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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - 1991-92 season - Round 7 - 30 November and 7 December 1991

Pictured - Dean Waugh who scored 227 not out for Bankstown in their 294 run victory over Hawkesbury at Bensons Lane

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1711/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-1991-92-season-round-7-30-november-and-7-december-1991

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Cricket NSW

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Cricketers across NSW, from the elite to grassroots, will join together from November 10-19 to promote reconciliation and recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the sport.

For the first time ever, the Weber WBBL, NSW Premier Cricket and community cricket clubs around the state will celebrate First Nations Round together by wearing playing kits featuring Indigenous artwork, conducting a Barefoot Circle and a Welcome to Country or Acknowledgement of Country.

The WBBL First Nations Round and First Nations Community and Premier Cricket Round will encourage clubs to further educate players, volunteers and supporters about the history of Aboriginal and Torres Islanders, along with looking to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses.

https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/3773932/nsw-cricketers-celebrate-historic-first-nations-round

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Graeme Rummans

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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My best Grade Cricket team - Graeme Rummans, Sydney and Melbourne 1994 - 2016

Okay, challenge accepted to pick my best Grade Cricket team from the players I played with during my playing days.

In my years playing Premier/Grade Cricket I only ever played for the “Saints” – St George in Sydney and St Kilda in Melbourne.

So to paint the picture of the players I can choose from I made my First Grade debut for St George in March 1994 and played with St George until I made the move to Melbourne and St Kilda for the 2002/03 season.

I returned to St George for 2 seasons from 2006/07 season and then made my way back to St Kilda in 2008/09 and finished up my Premier/Grade Cricket career at the end of the 2015/16 season.

This isn’t an easy challenge but this is my best Grade team from the players I played with

1. Brett Van Diensen – St George

2. Nick Jewell – St Kilda

3. Rob Quiney – St Kilda

4. Michael Klinger – St Kilda and Captain

5. Moises Henriques – St George

6. Brad McNamara – St George

7. Scott Thompson – St George

8. Nathan Pilon – St George and Wicket Keeper

9. Trent Copeland – St George

10. Stuart MacGill – St George

11. Michael Beer – St Kilda

12th man – Steve Green

Team Scorer – Phil Stelzer

Team Manager – Tim Loughry, “Clock”

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Len Pascoe

Business Owner

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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So you want to be a fast bowler well here is the secret

Pitch the ball up as far as you can to pass the splice of the bat

The great fast bowlers had this ability

McGrath
Lillee
Thomson
Willis
Holding
Roberts
Garner
Akram

The indecision from the batsman on whether to go back or forward creates poor shot selection as you can’t drive off the splice of bat.

Bowlers no matter how fast, if you bowl knee down you a flat bowler and it’s far easier for the batsman to drive.

So there you have it, work on the seam position, come over the top and pass the slice of the bat.

Good luck

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Local Junior Goes Large!!

From all of your friends at St George DCC a massive shoutout to our boy Moises Henriques on such a wonderful achievement. Only the 5th NSW Cricketer to play 100 Shield matches. In that time Moey has scored 5561 runs including a HS of 265 and taken 90 wickets with a best of 5-17.

Super stuff Moey!

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Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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On Tuesday 7th November 2023, former Parramatta District Cricket Club 1st grade player and Life Member John Aitken passed away.

The old phrase ‘cricket is life’, was most apt when applied to ‘JA’, he conducted a life-long love affair with the game. The remarkable duration of his personal playing career would undoubtedly place him amongst Australia’s longest-ever continuous players. Up to the close of the 2012/13 season he was still captaining and playing in the Auburn Shire Club’s 4th grade team. Still maintaining his enthusiasm after an astonishing seven decades playing the grand old game.

John was physically a diminutive, slight man whose cricket could be best summed up as ‘gritty and determined.’ Not blessed with the natural ability of his younger sibling Bobby, he practiced assiduously and utilised sheer hard work to extract ‘every ounce’ of skill he owned to forge his marathon career.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/1710/vale-john-aitken

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Auburn Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Vale John Aitken

It is with great sadness to report the passing on Monday evening of former Auburn legend, John Aitken.

John had a long and distinguished playing career that started as a young player with Auburn, he then a long-playing period in Premier Grade Cricket, with Parramatta DCC (formerly known as Central Cumberland DCC), before finishing off his playing career with Auburn.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/723/auburn-cricket-club/blog/1709/vale-john-aitken

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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A rather weather beaten old 'photo was delivered to Pratten Park recently and, fortunately, the Groundsman, current Wests' First Grader, Nick Cutler, was there to receive it.

