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Belmont District Cricket Club
Belmont District Cricket Club
Newcastle, Australia
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John Halligan sits on the Belmont District Cricket Club's Committee and has done an excellent job in his short time at Belmont. John has two boys who play for the club (Pat and Ned). John also took out the clubman of the year in the recent season and has been a fine helper for Belmont.

If there was one match-up in the history of world cricket, a bowler and batsman going head-to-head at their peak, who would you choose?

Don Bradman v Shane Warne the best ever batsman v the best ever spinner

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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"We thought the rules were very clear", says David O'Neil, "and that after the rounds we'd play the semi- final. But the Association disagreed, and so we sued on a point of principle." Western Suburbs took the matter to the Supreme Court, seeking an injunction to prevent the semi-finals from being played until the ambiguity in the rules was resolved by the Court. The matter was settled when the Association agreed to stage a play-off between the two affected teams, Wests and North Sydney

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Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Hawkesbury Cricket Club win the 2019-2020 T20 Thunder Conference Final v Bankstown at Bankstown Oval

Hawkesbury 8-143 won on the last ball of the game chasing Bankstown 8-142 off their 20 overs

Back Row: Jas Cheema, Nivethan Radhakrishnan, Scott Baldwin, Dale McKay, Bilal Qureshi, Ryan Mizzi (Wicket Keeper), Pat Moore, Chuck Matthews (Assistant Coach)

Front Row: Bailey Thompson, Austin Philip, Mohammad Shinwari, Peter Forrest (Captain), Hameed Kherkhah.

Match scorecard -
https://shorturl.at/S9tVN
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Dean Tuckwell
Dean Tuckwell
Travel Agent
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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It turns out that it isn’t just in juniors where this phenomenon occurs and in the Central Lancashire League Ezra Moseley was that fast bowler. It was with great sadness when in February 2021 I heard Ezra had been knocked off his bike and killed, struck by an unlicenced 17 year old driver (in Barbados you must be at least 18 to obtain a licence).

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club 3rd Grade Premiers 2004-05

Our 2004-05 Third grade Premiership winning side was our first 2-day Premiership in 15 years. It was a long time coming after many heartbreaking Grand final losses or below par years, but eventual slow build over the previous few seasons.

Standing: Danny Redrup, Moran Youell, James Munting, Andrew Lindsay, Luke Cameron, Adam Parkinson,

Kneeling: Craig Little, Ben Fisher, John Warn (Captain), Russell Parker, Scott Fitzsimmons, Josh Peterson

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Mosman Cricket Club
Mosman Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Mosman Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 2021-22

Back Row - Austen Sharp (Fielding Coach), Simon Paine (Net Captain), Bernie Smith (President), George Condon, Matt Moran, Dean Crawford, Jayden Park, Liam O’Farrell, Elijah Eales, Warwick Adlam (General Manager), Toni Lorraine (Scorer)

Front Row - Evan Hughes (Committee Member)), Lachie Hearne, Matt Calder, Peter Forrest, Nathan Hinton (Captain), Harry Dalton, Jake Turner, Chuck Matthews (Assistant Coach)

Final - Mosman v Northern District
Match scorecard -
https://shorturl.at/HKtlt
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Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, Australia
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Northern District Cricket Club 3rd Grade Premiers 2021-22

Back Row – Anthony Bartlett, Jordan Fullagar, Matt Taylor, Nick Cheadle, Neil Kimberley, Mark Bolger (Scorer)

Front Row – Yash Patel, Will Coffey, Dan Stickland, (Captain), Will McFadden, Mitch Crayn, Jayden Camp


Northern District v Bankstown

Northern District - 7 for 250 off 50 overs
Bankstown - all out 198 off 44.1 overs

Match scorecard -
https://shorturl.at/8OzQZ
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Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sylvania, Australia
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Sutherland team after defeating Sydney University in the 1st Grade Limited Overs Final at Glenn McGrath Oval on 28 February 2010:

Back row: Andre Adams, Daniel Rixon, Scott Pickering, Matthew Hughston (captain), Stephen Cush, Joel Tuccia, Matthew Bradley, Phil Jaques, Adam Fleming.

Front row: Luke Dudman, Nathan FItzgerald, Nic Maddinson, Louis Talay, Shane Duff (coach), David Murphy.

Scorecard -
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Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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The Hawkesbury Cricket Club honored Hugh McKay with a Life Membership in 2013.

