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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Keeping it in the Family - Penrith Cricket Club

The photo above is a photo of the Penrith Fourths in 1978/79. It reflects a family influence(*) that would impact on the Club in the decades ahead. Fathers and sons, and, even grandsons are likely to perpetuate a typical spirit. Lose it, and the danger is you can lose that certain something that keeps a Club buzzing. Players (back row, l to r) are: N Greenway, Ian Wyatt, John Klincke*, Jon Llewelyn; (front row) Rod Vernon, Pat Doyle*, Trevor Wholohan*, Tony Diaczok, Paul Thomas*, David Blake*. John Klincke is the father of Jacqueline-Marie, who was a member of the Penrith Women’s Brewer Shield winning team in 2011/12;

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3314/keeping-it-in-the-family-penrith-cricket-club

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Doug Kennedy was a noteworthy, successful and popular player, and a committed volunteer Official with the Parramatta (Central Cumberland) District Cricket Club over a long expanse of time.

As an administrator he performed a range of valuable roles during his involvement with the club. He sat on the Management Committee from 1940/41 to 1948/49 assisting the club during the taxing World War II days; he was a regular member of the club’s

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3317/doug-kennedy-ndash-a-staunch-parramatta-clubman

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8 months ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Since the early 1980s St George District Cricket Club have hosted an Annual Dinner with leading cricketers as the keynote speaker. From Richie Benaud to Arthur Morris and Barry Richards attendees have been entertained with reflections, reminiscences and opinions. In the last four years Greg Chappell, Mike Hussey, Doug Walters and Mark Taylor have maintained the enviable tradition.

On Wednesday 12 November, at Club Central Hurstville, Simon Katich will undoubtedly maintain the high standards established over nearly five decades, as he addresses a crowd that is anticipated to exceed 250 guests.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/3312/the-st-george-tradition-continues

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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Beth Lane, Cap #55 - Penrith Cricket Club

My cricket journey began the same as most – in the backyard with my brothers. I played for Springwood as a junior and Penrith women’s as soon as I could, moving to First Grade. I also played in the NSW Academy as a junior and then got contracted with the Tassie Tigers, moving to Hobart and playing for the New Town Bucks. I have moved back to Sydney this year, and I’m looking forward to another season at Penrith Cricket Club!

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3310/beth-lane-cap-55-penrith-cricket-club

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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On 3 March 2013 at Bankstown Oval, North Sydney won the First Grade Limited Overs Cup for the fifth time in the club’s history. Bowled out for 197 in 49 overs, the Bears may not have been favourites at the innings break, but we dismissed Northern District for 156 to win by 41 runs.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3311/the-bears-2013-one-day-premiership

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8 months ago

Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Brett Rosen - a renowned Gordon wicket keeper batsman

While the name Rosen has been synonymous with the Gordon District Cricket Club since the arrival of a young batsman in the 1960’s by the name of Marshall Rosen, who went on to score 5,936 First Grade Runs and become a legendary administrator for both the club and for the NSWCA, his son Brett also had an exceptional career with the Gordon club.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3306/brett-rosen-a-renowned-gordon-wicket-keeper-batsman

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Jason Coleman can best be described as a dyed-in-the-wool ‘cricket tragic’, the complete devotee of the game. Originally a Kings Langley junior player he has dedicated his entire adult life to partaking in cricket related escapades. His ongoing romance with cricket has, over the past three decades, seen him playing non-stop Grade and Shires cricket in Sydney (plus Coaching) during the Australian summer, and then jetting-off to England to play, coach and work in cricket administration in the U.K. league and minor counties competitions over the English summer.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3308/jason-coleman-ndash-the-coach

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8 months ago

Cricket NSW Masters

New South Wales, Australia

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Veterans Cricket NSW Hall of Fame Spotlight: Karen Price (m. Hill)

A true trailblazer for women’s cricket, Karen shone as a dynamic all-rounder for NSW and Australia, and has spent decades preserving the game’s rich history.

