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Peter Procopis
Peter Procopis
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
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Peter Procopis - my best captain

Craig Glassock (Manly Warringah) was the best captain I played with during my Grade Cricket career.
Everything Craig did during the cricket season was directed towards his team winning matches. He drove a team-first culture both on and off the field.

Players were expected to play whatever role was needed on the day. Team-focussed performances were rewarded via public acknowledgement and in selections and more 'selfish', statistical-based play was frequently challenged and counted against players in selections.

Craig was well ahead of his time insofar as the focus he placed on our fielding was concerned.

He led from the front as the best Keeper-batsman in NSW for a few years there.

We regularly completed long, hard, match-specific fielding sessions. Each player was also expected to do their own specific fielding practise in positions they usually fielded in during matches.

Like many others, I felt empowered as a player by Craig's encouragement. He was particularly good at helping players believe in their ability and back themselves when playing in his first grade side.

His own batting and keeping was always confident. He always looked to progress the game and we never played for draws.

That leadership made things very clear and simple for his players.

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Cricket NSW
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Week 13 – ‘The Opening Spell’

In this week's edition of 'The Opening Spell', we're re-opening the record books to once again highlight one of the competition's all-time greats and introduce some first-timers too!

Scott Rodgie raises the bat for the Rangers // Ian Bird Photography

First ball – 😄 (Eastern Suburbs and Manly Warringah coaching staff on Monday)

Eastern Suburbs produced a ‘Dolphwash’ in the men’s competition over the weekend, winning five out five fixtures against Sutherland, as well as their AW Green Shield opener against Fairfield-Liverpool.
Manly Warringah did the same in the women’s competition, claiming wins over Bankstown and Sydney University across their four grades.

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Dandenong Cricket Club
Dandenong Cricket Club
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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We are grateful to the Dandenong Star Journal who researched and published much of this article on 14 September 2017. A cartoon of Harry Shepley from the Dandenong Journal.

What’s In a Name delves into the fascinating stories and personalities behind some of the city’s best-known street names and locations. This week the Journal looks at Shepley Oval in Dandenong.

The sports oval at the top end of Pultney Street officially became the Harry Shepley Oval in March 1953.

Shep, as he was known, died suddenly on 7 August 1952 at age 57.

His death “robbed this district of one of its finest citizens, and leaves the whole community with a sense of deep personal loss”, the Journal reported at the time.

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Peter Clifford
Peter Clifford
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Tuesday and especially Thursdays are the nights Valley train between 6 -8 pm and the coaches are brilliant and I have never seen a better well-disciplined club in terms of facilities and training and that’s from every grade.

Peter Drinnen, Grant Mitchell, and Matt Dy Payne work relentlessly to make sure players get what they need to be better.

My role is to help players with their game. By the time they get to me they can already play and I need to make sure they understand and can choose the best options to help them play better.

I will “tweak “ something I see and pass it onto the player to see if it works for them.

I have always liked to “build something” in a club and leave it in a better place.

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Darren Wotherspoon
Darren Wotherspoon
Cricket Coach
Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
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Skid only played a few more games before he retired and it was a huge regret that I didn't come to Sydney earlier to get more time playing as Skid as captain. He was always there for me and it was the chats with him that convinced me to go to Manly in 2005 to play under his brother-in-law, Shawn Bradstreet.

Skid was the only person whom I saw Scott Hookey couldn’t intimidate. Hook had absolute respect for Skid and Hook was very intense. Hook's sister said to me one day at work that Scott feels he owes his life to Skid. I worked with both of them, and the respect Hook had for Skid tells a big story about the man that Skid is.

In 2005 I left the Bears to go to Manly and play under the best captain I experienced, Shawn Bradstreet.

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Prahran Cricket Club
Prahran Cricket Club
Melbourne, Australia
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Neil Schlittler made his first grade debut for Prahran Cricket Club during the 1997/98 season and played 233 first grade games for the club.

At the time of publication Neil is the 4th highest first grade run scorer in the clubs history having scored 6,460 runs at an average of 27.84. His highest score was 178 and he hit 9 centuries and 34 half centuries. He also took 47 wickets with best figures of 3 for 16 and took 91 catches.

Neil was Prahran first grade captain in 58 games and he’s a two time winner of the Dav Whatmore Award for the Champion 1st XI Player of the Year.

In 2015 Neil Schlittler was inducted into the Prahran Cricket Club’s Hall of Fame.

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Keiran Knight
Keiran Knight
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Keiran Knight – my best captain

The best captain I played with was Neil Maxwell.

Encouraged us to play attacking positive cricket. Max new his players and their ability. His knowledge of the game and when to use his quicks or spinners. He was a hard taskmaster but held himself to those levels of expectation.

One match against Parramatta we won on first innings prior to tea but we didn’t bowl or field overly well. He got stuck into us at the tea break and we sent them back in to follow on.

Max was pretty fired up and took the new ball. Parramatta were 4 for 1 at the end of the over. We won outright in 13 overs. We all jumped on his coat tails and followed his example.

We then knew the standards we were setting as a team.

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Evan Atkins
Evan Atkins
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Evan Atkins - my best captain

Barry Davison was my captain in 3rd grade in 1983. He led a young team like the pied piper and he was inspirational with his batting, making some opposing spinners cry with his sweeping and lofted off drives.

His field placements and bowling changes during that season as I think back were beyond a lot of the players cricketing comprehension. We really had no idea what he was doing, we just followed the leader.

Looking back, he was so far ahead of the game I didn’t appreciate the minutia at the time, but it was amazing.

Lenny Pascoe was a different kettle of fish. 1985 we were a very young first grade team finding our way. Justin Kenny, Mark Chapman, Phil Weatherall, Kevin Tuite all very inexperienced and happily following Len around, a few of us in our first seasons.

We played UNSW at Caringbah and Geoff Lawson had just jumped off a plane from a successful Ashes series and very keen to play grade cricket. Friday night there was a huge storm in Caringbah and there were holes in the covers. When the covers were removed there was a one metre circular wet spot just short of a length at the northern end. You could squeeze you finger into the patch up to the first joint on your index finger. Anyway, the young Sutherland side were on tenterhooks as Len went out to for the toss. He walked back towards the rooms motioning that we were batting. He closed the dressing room door and announced to the team that he had won the toss but decided to bat on a wet wicket to see how his young batsmen would react and handle the situation

I played most of my first-grade cricket under John Dyson. After the ban he and Steve Rixon had post the rebel tour to South Africa, Dyso decided to go to Sydney Uni so he could captain a first grade side while Stumpa took the reins at Sutherland.

As a wicket keeper I followed Dyso to Uni and the way he blended a side together with stalwarts like Mick O’Suilivan and John Grimble was amazing.

The Uni side was young with some serious talent but he had the nous to bring that side together into what was a happy well-functioning side.

We both returned to Sutherland, and he mentored players like Jake Kenny, Phil Weatherall, Glenn McGrath, Mark Chapman to maximise what they had as cricketers. As a 40 year old he played some inspiring knocks against the likes of Holdsworth, Killen, Alley and a few slower nemesis’s I won’t mention.

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Cricket Without Borders
Cricket Without Borders
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Women’s Sport Advocate – Sports Integrity Expert with Catherine Ordway

Catherine is an international expert in the field of integrity in sport and is a strong advocate of women’s sport. She is also a sought-after media commentator and conference presenter and has served on numerous ethics and anti-doping committees in Australia and internationally.

Catherine played an instrumental role in securing humanitarian visas for members of the Afghanistan women’s cricket team and their families to settle in Australia in 2021 after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.

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