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Q: For any cricketers around Australia interested in joining Peter Drinnen and Brad Murphy on our annual Indian Skills Camp in April 2025, the full details are below.
This camp is for players interested in a sub-continental training experience under the watchful eyes of our Indian coaching group, the Global Cricket School.
We specifically designed this trip to enhance your ability to play cricket on spinning pitches. This trip is perfect for batsmen, spinners, and, of course, wicketkeepers.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/2287/india-cricket-training-camp-in-april-2025-with-peter-drinnen-and-brad-murphy
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Q: Can you name the wicket keepers who have played first class cricket (Sheffield Shield) for Queensland since the start of the 1970-71 cricket season?
We have the following wicket keepers and keen to see if we have missed any.
Peter Anderson
John Bell
Peter Drinnen
Gavin Fitness
Chris Hartley
Ian Healy
John Maclean
Jimmy Peirson
Ray Phillips
Wade Seccombe
A: Garry Madders played 3 first class games in 1979-80
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Q: Who is the one player from Brisbane Grade Cricket who played between 1980 and 2000 you’d want as the first player selected if you had the opportunity to start your own Queensland Premier first grade cricket team?
A: Paul Hutchison
Paul played for South Australia and Tasmania before coming back home to Qld and playing with us at Redland Tigers.
Hutchy bowled quick, was a very decent batsman, had a massive heart-and would bowl all day as he could also bowl offies.
A very funny man and massive club/team man. Loved a drink. A very loyal bloke taken way too early in his mid-forties. A ripper fella.
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Q: Damien Mackenzie was a fast bowler originally from Easts - Redlands who played for Australia in Under 19s alongside his great mate Nathan Hauritz. He played 5 First Class and 10 one day games for the Queensland Bulls. A very sharp right arm quick and powerful striker of the ball with a First Grade century to his name, his career was dogged by injury – significantly major knee and elbow surgeries curtailing his playing career, hence we never saw the best of him at the next level however across his 5 matches for Queensland he had the very creditable average of 23 with the ball.
He debuted for the Tigers whilst still in year 12 at Iona College and was also a decent rugby union footballer. In my first season as captain-coach of Redlands in 1998/99 we had the great fortune to have Macca along with a host of other fantastic young cricketers in Shane Watson, Matt Petrie, Danny Payne, Ryan Poole and Wes Aspeling so it augured well for the club into the future. Add to those young blokes Jimmy Maher, Matt Hayward, Paul Hutchison, Paul Stenhouse, Craig Stone and Steve Hood it is little wonder we grabbed the “One Day” title that season.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/848/damien-mackenzie-bowl-fast-hit-long
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Q: I had a young coach ask me recently for my advice on coaching and a career in it. He really loves coaching cricket, and his aim is to follow that passion and work in the sport fulltime in the future.
We had a lengthy discussion and whilst I could certainly answer plenty of questions for him, some were quite tough, and a few queries were on issues that either I had long forgotten or possibly never thought about.
Basically, when I was a kid most of what I did revolved around sport. Our family owned a tennis centre and my dad, and his brother were fulltime tennis coaches. I played plenty of tennis on our courts after school and quickly got into cricket, Australian rules and rugby league which meant every afternoon, evening and all weekend was occupied with sport. Like lots of kids all I wanted to do was play for Australia - Davis Cup, Test cricket, VFL etc, etc - unrealistic but a pretty healthy way to grow up!
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/1788/can-being-a-coach-become-your-profession
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I had a young coach ask me recently for my advice on coaching and a career in it. He really loves coaching cricket, and his aim is to follow that passion and work in the sport fulltime in the futur ...
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Q: Giving a big plug here to Brisbane cricket umpire Stephen Dionysius who runs Venro Finance, Loans and Mortgage Brokers.
If you are looking to re-finance and getting nowhere with your bank - ring Steve.
If you are sick of getting ripped off by the banks and haven’t yet considered other options, then get onto Steve as soon as possible especially if you are self-employed.
Venro simply sorted the lot for us after getting the usual garbage treatment from our longtime bank lender.
Seriously good service after years of bank heartache.
Contact Steve –
www.www.venro.com.au
or call (07) 3074 9418
Cricket community please feel free to spread the word.