From her heroics on the field to her tireless work as an historian and archivist, Karen’s legacy continues to shape the story of women’s cricket in Australia.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/168/veterans-cricket-nsw/blog/3307/veterans-cricket-nsw-hall-of-fame-spotlight-karen-price-m-hill

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Get to know Grace Wetherall - UTS North Sydney

Grace Wetherall is a fast-bowling, big-hitting all-rounder who hails from Jersey, in the Channel Islands (between England and France). She's been playing for Jersey since 2019 when she was just 12, and has racked up 41 appearances with a high score of 68 last month against rivals, Guernsey. Grace also plays English county cricket for Wiltshire.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3303/get-to-know-grace-wetherall-uts-north-sydney

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8 months ago

Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)

Founder

Armidale, Australia

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ON THIS DAY, 25th October, 1986, Waratahs 2nd grade made more than 300 after tea to make their record highest team total of 7-491, mainly thanks to hundreds by Matt Campbell (#363) and David Laurence (#455). Graham Frost (#333) made an elegant 1st grade hundred on the next door ground and back in 1958, Tony Morriss (#78) with 11-34, became the first B grade player to take ten or more wickets in a match. Read more ...

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1223/armidale-waratahs-the-tahs/blog/3304/on-this-day-25th-october

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8 months ago

Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Tim McMahon was a product of the highly regarded Kings Langley junior club. The tall right-hander was a batsman with talent to burn. A knock-about-bloke who enjoyed a bet, a beer and either a cricket bat or racing form guide in his hand. Many observers felt that with a more disciplined focus, he would have ascended to first-class cricket – he did in fact play for the NSW 2nd eleven.

Either opening or in the middle-order he had the ability to tear bowling attacks apart, through the sheer power and aggression of his entertaining stroke play. A batsman with the ability to warrant a place in the Parramatta (Cumberland) teams of any era.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/3302/tim-mcmahon-ndash-the-dasher

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8 months ago

St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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St George DCC In Between Balls with Tom Forrester

Tom Forrester will perhaps be famously remembered by some as the guy that stood at the other end for the majority of Sam Konstas' monumental 795 runs on the way to a Green Shield premiership in the season of 2021-22. Some perhaps don't know that it was actually Tom that took out the player of the match in the hard fought final against Northern District.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/3300/st-george-dcc-in-between-balls-with-tom-forrester

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8 months ago

Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club

Christchurch, New Zealand

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BWCUCC History Series: Amalgamation and War Years

In the early decades of the 20th century, world events shaped Christchurch cricket as much as local rivalries. The two World Wars and the Great Depression took a heavy toll on clubs at Hagley Park, but they also forged a determination to endure.

Club historians note that in the 1900s, merging teams in the wake of “depressions and World Wars” was considered “paramount to maintaining the standard of local cricket”. In practice, this meant smaller clubs had to combine resources if they wanted to field full teams and keep competition alive at Hagley.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1832/burnside-west-christchurch-university-cricket-club/blog/3299/bwcucc-history-series-amalgamation-and-war-years

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8 months ago

Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs)

Founder

Armidale, Australia

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Tom Cooke is a Waratahs legend. His debut in October 1965 was remarkable.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1223/armidale-waratahs-the-tahs/blog/3297/on-this-day-23rd-october

