Seventh Annual Report 2007-08

Club President Michael Whitney holding the “ Smith” Club Championship Trophy with Grade Club Team Captains and Club Coach Left to right: David Townsend (4th Grade); Rodney Stafford (2nd Grade); Peter Devlin (Club Coach); Michael Whitney (President); (1st Grade); Nigil Singh (3rd Grade); Darren McCoy (5th Grade). Photo: Steven Smith • SCA Grade Club Champions • 1st Grade Semi Finalist • 2nd Grade Semi Finalist • 4th Grade Premiers • 5th Grade Premiers • Metropolitan Cup Semi Finalist

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2007-08 Highlights ……….

• Won Club Championship for first time in our seven seasons • Won 4th Grade Premiership for third time • Won 5th Grade Premiership for second time • Won 4th Grade Minor Premiership for second successive season • 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th grades made both Qualifying Finals and Semi-Finals • , Nathan Hauritz, and Burt Cockley played for NSW in Pura Cup • Simon Katich, Nathan Hauritz and Burt Cockley (12th man) played for NSW in Ford Ranger Cup • Usman Khawaja and Burt Cockley played for NSW in Cricket Cup (Second XI) • Nathan Hauritz, Usman Khawaja and Burt Cockley played for Sydney South East in State League Cup • Peter Alevizos played for NSW in Australian Under 19 Championships in • Greg Hartshorne served a second term as a NSW Cricket Selector • Bill Anderson won the NSWCA Coach of the Year Award • David Townsend was named 4th Grade of the Year • Simon Katich scored 306 at SCG v in Pura Cup, second only to • Simon Katich’s 1,506 runs a new record for most runs in a season in Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup and for NSW • Usman Khawaja hit 5 centuries in new 1st Grade club record season total of 1,134 runs, best in Sydney Grade • Usman Khawaja batted through for 127 in 1st Grade match against Western Suburbs • Simon Katich hit a record 10 sixes in 149 not out in Qualifying Final against St George • Simon Katich sets new 1st Grade club record average of 96.83, best in Sydney Grade this season • Benn West took 4th Grade hat-trick against St George….his second 4th Grade hat-trick for 2007 • Rodney Stafford took the only 7 to fall to a bowler in the 2nd Grade Semi Final v Sydney Uni • James Tyson took first 7 wickets in 5th Grade Semi-Final against Bankstown to finish with 7 for 16 • James Tyson finished 5th Grade final series with 16 wickets for just 64 runs • 5 matches (4 ties and a draw) finished with scores level: 3 in 1st Grade; 1 in 2nd Grade; 1 in 4th Grade • All 5 grades won against Manly and University of NSW in successive rounds • 4 wins and tie (1st Grade) recorded in round 1 against St George • 1st Grade win outright against Campbelltown-Camden after record low 56 in first innings • 4th Grade win outright against Campbelltown-Camden after scoring record low 49 in first innings • 2nd Grade dismissed Mosman for record low score of 64 in Qualifying Final • 3rd Grade dismissed Campbelltown-Camden for record low score of 55 • 4th Grade dismissed Northern District for 47 in Limited Overs match • Poidevin Gray team recorded a 10 win Mosman at Coogee Oval

Randwick Petersham players, volunteers and supporters at Coogee celebrating our 4th and 5th Grade premiership wins

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Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Incorporated Founded 2001

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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 2007- 08

Notice of Annual Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Seventh Annual General Meeting of Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Incorporated will be held at Petersham RSL Club, Regent St., Petersham on Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 7.00pm.

Business

1. Welcome by President Michael Whitney

2. To receive the Seventh Annual Report and Financial Statement

3. Presentation of Club Championship pennant and caps

4. Presentation of Premiership caps and team photographs to members of the 4th and 5th Grade Premiership teams

5. Presentation of Annual Awards

6. To consider the recommendation of the Management Committee that Life Membership of the club be awarded to Darren McCoy and Peter Wright

7. To elect the following Office Bearers and a Management Committee for the ensuing year:

Patron President Chief Executive Officer Asst. Chief Executive Officer Financial Controller Asst. Financial Controller Management Committee (5) Delegates to SCA (2) Delegate to NSWCA Honorary Auditor

8. To consider any business brought forward in conformity with the club rules.

Greg Hartshorne Chief Executive Officer 13 Barkala Rd, Bayview 2104 (H) 9997 6410 (M) 0408 719 956 [email protected]

Please note that only last season’s financial members are entitled to vote.

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OFFICE BEARERS 2007-08

Patron Noel Hughes

President Michael Whitney

Chief Executive Officer Greg Hartshorne

Assistant Chief Executive Officer Tony Martin

Financial Controller Bernie Dagg

Assistant Financial Controller David Holland

Management Committee President, Chief Executive Officer, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Financial Controller, Assistant Financial Controller together with Darren McCoy, Wayne Mulherin, Chris Sullivan, David Townsend, Alan Wright and Peter Wright.

Honorary Auditor Wayne Tilley

Delegate to NSW Cricket Association Peter Wright

Delegates to Sydney Cricket Association Peter Wright and Greg Hartshorne

Webmaster and Publicity Officer Katie Martin

Statistics Ray Stafford

Director of Coaching Club Coach Bill Anderson Peter Devlin

Club Captain Brett Hunter

Selection Committee Alan Wright (Chairman), Peter Devlin, Nathan Hauritz (1st Grade), Rodney Stafford (2nd Grade), Nigil Singh (3rd Grade), David Townsend (4th Grade), Darren McCoy (5th Grade), David Holland Metropolitan Cup (6th Grade)

Grading Committee Alan Wright (Chairman), Bill Anderson, Peter Devlin, Rodney Stafford, Brett Hunter, Darren McCoy, Denis Hinds and David Skuthorpe

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Operational Committees

Annual Report: Ray Stafford (Chairman), Lyall Gardner OAM, Steven Smith, Chris Sullivan, Ryan Stafford

Coaching: Bill Anderson (Director), Peter Devlin (Club Coach & Poidevin Gray), Rob Huxley, David Skuthorpe, Grant Rimmer (AW Green Shield), Darren McCoy (Academy)

Cricketwear: Matthew Taylor, John Connell

Grounds: Wayne Mulherin (Chairman), Alan Wright.

Junior Development: David Townsend (Chairman)

Publicity: Katie Martin, Lyall Gardner OAM

Social: Chris Sullivan (Chairman), Andrew Harrison, Tony Martin, Lee Farlow, Alex Sciascia

Sponsorship Greg Hartshorne (Chairman), Michael Whitney, Chris Sullivan, Neale & Events: Anderson, Matthew Taylor, Graeme Hughes, Tony and Katie Martin

Team Admin: David Holland, Tony Martin

Life Members (Life Members No. 03 to 38 are listed in the year order of election by the founding clubs) (Former Randwick Life Members are marked *)

03 - Noel Hughes (1971) 18 - Stephen Devlin (1992)* 32 - Peter Rolls (1999) 04 - Arthur Purvis (1971) 19 - Alan Wright (1992)* 33 - Peter Devlin (2000)* 05 - John O’Loughlin (1973)* 20 - Neale Anderson (1992) 34 - Robin Gardner (2000) 06 - John Hayward (1975)* 21 - Michael Whitney (1993)* 35 - William Anderson (2001) 07 - Alan Cripps (1981)* 22 - Patricia Hughes (1995) 36 - Wayne Mulherin (2001) 09 - Alan Turner (1983)* 23 - Helen Milford (1995) 37 - Paul McGee (2001) 10 - John Johnson (1983)* 24 - Timothy Dein (1996) 38 - John King (2001) 11 - Lyall Gardner (1984)* 25 - Alan Staunton (1996) 39 - Andrew Millican (2003) 12 - Peter Bain (1988) 26 - John Pearson (1996) 40 - Peter Johnston (2004) 13 - David Chardon (1988) 27 - Richard McCord (1997) 41 - Robert Barter (2005) 14 - Greg Hartshorne (1988) 28 - Chris Sullivan (1997) 42 - Richard Chee Quee (2005) 15 - Trevor Jay (1989)* 29 - Paul Stepto (1997) 43 - Denis Hinds (2006) 16 - Ross Davies (1989)* 30 - Brian Proops (1998) 44 - Rhys Banwell (2007) 17 - Graeme Hughes (1991) 31 - David Skuthorpe (1998)

Association Life Members

NSW Cricket Association Sydney Cricket Association Lyall Gardner OAM (1988) Trevor Jay (2002) Alan Turner (1997) Greg Hartshorne (2005) Michael Whitney (2002)

Vice Presidents

Mayor of Botany Bay City Council Mayor Marrickville Council Major Randwick City Council

John Affleck Jeff Hill Ron Rimmer Alan Austin Brian Hughes Jeff Sayle OAM Bernard Bayley Garry Hughes John Soames Chris Burke Mark Hughes Harry Solomons Len Cartwright Les Johns John Sullivan John Chapman AM Arthur Kelleher Steve Sullivan Madge Devlin Ruth Kelleher Bruce Turpin Ken Devlin David Kelly Barry Wood Phil Green Bruce Livingston Anthony Woodward Steve Greentree Barry McDonald Geoff Wright Tom Harrison Carl Mower Peter Harrison Tom Regan

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Playing Members Peter Alevizos Andrew Harrison Edward Mobbs Mamun Amin Nathan Hauritz Shaylin Moodliar Marc Anderson Fabian Heaton Edward Neaves Marcus Bain Kieran Hewar Eddie Otto Brenton Barker Matthew Hilder Shane Pargeter Andrew Downton Joseph Hill William Passas Steve Bidwell-Brown Denis Hinds Andrew Redman David Bourke Thomas Holland Grant Rimmer Richard Bowles Denis Howard Sam Rochaix Philip Bracken John Hughes Peter Rogers Troy Brewster Brett Hunter Nicholas Saady Alex Brown Michael Issa Daniel Schroder Luke Bush Brett Jackson Karl Schubert James Byrne Joe Jenkins Alex Sciascia Robert Close Mitchell Jones Adam Semple Mark Carlton Lance Kahler Chris Singh Nick Charlwood Manul Kandara Melvin Singh Steve Clarke Simon Katich Nigil Singh Burt Cockley Tim Kelly Rodney Stafford Andy Coles Usman Khawaja Nicolas Stapleton Mathew Coles Darren Kumar John Stewart Robert Cummings Daniel Laus Harry Tagg Campbell Dash Tim Laws Lachlan Taylor Charith De Silva Daniel Levitt Matthew Taylor Ashley Doolan Barton Lynch Alex Tomkins Matthew Doyle George Mafi Patrick Toole James Edwards Jordan Magro David Townsend Noel Ellis Scott Manning Jason Trindall Cameron Fowler Sam Maree James Tyson George Frazakis Tony Martin Matthew Wallis Sean Gardner Darren McCoy Jonathan Walsh Bradley Gray Nathan McCoy Andrew Walters Cameron Gray James McKenzie Michael Watson Jason Gray Simon McKenzie Kurt Webb Scott Gray John McLoughlin Benn West Chad Greenberg Robert McMinn Glen Whichello Trent Griffiths Thomas Merilaht Thomas Whitaker Will Halstead David Mitchell Jody Whitehead

Non Playing Members Don Arnold Peter Harrison Faye Semple Bernard Bayley Rob Huxley Steven Smith Stan Beale Sue Hill Ray Stafford Peter Carroll Lynette Jackson John Sullivan John Connell Tariq Khawaja Neville Walters Peter English Katie Martin Wayne Tilley Lee Farlow Cec Orrock Dick Waller Helen Fowler Angela Redman Dean White

A W Green Shield Members Marcus Bain Alec Kemmary Brandon McLean Luke Bush Ben Lo Presti Jack Roach Devlin Foulis Barton Lynch Nicholas Stapleton Scott Gray George Mafi Daniel Thomas Jason Gray James McKenzie

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Club Champions!! How sweet it is!! Over the past 6 years I have presented to you my report as President of this club and on each occasion I have mentioned the honor and pride I had in doing so. Each time I expressed my absolute delight at the way we had welded two separate historic clubs into a single body which is now recognised as one of Sydney’s leading sporting organisatons. This year I am a proud man once again but even more than I could ever have imagined. This year I report to you as President of Sydney’s champion cricket club. Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. Sydney Grade Club Champions!! It doesn’t get any better than this!!

How well I remember those early meetings in 2001 when discussions were under way to bring both clubs together. During the course of those late night talks and again after the merger had been put in place, the view was expressed on more than one occasion that a target for the new entity should be to win the Sydney Grade Club Championship within our first 10 years. After just seven years we’ve done it!

As someone who very fortunately has tasted the success of a Club Championship on three previous occasions with the old Randwick club, I know what it means to win this coveted title. It means simply that we are all winners. Everyone associated with the club is a winner. It matters not the extent of your involvement or association. Whether you have done a little or a lot, your contribution has made a difference. As a non- professional sporting body we rely heavily on the helping hands provided by our many volunteers and supporters to keep the show on the road. To all of you who have guided the club through to this historic achievement, I say thank you. Enjoy the moment. You’ve earned it.

And to top off what was certainly our most successful season, we took out a couple of premierships as well. Fantastic performances by our lower graders, to bring home the 4th and 5th Grade premiership cups. This was the third win in the competition for our 4th Grade team and the second for our 5ths. Not a bad effort in just seven seasons. We have really been a dominant force in these grades and with the number of promising young players within our ranks I expect this trend to continue. Congratulations to both captains David Townsend and Darren McCoy who put a lot of time into the development of their teams. We are just so lucky to have experienced players such as these two looking after our youngsters.

It’s hard to feel disappointed in a season where we have done so well, but I can’t help feeling that with an ounce more luck we may have given the 1st Grade competition a bit of a shake. We certainly had the team to do it but a few hiccups in the Semi-Final put paid to our chances. Similarly our 2nd graders did fantastically well to get to the semis losing only a handful of games along the way. Both sides were expertly handled by Nathan Hauritz and Rodney Stafford with Nathan displaying his undoubted ability by being our Player of the Season. Both teams are oozing with talent and I can only see improvement in them come next season.

Nigil Singh’s 3rd graders were also in the thick of things right up to the Finals and they came within an ace of grabbing a spot which would have created another record in terms of representation in the end of season big games. That we had four teams in both the Qualifying and Semi-Finals was an outstanding achievement and another high mark for us. Our “Green” and “Gold” 6th Grade teams also did well with our Green team making the Semi-Final of the Metropolitan Cup competition. The talent in both teams is quite outstanding and is sure to serve us well into the future.

Apart from our wonderful club performance, we were also a chief supplier of first class talent at state level with four players representing my old team, the NSW Blues. And what a season Simon Katich had! It’s hard to imagine any player having a better season. He lost a contract, won it back, got back into

Page: 6 the Australian Test squad, scored two Test tons against the , led the Blues to win the Pura Cup, hit 300 in one dig, broke all kinds of records and was regarded as being in Bradman territory with many of his performances. He did equally as well with us as anyone who saw his 149 with 10 sixes in the Qualifing Final will testify. His grade season average of 96.83 was also the best in Sydney and a new record for us. And it couldn’t happen to a better bloke! He deserves all the success he’s had.

It did the heart good to see the name of Usman Khawaja in the NSW batting lineup this summer. We’ve been saying for a while he had the goods and his 85 on debut was just a taste of what he will do in the first class arena in the years ahead. His grade season record total of 1,134 runs was simply brilliant. I was also pleased to see a Randwick Petersham fast bowler getting a baggy blue cap when Burt Cockley got a game against the Tasmanians. He could go places as well.

Nathan Hauritz played all the one-day matches for the Blues and it was interesting to hear his name mentioned in dispatches when future spin options at national level were being discussed. And shortly after the conclusion of the season, full SpeedBlitz Blues contracts were offered to each of Simon, Nathan, Usman and Burt for the 2008-09 season. Congratulations to each player. Another first for the club to have four players in the NSW Squad!

We were again well served by our fantastic sponsors. The costs associated with running a Grade club are rising all the time and were it not for the generosity of our sponsors we would really be struggling. Petersham RSL was again a tower of strength in looking after us with finance and a wonderful venue for our functions while my old stamping ground, the “rugger” at Coogee, also provided outstanding support and assistance.

A big thank you to my old mate Phil Green for his generosity through his company Babcock and Brown which enabled us to continue with the Players Incentive Scheme. The Bulldogs and South Juniors leagues clubs also made an important contribution towards our junior development programs. Former Souths man Sean Garlick with his Garlo’s Pies business is another of our popular sponsors as are the many other organisations which continue to support us. It is through their assistance that the club has been able to prosper to the extent it has. Apart from being good sponsors it’s nice to know that the people behind these organisations are good mates as well as being a very important part of the Randwick Petersham family.

To experience the success we had this year requires sound administration and management. In this regard we have been extremely well served this season and indeed, since the merger in 2001 by a dedicated and professional group of individuals. In fact, since that time we have had only 17 people fill the 11 management committee spots which has allowed us to maintain a solid core of expertise and solidarity throughout our seven years history. While our management movements have been few, a major change was required this season with CEO Ray Stafford announcing his retirement at the end of 2006-07 after six years in the top job. We were indeed fortunate to have Greg Hartshorne put up his hand to carry on Ray’s good work and he did a brilliant job. Our success as Club Champions is a fitting reward for the outstanding contribution of these two dedicated and enthusiastic clubmen. Greg combined his CEO role with his State Selector duties and carried out both with the professionalism we have come to expect from him. Unfortunately he has decided not to continue as CEO but will continue to channel his enthusiasm into other important aspects of the club next season. He remains one of our most valuable assets.

I mentioned in last year’s report that we had some important issues to be addressed this year in terms of the ground problems experienced at Petersham Oval. While our expert Grounds Manager, Wayne Mulherin worked hard, the issues remain largely unresolved. Wayne will continue his negotiations with Marrickville Council and it is to be hoped a sensible solution can be worked out. It’s terrific to see Coogee Oval in such good nick and also the improvement in which has been getting the Green Options attention. If we are to continue as a force in we need to get all our facilities up-to-speed.

Alan Wright continues to do an amazing job for this club. Since we came into being seven seasons ago we have had just one Chairman of Selectors and that is of course, Alan Wright. He can take a lot of the kudos for our Club Championship win. Clearly the hard decisions were the right ones. Congratulations, Wrighty. Tony Martin again was Assistant CEO and did a sterling job. With his wife Katie chipping in on the social side, they present a formidable volunteer double. And in terms of the social aspect of the club, Chris “Fous” Sullivan again came up with an impressive line-up of off-field events. I described “Fous” as the “Social Soul” of our club in last year’s report and can only emphasise that description this year.

David Townsend is an extremely valuable member of our committee looking after the important junior development role he juggles with the captaincy of our premiership winning 4th Grade side. Darren McCoy is another premiership winning captain on our committee leading our 5th graders to glory. He also doubles as Chairman of our Academy which continues to be a major force in the development of our younger brigade. Some of the Academy boys made giant strides up the grades this season. David Holland is just a tower of

Page: 7 strength when it comes to the developing cricketer within our club and his work with the two 6th Grade sides and the running of the Metropolitan Cup competition itself, along with Alan Wright and Denis Hinds, was just fantastic. On the finances front we were again well served by Financial Controller Bernie Dagg. It’s just so important to have a good money man within your ranks. Peter Wright again looked after our interests at NSWCA level while he accompanied CEO Greg Hartshorne in representing us on the Sydney Cricket Association. Peter is also Chairman of the RPCC Foundation. It was also fantastic to see Bobby Barter looking after the Australian and NSW Blues teams at the SCG squeezed into his tight schedule of 1st Grade Manager and RPCC Museum chief. He’s a busy man, Bobby.

I mentioned earlier that the Club Championship was a win for all of us. None moreso than our wonderful volunteers. Each year I rave about our volunteers and the sensational work they do for us. And why not! We have just the most fantastic group of helpers who continue to work for the club year in year out. While it’s always hard to single anyone out for special mention it would be remiss of me if I didn’t refer to the outstanding work of Robin Gardner and Sue Otto in staffing our canteens at Coogee and Petersham ovals again this summer. And they do everything with a smile! Wonderful, wonderful people they are and I can’t begin to thank them enough. We didn’t get to see our long-serving legends Pat and Noel Hughes this season who both continue to recuperate from ongoing illnesses. We know they are with us in spirit and we appreciate the good wishes they continually pass on to the club.

Our coaching staff under the direction of Bill Anderson and Peter Devlin did a sensational job again this season despite not having regular practice facilities at Petersham Oval. They can be very pleased with their efforts which clearly went a long way in achieving our dream of winning the Club Championship. To think we took the title in a season which was without a number of talented players from the season before says a lot for the recruitment and training methods employed. We were also able to take advantage of the various seminars and programs offered by Cricket NSW while a number of our players participated in specialist coaching sessions conducted by the Association. The passion of our coaches certainly shone through this season and is clearly reflected in the awarding to Bill Anderson of the Bob Simpson Coach of the Year by the SCA at it’s Premier’s Dinner last May. In accepting the Award Bill did so on behalf of the whole of our coaching staff which was a wonderful tribute to a dedicated group.

You will be aware of the ideals I have been pushing ever since I took on the role of President. They are of course, trust, respect and humility. As Club Champions, I feel those concepts were never more relevant than they are now. By trust I mean that we should have trust in our ability to perform to the highest standard we can while at the same time showing respect for our opponents, our club and team mates and most of all for the game itself. When we are victorious as we have been this season, we need to display a sense of humility in enjoying our success while acknowledging the achievements of others along the way. As I have said on many occasions, we want Randwick Petersham to be everything that is good about sportsmanship, friendship and honour. And may it ever be so.

Over the past seven seasons we have been looking forward to this moment. The moment that we could say we are the champion club in Sydney Grade Cricket. It is the ultimate acknowledgement of everything we have worked so hard for. And if you think it’s been hard work getting to where we are now, think again, because this is where the real hard work starts! We are Club Champions. Every other club will want to take that title from us next season. It will be harder to retain the honour than it was to win it in the first place. It always is.

Next season will not be a season to rest on our laurels. It will be a season for us to work harder than ever before. We want that 1st Grade title. We want to do better in Poidevin Gray and A W Green Shield. We want to be Club Champions again. But while it may be hard work it will also be exciting. With four of our players in the NSW squad and a stack of talented youngsters coming through the ranks, our eighth season could well be even better than this one. It’s up to all of us to make it happen. Next season can’t come quickly enough. Roll on 2008-09!!

Michael Whitney President

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I am very proud to present the 7th Annual Report of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club on behalf of the Management Committee.

It was a year to remember and celebrate, and surely the best of our seven years as a new club. The results speak for themselves - Club Champions, Premiers in 4th and 5th grades, semi finalists in 1st and 2nd grades and the Metro Cup, strong results in 3rd Grade, Coach of the Year, 4th Grade Captain of the Year, Usman Khawaja the leading scorer in 1st Grade, four NSW representatives and, of course, the great performances of Simon Katich and his return to . It was another fantastic “Weekend in April”.

As you read the various reports, you will see excellent individual performances throughout the grades. As we watched each round unfold it became obvious we had a very strong player talent pool. Winning, expecting the best outcome no matter what the circumstances and never, never giving up, is now part of our culture. We expect to win and expect to do well individually. These attitudes are a huge factor in our success.

Success is not just about what we do on the field. It is how we handle both success and failure, and the support structure that makes each game possible. I am proud to be part of this club because it is filled with people who are passionate, who give their time to make us successful, and who are part of a unique group of family, friends and mates.

Please take some time to read the list of our volunteers. No other cub comes close to us! There are over 60 people giving their time as captains, managers, scorers, ground support, canteen, web mail, match report, statistics, publicity, coaching, selections, photography, social, fund raising, and management committee. Whether it is 10 hours or 1,000 hours a season, their contribution is hugely important to our success and the rewards we get from this great game. Thank you to you all. You are very special people.

It is great to see many players now looking to assist in voluntary roles and on sub-committees. Hopefully many more of our members will look to be involved, as the rewards of “helping out” are great.

Our goal is to be a “Great Cricket Club”, to be the best we can be in all aspects of what we do. This is our ultimate journey as we tackle the challenges and opportunities ahead.

On the field we have unfulfilled goals - the 1st Grade premiership, Poidevin-Gray and the AW Green Shield.

First grade is the premier grade and the one we really want to win, while the Poidevin-Gray and AW Green shields are a measure of our commitment and success in junior development.

Grant Rimmer, David Townsend, Darren McCoy, the support coaches and parents make a huge contribution to our future in the Academy, Junior Development and AW Green Shield programs. These are the breeding grounds for our future.

Our goals also include creating pathways and opportunity for players to be “the best they can be”. Our player pool is strong, so players have to work hard for their spots and opportunities. Success comes to those who want it most, who practice and work on their game, prepare well and take the opportunities as they come. Our goal is to create the pathways, and to reward effort and performance.

The quality of our practice facilities remains one of our biggest challenges. Our grounds committee headed by Wayne Mulherin, has worked consistently over a long period of time to make progress on all our grounds. At Coogee Oval the change rooms are being renovated over winter and a new digital scoreboard is under construction. This will make a huge difference to

Page: 9 our premier ground. Unfortunately the Petersham Oval wickets remain a problem despite lots of work. We will not give up on this, as it is such a wonderful place to watch, play and practice.

With such success on the field, it is no surprise our coaching program won the Bob Simpson Coach of the Year Award. This is a wonderful achievement by all our coaching team; Bill Anderson (Director of Coaching), Peter Devlin (Club Coach), David Skuthorpe, Rob Huxley, Grant Rimmer (Academy and AWG Shield) and Darren McCoy (Academy). Fantastic job.

The end of season player survey highlighted some interesting thoughts and certainly showed that the players are looking for more structure and accountability in some areas of our club. We have listened to this feedback and we will implement many of the ideas in 2008-09.

We have a tremendous group of sponsors who have supported us for many years. You will read in the Sponsorship Report the many and varied companies and organizations which support us. We survive as a Club because of this assistance. The clothing, incentive awards, coaching programs, junior development and equipment are all dependent on our sponsors.

Our fund rasing events and sponsorship is a major challenge going forward. Our Finance Report shows the Club has a substantial budget and is delicately balanced. The challenge is to grow our revenue in a market which is becoming increasing tight, especially with changing laws on gambling and smoking in licensed clubs. Our number one obligation and objective is to support and thank our sponsors in any way we can.

One of our great strengths is the mateship amongst our players and supporters. Our social activities, MVP nights and major events keep us together. As I have often said, we need to enjoy success, be disappointed about failure and losses, show respect and humility in both, and most of all remember, “there is no success without celebration”.

I would like to particularly thank Tony and Katie Martin. Tony has made an enormous contribution to the committee over many years of great service, while Katie gave me immeasurable support this season with the website and email communications. With a second child very close, they are standing down from their voluntary roles next season. Thank you for all you have done.

Congratulations also to Darren McCoy and Peter Wright on their Life Membership nominations. This is a special recognition of your contribution to our club.

Long may we enjoy that wonderful “Weekend in April”.

For and on behalf of the Management Committee.

Greg Hartshorne Chief Executive Officer

As the proud major sponsor of Randwick Petersham Cricket Club, Petersham RSL Club would like to extend its appreciation to all the teams for their on-going support throughout the season.

7 Regent Street, Petersham NSW 2049. Ph No. 9560 8355 www.petershamrsl.com.au

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Sponsorship

Our club would not survive without our sponsors. The funds they supply help to provide vital facilities and programs in areas such as Junior Development, the RPC Academy, coaching across the board, clothing and player awards.

Many of our sponsors have provided support since our inception and have become part of our success story. Others are new. We hope to strengthen this .

Our objective is to give back, constantly recognise their support and help develop their businesses by using their facilities, expertise and products.

Our sponsors are many.

Petersham RSL – continues to be a superb Major Sponsor. They provide financial support and modern social facilities at both the RSL and At Newtown. This season they also sponsored the Most Valuable Player Awards with a $100 voucher, a great favourite of the players. Babcock and Brown – The Babcock and Brown’s Player Incentive Scheme allows all our players to be rewarded for excellent performance. Phil Green has been an enormous supporter of both the previous Randwick Cricket Club and the new merged entity. His support has been exceptional. Randwick Rugby Club – has been a supporter for many years. As we move forward, it will become the ideal location for mateship and social functions at Coogee home games. Canterbury Bulldogs Leagues Club and South Sydney Juniors Club – The Bulldogs and South’s are a major sponsor of junior development in our local community. Their support allows us to send coaches into schools and junior associations, to help young cricketers become the best they can be. Garlo’s Pies – provides both financial support and product courtesy of Sean Garlick. Kingsgrove Sports Centre – special thanks to Harry Solomons and his team. Harry is renowned for his generosity and is an enormous help with both memorabilia and clothing. David Trodden and DTA Lawyers in Balmain –Dave Trodden has always been a supporter of the Petes’ and continues to help the Randy Petes. His donation of the Tigers package for our Businessman’s lunch was an example of his generosity. Cardy and Co –Alan Cardy’s financial support contributes to our coaching program to ensure we become the best we can be. Promotions – Mike Whitney is both an outstanding President and sponsor. Alan Wright and Associates – Alan is on Committee and also Chairman of Selectors. Although both roles are voluntary and take a huge amount of time, Alan also gives as a sponsor. Greg Hartshorne (Mortgage United) / Watson Buchan Surveyors / B P Woodward and Associates and Denis Hinds (CE Chapman and Co) – each of these organisations provide sponsorship to help our club.

Thank you all! We greatly appreciate your support.

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The Grade Season in Summary

Round 1 v St George (Limited Overs) Sat 22 September 2007 This was our best-ever start to a season with 4 wins and a tie. The tie was the of a fantastic match in 1st Grade although our 35 sundries may have denied us the win. Batting first on a seamimg track, runs were hard to come by but 104 runs in the final 10 overs courtesy of some big hitting by new skipper Nathan Hauritz (39), Adam Semple (77 not out) and Tim Laws (42) gave us a competitive total. At 3 for 195 in reply, things looked grim but 4 wickets from Hauritz (4-39) turned the tide and at 8 for 216 we were favourites. A late Saints rally got them to 9 down with one ball to go which gave them a single and a tied result. In 2’s, it was Michael Watson at his best with a to take the match also giving him an unconquered 103 from only 106 balls (including 24 off a single over with 3 sixes) and a bonus point for his team. Jody Whitehead’s 46 off 53 balls and new chum ‘keeper Ashley Doolan, did well with 27 not out and four dismissals behind the stumps. In 3’s it was hard work chasing down 196 after all 5 bowlers had done the business with some tight bowling. Andrew Redman (60) and Will Passas (32) scored the bulk of the runs but it was the 10th wicket partnership of 11 between Steve Bidwell-Brown (14 not out) and skipper Nigil Singh (3 not out) which got the team home from the last ball of the match. What a win! In 4th Grade, the highlight of the day was quick bowler Benn West securing his second hat-trick in two seasons when he knocked over the last three Saints batsmen in succession. The chase wasn’t easy after our first 4 wickets fell for just 15 but found-again batsman Andrew Harrison (28) and Trent Griffiths (63) put on 70 in even time before ‘keeper Karl Schubert (34 not out) and spinner Mel Singh (18) got us home in just 37 overs to grab a well-earned bonus point. Fifth Grade’s bowlers shared the spoils in reducing Saints to just 162 after the mandatory 50 overs before Robert Cummings (58), David Bourke (44) and Tom Holland (28 not out) secured a solid win just 4 down.

1st tie @ Hurstville 6-247 to 9-247 2nd won by 7 wkts @ Petersham 3-200 to 8-197 3rd won by 2 wkts @ Harold Fraser 8-198 to 5-196 4th won by 6 runs @ Kensington 8-173 to 167 5th won by 6 wkts @ Cahill 4-163 to 9-162

Round 2 v Sydney University (2 Day Matches) Sat / Sun 29 & 30 September 2007 Back to reality with just 9 Club Championship points despite having scored 1,306 runs in the round. It was our worst points outcome since 5 losses to Penrith in round 4 in 2005-06. 1st Grade smashed 351 for just 5 wickets courtesy of a magnificent 138 from Usman Khawaja and 74 from recent debutante John McLoughlin. But our bowlers couldn’t remove Uni’s Ed Cowan who finished 193 not out to run down our total. In 2’s, we looked in a little trouble at 8 for 204 before skipper Rod Stafford (72 not out) and Shane Pargeter (159 not out) set a new club and 2nd Grade partnership record of 156 to give us a huge total of 360. However, the resolve of the student’s last pair defied our bowlers for a draw with Rod Stafford completing a fine double with 5 for 72 while Eddie Otto bowled well for his 3 for 31. Third Grade struggled to 214 with Noel Ellis (64 not out) the best performer. Steve Bidwell-Brown tried hard with 3 for 66 to defend that total but in the end the students did it with ease. In 4’s it was an exciting finish for our second tied match in two rounds. Chris Singh (5-45) and Grant Rimmer (4-35) did well to knock Uni over for just 189 in ideal batting conditions. In response our batsmen struggled with skipper David Townsend’s 47 the best. Our 5th graders struggled to contain the Uni batsmen in hot conditions with evergreen Denis Hinds (3-35) and Simon McKenzie (2-47) the best of the bowlers. Chasing 262 to win, Scott Gray (48 not out) and James Tyson (7 not out) were able to hold out for a draw scoring an unfinished 21 for the 10th wicket.

1st lost by 3 wkts @ Petersham 5-351 dec to 7-355 2nd drawn match @ Saint Paul’s 8-360 dec to 9-244 3rd lost by 2 wkts @ Kensington 214 to 8-222 4th tie @ Sydney Uni 2 189 to 189 5th drawn match @ Snape 9-192 to 9-261 dec

Round 3 v Sutherland (2 Day Matches) Sats. 6 &13 October 2007 A solid win to 1st Grade (it’s first in competition this calendar year) and a superb win in 4’s in the replay of last season’s 4th Grade Final were the two pluses from round 3. Losses in the other three grades soured the overall result. A wonderful bowling effort by skipper Nathan Hauritz (5-45) and Glen Whichello (4-53) put the skids under the Shire boys leaving their 172 a gettable target. Simon Katich (74) and Glen Whichello (47) were the mainstays behind our lead of 67 and when they were 6-71 in the second dig, an outright win looked likely. A late rally left us with a 159 target which proved too difficult to achieve after a poor start. Burt Cockley (4-51) and Glen Whichello (3-48) were best of the bowlers. In 2’s, a poor first day score always looked difficult to defend and so it proved to be with Sutho easy winners. Alex Sciascia with 50 and 37 not out and young Will Passas with 42 were the best of the bats. In 3’s, 300 plus proved too big a total with only Andrew Walters (55) and Jordan Magro (44) making any real impression. Steve Bidwell-Brown with 4-69 did well with the ball. 4th Grade did a great job to haul in 243 with skipper David Townsend leading from the front with an undefeated 75 while Marc Anderson hit a forceful 76. Benn West was again the top bowler with 5-62. 5’s were always behind the 8 ball chasing a big total with Tom Holland (32) showing the form with the bat while Simon McKenzie did well to take 3-59. The second innings went much better with Thomas Merilaht knocking up 87 and Robert Cummings a promising 54 not out.

1st won by 67 runs @ Petersham 239 & 6-98 to 172 & 8-221 dec 2nd lost by 4 wkts @ Caringbah 215 & 1-72 to 6-305 dec 3rd lost by 72 runs @ Coogee 229 to 7-301 dec 4th won by 3 wkts @ Sutherland 7-247 to 243 5th lost by 149 runs @ Kensington 142 & 2-151 to 7-311 dec

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Round 4 v Western Suburbs (Limited Overs) Sat. 20 October 2007 A great round with 4 wins which also moved us up four places in the Club Championship. 1st Grade had a good win after looking shaky at 7 for 110 with Simon Katich (13) and Nathan Hauritz (0) back in the pavilion. But the form of man-of-the-match Usman Khawaja who batted throughout the innings for an unconquered 127 made the difference. He received wonderful support from tailenders James Byrne (45) and Glen Whichello (26) which enabled a formidable score of 267 to be posted. The Magpies were never in the hunt against solid bowling from Hautitz (4-35) and quick man Burt Cockley (3-42) to concede us a much-appreciated bonus point. An opening stand of 116 in 2’s between Michael Watson (69) and Alex Sciascia (47) set the scene for a big score which didn’t eventuate as wickets quickly tumbled thereafter. The bowlers ensured the victory however with an excellent performance which also earned the team a bonus point. Shane Pargeter (4-24) and Brett Jackson (2-11) recorded the best figures. It was a similar situation in 3rds with 16 years old Andrew Redman (59) and 19 years old Will Passas (64) putting on 119 for the 4th wicket to ensure a competitive target. In reply, our bowlers never let the Maggies get a start and they were 39 runs short at the end. Noel Ellis with 3-46 was the best bowler. Steve Clarke was on fire in 4’s scoring 78 of his teams first 115 runs. Skipper David Townsend (57) and Alex Tomkins (34 not out) added the extras before each of our bowlers “did the business” and take the points. 5th Grade was the only dampener on the round collapsing to be all out for a poor 93 which Wests passed for the loss of just 4 wickets. Darren McCoy with 2-33 was the best of the bowlers.

1st won by 68 runs @ Pratten Park 267 to 9-199 2nd won by 48 runs @ Petersham 204 to 156 3rd won by 39 runs @ Blick Oval 8-261 to 222 4th won by 19 runs @ Coogee 7-249 to 230 5th lost by 6 wkts @ Punchbowl Oval 93 to 4-95

Round 5 v Blacktown (2 Day Matches) Sats 27 0ctober & 3 November 2007 An extremely disappointing round with rain intervening to prevent any play in 1st, 3rd and 5th grades on day 2. Notwithstanding that difficulty we still managed 80 points in the Club Championship courtesy of an outright win to 2’s and a win to 4’s and 5’s as they took the points on day 1. In 1’s, we scored a mammoth 6-367, our third highest-ever 1st Grade total due to maiden 1st Grade centuries to John McLoughlin (126) and Adam Semple (105 not out) only to see day 2 rained out. At Coogee, 2’s grabbed the advantage day 1 when Joe Hill hit 69 to give his side a 13 run lead after Peter Alevizos (4-45) and Cameron Gray (2-20) did the early damage. Steve Bidwell-Brown (5-35) returned great figures in only his second 2nd Grade appearance to set the scene for an outright which stand-in skipper Michael Watson (66) achieved with ease. 3rd Grade was in a very competitive position before the rains came. Noel Ellis with 43 not out had set the scene after the side was in early trouble but we will ever know with no play day 2. 4th Grade took the competition lead with a resounding victory by more than 100 runs. Mel Singh was at his very best with 5-23 while Grant Rimmer (2-24) provided solid support. In 5’s, James Tyson put the skids through the west-siders on day 1 with a fantastic 7-21, the third best-ever bowling performance for the club. Matthew Doyle (46 not out) put his team in front by the end of play which was just as well as day 2 saw no play.

