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Kye Thornley is a tall, strapping young right-arm fast bowler who possesses that most-sought-after attribute – raw pace. He is a novice young cricketer with a bright future beckoning. In the brief timeframe since his NSW Premier Cricket debut in 2021/22 he has already been a member of a First Grade Belvidere Cup winning team.

Kye’s ascent to date has been quite remarkable. He only made fleeting appearances in Parramatta’s A.W. Green Shield team over two seasons – 2019/20 and 2020/21 – for the sum of 7 runs @ 7.00 and 2 wickets @ 22.67 – figures that provide little indication as to how well he was deemed to rise in the next few seasons.

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UTS North Sydney First Grade 2025/26 season wrap.

There are seasons defined by silverware, and seasons defined by something harder to put on an honour board — and 2025/26 was, for the UTS North Sydney First Grade unit, a season of the second kind. We finished tenth of twenty in the Belvidere Cup and bowed out of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup at the pool stage, and yet this was a summer rich in individual brilliance, in the blooding of the next generation, and in the kind of fine margins that, had a few fallen our way, would have told a very different story.

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Manly Warringah strong showing in the 1943-44 Green Shield season

During the 1943/44 Green Shield competition, Manly delivered a commendable performance, finishing third after an impressive period in which the club had held the Shield for two consecutive seasons. Although unable to secure a third straight title, the team maintained a high standard of play across both batting and bowling.

Manly’s batting unit proved productive throughout the season, compiling a total of 1,208 runs for the loss of 72 wickets, resulting in a team average of 16.77. In comparison, their opponents managed 1,092 runs but lost 109 wickets in the process, averaging just 10.00—an indication of Manly’s effectiveness with the ball.

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Ross Elliot joined us in 2019-20 as a 23-year-old from Geelong City Cricket Club, moving to the Harbour City to study for a Master of Finance degree at University of NSW. He made his debut with the club in 3rd Grade, scoring 140 runs with his best score 36 from nine matches. He also held six catches receiving a comment from his skipper Ben Stares that he “had the best set of hands that I have ever played with”. He held another nine the following season when he headed the 3rd Grade batting with 232 runs with a top score of 79.

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Claude Tozer: What might have been

One of the most tragic figures of the First World War period was Dr. Claude Tozer, whose meteoric rise and shocking end became one of cricket's most heartbreaking stories. Born September 27, 1890, Tozer had been a recognised University player before the war, twice heading the First Grade batting aggregate lists with averages above 70.

His path to cricket stardom was interrupted by the Great War, where he served with extraordinary distinction. Enlisting in the Australian Army Medical Corps in May 1915, Tozer quickly rose to the rank of captain

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Ten classic St George District Cricket Club pictures from 10 different seasons

Introducing our St George 10 Out Of 10 where we talk you though 10 classic St George pictures from 10 different years. We’ll use our various resources such as our Social Media platforms, Annual Reports, Books or our amazing digital library to find these images and we’ll include commentary or extracts to tell you a little more about these images.
In our first series we look at the first 5 pictures from the 2011-2012 and 2021 seasons

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Adrian Tucker - hold your nerve

Adrian Tucker made his first class debut for NSW during the 1989/90 season and went on to take 4 wickets in the 1989/90 Sheffield Shield Final won by NSW. Memorably he took the wicket of Allan Border the Australian captain in both innings.

In 17 first class games Adrian took 45 wickets at 40.13 with best figures of 5 for 38.

In NSW Premier Cricket Adrian played for Balmain and Waverley/Eastern Suburbs from 1985 to 2006. He took 424 first grade wickets at 23.54 with best figures of 7 for 64 and took 5 wickets or more on 11 occasions

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