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Western Suburbs First Grade team pictured at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1910-11. The team featured nine players who either were or became first class cricketers.

Standing (left to right): Harry Dupain, Joe Taylor, Tommy Owen, R Traill (scorer); Ward Prentice, George Garnsey, Wybergh Docker.
Seated: Bert Pratten, Frank McMullen, Austin Diamond (captain), Cyril Docker, Doug Reid.

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Sutherland District Cricket Club

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The St George Sutherland Medical Research Foundation (SSMRF) will again be the recipients of funds raised from the St George District Cricket Club Annual Charity Walk. Named in honour of their former Patron, Warren Saunders OAM, the Walk recognises the enormous contribution he made to the St George community.

The Charity Walk, is being held this Saturday, the 2nd Anniversary of Saunders’ passing at the age of 88. Club President, Kevin Greene, will lead the Walk, commencing at Hurstville Oval before following a roughly 20 km path to Sutherland Oval where St George 1st Grade take on Sutherland. Greene will be accompanied by John Saunders, his wife and children.

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Sylvania, Australia

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Kyle Brockley and Jake Wilson break two 1st Grade partnership records in the space of five rounds

Play resumed at 1.40pm and the partnership continued on. With a previous highest score in 1st Grade of 34, Kyle brought up his maiden half-century with a six. On and on they went, until the scheduled time for the tea break of 3.10pm was reached. By this stage, the score had moved on to 9/202 off 67 overs. Again play was extended for up to 30 minutes. Kyle was eventually dismissed at 3.21pm for 71 (153 minutes, 131 balls, 13 fours & 1 six), while Jake was not out on 42 (131 minutes, 133 balls, 5 fours & 1 six). The score was 207, so the 10th wicket partnership had put on 119, breaking the Sutherland 1st Grade record of 81 set by Daniel Rixon and Chad Gilmour in 2010-11.

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It can be quite appealing to peer back through ‘the looking glass’ into the club’s history vault to view a sample of some of Parramatta District Cricket Club’s battles of the past, it is interesting to note the names and the deeds of days gone by:

Percy’s Match!!! – “The Parramatta Alfred Cricket Club opened the season’s play, on their own ground, on Saturday afternoon last, by the first eleven meeting representatives of the Arundel Cricket Club.

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Will Chesterfield is a skilful off-spin bowler for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club and is the proud owner of the Western Suburbs First Grade Cap 739.

Since joining Western Subrubs, Will has made a strong impression on everyone at the club, regarding the high level of effort and energy he puts in at training and matches, and is the embodiment of "club first, team second, individual third"

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Belmont District Cricket Club

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On the 26th of January, the Dunbar Pavilion, like many of the amazing cricketers that played in front of the spectators it housed, reached a century.

You can only imagine the feats that have been witnessed in the the years since it was built in 1925. The premierships, the performances, the battles, the start of many amazing careers, the ups and downs of cricket.... and the mateships forged. It hasn't been just cricket. The history of Hurstville Oval is so vast and amazing that it even had a 261 page book written about it in 2001 named Hurstville Oval, A History Of Sport And Community.

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Newcastle, Australia

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Peter Barnett is a former player and the longtime president of Belmont District Cricket Club. A proud life member, Pete's dedication and hard work have made him a highly respected figure at the club.

Don’t miss our chat with Pete as he shares his journey and insights.

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Penrith Cricket Club

Belmont District Cricket Club

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Callee Black - First Grade Cap No 61 - Penrith Cricket Club

I started playing when I was about 7 for the Wellington District Cricket Club up until I was 11 to 12. Then we moved to Bathurst, and I started playing for the Bathurst Bushrangers Cricket Club. Around 13 is when I started travelling to Penrith, moving through Brewers to currently playing First Grade.

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Newcastle, Australia

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Belmont District Cricket Club President's Report and 1st Grade Report 1991/1992

Throughout the season, there were some very good performances. Of those who did all that was asked of them, Steve Moroney continued to prove what a sound player he is. With over 500 runs for the season, Steve ensured we generally got off to a sound start. The same can be said of Steve Clarkson, who, after a slow start, really put it together later in the season.

We hope Steve elects to come back in the near future because his services are certainly appreciated by this club.