1st drawn match @ Joe McAleer 6-367 to 0-00 (rain day 2) 2nd won outright by 8 wkts @ Coogee 4-158 dec and 2-115 to 145 & 123 3rd drawn @ Whalan 1 191 to 1-35 (rain day 2) 4th won by 101 runs @ Petersham 230 to 129 5th won by 6wkts @ Whalan 2 4-132 to 78 (rain day 2)

Round 6 v Northern District (Limited Overs) Sat 17 November 2007 Originally 2 day matches, the SCA called off the first days play in all grades on the Friday before the first day’s play following rain all week. With matches reduced to the limited overs format, tight finishes were likely and that’s they way it turned out in 1st and 2nd grades. 1st’s were on schedule for a win after Usman Khawaja scored his third ton of the season (101) and Simon Katich had belted 82. Needing 64 from the last 13 overs with 8 wickets in the bank, the wheels fell off and we lost 4 for 6 with the target in sight to go down by 8 runs. In 2’s we were in early trouble at 5-76 before some rearguard hitting by Cameron Gray (60 off 73 balls) and skipper Rod Stafford (25 off 13) got us to 213. In reply, ND’s looked in control but some tight bowling and left them needing 5 from the final over then one run off the last ball with the scores tied. A super runout by Michael Watson and Alex Sciascia did the trick for a memorable tie! 3rd Grade began well with 45 for the first wicket before a batting slide left us with a poor score on a good deck. Tight bowling made it hard for ND’s but with 33 extras (21 wides) our 184 was never going to be enough and we went down with 3 overs to go. 4th Grade had a huge win after Sean Gardner (41) and Rob Cummings (76) gave us a great start. But it was the bowlers who did the damage with Benn West (5-23) and Chris Singh (4-19) demolishing ND’s for a paltry 47 after being 5 for 10 to ensure the win and take 2 bonus points. In 5th Grade, last season’s A W Green Shield attack put the skids through ND’s with James McKenzie (3-25), Nathan McCoy (2-13) and Cameron Fowler (2-21) knocking them over for just 89. In reply, Tom Merilaht with 39 not out was the batting rock which enabled us to take a bonus point for a very convincing victory.

1st lost by 8 runs @ Coogee 8-237 to 8-245 2nd tie @ Waitara 9-213 to 8-213 3rd lost by 4 wkts @ Petersham 7-184 to 6-187 4th won by 188 runs @ Asquith 235 to 47 5th won by 5 wkts @ Kensington 5-90 to 89

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Round 7 v North Sydney (Limited Overs) Sat 24 November 2007 A great round for our lower grades, but another disappointment for our 1st graders. Chasing 203 in 40 overs after a rain delay, the best 1st Grade could do was to finish 10 short after being 3-104. Usman Khawaja (44) and tailender James Byrne (42 not out) were the major contributors. In 2nd Grade, we looked in trouble after losing the last 7 wickets for just 28 with Brett Jackson’s 63 the best. However the bowlers stepped up to the mark to knock the northsiders over for just 119 and earn a bonus point. Brett Jackson completed a fine double with 3-27 while Eddie Otto cleaned up the tail with 4-10 in just 22 balls. 3’s returned to the winning list with an outstanding victory. A 75 run partnership for the 5th wicket between Marc Anderson (46) and Jordan Magro (33) ensured a competitive total in wet conditions which North’s couldn’t match to be all out for 64 (including 18 extras) and present us with 2 bonus points. Benn West (4-45) and Jordan Magro (3-11) never gave them a sniff to win the match in just 20 overs. Sent in to bat in wet conditions, 4th Grade was in a little trouble at 7-73 before a 68 run partnership for the 9th wicket between Chris Singh (42) and new chum Rob Close (40 not out) got the total to 192. In reply, our 5 bowlers quickly made inroads to secure the win and keep the team at the top of the competition ladder. It also marked the sixth win from as many games for 4’s against North Sydney. Rob Close capped a fine double with 3-39. In 5th Grade the news wasn’t as good and after being 4 for 10 then 8-86 we were fortunate to make 125 which North’s ran down comfortably. Tony Martin (24) and Denis Howard (35 not out) did best on the day.

1st lost by 10 runs @Coogee 193 to 8-203 2nd won by 36 runs @ North Sydney 2 155 to 119 3rd won by 144 runs @ Petersham 9-208 to 64 4th won by 39 runs @ Tunks Park 9-192 to 153 5th lost by 6 wkts @ Kensington 125 to 4-129

Round 8 v Campbelltown Camden (2 Day Matches) Sats. 1& 8 December 2007 An amazing rain-affected round which produced a good result for us kicking us up three places to 4th in the Club Championship, despite two record low team scores in 1st and 4th grades. In 1’s, our boys did well day 1 dismissing The Ghosts for only 75, a record low score against us with James Byrne (4-10) and Glen Whichello (4-20) leading the charge. However in reply we could only muster a new club record low score of 56 after being 2 for 30. Day 2 brought a more concerted effort and again our bowlers did the trick to bowl them out for just 123. At 3 for 98 chasing a 143 target the points looked in the bag until a familiar middle order collapse saw last man Burt Cockley take to the wicket with 5 still needed. The necessaries were achieved however and we walked away with outright points! In 2nd Grade we had the upper hand knocking them over for 164 with Peter Alevizos the star with 6-35. Our reply was a disaster to be 3 for 5 then 6 for 45. Brett Jackson was the man however, and it was somewhat of a tragedy to see him left on 91 when the 10th wicket fell on day 2 just 2 short of their score. In 3’s, it took only 21 overs for Benn West (6-29) and Andrew Downton (3-12) to bowl Campbelltown out for a new record low of 55 and take the points in a match where day 2 was washed out. Earlier we had lost 7 for 26 in the middle order in setting a total of 166. 4th Grade was another amazing match with our boys being bowled out for a record low 48 losing the last 8 wickets for 12. In reply in looked like it may be enough with The Ghosts a shaky 6 for 15 before hitting out to lead by 20 with Andrew Harrison picking up 5-16. Day 2 saw us set a target of 150 with skipper David Townsend undefeated on 71. Mel Singh’s spin was too much for the visitors and his 4 for 15 ensured an amazing outright win and keep the side atop the competition ladder. In 5’s, Grant Rimmer (6-22) put the skids through CC to have them out for 69. The chase was no picnic and at 6 for 52 the match was even. Youngsters Jason Gray (15) and Nathan McCoy (17) showed no fear however and we ended up with the points and a 19 runs lead. Unfortunately no play day 2 but the first innings points were gratefully received.

1st won outright by 1 wkt @ Raby 1 56 and 9-143 to 75 and 123 2nd lost by 2 runs @ Petersham 162 to 164 and 5-190 3rd won by 111 @ Raby 2 166 to 55 4th won outright by 2 wkts @ Coogee 48 and 8-169 to 69 and 130 5th won by 2 wkts @ Raby 3 88 to 69

Round 9 v Hawkesbury (2 Day Matches) Sats. 15 & 22 December 2007 The last round of 2007 brought with it an early Christmas present with 4 wins and a draw in a number of weather affected games. 1st Grade did the job well on day 1 rolling the Hawks for just 172 with Burt Cockley (3-38) and James Byrne (3-40) sharing the honours. In reply, the resolute Usman Khawaja’s 77 ensured a solid win. In 2’s we looked shaky at 5 for 61 chasing 215 but a 6th wicket club 2nd Grade record of 159 between Matthew Taylor (86) and Eddie Otto (74) gave us the points. Skipper Rod Stafford had a big game with 6-78 with the ball and 61 with the bat. In 3’s we struggled to contain the Hawks on day 1 and looked in trouble in reply before an early washout to give us a draw. 4th Grade made it 6 wins out of 6 matches in 6 seasons against the Hawks with a great win when the game looked lost. Chasing a meagre 177 our early batsmen struggled and at 6 for 109 we were staring down the barrel before Chad Greenberg (32) and Andrew Harrison (18) got together in a match-winning partnership of 45 for the 8th wicket. In 5th Grade, a terrific chase late on day 1 to secure the first innings points set up the rain affected second day for a tilt at outright points which didn’t materialize despite a good attempt. Nick Stapleton (32), David Bourke (33), Rob Close (3-28) and young James Tyson with 3-22 in the first and 3-36 in the second innings were the leading performers. An overall good result put us into 4th place in the Club Championship.

1st won by 5wkts @ Owen Earle Oval 5-174 to 172 2nd won by 5wkts @ Coogee 9-313 to 215 3rd drawn @ Benson’s Lane 2 2-72 to 7-316 dec (rain) 4th won by 3 wkts @ Petersham 7-183 to 177 5th won by 7 wkts @ Benson’s Lane 3 7-190 dec to 13 and 6-154

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Round 10 v Sydney (2 Day Matches) Sats. 12 &19 January 2008 A washout day 2 ruined any opportunity of points for any team with a number of them well placed. 1st Grade had the hardest task chasing 304 at Coogee but after an hour’s play on day 2 the heavens opened and that was the end of it with us tottering at 3 for 33. Although Sydney did well day 1 our bowlers never shirked their task and took the final 6 wickets for just 59 with James Byrne the best returning 3-43. In 2’s, Eddie Otto took career best figures of 7 for 42 in rolling the Tigers for 177. We needed 96 to take the points day 2 with 6 wickets in the bank but didn’t get a start. Steve Clarke (43), Marc Anderson (40) and Brenton Barker (39) were the main contributors to 3rd Grade’s 206 day 1 with Sydney to bat day 2. 4’s grabbed an early wicket at the end of day 1 to have Sydney 1-12 chasing 241 courtesy of Fabian Heaton (72) and Chad Greenberg (36) and looked good for the points. 5th Grade also snared a late wicket day 1 to have the Tigers 1 for 7 in response to our 187 with Darren McCoy carrying his bat for an unconquered 36. No play day 2 in grades 2 to 5.

1st drawn @ Coogee 304 to 3-33 2nd drawn @ Drummoyne 4-82 to 177 3rd drawn @ Kensington 206 to 0-0 4th drawn @ ELS Hall 241 to 1-12 5th drawn @ Marrickville 187 to 1-7

Round 11 v Gordon (2 Day Matches) Sats. 26 January & 2 February 2008 Almost the same as round 10 with day 2 washed out in our three matches being played on the North Shore. The sad story was 1st Grade which had 376 on the board courtesy of 102 from Usman Khawaja and 133 from Tim Laws. The pair also figured in a new 1st Grade club record of 112 for the 6th wicket. Third Grade was also well placed with 252 the previous week with Brett Hunter making a nice “cameo” appearance from retirement with 120 not out while Andrew Redman smacked a fine 80. Fortunately 5’s had the points on day 1 which emphasised the value in going for a win before stumps on the first day if at all possible. Cameron Fowler (4-18) and Nathan McCoy (3-9) were the heroes with the ball while Matt Hilder (26) and Tom Holland (27) did best in the chase. At Coogee a full day’s play was possible but our 2’s were up against it chasing a record “against” score of 394. However, they gave it their best shot with Eddie Otto hitting his maiden grade with 124 not out while Matt Taylor (62) and Will Passas (67) also batted well. The target was too remote however and although we finished 81 short of a win, being only 7 down ensured a draw. At Kensington, 4ths continued their undefeated record with Fabian Heaton (35) and skipper David Townsend (31) the main contributors in a great win by 3 wickets.

1st drawn @ Chatswood 9-376 dec to 1-16 2nd drawn @ Coogee 7-314 to 6-394 3rd drawn @ Killara 5-252 to 0-0 4th won by 3 wkts @ Kensington 7-159 to 157 5th won by @ 6 wkts @ Beauchamp 4-93 to 76

Round 12 v Fairfield (1st Grade 2 Day Match; other grades Limited Overs) Sat /Sun 9 & 10 February 2008 A weather disaster with all matches washed out on the Saturday after a week of rain. Work on Coogee Oval had an effect however, and we were one of only 4 games to get on on the Sunday. Because one other match began on the Saturday (Bankstown v Mosman at Bankstown) the Sunday matches were not deemed to be limited overs games. At Coogee, Nathan Hauritz won the toss and sent Faifield in with immediate results as Burt Cockley disposed of the opener third ball. Wickets continued to fall at regular intervals with the last 5 wickets tumbling for just 39 runs. We were left with 45 overs to get 193 for a win. At 2-12 and then 3-73 with Simon Katich out for 35, we were a little shaky. A 49 run partnership between Usman Khawaja (67) and Adam Semple (23) settled the ship but when the middle order slumped we were not looking good at 7 for 168. Resolve from the later order was what was wanted and at 7 for 183 the momentum had swung to us. But disaster at that score with both Hauritz (33) and James Byrnes (7) dismissed. Our fate then rested with fast bowlers Burt Cockley and Glen Whichello who gave it their all to level the scores on the last ball! Unfortunately, the Laws of Cricket require the team batting second to be dismissed in matches where the scores are level (other than limited overs games) before the result can be declared a tie and competition points shared. As a result the match was a draw with no points to either side!

1st drawn @ Coogee 9-192 to 192 2nd drawn @ Rosedale 3rd drawn @ Kensington 4th drawn @ Fairfield 5th drawn @ Marrickville

Round 13 v Manly Warringah (2 Day Matches) Sats. 16 &23 February 2008 Day 2 in this round turned out to be the greatest point scoring day in the club’s short history. A freakish day with wins in all 5 grades, with 1sts and 2nds winning outright. The massive 164 Club Championship points earned by the five teams took the club from 5th to 1st in the Championship. It was sensational stuff particularly as after day 1 both 1sts and 2nds were staring down the barrel of defeat, each being 7 wickets down with 1’s requiring 75 and 2’s 60. The return of Simon Katich on Day 2 did the trick with his undefeated 50 batting number 9 giving us a lead on the first innings. A quick fire 201 by Manly with Nathan Hauritz (4-42) and Katich (3-29) sharing the spoils left us 201 to get for a big win. Usman Khawaja (84) and Katich (60 not out) left the result in no doubt with 7 overs to spare. In 2nds, Shane Pargeter (5-33) and Steve Bidwell-Brown (5-68) had knocked Manly over for just 178 but at 7-115 in reply we were struggling. Day 2 saw the return of Michael Watson who had replaced Katich in 1’s on day 1 and his 33 put us on track although it was up to Peter Alevizos (9) and Bidwell-Brown (8 not out) to edge past the Sea Eagles and give us a 10 run lead.

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Going for the runs in the second dig Manly struggled against the pace of Bidwell-Brown (3-47) and the spin of skipper Rodney Stafford (4-24) to be all out for 188. Chasing the big points, Lance Kahler (29 off 34), Shane Pargeter (73 off 69), Rod Stafford (22 off 13) and Eddie Otto (49 off 53) ensured that RPCC took the points against a club we had not been able to defeat in five previous encounters in 2nd grade. A fantastic effort, and one which took the team to 4th place in the competition. In 3rd Grade, Campbell Dash (53), Steve Clarke (49), Noel Ellis (36) and Benn West (45 not out) ensured a good score with some dedicated batting after losing 3 for 14 at the start. The bowlers then responded in style to knock the Sea Eagles over for 7 runs less than their target and give us the points. Five bowlers shared the wickets in a terrific display against a team ahead of us in the competition. 4th Grade continued their domination of the competition with a massive 9 wicket victory. Batting first Manly struggled against the pace and swing of Chris Singh (5-42) and Matt Wallis (3-55), the exception being one batsman who scored more than half their 223. In reply it was Troy Brewster (117 not out) and Steve Clarke (72 not out) coming back from 3’s who put on a partnership of 142 for the second wicket after Brewster and Chris Singh (38) put on 90 for the first wicket to record an easy win. In 5th Grade, a 9th wicket partnership of 63 between Karl Schubert (32) and Darren McCoy (32) after Alex Tomkins had rattled up 49 ensured a total which our bowlers were able to defend quite comfortably. Young leg-spinner Cameron Fowler was the best of the trundlers sending down 24 overs for a reward of 4 for 55 while Nathan McCoy’s 2 for 32 was a good effort. A fantastic round!

1st won outright by 5wkts @ Manly 8-204 dec & 5-200 to 202 &201 2nd won outright by 6wkts @ Coogee 188 & 4-179 to 178 & 9-188 dec 3rd won by 7 runs @ Graham Reserve 243 to 236 4th won by 9wkts @ Kensington 1-232 to 223 5th won by 68 runs@ Mike Pawley 9-217 dec to 149

Round 14 v University of (2 Day Matches) Sats. 1 & 8 March 2008 It defied history but we did it again! Five grades for five wins! Twice in a row which is just unheard of. The good thing was that it rocketed us out to a 108 point lead in the coveted Club Championship with just one round to go. 1st Grade set the scene by having Uni 8 for 74 (after being 0 for 49) chasing our 210 on day 1. Although they couldn’t add the extras for an outright it was a fabulous performance which put them in the top 6. It was a great round for skipper Nathan Hauritz who scored 57 not out and took 6 for 48 in the first innings and 4 for 22 in the second…match figures of 10 for 70. In 2nds it looked like being a disaster when we were 7 for 66 before a late rally by Rod Stafford (55), Cameron Gray (55) and Andrew Downton (49) got us to a competitive 245. This was too much for the students against the likes of Benn West (3-55), Rod Stafford (3-19) and Shane Pargeter (2-13) who bowled them out for 149 to cement a spot in the final 6. Thirds needed a good batting performance to push them into the top 6 and they got it with Cameron Gray (coming back from 2’s) hitting 101 and Campbell Dash 52 to get them safely home. Matt Wallis (3-32) and Alex Brown (2-33) set up the win with a good bowling performance on day 1. The undefeated 4th Grade team continued on their steamrolling way with an easy win courtesy of good performances from David Bourke (67), skipper David Townsend (61), Nathan McCoy (3-11) and Tony Martin (3-11). They are Minor Premiers by a good margin. Our 5th graders were the stars of the round with an outright win which secured them a spot in the final 6. Rob Close (69) and Jason Gray (43) set the scene with the bat while Daniel Laus (4-9 and 2-29), Cameron Fowler (3-15 and 4-11), Matt Hilder (3-13) and Darren Kumar (3-19) were almost unplayable as the students crashed to be all out for 51 and 70. An outstanding round which produced 128 Club Championship points.

1st won by 81 runs@ Coogee 210 & 5-180 dec to 129 and 5-110 2nd won by 96 runs @ Village Green 245 & 2-26 to 149 3rd won by 3 wkts @ Kensington 7-220 to 217 4th won by 83 runs @ D Phillips North 225 to 142 5th won outright by inns and 104 runs@ Marrickville 7-225 dec to 51 & 70

Round 15 v Penrith (Limited Overs) Sat. 15 March 2008 What a round! Three wins to give us the Club Championship for the first time and get four of our five teams in the finals! 1sts did the hard yards at Howell winning on the last ball in very hot conditions. Brett Jackson was outstanding with 86 while Usman Khawaja’s 30 gave him Richard CheeQuee’s record for most runs in a season. The shock loss by fourth-placed ND’s to bottomweight Blacktown and Bankstown’s demise to Sydney after having them 9-59 chasing 87 gave us 6th spot. Had those results gone the other way we would have finished 8th even with our win over Penrith. 2nd Grade were in all sorts of difficulty at Coogee but rallied to take the last 5 wickets for 14 to win by 3 runs and secure 4th place. Rod Stafford with 5-50 and Steve Bidwell-Brown (3-29) got the side home after Tim Laws had hit 78 off 41 balls while Matty Taylor’s 38 was equally important. Thirds needed to win with at least one bonus point but couldn’t pull it off against a solid opponent. The batting was the problem with only bowlers Jordan Magro (43) and Alex Brown (39) providing any real stability. The side slipped from 6th to 10th in a close competition. 4th Grade were out to complete the season undefeated but instead suffered their first loss against the well-performed second-placed Panthers outfit. Not a bad thing going into the finals series as the pressure is well and truly off. There were a number of regulars missing from this side and when we had slumped to 6 for 26 chasing 190 it was all over. The result didn’t affect the minor premiership which we won by 9 points. Fifths did the business with a narrow but convincing win at Rance Oval. Our 187 looked a little ordinary but James Tyson ensured it wasn’t an issue with a match-winning 5-30. Tom Holland and Denis Howard did best with the bat with a pair of 39’s and the team’s final placing of 3rd was just 5 points from the minor premiership. A fantastic round and a great Club Championship win by 93 points.

1st won by 5 runs @ Howell 7-240 to 235 2nd won by 3 runs @ Coogee 181 to 178 3rd lost by 6 wkts @ Cook 8-168 to 4-169 4th lost by 91 runs @ Petersham 99 to 6-190 5th won by 19 runs @ Rance 187 to 168

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Qualifing Finals (2 Day Matches) Sat./Sun. 22-23 March 2008 A sensational weekend and one of the best in the club’s short history with four wins from four matches enabling all teams to progress to the semi-finals. 1st Grade: Fast bowler Burt Cockley got us off to a great start with a wicket first ball. The early Saints bats were all struggling against the relentless pace of the 21 year old and when 4 wickets had fallen for just 27 including the dangerous Graeme Rummans at , it looked like we wouldn’t be chasing many. However, the resolve of the middle and lower order was typical of all St George sides with the last 6 wickets taking the score to a huge 307. Cockley’s 5 for 48 was a just reward for some excellent . After an hour’s play on the Sunday we were 2 for 33 after a cautious start. But few were prepared for what was about to unfold as Simon Katich joined Usman Khawaja. By tea the pair had put on 172 and we were looking good at 2-205. When Ussie went shortly after tea for 111 the partnership had climbed to 188, a new club record for the 3rd wicket. A little over an hour later it was all over with the batting brilliance of Katich and Khawaja drawing many superlatives from the locals as well as our large contingent of supporters. Simon’s unconquered 149 included a mammoth 10 sixes in an amazing display. A huge win from 6th place over the Minor Premiers. 2nd Grade: Batting first, Mosman were soon in trouble with two of their top players out with just 9 runs on the board. They failed to recover against a relentless attack and struggled to make 112. In reply, we weren’t doing much better at 4-42 then 5-79. However, some sensible application by Matt Taylor (28) and Eddie Otto (61 not out) got us to 174 and a healthy lead of 62. In the 2nd innings, the Whales were all at sea against the pace and seam of Peter Alevizos (4-23) and Andrew Downton (5-17) who knocked them over for just 64, a record low score against us. We needed just one ball to take the match outright by 10 wickets and a place in the semi- finals. A sensational result! 4th Grade: Troy Brewster took his club record to 7 centuries, the most by any lower-grader when he hit 148 against Gordon at Coogee. With Rob Cummings (34) and Chad Greenberg (26) adding the extras, the final total of 280 was far too many for the Highlanders who crashed to be all out for just 106. Fast bowlers Chris Singh (4-16) and Matty Wallis (3-24) did the business in emphatic style for a very easy win and the retention of the no.1 spot going into the semis. 5th Grade: The Sutherland pace bowlers made early inroads into our batting and at 3-16 then 4-33 we were a bit shaky. However, the 129 record partnership which followed swung the pressure back to the Shire boys. Alex Tomkins (93) fully deserved a century while skipper Darren McCoy (54) called on all his expertise as the “junior” member in the partnership. While the last 5 wickets fell for 50, our 212 was a competitive total on a slow scoring outfield. A couple of early Sutho wickets saw us start well but a middle order rally which took the score to 4-142 threatened to upset the plan. Our bowlers never let up however, and eventually the big game pressure took its toll and the tail was quickly wrapped up to give us a 48 runs win. James Tyson (3-22 off 15), Matt Hilder (3- 18 off 18) and Grant Rimmer (2-47 off 18) shared the spoils as the team progressed to its 6th successive semi-final. An outstanding weekend!

1st won by 5 wkts @ v St George 5-308 to 307 2nd won outright by 10 wkts @ Allan Oval v Mosman 174 & 0-4 to 112 & 64 4th won by 174 runs @ Coogee Oval v Gordon 280 & 2-71 to 106 5th won by 48 runs @ Petersham Oval v Sutherland 212 to 164

Semi-Finals (2Day Matches) Sat / Sun. 29-30 March 2008 A weekend of mixed results and mixed emotions. 1st and 2nd grades both bowed out of the 2007-08 competition while our 4th and 5th graders booked their spots in the Final. 1st Grade: Batting first in perfect conditions, it was a matter of getting through the first hour relatively unscathed before posting a big score. Unfortunately it didn’t work out that way with Lance Kahler out in the first over then Usman Khawaja unluckily knocking one on to his stumps to have us 2 for 5. Worse was to follow when in-form Simon Katich (12) got a lifter which was picked up in slips before Brett Jackson came and went after cutting at first ball. At 4 for 27, solidarity was required and John McLoughlin and Nathan Hauritz did that well before the luncheon adjournment. After sandwiches however, it was all downhill with us tottering at 8 for 110. Glen Whichello (22) and Hauritz managed a 48 partnership before Whichello was bowled by Casson. Joining Hauritz (then 75), Burt Cockley provided much needed support as the skipper lauched off with a flurry of 4 sixes while Cockley added one himself which looked like doing serious damage to a Rail Corp Tangara passing through Chatswood station. When Hauritz was caught for his maiden Sydney Grade century (122) we had posted a competitive 220 while the pair’s 62 run partnership was a new 10th wicket club record for 1st Grade. In reply, fast bowler Cockley put the wind up the Gordon batsmen nabbing two wickets before stumps. Resuming at 2 for 65 on Sunday quick wickets were needed but it wasn’t until 40 minutes before lunch when Adam Semple was introduced into the attack that the break was made. Two great catches by ‘keeper Ash Doolan and one by Katich had Gordon 5 for 140 at lunch and it was game on. The downside was the four dropped catches including the dangerous Matt Nicholson. On resumption a sensation occurred in Cockley’s second over when he was removed from the attack by the umpires who ruled that the full toss he bowled was his third “beamer” of the innings. Adam Semple was called in to complete Burt’s over and immediately had Hokin dropped behind. After that let-off the pair decided to chance their arm and despite some close calls, they did the damage to get their side home. Not the team’s best game but nevertheless, a great season. 2nd Grade: Sydney Uni won the toss and batted but were quickly in trouble with former NSW batsman Matt Phelps without facing a ball. That was the only wicket in the session and by mid-afternoon with their first drop Theobald blazing, we were in trouble. While wickets fell steadily the runs were mounting and by the end of the innings we were left chasing 307 with Theobald hitting 179. An amazing statistic from the innings was that three batsmen had been run out while leg-spinner Rod Stafford took the other 7 wickets for 105 from a marathon 25 overs. In reply, we got to 1 for 74 on day 2 before the wheels fell off with the remaining 9 wickets falling for just 51. Only Shane Pargeter (45) and Eddie Otto (29 not out) provided any real resistance in what was a disappointing result for a team which had only been beaten twice throughout the season. A good effort by the team to finish 3rd. 4th Grade: The match against Sutherland was a replay of last season’s Final which we lost when they passed us 9 down in the first innings before the same last pair held on for over an hour in the second innings to thwart our claim for the premiership. This match provided a similar result with the situation reversed. The Shire boys batted first and after being 5 for 95 managed to post a

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competitive 244 with the wickets shared. We lost Rob Cummings with only one run on the board and by lunch day 2 were looking reasonably comfortable needing only a draw to advance to the Final. When David Bourke (51) went with the total on 93, four others quickly followed and we were struggling at 6 for 115. Skipper David Townsend (29) and Andrew Harrison (27 not out) then got together in a match-saving partnership of 52 in close to 90 minutes before David Townsend departed, a victim of the new ball. With 20 minutes to play, we looked safe before Chris Singh (2) and Chad Greenberg (0) were out in the second last over leaving last man Matt Wallis to survive two balls while Harrison took the last over to hold on and see the side through to our fourth successive Final and the fifth overall. 5th Grade: Not a good start for our boys losing 3 for 27. However, a 108 run partnership between Will Halstead (76) and Matt Hilder (66) settled down proceedings and by the time we reached 7 for 224 skipper Darren McCoy almost brazenly declared to have a crack at the Bankstown batsmen before stumps. It was a correct call as left hand quick James Tyson ripped through the top order to have them 3 for 17 by the end of play. Day 2 brought no joy for our opponents as Tyson continued on his merry way wreaking havoc to have the first 7 wickets with the total a mere 35. Cameron Fowler (2-10) and Grant Rimmer (1-10) cleaned up to have them all out for just 82 and a place for us in our fourth 5th Grade Final. Tyson finished with 7 for 16 from 13 overs, the second best bowling return in the club’s history. A disappointing weekend for our two top grades but an exciting one for our lower graders and the chance for premiership glory!

1st lost by 4 wkts @ Chatswood Oval v Gordon 220 to 6-223 2nd lost by 172 runs @ Coogee Oval v Sydney University 135 to 307 4th drawn @ Kensington v Sutherland 9-176 to 244 5th won by 142 runs @ Jensen Park v Bankstown 7-224 dec to 82

Finals (2 Day Matches) Sat/Sun. 5-6 April 2008 Premiership Glory for the club with both 4th and 5th grades winning their Final!

4th Grade: Batting first in ideal conditions on a perfect Coogee batting pitch, Penrith were quickly in trouble with their opening batsman edging an Andrew Harrison fireball onto his stumps. “Harro” wasn’t finished there as he enticed the other opener to have a dabble and flick one into the waiting gloves of ‘keeper Fabian Heaton who was making his fourth appearance in a 4th Grade Final for the club. Change bowler Chris Singh had immediate success when introduced into the attack and the Panthers had slumped to 3 for 27. Worse was to follow for them as Harrison continued on his rampage sending back nos. 5 and 6 batsmen within 3 balls of each other. At 5 for 38 Matty Wallis swapped ends with immediate success giving Fabian another nick to have the visitors 6 for 42. A rally between the nos.3 and 8 batsmen took the score to 6 for 88 at lunch but straight after sandwiches, Chris Singh struck three times to have the last man coming in on a hat-trick with the score a perilous 9 for 104. But the resolve of the side remained and these two took their chances against a spirited attack and it paid off handsomely. When Chad Greenberg finally trapped the 15 years old no.11 for 23, they had put on a frustrating 114 with the no.3 batting through to be unconquered on 124. Of our bowlers, Harrison finished with 4 for 49 while Chris Singh returned 4 for 53. Wicketkeeper Fabian Heaton also had a great time behind the stumps snaring 5 catches. We began soundly in our pursuit of their 218 tally, losing only Mel Singh to a run-out before stumps with the score 1 for 67. Next morning, Chris Singh, who had batted so well at the top of the innings, was trapped in front for 35 while David Bourke (9) went the same way one run later to have us 3 for 85. Young Will Halstead played tentatively before being caught for 2 and the score had slumped to 4 for 98. The ever-reliable Troy Brewster and Heaton then were associated in a 57 run partnership which looked like taking the game right away from the Panthers. However, when Brewster went for 42 and skipper David Townsend for 13, Penrith were back in the match at 6 for 178. The resilient Heaton however proved to be a thorn in the Panthers side taking the score to a healthy 207, just 12 short, when he was adjudged lbw for a terrific 56. Semi-Final batting hero Andrew Harrison couldn’t repeat the performance however, and went with no addition to the score. Young Alex Tomkins in his first Final and Chad Greenberg in his third, then took the score to 216 when Tomkins was caught for 12. Needing 3 to win last man Matty Wallis strode to the wicket and with one lusty swipe eased the tension for all the sideline nervous nellies as the ball crashed over the boundary ropes to seal the victory. A great premiership and our third for the club in 4th Grade.

5th Grade: Minor Premiers North Sydney won the toss and elected to bat on a good batting wicket. With the score at just 15, Nathan McCoy slipped one past the bat to knock over the stumps and give us wicket no. 1. Not to be outdone, bowling hero of the finals series James Tyson then removed both nos. 3 and 4 in the within 6 balls and the scoreline had slumped to 3 for 16. With the total 36, Tyson struck twice before a small rally of 24 was brought to an end by change bowler Grant Rimmer. Leg spinner Cameron Fowler was introduced into the attack and had immediate success, and Norths were at 7 for 80 and were looking anything but premiership material. Tyson and Robert Close then combined to wrap up the tail leaving us a chase of just 122. James Tyson had again recorded outstanding figures taking 6 for 26 to go with his 3-22 in the Qualifying Final and his 7-16 in the Semi Final, a total of 16 wickets for just 64 in the final series. In reply, our opening partnership of 91 between Karl Schubert (73) and Matthew Doyle (27) was the best of the match and one of the team’s best all season. When they both had departed only 13 runs were required to take a first innings lead. First drop Nathan McCoy (41) and Robert Close (23) then put the issue beyond doubt with a 68 run partnership before some cameo performances took the score to 5 for 223 when Norths threw in the towel and the premiership was ours! A great win by this Darren McCoy-led side which had shown outstanding improvement as the season progressed. This was the club’s second 5th Grade title.

4ths won by 1 wkt @ Coogee 9-220 to 218 5ths won by 8 wkts @ Tunks Park 5-223 to 121

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Round 1 v St George at Hurstville Sat 22 September 2007 Tied Match 6-247 to 9-247 A great match but also one which might be regarded as one which got away. Invited to bat first on a helpful wicket, scoring was slow and at 5 for 143 after 40 overs with only Matt Taylor (38) and new skipper Nathan Haurirz (39) showing any real form, 200 was looking like a bonus score. But when Adam Semple (77 not out) and Tim Laws (42) blazed a quick-fire 74 with a flurry of boundaries and sixes, the complexion of the game changed. New boy Brett Jackson (18 not out from 14) joined Semple and the two put on a useful 46 to post a competitive 247. With the Saints openers back in the pavilion for less than 40 it was a matter of breaking the important Rummans-Henriques partnership. At 3 for 195 the game looked lost but a quick 4 wickets by Hauritz (4-39) and a great run-out of Henriques (90) put Saints on the back foot needing 32 with 2 wickets left. The 9th wicket didn’t fall until the last over and with just one ball remaining, the red and whites managed to sneak a single for a tie in a cliff-hanging finish.

Round 2 v Western Suburbs at Pratten Park Sat 20 October 2007 Won 267 to 9-199 A solid win after looking shaky at 7 for 110 to take the match by 68 runs. Simon Katich (13) and Nathan Hauritz (0) were part of the dismissed brigade while Usman Khawaja was the star, batting throughout the innings for an unconquered 127, most of which came while batting with the tail. He and James Byrne (45) put on 85 for the 8th wicket before he and no.10 Glen Whichello (26) added another 57 to set a competitive 267 total. In reply, Wests struggled from the outset losing their first 5 wickets for 102 before a late rally with State reserve ‘keeper Daniel Smith in full cry making 111. Fast bowler Burt Cockley quickly put the issue beyond doubt when re-introduced into the attack to take 3–42 although skipper Hauritz finished with 4 for 35 from 10 overs to take the honors.

Round 3 v Mosman at Oval Sun 4 November 2007 Match Drawn Rain over the weekend prevented any play. A cruel blow as 7 of the 10 scheduled matches were played. No points for either team.

Round 4 v Bankstown at Coogee Sun 18 November 2007 Tied Match 6-258 to 6-258 Another tie! The replay of last season’s LO Final was destined to provide a close finish and it did just that. Bowling first we kept a tight rein on proceedings but in an almost identical scenario to the 2006-07 Final, it was Corey Richards again who thwarted our good work with another hundred (115 not out) as we conceded 86 off our last 10 overs. In reply, we were looking good at 2 for 148 with Usman Khawaja (59) and Tim Laws (45) in full flight before losing 3 for 4 to be 5-152. However, a partnership of 82 between skipper Nathan Hauritz who remained 70 not out at the finish and Ashley Doolan (30) took it up to the Bankstown Boys to such an extent we needed just 5 to win from the final over. That we could only manage 4 meant the points were shared for the second time in 3 matches in this season’s competition. Sixty runs had come from the final 5 overs. We needed 61. What a game!

Round 5 v North Sydney at Coogee Sat 24 November 2007 Lost 193 to 8-203 Close matches seemed to be all the go in this season’s competition with luck going against us. And so it was with this game which effectively put us out of contention for a place in the finals. Batting first, Norths were soon in trouble against the pace attack of Burt Cockley (2-13) and Glen Whichello (2-38), slumping to 3 for 18 in this 40 overs per side rain shortened match. At 6-159 we seemed to have their measure but a late rally saw them pass the 200 run mark. In reply we were doing it well at 0- 54 with Usman Khawaja (44) in full flight. When he went it was a real struggle to get a partnership going and it was only Jimmy Byrne’s unbeaten 42 at the end which got us close after being 9 for 168. A real disappointment against a team we haven’t beaten since 2003-04.

Round 6 v Eastern Suburbs at Coogee Sun 9 December 2007 Lost 124 to 1-128 Hopes were held high after coming from an impossible position to record a win the previous day against Campbelltown. However it was not to be. Batting first, we were travelling reasonably well at 2 for 56 until acting skipper Usman Khawaja was dismissed for 36. Then the wheels fell off with the last 8 wickets falling for just 68. The target of 124 was merely an exercise gallop for Easts who we haven’t beaten for 4 years. They lost just one wicket in the process to give us a real hiding. The loss also saw us drop two places in the Club Championship from 4th to 6th.