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8 months ago

Peter Langston

Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia

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The very sad news of the passing of Peter Wayte, at only 73, grounds one in the reason why we play this great game. It’s not the individual achievements or even the team successes that remain with clarity, it’s the people you experience and with great luck, get to know.
Waytie was one of the seminal characters of Armidale cricket and one of the original White Knights. A fierce competitor, he had a dry, laconic wit that could cut through any situation and when he got on that bloody guitar on Sunday bus trips … well the results were legendary.
He started playing in the top grade, barely in double figures and batting at 11, with the strongest of the Ex Services sides of the early seventies and would be the mainstay of the club for the next twenty years. There are probably as main yarns about him as there are any bush cricketer.
Often the larrikin behaves so to cover a shortness in skill. Not Waytie. He could play.
Well I remember, early in my years playing in Armidale, a mate with ambitions to build a 1st grade career, coming on to bowl at Lambert Park with PJ Wayte new to the crease. He slid one through his defences, hitting him on the inside of the back knee and flooring Waytie.
“Ooooo mate,” says the batsmen with a grimace, “you shouldn’t have done that!”
My mate’s confusion at the reason for the warning was clarified in his next over when he was dispatched for three fours and one monstrous six which hit the very top of the towering silky oaks which rimmed the boundary.
“Can’t run,” Pete explained.
Recent years haven’t treated him well but regardless of him slipping away from knowing who we were, we’ll never forget him. A terrific bloke. An icon.

A LEGEND’S FIRE
Another legend leaves.
Another hole opens up in the sky.
Another flame in the fire of who I am,
flickers as if in farewell
and then just stops,
running to hide unnoticed
among the embers.

but … on the embers will glow
every time we draw breath across them
to tell his stories.
Existence runs to a short schedule
but life’s legends need only a curious breath
to reach the incandescence of their glory.

Smile as you tell his stories
Laugh with friends
Cry when you need
Be grateful you were there
Warmed your cold moments at his fire
Watch no coals wither
blow those embers with each tale.

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8 months ago

Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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The 2017/18 season marked a significant milestone for the Manly Cricket Club, as it fielded an underage women’s team for the first time. Entering the Under 17 Brewer Shield competition, the team was young and largely inexperienced yet showed tremendous promise throughout the season.

Despite securing only one victory, the team remained competitive in every match, laying a strong foundation for what has since become a highly successful women’s program within the NSW Premier Cricket competition.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/338/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club/blog/3281/201718-return-to-the-brewers

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8 months ago

Penrith Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Penrith 1978/79 - The Bankstown Connection

Because Steve Small went on to play Sheffield Shield Cricket with Tasmania and NSW, and to coach NSW, his name resonates with cricket followers more than three other players who joined Penrith from the Bankstown club in 1978/79.

Les Andrews was an outstanding wicket-keeper, either up or back, a perfectionist whose diligent practice ethic was infectious and whose sensible, aggressive batting at No.7 often rescued the team when under pressure

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/330/penrith-cricket-club/blog/3293/penrith-197879-the-bankstown-connection

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8 months ago

Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Reflections on Playing at Chatswood Oval - Jim Cattlin

Jim Cattlin – First Grade opening bat in the 1960s and 1970s.

Ian Davis joined Gordon in the 1973-74 season. In his first match he and Marshall Rosen had an opening partnership of 193. The next week Ian and I opened and partnered for 261 – Davis 170, Cattlin 88. Ian timed the ball so well and hit it so hard the umpire and I at the bowler’s end took several steps back to avoid being hit by his drives. I was happy for him to have the strike.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/3292/reflections-on-playing-at-chatswood-oval-jim-cattlin

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8 months ago

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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North Sydney - First Grade Premiers 1931/32

It is over 93 years since North Sydney won the most recent of its five First Grade premierships. The side included Bill O'Reilly, as well as the club's all-time leading First Grade run-scorer, Austin Punch.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/3291/north-sydney-first-grade-premiers-193132

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8 months ago

Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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What happened to Jack Pratten?

When 20 year old left hander Harjas Singh recently scored an extraordinary 314 from 141 balls in a 1st Grade limited overs game, he hit 35 sixes, many of them out of the ground at Western Suburbs' home ground, Pratten Park. I knew the name, "Pratten." I also had a feeling that JE Pratten, another left hander, had played just one season for Sydney University Cricket Club. So, I went in search of JE Pratten. What happened to him?

Why was Grade Cricket played on a Monday in 1921?

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/3290/what-happened-to-jack-pratten

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