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Waverley's David Lucas takes 7 for 16 as Balmain is bowled out for 29

Sydney Grade Cricket scores for Round 7 in 1987-88

Round 7 was played on 14th and 21st of December 1987

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Gordon District Cricket Club 2004-5 First Grade Report

With a productive off-season the Stag's were looking to continue the good work which had been done by the recently retired Matthew Nicholson. There would be new players blooded throughout the year with season 2009/10 going to be a bit of an unknown. A new Skipper was inducted in Beau Casson and the side would start the season with a blend of experience (including two test players in Casson and Flynn) mixed with youth (17 y.o Chad Soper).

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St George Cricket Club

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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100 Moments of 100 years of St George First Grade Cricket 1921-22 to 1930-31

The Finale of our 10 part series covering the very beginning of St George DCC. After 10 years of 2nd Grade the club was finally admitted into First Grade. Here are some of the highlights of those first 10 year.

With thanks to Club Historian Nathan Anderson

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Chris Singh. Two hat-tricks….in the same match!

At the conclusion of the 2015-16 season, Chris Singh announced that after 22 years of Sydney Grade Cricket he had decided to hang up his boots. As a player who had an outstanding career in the lower grades, he was cheered for his achievements but sorely missed in the seasons which followed.

Chris Sumit Singh was born in Suva, Fiji on 16 March 1977

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Penrith Cricket Club in 1982-83. A record and Aussie Goalkeeper

Under the bright Sydney skies, Penrith delivered a masterclass in batting dominance, scripting a tale for the history books. The scoreboard flashed 1/377, an imposing total that would send shivers down the spine of any opposition.

At the heart of this demolition? Trevor Bayliss and Brian Wood—two maestros wielding their willows with sheer elegance and brute force. Bayliss, a picture of relentless concentration, carved out a record 204 not out,

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St George Cricket Club

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We continue our Annual Report "Interview With A Champion" series and with the release of our 24-25 report we are pleased to bring you our latest effort where we caught up with champion St George batsman, Blake Nikitaras.

St George DCC 1st Grade Player No.449

Put simply, if you did not at least see the highlights package of Blake Nikitas batting our 1st Grade team to the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup you have simply not lived. It must go down as one of the most memorable innings in St George history.

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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A 4th Grade premiership in the centenary year of this proud old club. Happy days. Having been so close in 2003-04, it was a just reward for Captain Reynolds to lift the Reid Cup at Killara Park on 3 April 2005. And the crushing victory in the Final – by nine wickets – underscored the fact that this was the best performed side in the competition all year. Only one loss was recorded, to Bankstown in Round 7 in a one-day game, while the runners up, Randwick-Petersham were defeated by Gordon twice at the business end of the season.

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North Sydney Third Grade travelled to Merrylands Oval for a regulation two-day match in Round 8 of the 2009/10 Sydney Grade Cricket season. The Bears were mid-table with three wins, three losses and a draw. But they were in good form having won their last two, including an outright the prior round vs Penrith.

The selected Bears team was choc full of doyens, featuring a future President, Vice President, Treasurer and Committee member. The selected side was to also include current Bears First Grade spearhead James Campbell, who was to come into the side as skipper Jason Keane was unavailable with a niggle

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Pat Rodgers

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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The Erratic Syd Emery by Pat Rodgers

Chapter 1 “One of the few unplayable balls I have seen”.

LORDS 1912
Syd had been warned about the chance of rain interrupting play during a so-called English summer. The dampness in the air on the first morning of the Lord’s Test on 24 June 1912 seemed to confirm this. He and his teammates had entered the field with black mourning bands on their left upper arms in memory of their friend Ernest Hume

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Matt Hilder came from the Petersham-Marrickville side of the merger with Randwick in 2001 to form Randwick Petersham. He was an experienced 22-year-old Sydney Grade cricketer, having started as an A W Green Shield boy with Parramatta DCC in 1993-94. He joined Petes in 1998-99, playing lower grades and Poidevin Gray Shield until the creation of Randwick Petersham. He finished second in the 2nd Grade batting aggregate with 300 runs in 2000-01, playing with the likes of David Bourke and Dean White, a season after putting on 141 in a partnership with Steve Yates for the first wicket against Manly in a PGs match. He was a valued player with Petersham-Marrickville and remained as such with Randwick Petersham.

