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Q: Select Your Best Test Cricket Team and Win $1,000 AUD!
Think you can create the ultimate Test cricket team? Here’s your chance to win $1,000 AUD by picking your best Test XI, following these simple rules:
1. Team Composition:
- Your team can only include a maximum of Two players from any one Test-playing nation.
- Select 11 players in batting order to form a balanced cricket team of batters, bowlers and a wicket keeper. Please nominate your wicket keeper.
2. Eligibility:
- You can only select players you’ve personally seen play a Test match live or on television.
- For instance, if you were born in 1970, players like Don Bradman are ineligible.
3. How to Submit Your Team:
- To participate, you must be a registered user on CricConnect.
- Register by providing your full name, email address, and password. Validate your email address, then publish your team in the answer section under this competition post.
- Teams published solely on CricConnect’s social media pages will not be considered.
4. Limitations:
- You can submit only one team.
5. Competition Period:
- Entries close at 12:00 pm AEST on 31st January 2025.
6. Winner Selection:
- All eligible entries will be entered into a random draw to win $1,000 AUD.
- The winner will be announced at 4:00 pm AEST on 31st January 2025.
7. Prize Details:
- There will be one winner only, receiving $1,000 AUD.
Start brainstorming your best Test team and submit your entry for a chance to win!
Have fun.
Think you can create the ultimate Test cricket team? Here’s your chance to win $1,000 AUD by picking your best Test XI, following these simple rules:
1. Team Composition:
- Your team can only include a maximum of Two players from any one Test-playing nation.
- Select 11 players in batting order to form a balanced cricket team of batters, bowlers and a wicket keeper. Please nominate your wicket keeper.
2. Eligibility:
- You can only select players you’ve personally seen play a Test match live or on television.
- For instance, if you were born in 1970, players like Don Bradman are ineligible.
3. How to Submit Your Team:
- To participate, you must be a registered user on CricConnect.
- Register by providing your full name, email address, and password. Validate your email address, then publish your team in the answer section under this competition post.
- Teams published solely on CricConnect’s social media pages will not be considered.
4. Limitations:
- You can submit only one team.
5. Competition Period:
- Entries close at 12:00 pm AEST on 31st January 2025.
6. Winner Selection:
- All eligible entries will be entered into a random draw to win $1,000 AUD.
- The winner will be announced at 4:00 pm AEST on 31st January 2025.
7. Prize Details:
- There will be one winner only, receiving $1,000 AUD.
Start brainstorming your best Test team and submit your entry for a chance to win!
Have fun.
A: 1. Desmond Haynes
2. Alistair Cooke
3. Kevin Peterson
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Steven Waugh
7. Jeffrey Dujon W/K
8. Kapil Dev
9. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Alan Donald
West Indies 2 - England 2 - Australia 2 - India 2 - South Africa 2 - Pakistan 1
2. Alistair Cooke
3. Kevin Peterson
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Jacques Kallis
6. Steven Waugh
7. Jeffrey Dujon W/K
8. Kapil Dev
9. Wasim Akram
10. Shane Warne
11. Alan Donald
West Indies 2 - England 2 - Australia 2 - India 2 - South Africa 2 - Pakistan 1
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Q: NSW One Day Mercantile Mutual Cup Champions in 1992-93
Left to right - Gavin Robertson, Steve Rixon (Coach), Greg Matthews, Brad McNamara, Mark Patterson, Michael Slater, Glenn McGrath in the shadows, Phil Emery (Captain), Steve Small at the front, Adam Gilchrist, Richard Stobo, Trevor Bayliss, Michael Bevan
NSW defeated Victoria by 4 wickets with 2 balls remaining.
Match scorecard -
Left to right - Gavin Robertson, Steve Rixon (Coach), Greg Matthews, Brad McNamara, Mark Patterson, Michael Slater, Glenn McGrath in the shadows, Phil Emery (Captain), Steve Small at the front, Adam Gilchrist, Richard Stobo, Trevor Bayliss, Michael Bevan
NSW defeated Victoria by 4 wickets with 2 balls remaining.
Match scorecard -
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/mercantile-mutual-cup-1992-93-367440/new-south-wales-vs-victoria-final-367847/full-scorecard
A: I umpired that game. Terrific match with ebb and flow before Robbo camre in and pu it beyond doubt!
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Q: As the cricket world looks forward to another season (in the U.K) I want to pay tribute to the many millions of players who really make this the game we love so much - those being the regular weekend club cricketers. I was blessed to be part of a very special team way back in the previous century. This team came together when a couple of other clubs looked like folding which was a loss that a few of the founders of Orange City Cricket Club, (Orange NSW, Australia) wouldn't allow to happen.
Orange City Cricket Club (The Warriors) formed in 1968 and after a reasonably competitive season they went on to win the 1st Grade Premiership in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973. The team composed of 4 specialist batsmen (two lefties and 2 right handers, 2 wicket-keeper batsmen, 3 fast bowling all-rounders, complimented by left arm and right arm finger spinners.
It was a team formed of friendship and mutual respect, practising twice a week, turning up on Saturday for the game and many hours of bonding afterwards at the local hotel who sponsored them.
In the end, it wasn't just the winning that counted, the team turned us into better men who cared and played for each other.
We became friends for life. That's what cricket offers up.
I make this post in the hope that club cricket will continue to be there to give opportunities for players of all levels to make friends, play a great game and be in my position; being able to remember how good it all was!
Orange City Cricket Club (The Warriors) formed in 1968 and after a reasonably competitive season they went on to win the 1st Grade Premiership in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973. The team composed of 4 specialist batsmen (two lefties and 2 right handers, 2 wicket-keeper batsmen, 3 fast bowling all-rounders, complimented by left arm and right arm finger spinners.
It was a team formed of friendship and mutual respect, practising twice a week, turning up on Saturday for the game and many hours of bonding afterwards at the local hotel who sponsored them.
In the end, it wasn't just the winning that counted, the team turned us into better men who cared and played for each other.
We became friends for life. That's what cricket offers up.
I make this post in the hope that club cricket will continue to be there to give opportunities for players of all levels to make friends, play a great game and be in my position; being able to remember how good it all was!
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Q: What is the most surreal moment you've experienced in cricket?
A: Batting aginst Mosman 1973, Mosman Oval green top, with Barry Knight and David Colley peppering me with bouncers. No helmet, no chest or arm guard, just a trusty Slazenger Polyarmour bat. Captain Mark Hope a the other end just telling me to watch the ball......which I did as they fizzed past my ears. Long way from Wade Park, Orange for the young country boy. Treasured memories.
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Back Row - Mark Fisher, Paul Allen. Derrick Black, Darrell Hair, Steve Sutherland, Paul McEwen, Paul Valentine, Paul McDermott, Ian Davis. Front Row – Stan Gilchrist (Selector and Manager ...
