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ON THIS DAY - 6th March

Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs) | March 06, 2024

In 1977, B grade lost the closest Premiership Final ever played by a Waratahs side. Hillgrove won by 2 wickets in a game where not team scored more than 90 in the four innings played. Skipper Syd Philp top scored in the first innings and Lyndon Strong's 4 wickets had the match tied at the halfway point. It was a similar story in Waratah's second dig, leaving Hillgrove 84 to win the match ... the third time for the match that was a team total! There were six Waratahs ducks across the two innings but GRAHAM FROST (#333 - pictured) became the only player to record a pair in a Final.

Waratahs v Hillgrove (Final) - B grade, 5th & 6th March 1977

In 1993, wicketkeeper DAVID DUNLOP (#757) held 3 catches in an innings for 4th grade v Uralla. Low lights in 5th grade v Hillgrove, as KEITH CORNISH (#685) made a pair and TIM ALLOM (#655) racked up the bowler's hundred with 1-103. Waratahs lost by an innings, batting only 8 in the second innings.

Waratahs v Hillgrove - 5th grade, 27th February & 6th March 1993

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Armidale, Australia

The history of a proud club which grew men from boys through the simple act of trusting them with something very precious.

Favourite players: Life members: Alan Gray, Harry Deiderick, Graham Johnson, Ian Campbell, Syd Philp, Graham Patterson & Albert Hofkamp.

Favourite grounds: Wicklow Oval (Rologas Fields), Harris Park, West Armidale Park (Lambert Park), The Armidale Sportsground

All-time cricket hero: Any bloke in the Royal Blue cap.

Favourite bat: The one that scored the most.

Most memorable moment in cricket:
1952-53 A grade Final, beating Easts 2 outright after our worst A/1st grade total in the sixty year history of the club. Beat the very strong Uralla in the last round to just scrape into the semis and then Easts 1 in the Semi. Played one player short on the first day after a mix up with team sheets and made 163 in the sunshine, Ross Ridley 59. Easts 0-57 at stumps after four dropped catches. Didn't play the second day for two weeks because of the Armidale Show and then after four days of heavy rain. Wicket now a sticky and impossible to bat on. Easts all out for 95, Don Paul 6-24. Batting a second time, Waratahs still one short and Ridley now out injured, all out for 21. Easts needing 90 don't make it to halfway, all out for 43, Don Paul 7-20. Waratahs win their first premiership in only their third season.

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