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Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Alan Crompton - Sydney University Cricket Club Hall of Fame Article

Many people cannot think of the Club without thinking of Alan Crompton.

He has been one of the giants of the Club, often holding positions of deeply symbolic significance and often representing the Club in much wider fields. He has been able to mirror the Club to itself; to give expression to its soul; to bring all his considerable influence to benefit all who have been associated with the Club.

By the time he was elected President of the Club in 1978, he had already served in various positions for 17 years, as a player, Social Secretary, Honorary Secretary, a Vice President and a widely respected delegate to the NSWCA. For the next 22 years (and beyond, when he served another 20 years as Patron before typically standing down to allow another to succeed him), Alan was to help shape and guide the Club to its current position of pre-eminence in Sydney Grade (Premier) cricket.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/260/sydney-university-cricket-club/blog/2044/alan-crompton-sydney-university-cricket-club-hall-of-fame-article
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Michelle Lang
Business Owner
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HOWZATTT?

We at Howzattt are so thrilled to see just where our Howzattt guides have landed. Here is Fiji Cricket CEO Sitiveni Rokoro engrossed in his copy of our Howzattt - A Beginner's Guide to the Game of Cricket.

Howzattt's aim is educate, inspire and ignite the cricketing spark wherever we can. We are passionate about giving those who never played cricket before, the chance to do so, to aim for the stars, and dream big.

We look forward to seeing cricket in Fiji soaring to new heights and onto the international cricket scene with new Fijian cricket stars lighting up the skies!


#FijianCricket #NewStarsonthehorizon #newfrontiers #HowzatttInspiration

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Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sutherland District Cricket Club
Sylvania, Australia
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Sutherland District Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1995-96

Back Row – Matt Bradley, Daniel McLachlan, Evan Atkins, Mark Carroll, Mark Chapman, Tim Brennan, Darren Holley, Linton Ball

Middle Row – Steve Rixon (Coach), Matthew O’Brien, Daniel Godkin, Jason Packer, Geoff Baron, Stuart Clark, Darrell Mann, Kevin Tuite, Barry Davison (Assistant Coach), Julie Coote (Scorer)

Front Row – Jason Holley, Phil Weatherall, Glenn McGrath, Rodney Davison (Captain), Darren Mitchell, Tony Clark, Stuart MacGill

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/294/sutherland-district-cricket-club/blog/155/sutherland-district-cricket-club-first-grade-premiers-1995-96
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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Martin Haywood - Randwick Petersham Cricket Club - Heroes of the Ages

Martin Haywood joined Randwick in 1993-94 from Campbelltown. A powerful right-hand stroke maker who hit the ball hard and often had already debuted for NSW in 1991-92.

Marty had quite a spectacular first season with Randwick. He scored 53 in his first game against St George at Coogee to get him away to a season which netted 845 runs–798 at 72.55 in Belvidere Cup matches and 47 in the Reschs Cup Limited Overs competition which Randwick won.

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Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs
Business Advisor
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It is finals time in Premier cricket in most states around the country and over the years there have been some wonderful performances by batsmen and here in Melbourne most notably Bill Lawry's 282 not out for Northcote in the 1965/66 Final against Essendon is one that goes down in folklore with cricket enthusiasts.

However almost seventy-two years ago, 23-year-old Neil Harvey did something that is also quite remarkable for Fitzroy CC in a semi-final in 1951/52 against St Kilda CC.

He scored 254 in the first innings in just 255 minutes and followed up with 126 in the second innings in 152 minutes as Fitzroy won outright by 436 runs.

In doing so Harvey became the first batsman in the history of District cricket to score a century in each innings of the same match and he did so against a pretty fair St Kilda attack that included John Edwards, Jack Hill, and Norm Lynch all of whom took in excess of 500 plus wickets in their career.

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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This fortnight Howzat Building Waratahs in History Q & A is with Nathan Dodd. Nathan played 8 seasons for the Tahs from 1998/1999 to 2005/2006 scoring over 3000 runs for the club. Nathan moved into the world of coaching with his most recent position being the Senior Assistant/Batting coach for the Australian Intellectually Impaired men’s cricket team. The team competed in the Tri-Nations series in November 2023 losing to the “Poms” in the final.

How did your love of cricket come about as a child?

Like most guys I expect, playing in the backyard with your brother(s) and your dad.

Who were your cricket heroes growing up?

Brian Lara for his pure batsmanship and Justin Langer for his doggedness.
But also looked up to most guys playing for NSW as a kid.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Tommy Andrews was Petersham DCCs greatest cricketer.

While claims of this nature generally raise issues for debate, in the case of T J Andrews, there is no argument. He played his first game for Petersham in 1909 aged 19 and his last in 1944 aged 54. He retired in 1936 but made a comeback in 1941 at the request of the club. He was a powerful right hand batsman and leg break bowler who excelled as a close-to-the wicket fieldsman.

He was immediately inserted into the 1st Grade team when he played his first match for Petersham in 1909-10. He made a half-century among his 125 runs but it was his performance in the Wednesday “Half-Holiday” competition which indicted his undoubted ability. He batted 12 times for 468 runs with a top-score of 201*.

