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Q: Queensland and NSW are playing the last Sheffield Shield game of the 2023-24 season with NSW still a chance to make the final.
Over the years there's been many first class cricketers who have played for both Queensland NSW,
Here's our list of players so far. If you know of others please let us know.
Allan Border
Peter Clifford
Peter Forrest
Nathan Hauritz
Scott Henry
Usman Khawaja
Ray Phillips
Len Richardson
Greg Rowell
Gurinder Sandhu
Peter Taylor
Jeff Thomson
Shane Watson
Dirk Wellham
Over the years there's been many first class cricketers who have played for both Queensland NSW,
Here's our list of players so far. If you know of others please let us know.
Allan Border
Peter Clifford
Peter Forrest
Nathan Hauritz
Scott Henry
Usman Khawaja
Ray Phillips
Len Richardson
Greg Rowell
Gurinder Sandhu
Peter Taylor
Jeff Thomson
Shane Watson
Dirk Wellham
A: Bill Brown
Ray Lindwall
Ian Davis
Ray Lindwall
Ian Davis
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Q: I was bowling to former Queenslander batting allrounder Glenn Trimble who played 2 one day games for Australia at Bottomley Oval in the 80s.
Glenn was one of the hardest hitters ever of a cricket ball and started one with 6, 6, 4, 6 before our captain Mal Freeman yells out “Banger pull a hammy.”
Next ball I knock his stumps over and walked him off all the way to the dressing room, sat next to him as he took his pads off.
Years later we were drinking in a bar together in Melbourne and some bloke asked him “was bowling those wides in the one day international in Perth, the most embarrassing moment of your career.
Glenn replied with “No, 2nd most, this prick here getting me out was the most embarrassing.”
Glenn was such a great player. If he was playing in the modern era of T20 cricket he would’ve been an absolute superstar.
Glenn was one of the hardest hitters ever of a cricket ball and started one with 6, 6, 4, 6 before our captain Mal Freeman yells out “Banger pull a hammy.”
Next ball I knock his stumps over and walked him off all the way to the dressing room, sat next to him as he took his pads off.
Years later we were drinking in a bar together in Melbourne and some bloke asked him “was bowling those wides in the one day international in Perth, the most embarrassing moment of your career.
Glenn replied with “No, 2nd most, this prick here getting me out was the most embarrassing.”
Glenn was such a great player. If he was playing in the modern era of T20 cricket he would’ve been an absolute superstar.
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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: Mal Freeman
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Q: If you drive past Bottomley Park near Easts Rugby Club in East Brisbane these days you will see a tiny little brick building opposite the Norman Park train station with a few cricket nets and some large gum trees. It was once the home of the Eastern Suburbs District Cricket Club.
The clubhouse was known as the “Crab Pot” as once you got in you couldn’t get out!
It was a fantastic joint and loved by Easties all opposition players and the umpires as well. It was the good old days when after matches meant having a beer with the opponents.
It was actually the unofficial umpire’s clubhouse. Popular umpire Mel Johnson played for Easts before becoming one of our greatest ever test umpires and he may well have started the tradition.
The clubhouse was known as the “Crab Pot” as once you got in you couldn’t get out!
It was a fantastic joint and loved by Easties all opposition players and the umpires as well. It was the good old days when after matches meant having a beer with the opponents.
It was actually the unofficial umpire’s clubhouse. Popular umpire Mel Johnson played for Easts before becoming one of our greatest ever test umpires and he may well have started the tradition.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/233/evan-bancroft/blog/1026/the-story-of-the-crab-pot
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Q: In 2000 Neil Harvey was selected in the Australian Test team of the Century. 79 tests, 6,149 runs at 48.41 including 21 centuries made Harvey a worthy selection to bat at number 5 behind Bradman at 3 and Greg Chappell at 4.
Harvey played his first Test in January 1948 against India in Adelaide at the age of 19 and you wouldn’t believe what he went and bought when he found out he was about to make his Test debut…. a cricket bat and it was the first he’d own.
On a ‘Just Havin a Crack’ podcasts shared with Blakey and I how he played first grade district cricket in Melbourne and Shield cricket for Victoria using a bat that came from the team kit.
Imagine that, you’ve been picked to play Test cricket, to wear the baggy green, the dreams of many and you’ve done so using a cricket bat shared by all your other team mates.
Harvey played his first Test in January 1948 against India in Adelaide at the age of 19 and you wouldn’t believe what he went and bought when he found out he was about to make his Test debut…. a cricket bat and it was the first he’d own.
On a ‘Just Havin a Crack’ podcasts shared with Blakey and I how he played first grade district cricket in Melbourne and Shield cricket for Victoria using a bat that came from the team kit.
Imagine that, you’ve been picked to play Test cricket, to wear the baggy green, the dreams of many and you’ve done so using a cricket bat shared by all your other team mates.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/233/evan-bancroft/blog/1240/australian-test-cricketer-buys-his-own-cricket-bat
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In 2000 Neil Harvey was selected in the Australian Test team of the Century. 79 tests, 6,149 runs at 48.41 including 21 centuries made Harvey a worthy selectio ...
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Q: Amazing content from a 1924 cricket book
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/233/evan-bancroft/blog/1122/amazing-content-from-a-1924-cricket-book
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Q: If you drive past Bottomley Park near Easts Rugby Club in East Brisbane these days you will see a tiny little brick building opposite the Norman Park train station with a few cricket nets and some large gum trees. It was once the home of the Eastern Suburbs District Cricket Club.
The clubhouse was known as the “Crab Pot” as once you got in you couldn’t get out!
It was a fantastic joint and loved by Easties all opposition players and the umpires as well. It was the good old days when after matches meant having a beer with the opponents.
It was actually the unofficial umpire’s clubhouse. Popular umpire Mel Johnson played for Easts before becoming one of our greatest ever test umpires and he may well have started the tradition.
Umpires like Peter Parker, Merv Musch and the late, great Jimmy Taylor could be found there on most summer Saturday evenings.
The most popular opposition player was former Queensland fast bowler “Wild Bill” Albury who lived only a couple of hundred yards away but played for Wynnum-Manly. What fantastic company he was.
The clubhouse was very modest with a few uncomfortable chairs and a pool table which was used more as a bed than a pool table.
The clubhouse was known as the “Crab Pot” as once you got in you couldn’t get out!
It was a fantastic joint and loved by Easties all opposition players and the umpires as well. It was the good old days when after matches meant having a beer with the opponents.
It was actually the unofficial umpire’s clubhouse. Popular umpire Mel Johnson played for Easts before becoming one of our greatest ever test umpires and he may well have started the tradition.
Umpires like Peter Parker, Merv Musch and the late, great Jimmy Taylor could be found there on most summer Saturday evenings.
The most popular opposition player was former Queensland fast bowler “Wild Bill” Albury who lived only a couple of hundred yards away but played for Wynnum-Manly. What fantastic company he was.
The clubhouse was very modest with a few uncomfortable chairs and a pool table which was used more as a bed than a pool table.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/233/evan-bancroft/blog/1026/the-story-of-the-crab-pot
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If you drive past Bottomley Park near Easts Rugby Club in East Brisbane these days you will see a tiny little brick building opposite the Norman Park train station with a few cricket nets and some ...