Hugh is Hawkesbury Cricket Club first grade player number 29. He was an inaugural committee member when Hawkesbury entered the Sydney Grade Cricket competition in 1985–86 and still sits on the club's committee.

Hugh served as President of the Club in 2014–15, has been the club coach and grounds coordinator, and still plays for Hawkesbury Over 50s cricket team.

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Adam Morehouse
Adam Morehouse
Canberra, ACT, Australia
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I am counting down what I believe are the five greatest Douglas Cup Finals. This match is the fifth on the list.

No.5 – 1930/31 – Northbourne v Ainslie – The match which went on forever!

The 1930/31 Final was held between Northbourne and Ainslie and started at Manuka Oval. Northbourne were the Minor Premiers by one point from Queanbeyan and Ainslie finished third after the home and away series. This Final was the first to be held at Manuka Oval, previous finals had been held Northbourne Oval and the Acton Sports Ground.

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Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club
Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club 2nd Grade win the Royce McCormack Cup 2020-21

Back Row - Liam Wilson, Lachlan Taylor, Jacob Hill, Irfan Ali, Olivier Koehn

Front Row – Rob Hill, Josh Brackenbury (Captain), Jono Twomey (Man of the Match), Alex Taylor, Blake Morley, Toby Chillingworth


Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club 2nd Grade win the Royce McCormack Cup 2020-21

Waratah Mayfield Cricket Club first piece of silverware for the 2020-21 was won by the clubs 2nd grade team going undefeated in the one-day competition.

After finishing on top through the pool rounds, the boys earnt a home Grand Final hosting Charlestown at Waratah Oval.

Charlestown won the toss and had a bat. We didn't have to wait long for the first action, with Irfan Ali picking up wickets in consecutive balls to have them 2/0 in the third over. Robert Hill then picked up the 3rd wicket, bowling a tight opening spell to put the pressure on.

Jono Twomey (4/10 off came on first change and was near unplayable, with his spell having Charlestown reeling at 7/37 halfway through their innings. Charlestown had a bit of a fightback for the 8th wicket with Winpenny (29) pushing the total up, with Jacob Hill (2/19) cleaning up the tail after a strong spell to have them all out for 80.

Olivier Koehn (40*) and Toby Chillingworth got us off to a fantastic start in the chase, and skipper Josh Brackenbury (36* off 28) got it finished quickly. A 9 wicket win with 19 overs to spare sums up a dominant performance from the Tahs.

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Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Andrew Jones was a strong and highly skilled left arm fast bowler who climbed through the grades at Balmain very quickly and made his first grade debut for Balmain in 1981 at just 17 years of age.

Andrew led the Balmain attack until he retired in 1997 after taking 449 first grade wickets at an average of 19.17. His best figures in first grade was 7 for 45 and he took 5 wickets in an innings on 20 occasions.

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Blacktown Mounties Cricket Club
Blacktown Mounties Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Dan Jackson is Blacktown Mounties first grade player number 63 after making his debut against Hawkesbury on 12 December 2009.

In all grades for Blacktown Dan has scored 1,224 runs at an average of 28.47 including 2 centuries and 5 half centuries.

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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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St George Cricket Club 4th Grade Premiers 2018-19

Back Row – Peter Jackson (Coach), Jarrod Brown, Steve Wark, Tom Kennedy, Vasi MacMillan, Ethan Jamieson, Alan Pandelis (Scorer)

Middle Row - Blake Newport, Josh Vella, Eric Serra

Front Row - Rod Krause, Andrew Pandelis, Declan Hart, Dean Cassar

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South Brisbane District Cricket Club
South Brisbane District Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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Charles B Barstow – South Brisbane First Grade Player Number 87

Charles B Barstow came from the Etons Juniors in 1905, and in his two first seasons with the club took 164 wickets. His 86 wickets in 1906/07 is still the greatest number taken by any bowler for the club in one season. Charles played for Souths from 1905-1911 when he transferred to Toombul under the Electorate residential rules.

Barstow was unlucky, in that he mainly played for Queensland before it entered the Sheffield Shield and was considered too old to play for Australia. On his day, he was reputed as being unplayable in club cricket.

In 1909/10 he took 10/34 against Oxley and also had Toombul at 8/1 at one stage against Toombul. He won 16 grade premierships with various clubs. His first class record was 78 wickets at 28.2.

Barstow died in 1935 at only 52 years of age.

Charles B Barstow – Qld Team (Image State Library of Qld)

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