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Parramatta District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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The Parramatta District Cricket Club has a highly unique tradition regarding the stability of its 1st Grade Scorers that few if any other Cricket Clubs across the globe could match. Incredibly since 1918 only three people have undertaken the important role of permanent Scorer for the club’s 1st Grade team up to 2020. - Ernie Gould, Wesley Gould and Christine Bennison. What an unmatchable record over a time span of 102 years these three individuals have indeed proved to be ‘Pen Pushers Extraordinaire’, only occasionally missing Parramatta or Central Cumberland 1st grade matches through personal illness or because they were engaged in scoring a first-class or international match, year in year out they proudly took their places in the ‘Scorer’s Chair’.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/406/parramatta-district-cricket-club/blog/2594/the-scorers-ndash-an-unmatched-record-ndash-parramatta-dcc

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Queanbeyan District Cricket Club

Queanbeyan, Australia

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Mark Thornton had a long and distinguished cricket career playing in the ACT. Mark has won multiple first grade premierships and represented ACT from under age team’s rights through to the seniors.

He was part of a record breaking ACT batting scorecard and now lives on the Gold Coast running his own business.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/343/queanbeyan-district-cricket-club/blog/221/mark-thornton-always-acknowledge-applause-and-accolades

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St George Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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St George District Cricket Club - Stumps Newsletter - Round 4 and 5 - 2024-25 NSW Premier Cricket season

St George are the NSW Premier Cricket T20 Champions after winning the Final under lights at North Sydney Oval on Sunday 20th of October.

The day started with semi final success against Bankstown. Kurtis Patterson 49 off 27 including six shots that cleared the boundary rope and Blake Macdonald 31 off 16, led the way as Saints reached 185 from their 20 overs. Bankstown started strongly in the chase before Luke Bartier 3 wickets and Nick Stapleton two, put on the brakes, leaving the opposition 26 short.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/275/st-george-cricket-club/blog/2593/st-george-district-cricket-club-stumps-newsletter-round-4-and-5-2024-25-nsw-premier-cricket-season

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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The 4th Annual Ken Devlin / Luke Grimmond Memorial Cup was played at Coogee Oval on Wednesday 30 October 2024. The match lived up to its predecessors with another enjoyable and close match. In attendance was Mrs Grimmond and her daughter, Peter Devlin and Michael Whitney.

Lead image - Presentations to Navy Captain Corey Evans by Mike Whitney, Peter Devlin and Tom Coady RPCCXI Capt.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/2592/devlin-grimmond-memorial-cup-30-october-2024

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Sydney Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Please find the following citation in nominating Colin Jefferies for Life Membership to be acknowledged at the upcoming SCC AGM on 12 September 2024.

Col was recruited to the Tigers by the legendary Australian Cricket administrator, Mr Fred Bennett in 1991, when Col was then the secretary of the inner west junior community cricket association. Fred, certainly a man difficult to reject, installed Col as Balmain Cricket Club secretary in 1992, a position he held through to 1997 before he turned his hand to the club history and picking up the historical work created by Cliff Winning (Life Member).

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/2591/colin-jefferies-life-member-of-sydney-cricket-club-ndash-september-2024

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Captained by Sam Mesite in his last playing year, this 2nd Grade side did remarkably well, finishing 4th on the table with 50 points from 2 Outright wins, 5 first innings wins, 4 losses and 4 draws.

Their Semi Final was the first for 2nd Grade since Ian Howell's die in 1975/76. Unfortunately, rain played a big part in the Semi Final, with 10 hours of play lost before we were able to get on the field. With the team needing to win to advance to the final, we declared at 6/98. However, Minor Premiers Parramatta overhauled our total with ease, finishing at 3/101.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/338/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club/blog/2585/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club-2nd-grade-side-198788

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Sydney Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Cricket Coaching Opportunity

Sydney Cricket Club is seeking to add a qualified Level One or above cricket coach to its coaching staff for the remainder of the 2024/25 NSW Premier Cricket season.

