DOCSLIB.ORG

CRICKET MUSEUM GPK Restaurant, Mt

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
CRICKET MUSEUM GPK Restaurant, Mt EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS / DISPLAYS non-completion of a five-day game (even if How I Came To Love aiming to save the game by a draw is New Zealand Cricket – 1970’s & 1980’s Chronology the Game sometimes part of a team’s strategy) is pure poetry.’ Commenced 16 November 2005 NEW ZEALAND In March 2005 the Museum This showcase display is the second in a series of New Zealand cricket chronologies (l. to r.) David Mealing, Monique Damitio and Manager/Curator David Mealing, which features the highlights and lowlights of New Zealand cricket history and its attended the New Zealand versus J. Neville Turner 29.03.2005 CRICKET MUSEUM GPK Restaurant, Mt. Eden, Auckland development since the early 1840’s until recent times. It follows upon the showcase Australia test match at Eden Park Photo: Unknown Restaurant Staff Member display of New Zealand cricket in the 1950’s and 1960’s installed in August 2004. This with J. Neville Turner and Monique Private Collection forty year span (1950-1990) addresses a significant gap in the display of New Zealand Damitio, a computer scientist. He cricket history in the museum. invited both of his guests to contribute an article for the Visits to the Museum newsletter. Neville responded in the last newsletter with a The 1970’s and 1980’s display includes an accompanying text panel with bullet points report of the test match and Monique has responded with the In May and June we hosted the Lion’s supporter’s groups from of the highlights and lowlights of New Zealand test and first-class cricket throughout following article on how she came to love the game. Britain. A successful opening of the ‘Start of Play: The Origins of these two decades. It is also complemented with a wall mounted colour photo mural the Game’ display took place on the 14th of September. However, of a section of a crowd waving New Zealand flags etc at a One-Day International game. ‘In Morocco, where I come from, the word cricket is associated the response to an invitation to coaches and players of 8 school A press button audio interactive attached to the mural plays a selection of crowd with a devastating swarm of insects. I now live in France and 1st XI’s has been very disappointing. In collaboration with Cricket noises from three games in the 1980’s to make the mural ‘come alive.’ for most people cricket only means a small brown jumping Wellington, it is planned to schedule guided tours of the museum The showcase displays collection objects which also complement the text panel. These insect. Those French people who have dared to cross the with representative age group players, including the State include, amongst others, treasures from the museums photography, bat, porcelain N.Z. BREAKS TEST “DUCK” Channel dismiss it as yet another English eccentricity. Wellington Firebird’s and Blaze teams. Something they refuse to understand and to appreciate. and ceramics, glass, ephemera, costumes and textiles and silver collections. Also, there are a number of loan items sourced from private collections. Nevertheless, since I first watched a cricket match on British WITH 190-RUN WIN television I have become fascinated by this exciting game. In A 46 minute DVD programme which features edited highlights from the video fact it was love at first sight, as I was immediately bewitched by ‘From Cloth Cap to Helmet’ produced in 1992 is also included in the display. the umpires signals. I then quickly became interested in the This programme has superb footage of significant games, interviews with the major rules of the game, the various players positions, the different players, as well as bowling and batting styles, the teams, the players, and controversial subsequently went to county and test matches. moments in games throughout And as I started to observe the watching crowd I realised how the two decades. much of the game also takes place beyond the boundaries. The programme Perhaps, what I admire above all is the pace of a match. In Guests at the Opening of the ‘Start of Play: Origins of the Game’ Display is hosted by Ian particular, in a world driven by fast performances, allowing the 14.09.2005 • Photo: Paddianne Neely • Collection: NZCM Archives Smith, the former New Zealand wicketkeeper. VISITS TO THE MUSEUM Phone: 04 385 6602 • Fax: 04 384 3498 Email: [email protected] 1970’s & 1980’s The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve, Wellington Website: www.nzcricket.co.nz Showcase Display (detail) 2005 Public Hours Basin Reserve Tours Photo: Michael Hall Summer Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Monday to Sunday and all match Tours can be organised to the New Zealand Cricket Museum, the New Zealand Cricket days i.e. 01 November to 30 April. R.A. Vance Stand, the Groundsmen’s Shed and the perimeter of Museum Archives Winter Season: 10.30 – 3.30pm Weekends only i.e. 01 May to the ground to view famous historical cricket plaques. 