The following season, after making a duck batting no. 10, another duck batting at 6 and 21 after opening the innings, Tommy was in at no. 8 against Redfern at the SCG. With the score 6-155 chasing 313, Andrews got together with Ernie Newton and the pair put on a club record 138 for the seventh wicket to take the match with a final total of 402. Tommy made his first century for Petersham that day scoring 108 with 14 fours in 115 minutes. He made 297 runs for the season and took 19 wickets with his leg-spinners.

1912-13 brought with it the start of an outstanding first-class cricket career when he was selected to play for NSW. Nine seasons later after WWI he made his Test Match debut for Australia on the 1921 Ashes tour of England.

In 30 seasons with Petersham he scored 11,719 runs at 36.73 in 1st Grade (28 centuries). His aggregate remains the fifth highest in the history of Sydney 1st Grade. With his leg breaks, he took 503 wickets at 20.84 with 8-72 his best. He took eight wickets in an innings four times and five in an innings 30 times.

TJ Andrews #trustrespecthumilty

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Scott Jacobson
Scott Jacobson
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Playing for Mosman v Manly at Manly Oval, it could have been a Poidevin Gray game. I was bowling my rolling offies to, I think I got this right, Steve Colby, big unit, really good player that opened or was top order batsman for Manly. If it wasn’t you Steve it’s a good story anyway.

As I could from time to time, I offered my opinion about Steve’s ability to hit the ball off the square. The next ball disappeared out of the Manly Oval bounced into the intersection at the Raglan Street end and rolled across the road into the tackle shop on the corner. Steve responded with “Is that f#%king far enough for ya” I think my response was “Yup”

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Bradman Museum
Bradman Museum
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
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On June 15th, 1948. Bradman’s ‘Invincibles’ arrived.

Standing: Neil Harvey, Sid Barnes, Ray Lindwall, Ron Saggers, Doug Ring, Bill Johnston, Ernie Toshack, Keith Miller, Don Tallon, Sam Loxton. Seated: Keith Johnson (Team Manager), Ron Hamence, Ian Johnson, Lindsay Hassett (Vice Captain), Don Bradman (Captain), Bill Brown, Arthur Morris, Colin McCool, Bill Ferguson (Scorer).

His fourth and final tour to England, Bradman led Australia to victory in the first Test over England at Trent Bridge. A commanding display in which the Don himself made 138, it heralded the arrival of a dominant Australian team; the Invincibles.

The Australians, determined to exhibit “bright and attractive” cricket to a war-weary England public, were a mixture of both experienced and precociously talented young players on this tour. From Bradman – the captain and greatest player of all time – to Neil Harvey, the youngest of the squad and one of the most exciting players in the world, the Australians had talent on every line.

Claiming victory in the Ashes 4-0, only persistent rain in the third Test enough to prevent a rampant Australian team from a whitewash result. Unperturbed, they continued in fine form after the Ashes; a further 27 first-class fixtures – through all of which they remained undefeated.

The result has never been bettered and the feat forever enshrined in the team's name 'Invincibles'.

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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John Benaud was Randwick’s first Test cricketer. Disappointingly his career was brief, spanning just three matches and robbing the cricketing public from one of the more dashing and entertaining batsmen of his time.

He ventured to Coogee Oval in the spring of 1969 as an established State player who became captain of the NSW Sheffield Shield team that season, Benaud’s presence in the Randwick 1st XI as captain and punishing batsman did wonders for the spirit and morale of the team. He instilled in the players a purpose for a more aggressive brand of cricket which was a feature of his leadership at the first-class level.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/367/john-benaud-randwick-petersham-cricket-club-heroes-of-the-ages
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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Greg Bush - true competitor

Greg Bush made his first grade at the age of 17 and over the next 24 years amassed 10,171 runs playing for Mosman, North Sydney, Manly Warringah and Petersham Marrickville.

Bushy scored 15 centuries and 45 half centuries and averaged 29.14.

As an opening batsman he took on the fast bowlers with courage and skills and played across two eras – before and after the introduction of helmets.

A hugely popular figure across Sydney Grade Cricket, let’s find out more about Bushy’s time playing Sydney Grade Cricket

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Joe Maiorana
Sydney, Australia
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Among the few undisputed blessings of the Packer revolution was that it gave Bob Taylor the Test career he had almost given up hope of having. An uncomplaining understudy for almost a decade,

Taylor's only cap before Alan Knott joined World Series Cricket was in New Zealand in 1970-71.

Knott was fit and keen to play, but this was skipper Ray Illingworth's way of rewarding Taylor's loyalty and patience.
Taylor was known as "Chat" by team-mates grateful for his willingness to talk, and often listen at length, to people he had never seen before and would never see again in tour receptions.

He went on to play another 56 Tests, confirming that in wicketkeeping skills he lost nothing by comparison with Knott.

As a batsman he was hardly a contributor. But it said everything about his sportsmanship that, at Adelaide in 1978-79, he walked for a tiny leg-side tickle when he was three short of what would have been his only England hundred.

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