If you are passionate about player improvement and development, have a good general knowledge of the game, are willing to learn in a team environment and have a can-do attitude, please send your expression of interest, including CV, to our general manager Steve Thomlinson at Steve.thomlinson@scgcricket.com.au as soon as possible.

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CricConnect Fans

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Introducing CRICKET ROCKS - the biggest celebration of Cricket ever seen in Australia!
Venue - Sydney Coliseum Theatre, Rooty Hill, NSW
Date - Fri 15 Nov 2024
Time – 7.30pm
This is your chance to meet current playing heroes and former legends, get a rip-roaring preview of the huge Australia v India test series this summer and catch a white hot performance from Six and Out. No Cricket fan can afford to miss CRICKET ROCKS.

Mark Howard will host Steve Smith, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Brett Lee, Wasim Akram, Mark Waugh, Mark Taylor, Ravi Shastri, and Brad Haddin just to name a few.

India is coming, and so is CRICKET ROCKS. Get your tickets now before they’re gonnnne!!

Buy tickets -
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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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As part of Cricket Ireland’s ongoing relationship with Sydney-based Randwick Petersham Cricket Club, John McNally has been selected to take part in the International Cricket Programme and to play with the club during the 2024-25 season in Australia.

McNally has played for Ireland Under-19s Men and is currently playing 2nd grade for Randwick Petersham.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/258/randwick-petersham-cricket-club/blog/2589/meet-john-mcnally-randwick-petersham-cricket-club

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Sydney Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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Gemma Lockhart is a great club person and a promising young fast bowler who has worked her way through the grades to 1sts while representing NSW in indoor cricket.

What do you enjoy most about playing cricket?

I love being able to play the sport that I love with my friends and being able to share the passion of the game with others who feel the same way. I also love that cricket is both a team and individual sport.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/2588/pocket-profile-gemma-lockhart-sydney-cricket-club

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Michael Blatherwick

Managing Director

Hucknall, United Kingdom

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This article offers essential insights to help cricketers make informed choices when purchasing a cricket bat. Over the last 15 years, the internet has enabled numerous small brands to enter the cricket bat market. While some are genuine bat makers, many simply import bats from Asia and apply their own branding. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this approach, if companies are transparent with customers. Unfortunately, some brands mislead buyers by falsely claiming to manufacture their bats in-house.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/158/michael-blatherwick/blog/2587/navigating-the-cricket-bat-market-a-guide-for-savvy-buyers

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Manly Warringah first-grade side in 2011-12 finished 5th over-all in Time Cruickshank's first season as First-Grade captain. They had 11 wins, 5 losses and 3 draws across their 19 regular season matches.

Unfortunately, we went down to Sydney University in the Quarter Final, but it was a successful season after a number of senior departures from the season before

Cameron Merchant had a magic summer, hitting 727 runs at an average of 51.9

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/338/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club/blog/2583/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club-2011-12-first-grade-side

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

Sydney, Australia

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UTS North Sydney had a mixed start across the lower grades to kick off 2024/25. Here are the match reports from the opening month of the season.

Third Grade
Round 1 vs Bankstown
First game of the year for the Bears, looking to kickstart our season with a win playing away at Kelso against a reasonably strong Bankstown side. After winning the toss and electing to field, the boys were fired up to start the year strong, well supported by 3rd-grade debutant Angus Miller and North Sydney debutant Lachlan Spencer. After a slow start in the opening overs, Lachlan Spencer (2-53) and Vrushab Kumar (3-46) broke open the important opening and middle-order partnerships. Yet, a few excellent innings and some clean hitting at the death took Bankstown to a formidable total of 300, a score well above par but not out of sight for some bears looking to score their first runs of the season.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/380/uts-north-sydney-district-cricket-club/blog/2586/october-reports-uts-north-sydney-grades-3-5

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Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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On November 11, 2018 we will remember the important people.

