I remember sitting on the couch at home before the game in my full whites, very nervous. Click here to find out more about the Belvidere Cup, including scores and contact details. He is The Grade Cricketer. The sun shone, the birds sang sweetly and the flowers bloomed as never before. He drove me an hour to Raby, whereupon I discovered that Campbelltown-Camden were playing Manly. By the close of play, 17-year-old Don Bradman was 234 not out. Get the latest scores, news, highlights, live radio and live video streaming. 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 . Sydney Olympic Park NSW 2127. Committee of Management. The medal was won in 2021/22 by Scott Rodgie from Northern District Cricket Club. He had married in 1933, had a daughter and was anxious about his teaching career. Take cricket with you everywhere! In 73 matches, she has notched up 1,093 runs at an average of 21.86 and a strike rate of 122.2,. What is your best bowling figures in grade cricket? I bowled him first ball with a leg-break which came from the leg stump to hit the off bail. Needless to say I was about 3 foot from the ground when he bowled the bouncer, and in true grade cricket style, having managed my way through a brief confrontation with Australias opening bowler, I nicked off terribly to Grant Lambert to following over. Team Grade Gender Age Group. HS. It was the 11th time he had taken five in an innings in Tests. Includes retired hurt and Summer 2022/23 Active. Hed do things like bat without a helmet or hat for my entertainment, and Id ask him to theme his celebrations by era. Petersham and Marrickville had each won a first grade title prior to merging to become Petersham-Marrickville. I generally did everything the same way, whether it be pads, shoes, the way Id face taking guard etc but I never had any out-and-out superstitions that rendered me a mess were I not to observe it. . Spectators are generally few and far between at matches, mostly family members, partners or club members. 9 0 obj Once again, there were a few. He is the gentlest soul going around, but had major red mist when on the field. <>/ExtGState<>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> %PDF-1.7 In his career he took 774 wickets at 16.60 and was successful at every level: playing for North Sydney and St George, he topped the Sydney Grade averages 12 times and took 962 wickets at. In 1917 the family moved to Wingello. It was a great arena for life lessons. 15 0 obj I continued to Green Shield with Gordon, before changing to Balmain for my second year of Green Shield. <>/Metadata 6412 0 R/ViewerPreferences 6413 0 R>> Bob Aitken bowling in a Sydney grade match. He took 109 wickets on the tour, including nine for 38 against Somerset. I pretty much go to her game and then my own T20 in the afternoon.. Drummoyne Oval sits on the land of the Wangal people of the Eora nation. My Dads family all lived in the area and we were around the corner in Hunters Hill, so it made sense. Thats hard to say, there seemed to be so many quick bowlers in the mid 2000s. Such is the strength of the competition that some well-known players have been known to play multiple matches in second grade. Highest score. By learning how to subtly change the pace of his deliveries. Some clubs also have detailed video and photographs each weekend. The A W Green Shield, or Greenies as it is more commonly known, comprises teams who represent their grade sides in an Under 16 competition consisting of 7 preliminary rounds, qualifying finals, semi-finals and a Final. Will they enjoy success in Australia, like they did in South Africa? The opposition barely beat his age: they were bowled out for 42 and 54 and O'Reilly took five for 14 and three for 19. Or similarly, that all the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today. Too many. All points received in this competition go towards the Club Championship. I seem to recall Mum and Dad taking some polaroid shots of me (these have since been lost). What was the best win you were involved in? All Rights Reserved. 2. Points are only accrued across round matches and do not include finals. What is your highest score in grade cricket? KINGSGROVE SPORTS MENS FIRST GRADE TEAM OF THE YEAR - 2021/22, Scott Rodgie (Northern District); 813 runs & 32 wickets, Justin Avendano (UTS North Sydney); 836 runs, Joshua Clarke (Western Suburbs); 826 runs, Raveesh Srivastava (Fairfield-Liverpool); 652 runs, Tim Cummins (Sydney University); 28 dismissals and 486 runs, Devlin Malone (Sydney University); 35 wickets, Hunar Verma (Blacktown Mounties); 33 wickets, Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup: Randwick Petersham CC, Third Grade (Mitchell Cup): Northern District CC, Fourth Grade (Reid Cup): Manly Warringah CC, Fifth Grade (David