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.