ON THIS DAY - 6th April
Armidale Waratahs (The Tahs) | April 06, 2024
In 1963, B grade won an inevitable premiership when they gave Dumaresq a hiding in the Final. As it had been all season, it was high on the back of the two Geoffs - McDonald and Marshall - who again bowled unchanged with the new ball and demolished Dumaresq. With eight of the batsmen bowled and another lbw, it was bowling of too high a quality for the grade. In a season when only the short scores appeared in the newspaper results (innings over twenty and bowling of three wickets or more) both still had enough individual results recorded to amass 160 wickets and 652 runs between them.
Waratahs v Dumaresq (Final) - B grade, 30th March & 6th April 1963
In 1968, A grade lost to University, facing and failing to what Graham Johnson and Brian Joice described as the most frighteningly fast bowler either of them ever saw, Dick Stayner. Johnson made 41 of Waratahs paltry collapse on the first day, an innings described by contemporaries as one of his greatest. Ian Campbell was the only other batsman to reach double figures among a top seven which contained four ducks. Beer and Dunn took University to victory with their opening stand and despite Tom Cooke's heroic second spell, the game was, in reality, over before tea on the first day.
Waratahs v University (Final) - A grade, 30th March, 6th April 1968