The photograph (attached) and lovingly restored as well as possible by Wests Archives, was taken by a local Dubbo photographer at Easter 1930, and it depicts what he has called the 'Southern Star' and the visiting Magpies Players, Manager and Scorer lined up on the runway.

The monoplane was actually called the 'Southern Cloud', a ‘sister ship’ of Kingsford Smith’s ‘Southern Cross’, a high wing monoplane and, in fact, one of five purchased by 'Smithy' for his fledgling ANA fleet. The 'plane's details can be seen on the photograph caption.

Among the tourists was Selby Burt, Western Suburbs’ Player #237 and the highest wicket taker in the Club's history (793 wickets at an average of 16.45), in a career that stretched from 1923 to 1942. Selby's great, great grandson, Tom Burt, is Wests' First Grade Player #699.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/1708/western-suburbs-flight-to-dubbo-in-1930

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club First Grade team 2015-16 - T20 Premiers

2015-16 Results - Ladder
The Belvidere cup - 10th
Limited Overs Competition - 12th
T20 - 1st Premiers

T20 victory celebrations after Randwick Petersham defeated Sydney University in the final of the T20 competition at Coogee Oval in November 2015

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/1706/randwick-petersham-cricket-club-first-grade-team-2015-16-t20-premiers

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Photo of 1972-73 Western Suburbs District Cricket Club First Grade Premiership winning team when they defeated Balmain Cricket Club outright by 7 wickets in the final

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last year

Ken Piesse

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Bill Lawry's famed Test and first-class career was over when he shook the hand of president Jack Edwards and agreed to be St Kilda's new captain-coach for three years from 1972-73.

At $3000 per year he was being paid substantially more than he received in a season with Victoria and Australia.

Then 35, Lawry had played the last of his 99 state games with Victoria and his 67 Tests with Australia and was seeking fresh challenges.

"I'd been reluctant to leave Northcote," he said. "I had two young kids and a responsibility to their future. I said to the people at Northcote I didn't know what my future was going to hold. They said: 'We can't offer you any money but we can offer you a VCA delegate's badge'. That helped convince me."

Closer-to-home Carlton was also ready to pounce, but was 24 hours too late. Lawry had already made his commitment.

"It was an honour to go to St Kilda," he said.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/572/ken-piesse/blog/1705/bill-lawry-joined-st-kilda-cricket-club-in-1972-73-on-3000-a-year

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Joe Maiorana

Sydney, Australia

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Born in Middle Swan, Western Australia
Tony Mann was a leg break bowler with a sharp googly. He was almost selected for 1969–70 Australian Second XI Tour of New Zealand when the Test players were in India and South Africa. A useful batsman, he made the Test side during the first season of the Packer schism.
He was in England during 1971-72 when, while playing at club level for Lancashire's Bacup Cricket Club, he also appeared at county level for Shropshire.
He was selected to play against the touring Indian side, being picked over Jim Higgs due in part because of his better batting. Mann took 3–12 in the first innings of the First Test and also making useful scores of 19 and 26 in a closely fought match. He was less successful in the second innings as a bowler, taking 0–52.
In the Second Test he found the going harder against the Indian batsmen, taking 0–63 and 0–49. However, in the second innings, when Australia was chasing 339 to win the game, Mann came to the wicket as nightwatchman when Australia was 1–13 and did not leave until they were 2–172 by which time he had scored 105 runs, helping lay the platform for an Australian victory.
He was only the second man in history to score a century in a Test match after being sent in as nightwatchman.
He was used sparingly as a bowler in the Third Test and in the Fourth Test he was dismissed for a pair and took 0–101.[6] He was dropped in favour of fellow West Australian Bruce Yardley for the Fifth Test and never played for Australia again.
His father was Jack Mann, a pioneer of the wine industry in Western Australia.
Tony was a schoolteacher for 30 years before becoming manager for the WACA, Adam Gilchrist becoming among his notable recruits to the Western Australia cricket team. He passed away of pancreatic cancer at St John of God Murdoch Hospital in November 2019 aged 74.
Anthony Longford Mann was born on this day in 1945

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Armidale District Cricket Association

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Brad King has played all his cricket in the Northern NSW town of Armidale.

He started playing for Hillgrove Cricket Club when he was 15 and has played with “The Grove” ever since. He is still their first-grade captain and continues to make a very valuable contribution to cricket in Armidale.

Turning 50 and Brad is also playing Veterans Cricket and was recently selected for the NSW Kookaburra to play in the Over 50s National Championships in Victoria in December.

