Waratahs Playing Seasons
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs) | April 05, 2024
Waratahs Cricket Club of Armidale played in the Armidale District CA (formerly the New England CA) from the 1950-51 season until their last game in 2005-06. They had a couple of amalgamations post 2001 - first with Norths and for one season with Centrals - before exiting after one last season under their own, defiant banner at the end of 2005-06.
A club to be proud of, it was at its strongest in the 1980's, not only winning more premierships with its depth of ever rejuvenating talent but having more members and more teams which spread into the junior ranks and the early days of women's cricket.
Keeping the records of Waratahs has always been important. Our Yearbooks are the stuff of Armidale cricket legend - a seasonal review of the club's activity, on and off the field. The statistical records of the club are as good, if not better, in terms of depth, quantity and variety, as any cricket club in Australia ... but they are still in the process of updating, with most matches of the last six seasons currently under research.
A vast majority of the scorecards from matches have been recovered from copies of the Armidale Express kept on microfilm at the UNE Dixson Library. About ten years of results are missing from the lower grades of the 1960's and 70's, when the Express only printed complete scoresheets of A grade. That changed under the astute leadership of sports editor Peter Barrett, himself a former Waratahs player. Armidale cricketers from the late 1970's on, have much to thank him for, both at the time for that moment when they peered through the columns of scores in Monday's paper to fulfil the fast bowler's sledge "read it in the paper son" and now, when the records of their endeavours are captured and recalled for bragging rights with children and grandchildren.
Follow this link to trawl through Waratahs seasons, as we know them now and keep returning, for these results will grow as research reveals more.
