The sun shone, the birds sang sweetly and the flowers bloomed as never before. <> Sep 21 Sydney 6 5656. Cricket Sydney will receive 80% of all funds contributed. endobj Some clubs were renamed to reflect their wider representation (Waverley renamed as Eastern Suburbs, Fairfield becoming Fairfield-Liverpool and Campbelltown becoming Campbelltown-Camden). In 1965 Sutherland joined the competition, followed by Nepean (now Penrith) and University of NSW in 1973. 5 0 obj In the Qualifying Finals, the 1st placed team plays the 6th placed team, 2nd plays 5th and 3rd plays 4th. Australia. The Men's First Grade Player of the Year is named in honour of the late, great NSW, Australian leg-spinner and prominent journalist Bill O'Reilly. I had minimal ideas when Beau Casson bowled to me absolutely zero clue which way the ball was spinning. not out. The most successful club no longer in the competition is Paddington which won 9 first grade titles between 1894/95 and 1953/54 before being forced to merge with Glebe-South Sydney to form the Sydney District CC in 1965 - this merged club later left the competition in 1985. Aitken debuted in first grade at the age of 17 in 1992 and is still going, 30 summers later. By learning how to subtly change the pace of his deliveries. But it didn't take long to see the greatness; the control of leg-break, top-spinner and googly; the change of pace and trajectory without apparent change in action; the scrupulous length; the vitality; and, informing and rounding all, the brain to diagnose what patient required what treatment. Who was the funniest cricketing team-mate? The Qualifying and Semi Finals are played as Two-Day matches, with the Grand Final played over three days. Aitken, who went past Ken Halls record of 471 first-grade matches last year, clearly does not. Adjust: most. [. Statistics enable the scientific evaluation of truth assertions The design of the research process plays a major role in the correct establishment of truth. I seem to recall Mum and Dad taking some polaroid shots of me (these have since been lost). 170 Followers Join the cricket network to promote your business and expertise. endobj x]o0#?0 -4&0"~6c*6% +sq2C>7pq+Y/)wI|YlrS8u]FWg`G What or who would you sacrifice your life for? . [, England v Sri Lanka at Sydney, ICC Men's T20 World Cup 39th match, Nov 5, 2022 NSW Premier Cricket First Grade (): Sydney (w) - Penrith (w) 05 . Known as Sydney Cricket Ground No. Michael O'Sullivan 1950-2013On the day that Mick died, 3 September 2013, this appreciation was written. %PDF-1.7 Despite his longevity on the game, remarkably Aitken does not hold every first-grade playing record in Sydney. 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. He would take me to the SCG as a kid all the time, and play with me in the backyard Ive been very lucky. Cogent point. The list of award winners includes NSW greats Belinda Clark, Bronwyn Calver, Michelle Goszko, Sarah Aley and current Australian allrounder Ashleigh Gardner, who won her first Player of the Year Award in 2020/21. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Click the links below to skip to that section. What is your best bowling figures in grade cricket? Even when England made 903 at The Oval in 1938, he bowled 85 overs and finished with figures of three for 178. The brothers also cuffed him a lot, possibly because he was starting to show them up. He then drove me a further 65km to Bensons Lane, and I arrived just as the game was starting. The first scorers in a Test Match at the Sydney Cricket Ground were SW Daniels and EC Weller. He essentially taught me the methods, mechanics and mindset of batting and playing generally that I think helped me play my best cricket. Rob Aitken poses for a photo at Bon Andrews Oval in North Sydney ahead of his 500th match of Sydney first grade. 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. 13 0 obj Sign up successfully. Read about Records, / , Sydney Cricket Ground, / , Records by ground Cricket Team Records only on ESPNcricinfo.com. The best we have finished in our 22 years is 4th in 2004-05. 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? 101-200. Until he finally retired in 1988, he was as revered in Australian press boxes as he had been on the field. While the ball is still a four-piece ball, its seam is less pronounced and more difficult to swing. Change selections (Season, Grade, Grade Type, Match Format) Click a row to view that player's statistics. 49. Of course when he bowled I could barely see the ball. The 1st Grade Draw can be found here [2] and the 2nd Grade draw, which is identical to the 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade draws, can be found here [3]. (If displayed:) Number of innings of between 25 and The NSW Premier Cricket competition is generally played on Saturdays and begins in mid-September and continues until the grand final is played on the first weekend of April. 12 0 obj Please check your email to receive the magic link. Winners include former NSW and Australia great Bob Simpson, who claimed the first O'Reilly Medal in 1968 and again in 1973, as well some of the Blues finest servants like Greg Mail, Dominic Thornely, Trent Copeland, Grant Lambert and Gavin Robertson. He performed quietly in a match in which Bradman scored 299 not out and Grimmett took 14 wickets, but he had arrived. The match resumed a week later, according to the local custom. Number of matches played - not including matches where The best laughs Ive had in cricket have been with Nathan Ball. As you get a little bit older, you realise that every game could potentially be your last. According to Fingleton's account he would probably have been lost to cricket had he not been asked to make up the numbers in a Sydney junior match and, with a method that at first made everyone giggle, whipped out the opposition. Select. 