Round 7 v Parramatta at Coogee Sun 20 January 2008 Won 2-171 to 170 Sent in to bat after the previous day’s grade washout, Parramatta were doing it easy at 1 for 100. However, some tight bowling and athletic fielding soon had the Eels on the backfoot with wickets tumbling to such an extent that they were all out in the 48th over for just 170. Simon Katich did best with the ball (3-27 off 9 overs) then made it a double with a top score of 55 not out to guide the side home and take man-of-the-match honours. Usman Khawaja’s unbeaten 64 took him to the top of the season’s grade runscorers as well. A hollow victory, but too late to make the finals.

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Sydney Cricket Association

GRADE COMPETITION TABLES SEASON 2007/2008

FIRST GRADE: St George 83 Eastern Suburbs 69 Sydney University 65 Gordon 62 Sydney 61 Randwick Petersham 60 Northern District 57 Bankstown 53 North Sydney 51 Hawkesbury 49 Sutherland 46 Penrith 43 Fairfield-Liverpool 43 Parramatta 42 University of NSW 39 Campbelltown- Camden 39 Western Suburbs 38 Manly-Warringah 38 Blacktown 31 Mosman 25.

FIRST GRADE LIMITED OVERS: Northern District 39 St George 33 Eastern Suburbs 33 Sydney University 31 North Sydney 27 Gordon 26 Bankstown 21 Penrith 20 Sutherland 20 Sydney 20 University of NSW 20 Randwick Petersham 20 Fairfield-Liverpool 19 Parramatta 18 Western Suburbs 14 Manly- Warringah 14 Campbelltown-Camden 13 Blacktown 12 Mosman 7 Hawkesbury 7.

SECOND GRADE: Eastern Suburbs 71 Bankstown 64 Mosman 63 Randwick Petersham 62 Campbelltown-Camden 58 Sydney University 54 Gordon 51 St George 46 Parramatta 46 Fairfield- Liverpool 44 Manly-Warringah 42 Northern District 38 Penrith 36 Sydney 32 Sutherland 32 Western Suburbs 31 Hawkesbury 24 North Sydney 12 Blacktown 6 University of NSW 6.

THIRD GRADE: Mosman 56 Campbelltown-Camden 55 Sutherland 51 Penrith 50 Sydney University 50 Northern District 44 Parramatta 42 Bankstown 40 Fairfield-Liverpool 39 Randwick Petersham 38 Gordon 37 Manly-Warringah 33 Western Suburbs 32 Eastern Suburbs 30 North Sydney 12 Sydney 10 St George 7 Hawkesbury 6 University of NSW 6 Blacktown 0.

FOURTH GRADE: Randwick Petersham 73 Penrith 64 Sutherland 59 Campbelltown-Camden 59 Sydney University 54 Gordon 53 Western Suburbs 50 Hawkesbury 41 Bankstown 38 Northern District 38 Fairfield-Liverpool 33 Parramatta 31 Mosman 26 Sydney 24 St George 20 Manly-Warringah 18 University of NSW 18 Blacktown 12 Eastern Suburbs 6 North Sydney 0.

FIFTH GRADE: North Sydney 64 Bankstown 61 Randwick Petersham 59 Sutherland 50 Sydney University 50 Parramatta 50 Manly-Warringah 47 Fairfield-Liverpool 45 Mosman 38 St George 34 Northern District 33 Gordon 32 University of NSW 31 Western Suburbs 28 Campbelltown-Camden 26 Blacktown 20 Eastern Suburbs 19 Penrith 18 Hawkesbury 6 Sydney 0.

AW GREEN SHIELD: St George 36 Western Suburbs 30 Campbelltown-Camden 30 Fairfield-Liverpool 30 Parramatta 24 Hawkesbury 24 North Sydney 24 University of NSW 18 Bankstown 18 Sutherland 18 Gordon 18 Mosman 18 Randwick Petersham 18 Penrith 12 Blacktown 12 Manly-Warringah 12 Eastern Suburbs 12 Northern District 6 Sydney University 6 Sydney 0.

POIDEVIN-GRAY SHIELD: Eastern Suburbs 40 St George 40 Penrith 36 Western Suburbs 34 University of NSW 34 Bankstown 29 Fairfield-Liverpool 28 Parramatta 28 Sutherland 27 Hawkesbury 26 Blacktown 22 North Sydney 21 Randwick Petersham 21 Campbelltown-Camden 17 Gordon 13 Mosman 7 Northern District 6 Sydney 6 Sydney University 3 Manly-Warringah 0.

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP: Randwick Petersham 1297 Bankstown 1204 St George 1152 Sydney University 1152 Eastern Suburbs 1141 Campbelltown-Camden 1131 Gordon 1104 Sutherland 1079 Penrith 1046 Parramatta 1027 Fairfield-Liverpool 1025 Western Suburbs 943 Northern District 930 Mosman 925 Manly-Warringah 754 Hawkesbury 749 North Sydney 698 Sydney 662 University of NSW 594 Blacktown 416.

Page: 20 THANKS AND APPRECIATION

Club Champions 2007-08. What another great season for the club!

We couldn’t do it without help and support from a lot of other people. Thank you.

1 The Mayors of Marrickville and Randwick Councils and their staff for their assistance and co-operation, particularly in relation to our grounds 2 Our Groundsmen Steve and Darren at Coogee, Snape and Kensington, Pat at Petersham. 3 Alan Austin, Len Cartwright, Chris Burke, John Pearson, John Benaud, Ken Devlin, Alan Wright, Bernie Dagg, Mark Sundin, John Watson, Peter Rolls, Greg Hartshorne, Wayne Mulherin, Penny Scott-Glassock, John Connell, Lyall Gardner, Christine & Chris Hall for the donation of Annual Awards 4 Our Sponsors - Petersham RSL, Babcock and Brown, Randwick Rugby Club, Bulldogs Leagues Club, South Sydney Juniors Rugby League Club, Garlo’s Pies, Kingsgrove Sports Centre, David Trodden and DTA Lawyers, Cardy and Co, Mike Whitney Promotions, Greg Hartshorne (Mortgage United) / Watson Buchan Surveyors / B P Woodward and Associates and Denis Hinds (CE Chapman and Co). 5 CPI Paper and in particular Director, Denis Goodrem and our own Steve Greentree for the donation of the high quality paper used in this Annual Report 6 Cricket NSW staff and the SCA Committee 7 NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers Association

Level Pegging

Those of you who were around during the Australia v West Indies Test Series in 1960-61 will recall the excitement of the First Test Match in which finished in a tie, the first in Test Match history. And while ties have become a little more regular in International Limited Overs matches since then, the fact remains they are still an unusual result in cricket.

How then do you explain that Randwick Petersham was involved in five matches this season where both teams scored the same number of runs? An amazing three matches in 1st Grade and one each in 2’s and 4’s.

The pipeopener for our 1st Grade team this season was at Hurstville Oval against Club Champions - St George. We rattled up a competitive 6 for 247 but at 3 for 195 in reply, Saints looked home until a spate of wickets saw the game change complexion and when only one run could be taken from the final ball their total of 9 for 247 left the scores even for a tied result.

In round 2 our 4th Grade boys took on Sydney University at Uni no.2 and had the students all out on day 1 for a gettable 189. At 9 for 168 the chase looked beyond us until Grant Rimmer and young Cameron Fowler chipped away before Grant was run out off the final ball going for the win! 189 to 189….our second tie in two rounds.

Second Grade never seemed in the hunt in their round 6 clash with Northern District at Waitara after setting an unconvincing target of 9-213. But the pressure told on ND’s and with the scores level and one ball to come, Michael Watson achieved a sensational run-out to grab the tie and share the points. 9-213 to 213. Tie number 3!

In round 4 of the 1st Grade Limited Overs competition, we took on Bankstown at Coogee in what was a replay of last season’s Final which Bankstown won narrowly. After conceding 86 from our final 10 overs, the target of 6 for 258 looked a tough ask. At 2 for 148 we were on schedule before loosing 3 for 4 in the middle. Skipper Nathan Hauritz (70 not out) gave it a real shot taking 60 off the last 5 overs when 61 would have given us the game. Another tie! 6-258 to 6-258. An amazing feature of this match was the fact that three players, Joe Hill, Michael Watson and Shane Pargeter, played in the 2nd Grade tied match mentioned above against Northern District the previous day. Two ties in two days for each player!!

If four ties wasn’t enough, in round 12 against Fairfield Liverpool at Coogee, 1st Grade again finished the match with the scores even! Fairfield had been dismissed for 192 and in reply we finished at 9 for 192. However, as the match was not a limited overs match, the result was declared a draw in accordance with the Rules of Cricket which requires the team batting second to have been dismissed before a tie could be achieved. While 3 points would have been awarded to both sides had a tie been the result, the draw meant no points to each team.

Page: 21 BATTING - TOP 20 RUN SCORERS : 2007-08 Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct Usman Khawaja 19 21 2 1134 59.68 138 3 Simon Katich 11 11 5 581 96.83 149* 11 Nathan Hauritz 19 19 3 552 34.50 122 16 Brett Jackson 18 18 2 537 33.56 91* 4 Michael Watson 21 25 2 527 22.91 103* 9 Shane Pargeter 16 20 3 472 27.76 159* 3 John McLoughlin 18 21 1 451 22.55 126 7 David Townsend 15 15 2 441 33.92 75* 7 Eddie Otto 17 14 6 438 54.75 124* 6 Tim Laws 21 22 2 420 21.00 133 13 Adam Semple 19 21 6 395 26.33 105* 8 Matthew Taylor 17 18 1 395 23.24 86 1 Andrew Redman 15 14 0 364 26.00 80 1 Robert Cummings 15 16 1 364 24.27 76 0 Troy Brewster 11 10 1 345 38.33 148 1 David Bourke 17 18 0 323 17.94 67 3 Alex Tomkins 14 15 1 318 22.71 93 3 Steve Clarke 12 12 2 316 31.60 78 4 Rodney Stafford 19 16 3 309 23.77 72* 6 Cameron Gray 17 15 0 301 20.07 101 8

BOWLING - TOP 20 WICKET TAKERS : 2007-08 Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best James Tyson 158.83 45 41 364 8.88 2.29 7/16 Chris Singh 188.00 43 38 534 14.05 2.84 5/42 Rodney Stafford 202.33 24 38 752 19.79 3.72 7/105 Benn West 150.00 20 37 542 14.65 3.61 6/29 Steve Bidwell-Brown 221.17 36 37 749 20.24 3.39 5/35 Burt Cockley 200.67 30 36 723 20.08 3.60 5/48 Glen Whichello 217.83 23 36 915 25.42 4.20 4/20 Nathan Hauritz 276.00 65 34 749 22.03 2.71 6/48 Peter Alevizos 223.33 46 30 657 21.90 2.94 6/35 Grant Rimmer 164.00 32 29 383 13.21 2.34 6/22 James Byrne 187.33 32 27 679 25.15 3.62 4/10 Cameron Fowler 116.67 23 26 338 13.00 2.90 4/11 Nathan McCoy 180.50 45 26 393 15.12 2.18 3/9 Adam Semple 154.33 33 23 589 25.61 3.82 4/12 Melvin Singh 188.67 34 23 611 26.57 3.24 5/24 Andrew Harrison 130.83 31 21 352 16.76 2.69 5/16 Eddie Otto 133.00 15 20 437 21.85 3.29 7/42 Matthew Wallis 141.17 29 20 449 22.45 3.18 3/32 Shane Pargeter 159.00 28 19 523 27.53 3.29 5/33 Matthew Hilder 95.17 27 15 214 14.27 2.25 3/13

WICKETKEEPING - TOP 5 : 2007-08 Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Ashley Doolan 37 5 42 55 Matthew Taylor 20 4 24 19 Campbell Dash 15 1 16 30 Karl Schubert 13 3 16 38 Fabian Heaton 15 0 15 13

Page: 22 BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES : 2007-08 BATTING : CENTURIES Grade First Name Surname Score Opponent Venue Round Date 1 Usman Khawaja 138 Sydney University Petersham Oval 2 29-Sep-07 1 Usman Khawaja 127* Western Suburbs Pratten Park 4 20-Oct-07 1 Usman Khawaja 101 Northern District Coogee Oval 6 17-Nov-07 1 Usman Khawaja 102 Gordon Chatswood Oval 11 26-Jan-08 1 Usman Khawaja 111 St George Hurstville QF 23-Mar-08 1 John McLoughlin 126 Blacktown Joe McAleer 5 27-Oct-07 1 Adam Semple 105* Blacktown Joe McAleer 5 27-Oct-07 1 Tim Laws 133 Gordon Chatswood Oval 11 26-Jan-08 1 Simon Katich 149* St George Hurstville QF 23-Mar-08 1 Nathan Hauritz 122 Gordon Chatswood Oval SF 29-Mar-08 2 Michael Watson 103* St George Petersham Oval 1 22-Sep-07 2 Shane Pargeter 159* Sydney University St Pauls Oval 2 29-Sep-07 2 Eddie Otto 124* Gordon Coogee Oval 11 2-Feb-08 3 Brett Hunter 120* Gordon Killara Oval 11 26-Jan-08 3 Cameron Gray 101 University of NSW Kensington Ova 14 8-Mar-08 4 Troy Brewster117* Manly Warringah Kensington Oval 13 23-Feb-08 4 Troy Brewster 148 Gordon Coogee Oval QF 22-Mar-08 6 Edward Mobbs 139 South Sydney Snape Park 7 8-Dec-07 PGs Brett Jackson 104* Mosman Coogee Oval 7 2-Mar-08 BOWLING : 5 OR MORE WICKETS IN AN INNINGS Grade First Name Surname Bowling Opponent Venue Round Date 1 Nathan Hauritz 5/54 Sutherland Petersham Oval 3 6-Oct-07 1 Nathan Hauritz 6/48 University of NSW Coogee Oval 14 1-Mar-08 1 Burt Cockley 5/48 St George Hurstville Ova QF 22-Mar-08 2 Rodney Stafford 5/72 Sydney University St Pauls Oval 2 30-Sep-07 2 Rodney Stafford 6/78 Hawkesbury Coogee Oval 9 15-Dec-07 2 Rodney Stafford 5/50 Penrith Coogee Oval 15 15-Mar-08 2 Rodney Stafford 7/105 Sydney University Coogee Oval SF 29-Mar-08 2 Steve Bidwell-Brown 5/35 Blacktown Coogee Oval 5 3-Nov-07 2 Steve Bidwell-Brown 5/68 Manly Warringah Coogee Oval 13 16-Feb-08 2 Peter Alevizos 6/35 Campbelltown Petersham Oval 8 1-Dec-07 2 Eddie Otto 7/42 Sydney Drummoyne Oval 10 12-Jan-08 2 Shane Pargeter 5/33 Manly Warringah Coogee Oval 13 16-Feb-08 2 Andrew Downton 5/17 Mosman Allan Border Ova QF 23-Mar-08 3 Benn West6/29 Campbelltown Raby 2 8 1-Dec-07 4 Chris Singh5/45 Sydney University University No 2 2 29-Sep-07 4 Chris Singh5/42 Manly Warringah Kensington Oval 13 16-Feb-08 4 Benn West5/62 Sutherland Sutherland Oval 3 6-Oct-07 4 Benn West5/23 Northern District Asquith Oval 6 17-Oct-07 4 Melvin Singh5/24 Blacktown Petersham Oval 5 3-Nov-07 4 Andrew Harrison 5/16 Campbelltown Coogee Oval 8 1-Dec-07 5 James Tyson 7/21 Blacktown Whalan 2 5 27-Oct-07 5 James Tyson 5/30 Penrith Rance Oval 15 15-Mar-08 5 James Tyson 7/16 Bankstown Jensen Park SF 30-Mar-08 5 James Tyson 6/26 North Sydney Tunks Park F 5-Apr-08 5 Grant Rimmer 6/22 Campbelltown Raby 3 8 1-Dec-07 6 Thomas Whitaker7/28 University of NSW Kensington Oval 4 27-Oct-07 6 Kieran Hewar5/29 University of NSW David Phillips 5 18-Nov-07 6 Denis Hinds5/54 Penrith Kensington Oval 7 1-Dec-07 6 Darren Kumar5/15 Sydney Tigers Snape Park 10 26-Jan-08 6 James Tyson 5/20 Blacktown Marrickville Ova 12 17-Feb-08

Page: 23 BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES : 2007-08 BOWLING : 10 OR MORE WICKETS IN A MATCH Grade First Name Surname Bowling Opponent Venue Round Date 1Nathan Hauritz 10/70 University of NSW Coogee Oval 14 8-Mar-08 BOWLING : HAT-TRICK Grade First Name Surname Bowling Opponent Venue Round Date 4Benn West 3/28St George Kensington Ova 1 22-Sep-07

WICKETKEEPING : 5 OR MORE DISMISSALS IN A INNINGS Grade First Name Surname Outs Opponent Venue Round Date 1 Ashley Doolan 5Cs Manly Warringah Manly Oval 13 16-Feb-08 2 Matthew Taylor 5Cs Mosman Allan Border Oval QF 22-Mar-08 4 Fabian Heaton 5Cs Penrith Coogee Oval F 5-Apr-08

WICKETKEEPING : 8 OR MORE DISMISSALS IN A MATCH Grade First Name Surname Outs Opponent Venue Round Date 2 Matthew Taylor 8Cs Mosman Allan Border Ova QF 22-Mar-08

2007-08 TEAMS SUMMARY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th PG's AWG CC Final Points 60 62 38 73 59 21 18 Final Position on Table 6th 4th 10th 1st 3rd 13th 13th C/Championship Pts 360 310 152 219 118 84 54 1297 Final Position 4th 3rd 10th 1st 1st 13th 13th 1st Wins 9 9 6 12 12 3 3 54 Losses 5 3 4 143 4 24 Draws / Tie 5/2 4/1 5/0 2/1 3 0 0 D9/T1 Tosses Won/Lost W12/L8 W7/L9 W8/L6 W3/L14 W8/L9 W5/L2 W6/L1 W60/L41 Runs Scored 5088 3695 2785 3552 2931 1180 1048 20279 Wickets Lost 174 142 117 152 133 59 67 844 Batting Average 29.24 26.02 23.80 23.37 22.04 20.00 15.64 24.03 Runs Conceded 4450 3830 2210 2790 2354 1071 1181 17886 Wickets Taken 188 184 86 166 161 49 41 875 23.67 20.82 25.70 16.81 14.62 21.86 28.80 20.44 Byes 46 58 28 41 54 3 7 237 Leg Byes 88 84 52 59 58 31 20 392 Wides 110 57 63 51 103 76 19 479 No Balls 72 44 68 80 40 30 25 359

HOME and AWAY MATCH SUMMARY Grade Game Coogee P'sham/M'ville Kenso/Snape HOME TOTAL AWAY TOTAL TOTAL

s W D/T L W D/T LW D/T L WD/T L W D/T LW D/T L 1 21 22/13101- - -32/1 4 6 3/1 1 9 5/2 5 2 17 41/01201- - -61/0 2 3 3/1 1 9 4/1 3 3 15 0011011 2/0122/0 3 4 3/0 1 6 5/0 4 4 18 4002014 00100 1 4 2/1 0 14 2/1 1 5 18 - - - 2 2/0 02 1/0 2 428013/0 12 3/0 3 T89 10 3/1 5 8 2/0 47 3/0 3 258/1 12 25 11/3 450 19/4 16

Total Home Games =46 Wins = 25 Draws/Tie = 9 Losses = 12 SUMMARY Total Away Games =43 Wins = 25 Draws/Tie = 14 Losses = 4

Page: 24 1st Grade Report by Nathan Hauritz, Captain Position in Competition: 4th

It was a season of rebuilding for the club with a few regulars being unable to play or participate at 1st Grade level. These guys being Shawn Flegler (retirement), Joe Hill (birth of their second baby), Nathan Rosser (back operation) and the ‘hammer’ Andrew Harrison (wanted to play with Towners). The season saw us introduce new recruits and it also saw us win the Club Championship. Amazing feats considering our first graders were almost last just before Christmas. I am proud to say that I think as a team we grew as the season went on, and we were within a whisker of making it into the Final and recording a remarkable 1st Grade premiership win. None the less we finished a respectable 4th and we had two new players represent NSW this year. Those being Uzz Khawaja and Burt Cockley, both of whom displayed maturity beyond their years when they played and I am sure that they will both have an excellent career for NSW and hopefully even further.

Our season was heavily reliant on our young opening batsmen. Uzz batted unbelievably all year and ended up breaking Richard CheeQuee’s record by the end of the season. He was our one shining light during the year when we were not playing our best cricket and at times was the only batsman to dominate for our side. It was not until after Christmas when we had a chance to gain more experience through Simon Katich that the middle order scored some runs and took some of that pressure off him. I would like to personally congratulate Uzz on a great season and look forward to playing more cricket with him as time goes on.

Burt Cockley came to our club as this young and vibrant 21 year old. Not many people would have known that he was only 21 because he came to training with a full beard and he looked like he had been a tradesperson for years. How wrong could we all have been? This strapping young lad turned out to be one of the fastest guys playing grade cricket this year. He bowled some unbelievable spells and really was a massive asset to our side. Although his figures were not that of tearing through teams, he bowled consistently quick every chance he had and he really held our bowling stocks together. He unfortunately finished the season bowling three waist high full tosses and ended up not being able to bowl for the rest of the game. But with that forgotten, he was awesome throughout the year. I think a lot of people will be keeping a close eye on Burt next season because of the fact that he had the opportunity to do a pre-season with NSW and he will have a chance to get a lot fitter and learn to bowl a lot more overs. I can’t wait to see him bowl next year.

This year we had the opportunity to play a lot of cricket with Simon Katich. Now it’s no secret what “Kat” did for NSW this year and was the catalyst for their remarkable season. But what many people don’t understand is that he took that passion and desire with him to every grade game that he played. He is an unbelievable player, captain and friend and it was awesome to have him around the sheds and help out and just show all of the guys in the side what it takes to be a first class player. I think it was only fitting that he received an Australian contract and was selected to tour the West Indies. Let me assure you that if “Kat” gets another opportunity to wear that again, we won’t see him because he won’t let it go. Cheers for a great season mate!

We had the chance to bring in some new blood to the team this season. We introduced guys like Brett Jackson, Ashley Doolan, Shane Pargeter as well as Burt Cockley. We also were able to give an opportunity to players like Johnny McLoughlin, Tim Laws, Michael Watson, Eddie Otto, Pete Alevizos and Rod Stafford. The introduction of these players to the 1st Grade arena provided them an opportunity to see them what it takes to be consistent at that level and continue to do well as a club. We also had some really tough calls to make as a selection committee because we had guys in second grade doing so well, they were consistently putting pressure on the 1st Grade players. The most important thing is that all of those guys who I have mentioned are young. We have a great mix here. I feel every player there needs to realise that they have plenty of time and should just enjoy every opportunity they get to play 1st Grade because there will be more opportunities as seasons go on.

The last of our playing group consisted of myself, Jimmy Byrne, Adam Semple and Glen (the Labrador) Whichello. Personally I really enjoyed the season particularly captaining the bunch of guys who came through. It was extremely pleasing to see guys like Johnny Mac and Adam Semple score their debut hundreds in 1st Grade while witnessing the fantastic season of Uzz Khawaja. It was also great to see Which and Jim “JB”Byrne improve their all round cricketing abilities so much that they were fighting it out to see who could bat higher each game. These two guys really led from the front with their bowling all season. Clearly the statistics don’t lie with Which taking 36 wickets and JB 27. It was no coincidence that they both had extremely good seasons.

I must congratulate all of the 1st Graders for their commitment to training and turning up to team events. We could be a lot better but so could a lot of things. I see it as no coincidence that when we trained more we played better as a team.

Page: 25 On a final note, I would like to thank everyone for the help I received this season. It has been an extremely stressful job at times but then again, it has been extremely rewarding. I would like to thank Bobby Barter, Billy Anderson, Peter Devlin, Greg Hartshorne, Rob Huxley and our scorers Stan Beale, Lynette Jackson and Michael who came from Newcastle each week to watch us and help out. I would also like to thank everybody who has helped all year at Coogee and Petersham, whether on the field or in the canteen. The service we receive there has been second to none. Lastly, thanks to everyone else who contributed in some way to make my job that much easier. It is much appreciated. The club would not have won a Club Championship if it wasn’t for the people who have been working tirelessly behind the scenes. Thanks, never seems enough for the work you people do. I look forward to another successful season in 2008-09, and let’s hope we can go the extra step and bring home the premiership.

1st Grade 2007-08 Back Row: Bob Barter (Manager) Lance Kahler, Simon Katich, Burt Cockley, James Byrne, Glen Whichello, Adam Semple, Rob Huxley (A/Coach) Front Row: Bill Anderson (Director of Coaching), Ashley Doolan, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Hauritz (Captain), John McLoughlin, Brett Jackson, Peter Devlin (Club Coach).

Every picture tells a story. The scoreboard in the 1st Grade Qualifying Final at Hurstville Oval following our fantastic win over eventual Premiers St George.

Page: 26 1ST GRADE - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Usman Khawaja 19 21 2 1134 59.68 138 3/0 Simon Katich 11 11 5 581 96.83 149* 11/0 Nathan Hauritz 19 19 3 552 34.50 122 16/1 John McLoughlin 18 21 1 451 22.55 126 7/3 Adam Semple 19 21 6 395 26.33 105* 8/3 Brett Jackson 14 14 1 352 27.08 86 3/1 Tim Laws 17 17 1 338 21.13 133 7/2 Ashley Doolan 18 18 3 194 12.93 56 0/2 Michael Watson 12 13 0 180 13.85 31 7/1 James Byrne 19 13 4 148 16.44 45 2/0 Glen Whichello 20 12 4 127 15.88 47 6/1 Lance Kahler 4 5 0 121 24.20 48 2/0 Matthew Taylor 7 8 0 118 14.75 42 1/0 Shane Pargeter 4 4 0 36 9.00 13 1/0 Burt Cockley 19 8 6 31 15.50 13* 6/0 David Mitchell 1 1 0 15 15.00 15 0/0 Rodney Stafford 3 2 1 12 12.00 11 1/0 Eddie Otto 2 2 1 11 11.00 8 1/0 Joseph Hill 1 1 0 2 2.00 2 1/0 Peter Alevizos 2 1 0 2 2.00 2 0/0 TOTAL BATTING 229 212 38 4800 27.59 149* 83/14

1ST GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Burt Cockley 200.67 30 36 723 20.08 3.60 5/48 Glen Whichello 217.83 23 36 915 25.42 4.20 4/20 Nathan Hauritz 276.00 65 34 749 22.03 2.71 6/48 James Byrne 187.33 32 27 679 25.15 3.62 4/10 Adam Semple 154.33 33 23 589 25.61 3.82 4/12 Simon Katich 49.00 3 10 191 19.10 3.90 3/27 Michael Watson 26.67 7 4 88 22.00 3.30 2/7 Shane Pargeter 22.00 3 2 118 59.00 5.36 1/41 Brett Jackson 8.00 1 1 31 31.00 3.88 1/28 Rodney Stafford 12.00 1 1 67 67.00 5.58 1/0 Peter Alevizos 11.00 2 0 27 2.45 0/13 Eddie Otto 20.00 1 0 68 3.40 0/7 Usman Khawaja 13.00 0 0 71 5.46 0/8 TOTAL BOWLING 1197.83 201 174 4316 24.80 3.60 6/48

1ST GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Ashley Doolan 34 3 37 42 Matthew Taylor 5 1 6 4

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Page: 27 2nd Grade Report by Rod Stafford, Captain Position in Competition: 3rd

It was another very good year for the Randy Petes 2nd Grade outfit with consistent cricket being played throughout the season. Unfortunately, it only takes one bad day for your season to be over and we were knocked out by the eventual premiers in the Semi Final.

In the past few seasons 2nd Grade has started poorly before coming home with a flurry. This season we set ourselves a goal to get off to a good start and maintain our position throughout the season, to give us a really good crack at winning the premiership. We executed this plan very well as we didn’t drop out of the top six at any stage of the season. At Christmas we had five wins, two draws and two losses and were in the top four. Post-Christmas was marred by weather which saw three draws in succession before we finished the regular season with three wins on the trot. This saw us finish a comfortable 4th just two points from second place.

We played out of our skin with the ball and in the field in the Qualifying Final at Allan Border Oval and ended up defeating Mosman outright on their turf just after lunch on day two after bowling them out for 112 and 64.

The Semi Final was on our turf at the picturesque Coogee Oval and a win or a draw would see us through to the weekend in April. Unfortunately it was not to be as Sydney Uni made 307 and we were dismissed for a very disappointing 135.

There were many season highlights with experience shining through with solid and consistent performances throughout the year. Youth was also a feature and the future of the club looks in good hands. Whenever a player was called up from 3rd Grade they stepped up to the challenge and lifted their game to the next level. We also had a number of the boys make the step up to 1st Grade at various stages of the season. We really do have a strong 1st Grade squad of about 15 or 16 players who, when called upon, can perform at the highest level of grade cricket. These fringe first graders are always motivated to perform well when they play 2nd Grade and this can only breed a competitive and winning culture within the club. I will now say a few words about the core group of players who played in 2’s this year.

Michael Watson played nine games in 2nd Grade and about the same in 1st Grade. Early in the season he was outstanding opening the batting for us setting many victories up with fantastic square drives and pull shots. The highlight would have to be Watto’s 103 not out in round 1 vs St. George to kick our season off in style. Watto is always a great man to have in your team as he offers an extra dimension with his slow swingers and his outstanding cover point fielding.

Alex Sciascia formed a great opening combination with Watto early in the season, averaging 40 after our first five games. While his form fell away a little in the middle of the season and he went down to 3’s, Alex certainly showed that he can be a dominant second grader in seasons to come.

Shane Pargeter was a fantastic addition to the Randy Petes. A very competitive and fiery player with a South African background, Pargy had a trememdous all round season. The rock of our batting order at no.3, Pargy won the batting aggregate for our side. His 159 not out in round 2 was a great innings and showed everyone how to build an innings and convert it into a big hundred. Shane also featured in a new club 9th wicket record partnership that day of 156* with Rod Stafford (72 not out). Throw in 17 wickets and his 1st Grade debut and it’s clear to everyone that Pargy had an amazing debut season for the club.

David Mitchell only came into the side towards the end of the year due to a back injury. It was a credit to Mitch that he even made it back this season as his rehabilitation program required ongoing commitment and drive. While he never really hit the form we know he’s capable of, he is always a welcome addition to any side, and will be fired up for a big 2008-09.

Matthew Taylor started the year in 1st Grade and joined us about half way through. Tayls is a great player to watch as he can take the game away from the opposition in no time. Later in the season Tayls took over the gloves and ‘kept very well, taking some absolute blinders in front of the slips. His 86 vs Hawkesbury and 62 vs Gordon were a pleasure to watch.

Page: 28 Will Passas had an excellent 2nd Grade debut season and was extremely unlucky to miss out on finals cricket. Will has a tremendous technique and his patience is a welcome sight for a young kid on the rise. Will ended up averaging in the mid 20’s and his 67 vs Gordon helped stave off defeat. He also featured in a record 6 th wicket partnership of 198 with Eddie Otto (124 not out) in the same game.

Eddie Otto – well, what can you say about this bloke? How about HORNS!!! Eddie had a breakthrough season with the bat averaging 61 with over 400 runs. His 124 not out against Gordon was his first hundred for the Randy Petes and truly was an amazing innings to watch. He also collected 20 wickets at 18 including 7-42 vs Sydney. Eddie knew his role perfectly and executed this consistently throughout the season eventuating in a few more 1st Grade games. It should also be noted that when our batting fell short in the finals, Eddie finished not out twice on 61 and 29. Eddie also provides valuable insight into the state of play. Look out for this unassuming young man next year as he looks to cement a spot in 1’s. Well done “Fred”, my 2nd Grade player of the season.

Cameron Gray made handy contributions throughout the year but didn’t have the same opportunities as last year as our frontline batsmen and bowlers did the job regularly for us. Cammo is a great team man, and always great to play with and his 60 against Northern District gave us a chance to win the match, which we eventually tied. A true partnership breaker, Cammo took key wickets in a number of matches.

Campbell Dash played the first half of the season as our ‘keeper and showed tremendous promise. Campbell made many starts with the bat but didn’t go on to make the big scores he is capable of. He certainly showed that with hard work and dedication he could become a good higher grade player. It was a credit to Dasher that when he went back to 3’s he hit back-to-back 50’s. He also took some outstanding catches during the season and kept very well to the spinners.

Andrew Downton came into the side half way through the season after making the move back to Sydney from sunny Tasmania. Merv has many stories to tell and the side went up a gear once he was present and had that glint in his eyes. Merv gradually built up his fitness and peaked in the Qualifying Final with 5-17. He also entertained with the bat, his 49 vs UNSW was extremely valuable. With a big pre-season Merv will threaten 1st Grade next season.

Steve Bidwell-Brown continued his previous seasons form and is probably the most improved player in the club. Bidders made an immediate impact taking 5-35 vs Blacktown on debut. He bowled long spells almost every game and once brought on was very hard to take off. His 27 wickets at 19 was an outstanding 2nd Grade debut season and Bidders should be extremely proud of his efforts. A great wrist action for a quick indicates that Bidders wouldn’t be out of place in 1st Grade.

Peter Alevizos had another great year leading the attack and finishing with 30 wickets at 21. His 6-35 vs Campbelltown was phenomenal and “Pistol” thoroughly deserved his elevation to 1st Grade when it came. He also just missed out on Australian Under 19 selection after a tremendous carnival for NSW. Another guy who will play plenty of 1st Grade in the coming years. Well done on a great year, mate.

A number of others featured during the season as well as playing in other grades and these guys all performed well for us. These include Sean Gardner, Brenton Barker, Alex Brown, Tim Laws, Benn West, Joe Hill and Brett Jackson amongst others.

Our support crew was first class again led by our scorer Lynette Jackson, manager Bernie Bayley, Ray Stafford, Richard McCord and #1 fan Cec Orrock. This core crew of supporters make it so much easier for us to prepare and just play cricket. Our canteen ladies Robin Gardner and Sue Hill were ‘top notch’ again. I didn’t think the sandwiches could get any better than last year, but they did! Thanks to all the other parents / wives / girlfriends / friends who came down to support us at during the year and especially at finals time. We really appreciate your support. A huge thanks also to our coaching staff and to the management committee for your ongoing commitment to improving our great club.

A huge congrats to 4’s and 5’s who took home the silverware. Well done Towno and Macca and your respective teams, both thoroughly deserving victories! And last but not least, well done to everyone on winning the “Club Championship”. 20 clubs start each season with the goal of winning the big one, and this year it was us. A great effort and a result of hard work and commitment since the merger occurred all those years ago. Cheers to a great season and to going one better next year.

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2nd Grade 2007-08 Back Row: Andrew Downton, Peter Alevizos, Tim Laws, David Mitchell, Bernard Bayley (Manager) Front Row: Steve Bidwell-Brown, Matthew Taylor, Michael Watson, Rodney Stafford (Captain), Eddie Otto, Shane Pargeter, Cameron Gray. Absent: Scorer – Lynette Jackson.

Qualifying Final v Mosman – 8th Wicket caught Matthew Taylor bowled Steve Bidwell-Brown

Qualifying Final v Mosman – 9th Wicket LBW bowled Rodney Stafford

Page: 30 2ND GRADE - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Shane Pargeter 12 16 3 436 33.54 159* 2/0 Eddie Otto 15 12 5 427 61.00 124* 5/5 Michael Watson 9 12 2 347 34.70 103* 2/1 Rodney Stafford 16 14 2 297 24.75 72* 5/0 Matthew Taylor 10 10 1 277 30.78 86 0/0 Alex Sciascia 11 13 1 227 18.92 50 2/0 Brett Jackson 4 4 1 185 61.67 91* 1/1 William Passas 10 10 3 184 26.29 67 1/0 Cameron Gray 13 11 0 181 16.45 60 8/1 Joseph Hill 3 4 1 133 44.33 69 5/0 Campbell Dash 11 10 1 96 10.67 26* 1/1 Sean Gardner 5 6 0 92 15.33 35 3/1 Andrew Downton 7 6 1 82 16.40 49 0/0 Brenton Barker 7 6 1 75 15.00 32* 5/0 Peter Alevizos 15 9 1 37 4.63 13 5/1 Alex Brown 5 3 1 24 12.00 21 1/0 Steve Bidwell-Brown 11 7 3 17 4.25 8* 2/2 Also Batted : Matches/Innings/Not Out/Runs/Catches. Ashley Doolan 2/2/1/92/0, Tim Laws 4/5/1/82/6, David Mitchell 4/6/2/68/3, Jody Whitehead 2/2/0/47/1, Lance Kahler 1/2/0/46/3, Benn West 3/2/2/46/0, Andrew Redman 2/3/0/21/1, Brett Hunter 1/0/0/0/3, N. Ellis 1/1/0/0. TOTAL BATTING 184 175 33 3518 24.77 159* 65/14

2ND GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Rodney Stafford 190.33 23 37 685 18.51 3.60 7/105 Peter Alevizos 212.33 44 30 630 21.00 2.97 6/35 Steve Bidwell-Brown 160.17 24 27 537 19.89 3.35 5/35 Eddie Otto 113.00 14 20 369 18.45 3.27 7/42 Shane Pargeter 137.00 25 17 405 23.82 2.96 5/33 Andrew Downton 81.00 21 10 252 25.20 3.11 5/17 Benn West 44.00 7 7 148 21.14 3.36 4/64 Cameron Gray 58.00 7 7 193 27.57 3.33 2/20 Brett Jackson 25.00 1 6 118 19.67 4.72 3/27 Alex Brown 60.00 16 4 160 40.00 2.67 2/42 Brett Hunter 19.17 4 3 61 20.33 3.18 3/61 Michael Watson 20.00 4 2 90 45.00 4.50 2/21 Also Bowled : Overs/Wickets/Runs. Matthew Taylor 1/0/9, William Passas 2/0/14, Noel Ellis 2/0/17. TOTAL BOWLING 1125.67 190 170 3688 21.69 3.28 7/42

2ND GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Matthew Taylor 15 3 18 15 Campbell Dash 15 1 16 30 Ashley Doolan 3 2 5 13

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Page: 31 3rd Grade Report by Nigil Singh, Captain Position in Competition: 10th

To say season 2007-08 was punctuated by factors beyond our control is a massive understatement. To go through the season losing just four games and to finish 10th is definitely hard to take, especially when you throw in the fact that we had washouts against three teams placed in the bottom five of the ladder. In fact all five of our washouts were against teams that finished below us. Imagine what could have been! Saying that though, you are always the master of your own destiny in sport and in all the games that we did lose, we were at various times placed in dominant positions. I think that often the difference between winning or losing those games was us playing as, or relying on, individuals rather than working as a team towards victory. As a result, we played at times some ‘soft’ cricket which was disappointing given the amount of talent that we had in the team – as evidenced by our demolition of the eventual Premiers, Campbelltown-Camden.

