About Me
Adrian Tucker
Business Development ManagerDogue
https://www.dogue.com.au
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Franchising and Business Development at DOGUE
Former NSW Legspinner and played Grade Cricket for Balmain and Easts Dolphins in Sydney
Former NSW Legspinner and played Grade Cricket for Balmain and Easts Dolphins in Sydney
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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 without a doubt. Scott Thompson would be 2nd
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Q: In November 1988, 12 souls who braved the inaugural year of the AIS/ACB Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy gathered in Brisbane to mark the 30-year anniversary of what was, for us, and incredible year.
As part of two days of reminiscing we visited the current Centre of Excellence, based in Brisbane. The programmes and facilities for today’s athletes are light years ahead of that experienced by the original 15 of us back in 1988.
The current facility is incredible – lap pool, hot pool, cold pool, recovery room/MASH Unit, nets with pitches designed to replicate different conditions and a state-of-the-art gymnasium – I could go on. My overarching thought when touring the facilities was that they definitely would have helped me become a better athlete, but not necessarily a better cricketer.
Since 1988 there have been 389 athletes move through a programme that has morphed in every way imaginable. We were a squad of 15 who were farmed out to local Adelaide Grade Clubs, this moved to a squad of 24 where they essentially toured and played each other, and the current thinking is that more concentrated groups of elite talent in shorter bursts of high intensity training
As part of two days of reminiscing we visited the current Centre of Excellence, based in Brisbane. The programmes and facilities for today’s athletes are light years ahead of that experienced by the original 15 of us back in 1988.
The current facility is incredible – lap pool, hot pool, cold pool, recovery room/MASH Unit, nets with pitches designed to replicate different conditions and a state-of-the-art gymnasium – I could go on. My overarching thought when touring the facilities was that they definitely would have helped me become a better athlete, but not necessarily a better cricketer.
Since 1988 there have been 389 athletes move through a programme that has morphed in every way imaginable. We were a squad of 15 who were farmed out to local Adelaide Grade Clubs, this moved to a squad of 24 where they essentially toured and played each other, and the current thinking is that more concentrated groups of elite talent in shorter bursts of high intensity training
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/528/adrian-tucker/blog/1191/so-thatrsquos-what-30-years-feels-like
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Originally published in November 2018Last week, 12 souls who braved the inaugural year of the AIS/ACB Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy gathered in Brisbane to mark the 3 ...
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Q: My best Grade team - Adrian Tucker 1986-2006
My First Grade career lasted over 20 years and covered three clubs – Balmain, Adelaide and Eastern Suburbs (formerly Waverley).
Here's my best grade team of players I played with, in batting order:
1. David Warner (Easts) - Batted mostly at 6 in my time playing with him, but I get to choose the order so he opens
2. Brad Haddin ( Easts) - It’s quite a luxury having a keeper that can bat anywhere in the order, especially given the all-rounders I have in the team. By the way he also keeps.
My First Grade career lasted over 20 years and covered three clubs – Balmain, Adelaide and Eastern Suburbs (formerly Waverley).
Here's my best grade team of players I played with, in batting order:
1. David Warner (Easts) - Batted mostly at 6 in my time playing with him, but I get to choose the order so he opens
2. Brad Haddin ( Easts) - It’s quite a luxury having a keeper that can bat anywhere in the order, especially given the all-rounders I have in the team. By the way he also keeps.
https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/528/adrian-tucker/blog/1042/my-best-grade-team-adrian-tucker-1986-2006
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My First Grade career lasted over 20 years and covered three clubs – Balmain, Adelaide and Eastern Suburbs (formerly Waverley).I have great memories from all there clubs, and would like to ...
