My best Grade Cricket team - Peter Nicholson, Brisbane and Sydney 1973 - 1993

Peter Nicholson | June 05, 2023

The best grade team of players I played Grade cricket with in Brisbane and Sydney.

To paint the picture of the players I can choose from I made my debut for Norths in Brisbane in 1973/74 and transferred to Valley the next season where I played 1974/75 and 1975/76.

I then moved to Toombul for the 1976/77 season and played the 6 seasons before moving to Sydney to play for St George.

At St George I was the First Grade keeper in seasons 1982/83 and 83/84. I continued to play and filed in on occasions in Firsts and from 1990 – 1993 I enjoyed captaining the 3rd Grade team whilst perched at Short Leg.

Here’s my best grade team from the players I had the privilege of paying with in First Grade:

1.  Wayne Seabrook - St George

2.  Don Allan - Norths Brisbane

3.  Mike Lucas - Norths Brisbane and captain

4.  Philip Carlson - Norths Brisbane

5.  Keith (Spook)Dudgeon - Valley

6.  Murray Bennett - St George

7.  Harry Frei - Toombul

8.  Peter Nicholson – Wicket Keeper – never played with another wicket keeper

9.  Steve Bernard - St George

10. Richard Done - St George

11.  Malcolm Francke - Valleys

12th Man - Lew Ireland - Toombul (best fielder ever)

Scorer - Judy Harris - Toombul

Coach - Geoff Trivett - Valley

Team Manager/Back up scorer/chief supporter - Brian Corbett - St George.

As there’s only one wicket keeper in a team I’d like to mention Steve Rixon from Sutherland was the best keeper I played against.