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Valley District Cricket Club Coaching Announcements for 2023-24

Valley District Cricket Club | April 26, 2023

We are proud to announce the following coaching appointments for 2023/24 season.

Peter Clifford comes to the club with a vast cricket knowledge. Peter had an exceptional First-Class playing career for both NSW and QLD. Since, Peter has Coached and been a First Grade Umpire. We believe Peter will be outstanding in the role as we push for a premiership.  

We also welcome Valley First Grade premiership winners and QLD representatives Andrew Gode and Luke Feldman to our coaching team along with Adam Lockhart-Krause.

Our lower Grades Head Coach is Tom Gibson with assistants Brett Sweeney and Clinton Kempnich.

After two successful seasons Leteysha Randall will continue as our Womens Head Coach with Col Wade as assistant.


Coaching Structure

Director of Coaching – Peter Drinnen

First Grade Squad– One Day and Two Day – Peter Clifford

First Grade Squad - T20 Max – Andrew Gode

First Grade Squad - Bowling Coach – Luke Feldman

First Grade Squad - Fielding – Adam Lockhart-Krause


Lower Grade Head Coach – Tom Gibson

Assistants - Brett Sweeney & Clinton Kempnich


Lord Taverners - Derek Heilbronn

Assistant - Tom Gibson


Women’s Program

Head Coach – Leteysha Randall                 

Assistant - Col Wade


We look forward to next season with a strong coaching platform to push for even greater success in 2023/24.

Go Valleys


Brett Neill - Chair VDCC Men's Cricket Committee

Christie Lewis - Chair VDCC Women's Cricket Committee




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Valley District Cricket Club

http://valleydcc.qld.cricket.com.au
Brisbane, Australia
Valley District Cricket Club is a cricket club playing in the Bulls Masters premiership, the leading club cricket competition in Queensland, Australia. The club was established on 16 August 1897 and is one of only four remaining foundation clubs (along with South Brisbane, Redlands and Toombul). They have historically been located in the inner Brisbane suburb of Fortitude Valley and now play home matches at the Ashgrove Sportsground Park. Australian Test cricketers to play for the Valley club include Matthew Hayden, Allan Border, Don Tallon, Kepler Wessels, Usman Khawaja, Stuart Law and England wicket-keeper Geraint Jones OBE (in third grade). Notable Queenslanders to play for Valley include Leo OConnor (cricketer), Roy Levy, Otto Nothling, Malcolm Francke, Joe Dawes, Geoff Foley, Lee Carseldine and Luke Feldman. Current contracted Queensland Bulls players are Usman Khawaja, Lachlan Pfeffer, Mark Steketee and Jack Wildermuth, along with Queensland Fire players Mikayla Hinkley, Georgia Prestwidge and Charli Knott Valley is the largest club in Australia in player numbers and is believed to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest cricket club in the world; it currently (2019/20 season) has over 1,300 junior players, 200 senior players, including 180 female players.