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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Dick Guy’s contribution to the Club and, indeed, to cricket in general, for so many years, both on and off the field, was amazing. He was a great leader, a fierce competitor, strongly opinionated at times, a terrific bowler and a top guy to have a beer with after a game. His knowledge and understanding of the game was immense and he was always willing to share his views about cricket.

Dick was a right arm leg spin bowler who came in off a slightly longer run up than most spinners. He had uncanny accuracy, a good top spinner and the ability to bowl long, probing spells. Dick began his career at Gordon in Fourth Grade in the 1953-54 season at the age of 16, where he took 31 wickets.

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Gordon District Cricket Club

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Nic Bills returned to UTS North Sydney last year and produced a brilliant ball under the Drummoyne lights against his former club, Sydney.

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The following is a Gordon cricket historians biased view on the comparison between Victor Trumper and Sir Donald Bradman, considered the best two batsman who ever played for Australia. Make your own mind up as to who you would have preferred to go and watch.

Test Records:
Player Matches Innings NO Runs HS Avg Balls 100’s 50’s 4’s 6’s
Bradman 52 80 10 6996 334 99.9 9684 29 13 681 6
Trumper 48 89 8 3163 214* 39.0 1339 8 13 260 4

The comparisons are obvious when looking at totals, centuries, average and total runs. One comparison, however, that is not often looked at is that Trumper scored most of his runs offshore, where wickets were uncovered and often very wet.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/2569/who-was-the-better-batsman-victor-trumper-or-sir-donald-bradman

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St George Cricket Club

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First Grade Player No.295 - Warwick Hayes

After recently celebrating 60 magnificent years, it is only appropriate that we acknowledge one of the great stalwarts of our club - Warwick "The ROCKDOG" Hayes !

A local junior who started his amazing career with Kogarah Boys in the St George junior competition, Warwick went on to become the all time highest runscorer for the club throughout all grades with 16871 runs including 1352 in First Grade. His Grade career with St George commenced in the season of 1979-80 and he had his final game in 2020-21.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/2568/first-grade-player-no295-warwick-hayes

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This fortnights Howzat Building Waratahs in History Q & A is with Matthew “Balchy” Balch.

Matt played 5 seasons for the Tahs from 1996/1997 to 2000/2001. Matt started his career with the Tahs in “Green shield” and has a 100 not out and a 5-wicket haul to his name. Matt now resides in the UK where he has continued to play cricket in the birthplace of the great game.

Matt tells a great story and I rate this as one of the best reads of all the stories we have published over the years. I hope you enjoy!

https://manlycricket.com/waratahs-in-history-david-patterson-2
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Sydney Cricket Club

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Emily Powell is one of the many young guns coming through Sydney Cricket Club. After a strong under 16 national championships last year, she has started this season with three 50s in four games as an opener, and her sharp leggies are taking wickets.

I started playing cricket at age 11 and since then have played for Easts Dolphin Junior Cricket Club and then Sydney Cricket Club and have been a part of Cricket NSW Pathways.

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We arrived at North Sydney with ominous skies overhead and, before we could park the car, the heavens opened up and large raindrops threatened both the match and the Bears Community Day, featuring a bake sale for the Jane McGrath Foundation’s Pink Stumps Day that had been planned.

The girls arrived running through the rain with cricket kit in one hand and cakes, chocolate-dipped strawberries, meringues and cookies etc in the other! Thankfully, after about 10 minutes, the rain stopped and the skies began to clear. Much to everyone's surprise the umpires advised they would be starting the game at the scheduled time provided we could get the covers off and the ground ready on time. At this point fathers descended from everywhere to lend a hand and 15 minutes later the ground was ready for the day's play.

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Penrith Cricket Club

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Jason Arnberger was a local Penrith junior who played all grades at Penrith Cricket Club, becoming First Grade Cap #102. Jason also represented New South Wales and Victoria at First-Class and List-A levels.

As seen in the scorecard above, at his home ground, Howell Oval. Arnberger would amass 319* off 439 balls including 51 x 4s and a single 6 in his 478-minute stay at the crease.

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A nice little article from the Manly Daily, written by it's historian John Morcombe, on some history of Manly Oval. Article was published on the 10th November, 2017

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Belmont District Cricket Club

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club first Grade side promoting major sponsor The Communications Depot in September 1995.