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Q: Indian Cricket Experience in April 2024 with Level 3 Coaches Peter Drinnen and Brad Murphy
Peter Drinnen and Brad Murphy are very experienced and highly regarded Level 3 cricket coaches who have been leading tours to India for many years.
It's the trip of a life time where you will experience a culture that offers so much, and you will train under conditions that will challenge you and help you become a better cricket.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/1687/indian-cricket-experience-in-april-2024-with-level-3-coaches-peter-drinnen-and-brad-murphy
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Peter Drinnen and Brad Murphy are very experienced and highly regarded Level 3 cricket coaches who have been leading tours to India for many years.It's the trip of a life time where you will ...
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Q: The Leyland Brothers have got nothing on Lee Watts
How far would you travel for a game of cricket?
Would a 29 hour round trip every weekend be out of the question?
Not for Lee Watts from Guthalungra in North Queensland which is in between the townships of Home Hill and Bowen. Guthalungra is where he and his mum Joanne run the family’s Brahman cattle station along with their earthmoving business.
Now Lee is not your average cricket fanatic. He is a full-on committed disciple of the game whose late father Harold sparked his interest in the sport from an early age and must indeed be watching from a clubhouse in the sky very proud of his son’s commitment.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/1131/the-leyland-brothers-have-got-nothing-on-lee-watts
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How far would you travel for a game of cricket?Would a 29 hour round trip every weekend be out of the question?Not for Lee Watts from Guthalungra in North Queensland which is in betwe ...
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Q: As we got closer I recognised the lad as one of the members of the Qld Blind Cricket Club whom I have had a fair bit to do with over the past decade or so. They are a great club and so passionate about the game.
Now none of this is particularly unusual I guess – no nets available for us – but what happened from there was a lesson in perspective for all three of us.
The lad, 21 year old Jock Young who lives close by at Macgregor immediately offered to vacate the net to allow us to use it and advised that he would happily move to the centre wicket to practice. This would mean he’d be bowling on an open field and then running at least 80 metres to fetch his plastic blind cricket ball, every single time.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/763/there-can-always-be-a-light
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Q: Experience Cricket in India with Peter Drinnen and Brad Murphy - April 2024
Peter Drinnen and I are reigniting our Indian cricket skills tours to Sachin Bajaj’s Global Cricket Academy in Mumbai next year. We will be looking to depart Brisbane on Monday April 15th and return on Thursday 25th 2024.
The 9-day training camps are for serious cricketers of solid standard and comprise of both skills sessions, net sessions, centre wicket and game situations and are staffed by local established Indian coaches and overseen by Peter and me. We have access to plenty of local net bowlers as well as the Indian coaches to offer an optimal sub-continental cricket experience. You will get a stack of cricket!
In past years we have had Qld Bulls players such as Jack Wildermuth, Jimmy Peirson, Sam Heazlett, Nathan McSweeney, Bryce Street and James Bazley in our touring party
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/173/brad-murphy/blog/1078/experience-cricket-in-india-with-peter-drinnen-and-brad-murphy-april-2024
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Peter Drinnen and I are reigniting our Indian cricket skills tours to Sachin Bajaj’s Global Cricket Academy in Mumbai next year. We will be looking to depart Brisbane on Monday April 15th and ret ...
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Another interview with a past team mate of mine in Greg “Chad “Tibbits who is now the Managing Director of the ...
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If you have visited South Brisbane District Cricket Club anytime over the past twenty - four years there is a good chance that you would have come acros ...
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Damien Mackenzie was a fast bowler originally from Easts - Redlands who played for Australia in Under 19s alongside his great mate Nathan Hauritz. He played 5 First Class and 10 one day games for t ...
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Pre-season practice at Souths in August 1981 down at Fehlberg Park was the usual gathering of players keen to prepare for the season ahead. One new player stood out though as he was kitted out in c ...
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A long, long time ago ----------------------Reflecting on memories many decades ago from the old Greg Chappell Cricket Centre (GCCC) on Dover Street at Albion, just a few numbers down the ro ...
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Originally published - 22 September 2019. Still a wonderful storyThis is a story that I needed to come straight home and write as it was as “feel good” as you can g ...