Reflecting on the season, it was ultimately in my opinion our top order batting which denied us from really staking a claim as a force on the competition. A tough statement given the seemingly habitual Friday showers, but consistently being 2 or 3 for nothing really did not let our middle and lower order play with any flair as we were forever recovering from a potential collapse. Despite, and perhaps because of it, the contributions of Andrew Redman, Noel Ellis and Marc Anderson were truly noteworthy.

Andrew is a great prospect for this club, as was shown by his 2nd Grade debut this year. “Redders” was our rock in the top order, consistently seeing off the new ball with wickets falling around him. As he starts to develop his game further and learns to rotate the strike we will see him dominate bowling attacks. Noel was a revelation for the team with the bat. Averaging close to 40 in a year where we struggled as a batting unit he impressed us all with his ability to score runs when we truly needed them. Throw in his contribution with the ball and Noel became an extremely valuable member of the team. Marc topped the batting averages with 47.00 and impressed with his ability to score runs in tight situations and build enterprising partnerships with the tail in dire circumstances. All our other bats showed at times that they had the ability with individual starts but capitalising on those starts and being consistent were major problems.

Some other performances of note with the bat which should be mentioned are: Brett Hunter’s first hundred for the club against Gordon. Cameron Gray’s scintillating ton against UNSW and Campbell Dash’s form late in the season. Who could also ever forget Sean Gardner getting out first ball of the game twice in a season? Brenton Barker Gards unmercifully for getting out first ball twice only to get out first ball his turn to bat! Seeing Gards turn around his horrendous start to the season and find some form in 2’s was also pleasing. And my own personal landmark of scoring more runs than taking wickets (most of them IN FRONT of square) for the first time in my grade career!

Many people will say that it was an easy year for the bowlers given the rain around, but it worked against us as it seemed as though every time it was our turn to bowl we were rained off, thus the bowlers were never able to get any consistency or match fitness. When the rain did stay away, the two stars were undoubtedly Steve Bidwell-Brown in the early part of the season and Benn West at the back end. Both were fantastic in everything they did and seemingly carried the team along on the back of their sheer brilliance at times. Both thoroughly deserved their promotions to 2nd Grade and their performances showed that they both have the ability to play 1st Grade. An unsung hero of our bowling attack was Jordan Magro. Jordan impressed us all with his ability to bowl with the old ball (who could forget his third spell against Hawkesbury) and consistently kept the pressure on the batsman. He was unlucky not to have taken more wickets.

Mel Singh also looked the goods and showed that he still has the ability to play higher grades. Andrew Downton only played a couple of games but showed us all what is needed with the ball to succeed at higher levels. Will Passas has the best average in the club after his 1 for 1 off 1. And Andrew Walters will probably remain on a hat-trick for the rest of his life!

We had 32 players play 3rd Grade this year so I won’t mention everyone but four players I have to include are Andrew Walters, Brenton Barker, Steven Clarke and Trent Griffiths. “Dougie” Walters started with a bang with 50 on debut and performed solidly thereafter. When Andrew believes that he truly can bat at a decent level and backs himself, he will be more successful. He also dusted off the mits to take some screamers in slips. Brenton and Steve would both be a little disappointed with their form with the

Page: 32 bat in 3’s this year. But both are class acts and brought to the team so much more than their batting alone. The club needs more people like these guys. Trent Griffiths was unfortunately cut down by injury when really starting to find some form and his feet in 3rd Grade. A fantastic club and team man and someone who I really enjoy playing cricket with and look forward to winning a Premiership with.

I personally have had a fulfilling year as skipper for the first time. While my own form struggled at times, I really enjoyed the challenges of bringing this team together. At the beginning of the season I challenged every person within the side to set themselves the goal to play 2nd Grade and to see nine players who started in 3rd Grade or lower hold their own in 2’s validates a lot of what we tried to achieve this year. This was no doubt helped along by the fact that we had two former first class players in Andrew Downton and Lance Kahler play a couple of games with us, giving the boys an opportunity to see what it takes to succeed. Combine this with the fact that we had another six players who have played in ‘The Show’ and we had another excellent opportunity to see what is needed in terms of preparation and concentration to do well. Case in point was our highest wicket partnership for the season between Club Capt, Brett Hunter and our 16 year old highest run scorer for 3rd Grade, Andrew Redman – a fantastic lesson for Redders (and the team) in how to build an innings.

I must sincerely thank Peter Carroll, our 3rd Grade Manager this year. Peter was fantastic throughout the year. Be it for running out the snakes at drinks, making the teas, scoring when we were in the field or for his religious Wednesday morning phone calls to discuss all things selections and cricket. His enthusiasm for the game is infectious and I know the boys really appreciated his help throughout the year. Thanks must also go to Mrs Redman for always making sure that Andrew had extra lollies packed in his kit for the team and for helping out with the scoring and making the teas whenever asked.

In summing up the season and in looking forward to the next, I think the final word has to come from our CEO Greg Hartshorne in his summation of our first season “Score more runs. 20 is not enough. 20’s have to become 50’s, and 50’s have to become 100’s. Better use of practice time, a clean focus on the technical improvements, and the will to bat for as long as possible, every time, regardless of the conditions and how well you are playing”.

3rd Grade would like to congratulate David Townsend and 4th Grade and Darren McCoy and 5th Grade on their Premierships this year as well as the other grades for making the finals series. Hopefully next year the “Thirsty Thirds” will be able to play cricket on a magical weekend in April!

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3RD GRADE - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Andrew Redman 13 11 0 343 31.18 80 0/0 Noel Ellis 13 11 4 278 39.71 64* 5/1 Jordan Magro 13 11 0 177 16.09 44 4/0 Steve Clarke 10 10 1 166 18.44 49 4/0 Marc Anderson 6 4 1 141 47.00 46 0/0 Andrew Walters 8 8 0 135 16.88 55 3/0 Brett Hunter 1 1 1 120 120* 0/0 Cameron Gray 4 4 0 120 30.00 101 0/1 Campbell Dash 3 3 0 117 39.00 53 0/0 William Passas 4 4 0 104 26.00 64 0/1 Sean Gardner 8 8 0 101 12.63 46 1/0 Benn West 6 5 3 100 50.00 45* 2/0 Trent Griffiths 5 5 0 99 19.80 35 1/0 Brenton Barker 7 6 0 85 14.17 39 1/0 Matthew Wallis 5 5 2 69 23.00 20 2/0 Matthew Hilder 5 5 0 61 12.20 35 3/0 Melvin Singh 7 5 3 56 28.00 16* 2/0 Steve Bidwell-Brown 5 5 2 53 17.67 19 0/0 Nigil Singh 13 9 4 38 7.60 12 1/2 Also Batted : Matches/Innings/Not Out/Runs/Catches. Alex Brown 3/3/1/60/0, Chad Greenberg 2/2/0/42/0, Alex Tomkins 4/4/0/34/2, Alex Sciascia 2/2/0/25/0, David Bourke 1/1/0/9/0, Will Halstead 1/1/0/7/0, Robert Cummings 1/1/0/3/0, David Mitchell 1/1/0/1/2, Fabian Heaton 1/1/0/1/0, Troy Brewster 2/1/0/0/0, Andrew Downton 2/1/0/0/0, Lance Kahler 1/1/0/0/0, Grant Rimmer 1/0/0/0/0. TOTAL BATTING 158 139 22 2545 21.75 120* 33/5

3RD GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Benn West 47.83 7 14 182 13.00 3.81 6/29 Jordan Magro 101.00 15 14 362 25.86 3.58 3/11 Steve Bidwell-Brown 61.00 12 10 212 21.20 3.48 4/69 Nigil Singh 87.00 17 10 237 23.70 2.72 2/27 Noel Ellis 80.00 13 9 278 30.89 3.48 3/46 Melvin Singh 96.00 12 6 344 57.33 3.58 2/37 Andrew Downton 24.00 6 4 78 19.50 3.25 3/12 Matthew Wallis 33.00 2 4 139 34.75 4.21 3/32 Alex Brown 24.00 3 2 68 34.00 2.83 2/33 Also Bowled : Overs/Wickets/Runs. Andrew walters 1/2/10, Matthew Hilder 11/2/64, William Passas 1/1/1, Grant Rimmer 9/1/18, Cameron Gray 10/1/21, Chad Greenbeeg 7/1/30, Marc Anderson 3/0/6, Alex Tomkins 19/0/80. TOTAL BOWLING 614.50 94 81 2130 26.30 3.47 6/29

3RD GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Andrew Redman 9 1 10 27 Fabian Heaton 0 0 0 1

Page: 34 4th Grade Report by David Townsend, Captain Position in Competition: 1st

It would not be far fetched to call this season one of the great Houdini acts of modern times! The side was forever under pressure. Often staring straight ahead at defeat. Yet it never panicked, never gave in or assumed that there wasn’t a way out.

The team came back from many moments of adversity and took up the challenge in every match. No situation was lost and victory was not hoped for. It was expected.

The facts themselves make interesting reading: - Only one match lost all year - 75 % of victories achieved by 3 wickets or 40 runs or less - A tie with the last pair adding 27 - An outright win after being bowled out first innings for 49 - Miracle wins in both Semi and Grand Finals

This side regrouped on many occasions and contained players who took their turn to lead the team to victory. The team had no ego and took it’s joy from simply winning.

Our bowling was definitely our strength. Andrew Harrison, Benn West, Chris Singh, Matt Wallis, Grant Rimmer, Mel Singh and Chad Greenberg all formed a strong outfit that would regularly take early wickets, decimate middle orders and clean up tails. We expected it that much, that we were shocked when we saw a partnership over 50!

We conceded over 200 only three times in 15 round matches. Good slip fielding backed this up and allowed us to falter but recover with the bat. Only two hundreds were scored all year but we continued to find the partnerships that would win a game. Somewhere two guys would knuckle down and produce a partnership that got us home. It was to become our mantra for the year.

Unlike previous years the team started well. Often 4th Grade lost early matches only to regroup after Christmas and come home strongly. Not this team. In fact the first match of the year was a microcosm of the season. Against an average St George outfit we strangled them to 167 on a good wicket but soon found ourselves at 5 for 29! A recovery act from Andrew Harrison and Trent Griffiths got us close with Karl Schubert finishing things off for a 3 wicket win. The ‘Shu’ celebrated in his normal reserved way!

Next up was an amazing tie against Sydney University where we again made hard work of chasing 189. The last pair of Grant Rimmer and Cameron ‘Chook’ Fowler put on 26 hard earned runs and requiring 2 to win with ten overs left ‘Rims’ played a delightful shot through backward square, only to assume that he was Maurice Greene to be run out by 3 yards going for the winning run! We all smiled about it an hour later and agreed it was 3 points gained rather than lost.

Next a return date with our conquerors from the previous year Sutherland. Unusually, we bowled quite poorly in this game and conceded 243, which was to be our biggest total for the year. Yet despite being 4 for 30 at stumps, the enigmatic Marc Anderson and myself forged a partnership of 140 to get us home after Chris Singh again showed his value as a make shift opener. A 3 wicket win and a real sense of confidence was brewing in the side.

Convincing wins against Wests, Blacktown and Northern District followed. Our bowling was dominating with Harro, Benn West, Chris Singh and Grant Rimmer all taking wickets at a fast rate and on good surfaces. When we bowled out ND’s for 47 on a good Asquith surface with Benn West picking up 5 for, we knew that we were unlikely to see much of him again. We were right with his progress and form pushing him all the way to 2 nd Grade where he continued to shine for the rest of the year.

A close fought win against lowly placed North Sydney, where both Chris Singh and Rob Close rescued us with the bat, led us to our amazing come-from-behind win against Campbelltown.

Page: 35 Batting first on a green Coogee wicket we inexplicably lost 8 for 12 to be bowled out for a record low 4th Grade score of 49! We still fancied our chances though, as Andrew Harrison led the way with 5 for 16 to bowl the Ghosts out for 69! On Day 2 we were very united in the target we wanted to set and batted like a team on a mission to set Campbelltown 150 off 45 overs. Like a dream the wickets started tumbling as the target always appeared within reach of the opposition. However, with 15 runs to get and 3 overs in hand, the number 11 danced down the track to Mel Singh, missed and was by Rob Cummings to give us a remarkable victory. The beers tasted sweet that night in the confines of the palatial Coogee sheds!

Another too-close-for-comfort win against Hawkesbury leading into Christmas saw Chad and Harro prove the ‘Icemen’ with the bat at the end. Both were to repeat this before the season was over. This game also saw Alex Tomkins’ maiden fifty.

At Christmas we looked at things and realised that we had a major chance to go unbeaten throughout the year. It was something we discussed regularly as motivation as we realised that the opportunity to do it rarely comes about. In the end we were not far off.

First game back after Christmas saw a rain ruined match against Sydney which saw the return of Fabian Heaton to the ranks. With his cries of ‘yeees’ as he caught batters and bizarre running between wickets we knew that the ‘Little Master’ was going to be a vital part of the side.

Next a tight encounter with fellow finalists Gordon, where we hauled in their target 7 wickets down, was followed by a washout v Fairfield. The team was now taking shape with the return of Troy Brewster to the ranks as an opener and youngsters Will Halstead and Alex Tomkins taking their spots. Experience in the form of Matt Wallis had also found a place as all teams in the club looked towards a strong Finals run.

Round 13 saw a tremendous run chase against Manly after Harro’s long lost brother Warren Evans had scored a career first century to set us 223 to win. Troy Brewster’s hundred was the first for the team in the year. An interesting statistic based on the fact that we were still unbeaten.

A scrappy win against University of NSW followed with David Bourke ( or the ‘Bad Penny’ as the Ger christened him ), showing some strong character to top score with 65 after a poor run of form. This was a turning point for Bourkey’s year.

So we entered the final round unbeaten and up against the team in second place that had lost only once. It was to be our only blemish of the year as we understood the challenge ahead for us as we were thumped by Penrith in the one dayer. Their bowling was consistent and their batting had some flair. We were to meet them in the Final and discover how tough they were to beat!

So we were Minor Premiers. Although this title is nice it means nothing. All it does is give you a second bite if you stumble in your first match. To win from this position you have to be consistent and be prepared to dig yourselves out of holes. We had plenty of these in the next 3 weeks!

We had drawn Gordon in the Qualifying Final. With the chance to use Coogee Oval we were in a strong position. We made the most of it by winning the toss and after a long conversation with my Think Tank for the day ( Harrison and Greenberg ) who told me everyone thought we should bowl – I batted! At 4 for 240 I felt that the Think Tank might have over-estimated the movement in the wicket! All credit here must go to Troy Brewster who played another of his ‘Finals Classics’ to strike a brilliant 148. It was truly an innings of substance which started with care and branched out into demolition.

He was backed up by fellow opener Rob Cummings who had no form coming in but battled to 35 to help put on 90 for the first wicket. Despite a collapse with the second new ball we felt comfortable with 280 on the Board. A full 750 gram steak that night and bottle of Sauvignon Blanc seemed to inspire the bowlers and Chris Singh’s 4 for 16 and Matt Wallis’ 3 for 34 bowled Gordon out for 106. One down and two to go!

Our Semi Final opponent was Sutherland who we had had a series of tight matches against. This was to be no different and was the start of two very draining weekends in which we all aged a little bit!

Page: 36 Having had to shift to Kensington Oval we lost the toss and after dropping a couple of catches found ourselves under a great deal of pressure. Some strong partnerships saw Sutherland reach 244 at the close and when Rob Cummings went with an over to go we were under the most pressure we had been all season.

We regrouped on Day 2 and talked about partnerships and time. How every pair in the team could bat for 2 hours if required. We did this to a tee with Mel Singh and David Bourke batting for 3 hours together. It was concentration and determination of the highest order. Then came our standard collapse. At 6 for 120, Harro joined myself. We both decided we were going to be the Final partnership. Harro was outstanding and eclipsed in one innings his aggregate time at the in First Grade from the previous year!

We ticked the overs off one by one and after getting through the new ball we thought we were there. This thought was destined to signal another collapse. With just 25 minutes to go I was caught behind. We got through to 9 balls left and Chris Singh falls LBW. Chad strides to the crease to face the rest of the over with 9 men around the bat. He lasts 2 balls before not offering a shot and the best number 11 in the competition ( Matt Wallis ) walks to the crease to face one ball. Somehow he blocks it to leave Harro to face the final over. 6 balls to go!

The opening bowler steams in with everyone in the batsman’s face and despite a nerve jangling no ball and a couple of yorkers, Harro is left with one ball to see off and get us into the Grand Final. As he said later “I couldn’t feel my arms or hands – they were like jelly”! A silence fell over the ground as the last ball was released and joy erupted as Andrew Harrison kept out a yorker and ran from the field arms aloft. It truly was a phenomenal effort from Harro and meant that 4th Grade was in it’s fourth consecutive Grand Final. The thrills of that particular game are well outlined below.

THE PLAYERS

Mel Singh: Mel had not won a Grand Final going into this season and after the heartbreak of last season it was great to see the joy on his face this time around. One of the keys to our end-of-year success lay in Mel’s batting with superb jobs done in both the Semi Final and Grand Final where he batted for over 5 hours. Always a threat with the ball including match winning performances against Blacktown and Campbelltown, Mel never fought for the cover point position although his slip catching was first rate!

Chris Singh: Chris was his usual outstanding self this year scoring the third highest number of runs and taking a superb 38 wickets at 14.05. He rightly won both an MVP Award as well as Player of the Match in the Grand Final. Chris, as always, was a positive influence around everyone and his ability to knock over right handers with late inswing created havoc in the opposition ( as did his after game shirts! ). A fantastic year from a real team player who was always happy to perform any role that suited the side best. My man of the season.

Troy Brewster: Brewey is a class act as an opener and once he found time in the middle he was our most destructive batsman. When Brewey is set he looks far too good to be playing 4th Grade as he can score big hundreds as well as dominate attacks. His 148 in the Qualifying Final was destructive as was a match turning 42 in the Final. A future 1st grader if he set himself to be.

Will Halstead: Will started playing regularly post HSC and although he did not score as heavily as he would have liked he made some telling contributions. The best of these was a 70 in the 5th Grade Semi that showed he has the temperament for big matches. Will trains hard and wants to succeed a great deal and these are characteristics that will help him progress through the ranks. He has a good technique and a mature outlook. He just needs to ease up on himself at times and release the pressure valve. Seen by Chad as Owen Wilson’s half brother!

Fabian Heaton: The ‘Little Master’ continues to inspire and we welcomed him back from retirement with open arms. Enough has been said about his love of team success but more needs to be acknowledged about his great batting and continual ability to lift the side in the field. A tremendous match winning 50 in the Final and some great catches only tell half the tale. The other half is taken up by his crazy running ‘ Sorry Harro mate’ and continual suggestions on field placing which often require 15 fielders on the field at one time! We all love playing with this great man.

Page: 37 Alex Tomkins: Alex is a tremendous talent and I for one tip a big career ahead for him. If he can add some tightness to his batting technique and get to training more often he has the potential to go as high as he wants as an all rounder. An excellent 50 against Hawkesbury and crucial wickets when he came on to bowl were very important to the team while no one will forget the off drive that almost won us the Grand Final as part of a crucial lower order innings. Also one of the best ground fielders in the club he needs only now to shrug off the title of Harro’s love child to move forward!

Andrew Harrison: It was an absolute pleasure to have the Big Fella in the team this year as he is not only a close friend but someone who contributed so much to the team’s spirit. Harro is still a quality bowler and any of the quicks who watched him run in this year got an education in the art of new ball bowling. Not only that but Harro overcame pain to work batters over in his later spells as well as offering tremendous mentoring to our attack. What pleased me most though was his batting as he justified my faith in him to play some match winning lower order innings ( Hawkesbury, St George, Gordon ) as well as something that I know he will cherish forever with his 2 hour vigil in the Semi Final. To see him race from the field and lead the team song that night was to see the essence of Harro, wanting to lead from the front and drag his team mates along. Also someone I could rely on to help finish the last 6 pack after games as well as swap stories over a Winnie Blue. Well Done mate – you deserve your Premiership.

Chad Greenberg; Chad was simply Chad this year. Cameo knocks that helped win games, important wickets and brilliant fielding in any position. He also formed a good foil for Harro in the slips with their thoughts on how the game might finish although occasionally we differed on what to do after the toss! Chad knows that if he can find a way to train more he can play at a higher level. I will leave that up to him. What I do know is that I always feel fortunate to have him in 4th Grade as he knows what it takes to win and no matter what the stakes I will back him to do something special. Sees the amusing side of most situations and helps make the side fun to be part of. Just don’t give him width first ball in a Final!

David Bourke: I was really pleased for Bourkey this year as he fought back from rock bottom to play some of his best ever innings at season’s end. I sometimes think that Bourkey only musters up his ability when he thinks he is on a last chance. He is far better than that. His 65 against Uni of NSW was followed by a season defining 3 ½ hr 51 in the Semi Final that went a long way to helping us win the title. I hope Bourkey bottles that knock and plays it again and again next year as he is a fine batsman when he says ‘you can’t get me out’. His fielding is not as dynamic and needs some hours on the training field to avoid the skipper checking his cap size, while his ability to live off 10 schooners and a pack of fags would make him a favourite in any 1970’s dressing room in the world! Well Done Bourkey – you earned your cap.

Matt Wallis: Matt overcame a slight downturn in form with the ball mid season to finish very strongly and again play a vital role in our Premiership. Matt is at his best when he hits the wicket hard and hurries up batsmen and his ability to do this come Finals time was crucial to our balance. One of the best pairs of hands in the slips, Matt’s batting feats became legendary this year as in consecutive weeks he blocked 2 balls in the Semi and then strode out and hit his first ball for 4 to win us the Final. Never has a shot been blown to the boundary more by the rest of the team! If Matt can add some consistent outswing to his armoury next year, his rise up the grades is assured.

Rob Cummings: Although Rob didn’t have his best year with the bat he showed his ability with a quality 76 against ND’s and a crucial 30 in the Qualifying Final that got our Finals campaign off to a bang. A measured and amusing member of the team, Rob fitted in nicely despite many attempts to rubbish the Mother Country and his continued bemusement at Fous’ attempts at humour! Rob showed a good pair of hands behind the stumps and I sense that next year we will see the real talent that he possesses as he has one of the best top order techniques in the club.

Grant Rimmer: Rim’s again was unlucky in many ways this year as he, more than anyone, suffered from the abundance of pace bowlers in the lower grades. Figures of 14 wickets at 13.79 are not the statistics of a man undeserving of his place, yet Grant understood the tricky selection issues we had and continued to simply go out on the field and perform. For this he deserves great credit as he does for some outstanding bowling spells at crucial times where he was often our best bowler. Thanks for being a big part of our year Rim’s and congratulations on your Premiership.

Page: 38 John Connell (Manager): The Ger was his usual brilliant self this year even venturing to grounds outside of Burwood on a couple of occasions! Whether organising teas, lifts, drinks, cooling libations or massages, nothing was ever too much trouble for JC. In addition he found time to feed Soda once a week as well as provide some interesting topics of conversation during the match such as the best red to drink with steak as well as his try scoring exploits as a roving prop in rugby. As always the team couldn’t do it without him.

Dick McCord (Scorer): Dick ‘Hubert’ McCord again guided the team towards a Premiership with his astute scoring and informative summary at day’s end! Dick always had confidence in the team and would regularly visit the rooms after hours to read out bowling figures and tell us who his innings of the day was! Dick was with us all year and felt the nerves of the Grand Final as much as anyone. His contribution was greatly appreciated by all the boys.

Special thanks to Trent Griffiths for acting as 12th man during the Semi and Final. Your work was much appreciated Griff.

So there it was. A season of many highs and great memories. My thanks to all the volunteers who helped with teas. The Ger assisted by Sue, Robin, Lee Farlow, Paula and many more. To the groundstaff at Coogee and Kensington who produced such great arenas for us all year. To the wives and partners who support the guys throughout. To the Management Committee and particularly Prince who has worked tirelessly this season and looked to find a solution to every problem.

Finally a huge thank you to the coaching staff who put in so much effort at practice and during matches all season. To Bill Anderson, Peter Devlin, David Skuthorpe and Rob Huxley we appreciate your efforts in creating the environment for the players to excel this season.

Congratulations also to all the teams. Each team gave it a great shot. Well Done to Macca and the 5th Grade boys in particular for hoisting the trophy.

Finally to the players. Thanks fella’s for your great support and feel proud of what you achieved this year.

4th Grade Final - Randwick Petersham v Penrith Sat / Sun. 5 and 6 April 2008 at Coogee Oval by John Connell, Manager

In a gripping game of cricket played over 5 sessions the 4th Grade side fulfilled their destiny to take out the Reid Cup. Our 11 combatants along with 12th man Trent Griffiths, scorer Dick McCord, manager John Connell and team dog Soda, arrived to see Coogee Oval bathed in sunshine and a deck as hard as the roadway alongside the rugby club.

Captain David Townsend gave the boys his usual measured address before commencing the warm ups and the side looked primed for a big effort. The skipper from Penrith had a smile as wide as the Blue Mountains are high, as he called the correct head on the 20 cent coin I lent Towno at the beginning of the season. He requested our presence in the fielding arena whilst his combatants would be examined on their batting skills.

Our two chief examiners Andrew Harrison and Matt Wallis took the new ball and in his second over the "Hammer" cleaned up Smith's timber and the Panthers were 1 for 3.

Kimble (after his efforts in the last game and still unable to locate that confounded one armed man) joined Silk and it was evident that he was going to be a thorn in our side again. On 21 Silk played a shot that was anything but smooth and was out caught by Matt Wallis off Harrison for 7. Six runs later and in his first over, the man of the moment during the whole Semi campaign Chris Singh had their number 4 hurrying back to the sheds and the Panthers were 3 for 27.

In the next over excitement turned to bliss when Harrison captured his third wicket caught behind by Fabian Heaton and the good sized crowd of Penrith supporters were incredulous when Alex Tomkins took an absolute screamer of a catch off Harrison causing Penrith to slump to 5 for 36. In the 15th over Townsend instigated another of his tactical bowling changes bringing Wallis in from the Coogee end. The

Page: 39 plan met with instant success when the "Wallmeister" had Clarke trudging slowly back to the gates with Penrith at 6 for 42 and in all sorts of trouble.

A partnership of 46 then ensued broken only by Chris Singh snaring his second wicket with a good catch by Heaton. Chris then repeated the dose via another catch from Heaton leaving Penrith at 8 for 104. The shark alarm at Coogee let out its plaintive cry as the boys smelt blood in the water when Singh clean bowled the Penrith no.10 without addition. This left Penrith at 9 for 104 and those who had not seen many Grand Finals thought it was all over. Little did they know it had only just begun!

The Pokemon sized Penrith no.11 joined Kimble and it was to be another 114 runs before the partnership was broken. The pair played intelligent cricket with Kimble taking the whip hand and his young partner playing straight and true at everything we threw at him. It was frustrating stuff. Bowling changes and field placements could do nothing. Runs were refused but boundaries hit when the field came up. All agreed afterwards that it had been the best 4th Grade innings we had seen since our inception. At the other end the young Pokemon nicked and nudged his way to 23. The return of Harro brought a cut for 4 and it was with enormous relief when Chad Greenberg finally created an LBW. Penrith all out 218 with Kimble unbeaten on 124 and Lotliker a fine 23. Harrison’s 4 for 49 and Chris Singh’s 4 for 53 were the shining lights in a great bowling display marred only by a great Penrith fightback.

We had much to do. Morale was low as we had been looking at a very low chase at one stage. We had continually spoken about the fact that in every game you will be mentally tested at some point. We were still only chasing 218 on a road.

At 3.45 pm the Singhs, Chris and Mel, playing the roles of openers, strode to the crease and followed the song sheet to the letter. A great opening partnership of 58 between the two which started slowly but began to gather at great pace came to an end at 5.15pm when Mel failed to make his ground despite making a great dive that would have made an Italian striker proud! It was a partnership that totally swung momentum back into our favour. Mel's 37 was a shining beacon in the searchlights of the game. David Bourke joined Chris and the two saw us safely to stumps.

Play resumed at 9.30am the next morning ( we decided not to ask Ando for a wake up call! ) and morale was high as we realised we only needed 150 with 9 wickets left. We spoke about any two players being capable of combining in a partnership. At this stage we didn’t realise we would need all of them!

After the score had progressed smoothly to 84 Chris went LBW for a great 35 and was followed one run later by Bourkey (9). Will Halstead joined Brewster and the large crowd hoped that this would be the "money partnership" as both had come to the game with form on the board. It was not to be as Halstead chipped one to square leg to create 4 for 98.

The Little Master (Heaton) joined Brewster and the two began the resurrection. Brewster decided to raise the tempo with a flurry of boundaries whilst the "Master " played a second fiddle role. Many were hopeful that these two on song could take us across the line. However, the cricket gods had other ideas. Brewster went with the score at 155 after a well compiled 42 and we were now 5 for 155. Confidence was high as Townsend joined Heaton and the two went to lunch unbeaten. 42 runs to get with 5 wickets left.

It seemed so close. A few good overs or some loose bowling. Pressure all on Penrith. But 3 overs after lunch Townsend nicked to first slip and the crowd shuffled nervously. 40 to get.

Tomkins, who was wearing the clubs Green Shield cap 2 years ago, was set to play an important innings. He supported Heaton to get us past the psychological total of 200 and onto 207. The Master was chipping the ball to all parts while Tomkins showed a cool nerve. Only 12 to win with 4 wickets left. Even Soda was starting to breathe easily!

Disaster. The Little Master strides well forward but is adjudged LBW for 56. It had been a great innings under pressure. 12 to win with 3 wickets left. Surely not another drama! Harro takes guard and 3 balls later a thick inside edge is heard. Did he hit it? Yes he did as the veteran trudges off. 12 to win with 2 wickets left.

By now the good sized crowd was silent. Most players were pacing and non smokers were puffing away!

Page: 40 We were all heartened to see the cool figure of "King" Greenberg enter the arena committed to play his hand the only way he knows. Straight away he laced one through backward point for four. 8 to win.

The tension was building as the skipper fired up his 20th Winnie Blue and the Ger strode from one point of the ground to the other!

Two more two’s and we were down to 4 to win. Three would do as the tie would be enough but we wanted the ultimate prize.

Tomkins on strike and Penrith decide to take the new ball. Last throw of the dice. Kimble, having taken 3 wickets is bowling. Third ball of the over and Tomkins launches into an off drive. He hammers it and everyone rises to watch it sail for the winning runs but unfortunately, mid off flings himself to his right and the ball sticks in one hand. Pandemonium and the first time I have seen grown men go white!

An eerie sort of uneasy silence as Matt Wallis who had sat as cool as a cucumber with his pads on got up to walk out. No advice to be given here. Just find a way to score the runs!

Penrith are straining to bowl the ball with an attacking field that includes 3 slips and a gully and short leg. Where will he bowl it? Where don’t we want him to bowl it! The ground is hushed as he approaches but erupts as a confident flick rushes through square leg and over the boundary for 4!

What a finish! Pandemonium breaks out with players running everywhere. A season that had played itself out on a knife edge had finished the same way!

A great season with many highs and few lows. Skipper Townsend was a good example for the young and not so young players in the side. His contribution with the bat got us out of some sticky situations and all learnt under his astute captaincy.

Andrew Harrison, Mel Singh, David Bourke, Will Halstead and Alex Tomkins all drank from the cup as first time premiers and their contribution in the finals series could not be underestimated. Chris Singh's bowling and batting was first rate whilst Brewster, Wallis, Heaton and Greenberg all made significant contributions. Trent Griffith acted as our 12th man and his contribution did not go unnoticed. Unluckily our opening batsman nearly all season Rob Cummins had organised a cruise some time ago and missed the Final but also made a great contribution.

The Scoreboard

Penrith 1st innings Randwick Petersham 1st innings

J Silk C F Heaton b A Harrison 7 C Singh lbw b M Graham 35 D Smyth b A Harrison 1 M Singh run out 37 M Kimble not out 124 D Bourke lbw b I Russell 9 S Gavin lbw b C Singh 2 T Brewster c & b M Graham 42 J Betros c F Heaton b A Harrison 0 W Halstead C J Clarke b M Graham 2 C Butler c A Tomkins b A Harrison 0 +F Heaton lbw b M Kimble 56 J Clarke c F Heaton b M Wallis 0 *D Townsend c S Gavin b M Kimble 13 I Russell c F Heaton b C Singh 34 A Tomkins c J Betros b M Kimble 12 +T Spain c F Heaton b C Singh 5 A Harrison c I Russell b M Kimble 0 *M Graham b C Singh 0 C Greenberg not out 6 R Lotliker lbw b c Greenberg 23 M Wallis not out 4 Sundries 22 Sundries 4 TOTAL 218 TOTAL 9 for 220 Fall : 3,21,27,29,38,42,88,104,104,218. Fall: 58,84,85,98,155,178,207,207,216.

Bowling: A Harrison 16-4-49-4 Bowling: F Atcham 19-5-54-1 M Wallis 16-5 50-1 M Graham 16-5-38-2 C Singh 13-1-53-4 D Smyth 10-2-32-0 M Singh 9-2-28-0 M Kimble 12.5-4-39-4 A Tomkins 4-1-16-0 J Clarke 14-6-18-1 C Greenberg 4.2-0-18-1 R Lotliker 9-0-38-0 Overs: 62.2 Overs: 80.5

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4th Grade Premiers 2007-08 Back Row: Richard McCord (Scorer), Melvin Singh, David Bourke, Matthew Wallis, Andrew Harrison, Will Halstead, Troy Brewster, John Connell (Manager). Front Row: Chris Singh, Chad Greenberg, David Townsend (Captain), Fabian Heaton, Robert Cummings. Insert: Alex Tomkins.

4th Grade “Brains Trust” Richard McCord David Townsend & Andrew Harrison 4th Grade Scorer and Life Member

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4TH GRADE - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO David Townsend 15 15 2 441 33.92 75* 7/0 Troy Brewster 8 8 1 345 49.29 148 1/1 Chris Singh 16 17 1 237 14.81 42 3/0 Chad Greenberg 14 14 3 201 18.27 34 5/0 David Bourke 11 12 0 196 16.33 67 2/0 Fabian Heaton 7 6 0 191 31.83 72 0/0 Melvin Singh 9 8 1 167 23.86 51 6/0 Marc Anderson 6 5 0 157 31.40 76 1/0 Andrew Harrison 12 12 3 154 17.11 30 4/0 Robert Cummings 9 9 0 154 17.11 76 0/0 Steve Clarke 2 2 1 150 150.00 78 0/0 Alex Tomkins 8 9 1 142 17.75 52 1/0 Trent Griffiths 3 3 0 118 39.33 64 0/0 Will Halstead 8 7 0 66 9.43 34 2/1 Karl Schubert 5 4 2 57 28.50 31* 0/0 Thomas Merilaht 5 6 0 53 8.83 20 1/1 Benn West 5 3 1 39 19.50 36 3/0 Grant Rimmer 9 7 3 38 9.50 16 2/0 Matthew Wallis 9 6 4 21 10.50 14* 8/2 Also Batted: Matches/Innings/Not Out/Runs/Catches. Mark Carlton 4/4/0/91/3, Andrew Walters 3/3/0/65/1, Robert Close 3/4/2/51/1, Sean Gardner 1/1/0/41/0, Thomas Holland 1/1/0/34/1, Matthew Hilder 4/3/0/27/4, Nathan McCoy 1/1/1/15/0, Brenton Barker 1/1/0/14/0, Tony Martin 2/2/0/10/0, Glenn Farquharson 1/1/1/8/0, Cameron Fowler 2/2/2/8/0, James Tyson 1/1/0/3/0, Matthew Doyle 1/1/0/3/1, Shaylin Moodliar 3/3/0/2/2, Nick Charlwood 1/0/0/0/0, Denis Hinds 1/0/0/0/0. TOTAL BATTING 191 181 29 3299 21.70 148 59/5

4TH GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Chris Singh 188.00 43 38 534 14.05 2.84 5/42 Andrew Harrison 125.83 30 21 337 16.05 2.68 5/16 Melvin Singh 92.67 22 17 267 15.71 2.88 5/24 Benn West 58.17 6 16 212 13.25 3.64 5/23 Matthew Wallis 108.17 27 16 310 19.38 2.87 3/34 Grant Rimmer 80.83 20 14 193 13.79 2.39 4/35 Chad Greenberg 90.33 20 13 295 22.69 3.27 2/21 Alex Tomkins 26.00 6 6 74 12.33 2.85 2/7 Matthew Hilder 22.00 6 3 65 21.67 2.95 2/29 Marc Anderson 29.00 1 1 107 107.00 3.69 1/56 Also Bowled: Overs/Wickets/Runs. Robert Close 16/5/78, Nathan McCoy 8/3/11, Tony Martin 10/3/21, James Tyson 14/2/26, Mark Carlton 3/1/10, Glenn Farquharson 8/1/32, David Bourke 5/1/34, Cameron Fowler 12/0/36, Nick Charlwood 9/0/48. Total Bowling 906.00 194 161 2690 16.71 2.97 5/16

4TH GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Fabian Heaton 15 0 15 12 Robert Cummings 4 4 8 12 Karl Schubert 3 0 3 17

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5th Grade Report by Darren McCoy, Captain Position in Competition: 1st

A commanding and joyous victory in the Final is how it ended. It started however, much more modestly.

