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NSW Premier Cricket
NSW Premier Cricket
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sydney Grade Cricket scores - Round 14 1990-91 season - 23 February and 2 March 1991

Pictured - Michael Bevan who scored an unbeaten 164 not out for Campbelltown in their 4 wicket win over Mosman at Rawson Oval.

Mosman declared 9 for 369 was run down by Campbelltown scoring 6 for 373 off 88.5 overs

In a CricConnect interview with Mosman Scott Jacobson he was asked “Who played the best innings you’ve seen firsthand with or against?

"Michael Bevan belted us to all parts of Rawson Oval scoring 160 playing for Campbelltown. We had a great attack led by Greg Rowell, Gary Bensley, Dudley Slater, Phil Clune and Andrew Martyr and reached the final that year

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1191/nsw-premier-cricket/blog/1640/sydney-grade-cricket-scores-round-14-1990-91-season-23-february-and-2-march-1991
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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Paul Maraziotis was one of the finest batters in NSW Premier Cricket to sadly not be selected to play for class cricket for his state. There are 11,660 First Grade runs, 23 hundreds, 61 half centuries reasons over 21 seasons at an average of 37.49 to suggest he must’ve been very close.

Mazza played 366 innings for Penrith, Bankstown, Blacktown and Sydney and is well placed in the top 10 NSW Premier Cricket Run Scorers of all time. At the time of publication, he sits at No.8.

Born September 1974. Mazza made his first grade debut for Penrith at the age of 18. He played for NSW Under 19’s the following year and lined up against future stars like Ricky Ponting, Michael Divenuto, Andrew Symonds, Brad Hodge, Martin Love just to name a few.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/1638/paul-maraziotis-thrived-on-competition-and-hard-work
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CricConnect Stories
CricConnect Stories
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Sometimes you hear snippets of information and think that’s gold, there’s a tale to be told.

The names Lillee and Marsh are synonymous with Australian cricket. Two Australian cricketing legends welded together as a combination as batsman were “Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee”.

But where did it all start, and here’s the great cricket trivia question.

Who was the first batsman in first-class cricket to be “Caught Marsh Bowled Lillee?”

It happened on 2 November 1969 in a Sheffield Shield game at The Gabba between Western Australia and Queensland.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/56/cricconnect-fans/blog/1636/caught-marsh-bowled-lillee
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Boneo Cricket Club
Boneo Cricket Club
Mornington, Victoria, Australia
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For well over 40 years as a player, umpire and commentator Neil Williams has made a tremendous contribution to cricket within the Mornington Peninsula Cricket Association.

Tell us briefly about your cricketing journey?

3 clubs. As I mentioned Blackburn South, where I captained the Under 16s, we played in a Grand Final against Warrandyte; they were too good for us. I had three years of seniors, firsts and seconds. Playing in a Premiership in C1 (third division of first elevens) in Reporter District; mainly on matting.

When my parents moved to Mt Eliza in 1969, I was across the road from Howard Parker Oval, where Mt Eliza had its home ground. I ended up playing for them for 12 years. We were a very strong club, and I was fortunate enough to play finals every year and a few premierships in the seconds.

In 1980 I decided to reduce travel as I was living in Cape Schanck, so I went to Boneo, where I spent over 20 years (punctuated by 8 or 9 seasons of umpiring in the MPCA)

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1110/boneo-cricket-club/blog/1635/neil-williams-variation-and-consistency-the-key-to-taking-wickets
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Nathan Pilon
Nathan Pilon
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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My Best Grade team - Nathan Pilon 1998 to 2015

I started my first grade career for St George Cricket Club in 1998 and in the season 2004/05 I moved to Melbourne to play with Carlton Cricket Club until my retirement at the end of the 2014/15 season.

There are so many great players and people that I have played with over the years and in picking my best grade team it would’ve have been nice to pick a squad rather than a team.

Here’s my team in batting order:

1. Brett Van Dinesen - St George
What a player, had an awkward presence but when he was on he was one of the most destructive batsman! Very skillful and cagey with the ball in hand.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/846/nathan-pilon/blog/1634/my-best-grade-team-nathan-pilon-1998-to-2015
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Joe Maiorana
Joe Maiorana
Sydney, Australia
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Happy birthday legendary Australian Cricketer Bill Ponsford 🎂

One of the greatest Australian batsmen of all time ✌

Despite being heavily built, Ponsford was quick on his feet and renowned as one of the finest players of spin bowling.