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. stream All other grades play only 15 rounds, thus missing out on playing 4 teams each season. 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. I didnt get a bowl, and was listed to bat 11. According to Jack Fingleton in Cricket crisis, the four O'Reilly brothers played with a gum-wood bat and a piece of banksia root chiselled down to make a ball. In recent times some clubs have started broadcasting scorecards in real-time on the Cricket Australia website. It is our first time in the Grand Final in this competition. endstream An asterisk (*) denotes the innings was not out. Reset. His father was a small-town schoolmaster and young Bill was above average at several sports, including tennis, athletics and rugby. I played junior cricket at Lane Cove, which was in the Gordon District Cricket Association. When we won that competition it was very satisfying primarily because you do it with your friends and share those memories for life. The time goes real quick, Aitken says. It has been suggested that his action and the general commotion before delivery were born of a deep sense of frustration at not being able to bowl fast enough to knock the batsman down. He did save the follow-on by making 30 not out at Old Trafford in the next Test. That stuff is annoying., Winning the one-day competition with North Sydney was something very memorable, says Aitken, who was player of the match in the 2012-13 final. The 2020/21 champions were the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. While Sir Donald walked the corridors of cricketing power O'Reilly was the rumbustious backbencher. Cricket is such a brutal game that we develop all manner of habits, probably in a futile bid to control the chaos around us. Many younger Premier Cricket players also represent NSW Metropolitan and ACT/NSW Country at the various Underage Female National Championships. Sydney grade cricket also has a proud history of welcoming budding, current or former first-class and Test cricketers from around the world. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. These points go towards the Club Championship which is awarded at the end of the regular season. The 2021/22 champions were the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. Cricket NSW is a member association of Cricket Australia - the national governing body for the game in Australia. http://www.premier.nsw.cricket.com.au/common/pages/public/rv/match.aspx?matchID=3177634&entityID=4. 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. How was I to know that I was about to cross swords with the greatest cricketer that ever set foot on a cricket field ? He took 109 wickets on the tour, including nine for 38 against Somerset. % <> Founded in 1972/73, the NSW Women's Premier Cricket competition comprises First, Second and Third Grade, as well as the Brewer Shield for U/18 players. The Women's First Grade Player of the Year Award was first awarded in 1989/90 won Monika Grogan. <> retired notout. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> au by 6:00pm Wednesday 21st October to confirm their spot in the trial. a player was a sub, or matches that didn't commence (eg abandoned matches). Join the cricket network to promote your business and expertise. India's young wristspinners are reminiscent of the Aussie duo of Bill O' Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett. <> First Grade, Second Grade and Under 18 Brewer Shield competitions are all played on a Sunday with Third Grade being played on Saturdays. Players for the NSW team are selected from the first-grade competition. He was hot-blooded and humorous which perhaps explains why his relationship with the cooler Bradman is believed to have been based on intense mutual respect rather than the profoundest form of Australian mateship. It was a great arena for life lessons. Each grade team consists of five senior divisions, as well as restricted age group playing in the Poidevin-Gray Shield (under 21) and AW Green Shield junior competition (under 17). Click here to find out more about the Belvidere Cup, including scores and contact details. O'Reilly then began writing on cricket for the Sydney Morning Herald with a muscular, very Australian prose style flavoured with wit and imagery (You can smell the gum-leaves off him, he wrote of one country boy just starting with Queensland). Together with other brother Glenn, the Aitken brothers have 1400 first-grade appearances between them. The first Test Match at the Adelaide Oval was scored by George Gurr and Charles Hobbs. What did you like most about playing grade cricket in Sydney? Team Grade Gender Age Group. You can do anything if you put your mind to it. 1; Garrison Ground (1848-1877), Association Ground . The 1st Grade sides played an additional one-day match and 3 Twenty20 matches. You enjoy it and make the most of it. <> It would then bounce ferociously on the hard pitches of his time and, on occasion, knock wicket-keepers off their feet. endobj The winner of the Sixers conference then plays the winner of the Thunder conference for the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup. All 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. Which ground in Sydney club cricket did you enjoy playing at the most? This includes those players who also represent Australia although the demands of the international schedule means the Australian players rarely get to play at grade level these days. In the 1st Grade competition, each side plays every other side over a total of 19 rounds. Oh God, too hard to say. The advent of T20 cricket has helped Aitken tick up a few extra games, too. The name change was part of a Cricket Australia initiative to standardise the naming of the elite men's cricket competition within each state's capital city. Well, not for the first couple of overs, anyway. I do some communications work on the side too. JFIF ,, C Sydney Poidevin-Gray Shield (Sixers Conference) Men U21. 