A good win against St George, with Nathan McCoy debuting and collecting 2-20 off 10 and the experienced Grant Rimmer with 3 for 32. Rob Cummings 58 and David Bourke 44 dominated the St George attack. This win was followed by a draw against Sydney Uni, where we saw the star quality of Jason Gray (48 not out), and a couple of sizable losses to Sutherland (who scored 311) and Wests where our batting completely failed us. One win from our first four and struggling to stay in touch was not the start we hoped for. What we weren’t to know at this time, October, was that no team would score over 200 against us again.

Our next match against Blacktown was important for two reasons; first we had a commanding win and second we saw the emergence of James Tyson (at this point ‘Tyso’ had season figures of 1 for 125). We rolled Blacktown for 78 with ‘Tyso’ taking 7 wickets. Matt Doyle with a quality 48 not out ensured the victory.

A big one day win with a bonus point vs Northern District was followed by two very significant matches.

The first, a woeful performance vs North Sydney, where we conceded two bonus points to the ultimate Minor Premiers. The only positive being the innings of Denis Howard (35 not out). The big guy from Bathurst went on to be a vital cog in the 5th Grade charge. North’s deserved the victory and took great delight in reminding us of the two bonus points. It’s fair to say we didn’t forget and we were grateful to get another shot at them in the Final.

The second, on a ‘goat track’ at Raby 3 vs Campbelltown. To this point we were 3 wins from 7 games and well outside the top 6 – this was a must win. Grant Rimmer, a key man in any side, bowled superbly and systematically dismantled the Ghosts batting line up with 6 for 22. Chasing 69 proved troublesome as we lost a brace of early wickets to be 5 for not many. It was left to two youngsters who had 10 grade games experience between them to get us home. Nathan McCoy with 17 and Jason Gray with 15 saw us home and we secured the vital 6 points. This was the second of five games (including the Final) that we would win inside the first day.

Our next match against Hawkesbury revealed another critical piece in our Finals team as Rob Close joined us for the first time and took 3 for 28 and together with James Tyson, Nathan McCoy and Nick Charlwood destroyed Hawkesbury for a paltry 113. Nick Stapleton with 49 and Scott Gray (another of our talented youngsters) with 34 not out ensured victory.

A rain affected match against Sydney resulted in a draw. Then our fourth win on the first day’s play followed vs Gordon. No ‘Tyso’ but Nathan McCoy with 3 for 9, Rob Close 2 for 16 and Cameron Fowler 4 for 18 were all superb. Gordon all out 76. Particularly, pleasing for Cameron Fowler to be in the wickets. Tom Holland with a gritty 27 and Matt Hilder 26 secured the victory.

Our next match vs Manly, was a very tough win for a number of reasons. We scrambled 217 on a slow wicket at Snape with Alex Tomkins scoring a classy 49, Darren McCoy 32 not out (batting with glandular fever at no 9) and Karl Schubert 32. Day 2 was looking grim as Manly got to 4 for 80 at tea and we were without Skipper McCoy and two of our bowlers injured in Close and Tomkins. With only 3 fit bowlers; Nathan McCoy (2 for 32) and Matthew Hilder (2 for 30) really stepped up, but it was Cameron Fowler who really left his mark on this match and was superb in taking 4 for 33. A win full of character and we move into the top 6 for the first time.

Now to Uni of NSW - with a new side and Matthew Hilder, assuming the captaincy. Tom Holland held our innings together with a fighting 34 and then Rob Close, who denies ever having kissed the captain, batted with glandular fever and made a classy 69. Jason Gray rounds it out with a quality 43 not out. Darren Kumar, Matthew Hilder, Cameron Fowler and for the first time this year Daniel Laus combine to claim 20 Uni wickets and a gripping outright result. With this we are guaranteed our spot in the Finals.

Page: 44 The final round match vs Penrith saw Holland and Howard post 39 apiece and then Bart Lynch (23) and Daniel Laus (20) ensured we got a competitive total with 184. We were now accustomed to our opening bowling attack dominating proceedings and this was no different, McCoy and Tyson taking two wickets apiece and reducing Penrith to 4 for 32. ‘Tyso’ finished with 5 for 30 and warming up for the Finals.

We finish third and in the Qualifying Final play Sutherland who smashed us in the rounds. We have no hesitation in deciding to play at Petersham. We feel we can beat any team, we haven’t lost since October, only twice have we conceded 200 or more and once again not since October 2007.

We were soon in trouble in the QF at 4 for 33. Alex Tomkins plays a sublime innings of 93 and combines with Darren McCoy (54) to post a partnership of 130. Nathan McCoy chips in with a late 20 and enables us to get to 212. We know Sutherland are going to have to bat well to chase this down on a very slow outfield. Some good early bowling by RPC but Sutherland were full of fight and went to tea at 4-123. Forty odd overs to get 90 and 6 wickets in hand – the game was on the line. What happened after tea was very special. Incredibly tight bowling by Rimmer, McCoy, Tyson and Hilder 3 for 18 (off 18) and some fielding of the highest order, including three brilliant catches and two run outs. Under extreme pressure our fielding and bowling was faultless. Sutherland could get only 48 of the 90 to be all out 164. RPC in to the Semi’s. We feel ready for any team, any venue.

As the lower ranked team for the Semi-Final v Bankstown (who won their QF outright) we won the toss and batted and found ourselves in the all-too-familiar position of 3 for 27. Another rescue mission required. This time it was Will Halstead with a commanding 76 and Matthew Hilder with a patient and determined 66. This combination added 108 and then Nathan McCoy (17 not out) and Grant Rimmer (13 not out) added some quick runs to support the early declaration strategy. RPC 7 declared for 224. Bankstown were surprised by the declaration and then horrified after ‘Tyso’ ripped through the top order late on day 1 to have them 3 for 15 at stumps. We believed we would have to fight hard on day 2 to secure it but ‘Tyso’ was in no mood to hang around and finished his day 1 work with another 4 wickets to claim 7 for 16. Bankstown all out 82 and RPC marching on to the Final against North Sydney. Remembering North’s smashed us in the rounds we were keen to not only “lift the cup” but also wipe the memory of our heavy loss to them (see following report).

It is difficult to introduce every player here as we used a staggering 41 players through the season. Every player who played 5th Grade this year made a contribution to this Premiership. Great credit must also go to Denis Hinds and all the ‘Metro lads’ as they work away all year just waiting for their chance. This premiership victory belongs in no small part to them as well.

The boys who performed in the big one, in batting order, are as follows:

Karl Schubert: Moved between 4’s and 5’s and really saved his best for last, with a great Final’s match. A superb 73 and ‘keeping display in the big one.

Matt Doyle: Scored a lot of runs in Metro Cup early in the year and then lost his way a little bit. A rock solid display in the 91 run opening stand in the Final.

Nathan McCoy: Opened the bowling all year and continually improved with 23 wickets at 16.61. Suffered a little due to bowling restrictions and I expect him to improve further as he is allowed to bowl more. He added to the team’s cause in the Finals with some vital runs, stepped up to bat 3 in the Final and delivered with a fine 41.

Rob Close: Late start due to HSC and then he contracted glandular fever, but a vital addition to the Finals team. Bowled some great spells and his 69 vs Uni was a classy knock. Quality fieldsman with endless energy.

Matthew Hilder: Didn’t score as heavily as he would have liked but was always contributing in some significant way. Matty captained the team superbly against Manly and then Uni of NSW. Bowled superbly in the QF v Sutherland and made a vital 66 in the Semi. His catching in the slips cordon was consistently brilliant.

Page: 45 Darren McCoy: Loved seeing the team develop and improve as the year progressed, particularly enjoyed the balance of experience and youth. A pleasure to stand at first slip to such a quality attack.

Denis Howard: A late, but highly important addition to the side. Contributed throughout with vital runs and important wickets. Was always outstanding in the field. A high quality competitor and teamman happy to play whatever role required. I’m glad I got to play with Denis. We wish him well on his return to the rural life next year.

Tom Holland: Tom played a number of important knocks throughout the year. He is a real tough competitor and he set up wins against Uni of NSW, Gordon and Penrith. He is also one of the most versatile fieldsmen in our Club.

Grant Rimmer: I make no secret of my admiration for “Rims”. A truly great clubman who has a massive influence on our young talent. One must not forget his quality as a bowler…29 wickets at 13 taken in 4th and 5th grades. I know I can throw him the ball under pressure and he always delivers. A superb fieldsman. His jokes are rubbish.

Cameron Fowler: “Chook” took a while to get going this year, mainly because he missed a few early games and then he couldn’t get a bowl because the quicks kept bowling teams out for less than a 100. When he got going he bowled beautifully taking 26 wickets at 13. The game never drifts when “Chook” is bowling.

James Tyson: “Tyso” took a while to get going and before the Blacktown match had 1 for 125. When he got started no one could stop him. His last 4 games yielded 21 wickets (5 for, 3 for, 7 for, 6 for) and in all he collected 41 wickets at 8.88 for the year. He always delivered, usually via a brutal inswinging yorker. Great rivalry with Chook for the No 11 batting spot.

Neville Walters: Our Manager was a tower of strength, he missed the first few rounds and when he joined we lost only one match. He laid everything on for us and with him on board all of our excuses left. He is a great mentor and mate for all as well as our team conscience.

There were many other players and officials who contributed to our success and our Premiership this year - thank you one and all. There will be several who played 5th Grade this year who will go on to play lots of 1st Grade cricket with this great club and will remember this season 2007-08 as “the springboard”.

5th Grade Final – Randwick Petersham v North Sydney Sat / Sun. 5 and 6 April 2008 at Tunks Park, Northbridge

A beautiful day, great location, busy groundsmen and volunteers setting up for, as our CEO fondly calls it, “a weekend in April”. This is why we play all year – the big one – the FINAL.

North Sydney win the toss and not surprisingly decide to have a bat on a deck that is rock hard, flat with not a blade of grass on it – a belter, as we expected. Our bowling has been great all year, but this would be their test. The left / right hand opening combination of North Sydney looked comfortable against our left arm opening combination of James Tyson and Nathan McCoy. The home team move through 4 overs, 6 overs and 8 overs without loss, 0-15 and not a sniff. The first half hour to them.

In our 10th over, Nathan McCoy gets us started when the previously prolific right hander decides to leave one just outside off but it swings back and takes off stump out of the ground. McCoy gets us going but due to SCA restrictions on young pace bowlers must be removed from the attack.

We deliberately concede a single to let our ‘Tyro from Tassie’, James Tyson, have a crack at the newly arrived No 3. Tyson delivers, as he does, by swinging one back for an LBW. As No. 4 takes guard I turn to Hilder at second slip and we simultaneously state, “this will be an inswinging yorker”. It was, and it removed off and middle. Now 3 for 16 and we are on familiar ground again.

A promising partnership from Norths as their No 5 who batted really well in the round match against us looked like repeating the dose. However, a change in the field brought an immediate result as he chipped one from Tyso to young McCoy at Cover. 4 for 36. An over or two later and Tyso spears one through the stubborn left hander and into leg stump. 5 for 37.

Page: 46 Their captain arrives and finds a partner and they look intent on a rescue mission as they take the score up to 60. Rob Close and Cam Fowler operating together, continue the pressure and Norths now understand they will have to battle it out for every run. The last time a team scored over 200 against this attack was October 2007!

If it wasn’t tough enough already we decide to introduce Grant Rimmer – a complete scrooge if ever there was one. It would be easier to get $100 cash out of him than a loose one. It’s the big matches he likes and he induces a nick from their skipper and ‘keeper Schubert pouches it. A vital wicket and Norths deep in it at 6–61. We head off to lunch at 6-71. Happy but far from satisfied. We know there is much cricket to play and five sessions left.

Fowler and Rimmer resume after the break and in Chook’s second over back he claims a caught and bowled. 7 for 80. Chook must be cursing the Captain because he does his job and picks up a wicket and is then removed from the attack!

Tyson was told he’d rested long enough and was required – immediately. This bloke from Tassie doesn’t waste time. Another , another LBW in the first over of his second spell. 8 for 86. Norths look to rally with a partnership based on defence and cheeky singles. Our youngsters Close and McCoy operate in tandem and keep things tight until Rob Close with a lovely gets a nick to Hilder at second slip. 9 for 120.

No 11 arrives and one sensed he didn’t plan on staying long, but we were taking no chances and made certain of it by asking Tyso to return – again. Norths all out 121. James Tyson 6-26 (off 17), Nathan McCoy 1-15 (off 10), Rob Close 1-30 (off 10), Cameron Fowler 1-19 (off 5) and Grant Rimmer 1-22 (off 8). Another sterling performance by an attack that is quite frankly, a long, long way in front of 5th Grade standard. Only twice in 18 matches have teams posted more than 200 against it.

122 required and 44 overs left on day 1. A revised batting order and some clear instructions - we needed a win to be Premiers and we had heard rain forecast for the next day. We wanted this secured on day 1 – just in case.

Karl Schubert and Matt Doyle opened our innings and took immediate control. Doyle was the rock and looked set for a long stay. Schubert was aggressive and punished anything short. It went on for some 23 overs and 91 runs before Doyle was adjudged LBW for an incredibly important and composed 27. He settled any anxiety about the pursuit. Our best opening partnership of the year in the biggest game of the year!

Schubert, now joined by Nathan McCoy, continued on his way hitting through the covers, driving through mid on and smashing anything short. However, his commanding knock came to a close at 73 and together with his glove work we witnessed a stirring Finals performance from ‘the Schu’.

The youngsters in McCoy and Close now had a dual purpose. Firstly, ensure we got the remaining 20 odd runs and once attained ensure we didn’t lose another wicket. Young heads, but cool heads and they picked off ones and two’s and saw us through to stumps at 2–132 and both a dozen or so not out. Day 1 and a lead on first innings in the big one.

Our plan on Day 2 was simple – bat, and bat, and bat – be ruthless. Close and McCoy resume and do the job, the first hour critical in ensuring we don’t give Norths a sniff at any crazy outright result, both playing some lovely shots in the process. Rob Close departs to a great catch at second slip for a cool 23. Nathan McCoy continues driving down the ground and eventually departs for a quality 41. Hilder sees us through to lunch with 26 not out, McCoy senior comes and goes and Dennis Howard finishes 9 not out. North Sydney concede all hope at lunch time on day 2 and stumps are drawn.

We are the Premiers ! The loudest victory song yet.

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The Scoreboard

North Sydney 1st innings Randwick Petersham 1st innings A Wayling b Tyson 12 + K Schubert c & b J Hopwood 73 S Ball b N McCoy 2 M Doyle lbw b J Hopwood 27 S Henwood lbw b J Tyson 0 N McCoy c T Wilson b P Pauk 41 B Perkins b J Tyson 0 R Close c S Henwwod b F Atscham 23 J Cole c N McCoy b J Tyson 15 M Hilder not out 26 * J Hopwood c K Schubert b G Rimmer 14 *D McCoy lbw J Hopwood 7 C Stewart lbw b J Tyson 26 D Howard dnb +T Wilson c & b C Fowler 4 T Holland dnb S Wright c M Hilder b R Close 6 G Rimmer dnb P Paulk not out 24 J Tyson dnb F Atscham b J Tyson 0 C Fowler dnb Sundries 12 Sundries 17 TOTAL 121 TOTAL 5 for 223

Fall : 15,16,16,36,37,61,80,86,120,121. Fall: 91,109,177,179,197.

Bowling: J Tyson 16.5-5-26-6 Bowling: F Atcham 19-6-61-1 N McCoy 10-4 15-1 P Pauk 16-6-35-1 R Close 10-1-30-1 C Stewart 7-0-38-0 C Fowler 5-0-19-1 J Hopwood 23-6-47-3 G Rimmer 8-2-22-1 S Wright 14-6-34-0 Batting time: 202 mins Overs: 49.5 Batting time: 273 mins Overs: 79

5th Grade Premiers 2007-08 Back Row: Barton Lynch, Denis Howard, Grant Rimmer, Nathan McCoy, James Tyson, Thomas Holland, Matthew Hilder, Neville Walters (Manager). Front Row: Matthew Doyle, Karl Schubert, Darren McCoy (Captain), Cameron Fowler, Robert Close.

Page: 48 5TH GRADE - BATTING Batsman M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Darren McCoy 15 15 4 229 20.82 54 9/0 Robert Cummings 5 6 1 207 41.40 58 0/2 Thomas Holland 13 13 2 187 17.00 39 7/1 Matthew Hilder 8 7 1 160 26.67 66 10/0 Robert Close 7 6 0 157 26.17 69 2/1 Denis Howard 10 9 2 157 22.43 39 2/1 Karl Schubert 8 6 0 152 25.33 73 0/1 Jason Gray 6 6 3 145 48.33 48* 3/0 Alex Tomkins 2 2 0 142 71.00 93 0/1 Nathan McCoy 17 13 2 135 12.27 41 3/0 Thomas Merilaht 4 5 1 128 32.00 87 0/0 David Bourke 5 5 0 118 23.60 44 1/0 Matthew Doyle 6 6 1 106 21.20 46* 0/0 Scott Gray 7 7 2 85 17.00 34* 0/0 Grant Rimmer 7 4 2 28 14.00 13* 2/2 Cameron Fowler 14 7 1 22 3.67 10 4/0 James Tyson 11 6 2 18 4.50 7* 1/0 Also Batted : Matches/Innings/Not Out/Runs/Catches. Will Halstead 2/2/0/77/1, Nicholas Stapleton 2/2/0/53/0, Simon McKenzie 4/4/2/38/1, Barton Lynch 3/3/0/36/0, Shaylin Moodliar 3/30/36/0, Mark Carlton 2/2/0/27/0, Daniel Laus 2/2/2/27/3, Tony Martin 2/2/0/25/0, Richard Bowles 4/4/0/21/0, Nick Charlwood 2/2/1/17/1, Thomas Whitaker 1/1/0/15/0, Andrew Harrison 2/2/0/15/0, Scott Manning 1/1/0/14/1, Daniel Levitt 2/2/0/14/0, James McKenzie 4/2/0/11/4, Denis Hinds 2/1/0/7/0, George Frazakis 1/1/0/5/0, George Mafi 1/1/0/5/0, Manul Kandarra 1/1/0/0/0, Troy Brewster 1/1/0/0/0, Marc Anderson 1/1/0/0/1, Kieran Hewar, Darren Kumar & Luke Bush 1/0/0/0/0 TOTAL BATTING 191 162 29 2613 19.65 93 56/10

5TH GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best James Tyson 144.83 39 39 338 8.67 2.33 7/16 Cameron Fowler 104.67 21 26 302 11.62 2.89 4/11 Nathan McCoy 172.50 42 23 382 16.61 2.21 3/9 Grant Rimmer 74.17 12 14 172 12.29 2.32 6/22 Matthew Hilder 62.16 20 10 85 8.50 1.37 3/13 Simon McKenzie 45.00 8 8 157 19.63 3.49 3/59 Robert Close 62.00 10 7 134 19.14 2.16 3/28 Daniel Laus 36.00 13 6 79 13.17 2.19 4/9 Denis Hinds 36.00 8 4 92 23.00 2.56 3/35 James McKenzie 33.00 7 3 121 40.33 3.67 3/25 Darren Kumar 21.00 5 3 31 10.33 1.48 3/19 Marc Anderson 10.00 2 2 36 18.00 3.60 2/36 Denis Howard 21.00 4 2 60 30.00 2.86 2/5 Nick Charlwood 20.00 5 1 58 58.00 2.90 1/34 Darren McCoy 28.00 5 1 84 84.00 3.00 1/11 Also Bowled : Overs/Wickets/Runs. Jason Gray 1/1/1, Alex Tomkins 13/1/22, Kieran Hewar 1/0/2, Andrew Harrison 5/0/15, David Bourke 5/0/19, Thomas Merilaht 4/0/17, Daniel Levitt 3/0/14, Thomas Whitaker 2/0/10, Mark Carlton 2/0/11. TOTAL BOWLING 906.33 206 151 2242 14.85 2.47 7/16

5TH GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes Karl Schubert 10 3 13 21 Nicholas Stapleton 4 0 4 5 Thomas Holland 2 2 4 6 Scott Gray 2 0 2 4 Robert Cummings 1 0 1 18

Page: 49 Poidevin Gray Shield (under 21 years) by Peter Devlin, Coach Position in Competition: 13th

It would be fair to say that the team underachieved with only three wins from seven games this season. The team had opportunities to challenge for the semi-final series but on too many occasions failed to bat out the 50 overs and have wickets in hand to post winning totals. All batsmen made starts in various games but failed to go on with it. Only Brett Jackson in the final game against Mosman reached triple figures with a brilliant 104 not out off 20 overs. Sean Gardner with 67 against Hawkesbury and Campbell Dash with 62 against University NSW were the only other players to achieve half-centuries.

Statistics show our batting ranked 15th in the competition with 1,180 runs off 313.84 overs at an average of 3.76 per over. Our average of 168.5 runs per game hardly stacked up against the winners St. George who averaged 211.4, a clear difference of 42.9 runs per game. Batting and batting skills in limited over games is certainly an area that needs to be addressed.

Our bowling did much better finishing 7th overall with Peter Alevizos taking 9 wickets at 17.11 in six matches. On too many occasions we let sides off the hook with poor line bowling and crucial dropped catches. It was pleasing to see players go back to training and work on improving areas of their game. It certainly showed with many players performing better in their grade teams.

Unfortunately we were never able to field our best XI which was disappointing. Captain Usman Khawaja managed to play only three games due to representative fixtures and university studies. Promising young all rounder Alex Brown, also played only three games due to injury. Alex top scored with 44 against Parramatta, 32 against Easts and took 3-15 off 5 overs against Mosman. Nick Charlwood, A W Green Shield Player of the Year in 2006-07 played only three games due to school commitments and was outstanding against Sydney taking 3-7 off 8 overs.

With these three players missing for over half the series, it certainly didn’t help our chances, although it did give the opportunity for younger players to experience this level of competition.

With 14 of the 17 who played this season available again next summer coupled with next seasons intake, there is every indication that we should be a serious threat in 2008-09.

Many thanks to coach Rob Huxley and scorer Richard McCord for their assistance throughout the season together with parents and supporters. Special thanks to Angela Redman, Margaret Gardner, Bernadette Passas, Darren and Christine McCoy and Michael Arratoon who looked after the canteen and match day requirements.

Also to the players, many thanks for your efforts, I’m sure you all learnt a great deal about your own games and what is required to succeed in limited over matches.

Summary of Matches Round 1 v Parramatta @ Petersham Oval Lost by 6 wkts RP 149 to 4-150 In the absence of captain Usman Khawaja, Ashley Doolan won the toss and elected to bat. After a good opening partnership of 46 between Sean Gardner (15) and Andrew Redman (20), a collapse saw us reeling at 8-98. A gritty innings from Alex Brown (44) and Alex Tomkins (8 not out) produced a 51 run partnership to post 149 off 50 overs. Early wickets to Brett Jackson, Alex Brown and Peter Alevizos saw Parramatta in trouble at 3-30. A couple of missed chances and inconsistent bowling saw Parramatta pass the required total 4 wickets down in 32.3 overs. Peter Alevizos was the pick of the bowlers taking 2-13 off 8 overs.

Page: 50 Round 2 v University NSW @ Petersham Oval Lost by 2 wkts RP 219 to UNSW 8-220 With Captain Usman Khawaja back replacing the injured Andrew Redman and Tom Holland replacing the injured Alex Brown, Usman won the toss and elected to bat looking to post a score of 230 plus. After 25 overs we were 4-92, a fair start to build on. A fifth wicket partnership of 92 between Campbell Dash (62) and Will Passas (43) took the score to 4- 184. Poor shot selection saw only 45 runs scored and 6 wickets lost in the last 10 overs, the side slumping to be all out for 219. Uni were in early trouble at 2-4 but recovered to be 2-100. Some good bowling from Peter Alevizos (3-51) off 10 overs and Brett Jackson (2-25) off 10 overs nearly gained victory. Uni passed the total 8 wickets down with 3 balls to spare.

Round 3 v Hawkesbury @ Owen Earle Oval Won (run-rate) RP 219 to Hawkesbury 4-160 The Randy Petes travelled west without Khawaja, Alevizos and Brown to take on the strong Hawkesbury outfit. Stand in captain Ashley Doolan won the toss and elected to bat on an excellent batting wicket. At 1-143 after a 2nd wicket partnership of 100 (Sean Gardner 67 and Campbell Dash 49), 250 plus was there for the asking. Not to be with 9 wickets falling for only 76 runs, with only Will Passas (31) out off the last ball showing any resolve. Young guns Robert Close (1-30) off 9 overs and Nick Charlwood (0-8) off 6 overs bowled superbly to stem the flow of runs. These 15 overs contributed to keeping Hawkesbury’s run-rate just below ours. Hawkesbury were 4-160 in the 37th over when rain stopped play. A victory to the Randy Pete’s despite failing to build a big score after a good start.

Round 4 v Sydney @ Drummoyne Oval Won by 103 runs RP 9-183 to Sydney 80 A near full strength team with only Alex Brown missing through injury saw Sydney win the toss and put us in on a moist surface under overcast skies. After 50 overs the Randy Pete’s fought hard in difficult conditions to post 9-183. Brett Jackson (46), Usman Khawaja (37) and Ashley Doolan (25) batted superbly. The bowling and fielding was excellent for the first time in the series and as a group they were relentless. Nick Charlwood’s outstanding spell of 3-7 off 8 overs was well supported by Robbie Close 2-17 off 8 overs and Usman 2-15 off 7 overs. With two wins on the trot and the high level of this performance the side was looking confident in meeting the strong Bankstown side the following game.

Round 5 v Bankstown @ Bankstown Oval Lost by 6 wkts RP 124 to Bankstown 4-127 With the only change being Cameron Fowler in for the injured Andrew Redman, we were confident of beating the strong Bankstown outfit. Winning the toss and batting, we never got going. Brett Jackson (29), Ashley Doolan (28), Will Passas (23) and Usman Khawaja (14) all got starts but failed to go on with it. A disappointing effort to be all out for 124. Bankstown passed the total 4 down in the 25th over. The bowlers bowled well, several dropped catches and crucial decisions did not help our cause. A disappointing result after winning the previous two matches.

Round 6 v Easts @ Coogee Oval Lost by 50 runs RP 144 to Easts 194 An Easts side sprinkled with first graders was going to be hard to beat. With Khawaja and Charlwood unavailable Andrew Redman and Alex Brown returned for the local derby. Easts won the toss and battled on the beautiful Coogee Oval wicket. They were in all sorts of trouble at 3-20. Brett Jackson (2-35) picked up two wickets in two balls and Peter Alevizos (1-30) claimed another. Easts state representative was dropped on 10 before hitting 95 in an innings full of class hitting the ball to all parts of the ground. When Warner was run out the bowlers did a great job to restrict Easts to 194, an achievable total. Robbie Close again bowled well when Warner was in full flight finishing with 2-38 off 8 overs. Leg spinner Cameron Fowler produced his best figures at this level claiming 2-26 off 5 overs. Our batting once again failed on a good batting surface, wickets falling at regular intervals. Only Alex Brown (32) and Robbie Close (20 not out) showed any resistance, Randy Pete’s all out for 144.

Round 7 v Mosman @ Coogee Oval Won by 10 wkts RP 0-142 to Mosman 140 The match was reduced to 31 overs per team due to rain and wet surrounds. Many thanks to the Green Options ground staff, Rob Huxley, Darren McCoy and Peter Devlin for their hard work in getting the game underway. It would have been easy to call the game off. Well done to all. With the ground fit to play and the sun shining, Mosman won the toss and batted reaching 140 off their 31 overs. Alex Brown was the pick of the bowlers with a great spell of 3-15 off 5 overs. Cameron Fowler again bowled well returning 2-26 off 5 overs while Jordan Magro bowled superbly to finish with 1-10 off 6 overs. Brett Jackson and Andrew Redman strode to the crease with Ashley Doolan asking Brett Jackson to entertain the team and supporters. Brett certainly did that scoring 104 not out in 20 overs. With Andrew (31 not out), the pair put on 142 runs in just 79 minutes. Brett would be first to say he had underachieved in this competition but he showed to all present what a class player he is with a huge future in the game. A great way to finish the PG’s season.

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POIDEVIN GRAY - BATTING

Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Brett Jackson 7 7 1 211 35.17 104* 4/2 Sean Gardner 7 6 0 134 22.33 67 2/1 Campbell Dash 6 6 0 133 22.17 62 1/0 William Passas 7 6 0 121 20.17 43 1/0 Andrew Redman 5 5 1 111 27.75 31* 0/0 Ashley Doolan 7 6 0 84 14.00 28 0/0 Alex Brown 3 2 0 76 38.00 44 0/0 Usman Khawaja 3 3 0 62 20.67 37 0/0 Robert Close 6 5 1 46 11.50 20* 3/0 Jordan Magro 7 6 0 34 5.67 7 1/0 Alex Tomkins 2 2 1 10 10.00 8* 1/0 Thomas Holland 1 1 0 9 9.00 9 0/0 Nick Charlwood 3 3 2 8 8.00 4* 0/0 Cameron Fowler 5 4 2 6 3.00 3 1/0 Peter Alevizos 6 5 1 5 1.25 3* 1/2 Mark Carlton 1 1 0 2 2.00 2 0/0 Nathan McCoy 1 0/0 TOTAL BATTING 77 68 9 1052 17.83 104* 15/5

POIDEVIN GRAY - BOWLING

Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Peter Alevizos 44.00 5 9 154 17.11 3.50 3/51 Brett Jackson 39.00 2 7 186 26.57 4.77 2/25 Robert Close 34.00 2 6 126 21.00 3.71 2/17 Cameron Fowler 26.00 1 6 130 21.67 5.00 2/26 Nick Charlwood 18.00 6 4 43 10.75 2.39 3/7 Jordan Magro 32.50 3 4 151 37.75 4.65 2/56 Alex Brown 15.00 1 3 68 22.67 4.53 2/15 Usman Khawaja 19.17 2 3 87 29.00 4.54 2/15 William Passas 13.67 0 2 57 28.50 4.17 1/21 Nathan McCoy 3.00 0 0 16 5.33 0/16 Alex Tomkins 3.00 0 0 19 6.33 0/12 TOTAL BOWLING 247.34 22 44 1037 23.57 4.19 3/7

POIDEVIN GRAY - WICKETKEEPING

Wicket Keeping M Ct St Total Byes Ashley Doolan 7 5 5 10 3

Page: 52 A W Green Shield (Under 16 years) by Grant Rimmer, Coach Position in Competition: 13th

For the second year in a row, the Green Shield squad managed to win three games out of 7. After losing the first 3 games, the boys could have been forgiven for thinking that it was too hard, but they are to be given credit for sticking to their guns and toughing it out. They also played with a lot more application and commitment and really came together as a ‘unit’. There was a good spirit amongst the players and really enjoyed each other’s company off the field.

From a coaching perspective, I was proud of the fact that there was a massive turnaround in form. Credit must be given to the quality of opposition in the first two games. Parramatta were eventual finalists and Hawkesbury ended up in the semi-finals. In the first three games we took only 8 wickets for 700 runs but then managed to take the next 30 wickets at an average of 13.2. The bowlers took responsibility for the lack of consistency and then adjusted their line accordingly. We were bowling far too straight in those early games so then a quick change in tactics had to be made.

Fielding efforts also improved in the middle periods. Energy, purpose and anticipation improved and some fine catches were taken. Run outs also became a feature when we were fielding. One that sticks in my mind was when Bart Lynch threw directly over the stumps to Brandon McLean who had raced in from mid-off.

From the batting point of view, Scott Gray and Bart Lynch were the standout performers. They consistently built some solid partnerships together and at varying times, looked at ease against opposition bowlers. I think the experience they gained in 5th Grade and Metropolitan Cup really helped them before Green Shield. Both players are eligible next year and now know the standard that is expected and the preparation that is required. Alec Kemmery’s attacking style is heart-in-your-mouth stuff and often provided a kick-along to the run rate. Brandon McLean contributed some much- needed runs in the early games and he will be another that will benefit from this season.

In the games that we won, all bowlers were hard to fault. They stuck to their lines and were disciplined enough to carry that through for the whole innings. James McKenzie was the unlucky bowler and he could have had a further 5 or 6 wickets if catches had been held. Devin Foulis regained form once he was brought on first-change and ended up the team’s leading wicket taker. Daniel Thomas bowled with patience and was very economical. Pressure in the middle stages was brought on because of Daniel’s ability to frustrate batsmen. George Mafi continued the pressure and is someone who can bowl to his field. Nick Stapleton, Marcus Bain and Alec Kemmery all chipped in with crucial wickets and tight overs when required.

Nick Stapleton gained a lot of experience captaining this team and grew into the role and can now lead a side with knowledge and tactical awareness.

There are plenty of positives to come out of the season, some of which I have already touched on. Luke Bush had to leave us after only 2 games as he was selected in the ACT U/17 squad to play in the National Championships; 8 out of the squad of 14 now have either 5th or 6th grade experience; 7 out of the 14 are eligible to play Green Shield again in 2008-09.

I thoroughly enjoyed the season as Green Shield coach. They have admirable qualities and are committed individuals. They are good listeners and are always willing to take advice on where they can improve. They have a tremendous respect for the coaches associated with the team and are appreciative of other’s efforts. Whilst they may not play together as a ‘team’ again, I believe they have the necessary desire to have long and successful individual grade careers. I would personally like to thank every player for their efforts and attitude at training and on game days. It made my job easier knowing we were headed in the same direction.

Neville Walters deserves recognition for assisting me in various forms throughout the 7 games. He was great to have a chat to and he was good to have around in the rooms after the game to have a bit of a laugh. It is not hard to work out that the sides he has been associated with recently have been successful as Neville has been the common denominator. He takes pressure off the captain and the coach and leaves those to totally focus on the game.

Page: 53 Judy Stapleton’s organisation of the afternoon teas, drinks and other housekeeping issues was greatly appreciated. I was privileged to not only have Judy on my side but a fantastic group of parents who were really supportive and understanding. It all adds to the enjoyment.

Alex Sciascia deserves a mention for his involvement and interest in the team’s performances. He made an effort to attend matches (one of the few grade players to attend) and often added valuable input to on-field tactics. Alex communicates well with players and remained positive despite the early losses. Alex obviously has a lot of knowledge about the game at this level and would not look out of place in a coaching role. Thanks Alex for your support.

Last but not least, Darren McCoy. Darren was always one that I could talk to about Green Shield. He was always supportive, offered advice when needed and backed me 100% in my decision-making. Definitely I had learned a lot in the previous years about how to go about the whole process, and for that I am grateful. It has made me a better coach without a doubt.

Summary of Matches Round 1 v Hawkesbury @ Bensons Lane 3 Sun 16 Dec 2007 Lost by 183 runs RP 81 to 5-264 Daniel Thomas (1-23) was the pick of the bowlers as he was the only one who bowled to plan in his 10 over spell. Containment of the free-flowing shots was a priority but that proved difficult with ill-disciplined bowling. Dropped catches, missed runouts, wickets off no-balls didn't help the cause and the Hawks ended up with 5-264. Bart Lynch’s enthusiastic fielding was a highlight in an otherwise ordinary display. In reply we were really up against it at 3 for 15. A mini-partnership between Ben Lo Presti (26) and Brandon McLean (15) put respectability into the score but 6 wickets fell for 30 runs to end the days play. All out 81.

Round 2 v Parramatta @ Petersham Sun 23 Dec 2007 Lost by 8 wkts RP 9-215 to 2-216 RP were 3-33 after 18 but a 63-run partnership between Brandon McLean and Scott Gray was full of initiative, good hitting and positive running. Gray was dismissed for 45. Alec Kemmery hit a quickfire 31 which included a six and 4 fours. The lower order batted intelligently to get the score to 216 and also bat the 60 overs. McLean was the standout with 58. Off to a good start with a wicket in the 3rd over. But a couple of dropped catches were a telling blow as both batsmen went on the make 95 and 59. The Parra boys got the momentum back after a period of tight bowling saw a period where only 15 runs were scored off 10 overs to get home with 7 overs and 8 wickets in hand.

Round 3 v UNSW @ Village Green Thurs 3 Jan 2008 Lost by 9 wkts P 227 to 1-229 For the second successive match, RP posted a 200+ score batting first. Bart Lynch (43) and Scott Gray (36) attacked after the drinks break and scored close to 4 an over in their partnership before Lynch was out with the total 79. Lynch's drives were quite impressive against the new ball. Gray was out shortly after lunch going for his second boundary in three balls (4-126 off 45). Brandon McLean continued his good form with a well-made 49. Alec Kemmery hit 5 boundaries in his 46 off as many balls. Unfortunately RP's bowlers couldn't maintain a consistent line and length and were soon under the pump at 0-50 off 12. The first wicket came with 140 runs on the board. Some excellent batting from Angus Robson (104*) saw UNSW past the line with only 1 wicket down and 6 overs to be bowled

Round 4 v Sydney @ Coogee Sun 5 Jan 2008 Won by 21 runs RP 164 to 143 Bart Lynch had blossomed in his role as opener and together with Scott Gray put on 79, the highest partnership of the match. Lynch made his maiden Green Shield half-century (52). Gray finishing on 50. Jack Roach and George Mafi somewhat steadied the ship and pushed the score to 160. A series of maidens from Mafi (2-4 off 7 including 5 maidens) and Devin Foulis (3-25 off 11) gave RP a slight advantage. Sydney attacked with their next batsmen and boundaries resulted. Foulis and McKenzie (1-34 off 11) were brought back into the attack and 2 wickets were achieved in that period for 10 runs off 8 overs. Alec Kemmery cleaned up the last 2 batsmen to bowl the visitors out for 143.