Brad and his family run the local pet shop - Armidale Pet Shop and Aquarium

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/237/armidale-district-cricket-association/blog/1702/brad-king-control-your-own-performance

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Stuart Patterson

I.T Manager

Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

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My daughter is 14 and quite a talented young cricketer but decided not to play this season as she was inspired by the Matilda’s and wants to play Football.
I spoke to a couple of the committee members in our local competition, and they said for the first time in a couple of seasons their numbers are down in girl’s cricket.
I wonder if other competitions and clubs are experiencing the same.

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Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith Cricket Club won the 2009-10 Poidevin Gray Shield after beating St George in the Final at Hurstville Oval on 14 March 2010.

St George finish on top of the ladder with Penrith one point behind.

St George won the toss and batted first to score 146 from their 50 overs. Blake Fitzgerald top scored with 43 while Damian Carroll made 40 not out.

Pat Cummins was the pick of the Penrith bowlers taking 3 for 35 from his 10 overs.

Penrith only needed 43 overs to score the winning runs with Jordan Silk top scoring with 58 and Tim Sutton scored 35.

Penrith only lost 4 wickets to take the champions title and it was the first Poidevin Gray Shield win since 2000/01.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/594/penrith-cricket-club-poidevin-gray-premiers-2009-10

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Cricket Australia Community

Melbourne, Australia

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A hobbled Glenn Maxwell scored Australia's first ever men's ODI double century to pull off one of cricket's all-time greatest comebacks

Glenn Maxwell defied intense pain to play one of the greatest innings in history and pull off the mother of all heists in a World Cup epic against Afghanistan in Mumbai.

A cramping Maxwell (201no from 128 balls) could hardly walk, let alone run, through the back half of a 202-run partnership with captain Pat Cummins – the biggest for the eighth wicket in ODI history – as the Aussies rose from the dead to seal a semi-final berth.

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/3772289/glenn-maxwell-201-not-out-double-century-australia-beat-afghanistan-odi-world-cup-2023-mumbai-highlights

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Shane Lee

Founder

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Former Petersham 1st grade cricketer and NSW junior representative Corey “Slug” Pearson changed his sporting career focus at the age of 21 from Cricket to Rugby League and I may have played a small part in his decision making.

I preface this story by saying Corey is one of my best mates and he's also the Godfather to my five-year-old son Thomas - God help Thomas and I mean that literally.

I first met Slug when playing Green Shield at the age of 15. I was the quiet blonde quick from the South Coast of NSW and Corey had already been cutting his cricketing teeth in the lower grades at Petersham Cricket Club.

Corey’s introduction to the world of “Man Sport” was honed by the Petersham elite. Graham “Heaps” Hughes (why did they call him Heaps? When you saw him in the shower he had HEAPS!), Brian Riley (the greatest sledger of all time) and the Sullivan Brothers or “Slut” Brothers - Worm and Fuss. The Petersham hierarchy had developed their own language, designed to distract and sledge the opposition on the field and attract the ladies off it!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/538/shane-lee/blog/859/corey-pearson-from-no-5-to-no-8

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Ken Jacobs

Business Advisor

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Well before T20 Cricket and even 50 over one day matches there was "Double Wicket Cricket" and in 1968 it was played in Australia, largely due to the efforts of former NSW and Australian captain Bob Simpson.

And when you look at the players who were involved in 1968 it makes you wonder about the crowds they would attract today - an absolute array of champions of the game of cricket.

The rules are outlined in this booklet as too the prizemoney on offer -the winning team received $4000 and the team that finished eighth received $1150.

Matches were played in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth and for all matches local players in each State were the fieldsmen for the day - there are many familiar and other well-known players who acted as fieldsmen in each State as you will see.

Unfortunately, the fieldsmen for the Victoria leg of the competition played at the St. Kilda Cricket Ground "Junction Oval" are not listed but I think there were a number of St.Kilda CC players involved.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/126/ken-jacobs/blog/1701/world-championship-cricket-before-world-series-cricket-australian-tour-1968

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Newcastle District Cricket Association

Newcastle, NSW, Australia

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The Newcastle Cricket Zone are pleased to announce the Open Men's team.
This year sees a few changes to the program, with the Plan B Regional Bash being played in Tamworth on the 16th November and pool winners playing the final before a BBL match later in the season.
Newcastle will then seek to defend their title from last year competing in the McDonald s Country Championships in Tamworth from the 17th to 19th November.
Congratulations to all selected players
(NCZ Selection Panel: Nick Foster, Greg Arms, Murray Christie).

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NSW Premier Cricket

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - 1991-92 season - Round 6 - 23 and 24 November 1991

Pictured - Bill York, Fairfield Liverpool player number 1 who took 5 for 53 off 39.4 overs in Fairfield's 31 run victory over Sydney University

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1699/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-1991-92-season-round-6-23-and-24-november-1991

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