 1st season. Mark played around 20 x 2nd XI games for Tasmania during this period.

Mark joins fellow SLCC greats Shaun Young, Cedric Knight, Ron Williams, Ron Thomas, Max Thomas, Tom Room, Ian Young & George Bailey in the Hall of Fame.

This is a fantastic acknowledgement of an exceptional Knight!

On behalf of everyone at the Knights, congrats Nuttsy and very well deserved!

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2 years ago

St George Cricket Club

Cricket Australia Community

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St George v Western Suburbs 1971 - 72 First Grade Semi Final

Runners-up in the minor premiership, St George played Wests in the semi-final at Hurstville Oval. The verdict: “Best game seen at Hurstville since the days of Bradman and O’Reilly”

St George lost in a thriller.

If he had to bow out on a losing note, Warren Saunders could not have asked for a game that highlighted more his mantra of attacking cricket. With Warren at the helm, St George staged a sensational run-chase that almost brought off the impossible.

Wests chose to bat first in ideal conditions and started well, but rain caused a delay of almost two hours, turning the pitch into a nightmare. Wests were bundled out for 104, but Saints did worse, routed for just 63. Wests dug in late on the first evening and into the second day, and right on tea were dismissed for 191, setting St George 233 to win in 30 overs. This was made even more difficult by the astute captaincy of former Test skipper Bob Simpson.

As the chase began, the ground began to fill. Many knew this would be the last hurrah of the retiring Saunders and opening partner Billy Watson, and the 5,000 spectators weren’t disappointed. At drinks after 15 overs, the pair had posted a 100 partnership with the most marvellous batting against Gilmour and Rhodes. Both were dismissed shortly after, and with Brian Booth and John Rogers smashing 58 in the next half hour, the target looked very gettable. Then came disaster. First Booth and then Rogers in successive balls were caught on the mid wicket fence, followed by John Wilson run out off the very next ball. Still St George batted on and when the final ball was bowled, were just three runs short.

Wests went on to win the final handsomely to become premiers. For saints, it was again a matter of “so near, yet so far”. However the quality of the game had left a sense of exhilaration, a wonderful finale to the career of Warren Saunders.

This story was originally published in the book written by John Rogers titled “Mr St George” - Warren Saunders and the culture of success he inspired.

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2 years ago

Melbourne, Australia

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Australian Cricket team that played in the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Malaysia.

Australia won the silver medal after losing to gold medalist South Africa in the final by 4 wickets.

Australia all out for 183 off 49.3 overs.

Steve Waugh - 90 not out off 109 balls
Shaun Pollock - 4 for 19 off 9 overs

South Africa 6 for 184 off 46 overs
Michael Rindel – 67 off 106 balls
Darren Lehmann – 3 for 14 off 4 overs

Match scorecard -
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/commonwealth-games-1998-99-460200/australia-vs-south-africa-final-460251/full-scorecard

New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka to win the bronze medal.

Back Row – Michael Bevan, Darren Lehmann, Adam Gilchrist, Damien Fleming, Michael Kasprowicz, Brad Young, Tom Moody

Front Row – Gavin Robertson, Andy Bichel, Damien Martyn, Ricky Ponting, Brendan Julian, Steve Waugh (Captain), Mark Waugh

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2 years ago

North Hobart Cricket Club

Hobart, Australia

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North Hobart Cricket Club - 1997- 98 Kookaburra Cup State Limited Overs Premiers

Back Row - Mathew Davis, Andrew Saballus, Damian Mizzen, Troy Cooley, Lyndon Beard, Stuart Coburn, Stuart Alexander, Paul Collins.

Front Row - Dan Marsh, Todd Pinnington, Myles Harry (Captain), Tony Judd.

North Hobart won the toss and batted and scored 7 for 192. In reply Launceston was bowled out for 190.

The photo was taken at a small convict tourist village called Richmond at a local place who did photography in convict style.

Match scorecard -
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/710/north-hobart-cricket-club/blog/653/north-hobart-cricket-club-1997-98-kookaburra-cup-state-limited-overs-premiers

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2 years ago

Hawkesbury Cricket Club

Campbelltown Camden District Cricket Club

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Bilal Qureshi joined Hawkesbury Cricket Club at the start of the 2019/20 after playing for a number of clubs in NSW Premier Cricket.

What’s been your most memorable moment in cricket so far?

Making my first-class debut in Pakistan (2014), and a very close second was when I scored 208 not out in NSW Premier Cricket for Blacktown in 2nd Grade against Gordon a few seasons ago, and then my first T20 hundred in the US Open (Miami) in 2018.

Bilal has played first class cricket in Pakistan as a top order batsman.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/466/hawkesbury-cricket-club/blog/2144/bilal-qureshi-what-you-seek-is-seeking-you

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2 years ago

Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club

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Round 6 vs Bankstown (30/11/85 & 1/12/85)
(by Paul Bourke “Bourkey” First Grade Cap No 3.)

Campbelltown made an encouraging entry into the Sydney First Grade Competition in the 1985/6 season. Round 1 saw a solid win (by 81 runs) over another newcomer Hawkesbury, and Round 2 resulted in a draw after Day 2 was washed out. This game was evenly poised against Fairfield who were also in their debut season. Round 3 against the strong Penrith team exposed several deficiencies in our play but rain saved us to escape with a draw. Round 4 against Parramatta really rammed home how far we were off the pace against a solid, competitive side. To lose 7/11 in the last hour of play on a good batting wicket illustrated the lack of depth in our batting line up as we were beaten outright.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/418/campbelltown-camden-district-cricket-club/blog/2143/the-match-that-signalled-the-arrival-of-campbelltown-first-grade-team

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2 years ago

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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Breaking News - Quincy Titterton, the aggressive fast bowler, is bringing his formidable pace to Waratah Mayfield DCC for season 2024/25💥

Joining us from Gordon District Cricket Club we are ready for some serious heat on the pitch as Quincy joins our squad! 🔥 #WelcomeQuincy #WMDCC 🏏

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2 years ago

South Australia Cricket Association

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Two SACA Premier Cricketers have been rewarded for strong First Grade form and have filled the remaining places of South Australia Men’s squad ahead of the 2024/25 season.

After earning a place in the Marsh Sheffield Shield side in the final match of last season and contributing to the comprehensive win, batter Conor McInerney has received another shot at State level.

Campbell Thompson, a pace bowler from East Torrens, has progressed through SACA’s Under 17s, Under 19s and Pathway Academy to earn a rookie contract.

https://www.saca.com.au/news/3979318/saca-premier-cricketers-fill-final-sa-men-list-spots

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2 years ago