31 October or by special arrangement. Facilities Also Showing (commenced 12 September 2005) Closed Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Good Friday. ‘Start of Play: The Origins of Cricket’ Museum toilet including disabled toilet. Schools & Group Hours Bus & car parking adjacent to the museum. Summer Season: Open Monday to Friday 10.30 – 3.30pm Museum shop stocks a variety of books, postcards, miniature cricket by prior arrangement (not on match days). bats, balls etc. New Zealand verses West Indies (Fourth Test) Winter Season: As above but by special arrangement. Eden Park, Auckland – 9, 10, 12, 13 March 1956 Lending Library A scramble for the stumps at the fall of the last West Indian wicket at Eden Park. Even Valentine (far right) is caught up in the joy Admission Charge The library is available for lending, research and study purposes. of this historic moment. The New Zealanders (from left) are Reid, Chapple, Guillen, Beard and Taylor. $5 adults; $2 students/children. Children (12 years & under) free Hours by arrangement. Photo: New Zealand Herald. 14.03.1956 if accompanied by an adult. How To Find Us School groups $1per student and $2 per adult. By Car: Drive in/enter by the southern (J.R. Reid) Gate at the Other group visits by arrangement. Basin Reserve. Bookings By Bus: Stagecoach Wellington. Buses 1, 42, 43, 44 travel to/from The museum welcomes school/group visits by prior arrangement. We Kent & Cambridge Terrace to the Central Railway Station. appreciate at least two weeks notice to enable successful liaison time By Rail: NZ Tranz Metro units depart from the Central Railway Station. Highlights of New Zealand v. Australia with the Host/Guide and to ensure that you are able to book the most By Foot: Enter the Basin by the northern or southern Gates and Test Matches Display (detail) ‘Start of Play: The Origins of Cricket’ Display proceed to museum. Photo: Michael Hall suitable times. (detail) Summer/Autumn Newsletter 2005/06 New Zealand Cricket Museum Archives Note: The museum can comfortably accommodate 25 students and General Photo: Michael Hall accompanying teachers and adults, split into two groups, at one time. New Zealand Cricket Museum Archives Smoking, food or drink are not permitted. COLLECTION MANAGEMENT NEW ZEALAND CRICKET HISTORY BRIEFLY th st Showcase Display Objects 50 Anniversary of New Zealand’s 1 Test Win, 13 March 1956 Museum Library New Zealand v. West Indies (Fourth Test) The re-cataloguing of the books in the Library The New Zealand Cricket 1970’s & 1980’s showcase displays a is nearing completion with a review of the first significant number of museum collection treasures and a small Eden Park, Auckland, 9, 10, 12, 13 March 1956 phase of the amended classification system due number of loan items related to the period. The museum to be completed before Christmas. All additions ‘Thus the losses suffered in the first three Tests, though disappointingly heavy, came as no surprise to a treasures only are featured on this page. The process of and corrections will then be addressed before public inured to defeat and faded into insignificance when Reid led his team to victory in the final match the classification systems are fully updated and conceptualising, planning, designing, fabricating and installing in Auckland. That was the moment for which New Zealanders had waited twenty-six years.’ completed in the New Year. We encourage all a 3-D showcase display is a complex, time-consuming and Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1957 cricket lovers to use the museums library. There expensive task. It is always made easier by access to a good is a wealth of cricket literature available for John Reid won the toss and batted, but McGregor and cross-section of pertinent and selective object material from Sir Richard Hadlee’s Cricket Boots c.1982 research and recreational purposes. Please Costumes & Textiles Collection MacGibbon had been dismissed by lunch; 48 for two. The loss added 41 – two sixes and ensure that you book a time in advance. the museums own collections, as well as loan items from private NZCM. No Accession No. of Taylor and Miller for a gritty 47 brought together Reid and three fours – out of 46 in collections and other public institutions. N.Z. Cricket Helmet – Bruce Edgar c.1983 Beck at 87. While the New Zealand captain was circumspect better than even time. Reid There are always issues of research, selection, conservation, Costumes & Textiles Collection against the good ball, his quick eye allowed him to pick up loose declared at 157 for nine presentation (including object supports), to consider, develop Accession No. NCM 03/208 deliveries and dispatch these with uninhibited power.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Wellington Wanderers Wellington Wanderers
    WellingtonWellington WanderersWanderers CricketCricket ClubClub (Inc.)(Inc.) 71st71st AnnualAnnual ReportReport 2016-20172016-2017 SeasonSeason Dedicated to young cricketers who keep alive the traditions of the game through generations To provide Cricketers and Enthusiasts with an opportunity of playing social cricket with their contemporaries and to encourage the game by participation in matches against Schools and Colleges in New Zealand. Notice is hereby given that the 71st Annual General Meeting of the Wellington Wanderers Cricket Club (Inc.) will be held at West Plaza Hotel, 110 Wakefield Street, Wellington on Wednesday 4th of October 2017 commencing at 5.30pm. Business: 1. Welcome 2. Apologies 3. Establishment of Quorum 4. In Memoriam 5. Minutes of Previous AGM held October 26th 2016, and matters arising there from 6. Adoption of Annual Report and Statement of Accounts 7. Election of New Members 8. Election of Officers for 2017/2018 Season: a) Patron b) President c) Committee d) Honorary Auditor e) 12th Man 9. Subscriptions for 2017/18 Season 10. General Business E.J. Gray General Manager 1 Office Bearers - 2016/17 12th Men His Excellency the Governor General of New Zealand Lt. Gen Sir Jerry Mateparae GNZM QSO His Excellency the Governor General of New Zealand The Hon Sir Anand Satyanand PCZM QSO Patron T.G. McMahon President D.S. McHardy Immediate Past President A.McBeth Life Members A. Hunt M.D. Priest R.J. Allan B. Waddle M. Coppersmith Committee M. Roche W. Marshall D.S. McHardy N. Blair P. Steele C.Taylor B.Hall R. Allan (Grants Sub Committee) T. Foster (Secretary) Hon Treasurer M.
    [Show full text]
  • New Zealand Gazette
    ~umb. 87 1861 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1946 Additional Land taken for a Technical School in the City of Christchurch SCHEDULE ApPROXIMATE area of the piece of land taken: 1 rood 23 perches. [L.S.] B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General Being Lot 66, D.P. 297, being part Hapopo Block, and being the whole of the land comprised and described in Certificate of ritle, A PROCLAMATION Volume, 54, folio 202 (Wellington Land Registry). URSUANT to the Public Works Act, 1928, I, Lieutenant­ Given under the hand of His Excellency the Gover~or-General P General Sir Bernard Cyril Freyberg, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, and issued under the of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby proclaim and declare Seal of that Dominion, this 4th day of December, 1946. that the additional land described in the Schedule hereto is hereby taken for a technical school; and I do also declare that this Pro­ R SEMPLE, Minister of Vvorks. clamation shall take effect on and after the sixteenth day of GOD SAVE THE KING! December, one thousand nine hundred and forty-six. (P.W.26/1127.) SCHEDULE ApPROXIMATE area of the piece of additional land taken: 1 rood Land taken for the Purposes of River Diversion and River Works in Blocks V and IX, Haurangi Survey District, Featherston 17·6 perches. County Being part Town Reserve 125, City of Christchurch (formerly part Fife Street, now stopped). [L.S.] Situated in the City of Christchurch (Canterbury RD.). B. C. FREYBERG, Governor-General In the Canterbury Land District; as the same is more parti­ A PROCLAMATION cularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D.
