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Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

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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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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club

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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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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.

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Sydney Cricket Club

Manly Warringah District Cricket Club

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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.

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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

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Subiaco Floreat Cricket Club

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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.

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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

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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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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.

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Belmont District Cricket Club

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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.

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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.

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Sutherland District Cricket Club

Sylvania, Australia

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Sutherland District Cricket Club - 4th Grade Premiers in inaugural season 1965-66

In the Club’s first season 1965-66, the youthful 4th Grade team, well led by experienced off-spinner Ross Longbottom, won the premiership in an incredible final at Sutherland Oval. The star of the final was 15-year-old pace bowler Paul Lennon, who took 9-19 off 10.3 overs, as Central Cumberland were routed for just 43. Sutherland replied with 6/67 before the match was called off with Sutherland premiers. It was a fourth consecutive 4th Grade premiership for 46-year-old Longbottom, who had captained St.George to premierships in 1962-63, 1963-64 & 1964-65.

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Belmont District Cricket Club

Newcastle, Australia

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Pocket Profile - Jacob Curry- Belmont District Cricket Club

I started playing at 10 years old for Valentine Cricket Club as a junior. Continuing, seasons after for Belmont and Newcastle City in grade, I joined 1st grade at 14. I also continued playing representatively for NSW country u17s, Parramatta Green Shield and Newcastle Bradman/Colt squads.

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UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Dick Guy’s contribution to the Club and, indeed, to cricket in general, for so many years, both on and off the field, was amazing. He was a great leader, a fierce competitor, strongly opinionated at times, a terrific bowler and a top guy to have a beer with after a game. His knowledge and understanding of the game was immense and he was always willing to share his views about cricket.

Dick was a right arm leg spin bowler who came in off a slightly longer run up than most spinners. He had uncanny accuracy, a good top spinner and the ability to bowl long, probing spells. Dick began his career at Gordon in Fourth Grade in the 1953-54 season at the age of 16, where he took 31 wickets.

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Nic Bills returned to UTS North Sydney last year and produced a brilliant ball under the Drummoyne lights against his former club, Sydney.

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The following is a Gordon cricket historians biased view on the comparison between Victor Trumper and Sir Donald Bradman, considered the best two batsman who ever played for Australia. Make your own mind up as to who you would have preferred to go and watch.

Test Records:
Player Matches Innings NO Runs HS Avg Balls 100’s 50’s 4’s 6’s
Bradman 52 80 10 6996 334 99.9 9684 29 13 681 6
Trumper 48 89 8 3163 214* 39.0 1339 8 13 260 4

The comparisons are obvious when looking at totals, centuries, average and total runs. One comparison, however, that is not often looked at is that Trumper scored most of his runs offshore, where wickets were uncovered and often very wet.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/297/gordon-district-cricket-club/blog/2569/who-was-the-better-batsman-victor-trumper-or-sir-donald-bradman

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St George Cricket Club

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First Grade Player No.295 - Warwick Hayes

After recently celebrating 60 magnificent years, it is only appropriate that we acknowledge one of the great stalwarts of our club - Warwick "The ROCKDOG" Hayes !

A local junior who started his amazing career with Kogarah Boys in the St George junior competition, Warwick went on to become the all time highest runscorer for the club throughout all grades with 16871 runs including 1352 in First Grade. His Grade career with St George commenced in the season of 1979-80 and he had his final game in 2020-21.

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Sydney Cricket Club

UTS North Sydney District Cricket Club

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Emily Powell is one of the many young guns coming through Sydney Cricket Club. After a strong under 16 national championships last year, she has started this season with three 50s in four games as an opener, and her sharp leggies are taking wickets.

I started playing cricket at age 11 and since then have played for Easts Dolphin Junior Cricket Club and then Sydney Cricket Club and have been a part of Cricket NSW Pathways.

https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/375/sydney-cricket-club/blog/2567/pocket-profile-emily-powell-sydney-cricket-club

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