Sherwood Cup): Eastern Suburbs CC, Under 21 Poidevin-Gray Shield: Sutherland DCC, Bob Simpson Award Mens Coach of the Year: Peter Forrest (Mosman), Ground of the Year 1st Place: Pratten Park (Western Suburbs), Ground of the Year Runner-Up: Waverley Oval (Eastern Suburbs), Ground of the Year 3rd Place: Allan Border Oval (Mosman), Lower Grades Ground of the Year: Tunks Park (UTS North Sydney), Spirit of Cricket Award: Northern District CC, 1st Grade Captain of the Year: Josh Clarke (Western Suburbs), 2nd Grade Captain of the Year: Andrew Jamieson (Manly-Warringah), 3rd Grade Captain of the Year: Daniel Stickland(Northern District), 4th Grade Captain of the Year: Stephen Wark (St George), 5th Grade Captain of the Year: Trevor Whittall (Campbelltown-Camden), 2023 Cricket New South Wales.All rights reserved. Click here to find out more about Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup including scores and details. Feb 3. The competition began in 1893 when a number of clubs that had been playing for many years on an ad hoc basis voted to create a formal competition structure.[1]. NSW Premier Cricket First Grade: Bets on championship matches with Fonbet Betting Company. Legends of the game like Christina Matthews, Belinda Clark, Lisa Keightley and Lisa Sthalekar, as well as current players Alex Blackwell, Rene Farrell, Ellyse Perry, Ashleigh Gardner and Alyssa Healy have all spent regular time in the NSW Women's Premier Cricket competition. Aitken, who went past Ken Halls record of 471 first-grade matches last year, clearly does not. 7 0 obj While modern day cricketers have few breaks outside the international calendar, when they do NSW players often return to play in the first-grade competition. WBBL - Sydney Sixers v Brisbane Heat Erin Burns has been a regular in the Women's Big Bash League. He is 10th on the all-time run-scorers list behind Greg Mail (15,242) in top spot. When O'Reilly died, Bradman said he was the greatest bowler he had ever faced or watched. Whos been the biggest influence in your cricket career? Mobile: 0414 486 438. The Sydney Cricket Club has a long and proud history as a strong performer in Premier Cricket, and as a pathway to representative honours. Ill try and do that on Saturday., Endless summer: The Sydney cricketer set to play his 500th first-grade match. However, consistency across the top 3 grades in particular is important. Number of matches played - not including matches where The Grade Cricketer Podcast, The Grade Cricketer on 7Sports and writes for the Guardian and other publications. <> But he was blessed with a marriage to Molly that lasted 59 years. However, Sydney Grammar School offered him a job that enabled him to play on. He was 6ft 2in tall, gripped the ball in his enormous right hand and released it at a pace that could be almost fast-medium. The Aitken brothers at Coogee Oval in a match for North Sydney. Bob Aitken bowling in a Sydney grade match. The Sydney Cricket Club has a long and proud history as a strong performer in Premier Cricket, and as a pathway to representative honours. Other people probably see that more than me. 101-200. Cricket is such a brutal game that we develop all manner of habits, probably in a futile bid to control the chaos around us. This competition is also used by the Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder to identify talent for their BBL and Supplementary squads. Won by the club with the highest competition points in aggregate across all 5 grades plus points from the PG and Green Shield competitions. All genders. endobj The first Test Match at the Adelaide Oval was scored by George Gurr and Charles Hobbs. Each team plays six preliminary round matches with the top four teams in each conference playing Semi Finals, followed by a Conference Final. Opting out is easy, so give it a try. India's young wristspinners are reminiscent of the Aussie duo of Bill O' Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett. Hard to answer that. But he was consistent, loved quality and hated one-day cricket (hit-and-giggle) which he generally refused to watch. Nathan Ball (Balmain) and Will Mottram (UK guy, came to the Tigers). The advent of T20 cricket has helped Aitken tick up a few extra games, too. I do sort of. He imbued me with a great joy for the game that extended beyond playing. 12 0 obj In 1919, he went to the high school in the larger town of Goulburn, where he concentrated on his athletics as much as his cricket. Bets on Cricket match Sydney (w) Penrith (w), Wom. 13 0 obj Click here to download and view the NSW Premier Cricket Statistics Annual 2020-21. Adjust: most. JFIF ,, C (If displayed:) Number of innings of between 25 and Im very grateful for his education. 