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Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
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On 28th February 1903 at Parramatta Oval in a First Grade match against Glebe, Cumberland Wicket-keeper George Jordan stumped five batsmen, including four of the first five wickets to fall.

Since the commencement of the A.W. Green Shield competition in 1937/38, only five players have achieved the trifecta of Captaining the Club in Green Shield, Poidevin –Gray Shield and First Grade. These Players are:

• John Benaud
• Robert Cadden
• Gavin Twining
• Michael Wood
• Nicholas Bertus

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/2672/parramatta-district-cricket-club-ndash-a-glimpse-into-the-past-part-2
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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Brian Booth made the first of his twenty nine appearances for Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester, in the 4th Test of the 1961 Ashes tour. While that game in itself, particularly the effort of Richie Benaud, is worth reporting, the article below, written by Phil Tresidder, throws new light on the activities of our esteemed former Patron. Apparently, Brian was not only adept at snaffling catches, he also could turn his hand to bails. These bails are now, appropriately, on display in the Booth Saunders Pavilion, as the attached photo highlights.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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824 runs….18 wickets….197 overs….no points - Randwick Petersham v St George 2010-11

It was round 12 of the 2010-11 season and the Saturday/Sunday weekend clash was between Randwick Petersham and St George at Coogee Oval. The Randy Petes were 1st Grade competition leaders while Saints were in front in the Club Championship. A win to the locals would maintain their competition lead and put them ahead of the Hurstville boys in the Club Championship. It was going to be a close match.

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Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Hawkesbury Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Merilyn Fowler (née Earle) is considered cricket royalty at Hawkesbury Cricket Club.

For over 25 years, Merilyn served as a scorer for the club, and her dedication was recognized with Life Membership in 2000.

In 2018, the NSW Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association (NSWCUSA) acknowledged Merilyn’s outstanding contributions by awarding her Life Membership—the first scorer ever to receive this honor. This recognition was well-deserved, as Merilyn was a driving force behind the inclusion of scorers in the NSWCUSA and has been instrumental in pioneering scorer development and training throughout her remarkable career.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Led by Graham Howlett, Petersham-Marrickville won the 1961-62 under 21 years Poidevin-Gray competition for the second time in 11 years. The side contained many players who would form the nucleus of the club’s future 1st XI. Contrary to the team’s form the previous season when it failed to win a match, in a major turnaround, it won four of the five rounds to head the Southern Division with almost the same side.

Alan Staunton was the star with the bat hitting 209 runs with 94 in just 106 minutes against Cumberland his top score.

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Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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An interesting exercise is to troll back into the Club’s past and randomly select a few matches to provide current players and members with a glimpse into what has gone by in the past:

1983/84 First Grade v. Sutherland at Caringbah Oval – Parramatta enjoyed an overwhelming outright victory over a shell-shocked ‘Shire Team’ – Parramatta started proceedings with a rousing total of 326 that was built on the aggressive batting efforts of Kenny Gentles 93, John Affleck 75, Mark Sargent 53, and former State player Len Richardson 30.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/2660/parramatta-district-cricket-club-ndash-a-glimpse-into-the-past-part-1
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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Randwick’s 1909-10 season was notable for reasons other than cricket. The 2nd Grade team ran foul of the NSW Cricket Association’s Grade Committee with damaging results. In an incident which strangely is not mentioned in any way in the club’s annual report of that season, an umpire reported adversely on the behaviour of certain unnamed players in the side.

It was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald of 22 February 1910 that umpire Mr. Newman, who stood in the match Randwick v North Sydney on 11 and 18 December 1909, was the subject of “insinuating remarks” and continued “harping” from the whole of the Randwick team (except the captain Charles Patrick) during the remainder of the match after he had given a batsman out.

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Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Parramatta District Cricket Club – Bowlers who’ve captured 10 wickets in an innings

The bowlers’ nirvana is to capture all ten of an opponent’s wickets in a single innings of a match. Throughout its long history the Parramatta District Cricket Club has had three bowlers perform this wonderful and rare feat.

The first Parramatta bowler to dismiss all ten was the highly regarded colonial era fast bowler Percy Maybury who routed the Arundell Cricket Club in the 1883/84 season when he snared 10 / 21 (all clean bowled). In 1884 Maybury also starred for Parramatta in a match against the touring England International team claiming an impressive 9 / 81 in the visitors first innings.

In the 1943/44 season former Test and Victorian all-rounder Morrie Sievers, who was stationed in Sydney during World War II, grabbed 10 / 42 versus Western Suburbs – which remains the best bowling performance in the NSW Premier Cricket 1st Grade competition since its inception in 1893/94. In fact, only two other bowlers have taken ten wickets in an innings in the First Grade competition – Balmain’s Bill Hunt 10 / 55 in 1930/31 and Waverley’s Vic Jackson 10 / 78 in 1937/38.

Hard working medium-paced swing bowler Scott Philipson added this deed to his portfolio in a NSW Premier Cricket Third Grade match at Merrylands Oval against Macquarie University during the 1984/85 season. Scott seized a useful 10 / 43.
(By Tom Wood – Club Historian)

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Parramatta District Cricket Club
Parramatta District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Albert ‘Bert’ Alderson, who in his playing days was an outstandingly productive left-handed batsman for both the Parramatta District Cricket Club and the Sydney University Cricket Club, on Saturday 14th December 2024 celebrates his 100th birthday – thus becoming the fourth former Parramatta player to reach that milestone, the others were Jack Anthony, Bill Smith and Alan Cramond.

Bert Alderson was literally a run machine – one of only a handful of batsmen to top 14,000 runs in grade cricket – of which 10,731 were made in 1st Grade with Central Cumberland and Sydney University.

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Arriving at Drummoyne Oval on a humid, overcast morning with rain hanging in the air, there were some (the writer included) who were unsure that any cricket would be played at all – but in the end it was a humdinger that finished with the First Grade Bears singing the song for the first time since Round 3.

The umpires ambitiously targeted an on-time start (much to my surprise – the scorebook and team list were still in the car at 9.27 when I was told we were tossing at 9.30), which was kiboshed by rain at 9.29. When the coin eventually came down an hour later, Sydney won it and made the fastest call of “we’ll bowl” ever recorded. We got underway at 10.45, losing just a single over per side.

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Dennis Hourn
Dennis Hourn
Sydney, Australia
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It's Waverley Oval 1979 and Waverley is pitched against UNSW. Brian Riley is playing for Waverley having decamped from Petersham. He's had a pretty lean season with 220 runs from 11 digs for his new club and finds himself in second grade for the first time in a decade. It's the second last game of the season and the Waverley second grade team too has had a lean season.

Riles arrives late. We are fielding in a few minutes. He is frantically rooting around in his kit bag and then lets out a flurry of expletives. Manages to cover just about every expletive known to the English language. "I've left my f...... cricket trousers at home" he screams. Inquires of his new team mates if we have any spares. No luck.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/239/dennis-hourn/blog/2651/brian-riley-the-quotenfant-terriblequot-of-sydney-grade-cricket-in-the-1970s
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