    [Show full text]
  • Taylor-Made Victory As Black Caps Down India in Run-Fest
    26 Sports Thursday, February 6, 2020 Taylor-made victory as Black Caps down India in run-fest Second ODI at Auckland’s Eden Park on Saturday HAMILTON: An unbeaten century from veteran bats- SCOREBOARD man Ross Taylor powered New Zealand to a stunning four-wicket win over India in the first one-day inter- Final scores in the first one-day international between New national in Hamilton yesterday. The hosts completed Zealand and India in Hamilton yesterday: the second highest run chase in their history to finish on 348 for four and overhaul the imposing target set India by India. P. Shaw c Latham b de Grandhomme 20 It was a morale-boosting victory for the Black Caps, M. Agarwal c Blundell b Southee 32 who went into the match as underdogs after a 5-0 V. Kohli b Sodhi 51 whitewash in the recent Twenty20 series, when they S. Iyer c Santner b Southee 103 repeatedly squandered winning opportunities. The KL Rahul not out 88 roles were reversed at Seddon Park, with India posting K. Jadhav not out 26 a mammoth total of 347 for four after losing the toss, Extras (lb 7, w 19, nb1) 27 including a maiden century to Shreyas Iyer and half- Total (4 wickets, 50 overs) 347 centuries for skipper Virat Kohli and KL Rahul. But the tourists’ bowling attack failed to prevent a Fall of wickets: 1-50 (Shaw), 2-54 (Agarwal), 3-156 (Kohli), 4- match-turning innings from Taylor, who scored a 73- 292 (Iyer) ball century, his 21st in ODIs, and ended the match on Bowling: Southee 10-1-85-2 (w1), Bennett 10-0-77-0 (w6), de 109 not out.
    [Show full text]
  • Asian Cup Semis Live on Bein in fi Ve Games
    GOLF | Page 6 DeChambeau wins by seven shots to set records Monday, January 28, 2019 CRICKET Jumada I 22, 1440 AH Pakistan bowlers GULF TIMES force series decider against South Africa SPORT Page 7 AFC ASIAN CUP Nothing is impossible, says A sixth win in a row tomorrow would see Qatar into their first Qatar star Hassan ever AFC Asian Cup final AFC Alongside club teammate Abu Dhabi Akram Afi f, and in-form strik- er Almoez Ali — who remains one goal away from equalling n the verge of his side’s Ali Daei’s tournament record fi rst ever AFC Asian of eight — Hassan has become Cup semi-fi nal, Qa- a key fi gure in Felix Sanchez’s tar’s star left-back side, but suspension made him OAbdelkarim Hassan has a simple a spectator during their historic message — anything is possible. quarter-fi nal against Korea Re- Qatar’s success would have public. been diffi cult to imagine four Despite not being able to per- years ago. Hassan, an unused sonally impact the breakthrough substitute, watched on as Qatar 1-0 win, Hassan wore one of the bowed out of the 2015 campaign biggest smiles at Zayed Sports without making much of an im- City Stadium, and remains pression.. delighted with his country’s Three successive losses meant achievement. Hassan’s side left Australia “I cannot say anything about without a single point. After the game,” he said. “Korea (Re- years of steady progress, and public) were strong and we had a quarter-fi nal appearance on to defend to stop them from home soil four years prior, it was scoring against us and we did it.
    [Show full text]
  • From Chronology to Confessional: New Zealand Sporting Biographies in Transition
    From Chronology to Confessional: New Zealand Sporting Biographies in Transition GEOFF WATSON Abstract Formerly rather uniform in pattern, sporting biographies have evolved significantly since the 1970s, becoming much more open in their criticism of teammates and administrators as well as being more revealing of their subject’s private lives. This article identifies three transitional phases in the genre; a chronological era, extending from the early twentieth century until the 1960s; an indirectly confessional phase between the 1970s and mid 1980s and an openly confessional phase from the mid-1980s. Despite these changes, sporting biographies continue to reinforce the dominant narratives around sport in New Zealand. New Zealand sporting biographies have a mixed reputation in literary and scholarly circles. Often denigrated for their allegedly formulaic style, they have also been criticised for their lack of insight into New Zealand society.1 Representative of this critique is Lloyd Jones, who wrote in 1999, “sport hardly earns a mention in our wider literature, and … the rest of society is rarely, if ever, admitted to our sports literature.”2 This article examines this perspective, arguing that sporting biographies afford a valuable insight into New Zealand’s changing self- image and values. Moreover, it will be argued that the nature of sporting biographies themselves has changed significantly since the 1980s and that they have become much more open in their discussion of teammates and the personal lives of their subjects. Whatever one’s perspective on the literary merits of sporting biographies, their popular appeal is undeniable. Whereas the print run of most scholarly texts in New Zealand is at best a few thousand, sporting biographies consistently sell in the tens of thousands.