1 0 obj The season generally starts in September and runs for about 7 months up till March of the following year. Off the field, his gruffness was mitigated by his intelligence, erudition, wit and twinkling eyes. dismissals. Players are primarily sourced from England's county competition. My dad [Bob] played until he was 48 in first grade [391 games from 1960 to 1988]. Many younger Premier Cricket players also represent NSW Metropolitan and ACT/NSW Country at the various Underage Female National Championships. 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? Check the Stats & Records of Records, / , Sydney Cricket Ground, / , Records by ground Players in Wicket keeper Batting Bowling Sign up successfully. 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 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. Teams are divided into a Sixers Conference and a Thunder Conference. The 1st Grade sides played an additional one-day match and 3 Twenty20 matches. All other grades play only 15 rounds, thus missing out on playing 4 teams each season. To address shortcomings in players making the transition from first-grade to State cricket, two seasons ago a different type of ball was introduced into the first-grade competition. And before that, he had secured the Ashes by taking five for 66 and five for 56 at Headingley. Read about Records, / , Sydney Cricket Ground, / , Records by ground Cricket Team Records only on ESPNcricinfo.com. I like to read, listen, speak with interesting people about politics, social issues, Australia. <> Cricket NSW is a member association of Cricket Australia - the national governing body for the game in Australia. Did you have any cricketing superstitions? I compounded this problem by confusing our opponent and telling Dad we were playing at Raby Oval in Campbelltown. Are you still involved in Cricket and if so, in what capacity? AW Green Shield Final scorecard. In 1965 Sutherland joined the competition, followed by Nepean (now Penrith) and University of NSW in 1973. 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. The current holders of the Belvidere Cup are Mosman Cricket Club. Back-of-the-envelope calculations show that in first-grade alone, across the various formats, Aitken has spent about 5827 hours playing cricket across 844 individual days, although wash-outs and differing lengths of days mean these numbers are estimates. endobj The exception to this is at T20 matches which can attract crowds into the hundreds and occasionally the low thousands. Bollinger walked past me and said you know where the next ones coming, dont you? to which I replied no, not really. My eldest daughter has started playing Brewer Shield (under 18s) on Sundays. 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). A memorable win made better by 1s also winning at the adjacent ground, and an all-in team song. 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. 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. NSW Premier Cricket (formerly known as Sydney Grade Cricket) is a cricket competition played in Sydney, Australia. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In 1926-27 O'Reilly was chosen for the New South Wales state practice squad on the strength of one match for North Sydney. He would take me to the SCG as a kid all the time, and play with me in the backyard Ive been very lucky. 11 0 obj In recent times some clubs have started broadcasting scorecards in real-time on the Cricket Australia website. All of the current NSW first-class cricket players are selected from their performances in Premier Cricket. 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. Oh God, too hard to say. 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 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. Rob Aitken bowling for North Sydney in 2013. x]o0#?0 -4&0"~6c*6% +sq2C>7pq+Y/)wI|YlrS8u]FWg`G Playing for Lane Cove meant I played underage reps for Gordon. Nathan Hauritz was the Test spinner when I played against him, though I think we were on a good wicket. The final series generally consists of Qualifying Finals, Semi-Finals and a Final. Click button below to view latest club results. My advice would be that it is an extremely lofty goal, but properly managed lofty goals can be an excellent thing to pursue for myriad reasons. 