11 0 obj Take cricket with you everywhere! To put the length of his first-grade career in context, rough calculations show Aitken has spent just under two-and-a-half years of his life out on a cricket field, dressed in creams and an array of colourful one-day uniforms. Note: the total number of dismissals is determined by number of batting innings minus number of not out innings. 7 0 obj Sports writer and presenter primarily. Nathan Hauritz was the Test spinner when I played against him, though I think we were on a good wicket. What was the best win you were involved in? My dad [Bob] played until he was 48 in first grade [391 games from 1960 to 1988]. Its a good excuse to catch up, says Aitken, whose wife Kristie and daughters Emily and Abbey watch his games a little less nowadays. KINGSGROVE SPORTS WOMEN'S FIRST GRADE TEAM OF THE YEAR 2021/22 (statistics include runs scored, wickets taken and wicketkeeping dismissals in preliminary One-Day & T20 matches excluding Finals) . The exception to this is at T20 matches which can attract crowds into the hundreds and occasionally the low thousands. He played only one more Test, the one-off game against New Zealand at Wellington in March 1946 when he was already 40. Since its introduction scores within the competition have increased. 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. Playing for Lane Cove meant I played underage reps for Gordon. The NPT20 Championships will bring together the best Premier clubs from around the country. Sydney sydneygrade.nsw.cricket.com.au Joined May 2013 814 Following 1,852 Followers Tweets Tweets & replies Media Likes Interested in @SydneyGradeRumo's Tweets? 201-300. The Poidevin-Gray Shield, or PG's as it is more commonly known, comprises teams who represent their grade sides in an Under 21 competition. Match status (MS) Progress result entered Final result entered, unconfirmed Result in dispute Final result entered and confirmed Official result Matches in red have been copied from another grade as part of a re-grading process. The fielder tried to throw down the stumps and wrong-footed the guy backing up, which meant the ball went for five. endobj A memorable win made better by 1s also winning at the adjacent ground, and an all-in team song. In the 2016/17 season, the competition changed its name to NSW Premier Cricket. He was the first guy to talk to me when I arrived at the club. As a Bears fan in Rugby League, North Sydney Oval was a special place for me, and I wont forget my uncles turning up that day and registering their fear at the prospect, which didnt help the confidence. Future generations will have to judge the greatness of his bowling on the fragments of film that survive and the written descriptions, of which R. C. Robertson-Glasgow's may stand as definitive:As with those more florid opponents of legendary heroes, there seemed to be more arms than Nature or the rules allow. I managed to avoid Mark Cameron somehow. When he played his first match for Wingello Juniors, the team walked to the opposition's ground seven miles away in Tallong, with their dogs chasing rabbits along the way. As mentioned above, I think life throws a number of adversarial people and scenarios at you and I think grade cricket has helped my ability to avoid taking it personally, to focus on whats important, and to stay on even keel when people want to play a shot or two at you! This competition has First Grade status and points gained count towards the Club Championship. 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. Off the field, his gruffness was mitigated by his intelligence, erudition, wit and twinkling eyes. He took a wicket every 49 balls in his first-class career and it was said he never bowled a wide. The Aitken brothers at Coogee Oval in a match for North Sydney. And before that, he had secured the Ashes by taking five for 66 and five for 56 at Headingley. "One of the greats, one of the legends, one of the Club's most loyal and staunch supporters, one of our fondest friends, is with us no more.MOS played for our Club from 1968 until 1995 mostly in 1st Grade where his 622 wickets is surely an unassailable record. 14 0 obj Hendren and Leyland recaptured the initiative and England declared at 627 for nine but O'Reilly finished with seven for 189. The biggest cricket field in Sydney to share stories, news, interviews, profiles, scores and results, from past and present. [1] The Sydney Cricket Club has a long and proud history as a strong performer in Premier Cricket, and as a pathway to representative honours. Gideon Haigh, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. I compounded this problem by confusing our opponent and telling Dad we were playing at Raby Oval in Campbelltown. Blacktown Mounties Cricket Club has enjoyed a short history in grade cricket but it has set itself up to become a dominant force in the Sydney Premier Cricket Competition. He enjoyed a great career with Balmain. Bets on Cricket match Sydney (w) Penrith (w), Wom. It was the 11th time he had taken five in an innings in Tests. l!~U?C.&^w,*tpm+5mcf: Its given me a great opportunity to contribute to the conversation around cricket where often the grassroots, club experience is overlooked in favour of a shinier, more polished presentation of the game. The Grade Cricketer latest book - click to buy now. Whats been your most memorable moment in cricket? Credit:Brook Mitchell. Sydney First Grade Cricket Grounds Ground Name Suburb/Town First Match Last Match Matches Alan Davidson Oval Alexandria 2001/02 2016/17 9 the fun and become a member of the community, You can share visual and engaging content from memorable moments, experiences, and network with cricket's business community, Please enter your credit or debit card details below.
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