Test career: 2122 runs @48.22 with 7 hundreds and 6 fifties (29 matches).

FC career: 13819 runs @65.18 with 47 hundreds and 43 fifties (162 matches).

* 5th best batting average in FC Cricket (minimum 50 innings).

* One of the two players to score 2 quadruple centuries in FC Cricket, other being Brian Lara.

* One of the four players to score 2 triple hundreds in FC Cricket in the same season.

* Only player to score centuries in his first two and last two Tests.

* 6th best Test batting average as opener- 54.18 (minimum 30 innings).

* 5th best 50/100 conversion rate in Test Cricket- 53.85% (minimum 2k runs).

* Ponsford holds the Australian record for a partnership in Test cricket , set in 1934 in combination with Donald Bradman (451 for 2nd wicket)—the man who broke many of Ponsford's other individual records. In fact, he along with DonnBradman set the record for the highest partnership ever for any wicket in Test cricket history when playing on away soil (451 runs for the second wicket).

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St George Cricket Club
St George Cricket Club
Sydney, Australia
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Kerry O’Keeffe’s celebrity status as “Skull”, the Australian leg-spinner turned radio commentator, does not always do justice to his amazing teenage bowling performances for St George.

By the time he turned 20, Kerry would have 200 first grade wickets if playing for NSW had not caused him to miss so many grade games. In his first season of first grade, 1966-67, when he was 16 turning 17, he took 33 wickets at 18. Everyone was amazed, including the legendary Neil Harvey who faced Kerry’s first over in first grade, and after play he told Captain Warren Saunders he found it hard to believe a 16 year old could bowl leg spin that well. In the following two seasons, he took 65 and 74 wickets, including 5-29 in the 68-69 final. Then in limited appearances over the next two tears of the premiership hat-trick, he took 30 wickets in each at an average of 12, and also 29 at 16 in the last season of the Saunders era.

Yes, many teenage batsman do well in Sydney grade cricket, and occasionally pace bowlers but teenage leg spinners? Kerry was indeed a prodigy. Statisticians at Cricket NSW can find no other bowler – pace or spin – who has taken so many wickets by the age of 20.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/145/kerry-okeeffe-boy-wonder
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Cricket NSW
Cricket NSW
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NSW Under 19 Cricket team 1983-84

Back Row – Jack Wilson (Manager), Justin Kenny, Jason Horn, Steve Liggins, Richard Stobo, Gavin Robertson, Stephen Funnell, Glenn Tobin, Ted Cotton (Coach)

Front Row – Mark Patterson, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh, Mark England (Captain), Brad McNamara, David Moore, Mark Waugh

Comment from Brad McNamara

Great memories! Some characters in that outfit.
Has there ever been a better U/19 team in terms of senior representation?
9 of 14 went on to play Sheffield Shield Cricket
4 Captained NSW
4 Played Test cricket for Australia, 3 over 100 Tests - 404 Tests in total (your 4 made all the difference Riddler!)
2 long time Captains of Australia
A West Indies Head Coach!
Notwithstanding countless grade Cricket honours.

Special mention to our old mate Glen Tobin who is no longer with us.

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Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney
Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club Sydney
Sydney, Australia
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The 2020-21 season marked the 125th anniversary of Eastern Suburbs (Waverley) Cricket Club. It also marked the hundredth year of the famous Eastern Suburbs cricket coaching class.

The coaching class was established by Dr Les Poidevin in the 1921-22 season, the year after Easts won its second 1st grade premiership. The “Flying Doctor”, as he was known, joined the Waverley club at the age of 44 in 1920, scored a century in his first game at the SCG against Paddington. Dr. Poidevin was to go on and lift Waverley Cricket Club out of the doldrums, captaining the first grade to 3 premierships in a row, one of only two clubs to achieve such a feat in the competition’s history. In his second season, due to his agitation, the committee agreed to establish a coaching class, the first of its type in Sydney.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/319/eastern-suburbs-cricket-club-sydney/blog/1616/dr-poidevin-and-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-eastern-suburbs-coaching-class
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