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. According to NSW Cricket stats guru Adam Morehouse, Aitken has scored 11,387 runs at an average of 29.35, with eight centuries, 59 fifties and 38 ducks in 499 matches and 494 innings. This ball is the same used by state players but had not previously been used due to its cost (A$150 each). I work for myself primarily! Daniels went on to score another seven Tests while Weller scored another three. The Qualifying and Semi Finals are played as Two-Day matches, with the Grand Final played over three days. Sydney grade cricket also has a proud history of welcoming budding, current or former first-class and Test cricketers from around the world. Cricket. au by 6:00pm Wednesday 21st October to confirm their spot in the trial. Even when England made 903 at The Oval in 1938, he bowled 85 overs and finished with figures of three for 178. roy.formica@cricketnsw.com.au. For each club, each grades' points tally is multiplied by a factor for the purposes of calculating Club Championship points. Some clubs were renamed to reflect their wider representation (Waverley renamed as Eastern Suburbs, Fairfield becoming Fairfield-Liverpool and Campbelltown becoming Campbelltown-Camden). The time goes real quick, Aitken says. The Grand Final. Well, not for the first couple of overs, anyway. While Sir Donald walked the corridors of cricketing power O'Reilly was the rumbustious backbencher. O'Reilly was born in White Cliffs in the New South Wales bush into a large Irish family on December 20, 1905. A T20 and 40-over competition is held for Third Grade. Sports writer and presenter primarily. Please check your email to receive the magic link. 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. His cricket was proof that spin bowling was not necessarily a gentle art. In the 1932-33 Bodyline series he took 27 wickets, without anyone noticing much, given what else was happening. Cogent point. Women's Coach of the Year: Russel Grimson (Sydney) Spirit of Cricket Award . Complex strategic question for Australian cricket given direction of the game globally. Cricket Sydney will receive 80% of all funds contributed. [, England v Sri Lanka at Sydney, ICC Men's T20 World Cup 39th match, Nov 5, 2022 To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 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. It was in the Under 10s for Lane Cove, so I would have been nine. The club boasts an abundance of young, talented players, some of who have begun the process of becoming first grade cricketers after having come through the grades, in some cases all the way from 6th grade. How was I to know that I was about to cross swords with the greatest cricketer that ever set foot on a cricket field ? 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. $.' What or who would you sacrifice your life for? 49. First Grade: Sydney CC. But 10,598 days and eight changes of prime minister later, Aitken has amassed 11,387 runs and taken 618 wickets in 345 two-day games, 107 one-day matches and 47 T20 contests, mostly for his beloved North Sydney club. An asterisk (*) denotes the innings was 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. A breeding ground for future NSW and Australian representatives, McDonald's NSW Premier Cricket competition is regarded as the strongest in Australia. stream endobj 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). 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In 1985 Sydney District CC left the competition but 3 new clubs from the outer suburbs of Sydney joined - Fairfield, Campbelltown and Hawkesbury. 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. - 18/03 Sat 2:00AM suns - swans - 18/03 Sat 7:10PM giants - crows - 18/03 Sat 9:20PM hawks - Bombers - 18/03 Sat 10:40PM saints - dockers - 23/03 Thu 1:20AM blues - cats - 24/03 Fri 1:50AM lions - demons - 24/03 Fri 7:45PM magpies - power - 24/03 Fri 10:35PM crows - tigers - 25/03 Sat 1:25AM bulldogs - saints - 25/03 Sat 1:30AM dockers - kangaroos In his career he took 774 wickets at 16.60 and was successful at every level: playing for North Sydney and St George, he topped the Sydney Grade averages 12 times and took 962 wickets at 9.44. 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. 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. Together with other brother Glenn, the Aitken brothers have 1400 first-grade appearances between them. This may have cost him the chance of a Test against England in 1928-29 and, very probably, a tour in 1930. My uncle kept playing grade cricket and shires cricket until he was pretty close to 70. I managed to avoid Mark Cameron somehow. On Saturday, the 46-year-old all-rounder will become the first player in the 128-year history of Sydney grade cricket to chalk up 500 first-grade matches when he strides out for North Sydney against St George. endobj He played only one more Test, the one-off game against New Zealand at Wellington in March 1946 when he was already 40. It is our first time in the Grand Final in this competition. I like to spend time with my mates, my wife, my little boy Ted, and my family. Blacktown Mounties Grade Board 2021/22 Season. New Zealand v Pakistan at Sydney, ICC Men's T20 World Cup 1st semi final, Nov 9, 2022
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