Round 5 v Easts @ Coogee Tues 8 Jan 2008 Won by 2 wkts RP 8-137 to 136 RP had the early advantage in the local derby as Easts were 3-8 after 9 overs. Daniel Thomas continued his good form taking 2 of the first 3 wickets and finished with 3-13 off 10. Easts had to push the scoring rate after lunch but were unable to do so. Good catches to Kemmery and George Mafi and an excellent run out combination from Bart Lynch to Brandon McLean. Foulis wrapped up the tail to finish with 2-19. Scott Gray and Bart Lynch put on close to 50 for the 3rd wicket in an important partnership. But at 7-83 Easts were right in the game. George Mafi made a gutsy 17 and Daniel Thomas finished with a determined 14 not out. James McKenzie remained cool under pressure and was unbeaten on 16. The last wicket produced 26 to get us there, 8 down with 10 overs to go.

Round 6 v Mosman @ Coogee Thurs 10 Jan 2008 Won by 33 runs RP 151 to 118 It was no surprise that Bart Lynch and Scott Gray put on the bulk of the runs. Gray batted intelligently for 31 before he spooned one to mid-off. Kemmery looked to set himself for an onslaught after lunch but holed out to long-off at 5-111. Lynch again batted superbly but his defence was broken on 47. Jason Gray looked good in his 17 (7-137). RP had to be content with 151. A direct hit

Page: 54 from George Mafi started proceedings at 1-20. Two wickets in a Devin Foulis over really put the cat amongst the pigeons. Mafi tied up an end and finished with 1-3 off 6 after his spell. RP stuck to their guns and were rewarded with a wicket to Daniel Thomas (1-25 off 10) via a good catch to Marcus Bain. Mosman's tail failed and they were bowled out for 118 as James McKenzie 2- 21cleaned up. RP's fielding was spot on.

Round 7 v Bankstown @ Sun 13 Jan 2008 Lost by 7 wkts RP 71 to 3-72 With a slight hope of making the quarter finals, RP was skittled for only 71 runs off 36 overs. Only Nick Stapleton (20) and Brandon McLean (22) showed any resistance. Bankstown in reply lost 3 wickets in their 17 over chase. James McKenzie was the pick of the bowlers finishing with 1-27 creating plenty of chances although three catches went through the slips cordon. He bowled with pace and accuracy and certainly led from the front. Marcus Bain finished with 1-8.

AW GREEN SHIELD - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Barton Lynch 7 7 0 187 26.71 52 2/2 Scott Gray 7 7 0 183 26.14 50 0/0 Brandon McLean 7 7 0 139 19.86 53 1/1 Alec Kemmery 7 7 0 129 18.43 46 2/0 Nicholas Stapleton 7 7 0 54 7.71 20 1/0 Ben Lo Presti 5 5 0 51 10.20 26 1/1 George Mafi 5 5 1 47 11.75 17 3/1 Jason Gray 7 7 0 44 6.29 17 1/0 James McKenzie 7 7 4 42 14.00 16* 2/0 Daniel Thomas 7 7 2 40 8.00 14* 0/0 Jack Roach 4 4 0 22 5.50 8 0/0 Luke Bush 2 2 1 17 17.00 12* 0/0 Devlin Foulis 7 4 1 7 2.33 5 1/0 Marcus Bain 5 1/0 TOTAL BATTING 84 76 9 962 14.36 53 15/5

AW GREEN SHIELD - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Devlin Foulis 64.50 10 10 209 20.90 3.24 3/25 James McKenzie 64.50 15 7 204 29.14 3.16 2/21 Daniel Thomas 57.00 14 6 156 26.00 2.74 3/13 George Mafi 26.00 11 4 57 14.25 2.19 2/4 Alec Kemmery 41.83 3 4 161 40.25 3.85 2/20 Luke Bush 19.00 2 2 83 41.50 4.37 2/59 Nicholas Stapleton 40.50 9 2 145 72.50 3.58 1/5 Marcus Bain 14.00 3 1 44 44.00 3.14 1/8 Barton Lynch 3.00 1 0 15 5.00 0/15 Jason Gray 10.00 1 0 60 6.00 0/11 Ben Lo Presti 2.00 0 0 20 10.00 0/20 TOTAL BOWLING 342.33 69 36 1154 32.06 3.37 3/13

AW GREEN SHIELD - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping M Ct St Total Byes Scott Gray 4 5 0 5 5 Brandon McLean 2 2 0 2 2

Page: 55 6th Grade Report Metropolitan Cup Competition

As in previous seasons the club entered two 6th Grade teams (Gold and Green) into the Metropolitan Cup competition reflecting the club’s strong player base and its desire to improve young players recently emerged from junior ranks and to develop other players new to the club. There is an emphasis upon making players welcome, integrating them into the club, developing their abilities, and translating that into performance on the field.

Randwick Petersham again took a leading role in managing and administering the Metro Cup Competition which this season attracted nine teams, eight of which came from grade clubs. David Holland undertook the draw at the commencement of the season and together with Alan Wright and Denis Hinds were active in the week to week management of issues in the competition, together with the management of players who comprised our teams.

Metro has been operating now for a decade and it is interesting to look back to see the impact upon the club. A number of conclusions can be drawn.

1. The strength of 4th and 5th Grade is largely attributable to 6th Grade where players can move up to 5ths and fill spots when necessary. Sixth Grade provides the developmental opportunity for a player such that the move into grade is made more easy.

2. A significant number of players currently playing grade have played in 6th Grade. In the grand final 5th Grade team, 10 players have played 6’s while in the grand final 4th Grade team, four players had been sixth graders. In the last round there were four players in grades 1 to 3 who have played 6th Grade. That is about a third of our current grade players have played 6’s.

3. A number of our promising junior players commenced at RP in 6’s teams. These include Andrew Redman, Alex Tomkins, Tom Holland, Cameron Fowler, Scott Gray, Jason Gray, James McKenzie, Nicholas Saady, Marcus Bain, Matt Coles, George Mafi and Mitchell Jones.

As a result, 6th Grade can be seen to be an important provider of players to grade and a great development ground for emerging players who will fill top grade positions in year to come.

RPCC Gold Team by Sam Rochaix, Captain Position in Competition: 3rd What a season for the Gold boys taking out the minor premiership, winning eight games, with two draws, from 13 matches. It looked like the Cup would finally be ours until we were done by season rivals South Sydney in the semis. They came out at us all guns blazing in the match which could have been won or lost with the toss. We desperately would have liked to bowl at them first to give us a chance at batting out both days but the South Sydney captain called correctly and put us in to bat on a difficult steamy Kensington wicket. Long story short was we couldn't compile enough runs and South Sydney got the total with their regular big hitting and that was all she wrote for what was overall a disappointing end to a stellar season.

Our great season was made possible through some terrific individual performances in addition to strong team work. The team started off with Dennis Howard skippering us to a great start to the season winning three out of five games and drawing one. Alas the big league called on our big skipper and he made his eagerly anticipated debut for 5th Grade leaving yours truly at the helm of a team with some great young talent and some stalwarts to boot. Of the young chargers, there were some significant performances and improvements which read as follows:

• Marcus Bain - as Gold's spin king and only 14 years of age, Marcus really came into his own and picked up a number of multi wicket hauls and had a lot of the older more seasoned opposition scratching their heads on the way back to the sheds. As Marcus develops his game (and his muscles) he will be a dominant figure within the Randy Petes grade sides for years to come. • Jason Trindall - young gun 'Tricky' Trindall is a blaster with the bat and a demolisher with the ball and at such a young age will inevitably be a top class allrounder in the years to come. On many occasions Jason went to bat in tricky circumstances with pressure on for quick runs and left the innings in much better standing. He also made his maiden 50 this season in the Semi-Final.

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• Nick Saady - who showed batting brilliance at times with many of his best performances made when we were really struggling for runs. He aided us across the line on a number of occasions. • Manul Kandara - Manul was a major improver this season. An area of concern from previous years was his fielding and catching but not this year. Manul's hands were as safe as houses this summer and I can't recall him dropping a single catch or letting many through at all. He also proved to be a valuable ally to Marcus on the front presenting a valuable option for . His batting has also improved significantly and he contributed to a number of valuable last wicket stands with his spin partner.

Of the “old boys” there were also some significant improvements and performances which I have summed up as follows: • Keiran Hewar - we sorely missed our Kiwi quick in the semis through a back strain particularly as he was one of the main reasons we were there in the first place. Keiran took two five wicket hauls through the season nabbed himself a hat-trick (the first one I have ever witnessed in person) to demonstrate how devastating he can be against a batting line up. • Ed Mobbs - our mid season Pom import was a major factor in building scores of significance a number of times. Ed scored 139 against South Sydney and was only dismissed because he ran out of batting partners. He also scored a 98 and 86 in some memorable innings. Ed will be sorely missed when he returns to the land of grey clouds and bad teeth. • Tim Kelly - Tim was up and down last season to say the least. But this season was very different being a very steady bat in the top order averaging near 20'. Tim also made his maiden 50 this season. Congrats Tim. Well done mate! • Lachlan Taylor - Lachlan was very shaky and nervous at the crease to start the season but showed much improvement in the latter half of the fray. Early in the season he would have been averaging under 10 but came good in the end. Keep at it Lachie and hope to see you next year. • John Stewart – well, what can be said about the big man that hasn't been said before! Stewie is one of the most mild mannered men I know but get him with a bit of red leather in his hands and a more fierce competitor there is not. Line, length and passion sums up Stewie to a tee and another great season goes under the belt of one of my good mates. Thanks for a great effort! • Peter Rogers - The ever faithful glove work of Pete 'Dodgy' Rogers was superb this season. Not one catch put down and a number of crucial stumpings. He was also pretty handy with the willow a number of times. Well done Pete! • Phil Bracken - Missed a few games did our Phil but when he was there he was rock solid on the field and pretty handy with the bat. Hopefully some more matches next season will show us what this man is truly capable of.

We also had good back up from some occasional players for the Gold boys from Darren Kumar (very valuable fast bowler) and Jock Walsh (played and skippered one game). I am mighty proud of our younger players like Marcus Bain, Jason Trindall, Manny Kandara and Nick Saady who all worked hard on their games and have all improved greatly through the season. I think that those four players will be making headlines in the years to come.

Big thanks to David Holland and Denis Hinds who without their support and organisation we would not have had the success we enjoyed this season. I would also like to thank my senior players John Stewart, Peter Rogers, Dennis Howard, Tim Kelly, Lachlan Taylor, Keiran Hewar and Phil Bracken for all their help in keeping the young ones in line and being a pleasure to captain.

RPCC Green Team by Denis Hinds, Captain Position in Competition: 5th Another great year for development, but a bit unlucky, with the weather. If the purpose is to create a bridge between Green Shield or juniors and grade cricket then we did a good job. Three of our boys from last year had good years in grade this year and we could have even more next season. If we count the four young blokes in the Gold team, there are 14 youngsters ready to take on grade next year. How great is that in a year when we win the Club Championship! The future is looking good.

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The Greens finished 5th on the table but only lost two games. We did not get a good run with the weather or bye points. With the first two games abandoned without a ball bowled, it was like starting two games behind. We stormed home in Feb/Mar with two first innings and an outright but just could not catch the team running 4th. Our quotient finished at 1.2.

Our home grounds were a credit to Green Options and master organiser David Holland kept the system operating despite all the difficulties that is Metro. The typical two pull outs on Fri night and one on Sat morning were handled with his trademark calm ingenuity. He is a magician at producing players out of a hat. The dads Brad Gray and Greg Jones slipped into their whites with glee when called on in an emergency but were in agony taking the gear off later in the day.

The limited season did not produce many thrillers or gigantic performances and the highlight has to be the new players unearthed. Some players were in their second season and stepped up so that they can easily slot into 5th Grade when required. George Mafi picked up his batting and his fielding. His 60 runs in four hours hard work at Marrickville was memorable as were his two runouts from covers in the derby against RP Gold. Tom Whitaker’s vastly improved left arm spinners got him 7-28 against UNSW and he put together some healthy scores in the first half of the year before his golf clubs took him away. Come back next year Tommy. Manul Kandara only played a couple of games but he took vital wickets each time with his twisty off breaks. His fielding is now top class and shows the results of lots of hard work at practice. Matt Coles only played a couple of games but showed how much his batting has come on.

The list of debutantes is impressive. Classy bat Luke Bush and fighting allrounder Pat Toole (4-18 v Penrith) made the hike from Goulburn each week. Barton Lynch’s batting was seen more in Green Shield but we had the benefit of his brilliant ground fielding. James McKenzie opened the bowling and bats about as good as most batsmen. We need to keep him away from soccer to get to his full potential. Left arm spinner Mitch Jones played the last few rounds and did the job each time, even when he came on early with batsmen set. Young Andy Coles played the last game and got second top score plus impressed with his fielding. Harry Tagg showed good batting and off spin bowling in his game. All those debutantes should be ready to make their marks next year.

Our guest pommie this year was Richard Bowles who supplied three big scores and earned promotion to 5ths. He formed a strong opening partnership with George Frazakis. Kurt Webb (3-7 v Souths) played a few games with us but kept bringing the rain so we sent him to USA for a holiday. He should come back drier next year. Daniel Laus started late in the season but quickly grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck with his good bowling and aggressive batting.

In the older brigade Danny Schroder (who is only 23) and Shaylin Moodliar were impressive. Danny gave our pace attack a bit of mongrel and Shay scored big runs each time he battled with a top of 63 vs Syd Uni. Then there is that great clubman George Frazakis. George opened the batting and was always reliable but this year he took on the wicketkeeping and did a fantastic job. He finished with 16 catches, 10 stumpings and 5 assisted run outs. He did not miss much at all. The other team stalwart was Jock Walsh who was always a solid bat and was the energy provided in the field. He was always running or diving somewhere or taking a pot shot at the bowlers end. I can’t ever remember him slowing up. Charith De Silva bowls his mediums that are almost unhittable. His swashbuckling innings and three wickets in the last match got him a man of the match. His old crow appeal is one part of the game he needs to work on.

Both Charith De Silva and George Frazakis will play cricket anywhere anytime and do not miss a training session. They set a standard of keenness and love of the game that we should all strive for. They set a standard in enthusiasm and dedication which will win us plenty more club championships if we match them.

Next year we have another chance to grab that elusive Metro Cup. It might prove to be the toughest one of all for our champion club to win. When the semis come around some of the opposition teams take on a different composition. But we will win it one year soon.

6TH GRADE - WICKETKEEPING Wicket Keeping Ct St Total Byes George Frazakis 16 10 26 67 Peter Rogers 13 3 16 21 Thomas Holland 2 0 2 8

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6TH GRADE - BATTING Batsmen M Inn N.O. Runs Ave HS Ct/RO Edward Mobbs 7 9 0 529 58.78 139 0/0 George Frazakis 12 15 2 240 18.46 66 0/0 Matthew Doyle 3 4 0 226 56.50 90 0/0 Jason Trindall 9 10 0 194 19.40 51 1/1 Richard Bowles 5 5 1 191 47.75 65 2/1 Jonathan Walsh 10 12 1 188 17.09 49 2/1 Tim Kelly 8 10 0 169 16.90 51 2/0 Peter Rogers 9 10 1 168 18.67 39 0/0 George Mafi 7 9 2 158 22.57 60 1/2 Kieran Hewar 9 8 5 145 48.33 52* 3/1 Philip Bracken 7 9 0 143 15.89 48 3/0 Sam Rochaix 11 14 1 133 10.23 38 6/0 Thomas Whitaker 6 5 1 129 32.25 64 2/0 Nicholas Saady 9 10 0 127 12.70 36 4/1 Shaylin Moodliar 3 4 0 119 29.75 63 0/0 Jason Gray 4 4 2 111 55.50 74 1/0 Mathew Coles 4 5 1 85 21.25 40 2/2 Marcus Bain 10 9 4 83 16.60 29* 3/2 John Stewart 11 11 2 72 8.00 15* 4/0 Denis Howard 4 4 0 70 17.50 43 3/0 Manul Kandara 11 10 2 68 8.50 20 3/0 Lachlan Taylor 8 10 0 54 5.40 12 3/0 Barton Lynch 6 6 2 43 10.75 20 4/0 James McKenzie 4 1 1 41 41* 0/0 Mitchell Jones 5 4 1 31 10.33 12* 3/0 Patrick Toole 5 3 1 20 10.00 17 1/1 Scott Manning 4 3 2 18 18.00 14* 2/0 Charith De Silva 9 5 1 15 3.75 14 0/0 Denis Hinds 10 5 0 7 1.40 5 3/0 Also Batted : Matches/Innings/Not Out/Runs/Catches. Daniel Laus 2/3/1/66/0, Scott Gray 1/1/0/50/0, Daniel Schroder 3/2/0/46/0, Andy Coles 1/1/0/31/0, Edward Neaves Harry Tagg 1/2/0/25/0, Cameron Fowler 1/2/0/8/1, Alan Wright 1/1/0/7/0, Tim Wright 1/1/0/7/0, Darren Kumar 3/2/1/6/0, Sam Maree 1/1/0/6/0, Luke Bush 1/1/1/5/0, Mamun Amin 1/1/0/4/0, Simon McKenzie 2/2/0/3/0, James Edwards 1/1/0/2/0, Robert McMinn 1/1/0/2/0, James Tyson 2/1/0/1/1, Bradley Gray 1/1/0/1/1, Thomas Holland 1/1/0/1/0, Michael Issa 1/1/0/0/0, Joe Jenkins 1/1/0/0/2, Kurt Webb 3/0/0/0/0, Fabian Heaton 1/0/0/0/0. TOTAL BATTING 246 245 36 3880 18.56 139 63/15

6TH GRADE - BOWLING Bowler Overs M's Wkts Runs Ave RPO Best Kieran Hewar 131.00 27 28 326 11.64 2.49 5/29 Denis Hinds 66.00 15 19 199 10.47 3.02 5/54 John Stewart 121.00 20 16 370 23.13 3.06 2/8 Edward Mobbs 62.00 9 15 183 12.20 2.95 4/21 Marcus Bain 74.00 7 15 266 17.73 3.59 4/17 Darren Kumar 44.00 8 11 122 11.09 2.77 5/15 Jason Trindall 69.00 15 11 194 17.64 2.81 2/2 Denis Howard 40.17 4 10 103 10.30 2.56 4/20 Thomas Whitaker 56.00 4 9 177 19.67 3.16 7/28 Sam Rochaix 95.00 16 9 356 39.56 3.75 3/52 James Tyson 28.00 13 8 51 6.38 1.82 5/20 Patrick Toole 25.33 3 8 118 14.75 4.66 4/18 Manul Kandara 42.00 2 7 143 20.43 3.40 2/26 Charith De Silva 52.00 5 5 163 32.60 3.13 3/22 Daniel Schroder 35.00 9 4 79 19.75 2.26 3/51 George Mafi 44.50 8 4 166 41.50 3.73 2/24 Simon McKenzie 27.00 8 3 53 17.67 1.96 2/20 Mathew Coles 23.00 3 3 88 29.33 3.83 1/7 James McKenzie 32.00 5 3 91 30.33 2.84 2/11 Scott Manning 25.00 1 2 105 52.50 4.20 1/21 Philip Bracken 25.00 5 1 70 70.00 2.80 1/4

Page: 59 Also Bowled : Overs/Wickets/Runs. Cameron Fowler 14/4/76, Daniel Laus 12/3/12, Henry Tagg 4/3/30, Jason Gray 7/3/41, Kurt Webb 10/3/41, George Frazakis 5/2/5, Robert McMinn 14/2/40, Mitchell Jones 18/2/55, Lachlan Taylor 2/1/3, Joe Jenkins 6/1/10, Mamun Amin 5/1/17, Sam Maree 8/1/45, Nicholas Saady 1/0/0, Jonathan Walsh 1/0/2, Barton Lynch 6/0/21, Shaylin Moodliar 12/0/52, John Hughes 4/0/26, Michael Issa 2/0/20. TOTAL BOWLING 1248 213 217 3919 18.06 3.14 7/28

6th Grade Metropolitan Cup “Gold” 2007-08 Back Row: Peter Rogers, Tim Kelly, Manul Kandara, Nick Saady, Edward Mobbs, Sam Maree, John Stewart. Front Row: Jason Trindall, Marcus Bain, Sam Rochaix (Captain), Phil Bracken, Lachlan Taylor

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by Darren McCoy, Chairman

I am pleased to present the second report of the RPCA.

Our second year RPCA squad comprised: Tom Holland, Sean Gardner, Cameron Fowler, Nathan McCoy, Nicolas Stapleton, Alex Tomkins, Nick Charlwood, James McKenzie, Scott Gray, Nibir Kader, Jason Gray, Alec Kemmery, Jordan Magro, Will Passas, Ben LoPresti, Andrew Redman and Campbell Dash.

The RPCA squad again worked in the SCG Indoor nets during the off season where the sessions were focussed around development of batting and bowling skills. In addition we held three sessions at Snape Park where we concentrated exclusively on fielding skills, We also retained the services of Jonathon Freeston, a highly qualified coach, to work on techniques.

In addition to these sessions, a number of young bowlers underwent strength and stability screening. Following on from the initial screening, a tailored program was developed for each player. This service was provided by our very own Benn West who, apart from being a highly qualified Exercise Physiologist, also presented a very practical insight for our young bowlers on the physical demands and preparation required to bowl week in and week out in Sydney Grade cricket.

RPCA provides a great opportunity to develop young players. It provides a good insight into a player’s skill level, attitude and commitment, and most importantly, development needs. Over time it will prove a strong indicator as to a player’s ability to handle Grade cricket. RPCA has a very clear, and consistently articulated requirement that each and every player must :

¾ attend all sessions ¾ be punctual at all sessions ¾ commit fully to each session

A number of players left their mark this year in their respective grades. Will Passas scored 288 runs @ 26 and progressed to 2nd Grade as did Andrew Redman with 364 runs @ 26. Nathan McCoy took 26 wickets @ 15 apiece in his first year of grade while Cameron Fowler took 26 wickets @ 13 apiece. Alex Tomkins showed great improvement highlighted by a superb 93 under big pressure in the 5th Grade Qualifying Final. Three of our A W Green Shield boys Scott Gray, Jason Gray and Nicholas Stapleton all showed they could score runs in 5th Grade when in mattered.

Special mention must be made of the coaches. Led by the tireless, experienced and highly organised Grant Rimmer they did a superb job. David Holland played a key co-ordination role making sure every small detail was taken care of. A massive thank you to Grant Rimmer, Rod Stafford, Neil Cohen, Matthew Taylor, Jody Whitehead, Shawn Flegler, Usman Khawaja, James LeHuray, Benn West and Jonathon Freeston. Thanks also go to the Grade coaches Bill Anderson, Peter Devlin, David Skuthorpe and Rob Huxley for continuing on the work and education of RPCA players.

Page: 61 The Pride of the Baggy Green

To recognise the achievement of players selected in the Randwick Petersham First XI, the club introduced a capping system in 2001-02, its first season.

A player who plays in the First Grade team is presented with a Randwick Petersham “Baggy Green” cap bearing the club’s logo and becomes listed as a club “capped” player. The player is also allocated a sequential number that is displayed on his playing shirt. Numbers are allocated in order of selection although when two or more players are selected at the same time, the allocation is in surname alphabetical order.

Players retain the number they are allocated for all time. The last number allocated will also reflect the total number of players to play in the club’s First Grade team. A total of 61 players have now played in the First XI since the club’s creation seven years ago.

This season, five players made their debut as first graders with Randwick Petersham. Each was presented with his cap by an official or representative of the club, before the start of play in their first match in the top grade.

The capped players this season were:

No. 57 Burt Cockley Fast bowler Burt Cockley joined us from the Waratah club in Newcastle and made his Randwick Petersham debut in round 1 v St George at Hurstville Oval where he took 1 for 38 from 7 overs. He went on to play for NSW.

No. 58 Brett Jackson An attacking batsman, Brett joined us from the Wallsend club in Newcastle and made his Randwick Petersham debut in round 1 v St George at Hurstville Oval where he finished 18 not out.

No. 59 John McLoughlin Last season’s Keith Austin Award winner for the most promising player in the club, John made his 1st Grade debut in round 1 v St George at Hurstville Oval where he made 4 runs batting at number 4.

No. 60 Ashley Doolan A wicketkeeper rated highly by former Australian custodian Steve Rixon, Ashley made his Sydney 1st Grade debut in round 3 against Sutherland where he effected two dismissals and scored 7 runs.

No. 61 Shane Pargeter Following an excellent century in 2nd Grade, Shane made his 1st Grade debut against Bankstown at Coogee where he took 1 for 59 from 9 overs with his medium pacers but did not get an opportunity to bat on that occasion.

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Page: 62 How we won the Club Championship!!! A Rags to Riches Journey

When the decision was taken to merge the old Randwick and Petersham Marrickville clubs into a new club in 2001, a plan was hatched to take out the Club Championship within the first 10 years of the new Randwick Petersham entity. In just our seventh season we did it! We are the 2007-08 Club Champions!!

After a number of seasons knocking on the door with our 3rd placing in 2004-05 our best, we felt confident enough about the club and our future that the coveted Club Championship would be ours sooner than later. That we achieved the dream this season speaks highly for the dedication and commitment of everyone associated with the club. The Club Championship is not won by a single person or team, it is won by everyone who makes a contribution no matter how large or how small. It covers officials, players, life members, volunteers, sponsors, vice presidents, supporters, groundstaff and families. To every one of you, thank you for what you did to achieve this dream.

The Club Championship is a points based competition calculated by multiplying points gained by 1st Grade by 6, 2nd Grade by 5, 3rd Grade and Poidevin Gray (under 21) by 4, 4th Grade and A W Green Shield (under 16) by 3 and 5th Grade by 2. Win points are 6 for a first innings and 10 for an outright with 3 for a tie.

To win all 5 grades in a round is a tough ask but to do so on the first innings returns a whopping 120 Club Championship points. This season we had returns of 110 (St George); 119 (Western Suburbs); 128 (Mosman) and our new record, 164 against Manly in round 13 which propelled us from 5th place and 105 points from the leader St George to 1st by 2 points over Bankstown. That was just the incentive we needed and with another “greenwash” against Uni of NSW the following round we were able to go into the final round with a commanding lead of 108 points. Three wins over Penrith reduced our lead to 93 but the Club Championship was ours!! What a finish!!

Final Club Championship points for the top 6 clubs were: Randwick Petersham 1,297; Bankstown 1,204; St George (defending champions) 1,152; Sydney University 1,152; Eastern Suburbs 1,141; Campbelltown-Camden 1,131. The furthest we were from the lead was on 9 December 2007 when we were 163 points behind Sydney University while our largest lead was in the second last round when we were 108 in front.

This year the Club Championship was a most keenly contested affair with eight different leaders throughout the season. The particular clubs and the number of weeks they led reads as follows: Sydney University (6 weeks); St George (5); Bankstown (5); Randwick Petersham (4); Penrith (2); Western Suburbs (2); Northern District (1); Campbelltown-Camden (1).

In terms of the founding clubs of Randwick Petersham, over their collective 200 years the Club Championship was won on 12 occasions, once each by Marrickville and Petersham, twice by Petersham-Marrickville (the last occasion being 1968-69) and eight times by Randwick (with its last win being 15 seasons ago in 1992-93).

An additional incentive for us to take out this award is that the Club Championship trophy is named after Sydney Smith CBE, a Life Member of Petersham District Cricket Club. Mr Smith was also President of the NSW Cricket Association from 1935 until 1966.

Our record in the Club Championship now reads:

2001-02 7th; 2002-03 5th; 2003-04 4th; 2004-05 3rd; 2005-06 16th; 2006-07 5th; 2007-08 1st.

Page: 63 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2007-08 Points Summary RPC RPC Leader From Round Opposition 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th PG GS Total Leader Points Pos. Points Lead 1/LO1 St George 18 35 24 21 12 110 110 4 ND's 135 25 2 Sydney Uni 00090 9 119 12 Wests 201 82 3 Sutherland 36 0 0 18 0 54 173 12 Camp-Cam. 291 118 4/LO2 Wests 42 35 24 18 0 119 292 8 Bankstown 371 79 5 Blacktown 0 50 0 18 12 80 372 4 Bankstown 437 65 PG1 Parramatta 0 0 372 6 Bankstown 437 65 LO3 Mosman 0 0 372 7 Bankstown 437 65 6 ND's 0 15 0 18 14 47 419 7 Penrith 541 122 LO4 Bankstown 18 18 437 8 Bankstown 553 116 7 North Sydney 0 35 32 27 94 531 7 Penrith 625 94 PG2 Uni NSW 0 0 531 7 Penrith 657 126 8 Campbelltown 36 0 24 18 12 90 621 4 Syd Uni 742 121 LO6 Easts 0 0 621 6 Syd Uni 784 163 PG3 Hawkesbury 24 24 645 5 Syd Uni 784 139 GS1 Hawkesbury 0 0 645 5 Syd Uni 784 139 9 Hawkesbury 36 30 0 18 12 96 741 4 Syd Uni 862 121 GS2 Parramatta 0 0 741 4 Syd Uni 862 121 GS3 Uni NSW 0 0 741 4 Syd Uni 880 139 GS4 Sydney 18 18 759 4 Syd Uni 880 121 PG4 Sydney 32 32 791 4 Syd Uni 880 89 GS5 Easts 18 18 809 2 Syd Uni 880 71 GS6 Mosman 18 18 827 2 Syd Uni 880 53 GS7 Bankstown 0 0 827 3 Syd Uni 880 53 PG5 Bankstown 0 0 827 4 Syd Uni 880 53 10 Sydney 00000 0 827 5 Syd Uni 880 53 LO7 Parramatta 42 42 869 4 St George 926 57 11 Gordon 0 0 0 18 12 30 899 5 St George 1004 105 12 Fairfield Liv. 00000 0 899 5 St George 1004 105 PG6 Easts 0 0 899 5 St George 1004 105 13 Manly 60 50 24 18 12 164 1063 1 Randy Petes 1063 2+ 14 Uni NSW 36 30 24 18 20 128 1191 1 Randy Petes 1191 6+ PG7 Mosman 28 28 1219 1 Randy Petes 1219 108+ 15 Penrith 36 30 0 0 12 78 1297 1 Randy Petes 1297 93+ TOTAL 360 310 152 219 118 84 54 1297 Competition Points 60 62 38 73 59 21 18 Final Position on Table 6th 4th 10th 1st 3rd 13th 13th 1st SCA Competition Winners First Grade = St George Club Champions = Randwick Petersham Second Grade = Sydney University 1st Grade Limited Overs = Northern District Third Grade = Campbelltown 1st Grade Limited Overs = Eastern Surburbs Fourth Grade = Randwick Petersham Poidevin Gray = St George Fifth Grade = Randwick Petersham AW Green Shield = Parramatta

Page: 64 First Class Honours

It was new ground for the club this season when four players represented the NSW SpeedBlitz Blues at first class level and in interstate limited overs cricket. Apart from the brilliant Simon Katich, who captained the side for the fourth successive season, we were represented by the experienced Nathan Hautitz along with debutantes Usman Khawaja and Burt Cockley. Here’s how they fared.

Nathan Hauritz: Played in just one Pura Cup match against South Australia in with limited opportunities due to the ease of the Blues’ win. He was a regular member of the Ford Ranger Cup side however, where he played in all nine matches, one of only three players to do so. He finished with a batting average of 58.33 from his 175 runs with a highest score of 46 not out while he took seven wickets at an economy rate of 4.83 with 3 for 54 his best return. A player of exceptional talent who lists among his five Test scalps, his name has been mentioned as a player who could well be on the shortlist for a recall to the Australian team following a few noteable spin bowling retirements in the past couple of seasons.

Usman Khawaja: After 991 1st Grade runs including four centuries and five 50’s, the state selectors drafted the 21 years old left handed opening batsman into the SpeedBlitz Blues team for the top-of-the-table Pura Cup clash with Victoria at the SCG. Chasing a first innings score of 394, Usman came to the crease at the fall of the sixth wicket with the total a delicate 276. When he was run out by a direct hit from former Test bat Brad Hodge after scoring a magnificent 85 from 173 balls, only four runs were needed to take first innings points. That only three more runs were scored for the loss of the remaining two wickets to leave the scores at 394 each, ensured Usman’s debut match would be written into the annals of NSW cricket history. Usman was retained in the side for the final two Pura Cup matches before the Test stars returned for the Final. The first Pakistani born player to debut for NSW, Usman Khawaja is a player of outstanding potential who could command a regular spot in the state side for many seasons to come.

Burt Cockley: A 21 years old right hand fast bowler who was named NSW Country Colt of the Year last season, Burt had a dramatic rise to the first class scene after joining us from Newcastle club Waratah- Mayfield this season. Having taken 27 1st Grade wickets at just 21.11 runs apiece, he was called into the SpeedBlitz Blues side for their Pura Cup clash against Tasmania at , Hobart in February where he took a wicket in each innings. He also had a taste of limited overs cricket filling the role of 12th man in the Ford Ranger Cup match against Victoria at the SCG. Burt was the first fast bowler to play for NSW from the club since Petersham-Marrickville’s David Chardon debuted in 1975-76 and Randwick’s Anthony Stuart first played in 1994-95. His development will be keenly followed by state selectors in the seasons ahead.

Congratulations to each of the above who, along with Simon Katich, have been awarded full playing contracts with the SpeedBlitz Blues for season 2008-09.

NSW Players: Simon Katich, Burt Cockley, Nathan Hauritz and Usman Khawaja

Page: 65 Up there with Bradman

He was finished as an Australian cricketer. He had been dropped from the Test team, axed from the ODI team and had his Cricket Australia contract torn up. All that was left for Simon Katich was to see out his playing days in interstate domestic cricket.

What CA officials didn’t count on however, was that Simon didn’t view it that way. With the same determination and dedication which got him to the national representation level in the first place, it is now an amazing piece of cricketing history that within 12 months of his CA contract being filed in the waste paper bin, through sheer weight of runs he had forced his way into the Australian touring party to the West Indies and played all three Tests making centuries in both the 2nd Test and 3rd Tests! He was back….and so was his CA contract. Simply mindboggling stuff. One of the great comebacks in cricket.

And to top it off, Test skipper claimed that after his 113 in the 2nd Test in Antigua, Simon was the in-form batsman in world cricket not just in the Aussie side. It was a massive compliment to a player who deserved nothing less. He confirmed that view in the 3rd Test in when he shared in a stand of 223 with which was the second highest second innings opening partnership by an Australian pair. His 157, after batting throughout the third day of the match, was his best Test score and won him the “Man of the Match”award. With a more relaxed and contented approach to his game, Simon’s new-found confidence has resulted in greater enjoyment in his time at the crease while producing more consistency in his batting.

Simon’s success came hot on the heels of the most oustanding domestic season ever experienced by a batsman in the game’s history in this country. It is difficult to argue that it was anything less as the following list of achievemnts illustrates: • As captain, he led NSW to win the Pura Cup • His 1,506 runs was the most in the 116 years history of Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup cricket • When he passed 1,327 runs he had scored the most first class cricket runs in a season for NSW • He scored a century against each of the other five states making up the Pura Cup competition • His 306 against Queensland was the highest SCG score since Don Bradman’s 452 in 1929-30 • His all-time average of 83.42 at the SCG is second only to Don Bradman’s 91.46 • He was named Player of the Pura Cup Series and Player of the Pura Cup Final • He was named winner of the prestigious Medal for the second time • He won selection in the Australian Test team touring party to the West Indies in May 2008

His massive 306 against Queensland was clearly the highlight of the 2007-08 season. Being the highest individual score at the SCG in the past 78 years, his performance has been described as “Bradmanesque”.

At a club luncheon in February 2008 Simon described his innings as one in which he didn’t believe he could hit the ball any better. He recalled working hard in the morning session to keep his wicket intact as the task of chasing Queensland’s mammoth 467 was a huge one for the team. By lunch he had reached his century from 204 balls after being 70 overnight. After lunch he decided that a few risks were necessary if they were to run down the target and so lauched a fearless attack on the bowlers. After 244 balls, he had reached 150 and just 35 balls later he was 200. By tea he was unbeaten on 287 having hit an amazing 176 runs in the session.

After 461 minutes and 351 balls his amazing innings came to an end when he was caught at mid-off. Simon had scored a brilliant 306 with 29 fours and 9 sixes. The partnership with who scored 123 had produced 334 runs from 337 balls and had safely taken the NSW score past the Queensland total. Those first innings points proved valuable as they ended up making the difference between the Pura Cup Final being played at the SCG with a home ground advantage to the Blues instead of Victoria at the MCG.

It is always flattering for a player to be compared in any way to “The Don” but as it was Bradman who hit the highest SCG score of 452 all those years ago, it is a pleasant thought for Simon to know that on that Sunday on 28 October 2008 with 306 to his name, he was regarded as being “up there with Bradman”.

Page: 66 Apart from his deeds at first class level, one of Simon’s great attributes is that he carries his dedication and enthusiasm for the game into matches at club level. He has always been a committed clubman and this season he showed his worth for Randwick Petersham in the following way: • He scored 581 runs in 10 matches at an average of 96.83, a new club record • Batting no.9 against Manly following state duties day one, his 50 not out in the first innings and 60 not out in the second led to an outright win and a huge input to the Club Championship win • In the Qualifying Final he scored 149 not out which included a new club record of 10 sixes • With Usman Khawaja he set a new 1st Grade club partnership record of 188 for the 3rd wicket in the Qualifying Final against St George at Hurstville Oval

Simon Katich has always been a fine player. After this season he may be better described as a brilliant player.

Mike Whitney makes the Presentation to Simon Katich on his 306 at the SCG

Page: 67 Darren “Macca” McCoy

If you were to describe Life Membership nominee, Darren McCoy in a few words, passion and dedication would come to mind.

Since his first year with the Petersham Marrickville District Cricket Club, AW Green Shield side in 1981-82, Darren’s passion and dedication to cricket, the game he loves, has given him great rewards.

He has played in excess of 350 grade games including 60 in 1st Grade, scored over 8,000 runs and taken over 300 wickets, captained and played in four Grand Finals winning three premierships, coached, played overseas and been involved in administration with both Petersham Marrickville and Randwick Petersham.