    [Show full text]
  • Cornwall Districts Cricket & Sports Association
    Cornwall Districts Cricket & Sports Association Annual Report 2016-2017 Compiled by Dean Bartlett , General Manager 2 Contents Aim and Vision, Primary Roles 2 Annual General Meeting Agenda 3 Office Bearers 4 Sponsors & Supporters 5 Presidents Report 7 Chairman’s Report 9 Cornwall Cricket Development Foundation 13 Financial Report 15 Business Plan Review 38 Senior Club Report 48 Junior Club Report 89 Aim and Vision To deliver to members an outstanding all round cricketing experience. Primary Roles • To service and provide for the grass roots of cricket and to foster and grow cricket in our local community • To provide an environment for cricketers to enjoy their cricket regardless of age and ability. • To respect and foster the spirit of the game • To ensure all the club’s facilities are of a high quality and accessible to all members • To identify talented players within the club, develop their skills and provide a clear pathway from juniors to seniors • To provide quality coaching • To be competitively successful • To build a lifelong connection between all past and present Cornwall Members and the Club • To fulfil regional responsibilities to Auckland cricket and support the ACA’s regional and national objectives • To maintain and advance the tradition and culture of Cornwall Cricket Club 3 63rd Annual General Meeting Agenda Chairman - Ian Dee 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of the 62nd Annual General Meeting 3. Matters Arising 4. President’s Report - John Ewart 5. Chairman’s Report - Ian Dee 6. Annual Accounts and Treasurer’s Report - Jon Cleland 7. Election of Officers 8. General Business 4 2016 - 2017 Office Bearers PRESIDENT: John Ewart.
    [Show full text]
  • 2011/12 Annual Report
    Season 2011/12 SCA Club Champions Manly Warringah District Cricket Club Our “Fabulous Fighting Fives” 134th Annual Report & Balance Sheet MANLY-WARRINGAH DISTRICT CRICKET CLUB INCORPORATED PLAYING GROUNDS – MANLY OVAL, LM GRAHAM RESERVE, MIKE PAWLEY OVAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE MANLY-WARRINGAH DISTRICT CRICKET CLUB INCORPORATED, WILL BE HELD AT MANLY BOWLING CLUB, RAGLAN STREET, MANLY, ON SUNDAY 15 JULY 2012 1. To receive the Annual Report and Honorary Treasurer's Statement. 2. Election of office bearers and general committee as follows:- Honorary President*, Honorary Deputy President*, Honorary Secretary*, Honorary Assistant Secretary*, Honorary Treasurer*, Honorary Assistant Treasurer*, General Committee (Nominations for positions marked * must be lodged with the Honorary Secretary by 8 July 2012). 3. Election of delegates to the Sydney Cricket Association (2) and Cricket New South Wales (1). 4. Nomination and election of Patrons. 5. To transact any business that may be brought forward in conformity with the constitution of the Club. JOHN PARKINSON Honorary Secretary PO BOX 1239 Manly NSW 1655 email: [email protected] Only financial members are eligible to vote. SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO IAN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY & FIONA LYON FOR THE USE OF THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGHOUT THIS REPORT MANY THANKS TO OUR CLUB SPONSORS Also thanks to: Gold Member Sponsor Team Pursuit Sponsor Man of the Match Sponsor Charity Partner Fairlight Gourmet Butcher Affiliate – MWDCC is & Café the
    [Show full text]
  • Australia V England
    AUSTRALIA V. NEW ZEALAND DECEMBER 28, 2019 BOXING DAY TEST FACT SHEET - DAY 3 Australia and New Zealand have only met in Tests at the MCG on three previous occasions. The MCC library fact sheets for each of the first three days of this match will highlight one of those contests. Today's sheet reviews the Third Test of the 1987/88 series. ‘The 1987/88 New Zealand tour’ The New Zealanders embarked on the two-month tour in mid-November less than three weeks after returning from the World Cup in India, faced with a challenging itinerary of 19 matches, including three Tests, three first-class matches and 10 one-day internationals. The touring party, however, was an internationally-hardened and settled combination, despite the absence of the recently-retired Jeremy Coney and Bruce Edgar. The party comprised 12 of the World Cup squad, bolstered by the inclusion of star pace bowler Richard Hadlee, who had been unavailable for the World Cup, and left- arm spinner Evan Gray as a like-for-like replacement for Stephen Boock. ‘Third Test Match, December 26-30, 1987’ New Zealand entered the match needing a win to square the series, having lost at Brisbane by nine wickets and drawn at Adelaide. Both sides made two changes to their line-ups from Adelaide, the visitors substituting Ewen Chatfield and Philip Horne for Evan Gray and Martin Snedden, while Australia were unable to consider injured pacemen Bruce Reid and Merv Hughes, replacing them with Test debutant Tony Dodemaide and Mike Whitney, whose only two Test appearances had been in England six years earlier.
