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Valley District Cricket Club
Valley District Cricket Club
Brisbane, Australia
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Valley District Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1984-85

Back Row – Barry Quinn, Peter McPhee, Paul Lewis, Peter Anderson, Garry Moore

Middle Row – R.P Easton (Hon. Secretary), Stuart Law, Brent Henschell, D. Connell, John Welsh, Greg Ritchie, Adrian Coolwell (12th man)

Front Row – U.D Thorne (Chairman), Anthony Brown (Vice Captain), Terry Khan (Captain), Allan Border, N.T McMahon (President)

Insert - Kepler Wessels

4 Test players and a further 10 first class players were on show in the 1984/85 Brisbane First Grade grand final between Valley and Northern Suburbs but it was Valleys big man Paul "Lurch" Lewis who proved the difference taking 5 for 44 in Norths' first innings 199.

Steve Monty and Brett Henschell were the only players to score fifties in a low scoring affair with Valleys ultimately winning by 7 wickets.

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Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Northern District Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, Australia
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Clayton Waters is a self-confessed Northern District ranger through and through.

Debuting for the club in 2004/05 Clayton has played all through the grades with his brand of aggressive keeper/batting and he was very much a staple in 2nd grade for many years during a highly successful era for NDs.

Claytons on field record is immense: 255 matches, 4,958 runs at 24, 280 keeping dismissals, 2nd Grade Premier, 3rd Grade premiership captain, 2 x Club Championship's and 2 x winner of the Bill North Award for Club Person of the Year.

Claytons has also been a massive contributor to the leadership of the club over the years serving as Club Captain from 2016 - 2019, driving NDs social media, leading Pre-Season strength & conditioning programs and Captaining 3rd and 4th grades. His fine captaincy was a big part of 3rd Grade winning the premiership in 2020/21 with a first ever NDCC undefeated season.

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NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 15 1990-91 season - 9 and 16 March 1991

Pictured - Balmain captain Greg Dyer. After 15 rounds Balmain were Minor Premiers with Mosman 2nd, Sutherland 3rd and Gordon 4th.

Going into the last round Balmain. Mosman and Sutherland were all vying for the minor premiership.

Balmain on 64 points, Mosman 62 and Sutherland 60.

All three teams won the last round with Sutherland denying Campbelltown their chance of making the semis as they were on 54 points with Gordon and Sydney University.

Sydney University lost to Randwick and Gordon defeated Fairfield by 2 wickets.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1646/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-15-1990-91-season-9-and-16-march-1991
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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 First Grade Premiers 2000-01

Back Row – Baba Sourjah (Coach), Jake Hurst, Tim Sawyer, Andrew Harris, Matthew Lunn, Lance Kahler, Jeff Anning

Middle Row – Michael Sippel, Brett Ambrose, Dale Turner

Front Row – Andy Bichel, Brad Ruddell, Jarrod Bird, Ashley Holznagel

Lance Kahler - Memories
This was a team of mostly country boys who made their way to Brisbane and played together for a number of years, climbing from the bottom of the ladder to the premiership over a five year period. The team was very close on and off the field and was brilliantly led by one of the nicest blokes ever to play the game, the great Brad Ruddell. And of course, who can forget the contribution made by that NSW interloper, Dale Turner. Dale joined Souths for two seasons and helped take us from being a good side to a premiership winning side. Great memories.

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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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Western Suburbs can lay claim to 33 Test Internationals passing through the gates of Pratten Park and playing for the Magpies…

20 of these International Players represented Australia while active as a Western Suburbs Player and, remarkably, two Angus Fraser and Monty Panesar were selected for England while in the Wests ranks.

Mitchell STARC, who debuted in Wests First Grade in 2007, continues to spearhead the Australian attack.

However, it all started in March of 1877, in the First Test match in Melbourne, when Tom GARRETT debuted at age 18 years and 232 days…which still makes him the youngest representative to play for Australia against England. Tom was educated at Newington College while the School was still at ‘Newington House’, in the Sydney suburb of Silverwater.

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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At the completion of the 2024-25 Premier Cricket season around Australia which premier cricket club across the states playing first class cricket will be able to claim to be the best first grade premiership winning cricket club in the first 25 seasons of this century.

A quick review around the states since the 2000-01 season and there’s been 138 premier premierships won by 59 premier cricket clubs across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, and Queensland.

The premier premierships are for the two- or four-day grand finals and don’t include one day premierships.

There are 88 premier cricket clubs around Australia, so it means 29 clubs have not won a first-grade premier premiership since 2000-01 or longer.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1643/which-premier-cricket-club-in-australia-will-win-the-most-first-grade-premierships-in-the-first-25-seasons-of-this-century
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Georges River District Cricket Club
Georges River District Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Bruce Whitehouse has made an immense contribution to cricket on and off the field as a player, administrator and umpire.

Bruce was awarded Life Membership of George River Cricket Club in 1993/94, he’s a former President of the club and has been inducted as a Blue Bag legend

Who played the best innings you’ve seen firsthand playing with or against?

I saw a fantastic dig umpiring by Josh Clarke playing for Wests against Sutherland in 2019/20 where he scored a chanceless 176.

In 4th grade last year in the semi final Sydney Univeristy managed 4 for 315 and declared. Day 2 saw Sutherland 6 for 31 before lunch needing to hang on for a draw to go through to the final. Skipper James Hawksworth batted out the day remaining unbeaten on 110 with Sutherland ending on 9 for 231 and booking a spot in the final. An amazing dig!!

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NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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The top 20 runs scorers and wicket takers in the history of NSW Premier Cricket

The team at Cricket NSW and NSW Premier Cricket do a magnificent job in maintaining an incredible database of information and historical statistics for all performances in NSW Premier Cricket and Sydney Grade Cricket.

Let’s take a look back at the statistics in the history of NSW Premier Cricket with the database updated as at the completion of the 2022-23 season.

Pictured - Greg Mail and Hugh Chilvers

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1642/the-top-20-runs-scorers-and-wicket-takers-in-the-history-of-nsw-premier-cricket
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