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Shane Lee
Shane Lee
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Like many men my age, I love a good Yum Cha. Salty, spicy and fast! This food is instant gratification served on a cart with a cold beer. Amongst the prawn dumplings, salt and pepper calamari and football shaped treats are Fung Jiao or better known to the Yum Cha expert as Chicken's feet! Are they serious? Surely we are scraping the bottom of the barrel or chicken coup to be more precise if this is our only option. We may as well eat its arse whilst we are it. No one can be that hungry that they are happy to eat at chooks foot. YUCK!

I was first introduced to the world of Yum Cha by one of my best mates, Richard Chee Quee. Cheeks is half Chinese, half Fijian and ‘fully' Australian! A superb combination and example of how assimilation works best. Cheeks has often stated that an upside of our multi-cultural society allows him the freedom to choose and celebrate different parts of his heritage when it suits him best. He said, on one hand, I am happy to celebrate Chinese New Year with a Yum Cha, chase a big red dragon around China Town and then claim to be a dinky-di Aussie following the COVID 19 outbreak. By the way, for all you ‘do-gooders', we are both joking!

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Dennis Hourn
Dennis Hourn
Sydney, Australia
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Let me tell you about the first time I saw Jeff Thomson bowling in grade cricket. It was a game against Bankstown at Waverley Oval around 1972.

We batted first and of course in those days we only turned up 20 minutes before the start of the game. We won the toss. Elected to bat and thought we would be in for a leisurely day getting over the previous night's festivities.

Lenny Richardson, later to play for NSW and Queensland, was opening the batting and took strike. Ian Gorman was the keeper and Thommo marks his run up. Right to the edge of the southern practice wickets. About 40 metres.

There would have been nearly 100 metres between Thommo at the top of his run up and Gorman, who was planted not far from the northern practice wickets.

We thought. On Waverley Oval. This bloke is having a lend of us.

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Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney University Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney University Cricket Club Hall of Fame Article - Thomas William Garrett 1858-1943

Since 1999, the Sydney University Cricket Club’s Best and Fairest Trophy has been named for Tom Garrett who was one of the early ‘fathers’ of the Club. No cricketer has ever made a greater impact on the Club than Tom Garrett.

When he first played for the University at the age of 15, there was no formal cricket competition and eligibility rules were fluid at best. Matches were arranged between clubs on an ad hoc basis.

It seems that Garrett studied at the University but for only a few terms having been educated at Newington College from the age of nine. Because of his having once been a student at the University he kept his eligibility for 25 years.

In the 1870s, Garrett was one of the youngest representative players who have ever played for University.

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Sheldon Stackpoole
Sheldon Stackpoole
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Who remembers the Gabba Cricket Camps when they were run by Lew Cooper at the Queensland Cricketers Club?

I thought I would touch on one of my most enjoyable childhood memories.

During the 90s, the time when the Queensland Bulls were firing, many young junior cricketers were lucky enough to attend these camps. I am fairly sure every member of the Bulls first Sheffield Shield side either coached at the camp or was a guest coach for the day.

Boys from all over Queensland and even Northern New South Wales would come together for a week and receive expert coaching. We played on specially made hessian mats out on the Gabba.

During the lunch breaks a 3-a-side competition was held and this was an opportunity for a junior, intermediate and senior player to compete for the prize of a Gabba bat.

At night, as boarders we would eat at the Cricketers Club, play squash, indoor cricket and indoor soccer and then sleep under the Sir Leslie Wilson stand. And what about the greyhound track - who can forget that. It was a great childhood. Many of my club teammates would attend. It was fun to be around other young cricketers who were all so enthusiastic. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a school like this – where you study select academic subjects of your choosing and cricket intertwined into the syllabus. I always loved my school holidays going off to the camps – I remember one year going to four cricket camps in a row during January.

Some of the coaches included: Alan Free, Brad Murphy, Peter Drinnen, Brendan Creevey, Michael Kasprowicz, Bob McGhee, Jimmy Maher, Alan Skuse, Scott Muller, Jeff Pfaff, Wade Secombe, Bob Joyce, Paul Pink, Matthew Mott, Joe Dawes and Richie Robinson.

Wouldn't it be fantastic to see a return to the 90s when life was a bit more care-free and less clinical and there was a return to the Gabba Cricket Camps. Did you attend a camp? Do you remember your coach?

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Crib Point Cricket Club
Crib Point Cricket Club
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
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Glenn Barclay is a very proud Life Member of Crib Point Cricket Club and has played for the club since he joined back in 1985.

If you were running a state cricket association what would your 2 priorities to ensure cricket in the state remained strong and successful on and off the field?

Keeping kids in the game once juniors have finished. For smaller clubs this is a problem

If it’s wet let’s be realistic and if we aren’t gonna get on, call it and open the bar. Clubs benefit financially and better friendships are made between players and clubs.

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South Brisbane District Cricket Club
South Brisbane District Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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South Brisbane District Cricket Club 2nd Grade Premiers 2014-15

Back Row - U Samsudeen, D Lennox, H Jones, N Bischoff, J Eccles, A Hart (wicket keeper)), B O’Leary, S Henwood (Scorer)

Front Row - L Lunt, D Wilson, R Yorke, A Wilson, A Wells-Peris

Second Grade shone brightly, taking the 2014/15 Premiership, the first for Second grade since the mid 1990’s.

The Grand Final team consisted of 12 players, but the Skipper, Rhys Yorke, and the team acknowledge that it took 30 players to go through the season to win the Minor premiership and the Grand Final.

The combination of bowlers, including Rhys Yorke, Arlen Wells-Peris, Daniel Lennox, Brendan O’Leary and Uhmar Samsudeen took a combined 201 wickets in the regular season between them.

The Grand Final on Norm Gray oval was a classic match

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/317/south-brisbane-district-cricket-club/blog/959/south-brisbane-district-cricket-club-2nd-grade-premiers-2014-15
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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The words were not only being sung for him - but only because of him. Belted out with rarely seen vigour and joy, from faces of strangers he had never laid eyes on eight hours ago.

All the while, the little blond kid in the corner smiled innocently. Not sure what to make of it all. Almost embarrassed being the centre of attention. Not quite game enough to try to fumble over the lyrics on a sheet someone had shoved in front of him moments earlier.

Who could blame him? He had barely spoken a word all day, let alone feel the urge to break out in full voice now.

The kid was Macksville's Phil Hughes, playing his first Sydney grade game for Western Suburbs' second XI in the last fixture of the 2005-06 season

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Manly Warringah District Cricket Club
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Simon Waddington joined Manly Warring District Cricket Club after a playing his early grade cricket with Northern District Cricket Club. Simon is Northern District first grade player number 312 after making his debut against Campbelltown in January 1994.

In joining Simon is Waratah player number 1250.

Simon was an integral member of the 2000/01 Manly Warringah first grade limited overs premiership and has been very instrumental in the progress of Manly Warringah Women’s and Girls cricket over a number of years.

Simon played NSW 2nd XI cricket and is now plying his trade for NSW Over 50s cricket teams.

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