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Q: Who is the one player from Sydney 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 NSW Premier first grade cricket team?
A: Grant Lambert. Easy selection, you could build a great team around him.
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Q: Sean Pope was the best captain in my cricket career.
His open and transparent approach to captaincy made you feel at ease within the team environment and he was a great man manager and treated us all equally and that is all you can ask from a captain.
His was a very aggressive player and captain and set fields that captains wouldn’t dare set in a game situation. Fields like 3 or 4 short covers, just very different that wouldn’t only confuse the batsman, but sometimes even his own teammates
Sean had a great ability to bring players together in social settings and this helps win on the field in tough situations, we never felt beaten in a game and this was born about by the closeness of our team.
I remember Peter Burkhart come up to me at the races one day (we were washed out) and said “you guys will win the comp this year, I have never seen a team as close as mates as you are” Peter was a good judge, as we won the grand final pretty easily over North Sydney six months later.
Sean led from the front, he was a funky captain, but one I wouldn’t swap and I played with some very handy other captains along the way.
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Q: My best Grade team - Dean Magee 1989 - 2012
I’ve been really enjoying reading former Sydney Grade players pick their best teams so I thought, why not, it can’t be that difficult to pick my best team.
Wow, it was a lot tougher than I originally thought it would be.
See in my playing days at Bankstown and Fairfield, I was fortunate to play with probably the two best bowling attacks at one time or another.
At Bankstown we had Wayne Holdsworth, Scot Thompson, Nathan Bracken, David Freedman, Ken Hall and then at Fairfield we had Don Nash, Doug Bollinger, Grant Lambert, Jason Krejza and Anthony Clark.
To clarify I played at Bankstown from 1989 to 1999. Fairfield 2000 to 2004 and then back to Bankstown from 2005 to 2012.
Well here goes, my Best grade team from players I played with, in batting order:
1. Corey Richards – Bankstown. Genius player, best batsman I have played with
2. Grant Lambert – Fairfield. All round machine
3. Kevin Roberts – Bankstown and Captain. Robocop, scored some amazing 100’s
4. Ben Rohrer – Fairfield. Fantastic player & created run outs in the field that others couldn’t
5. Shane Deitz – Bankstown and Wicket keeper. Great keeper, loved the short ball.
6. Scott Thompson – Bankstown. Best competitor you could ever play with, could bowl like the wind on his day & hit the ball as hard as anyone.
7. Jason Krejza – Fairfield. To this day, I have never seen a finger spinner get as much turn as Jason. Good with the stick also.
8. Don Nash – Fairfield. None better at swinging them both ways & was handy with the bat.
9. David Freedman – Bankstown. Can’t leave Fred out, fantastic bowler & great competitor.
10. Wayne Holdsworth – Bankstown. Easy selection.
11. Doug Bollinger – Fairfield. Came from nowhere and ruled the world for a time. Great competitor.
12th man - Brett Van Deinsen - Bankstown. Just couldn’t find a spot, but if someone was injured, he could bat, bowl, field, so pretty decent replacement.
Coach – Steve Small - Bankstown
Manager – Ken Hall - Bankstown
Scorer – Arty Cooper - Bankstown
It was tough to leave out Nathan Bracken, David Kelley, Paul Maraziotis, Sean Pope, Dean Waugh, Anthony Clark but you can only play with 11.
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Q: My Grand Final nightmare
In season 2006/07 Bankstown beat Randwick in the One Day competition Grand Final and as we were well placed in the overall competition the thought of wining the double was quite exciting.
It became even more so when we beat a star studded Sydney University team in the semi-final to advance to the big show. The Sydney University team included Stuey MacGill, Ed Cowan, Greg Mail, and Mark Cameron just to name a few. So we were pretty excited to win and we, well I did, wanted to celebrate.
Our grand final opponents was to be Fairfield, my old team and where many were and still are some of my best mates. Grant Lambert (Lambo) Dougy Bollinger, Anthony Clark, Benny Rohrer….. you beauty, this is going to be a cracking grand final.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/366/dean-magee/blog/1048/my-grand-final-nightmare
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In season 2006/07 Bankstown beat Randwick in the One Day competition Grand Final and as we were well placed in the overall competition the thought of wining the double was quite exciting.It ...
