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Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Craig Simmons: From Record-Breaker at Gordon to Big Bash Legend Part 1

When Craig Simmons arrived at Gordon for the 2005/06 season, the left-handed batsman from Western Australia brought with him considerable promise. Having represented Australia at the 2002 Under-19 World Cup, where he smashed 155 runs from 115 balls against Kenya, Simmons had already shown his ability to dominate bowling attacks.

His move to Gordon coincided with his transfer to New South Wales for state cricket, and the arrangement worked perfectly for both club and player.

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8 months ago
Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Gordon's Green Shield Legacy: Forging Champions Since 1937 - Part 1

Gordon's Green Shield story begins modestly. Runners-up in that inaugural 1937-38 season, the club showed early promise without dominating. Then came the 1950s, and with it, a period of excellence that would define junior cricket in Sydney.

Three premierships in six seasons (1950-51, 1951-52, and joint premiers in 1955-56) established Gordon as a powerhouse. But the numbers tell only part of the story. Behind this success stood two grade cricket veterans—Harry Crow and Jack Prowse—who understood that champions weren't born, they were carefully cultivated.

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8 months ago
UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Tim Reynolds - never stop backing yourself

Tim Reynolds has scored over 3,000 First Grade runs in a one-club career which began in 2017/18 - and he's still only 25. He's a mainstay of the Bears top order, our PGs and Green Shield head coach, and a relentless trainer and fierce competitor. We sat down with Tim to hear about his favourite Bears memories, how he adapts across formats, and what it means to play First Grade alongside his brother, as well as the advice he'd give his 12-year-old self.

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8 months ago
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Manly 3rd Grade SF 1992/93 Season: A Season of Promise and Emerging Talent

The 1992/93 season saw the Manly 3rd Grade team reach the semi-finals, marking a campaign defined by both determination and the emergence of future club stars.

The squad featured several players who would go on to become club legends, including Brian Clemow, Peter Procopis, and Simon Couch, whose early performances hinted at the significant impact they would later have at higher levels.

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8 months ago
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Gavin Robertson: A Short but Impactful First-Class Career

In the early 1990s, Australian cricket witnessed the rise of a consistent and highly effective domestic performer in Gavin Robertson. Though his time at the elite level was relatively brief, his impact across three standout seasons firmly etched his name into the fabric of Australian domestic cricket.

Robertson’s three years at Manly came across the 1992/93, 1993/94, and 1994/95 seasons. During this three-season stretch, he claimed an impressive 88 wickets at an average of just 20

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8 months ago
Gordon District Cricket Club
Gordon District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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A Stag for All Seasons: Farewell to Dave Monaghan

Some stories write themselves. Dave Monaghan’s is one of them; fifteen seasons, 220 matches, 3,979 runs, and 315 wickets for Gordon District Cricket Club. Not bad for a bloke who just wanted to enjoy his cricket.

When we marked Dave’s 200th game in January 2025, we called him the World’s Greatest Fifth Grader, and the title fitted perfectly. Dave had spent the better part of a decade cheerfully declining promotion, turning up every week in the lower grades, taking wickets, scoring runs, and making everyone around him better. Then, with characteristic timing, he went and spent his final season in 4th grade, just to keep us guessing.

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8 months ago
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Tom Wood - give things your best shot

Born in 1948, Tom Wood’s cricket journey began in familiar fashion for many Australian cricketers of his generation. His first game came in 1957 for Blaxcell Street Primary School, played on a concrete pitch outside Lidcombe Oval. Even then he made an impression, taking a couple of wickets and discovering a game that would become a lifelong part of who he was.

From those early school days, Tom’s cricket progressed quickly. He continued playing throughout his time at Granville Boys High School, where his talent earned selection for the NSW Combined High Schools teams in 1964 and 1965. In 1964 he was awarded a Cricket Blue. Those school sides included several notable players of the era, among them Bruce Francis, Peter Leslie, Jack Wilson and Marshall Rosen.

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8 months ago
St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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St George DCC and its Rugby League Connections - Pt 2 - Reg Gasnier

In 1959-60 when thirty eight year-old Lindwall played his last Test match and took his record Australian total of wickets to 228, twenty year-old Gasnier announced his genius to the world with a dazzling display on the 1959-60 Kangaroos tour of England and France.

As critics sought new superlatives to describe his change of pace and uncanny anticipation and fans gave him the sobriquet of "Puff the Magic Dragon", his rich promise as a cricketer was all but forgotten.

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8 months ago
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
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Armidale, Australia
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There have been some close games in Waratahs CC of Armidale history, even in semis and Finals but none as close as this - Waratahs v Hillgrove, B Grade Final, 5th & 6th March 1977.
Tied at the end of the first two innings, both sides making 84. Waratahs made 83 in their second and Hillgrove scraped home on 8-84.
An outstanding feature of the game was that it came at the very start of an era that would prove to be one of Waratahs most successful becuase playing in the game were Michael Connolly (#393), Graham Frost (#333) and Tim Muldoon (#296), three players that would shape Waratahs successful 1st grade side in the 1980's.
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8 months ago
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)
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Armidale, Australia
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Keith McIntyre (cap #129) played twelve seasons for Waratahs. It was career mirrored by many others for a club that has always prided itself on family, the desire by players to stay within the ranks and starting in the lowest grade as kids and ending in the highest as young men.
Starting in B grade in the second half of the 1950's and graduating as far as A grade by the early 1960's, it was in A-Reserves that he had his major successes, where his 2,639 runs were the most scored in that grade. In all, he made nearly 4,000 runs for the Club.
Despite his regular run getting - 514 runs 1960-61, 624 in 1968-69 and 447 in 1969-70 - it wasn't until the very end of his career with Waratahs that he scored his first and only hundred. His 101 not out v Armidale Teachers College, was made even more memorable as he had carried his bat, one of only nine players to do so in more than sixty years of competition and the only one to score a century in the process. In the second innings, he retired on 52, one of only six players to make at least 50 in both innings of a match.
Like most handy cricketers, there was more to McIntyre than his batting. As a keeper, he made 53 dismissals and he had 6-20 as a part time trundler!
After he left Waratahs, he made a second legend at Centrals CC of Armidale, being one of the architects of their rise from easy beats of the late 1970's to 1st grade Premiers in 1985-86, beating ... you guessed it, the red hot favourites, Waratahs!

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