Greg Charlton, Allan Sharp, and Eric Tyrrell provided a sound middle order once again, whilst Peter Schacht kept wickets ably

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

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Cooper Herron is a skilful fast bowler who joined Western Suburbs District Cricket Club at the beginning of the 2023/24 season.

Cooper has made a strong impression on his teammates as a fierce competitor and someone who gives 110% to help his team win.

Last weekend, Cooper made his debut in second grade against Northern Districts which is a testament to the hard work he puts in at training.

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A matchless piece of the Parramatta District Cricket Club’s history, is that it is the only NSW Premier Cricket Club to have played against six touring English International Teams. In the 1880s and 90s the visiting English teams used to traditionally open the New South Wales leg of their Australian tours in Parramatta, locking horns with the local club’s combinations of either 18 or 22 players. The matches shone as quite a social occasion for the good folk of the town.

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St George Cricket Club

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St George DCC First Grade Player No.49 - Albert "Mick" Scanes.

Mick Scanes started playing for St George in the 1926-27 season which just happened to be the same season Sir Donald Bradman started with The Saints. Subsequently Scanes is now immortalized as the player one before Bradman in our list of First Grade Players.

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On Sunday 9th February 2025 Parramatta’s prolific scoring batsman and two-times Belvidere Cup winning captain Nick Bertus became the fourth player to compile 10,000+ runs (all grades) for the two-blues. He joins club icons Ray Rowe, Bert Alderson and Stan Teale as the achievers of this substantial milestone.

A brief statistical outline of these fine cricketer’s careers is shown below, uniquely all four were left-handed batsmen.

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Penrith Cricket Club

Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Murray Staines is in his second year playing with Penrith Cricket Club in the NSW Premier Cricket competition after playing all his cricket from an early age in Lithgow.

If you could change one thing about cricket, what would it be?

You should get a second chance when you’re batting. The amount of unlucky ways you can get out in cricket they should give you another crack

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A conversation at training lit a spark which went on to see Randwick Petersham become the first Club side to form a partnership with an International team. In the subsequent seasons 9 Irish players have called 'County Coogee' home every summer through the Official Overseas Scholarship Programme.

Today also marks 10 years since that historic day at Coogee Oval when Randwick Petersham hosted Cricket Ireland in a 50 over warm up match for the 2015 Cricket World Cup and 2024-25 marks the Scholarship's 10th Anniversary. In 2017 the club toured Ireland and again in October 2022 hosted Ireland at Coogee prior to the T20 World Cup.

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Gordon District Cricket Club

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Off-spinning allrounder Bobby ‘RA’ Aitken was a gifted cricketer.

Between 1960 and 1988 Bob Aitken was one of the most well-known players on the Sydney First grade cricket stage – punctuating 26 seasons at Parramatta with a 2-season stint at the Sydney club. Throughout that period, he proved himself to be an outstanding player, but also won a reputation as a cantankerous, fierce and ultra-competitive opponent, especially when he had his fingers wrapped around a cricket ball plotting the downfall of the bloke holding the bat at the other end of the pitch.

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Joey Gillard is Gordon District Cricket Club first grade wicket keeper and high order batter and the proud owner of first grade cap number 618.

Joey represented NSW Country Under 19s at the Australian National Championships in 2022-23.

Lets find out more about Joey's journey in the game so far.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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Leslie Walter Pye was an iconic cricketer with the Parramatta District Cricket Club, in a First Grade career that stretched from 1894/95 to 1918/19 (although he filled in for the firsts in a game during the 1921/22 at the age of 51 years scoring 21 runs and claiming 5/44 v. St George). The brilliant allrounder a skilful and stylish top-order batsman, a crafty leg-spinner and outstanding slips fieldsman – one of only two players to score 7,000+ runs and capture 300+ wickets in NSW Premier First Grade Cricket for the Parramatta Club (M.A. Wood was the other player).

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Fred Snell was a Randwick man through and through. He was the most loyal of clubmen, the most reliable of players and the best of administrators. He was also Randwick’s oldest 1st Grade debutant.

Almost as a mark of respect, on 23 December 1962, Fred was selected in 1st Grade for the one-day match against Mosman at Mosman Oval. Fred batted no. 10 but was bowled after scoring 4 runs. Randwick won the match 191 to 144. Fred Snell may well have been one of Sydney Grade Cricket’s oldest 1st Grade debutants at age 49 years and 209 days.

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