Standing L to R: Ross Trewartha, Geoff Tucker, Richard Fry, Rowley Alexander (c), Paul Hoffman

Sitting/kneeling L to R: Michael Bevan, Craig Glassock, David Ford, Shawn Bradstreet, Glenn Evans, Mark Taylor

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Newcastle, Australia

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Pocket Profile - Kyle Munns - Belmont District Cricket Club

I started at Lake Macquarie Junior Cricket Club. I tried Cardiff Boolaroo and couldn’t hack it, so I went and played for the NTO(Newcastle tax office ) Googlies for a couple of years. Then moved to Newcastle City second grade from a call from an old coach, then to Belmont with the lads.

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Sydney Cricket Club

Sutherland District Cricket Club

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Sammy-Jo Johnson has represented several domestic and international T20 franchises and performed with distinction. She has had the honour of Captaining the NSW breakers.

Sammy-Jo is a superb club member and mentor to the junior players at Sydney CC

My senior women's club debut in Brisbane for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club where I played a few seasons until I moved to the Gold Coast Dolphins. I also debut in Sydney Premier Grade Cricket in high school for Northern Districts but since coming down to NSW full time I've been with the Tigers since.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/2559/sammy-jo-johnson-seize-the-day

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Sylvania, Australia

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Steve Edmonds is best known for playing 113 first grade matches for Cronulla-Sutherland between 1972 and 1981, mostly as a winger, including the 1978 grand final and grand final replay against Manly-Warringah. One of his best matches was at the SCG in 1977 when he scored 3 tries on the wing in a 37-10 win against Newtown..

As a junior cricketer, Steve accumulated an outstanding record as a pace bowler for Sutherland, taking 234 wickets in 81 matches between 1966-67 and 1970-71, when he stopped playing cricket to concentrate on his rugby league career.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/294/sutherland-district-cricket-club/blog/2558/steve-edmonds-popular-cronulla-sharks-player-in-the-1970s-was-also-a-very-handy-cricketer

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

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Tom Marriott is an established top-order batsman for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club, known for sharing his cricketing experience to help young players improve their own craft.

This season, Tom returns to grade cricket and was appointed captain of the Western Suburbs fourth-grade side, which made it through to the semi-finals last season.

In the 2022/23 season, Tom made three fifty-plus scores for the club, top-scoring with 77 against Sydney Cricket Club.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/2557/pocket-profile-tom-marriott-western-suburbs-district-cricket-club

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St George Cricket Club

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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By popular demand we return with our "In Between Balls" feature where we delve into the minds and history of our players. We kick off with our returning Welsh International Ollie Rayner. Ollie recently was capped as St George DCC First Grade Player No.479

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/2556/in-between-balls-with-ollie-rayner

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During round two of Second Grade's Albert Cup UTS North Sydney's Finn Nixon-Tomko made history, blasting 207 not out off 153 balls.

Surprisingly, Norths still fell short of Gordon's 385-5. But an unbelievable achievement for a precocious talent who deservingly made his First Grade debut the following week.

Here is the scorecard from Finn's epic knock and a video of him bringing up his double ton at Bon Andrews.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/2555/finn-nixon-tomko-207-not-out-for-uts-north-sydney-vs-gordon

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Paul Ryan

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I read with great interest the following quotes from George Bailey as the Chief of the Australian Cricket selectors in the Sydney Morning Herald today.

Bailey was also open in calling for more Australian players to develop as left-arm spinners, after New Zealand’s Mitchell Santner was instrumental in engineering India’s first home series loss since 2012.

“I’m happy to very much throw it out there that it is an incredible skill set in the subcontinent and we’ve seen that for many years,” Bailey said. “Realistically there’s not a huge amount of players in domestic cricket that are doing it, so it’s something we’re looking to expose.

George, Josh Clarke is your man.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/2554/hi-george-josh-clarke-is-your-man

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Sydney Cricket Club

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A dynamic young player at the Tigers who is well respected by his team mates and has a marvellous future ahead.

I started playing backyard cricket with my family in Ireland. Joined my first team Waterford CC as an 8-year-old. Later played for Cork Harlequins CC and Rush CC. Then moved to Australia and played in Wollongong and now Sydney Cricket Club.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/2552/pocket-profile-cain-egerton-sydney-cricket-club

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