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When a Canadian Club Cricket Team Played Australia Led by Greg Chappell and Dennis Lillee in 1975

This was going to be a game against The Australian National Team comprised of some of the most accomplished cricketers ever to play Down Under who were visiting our ground at Armour Heights. It was their third game in three days in Toronto. Many of these Aussies had lost on the same ground two days before: Greg Chappell, Lillee, Higgs, Marsh, Walker, Laird, Turner and McCosker.

It was their last game before heading off for the headline series, the Inaugural World Cup which would take place in England in a few days.

Australia was going to bat first. I had the honour of being one of the opening bowlers along with Basil Peters. And it wasn’t just an honour. I knew if the captain was giving me the new ball that I had a job to do.

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In July 2022, Kathy Campbell was unanimously elected as the 49th Life Member of the North Sydney District Cricket Club, recognising well over a decade of service to the Bears, which has not dimmed since! Here we reproduce the speech from the 2022 AGM where Sarah Berman recommended Kathy for Life Membership.

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Dave Evans was a true Gordon Legend - Part 2

Dave recommenced his cricket career immediately after the war, playing in the top three grades for seven seasons from 1945 to 1952. Included were some matches in the First Grade premiership team of 1945-46 and a whole season in the 1947-48 Third Grade premiership team. In the 1950s, when work commitments meant Dave had to travel a lot, often overseas, he played when available in the Colts team until 1962. Dave scored 1,982 runs for Gordon at an average of 19.62 including two centuries, both in Third Grade with one at Beauchamp.

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St George Cricket Club

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Vale Kevin Parmenter - First Grade Player No.230

We regret to announce the passing of St George DCC first grade player number 230 – Kevin Parmenter.

Kevin played his Junior cricket with Hurstville Sports and commenced his grade career with St George starting in 4th Grade in the season of 1967-68. After some success including his first grade century (102 no) Kevin earned a promotion into 3rd Grade.

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Matt Cassar was the fourth Petersham-Marrickville cricketer to play English County Cricket. He played six years with Derbyshire and two with Northamptonshire between 1994 and 2002. He followed in the footsteps of Bill Alley, Ken Grieves and Noel Hughes, all of whom participated in the County Championship for several seasons. Another to have a career in English cricket was Cec Pepper, who left the club in 1946 and played in the Lancashire League for almost 20 years.

Matthew Edward Cassar was born at Sydney on 16 October 1972. He joined Petersham-Marrickville’s under 16 years A W Green Shield team of 1987-88 alongside future club 1st graders Corey Pearson, Matt Whitby and David Kelly

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Richard Stobo

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Phil Emery: A Bowler's Tribute to his Keeper

I had the privilege of bowling to some outstanding wicketkeepers over the years – Greg Dyer, Mark Atkinson, David Moore, Paul Ryan, and Adam Gilchrist immediately spring to mind.

Not a bad group by any measure.

But no one matched my longtime teammate, Phil Emery. The reason is simple. Embers knew my game inside out and made me a better player than I would’ve been otherwise.

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Dave Evans was a true Gordon legend - Part 1

David John Evans was born at Merewether, a suburb of Newcastle, on 13 December 1919. His family moved to Cobar Street, Willoughby, close to that suburb’s boundary with Artarmon, when he was seven. He had two brothers, Trevor and Basil, and went to Artarmon Primary School.

His father, also David, was a keen cricketer who had played First Grade with the Randwick club. This keenness rubbed off on Dave at an early age and he soon found that there was a backyard in Cooney Road, Artarmon, not far away, which was like a miniature Sydney Cricket Ground

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John Rogers

Melbourne, Australia

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Gordon Rorke - RIP

Gordon Rorke was one of the most significant people ever to have played the game of cricket: he was responsible for a change in a basic rule that had existed since the game began.

For over a hundred years, for a delivery to be legal, a bowler’s back foot had to be placed behind a line level with the stumps. Gordon’s unique bowling action of leaning back in his delivery stride and via his momentum, dragging forward on the toe of his back foot, meant that at the time of delivery his back foot might well be in front of the batting crease

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Luki Soeradinata

Singapore, Singapore

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Rural cricket in Australia is facing a crisis—faster than many realize. Across the country, small town clubs are struggling with declining participation, burnt-out volunteers, and deteriorating facilities. As young people move to cities and local engagement wanes, many once-thriving clubs now find themselves on the brink of closure.

However, an overlooked but powerful shift is beginning to change that trajectory.

The Impact of South Asian Migration

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club