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Sammy-Jo Johnson has represented several domestic and international T20 franchises and performed with distinction. She has had the honour of Captaining the NSW breakers.

Sammy-Jo is a superb club member and mentor to the junior players at Sydney CC

My senior women's club debut in Brisbane for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club where I played a few seasons until I moved to the Gold Coast Dolphins. I also debut in Sydney Premier Grade Cricket in high school for Northern Districts but since coming down to NSW full time I've been with the Tigers since.

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Steve Edmonds is best known for playing 113 first grade matches for Cronulla-Sutherland between 1972 and 1981, mostly as a winger, including the 1978 grand final and grand final replay against Manly-Warringah. One of his best matches was at the SCG in 1977 when he scored 3 tries on the wing in a 37-10 win against Newtown..

As a junior cricketer, Steve accumulated an outstanding record as a pace bowler for Sutherland, taking 234 wickets in 81 matches between 1966-67 and 1970-71, when he stopped playing cricket to concentrate on his rugby league career.

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Tom Marriott is an established top-order batsman for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club, known for sharing his cricketing experience to help young players improve their own craft.

This season, Tom returns to grade cricket and was appointed captain of the Western Suburbs fourth-grade side, which made it through to the semi-finals last season.

In the 2022/23 season, Tom made three fifty-plus scores for the club, top-scoring with 77 against Sydney Cricket Club.

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Gordon Roy Asprey, who was born at Petersham on 23 August 1890 was commonly known by his middle name Roy, throughout his life. And while the Church of England railway clerk had a successful cricket career with Marrickville, he was a “late starter”, not joining the club until the 1911-12 season when he was 21.

A left-arm spin bowler, he began with a match in the Marrickville third team playing in the City and Suburban competition. Taking 1-22 at the bowling crease and hitting 32 with the bat, he was immediately promoted to the Second XI playing in the NSW Cricket Association’s 3rd Grade competition.

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Western Suburbs District Cricket Club 2nd Grade team to play Manly Warringah District Cricket Club at Pratten Park on Saturday 6 January 2018.

Manly won the toss and sent Western Suburbs into bat and Western Suburbs were bowled out for 127 off 41.1 overs.
In reply Manly were bowled out for 80 with Pakistan and BBL fast bowler Harris Rauf taking 4 for 12 off 9 overs. He took all 4 wickets in one over bowling each batter. He took a wicket on the first ball, third ball, fifth ball and again with his sixth ball.

Back Row - Liam Sparke, Michael Tudehope, John Rush, Darren Bourke, Lee Maggs, Connor Jackson, Connor Blaxall Hill.
Front row - Haris Rauf, Daniel Hayes, Sam Pararajasingham, Tom Burt

Match scorecard -

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Nic Bills: My Greatest Grade XI

Nic Bills has had fantastic Grade Cricket career which still has plenty of tomorrows. Over 15 years, he’s been involved in some fierce battles. He’s racked up more than 500 wickets and lifted eight premiership trophies across all formats. North Sydney, Manly, Mosman, Sydney – he’s worn the colours of them all, adding a bit of his own history to each club along the way.

With all those experiences fresh in his memory, Bills now shares his best XI from the ranks of Sydney grade cricket – a team shaped by years of gritty competition.

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In the winter of 2015, Daniel Rixon broke his thumb playing Aussie Rules for St.George. As a result, he missed the start of the 2015-16 season as he waited for the injury to recover. In order to prove his fitness to resume in 1st Grade, he came back through 2nd Grade in Round 6 vs Hawkesbury at Owen Earle Oval. At the time, he had played 261 matches for Sutherland, including 221 in 1sts, with a highest score of 95, made in 1sts the previous season.

He certainly proved that he had fully recovered from his thumb injury, opening the batting and smashing a club record score for 2nd Grade with 272 off 248 balls

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A Milestone in NSW Cricket: Steve Rixon and Peter Toohey Celebrating 50 Years

Two great mates, born just 55 days and 417 kilometres apart in regional NSW, made their first-class debut for New South Wales on this day, 50 years ago—October 25, 1974.

Steve Rixon, hailing from Albury, and Peter Toohey, from Blayney, donned the iconic NSW Baggy Blue for the first time, facing Queensland at the Gabba. Though NSW fell short, losing by 9 wickets, the game marked the beginning of two remarkable careers that would soon rise above the early setback. Both Rixon and Toohey went on to represent Australia at the highest level—Test cricket.

Their shared journey extended beyond state cricket, as both men played together at Western Suburbs District Cricket Club in Sydney. In an extraordinary twist, they even made their Test debuts side by side, both taking the field for Australia against India at the Gabba during the first Test of the 1977-78 series.

This time, their fortunes were much brighter. Rixon (Australian player number 287) made his mark behind the stumps with 5 catches, while Toohey (Australian player number 288) impressed with the bat, scoring 82 and 57, helping Australia to a 16-run victory.

Cricket brought Rixon and Toohey together and fifty years later, we look back with admiration on the achievements of these two great mates.

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Glenn Evans "Trunk" One of the greatest characters in our Club's history.

More stories have been told about Trunk than any other cricketer in the last 40 years. From falling asleep at Gully, to finishing the KFC in his bag that had been there since the end of last season, to his tricks on the field and at the bar, Trunk was special.

He could also play. A left-arm wrist spinner who hit the ball hard, Trunk took 394 wickets for the club between 1983 and 2002 and sits 17th on our all-time wicket takers list.

He was also a dynamic, if inconsistent, left-hand batter. Having said that, his 135 against Mosman in Round 1 of 1994/95 will still go down as one of the most gritty innings seen at Manly.

He and brother Warren are the only set of brothers to have taken 300 wickets for the club.

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With the change in residential boundaries following Marrickville DCC’s admission to 1st Grade in 1921-22, a number of players were forced to change clubs. One of those was 22 year-old right-hand batsman and leg-break bowler, Allen Thatcher who had played the previous two seasons with Petersham 1st Grade. He had previously made his debut in the top grade with Western Suburbs when he was aged 19. He moved to the Marrickville club and was a member of its first 1st Grade team.

Born in Sydney on 17 April 1899, Allen Norman Thatcher had shown great promise as a cricketer at a young age. However when he was 17, he enlisted in the World War I effort and was posted to France where he was badly injured and gassed a year later. When he recovered, he played for a team of overseas cricketers against a strong Public Schools XI at Lord’s in 1918, taking 13 wickets for only 38 runs to emphasise his undoubted ability.

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October 12, 1917, The Gordon cricketers at the First battle of Passchendaele

The First Battle of Passchendaele on 12 October 1917 was one of the most tragic events in Australian military history and the most likely of all Australian engagements that could have been avoided.

Incredibly, the 3rd and 4th Divisions at Passchendaele contained four Gordon cricketers: Johnnie Moyes, who was following on after Polygon Wood as the Major in charge of the 48th Battalion within the 4th Division, Harry Watts, who was backing up for a second innings after Broodseinde with the artillery, Dr Gother Clarke, who had opened his innings at the Battle of Messines and a newcomer, Harold Lilja, making his debut.

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