    [Show full text]
  • December 2016 Catalogue
    ROGER PAGE DEALER IN NEW AND SECOND-HAND CRICKET BOOKS 10 EKARI COURT, YALLAMBIE, VICTORIA, 3085 TELEPHONE: (03) 9435 6332 FAX: (03) 9432 2050 EMAIL: [email protected] ABN 95 007 799 336 DECEMBER 2016 CATALOGUE Unless otherwise stated, all books in good condition & bound in cloth boards. Books once sold cannot be returned or exchanged. G.S.T. of 10% to be added to all listed prices for purchases within Australia. Postage is charged on all orders. For parcels l - 2kgs. in weight, the following rates apply: within Victoria $14:00; to New South Wales & South Australia $16.00; to the Brisbane metropolitan area and to Tasmania $18.00; to other parts of Queensland $22; to Western Australia & the Northern Territory $24.00; to New Zealand $40; and to other overseas countries $50.00. Overseas remittances - bank drafts in Australian currency - should be made payable at the Commonwealth Bank, Greensborough, Victoria, 3088. Mastercard and Visa accepted. This List is a selection of current stock. Enquiries for other items are welcome. Cricket books and collections purchased. A. ANNUALS AND PERIODICALS $ ¢ 1. A.C.S International Cricket Year Books: a. 1986 (lst edition) to 1996 inc. 20.00 ea b. 2014, 2015, 2016 70.00 ea 2. Australian Cricket Annual (ed) Allan Miller: a. 1987-88 (lst edition), 1988-89, 1989-90 40.00 ea b. 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93 30.00 ea c. 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 20.00 ea 3. Australian Cricket Digest (ed) Lawrie Colliver: a. 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15, 25.00 ea.
    [Show full text]
  • Australian Cricket Society 53Rd Annual Report & Financial Statements
    Australian Cricket Society 53rd Annual Report & Financial Statements 2019/2020 Presented at the Annual General Meeting of the Australian Cricket Society Incorporated Monday, 17th August 2020 (Via Zoom Conferencing) ACS Committee 2019/2020 President: Ken Piesse Vice President: Anthony Hall Secretary: Wayne Ross Treasurer: Brian Tooth Committee: Geoff Craig, Keiran Croker, Sam Ferguson, David McNamara and *Mike Rose. In addition, ACS Member, Stuart Stockdale, who had taken on the role as Chairman of Taverners Victoria, was invited to attend our meetings as an observer (David McNamara did likewise for the Taverners group). In February 2020, Drew Payne, Pam Bishop and Melissa McConnell were seconded to the Committee. Melissa withdrew as a result of the COVID-19 virus which impacted on her business to the extent that she needed to devote her time to her business in order to maintain it as a going concern. *Mike Rose passed away in April 2020. Honorary Life Members Sir Donald Bradman *, Sir Robert Menzies *, Rev. Dean Fred Chamberlin *, Colin Barnes, Sydney Smith *, Richard Elvins *, Fred Hall, Doug Manning, Steve Mason, Roger Page, Ken Strickland *, Ian Stuart *, Rex Thompson, Ian Hammet, J Neville Turner *, Ken Piesse, Ken Woolfe and David Jukes [* Deceased] Patron Ricky Ponting AO Ambassadors Ray Bright, Tony Crafter, Graham Dawson, Rodney Hogg, Merv Hughes, Melanie Jones, Paul Reiffel and Bryce McGain Charity Partner Australian Cricket Society Inc. Established 1967 2 President’s Report Cricket has taken a backseat in recent months with most of We have continued to make regular donations. It is such a in lockdown, worrying and caring for extended family and good cause and is very well managed, with more than 90 friends.