Darren’s first A W Green Shield season was also the first year he played grade, filling in as a talkative 15 year old in a couple of 4th Grade games. This was also the same year Petersham Marrickville finished 2nd in the Club Championship, as well as winning the 3rd and 4th Grade premierships.

In 1982-83 Darren found it hard to secure a regular spot with Petersham Marrickville and had 3 years with the Waverley club playing lower grades until the end of the 1984-85 season. The following season saw Darren return home to “The Petes”, starting in 4th Grade and for several years playing lower grades before making his 1st Grade debut v Bankstown in 1990-91 under the leadership of Greg Hartshorne.

The 1993-94 season saw Darren take off overseas where he played and coached in the U.K. for Welsh club Ynysygerwn, assisting it to go from potential relegation and 12th the previous season to be undefeated competition winner.

Upon his return he played 1st Grade with Sydney University before moving to the Balmain 1st Grade side in 1995-96 where he suffered a torn and detached retina. In 1996-97 Darren again returned home to Petersham Marrickville where he captained 3rd Grade with a few old mates in Skuthorpe and Mulherin as well as introducing a few talented cricketers in Daniel Smith and Rowan Brewster. Darren also served as Chairman of Selectors during the 1999-2000 season.

Family commitments saw Darren miss the final year of Petersham Marrickville and the first year of Randwick Petersham, but during the merger, he was instrumental in initial discussions between the two great clubs. In the new club, Darren made another comeback and played in the 4th Grade premiership winning side with a few old mates in Hartshorne, Townsend and Troy Brewster as well as young guns Watson and Taylor.

In the 2005-06 season, Darren took on the role of AW Green Shield Coach. That same season he was the instigator of an initiative which will be of major benefit to the club’s up and coming players in the years ahead….the creation of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Academy. With Darren at the helm in the role of Chairman, and in only the Academy’s first year, he managed to take a team of young players on tour to India which was an amazing accomplishment so soon in the life of the Academy. Darren rates the success of the Academy as one of his proudest achievements in cricket, a view many would share.

In 2007-08 Darren decided to play ONE more season with his son Nathan and together they won the 5th Grade premiership with Darren as skipper. This season he also joined the Management Committee where he has been one of the driving forces behind the success of the club in it’s Club Championship year.

Since his first year in 1981-82, Darren “Macca” McCoy has played the game of cricket extremely hard but fair, while using his vast experience and knowledge to promote and develop the talents of many young cricketers. His tremendous efforts on and off the field during the past 27 years make him more than a worthy nominee for Life Membership of Randwick Petersham Cricket Club.

Page: 68 Peter Wright

Peter Wright commenced his playing career with Randwick in the 1975- 76 AW Green Shield team. It was a side which included current club coach Peter Devlin and former Australian Rugby Coach Eddie Jones.

The following season, he again played Green Shield again with Peter and Eddie as well as an up and coming David Knox .He won the batting aggregate that season scoring 171 runs with a highest score of 64 and was awarded the Cartwright Insurances Award for the most promising A W Green Shield player. He also won selection in the Combined Green Shield team while making his grade debut in 4th Grade.

In the 1977-78 season, he played only four 4th Grade games. However, in 1978-79 he played a full season being a member of Ed Fletcher’s 4th Grade premiership winning side.

In 1979-80, he won the 4th Grade batting average and rattled up his maiden grade cricket century with 101 against Macquarie University. His efforts won him promotion to 3rd Grade where he became a member of the 3rd Grade premiership winning side which included Lyall Gardner, David Knox and Rhys Banwell. He was one of the club’s top batsmen that season and was a most worthwhile winner of the club’s Most Improved Lower Grade Player annual award. In two full seasons of grade cricket he had won two premierships, something few players had achieved.

Between 1980-1984 he continued to move up the grades to be ultimately promoted to 2nd Grade. By the end of 1982-83 he had accumulated more than 1,600 grade cricket runs while contributing to the administration of the club as publicity officer. In recognition of his contribution to the club he joined a very select band when he had the prestigious honour of becoming Randwick’s 25th “capped” player.

In 1984-85 he decided to take up wicketkeeping but due to the strength of ‘keepers in the club at that time, he was forced to drop down to 5th Grade to pursue that art. He became a valuable deputy to 5’s skipper Gordon Owen with the result that the team went on to win the premiership….Peter’s third in a relatively short grade cricket career. A contributing factor towards the team’s win was that Peter topped the Association’s runscoring aggregate with 602 runs which was also the highest aggregate for the club in that grade. He also hit a magnificent 106 in the Final against Sutherland to secure the cup. His 20 wicketkeeping dismissals that season remained a Randwick 5th Grade record until 1990-91.

In 1985 at the age of just 25, an unfortunate car accident cut short his cricket career. Peter had been elected to the club Management Committee the previous year and while he was unable to take the field he continued on with the club as an administrator for the following couple of years. When he retired to concentrate on his legal career he had served three years on the Management Committee while holding down the post of publicity officer for five seasons.

In 2001 he returned to the fold to assist in the battle with the NSWCA over the proposed exclusion of teams from the Sydney Grade Competition. After assisting to successfully keep the Randwick Club a separate entity in the grade competition, he was instrumental in the subsequent merger of the club with Petersham- Marrickville to form the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club. His expert legal and logistical advice was crucial in the smooth transition of the merger.

Since the formation of Randwick Petersham seven years ago, Peter has served as a member of the management committee while representing it as delegate to both the NSWCA and SCA. He also holds the important position as Chairman of the RPC Foundation which was established in 2003 to secure the future financial viability of the club. He continues to provide honorary legal advice to the club as well as management expertise.

Since he pulled on the Randwick baggy green cap as a 15 year old 33 years ago, Peter Wright has been a tower of strength both to Randwick and Randwick Petersham as a player, administrator, honorary official and club representative. His nomination this year to join the outstanding list of Life Members of Randwick Petersham Cricket Club is an honour he richly deserves.

Page: 69 Last Man Standing……again!

In last year’s Annual Report we referred to five instances in 2006-07 where 10th wicket partnerships had a bearing on the outcome of particular matches. Well it’s happened again this season as the following indicates. • In the 4th Grade Semi-Final at Kensington Oval against Sutherland the game was meandering to a tame draw which would have ensured a place for our team in the Final. We were 6 wickets down with just a handfull of overs to go when 3 wickets fell for just 3 runs leaving no.11 Matthew Wallis to join Andrew Harrison to see out 7 balls. To the relief of the large contingent of club supporters in attendance they managed to do it and 4th Grade progressed to the Final! The irony was that it was Sutherland which held us out twice in the Final last season to take the premiership. • In the 4th Grade Final at Coogee Oval against Penrith we had the Panthers 9 down for 104 before the last pair put on a frustrating 114 to give them a competitive total of 218. In reply, we were doing it well until a batting collapse saw us slump from 5 for 178 to 9 for 216 leaving us three runs to win. Once again last man in, no.11 Matthew Wallis strode to the wicket to join Chad Greenberg with it all to do. No problem for Matt as he turned his first ball past square leg and over the Matthew Wallis & Chad Greenberg boundary rope to grab the premiership! • With the score at 9 for 158, we didn’t look like putting up much of a fight in the 1st Grade Semi- Final against Gordon at Chatswood Oval. Skipper Nathan Hauritz was 75 when no.11 Burt Cockley joined him. Making the best of the situation, Hauritz went on the attack blazing 47 of the 62 runs the pair put on for the 10th wicket which was a new record for the club in 1st Grade. While Nathan’s 122 was a highlight, the final score wasn’t enough to hold the Highlanders at bay. • The score was an ordinary 9 for 179 in 4th Grade when last man Grant Rimmer joined no.9 Benn West in round 5 against Blacktown. With Rimmer providing the support West took the long handle to the bowlers and when he was finally caught for 36 the pair had put on a valuable 51, a new 4th Grade 10th wicket partnership record. Blacktown was then bowled out for just 129 to give our boys a solid win. • In round 1 against St George, 3rd Grade’s last pair of Steve Bidwell-Brown (14 not out) and skipper Nigil Singh (3 not out) put on an undefeated 13 runs for the 10th wicket to set a target of 9 for 198. That proved the difference as St George could only manage 196 in reply. • Coming together at 9 for 198 in round 2, Sydney University’s last pair batted for 75 minutes putting on 46 to defy our 2nd Grade a win at St Paul’s after we had hit 8 for 360 declared. • Staring down the barrel of defeat, 5th Grade’s Jason Gray (48 not out) and no.11 James Tyson (7 not out) batted resolutely chasing an improbable 261against a spirited Sydney Uni attack in round 2 to finish at 9 for 192 and earn an honourable draw. • Again in round 2 against Sydney University, 4th Grade’s last pair of Grant Rimmer (16) and Cameron Fowler (5 not out) put on 21 for the 10th wicket to grab a 189 to 189 tie!

Page: 70 New Partnership Records this season

New Club Records (All Grades)

• Will Passas (67) and Eddie Otto (124 not out) set new club and 2nd Grade partnership 6th wicket record of 198 against Gordon at Coogee Oval • Rod Stafford (72*) and Shane Pargeter (159*) set new club and 2nd Grade partnership 9th wicket record of 156 against Sydney University at St Paul’s Oval

New Club Individual Grade Records

• Simon Katich (149*) and Usman Khawaja (111) set new 1st Grade partnership 3rd wicket record of 188 in Qualifying Final against St George at Hurstville Oval • Usman Khawaja (102) and Tim Laws (133) set new 1st Grade partnership 6th wicket record of 112 against Gordon at Chatswood Oval • Nathan Hauritz (122) and Burt Cockley (13) set new 1st Grade partnership 10th wicket record of 62 in Semi-Final against Gordon at Chatswood Oval • Andrew Redman (80) and Brett Hunter (120 not out) set new 3rd Grade partnership 5th wicket record of 162 against Gordon at Killara Oval • Will Halstead (7) and Cameron Gray (101) set new 3rd Grade partnership 6th wicket record of 75 against University of NSW at Kensington Oval • Benn West (36) and Grant Rimmer (13 not out) set new 4th Grade partnership 10th wicket record of 51 against Blacktown at Petersham Oval • Alex Tomkins (93) and Darren McCoy (54) set new 5th Grade partnership 5th wicket record of 129 in Qualifing Final against Sutherland at Petersham Oval

Two Tricks in a Hat!!

Apart from 10 wickets in an innings, a hat-trick is the ultimate achievement for any bowler. It doesn’t come any better than taking three wickets in three successive balls. Indeed, in Test matches the feat has been achieved on only 36 occasions in 130 years of Test Cricket including 10 by Australians.

The situation is a bit different with Randwick Petersham Cricket as this season we have recorded our sixth hat- trick. The amazing thing however, is that this season’s hat-trick taker is the same as last season! Fourth Grade seam bowler Benn West has done it again! Last season, Benn knocked over three in a row against North Sydney as part of a 6 for 51 performance in round 10. A matter of eight months later he’s at it again in round 1 against St George!

Brought back into the attack with the Saints score at 7 for 168, Benn’s bowling figures were 0 for 28 from 8 overs. Three balls later he had 3 for 28! First ball of his new spell went through no.9’s defence to rattle the stumps; number 10 was plumb in front next ball while no.11 was greeted with a searing yorker which sent the stumps cartwheeling. Hat-trick!! Oh what a feeling!

Benn’s hat-trick was our fourth in 4th Grade which interestingly, are shared by only two bowlers, Chris Singh being the other when he managed the feat in each innings against Sydney University in 2004-05. Another similarity between these two outstanding bowlers is that in their second hat-tricks the three balls were bowled, lbw and bowled, the third being a yorker in each instance.

The question now is…. can Benn West record a hat-trick of hat-tricks next summer?

Page: 71 PLAYER OF THE SEASON : 2007-08 : FINAL POINTS This award is a performance-based award from 1st Grade to 6th Grade. The Player of the Season excludes Sunday 1st Grade Limited Overs games, all PG's & AW Green Shield games and the Final Series. Points are awarded as follows: 1 point for each run scored, 15 points for each wicket taken, 5 points for each catch, 8 points for each stumping and 5 points to the major contributor to a run out. Player Points Player Points 1 Nathan Hauritz 880 56 Thomas Holland 297 2 Usman Khawaja 872 57 Alex Sciascia 262 3 Rodney Stafford 785 58 George Mafi 238 4 Benn West 774 59 Richard Bowles 227 5 Eddie Otto 688 60 Daniel Laus 243 6 Adam Semple 680 61 Trent Griffiths 222 7 Shane Pargeter 654 62 Darren Kumar 216 8 Edward Mobbs 653 63 Simon McKenzie 211 9 Chris Singh 634 64 Peter Rogers 208 10 Michael Watson 609 65 Darren McCoy 212 11 Brett Jackson 606 66 Andrew Downton 206 12 Kieran Hewar 585 67 Jonathan Walsh 203 13 Glen Whichello 561 68 Brenton Barker 204 14 Steve Bidwell-Brown 558 69 Karl Schubert 194 15 Simon Katich 505 70 Nigil Singh 203 16 James Byrne 495 71 Brett Hunter 180 17 Ashley Doolan 456 72 David Bourke 266 18 Burt Cockley 453 73 Lance Kahler 175 19 John McLoughlin 443 74 Thomas Merilaht 191 20 Matthew Taylor 438 75 James McKenzie 162 21 Noel Ellis 443 76 Shaylin Moodliar 161 22 George Frazakis 435 77 Joseph Hill 158 23 Cameron Gray 433 78 Philip Bracken 154 24 Cameron Fowler 466 79 Tim Kelly 154 25 Grant Rimmer 436 80 Manul Kandarra 151 26 Tim Laws 421 81 Patrick Toole 150 27 Andrew Redman 417 82 Mathew Coles 150 28 James Tyson 522 83 Mark Carlton 148 29 Melvin Singh 482 84 Troy Brewster 154 30 Peter Alevizos 405 85 Scott Gray 145 31 Robert Cummings 397 86 Alex Brown 179 32 Denis Howard 415 87 Fabian Heaton 139 33 Matthew Hilder 401 88 Nicholas Saady 132 34 Denis Hinds 374 89 Daniel Schroder 106 35 David Townsend 428 90 Charith De Silva 90 36 Nathan McCoy 458 91 Scott Manning 77 37 Chad Greenberg 391 92 Barton Lynch 99 38 Robert Close 356 93 Mitchell Jones 76 39 Marc Anderson 353 94 Lachlan Taylor 74 40 Jordan Magro 407 95 Nicholas Stapleton 73 41 Jason Gray 336 96 Harry Tagg 70 42 Steve Clarke 336 97 Will Halstead 79 43 Matthew Wallis 339 98 David Mitchell 61 44 William Passas 313 99 Jody Whitehead 57 45 Alex Tomkins 308 100 Kurt Webb 45 46 Marcus Bain 301 101 Nick Charlwood 37 47 Matthew Doyle 305 102 Robert McMinn 32 48 Campbell Dash 306 103 Andy Coles 31 49 Thomas Whitaker 289 104 Tony Martin 80 50 Jason Trindall 287 105 Edward Neaves 25 51 Andrew Harrison 382 106 Joe Jenkins 25 52 John Stewart 272 107 Glenn Farquharson 23 53 Sean Gardner 259 108 Sam Maree 21 54 Sam Rochaix 259 109 Mamun Amin 19 55 Andrew Walters 250 110 Daniel Levitt 14

Page: 72 The Award Winners

PLAYER OF THE SEASON The O A Taylor / Martin Bedkober Memorial Award Sponsored by Babcock and Brown

Ossie Taylor served the Randwick club as a player and administrator for 64 years before his death in 1976. He scored more than 4,500 runs and was Secretary for 19 years, the longest in the club’s history. The O A Taylor Memorial Player of the Season Award was first presented by the Randwick club in 1977.

Martin Bedkober was a promising opening batsman and wicketkeeper with Petersham Marrickville before his untimely death in a cricket match in 1975 aged just 21. In A W Green Shield in 1968-69, he scored 645 runs and effected 23 dismissals behind the stumps—both records for the club. The Martin Bedkober Memorial Trophy for the Most Promising Player was first presented by the Petersham Marrickville club in 1976. Nathan Hauritz In its own way cricket is like theatre. It’s played on a stage, in front of an audience, with all of the players knowing their roles and what is expected of them; joining together with a common purpose. But success in any endeavour is only possible with astute leadership. It is the leader who gives direction, provides vision and gives meaning to what we do. The leader joins all the parts together in such a way that the impact of the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts. As our first grade captain, Nathan Hauritz was that person. For one so young, Nathan brought an amazing amount of knowledge, wisdom and experience to the position. He inspired, cajoled and directed as he pushed the group toward shared goals of self improvement and team success. And he led by example with some brilliant personal performances. His 122 in the Semi Final against a quality Gordon attack with just the number 11 at the other end was sheer magic. That last wicket partnership of 62 was a new club record with 47 being Nathan’s share. His 6 for 13 from 12 overs to reduce Uni of NSW from 0-49 to 8-74 in round 14 and swing the game our way was equally outstanding. With 552 runs at 34.5 and 34 wickets at 22.03 Nathan was one of the more dominant all-rounders in Sydney 1st Grade cricket. Add to that his 16 catches and you have the complete cricketer. In scoring 880 points in this competition, just 8 more than Usman Khawaja who had such a brilliant season, Nathan emphasised his entitlement to be crowned our 2007-08 Player of the Season.

CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR The Tim Towers / Stuart Gardner Memorial Award Sponsored by Veolia Environmental Services

Tim Towers was a left hand fast bowler with Randwick. He died in 1991 from cancer aged just 36. Tim played for 11 seasons taking 233 wickets and played in Randwick’s 1977-78 and1979-80 1st Grade premiership teams. The Tim Towers Clubman of the Year Award was first presented by the Randwick club in 1991.

Stuart Gardner was a left hand spin bowler with Petersham Marrickville. He died in 1994 from cancer aged 51. Stuart played for over 30 seasons taking more than 400 wickets and scoring 2000 runs. He played in the 1st Grade premiership team of 1974-75 and was made a life member of the club in 1991. The Stuart Gardner Clubman of the Year Award was first presented by the Petersham Marrickville club in 1994. Player category: Grant Rimmer While any successful club has its share of high performance players and headline personalities, it’s strength invariably lies in those who may be described as the quiet achievers or unsung heroes. Every club has them. Every club needs them. Grant Rimmer is such a person.Whether as a player, coach, administrator or volunteer, Grant’s contribution to the success of this club has been immeasurable. Grant Rimmer joined the old Randwick club in 1992-93, the first of his two seasons in the A W Green Shield team. Reporting on his second season the club Annual Report contains a comment from the team manager to the effect that “when he puts on a bit of beef, he will be a hit”. To this day, Grant has hardly “put on a bit of beef” but he certailnly has been a hit. As a medium pace bowler in the lower grades throughout his grade career, Grant has racked up a total of 235 wickets and scored 402 runs. He is also a holder of the club 10th wicket partnership record when he and Ollie Saffell put on 123 against Mosman last season in 5th Grade. This season he took 14 wickets in each of 4th and 5th grades, both of which went on to win premierships. He played in the 5th Grade Final and was instrumental in the team’s win. Grant has also put his energies into club administration serving on the management committee of Randwick CC while taking on the demanding role of A W Green Shield coach. With the merger in 2001, Grant put up his hand to continue his Green Shield coaching commitment which he has performed with distinction to the present day. He has also taken a leading role in the establishment and development of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Academy and accompanied an Academy team to India in October 2006 as coach.It is appropriate that Grant Rimmer is named player Clubman of the Year in our Club Championship year as he is clearly one of the true champions of the club and a most worthy winner of this coveted award.

Page: 73 Non-player category: Bill Anderson Bill Anderson was an outstanding cricketer. He is also an outstanding clubman. At a time when cricket clubs need the expertise of players, who have been “through the mill”, we couldn’t be better served, than having a person like Bill Anderson within our ranks. Since the establishment of the club in 2001, Bill has held the position of Director of Coaching. In that role, he has been of immeasurable value to the club and players alike. As an advisor, mentor, supporter, counsellor and friend, players have benefited greatly from the knowhow and experience he has been able to impart. He has been present at just about every 1st Grade match the club has participated in as well as many lower grade games around finals time. The quiet word he has with players, particularly those who may be struggling a little with their game, has been the catalyst on many occasions for a rejuvenated performance by a grateful recipient. He has an uncanny knack of quickly putting his finger on a problem or technical deficiency while his tactical knowedge of the game is second to none. As a cricketer with Petersham-Marrickville, he was the most dominant batsman in Sydney 1st Grade through the ‘70’s and early ‘80’s. He has carried that same determination and competitive nature into his coaching role to such an extent that many of our successes on the field have that Bill Anderson influence about them. With sidekick Bobby Barter in tow at on-field drink breaks and team discussions, our players could not be better assisted, advised or supported. It was therefore no surprise to anyone that Bill was awarded the Sydney Cricket Association’s coveted Bob Simpson Coach of the Year Award at this year’s Premiers Dinner. It follows that from the club’s perspective, Bill should also take out the club’s prestigious Clubman of the Year Award. It has been well earned and earned well.

MOST PROMISING PLAYER IN THE CLUB The Keith Austin Memorial Award Sponsored by Alan Austin Keith Austin was a long time supporter of the Randwick club before his death in 1948. This award was first presented by his sons, Alan and Stan in 1949. Andrew Redman As our A W Green Shield wicketkeeper two seasons ago, Andrew Redman has since made giant strides. This season he was named as the custodian for the 3rd Grade team after doing well in 4’s last year. But while his ‘keeping was excellent, his batting was just fantastic. In Green Shield in 2005-06, he certainly didn’t set the world alight with the bat. In fact his batting average in that competition of 8.86 hardly gave a clue to the batting deeds which lay ahead. Promoted to the opening position in the first round against St George this season, Andrew produced a solid 60 which paved the way for a good win for his team. Another good score of 59 against Wests followed shortly after and when he hit 80 against Gordon in a partnership of 162 with Brett Hunter at a time when his side was 4 for very little, good judges realised that we had a player heading in the right direction. His performances led to a couple of matches in 2nd Grade where, against Manly when 2’s were going down the gurgler, he batted for 80 minutes for 16 to get the team back on track before they went on to win outright in a round which turned out to be the catalyst for our victory in the Club Championship. By season’s end, Andrew had scored a total of 364 runs while effecting 10 dismissals behind the stumps with only 27 byes. He also did well in the Poidevin Gray competition where he scored another 111 runs including an unconquered 31 in a partnership of 142 with Brett Jackson to record a magnificent 10 wicket win over Mosman. Andrew Redman has gone ahead in leaps and bounds this season. At his rate of improvement he will have selectors excited about his future prospects which augers as well for the club as it does for this most promising player……the most promising player in the club.

MOST IMPROVED LOWER GRADE PLAYER The Burke and Davies Families Award Sponsored by Chris Burke and Ross Davies Kevin Burke was a senior vice president of Randwick who first presented this award in 1976. Kevin died in 1998. Chris Burke is a former long-term lower grade player with Randwick Haydn Davies, father of Life Member Ross, was a vice president and great supporter of Randwick who died in 1984. His memorial award was first presented in 1992. Ross’ brother Peter, was the captain of Randwick’s first 5th Grade team in 1978 which made the semi-finals. He died in May 2002. Benn West The most improved lower grade player was an easy decision for the Management Committee this season as pace bowler Benn West was quite outstanding. Benn started his season in 4th Grade taking a hat-trick in round 1 against St George. He didn’t stay there long being promoted to 3rd Grade shortly after before securing a spot in the 2nd Grade side by the end of the season. In the three grades he played he accumulated 37 wickets at the impressive average of just 14.65 runs each. He now has 96 wickets for the club in just three seasons indicating his consistency as well as his wicket-taking ability. Amazingly he also has two hat-tricks. While many bowlers go through a whole career without taking the magic three wickets in three balls, Benn’s two hat-tricks came in successive seasons in the same year just eight months apart! In 3rd Grade Benn finished with 14 wickets at an average of 13.00. He missed by just one wicket (he needed 15) to claim this as a new 3rd Grade club bowling average record. However his 4th Grade average of 13.25 for each of his 16 wickets was the best for the season in that grade. An outstanding

Page: 74 performance by a bowler who returned figures of 6-29 (3rd Grade), 5-23 (4th Grade) and 4-64 (2nd Grade) during the season. He is no slouch with the bat either, scoring a total of 184 runs at an average of 46 with a high score of 45 not out, his best for the club. It is said that bowlers win grade cricket matches. Benn West is one of those bowlers who has the ability to quickly put his team in a winning position whenever he gets the ball in his hand. He also has the ability to go on to greater heights in the game and his progress will be followed with interest in the seasons ahead.

MOST PROMISING 6TH GRADE PLAYER The Alan Wright Award Sponsored by Alan Wright Alan Wright played Grade Cricket for over 40 years with Randwick / Randwick Petersham. He is a Life Member of the club, a member of the Management Committee and Chairman of Selectors.

Marcus Bain At just 14 years of age, this enthusiastic young leg-spinner has a great future in the game. Despite his youth, Marcus played in the Metropolitan Cup competition this season as well as A W Green Shield. In Metro Cup he bowled well finishing the season with 15 wickets at an average of 17.73 runs apiece. Importantly for a young over-the-wrist spinner, his run rate per over was an impressive 3.59 while his best figures were 4 for 17. In the under 16 years Green Shield competition his opportunities were limited although the experience this season will stand him in good stead for next summer. He also had the chance to show his batting capabilities in Metro Cup where he scored 83 runs with a best score of 29 not out batting among the tailenders. He also held on to 3 catches and effected 2 run-outs to emphasise his allround cricket ability. A son of Life Member Peter Bain, young Marcus comes from a family with a strong cricketing background and his development will be followed with great interest in the years ahead.

BEST POIDEVIN GRAY PLAYER The Clive Johnston Memorial Award Sponsored by John Pearson Clive Johnston was an outstanding player with the Petersham and Petersham Marrickville clubs, captaining 1st Grade for 17 of his 21 seasons. He was in three premiership winning teams and scored over 10,500 grade cricket runs. He also played for NSW on 11 occasions including a number as captain. Clive died in 1991 and this award was presented for the first time by Petersham Marrickville that same year. Brett Jackson In a season which was a real struggle for our Poidevin Gray team, Brett Jackson was the clear standout. He topped the batting with 211 runs at an average of 35.17. However, the innings which set him apart was his magnificent 104 not out with 19 boundaries in just 79 minutes against Mosman at Coogee Oval. It was a rain affected match reduced to 31 overs each side. Chasing 140 to win, Brett and his partner Andrew Redman knocked off the target without loss in just 20.1 overs to record an amazing 10 wicket win. The win also came at a time when we had just reached the lead in the Club Championship and without that victory and two valuable bonus points we would have surrendered the top spot to arch-rival Bankstown. Brett also took the new ball and with Peter Alevizos they proved to be a formidable pair. He finished the competition with 7 wickets. A new player to the club, Brett joined us this summer from the Waratah-Mayfield club in Newcastle and proved to be one of the successes of the season. Apart from PG’s, he played in 1st and 2nd grades scoring a total of 537 runs, the fourth highest for the club. His 86 in 1st Grade and 91 not out in 2’s were both outstanding knocks. Good judges have the wraps on him and we eagerly look forward to his continued development next season.

BEST A W GREEN SHIELD PLAYER The Cartwright Insurances Award Sponsored by Len Cartwright Cartwright Insurances has presented this award since 1975 courtesy of Len Cartwright, who was a 1st Grade wicketkeeper / batsman with Randwick and is now a vice president of Randwick Petersham.

Barton Lynch Bart relished the opportunity to open the innings in this season’s A W Green Shield competition. After playing in the trial games and the first match down the order, the decision was made to open with him and he rarely failed in that role. His defence was very sound and he played some lovely cover drives. He often was the ‘rock’ of the side. His best match was at Coogee Oval against Sydney where he made 52 and put the team in a good position to score a defendable total. Bart is one of the players eligible to play for us next year and has already gained experience in the Metropolitan Cup. Bart was energetic in the field and pulled off some great saves although an injury prevented him from bowling. Having that string to his bow is an added attribute. He finished the season with 187 runs at an average of 26.71.

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BEST A W GREEN SHIELD PERFORMANCE The Col Hollingsworth Memorial Award Sponsored by John Benaud Col Hollingsworth was a gifted young cricketer who died tragically at the age of 23 in 1966. He played for four years in the Petersham Marrickville A W Green Shield team before going on to captain NSW Colts. He was a first grader at age 16. The Col Hollingsworth Memorial Award was first presented by the Petersham Marrickville club in 1967.

Scott Gray In round 4 Scott came into the game at a time when we were 2 for 50 off 17 overs on a very good pitch at Coogee. From the moment he arrived at the crease Scott completely dominated the attack hitting the Sydney bowlers to all parts of the ground. He hit 7 boundaries in his innings of 50 and took the initiative away from the opposition. His running between the wickets was a highlight. Scott and Bart Lynch put on 74 for the third wicket and put the team in a strong position. It was a great innings to watch and it took a great ball to end it. Scott is another player who can play for the RP Green Shield team next year. Scott played 5th Grade this year and has had some fine innings in that competition as well. Scott finished with 183 A W Green Shield runs at 26.14.

THE KEN DEVLIN AWARDS Ken Devlin is a vice president of Randwick Petersham, husband of Madge and father of Steve and Peter, all of whom have been involved with the club as they were with Randwick for over 30 years. Ken first presented these awards at Randwick in 1983. Note : To ensure all players have an equal opportunity to compete for these awards, the calculation of most runs and wickets excludes the Grade final series of matches and Sunday games in the 1st Grade Limited Overs Competition.

MOST RUNS: Usman Khawaja 862 runs Ever since Usman took all before him in the club’s A W Green Shield team of 2002-03 when he debuted with the club, it has been clear he was a special player. And what a season he has had setting new club records and winning a baggy blue cap in the NSW SpeedBlitz Blues lineup where he performed outstandingly. It only took two grade games this season to realise this was going to be a big one for Ussie. In game 2 he hit 138 against Sydney University at Petersham and two matches later against Wests at Pratten Park, carried his bat throughout the innings for an unconquered 127. Usman soon after he hit 101 against Northern District at Coogee, before recording 102 against Gordon at Chatswood. In the Qualifying Final he played a simply outstanding knock scoring 111 against Minor Premiers St George at Hurstville while putting together a new 1st Grade club partnership record of 188 for the third wicket with Simon Katich. While runs scored in the Sunday Limited Overs matches aren’t included for purposes of this award, they do count towards his overall season aggregate which finished at 1,134, a new club record surpassing the 1,003 scored by Richard CheeQuee in 2001-02. His massive total was also the highest aggregate in the whole of Sydney Grade Cricket. His five 1st Grade centuries in the season was another new club record. An amazing season by an amazing player!

MOST WICKETS: Benn West 37 wickets Pace bowler Benn West got away to a flyer for this award taking a hat-trick in the first game of the season for 4th Grade against St George. Thereafter, it was a matter of “catch me if you can”, as he continued to improve his wicket haul each match. In round 3 he took 5-62 against Sutherland but in round 6 he bowled superbly to demolish Northern District for just 47 finishing with 5 for 23. Moving up to 3rd Grade he had immediate success taking 4-45 against North Sydney and followed that with his best performance of the season, 6 for 29 against Campbelltown Camden which was bowled out for just 55, a record low score against us in 3’s. Promoted to 2nd Grade for the final couple of matches he took 3 for 55 to help his side record a huge win against University of NSW which was an important victory in securing the Club Championship. Benn didn’t get to play in the Finals and so missed the opportunity to increase his season’s wicket tally. In the Player of the Season competition he finished in fourth place, the highest placed finish by any pace bowler. Benn had a great season and is a most deserving winner of this award.

THE WICKETKEEPING AWARD The David Sherwood Memorial Award Sponsored by John Watson of Watson Buchan, Surveyors David Sherwood was scorer of the Randwick 1st Grade team for 52 years. He made six overseas tours as scorer for the Australian team before his death in 1985. The SCA 5th Grade trophy bears his name.

Ashley Doolan Fielding is a critical element in the overall performance of any cricket team, with the wicketkeeper the focal point of all great fielding sides. Ashley Doolan is a most worthy recipient of this Award.

Page: 76 Ashley joined the club this season and after a couple of matches in 2’s was promoted to 1st Grade where he made his debut in round 3 against Sutherland. During the season he kept wickets in 23 innings, conceding no byes in 9 of them and just 1 in 4 others. In both grades he took 37 catches and made 5 stumpings for a total of 42 dismissals, highlighted by his 7 catches in 1st Grade against Manly including 5 in the first innings. His batting adds an important aspect to his game as his 286 runs with a best score of 65 in 2’s indicates. Ashley is a highly talented custodian with enormous energy, enthusiasm and an outstanding work ethic. His commitment to training, passion for the game and natural abilities stamp him as a player capable of stepping up to the next level.

THE FIELDING AWARD The Johnny Martin Memorial Award Sponsored by Expedition Kayaks through former player Mark Sundin Johnny Martin was a left hand ”chinaman” bowler who played 77 times for NSW and 8 times for Australia. He played with Petersham Marrickville for 15 seasons travelling 780kms each weekend from Burrell Creek. He took 450 grade wickets, scored 3500runs and was a superb fieldsman. He captained the 1st Grade side and won three premierships. The Johnny Martin Memorial Award was first awarded by Petersham Marrickville in 1993 following his death a year earlier.

Matthew Hilder We are very fortunate to have so many great fielders in the club. Each season the winner of this award is someone who has been particularly brilliant in the field and this year it is no different. Matt Hilder is one of those players who seems to have been around for years which indeed he has. But the number of seasons under his belt has not dimmed his athleticism and enthusiasm in the field, particularly in the slips. This season he held on to no less than 17 catches in three grades. He took 10 in 5th Grade where he celebrated another premiership from just 8 matches; 4 in 4th Grade; and 3 in 3rd Grade. The 3 in 3rd Grade were all in the one innings against Sydney University in round 2. Fantastic stats particularly when it is realised that he had held just 13 catches in the previous 6 seasons! Whether he’s using super glue on his palms these days is not known but the fact is the catches are certainly sticking like super glue! Matthew Hilder is a player who is always in the thick of things whether as captain, middle order batsman or change bowler. Throw in his fielding ability and you have the complete package. A most worthy winner of this prestigious award.

THE ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS

THE PHIL TRESIDDER FAMILY AWARD Phil Tresidder was a Life Member and Patron of the club who died in 2003. Phil was involved with the Randwick club for 60 years and served as President for 10 years. This award is sponsored by his niece Christine Hall and her husband Christopher. Jason Gray In just his second grade cricket match, Jason showed he was a quality player with a hard fought 48 not out in 5th Grade against Sydney Uni. He batted with no.11 James Tyson for some time on that occasion to keep out a quality attack and ensure a draw for his side. He played 6 matches in 5ths finishing with one of the top batting averages of 48.33 from his 145 runs to gain a premiership cap. He also hit a best score of 74 in the Metropolitan Cup where he scored 111 in his 4 games. A player of the future.

THE PETER ROLLS AWARD Peter Rolls is a Life Member of the club and a former 1st Grade player with Petersham Marrickville. Rob Close Despite having to complete HSC exams in his hometown of Orange and deal with a bout of glandular fever, this promising all-rounder gave more than a glimpse of his undoubted talent this season. He played a leading role in 5th Grade’s premiership win while also contributing to 4th Grade’s charge for the title. Overall he scored 208 runs and took 12 wickets in just 10 matches with a top score of 69 in 5ths and a 3 for 39 bowling effort in 4ths. A stint in this winter is sure to prime him for higher honours in the seasons ahead.

THE DUNCAN SCOTT-GLASSOCK MEMORIAL AWARD Duncan Scott-Glassock was a former 1st Grade seam bowler with Randwick in the 1970’s who died in 2006 aged just 57. This award continues in his name through the generosity of his wife Penny and family. James Tyson A Tasmanian whose regular unavailability early in the season kept him in 5th Grade, James set the Finals Series alight once he got going. A brisk left-hand genuine swing bowler, his yorker proved so dynamic that in the last four games he took 21 of his 41 wickets for the season. In the Finals he finished with the unbelievable figures of 16 wickets for 64 runs …an average of just 4! His season bowling average of 8.88 was the best in Sydney for 5th Grade and a new club record for all grades. Watch out next season !!

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THE WAYNE MULHERIN AWARD Wayne Mulherin is a Life Member and Committee Member of the club and former President of Petersham Marrickville who played Sheffield Shield cricket for NSW. Nathan McCoy Stepping up from A W Green Shield last season, Nathan completed his first Grade cricket season in 5th Grade with a premiership cap! An outstanding result from this promising left hander who opened the bowling throughout the season finishing with 26 wickets at the impressive average of 15. Included in those figures was a sensational 3 for 11 when elevated for a game in 4th Grade. He also showed that he is no slouch with the bat with a season top score of 41 batting at number 3 in the 5th Grade Final. Higher grades await.

THE JOHN CONNELL AWARD John Connell was the manager of this season’s 4th Grade premiership winning team. Charith de Silva Charith is the club’s first Special Olympics participant who also has a great love for the game of cricket. This season he played in the Metropolitan Cup 6th Grade Green team with distinction. He held up his end to stave off defeat in one match while he produced a swashbuckling innings when required in another. His nagging medium pacers proved difficult to get away as his best performance of 3 for 22 indicates. He excelled in the team song and has high hopes to take his first catch next season.

THE GREG HARTSHORNE AWARD Greg Hartshorne is the CEO of the club, a Life Member and former 1st Grade Captain of Petersham Marrickville who played in four successive Randwick Petersham premiership teams from 2002 to 2006. He is also a NSW State Selector. Cameron Fowler When winning the Most Promising 6th Grade Player Award last season, the comment was made that Cameron was “clearly a player of the future”. The future came a little early for this outstanding young left- hand “chinaman” spin bowler this summer when, elevated to 5th Grade, he took home a premiership cap in his first full grade cricket season! In doing so, he finished his season with the outstanding bowling figures of 26 wickets at just 13 runs apiece, the second best average in the club. As for next season…bring it on!!

