The biggest cricket field in Sydney to share stories, news, interviews, profiles, scores and results, from past and present. How was I to know that I was about to cross swords with the greatest cricketer that ever set foot on a cricket field ? Steve Waugh Profile - Cricket Player Australia | Stats, Records, Video In the Qualifying Finals, the 1st placed team plays the 6th placed team, 2nd plays 5th and 3rd plays 4th. Who is your favourite all time cricketer? My uncle kept playing grade cricket and shires cricket until he was pretty close to 70. Team Grade Gender Age Group. He went back to Australia and suddenly announced his retirement. endstream The current holders of the Belvidere Cup are Mosman Cricket Club. Take cricket with you everywhere! 10 0 obj And when he went to the teachers' college at Sydney University in his late teens he was more interested in such events as the hop, step and jump, in which he held the state record. For each club, each grades' points tally is multiplied by a factor for the purposes of calculating Club Championship points. He enjoyed a great career with Balmain. Petersham and Marrickville had each won a first grade title prior to merging to become Petersham-Marrickville. You may as well give your employer a plug, who do you work for? A stalwart of the side throughout the decade, he scored the second most runs and took the second most wickets for the Bears during the 2010s. Honestly, I dont know. Take cricket with you everywhere! Third Grade: . First Grade also plays for the First Grade Limited Overs Cup, which consists of five rounds plus Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and a Grand Final. Credit:Brook Mitchell. I think hed had a troubled life I hope grade cricket was a positive community for him. Aitken, who went past Ken Halls record of 471 first-grade matches last year, clearly does not. Click here to download and view the NSW Premier Cricket Statistics Annual 2020-21. Day 2 of Game 1 matches, following time lost on Day 1, Download DLS 2020 Version 4.0 (Requires Java 8.0 or later), Cricket Australia Grade Club Grant Application, McDonalds Grade Club Facility Grants Guidelines, Start of Season Coaching Grant Application, Nomination for SCA Committee of Management, Forms - Umpire's Match Report_Premier Cricket. NSW Premier Cricket (Men's) Summer 2022/23 teams for Sydney Cricket Rob Aitken bowling for North Sydney in 2013. All age groups. We welcome local, interstate and international players looking to join an inclusive and integrated club that provides both great enjoyment and a pathway to the future. The Women's First Grade Player of the Year Award was first awarded in 1989/90 won Monika Grogan. He and brother James have played 265 first-grade matches together. During the run-up, a sort of fierce galumph, the right forearm worked like a piston; at delivery the head was ducked low as if to butt the batsman on to his stumps. UTS North Sydney's Team of the 2010s - North Sydney CC April | 2017 | actcricketstats The 2021/22 champions were the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. In short, Sir Don Bradman was the perfect batsman of his age and even though comparisons with future batting greats will never cease to thrill, some of his numbers, particularly 99.94, are . I suspect the fastest bowler I faced was Burt Cockley from Randwick-Petersham, who bowled me with an inswinger at Coogee once (didnt see it). Welcome to Sydney Cricket Club - Sydney Cricket Club A memorable win made better by 1s also winning at the adjacent ground, and an all-in team song. Since the others were older, Bill inevitably bowled more than he batted. Andrew J Horton - Principal Structural Engineer - Transparency Group 2. His last few years were rendered miserable by illness, including the loss of a leg. Whos been the biggest influence in your cricket career? Walters was caught at forward short leg off the first ball, Wyatt bowled middle stump by the second and Hammond, after glancing a four off the third, was bowled by the fourth. <> My communications work is with a small firm called Character and Distinction a group of extremely smart women who provide PR and Corporate Communications consulting to a range of clients across Australia. I dont think time is an issue. Who was the fastest bowler you ever faced? The three winning teams (or better placed team in the case of a draw) and the best placed losing team go through to the Semi-Finals. Who was the funniest cricketing team-mate? I took 4/30-odd against Campbelltown at Raby in 3s for Balmain in 2003 (or so). Wom. Some clubs were renamed to reflect their wider representation (Waverley renamed as Eastern Suburbs, Fairfield becoming Fairfield-Liverpool and Campbelltown becoming Campbelltown-Camden). Click button below to view latest club results. It was probably a school match in 2000. He played 27 Test matches and took 144 wickets - 102 of them Englishmen and the vital wicket of Walter Hammond ten times - averaging 22.59. Cricket is a game of statistics and endurance but Rob Aitken has taken it to new levels. He did save the follow-on by making 30 not out at Old Trafford in the next Test. a player was a sub, or matches that didn't commence (eg abandoned matches). The Sydney Cricket Club has a long and proud history as a strong performer in Premier Cricket, and as a pathway to representative honours. But he was blessed with a marriage to Molly that lasted 59 years. Sydney First Grade Cricket Grounds Ground Name Suburb/Town First Match Last Match Matches Alan Davidson Oval Alexandria 2001/02 2016/17 9 In blazing heat at Old Trafford, he transformed the game in an over which England began at 68 for no wicket. The 2020/21 champions were the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. Module 4 Final Quiz OLEO2134 OLET2135 Economic Strategy and Negotiation If youre in the middle seat of the middle row of Qantas QF1flight to London which team mates -would you choose to on your left and right? $18,000 in prize money is up for grabs courtesy of competition sponsor Kingsgrove Sports, with the Champions collecting $12,000, Runner-up $4,000 while the Conference Runners-up will take home $1,000 each. Which ground in Sydney club cricket did you enjoy playing at the most? l!