November 11, 2018 is the commemoration of 100 years since the end of World War I.

The Gordon cricket club had 52 members who went to the First World War and seven of them didn’t return and more than 30 didn’t play cricket again due to either physical or phycological reasons. One of those seven was a young Gordon Vets player who was about to start a new season when the call was made to enlist and fight for their country and enjoy the adventure of a lifetime.

The young Vet’s player’s name was Alan Bruce who lived in Balfour Road, Lindfield and played for the Colts before the outbreak of war. The family originally came from Cassilis near Merriwa in NSW. His father David worked for the Department of Lands.

Alan was a civil servant and was engaged to be married when he enlisted on the 24th August, 1914 only a few weeks after the declaration of war and after initial training in Alexandria and other parts of the middle east, landed on the shores of Gallipoli on 25th April 1915 in the first wave of ships with his fellow 1st Battalion diggers scrambling their way onto the beach at Gallipoli as their fellow soldiers fell around them.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/2573/alan-bruce-a-gordon-cricketers-tragic-end

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Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club First Grade Premiers 1987-88

Back Row – M. Saunders, C. Smailes, P. Gonella, G. Fitzgerald, C. Lubich, G. Bush. S. Wright, K. Hughes, A. Bolton (Selector)

Front Row – G. Less (Scorer), T. Hogan (Vice-Captain), T. Alderman (Captain), R. Burgess (President), T. Breman, H. Chrsytal, M. Nice

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club Sydney

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Grant Roden is Western Suburbs first grade player number 612 after making his debut on 24 September 2005 against Balmain (now Sydney Cricket Club).

Grant made his first grade debut back in 1998 for Bankstown at the age of 18 and also played for Sutherland before arriving at the Magpies.

A big strong fast bowler Grant Roden took 236 first grade wickets at an average of 22.68 and took 5 wickets or more in an innings on 10 occasions.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/161/western-suburbs-district-cricket-club-sydney/blog/403/grant-roden-would-happily-bowl-all-day-from-one-end

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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Excitement ran high among Manly cricket followers when, in September 1923, it was learnt that the great test all-rounder Jack Gregory would be joining the Club. Young members may not know much about Gregory, but it should suffice to say that he stood 6 feet 4 inches tall, was probably the fastest bowler in the world at the time, batted left-handed in the Gary Gilmour fashion, and was an acrobatic slip fielder who rates as one of Australia's finest in this position.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/338/manly-warringah-district-cricket-club/blog/2582/jack-gregory-arrives-at-manly

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CricConnect Fans

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Who is the fastest bowler you’ve ever faced in a game of cricket?

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Gordon District Cricket Club

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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2nd November was the chosen date to hold a centenary celebration of the opening of Trumper Pavilion as it coincided with Trumper’s birthday. It was back on 13th September, 1924 that the completed pavilion, a joint project between Willoughby Council and Gordon District Cricket Club, was opened by Mayor of Willoughby HW Clarke. At the same time the 1923-24 1st Grade Premiership was unfurled to an appreciative audience.

The Club proposed the name Trumper Pavilion to commemorate the late champion batsman who had moved with his family to 10 Help Street, Chatswood in 1909 and played for Gordon until his passing in 1915.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/2580/centenary-of-trumper-pavilion-chatswood-oval

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Belmont District Cricket Club

Newcastle, Australia

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Pocket Profile - Nathan King- Belmont District Cricket Club

Tell us about your cricket journey. Where did you start junior cricket and the clubs you’ve played for in senior cricket

Played juniors Swansea Caves JCC and started playing my junior cricket for Belmont DCC.

What do you enjoy most about playing cricket?

Culture as a club both in and off the field. Getting around the boys after games.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/1608/belmont-district-cricket-club/blog/2579/pocket-profile-nathan-king-belmont-district-cricket-club

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