    [Show full text]
  • Dempster Aus Sales Brochure LTD ED RP.Indd
    w ne O r ONLY T 8 SECOND a n ENDNLY T ENDNLY BRADMAN e SECOND ONLY TO F THE LIFE O c STEWIE DEMPSTER BY BILL FRANCIS BRADMAN STEWIE DEMPSTER HE LIFE O THE LIFE OF STEWIE DEMPSTER BY BILL FRANCIS BILL FRANCIS FOREWORD M 11:33:47 A BRUCE EDGAR 21/08/2020 Now a distant and somewhat 65.72 remains second only to With some remarkable research , over.indd 1 neglected figure of NewDempster C Zealand Don Bradman for those having Bill Francis shows not only Cricket history, Stewie Dempster played 10 Tests or more. why the name Dempster was – 86 years on since he played his big enough to take pride of His Test career was followed by last Test – is brought back to life place at the Basin Reserve (The 13 years in England where he in this long-awaited biography CS Dempster Gate) – but also captained Leicestershire in county reconfirming his rightful place uncovers the difficulties around cricket as well as playing for Sir in New Zealand’s cricketing elite. Dempster’s upbringing plus the Julien Cahn’s ‘travelling circus’. In his time, he was considered saga of his three marriages. It is one of the best batsmen in the Back in New Zealand after a captivating story. world, scoring New Zealand’s the Second World War and Available for AU$200.00 (plus first Test century, the first Test coaching in Wellington, he GST) plus postage and packing if century away from home and provided exceptional mentoring applicable. the first double century for New to a talented group of young Zealand.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter Autumn 2012
    www.sdcs.councilcricketsocieties.com 4 Programme of Meetings for 2012/13 Oct 18 Colin Schindler (Author & Lancashire supporter) Autumn 2012 The Newsletter of Stourbridge & District Cricket Society Founded 1972 Mancunian, Colin wrote the screenplay for Buster and has written and produced television series such as From the Chair Lovejoy, Madson and Wish Me Luck. He won a BAFTA for his production of A Little Princess. His first book A SAD & SORRY END INDEED Manchester United Ruined My Life was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of The Year Welcome one and all, new and existing Prize. His second non-fiction book was Fathers, Sons and Football, telling the story of three genera- members to Stourbridge and District Cricket tions of the Summerbee family all of whom played professional football. He also wrote George Best and Let’s not beat about the bush Society. 21 Others. A lifelong and fanatical Lancashire supporter he unashamedly wept at Taunton in September about the relegation issue. Worcestershire got what their What a summer! What can one say of 2011 when Lancashire clinched the County Championship. We wonder how he reacted to their relegation ! our English Cricket journey from poor play deserved. Nov 15 Angus Fraser (Middlesex & England) April to September. I know the team suffered injuries Fraser was a classically English seamer, landing ball after ball outside off stump and brilliantly exploiting even and had many days washed out, Incessant rain, a tidal wave of Olym- the slightest hint of uneven bounce - as his record in the Caribbean shows. Ignore the downbeat demeanour: but am I missing something? Did- pic sport, the heavy swell of summer he looked almost as knackered at the start of a spell as he did at the end, and he cared passionately, once run- n't that also happen to neighbours football, mutiny on board, with the ning from the field in tears when England won at Melbourne.
    [Show full text]