~U?C.&^w,*tpm+5mcf: Englishmen have been coming to play Grade Cricket in Sydney since at least Test opener, John Dewes, played for Northern District in 1958 through to Barry Knight, Geoffrey Boycott and Tony Greig. It includes statistics from the two day competition under it's various guises, limited overs competitions under various names (including the Rothman's Cup) and the Twenty20 Competiton under it's various . Hendren and Leyland recaptured the initiative and England declared at 627 for nine but O'Reilly finished with seven for 189. I like the idea that there were things you could do to tilt the brutality of cricket your way. I like to read, listen, speak with interesting people about politics, social issues, Australia. The match was Gurr's only known Test Match while Hobbs scored one more Test. The NPT20 Championships will bring together the best Premier clubs from around the country. In the late 1990s there was a push to remove some inner-city clubs from the competition, but although no clubs were forced out, in 2001 Randwick and Petersham-Marrickville (itself the product of a merger in 1951) decided to merge and formed the Randwick Petersham club. His batting was left-handed, hard-hitting and occasionally stubborn (1,655 runs at 13.13); he never quite forgave himself for getting out at Lord's in 1934 when he might have saved the follow-on, in which case he rather than Verity would have had use of a rain-affected wicket. A very successful group that Im privileged to play a small role in. Click here to find out more about the Belvidere Cup, including scores and contact details. We chased the runs 8 wickets down, so my debut saw me turn up an hour late, and neither bat nor bowl. Once again, there were a few. not out. A point in first grade is worth more than second grade and so on. When O'Reilly died, Bradman said he was the greatest bowler he had ever faced or watched. He has batted at every spot in the order and won 202 first-grade games. The club is taking some significant steps to attract players with first class and first grade premier cricket experience to provide not only greater playing depth, but also to provide our young players the support they need to be successful cricketers while we will also be starting a girls and a womens team in the near future. I continued to Green Shield with Gordon, before changing to Balmain for my second year of Green Shield. Sydney Cricket Ground Cricket Team Records & Stats - Cricinfo I work for myself primarily! <> All points received in this competition go towards the Club Championship. A crafty off-spinner with a mystery leg-spin variation, Aitken has bowled 5010.3 overs - more than Glenn McGrath did in his entire Test career - and taken 618 wickets at 27 with 14 five-wicket hauls and 887 maidens. The first scorers in a Test Match at the Sydney Cricket Ground were SW Daniels and EC Weller. Cricket. You just turn up and do your thing and it becomes part of your routine of life. By the close of play, 17-year-old Don Bradman was 234 not out. Steve Waugh Profile - Cricket Player Australia | Stats, Records, Video Matches (9) IND v AUS (1) BAN v ENG (1) PSL 2023 (1) Irani Cup (1) CWC League 2 (1) Shield (3) SA v WI (1) RESULT 3rd. 1 0 obj Due to this system, the winner of the Club Championship usually comes from a club whose first-grade team is within the top 6. A breeding ground for future NSW and Australian representatives, McDonald's NSW Premier Cricket competition is regarded as the strongest in Australia. The advent of T20 cricket has helped Aitken tick up a few extra games, too. This ball is the same used by state players but had not previously been used due to its cost (A$150 each). In 2019 the Blacktown District Cricket Club formed a partnership with the powerful Mounties group and coming under the wing of the Mounties Group has helped the club provide better amenities, more equipment and first class coaching for our junior players. $.' Aitken played his first game in the top grade in November 1992, when Australias new Test captain Pat Cummins was still five months away from being born, Paul Keating had only recently replaced Bob Hawke as Australias prime minister, the median house price in Sydney was $183,300 and the host city for the 2000 Olympics was yet to be decided. Sydney Cricket Club pays our respects to the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we work and play, and acknowledges that these lands were never ceded. What follows is a survey of the current English county cricketers who have spent time in 1st grade in Sydney. He toured South Africa in 1935-36 and took 27 wickets again, 25 in the great series against England in 1936-37 and 22 back in England in 1938, despite the unforgiving wickets ( dosed up to the eyeballs, said O'Reilly) of Trent Bridge and The Oval. Below is a list of the first grade cap numbers awarded to representatives of the North Sydney District Cricket Club from the inception of Sydney Grade Cricket in 1894/95 until the present. au by 6:00pm Wednesday 21st October to confirm their spot in the trial. Generally anyone who unironically argued the toss during post-play fines. What is your highest score in grade cricket? I made 202 not out against Blacktown in 2nd grade for Norths in 2006, at North Sydney number 2 which is probably the best ground to score runs on in Sydney. 2023 Gains. At Trent Bridge he won the match with seven for 54, achieved by what Wisden called clever variation in flight and pace combined with spin off the worn turf.