THE ERNIE TOSHACK MEMORIAL AWARD Sponsored by Lyall Gardner Ernie Toshack, a member of Don Bradman’s 1948 “Invincibles”, holds a special place in the history of Randwick Petersham Cricket because he is the only cricketer to have played with the three clubs behind Randwick Petersham – Petersham, Marrickville and Randwick. He died in May 2003 and the club committee introduced this award in July 2003.

2006-07 Winner: Brian Proops Because of Ernie Toshack’s unequalled association with Randwick Petersham Cricket, the Management Committee of the club has honoured his memory with the introduction of a special annual award. It was decided that the award will be announced and presented each year at the Annual General Meeting of the club to a person or persons who the Management Committee determines has or have made a significant contribution to the club, either directly or indirectly through the founding clubs over an extended period of time.

At the Annual General Meeting on 25 July 2007, Brian Proops was announced as the winner of the fifth Ernie Toshack Memorial Award. It was no surprise that Brian should take out this award as he has had an amazing cricket career since he first helped out on the scoreboard at Petersham Oval while still a schoolboy. When he turned 15 the young off-spinner was selected in Petersham-Marrickville’s 4th Grade team. The season was 1955-56 and was the start of a cricket journey which was to continue for more than half a century. Within a few years Brian was in the club’s 1st Grade side where he played for four seasons. During that period he had the distinction of being named in two Petersham Marrickville 1st Grade Final teams, but didn’t get to bowl a ball as both matches against Northern District at the SCG, were washed out ! He can claim some notoriety however, as he played in a 1st Grade Semi- Final at Pratten Park against Wests at a time when the ABC televised 2 hours of grade cricket on Saturdays. The problem was his TV career was shortlived as he was the third victim of a Wally Welham hat-trick !! After a career which returned him around 350 wickets included two hat-tricks in 2nd Grade, work commitments took their toll and in 1964 Brian was forced to hang up his boots. His love for the game remained however, and in 1967 with work pressures easing, Brian returned to Petersham Oval as scorer. That decision proved to be a good one as over the next 40 years Brian became one of the best scorers in Sydney. His neatness and accuracy was rewarded with official Cricket NSW scoring duties for more than 12 years while Channel 7 snapped him up for their C7 broadcasts of Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup cricket. Family pressures in recent years saw Brian take the decision to put away the pencils and at the 2007 Annual General Meeting he announced his retirement. For the man who regarded Clive Johnston as the best captain he saw or played under and acknowledged our Patron Noel Hughes as the one who taught him “all about cricket”, he can look back on a cricket career with a great deal of pride and satisfaction. It takes an extraordinary person to be presented with this special award. Brian Proops is such a person and we are indebted to him for his lifetime of commitment and dedication to our club and the wonderful game of cricket.

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PLAYER OF THE SEASON CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR CLUBMAN OF THE YEAR PLAYER NON PLAYER 2001-02 Adam Warren 2001-02 Greg Hartshorne 2001-02 Lyall Gardner 2002-03 Matthew Cassar 2002-03 Paul Toole 2002-03 Peter Devlin 2003-04 Jon Lewis 2003-04 Alan Wright 2003-04 Ray Stafford 2004-05 Matthew Taylor 2004-05 Peter Bayley 2004-05 John Connell 2005-06 Sean Porter 2005-06 David Townsend 2005-06 Robin Gardner 2006-07 Brett Hunter 2006-07 Tony Martin 2006-07 Robert Barter 2007-08 Nathan Hauritz 2007-08 Grant Rimmer 2007-08 Bill Anderson

MOST PROMISING PLAYER MOST IMPROVED LOWER MOST PROMISING IN THE CLUB GRADE PLAYER 6TH GRADE PLAYER 2001-02 David Mitchell 2001-02 Neil Cohen 2004-05 Ben Chaplin 2002-03 Rodney Stafford 2002-03 Troy Brewster 2005-06 Graham Hinds 2003-04 Usman Khawaja 2003-04 Peter Spurr 2006-07 Cameron Fowler 2004-05 Matthew Taylor 2004-05 Chris Singh 2007-08 Marcus Bain 2005-06 Peter Alevizos 2005-06 Matthew Wallis 2006-07 John McLoughlin 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown 2007-08 Andrew Redman 2007-08 Benn West

POIDEVIN GRADE AW GREEN SHIELD AW GREEN SHIELD BEST PLAYER AWARD BEST PLAYER BEST PERFORMANCE 2001-02 Paul Greentree 2001-02 Matthew Tilley 2001-02 Shahzad Ali 2002-03 Alex Sciascia 2002-03 Usman Khawaja 2002-03 Usman Khawaja 2003-04 James Byrne 2003-04 William Passas 2003-04 William Passas 2004-05 Eddie Otto 2004-05 Sean Gardner 2004-05 Peter Alevizos 2005-06 Jamie Boettiger 2005-06 Sean Gardner 2005-06 Robert Close 2006-07 Usman Khawaja 2006-07 Nick Charlwood 2006-07 Nick Charlwood 2007-08 Brett Jackson 2007-08 Barton Lynch 2007-08 Scott Gray

MOST RUNS MOST WICKETS WICKETKEEPING AWARD 2001-02 Richard Chee Quee 2001-02 Adam Warren 2001-02 Daryl Parmenter 2002-03 Geoff Hodgkinson 2002-03 Scott Obey 2002-03 Matthew Taylor 2003-04 Richard Chee Quee 2003-04 Jon Lewis 2003-04 Daryl Parmenter 2004-05 Matthew Taylor 2004-05 Chris Singh 2004-05 Neil Cohen 2005-06 Matthew Taylor 2005-06 Matthew Wallis 2005-06 Fabian Heaton 2006-07 Tim Laws 2006-07 Dean White 2006-07 Neil Cohen 2007-08 Usman Khawaja 2007-08 Benn West 2007-08 Ashley Doolan

JOHNNY MARTIN ERNIE TOSHACK FIELDING AWARD MEMORIAL AWARD 2001-02 Geoff Hodgkinson 2002-03 Phil Tresidder 2002-03 Michael Watson 2002-03 Noel Hughes 2003-04 Paul Greentree 2003-04 Lyall Gardner 2004-05 Joseph Hill 2004-05 Patricia Hughes 2005-06 Tony Martin 2004-05 Helen Milford 2006-07 Michael Watson 2005-06 Alan Wright 2007-08 Matthew Hilder 2006-07 Brian Proops

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS 2001-02 Michael Watson 2001-02 Matthew Taylor 2001-02 George Frazakis 2001-02 Peter Spurr 2001-02 Grant Frakes 2001-02 Keiran Routh 2001-02 Nathan Silvy 2002-03 Nigil Singh 2002-03 Peter Spurr 2002-03 Chad Greenberg 2002-03 James Byrne 2002-03 Eddie Otto 2002-03 Zachary Levien 2002-03 Neil Cohen 2003-04 Marc Anderson 2003-04 Cooper Devine 2003-04 Ben Hill 2003-04 Grant Rimmer 2003-04 Glen Carroll 2003-04 Steve Bidwell-Brown 2003-04 Denesh Hewa-Gamage 2004-05 John McLoughlin 2004-05 Fabian Heaton 2004-05 Matthew Shiner 2004-05 Ian Paterson 2004-05 Shane Brien 2004-05 James Pryde 2004-05 Sean Porter 2004-05 Jake Berry 2004-05 Graham Hinds 2005-06 Ted Neaves 2005-06 Paul Greentree 2005-06 Khan Haretuku 2005-06 Matthew Hilder 2005-06 Adam Lee 2005-06 Will Halstead 2005-06 John Tierney 2005-06 Alex Tomkins 2006-07 Alex Sciascia 2006-07 Scott Gray 2006-07 Nicholas Stapleton 2006-07 Graeme Nichols 2006-07 Cameron Gray 2006-07 Daniel Laus 2006-07 Brendan Sacilotto 2007-08 Jason Gray 2007-08 Robert Close 2007-08 James Tyson 2007-08 Nathan McCoy 2007-08 Charith de Silva 2007-08 Cameron Fowler

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A reflection on the cricket careers of those many champions of the past who shaped the club into what it is today. Presented by Life Member Lyall Gardner OAM

Ron Saggers 1917-1987

Ron Saggers was a polished wicketkeeper of exceptional stumping skill which he displayed on many occasions during his international playing career between 1939-1951. A member of the famous Bradman’s “Invincibles” team which toured England in 1948, Ron’s record shows that of his 221 first class career dismissals, no fewer than an amazing 75…or 34%…were stumped.

A tall and lean individual, the young Sydenham youngster worked hard on his game and could be found standing behind the stumps in the Marrickville practice nets for hours on end perfecting his skills. Not only was he an outstanding gloveman, he was an excellent batsman and for the past 65 years has remained one of the top 10 season runscorers in Sydney 1st Grade cricket after hitting 1,150 runs in the 1941-42 season.

Ronald Arthur Saggers joined the Marrickville club in 1932-33 and played in 3rd Grade, “A” Shires and the premiership-winning Poidevin Gray team. Two years later, aged just 17, the promising youngster progressed through 3rds to 2nd Grade before winning a place in the 1st Grade team where he was to remain for the rest of his playing career. While his wicketkeeping was always of the highest standard he only began to make his mark as a batsman in 1937-38 when he hit his first century for the club, 104 not out while captain of the Poidevin Gray Shield team which again won the competition. He was the competition’s leading batsman with 456 runs at the outstanding average of 91.20.

By 1938-39 Ron’s batting and wicketkeeping talents were recognised by the State selectors and he represented NSW in the Colts and Second XI teams. The following season he made his Sheffield Shield debut against South Australia at the SCG as a specialist batsman making 45 and 57 of the 1,888 runs he went on to make in first class cricket. Taking over the wicketkeeping duties in 1940-41 for the first time at the senior level, Ron tasted instant success by equalling the world record of 7 dismissals in an innings (all caught) against a Combined Queensland team in Brisbane. His three dismissals in the first innings gave him 10 for the match.

With only one first class match played in 1941-42 due to World War II, Ron starred in grade cricket equalling the then highest run aggregate in a season of 1,150 which had been set by the Petersham Test batsman Tommy Andrews in 1929- 30. In his mammoth total, the 24 year old Saggers hit scores of 154, 150, 118, 111, 88, 84, 78, 64 and 50. Behind the stumps he also caught 18 and stumped 11. Ron’s performance that season was all the more meritorious having regard to the fact that having entered camp as a member of the R.A.A.F. he was precluded from practicing. Interestingly, the boy on the scoreboard that season was none other than a young Noel Hughes who, apart from enjoying the batting of his hero Ron Saggers, earned the princely sum of nine pence a day for his trouble.

In the years which followed Ron led Marrickville to its first 1st Grade premiership in 1943-44, continued as a regular member of the NSW side and in 1947-48 had the distinction of being appointed NSW captain. To cap off an outstanding year, he was selected as reserve ‘keeper behind in Don Bradman’s 1948 “Invincibles” touring team to England. With Tallon suffering an injury prior to the 4th Test of that series, Ron made his Australian debut at Headingley, Leeds, celebrating with the wicket of caught for 23 off . This was also the match in which made his Test debut.

Page: 80 On that tour, Ron played in the famous match against Essex at Southend where the Australians rattled up 721 in a day’s play. Ron’s contribution was 104 not out in a partnership of 166 in 65 minutes with (120) while Don Bradman slammed 187 in 2 hours.

In 1949-50, Ron was again selected as deputy to Don Tallon for the tour of but when Tallon withdrew before the ship sailed, Saggers was installed as the No.1 wicketkeeper. Ron ‘kept in each of the five Tests in South Africa recording 21 dismissals including 6 stumpings off leg-spinner Colin McCool.

In 1950-51, a knee injury brought a premature end to an outstanding career which included a 5 year stint as Marrickville Delegate to the NSWCA between 1945-50. One of the State’s most outstanding wicketkeeper-batsmen, Ron Saggers died at Harbord on 17 March 1987 aged 69.

Alex Marks 1910-1983

Alex Marks was one of the greatest cricketers ever to pull on a Randwick cap. A left hand batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler he was an outstanding performer at both State and club level while his added contribution as a brilliant administrator ensured a deserved place in the history of the Randwick Cricket Club.

Alexander Edward Marks was born in Brisbane on 10 December 1910. At age 15 and still a schoolboy, he was drafted into the Randwick 3rd Grade team where he topped the batting for the season with 383 runs including a 90 against Mosman. After just three matches the following season he made his 1st Grade debut, one of the youngest players in the history of Sydney Grade cricket to do so. His initial 1st Grade century came the following year when he hit 109.

In 1928-29, after scoring a century in his first Second XI match against Victoria and at just 18 years of age, Alex made his first class debut playing for NSW in the Sheffield Shield competition and against the touring England team. This was to be the first of 35 first class matches Alex would play in accumulating a career total of 2,038 runs over eight seasons. While he made 3 centuries and an Alex Marks hits another boundary on his way to 201 for amazing 12 fifties in a team comprising players such New South Wales against Queensland at the SCG in 1936. as Don Bradman, Stan McCabe and , his finest moment occurred in the 1935-36 season when he scored 201 in 259 minutes at the SCG against Queensland and the legendary aboriginal fast bowler Eddie Gilbert. The Sydney press commented that “Eddie Gilbert bowled with terrific pace and Marks alone displayed the utmost confidence against him”. Gilbert’s pace was such that he caused three of the NSW players to retire with injuries while he was warned for intimidatory bowling.

Alex Marks played in the “Bradman Era”, a time when Australian cricket was extremely strong and it was only this fact which prevented him from wearing the baggy green cap of Australia. His best opportunity occurred in 1930 when the Australian touring team to England was selected, Alex narrowly missing out in favour of Stan McCabe.

At club level, Alex scored a total of 8,069 runs for Randwick with a highest score of 194 not out and took 98 wickets in 22 seasons. In grade cricket circles he was regarded as “the scourge of spinners” as the famous Australian Test opening batsman recalled when playing against Alex at Coogee in 1937-38. Morris was playing his first 1st Grade game for St George as a left-handed spinner when, after hitting up a century and pasting one of Morris’ well flighted spinners into a block of flats across the road, Marks came up to him and said “Give the bowling away son and concentrate on your batting”! Good advice as it turned out as Arthur Morris played in 46 Test Matches scoring 3,533 runs.

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Alex Marks also had a distinguished administrative career in cricket. In 1930-31 he became Randwick’s Assistant Secretary, a position he held for 10 years. In 1946-47 he was club Secretary while he was delegate to the NSW Cricket Association for 4 years. He was also a State Selector for 10 years while serving a similar role for Randwick for many seasons. He looked after Randwick’s Saturday morning coaching classes and in 1946-47 was awarded life membership.

Alex was a great contributor in other aspects of sport being a fine rugby union footballer for Randwick and NSW while in 1947 he was appointed Secretary of NSW Rugby Union. He subsequently took over as Secretary Manager of Pennant Hills Golf Club. His involvement in cricket was extended by his two sons, Neil and Lyn who played for the Northern District club before going on to play first class cricket with distinction for NSW and in Lyn’s case, also for South Australia. Interestingly, Alex’s brother-in-law Max Ward was also an outstanding cricketer for Randwick.

A sportsman of the highest order, Alex Marks passed away in 1983 aged 72. Former team mates at his funeral commented that to play sport the way Alex played was to play it as it should be played.

Clive Johnston 1925-1991

An examination of the history of any successful sporting club or association, will generally identity a handful of people whose dedicated contribution over an extended period was an important ingredient in its success. In terms of the Petersham / Petersham-Marrickville District Cricket Club, Clive Johnston was such a person.

With the start of World War II in 1939-40, the 14 years old Clive William Johnston ventured down to the local Petersham Oval to attend the Saturday morning coaching classes. Despite his tender years he showed enough batting talent and enthusiasm to attract the selectors attention and he made his grade debut that season in the club’s 3rd Grade team in a match against Western Suburbs.

Such was his development that within 3 years and at just 17 years of age he made his 1st Grade debut as a high order batsman. Showing a maturity beyond his years and in a display of generous responsibility, he also put his hand up to serve on the club’s Management Committee. It was a shortlived involvement however, as the following season he began 3 years active service in the Navy earning himself the nickname “Sailor”.

Upon his return, his batting skill continued to develop and in 1947-48 he played Second XI for NSW and also captained the NSWCA Colts team visiting a number of country centres. His performances earned him a place later that season in the NSW Sheffield Shield team where he joined fellow Petersham team mates Bill Alley and Ernie Toshack. His dedication to the Petersham club saw him continue to provide assistance to Dudley Seddon each Saturday morning with the junior coaching classes. In 1948-49, Clive returned to the administrative ranks rejoining the club’s Management Committee where he was to serve for the following 22 years.

Playing in an era of such outstanding cricketers as , Arthur Morris, , Neil Harvey, Ray Lindwall, , Alan Davidson and to name but a few, it was difficult for Clive to command a regular spot in the NSW team. Over his 11 years representative span he was selected to play just 11 times for NSW scoring 418 runs with a highest score of 68. He did have the distinction however, of captaining the side on a number of those occasions when the Test players were unavailable.

A feature of Clive’s career was that he captained the Petersham-Marrickville first XI for 16 successive seasons, from 1951-52 until 1966-67, winning three Sydney 1st Grade premierships along the way. Under Clive’s stewardship, the team was one of the most competitive in the competition never finishing further back than 9th while it made the semi finals on 9 occasions. Interestingly, during those 16 seasons Clive’s wife Betty, ably assisted by fast bowler Ken White’s wife Hazel, served the afternoon teas at Petersham Oval. When he retired as a player, Clive Johnston had scored more than 10,500 runs for Petersham and Petersham-Marrickville. Life Membership of the club which was bestowed on him in 1965 was well earned and earned well.

Page: 82 In 1988, Clive rejoined the Management Committee as President and Delegate to the NSWCA. However, after three years serving in those roles and aged just 65, Clive passed away after a short illness. It was the end of an era and the end of one of the great icons of Petersham-Marrickville District Cricket Club. The Randwick Petersham award for Best Poidevin Gray Player is proudly presented each year in his memory.

Alan Turner

Alan Turner is Randwick’s first home-grown Australian Test cricketer. Although Randwick had been around since 1900, it wasn’t until 1975 when Alan made his Test debut against England at Edgbaston a couple of weeks before his 25th birthday that a local cricketer made the big-time. That was the first of 14 Tests Alan was to play for a return of 768 runs at an average of 29.53 including a top score of 136.

Having played A W Green Shield for Waverley it was fortuitous for Randwick that Alan’s parents moved house to Little Bay where the Randwick Boys High pupil gravitated to the local cricketing ranks. His first season in 1966-67 was spent in 3rd Grade where the young left-hander topped the batting with 470 runs. The next summer he made his 1st Grade debut and the following year at just 18 years of age, he was opening the batting for NSW in Sheffield Shield cricket. That occasion was the first of some 80 appearances “Fitter’n”, as he is affectionately known, made for his state over a 10 year playing span.

With the inaugural World Cup cricket series programmed as a prelude to the 1975 Ashes tour of England, Alan received the call-up from the national selectors. And he didn’t disappoint, hitting 156 against Kent in his initial first class match in England before recording the first century in World Cup cricket when he smashed 101 before lunch against at . While he went on to play in three of the four subsequent Ashes Tests it wasn’t until the Fifth Test the following summer in Adelaide that he hit a Test century when he peeled of a mighty 136 against the likes of , and , three of the West Indies greatest bowlers. It was a dream come true for a player whose penchant for the hook shot and natural aggression made him a crowd favourite.

With a young family and a business career set to take off, early into the 1977-78 season Alan announced his retirement from first class cricket at the relatively young age of 28. And while his premature retirement may have been a blow to cricket at the senior level, it turned out to be a boon for Randwick with the elegant left-hander putting all his efforts into raising the faltering profile of his club. Taking over the 1st Grade captaincy that season, Alan led the team to Randwick’s first premiership in 26 years when it went through the competition undefeated. The knock-on effect through the grades also gave the club it’s first Club Championship since 1944-45.

The following season Alan Turner became Sydney’s youngest President when he took over from the retiring Bill Beath before the club chalked up another three 1st Grade premierships in the space of just five years with Alan a key figure in those successes. His undefeated 230 not out in the 1979-80 final against Penrith at Howell Oval remained the highest 1st Grade score in the 100 year history of Randwick cricket.

When Alan called a halt as a player he had accumulated a mammoth 6,512 first class runs as well as 5,891 for his beloved Randwick. But Alan was far from finished with cricket and continued to make a valued contribution to the administration of the game through his 10 years presidency role with the club and during lengthy terms as a member of the NSW Cricket Board and the SCG Trust. Awarded life membership of Randwick in 1983, that honour was similarly bestowed by the New South Wales Cricket Association in 1997 in recognition of his wonderful contribution to the game at club, state and national level.

While Alan’s involvement these days is one of a keen follower and sometime spectator, he remains one of the most outstanding player/administrators this club and its predecessors has produced. Content to knock the little white ball around the Australian Golf Course of a Saturday morning, the father of three and grandfather of one is entitled to enjoy his cricket retirement with wife Carolyn and his family in the knowledge that the game has been far the better for his contribution. We salute a favourite son.

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It is with regret we record the passing of the following people associated with the club since the publication of the club’s 2006-07 Annual Report.

• Reginald Bernard (Bernie) Wright – died 17 June 2007 aged 79 years Bernie was the father and grandfather of former Petersham Marrickville players Geoff Wright and Geoff’s son Damian who has been playing for Tasmania in recent years. Bernie was a very active sportsman throughout his life excelling in cricket in the Parkes area where he lived. A highlight was as a country representative playing against the touring South Africans in 1964.

• Scott Robert Laws – died 28 December 2007 aged 25 years. Scott played for Randwick – Randwick Petersham between 1998 and 2003. He was an outstanding allrounder who was named Randwick’s Best Under 21 Performer in 1999-2000 when he excelled in the Poidevin Gray team while aged just 17. He played 6 games for Randwick Petersham in the club’s lower grades in 2002-03. He passed away in his sleep shortly after Christmas 2007. Scott Laws

• William (Bill) Alfred Brown – died 16 March 2008 aged 95 years. was Randwick Petersham’s oldest founding club player having played his early cricket with Marrickville. He was also Australia’s oldest Test player. Bill joined Marrickville District Cricket Club in 1929-30 and within two years at 20 years of age made his first class debut with NSW. While he was run out for a without facing a ball on that occasion, his 205 against Victoria and 154 against Queensland the following season more than made up for his rather inauspicious introduction to representative cricket.

In 1934 Bill toured England with the Australians and made his Test debut in the Second Test at scoring 73 and figuring in a partnership of 112 with the legendary Stan McCabe. He again toured with the Australians in 1938 hitting his highest Test score of 206 not out when he carried his bat throughout the innings at Lord’s. The following game against county side Derbyshire he rattled up 265, his highest first class score.

With the war interrupting first class cricket it wasn’t until 1948 that Bill Brown returned to England with Don Bradman’s Invincibles. Although aged 35, he made eight centuries on that famous tour.

When Bill retired in 1950, he had played 22 Tests for Australia scoring 1,592 runs at an average of 46.82. His imposing record included 4 centuries and 9 fifties. In first class cricket he totalled 13,838 runs from 189 matches at an average of 51.44 with a mammoth 39 centuries.

Just before World War II, Bill left Sydney and the Marrickville club to return to Queensland, his state of birth, where he played a major role in building up the strength of cricket in that state in the years which followed.

• Archibald (Arch) James Crippin – died 30 March 2008 aged 92 years Arch was the father of Ron and Richard Crippin who played for the old Randwick club. Ron was an outstanding opening batsman for NSW playing 38 matches between 1970-79. A product of St Josephs College, Hunters Hill, Arch was a wonderful sportsman and prior to his death was the oldest surviving member of the 1936 Rugby League Kangaroos.

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Our Volunteers

We are in a unique and enviable position. No other club has the depth and strength of our volunteer support! These are people who give their time and energy to be part of this great club. People who care about our club and the people in it. They are our heart and soul. Whether it is 10 hours or 1000 hours it is impossible to recognise or thank you enough. Thank you!

1 Bill Anderson Director of Coaching 2 Bob Barter Manager 1st Grade and Museum Director 3 Bernard Bayley Manager 2nd Grade 4 Peter Carroll Manager 3rd Grade 5 John Connell Manager 4th, Gear Steward 6 Neville Walters Manager 5th Grade 7 Stan Beal 1st Grade Scorer 8 Lynette Jackson 2nd Grade Scorer 9 Angela Redman 3rd Grade Canteen 10 Richard McCord 4th Grade, Poidevin Gray Scorer, Practice Captain 11 David Holland Committee, 5th Grade Scorer, 6th Grade Manager 12 Faye Semple 1st Grade Canteen and Scorer 13 Helen Fowler 5th Grade Canteen and Scorer 14 Peter Devlin Club Coach, Poidevin Gray Coach 15 Grant Rimmer AW Green Shield Coach, RPC Academy 16 Darren McCoy Committee, RPC Academy Chairman 17 Robin Gardner Coogee & Petersham Oval Canteens 18 Sue Otto Petersham & Coogee Oval Canteen 19 Ray Stafford Statistics, Annual Report and knowledge on everything 20 Matthew Taylor Clothing and special events 21 Brett Hunter Club Captain 22 Andrew Harrison Social committee and MVP nights 23 Lee Farlow Social committee 24 Alex Sciascia Social committee 25 David Skuthorpe Assistant Coach 26 Rob Huxley Assistant Coach 27 Katie Martin Web support, electronic communications 28 Noel Hughes Patron 29 Peter English Match Day Manager & BBQ at Petersham Oval 30 Cec Orrock Match Day Manager at Coogee Oval – No. 1 Supporter 31 Dick Waller Grounds assistant 32 John Sullivan Coogee and Petersham Oval BBQ 33 Graeme Hughes Annual Dinner and Businessman’s lunch MC 34 Lyall Gardner OAM Annual Report, Legends Chairman, General Administration 35 Peter Harrison Handyman, BBQ 36 Dean White Grounds Handyman 37 Tariq Khawaja Computer Scorer – 1st Grade 38 Neale Anderson Special events 39 Dave Kelly Memorabilia 40 Wayne Tilley Honorary Auditor 41 Auctioneer and Photographer 42 Don Arnold Photography 43 David Townsend Committee, Junior Development 44 Tony Martin Committee, Assistant CEO 45 Bernie Dagg Committee, Financial Controller, Insurance 46 Chris Sullivan Committee, Social Chairman, Golf Day Organiser 47 Wayne Mulherin Committee, Chairman Grounds 48 Alan Wright Committee, Chairman of Selectors 49 Peter Wright Committee, SCA and NSWCA Delegate, Legal Advice 50 Mike Whitney Club President 51 Team Captains Nathan Hauritz, Rodney Stafford, Nigil Singh, David Townsend Darren McCoy, Denis Hinds, Denis Howard, Sam Rochaix, Usman Khawaja, Ashley Doolan, Will Passas (PG’s), Nicholas Stapleton (A W Green Shield).

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Social Report by Chris Sullivan, Social Director

We have been most fortunate in recent seasons to have been able to celebrate a number of premiership victories by our teams in true RPC style. A barnstorming run home by all grades including two “greenwashes” allowed us to celebrate our first Club Championship this season. Further cause for celebration was the acquisition of the Reid Cup and David Sherwood Cup by our 4th and 5th Grade teams. What a season!

The season commenced with the club sending a strong trial match squad to Stockton for its opening campaign and in a replay of the previous season, we were brought down by wet weather which prevented a ball being bowling on Lynne Oval. However, the keen squad led by Nathan Hauritz and coaching staff Billy, Dev and Robbie along with assistance from our friends at Stockton CC especially President Ron Hancock, gained some valuable pre-season workouts in the Newcastle Indoor nets which were made available to us. Still on Stockton, RPC was represented by Peter Devlin, Chris Sullivan and Dave Townsend who interviewed NSW Blues team member Daniel Smith, in a very entertaining evening at their presentation dinner in May.

The Phil Tresidder Memorial Golf Day was yet another great day for those who attended Randwick Golf Club in early November. The early threatening skies cleared up and the full tee complement from the shotgun start, were able to enjoy a rather pleasant round. While a detailed account of this day appears elsewhere in this report, it is important to thank here the following for their input in making the day a success: Tony Martin, Matt Hilder, Lyall Gardner, Ross Davies, Mike Whitney, and Marianne Branighan from Randwick Golf Club. Special thanks to all the sponsors and in particular Chris and Christine Hall.

Petersham RSL once again gave us great support throughout the season and was the venue for our Club Championship celebrations. This was a huge night with a lot of entertaining moments. A huge vote of thanks to club photographer Steve Smith who captured a lot of those “magic moments” on film.

Through the course of the season RPC introduced a new initiative with the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP). MVP evenings were held quarterly with special thanks to the combination of Andrew Harrison and Dave Townsend for their presentation expertise with these awards @ Newtown RSL, which also was the venue for combined MVP and Christmas festivities. A good number of attendees ensured an entertaining time was had by all. I would like to thank Danny Fitzgerald, now CEO of Peterham RSL, for all his support which he and his board provided to the club during 2007-08.

In February a “corporate style” luncheon was held at the magnificent Waterfront Restaurant in the city to honor the superb feats of Simon Katich, in particular his monumental innings of 306 against Queensland at the SCG. The “House Full” sign went up quickly for an extremely successful and enjoyable afternoon as guests were kept laughing by media personality Sam Kekovich. The best MC in the business Graeme Hughes also conducted an in-depth interview with Simon while President Mike Whitney made a presentation to him on behalf of the RPC Legends. Special congratulations to Simon on what was described by Sam Kekovich as “a *%$# stellar season”. Thanks also to Simon for all the off-field efforts he puts into RPC.

I must acknowledge the efforts of a number of people in making this luncheon the success it was. Firstly to Life Member Neale Anderson for his involvement on the organizing committee; to Greg Hartshorne and Bobby Barter for detailing the Memorabilia; to Brett Hunter for conducting the raffle; to Graeme Hughes for his MC work and also organizing Sam Kekovich as guest speaker. Hate to think how “social gigs” would go without him. Peter Wright and Darren McCoy also deserve special mention as these two gentlemen ensured the HOUSE FULL sign went up. Terry Psarakis from Tamworth Cricket brought down a group of eight which was much appreciated. And finally to Sherwin Peiris and this team at the Waterfront Restaurant for an “A Grade” effort in ensuring that all ran smooth throughout the day.

The RPC Annual Dinner held at Petersham RSL in March played host to our guest speaker former Test firebrand and current Test Selector . Merv gave a very thorough insight to the early days of his career in and through his Test days as well as fielding questions from the floor. The night also recognized the feats of NSW Blues debutantes Usman Khawaja and Burt Cockley. They along with Nathan Hauritz gave us their thoughts on achieving first class status via an interview with MC Graeme Hughes.

Thanks to Tony and Katie Martin, Bernie Dagg, Harry Solomons from Kingsgrove Sport, Mark Sundin from Talisman Marketing who from Day 1 has donated generously to all social functions. Also many thanks to all at Petersham RSL and in particular Danny Fitzgerald and Christine Lynch in the functions area.

Page: 86 Randwick Rugby Club continues to be ever popular as a meeting place for the post-game entertainment. It’s always pleasing having to book a Grand Final / Season Ending function with the chance of holding a premiership trophy or two aloft in early April. Special thanks to Sarah who is only too obliging to help RPC with functions there.

In summarizing, thank you to everyone at RPC for a very enjoyable 2007-08 with special thanks to Steve Smith who over the years has captured a lot of RPC history via his photography. It is much appreciated. A big thank you to Robin Gardner and Sue Otto in the canteen. We’d be lost without you both.

Gradually we are ticking off the boxes of desired achievements. I can’t wait for that 1st Grade Premiership!

Good luck to all and I look forward for seeing you in season 2008-09.

Robin Gardner and Merv Hughes at the Simon Katich with Matthew Mott (NSW Coach) Annual Dinner and David Gilbert (CEO – Cricket NSW)

Sam Kekovich and Graeme Hughes

Page: 87 Phil Tresidder Memorial Golf Day A Randwick Petersham Legends event by Lyall Gardner

A field of 69 hopefuls took to the sodden fairways of “Royal” Randwick Golf Club on Friday 9 November 2007 in their quest to have their name inscribed on the Phil Tresidder Memorial Cup as 2007 champions. It was the 5th running of the event and while it generally attracts a shower or two and sometimes a deluge, we were fortunate this year to dodge the rain despite heavy cloud overhead for most of the morning.

And the Ambrose team winners this year were…..Richard CheeQuee (off 18), Paul McCallum (6), Gary Whitaker (15) and son Thomas Whitaker (19) who shot an amazing 10 under par off the stick (49) and finished with a net score of 41.75…that’s 17.25 UNDER par!!! They had an EAGLE (a 2 on the par 4 9th ), 9 birdies and strangely enough, a bogey. A quick look back through the records shows that this was the best-ever net winning score by 2.75 shots! A new record! (Unfortunately they can’t defend their title this year as they’ll be in America preparing for the US Masters!)

Second place went to Ross Davies (18), Chris Burke (24), Mike Kemp (16) and K Felton (14) with a net 46 while Chris “Fous” Sullivan (20), Bronco D’Jura (9), Col Booth (18) and Wayne Mulherin (17) took third spot. Contrary to expectations, the Mike Whitney group did not win the “Bradman” this year which went to the three-man team of Paul Ledwidge (18), John Warwick (12) and Ben Elllis (18) with a net 55.

Closest to the Pin prizes went to Paul McCallum, Thomas Whitaker, S Watson, John Johnson and Gary Whitaker. Drew Cremin and Gary Bensley won the two long drive prizes.

All in all, a very successful day which helped with the on-going funding of The Phil Tresidder Trust which, when fully funded, will provide promising young Randwick Petersham cricketers with a development scholarship for a season in England.

Many thanks to Chris Sullivan who took on organising the day in the absence of Ross Davies who had a spell this season. Thanks also to all players and a special thank you to our generous sponsors who made the day possible with the donation of prizes.

“Legends Members” at the Simon Katich Tribute luncheon at the Waterfront Restaurant in February 2008 (back from left) : Bob Barter, Robin Gardner, John Sullivan, Len Cartwright, Ken Devlin, Chris Sullivan, Richard CheeQuee, Wayne Mulherin (front from left): Brett Hunter, Barry Wood, Ray Stafford, Lyall Gardner, John Hayward.

Page: 88 “The Legends”

A prime purpose behind the Randwick Petersham Cricket Legends Society is to rekindle and maintain closer links between former players, members, supporters and officials to ensure those many friendships created through the old Randwick and Petersham Marrickville clubs are not lost. Another ideal is that a society such as this provides a real incentive to our players to see so many people who have been involved with the club and the founding clubs over the years, being there to provide support to our current players. With those ideals it was a pleasure to welcome RPCC’s first 1st Grade captain Paul Toole as a new member as it was to have recent retiree Brett Hunter also join us. From the “old school” former Petersham player Brad Timbrell and former Randwick “offie” Andrew “Angry” Ackerman also came on board. Great to have you with us gentlemen!

The main function this season was the “Phil Tresidder Memorial Cup” Golf Day at Randwick Golf Course on 9 November last year. Proceeds for the day were aimed at the Phil Tresidder Memorial Trust and it was pleasing that a profit from the day of $1,627 was able to be contributed to that cause. It is pleasing to report that the value of the Trust Fund has climbed to almost $29,000 at the end of the cricket financial year which is 30 April 2008. The plan in due course is to use the earnings from the Trust to fund the development of a promising Randwick Petersham cricketer through a placement with an English club for a season. We still need further funds to be able to get the plan up and running but we are getting closer each year.

At the club’s Sportsman’s Luncheon at the Waterfront Restaurant in February, your committee took the opportunity on behalf of all Legends, to make a presentation to Simon Katich in recognition of his amazing 306 at the SCG against Queensland in the Pura Cup match on 28 October 2007. It was an innings described by many as “Bradmanesque”. The presentation by Mike Whitney to Simon was of a large framed photograph catching Simon in action on the day and included other mementos such as a piece of the hallowed SCG turf dug out at the end of the match. It was a wonderful presentation and Simon expressed his thanks to the Society for the gesture. Cost to the Society was $450.

In terms of the Society's finances, we finished the year with a profit of $1,662.09 following income of $2,112.09 and expenditure of $450.00. We received $2,110.00 in subscriptions and bank interest of $2.09. At 30 April 2008, the net bank balance of Randwick Petersham Cricket Legends Society was a healthy $7,334.62. However, as has been the case in recent seasons, The Society is committed to funding the cost of framed team photos for presentation to each of the members of the successful 4th and 5th Grade premiership teams at the club’s Annual General Meeting. This cost is likely to be in the vicinity of $1,500 and will be paid during the course of the 2008-09 cricket financial year.

The committee this year comprised Lyall Gardner (Chairman), Ray Stafford, John Pearson, Shane Redenbach, Bill Anderson and Ross Davies while membership totalled 60, one less than 2006-07.

The following were Financial Members for 2007-08: Andrew Ackerman, John Affleck, Bill Anderson, Alan Austin, Peter Bain, Bernard Bayley, John Benaud, Richie Benaud, Gary Bensley, Colin Booth, Chris Burke, Len Cartwright, Richard CheeQuee, Ron Crippin, John Connell, Ross Davies, Tim Dein, Ken Devlin, Graham Eastick, Lyall Gardner, Robin Gardner, Alan Gear, Todd Greenberg, John Hayward, Wayne Heathcote, Garry Hughes, Brett Hunter, Trevor Jay, John Johnson, Peter Johnston, Bill Knowles, Paul Ledwidge, John Letson, Graeme Marston, Gary Mathew, Royce McCormack, John Mison, Wayne Mulherin, John Nesbitt, John O’Loughlin, Cec Orrock, Gordon Owen, John Pearson, Mark Preddey, Shane Redenbach, Tom Regan, Peter Rolls, Ray Stafford, Chris Sullivan, John Sullivan, Peter Taylor, Kevin Thomas, Wayne Tilley, Brad Timbrell, Paul Toole, Alan Turner, Mike Whitney, Barry Wood, Alan Wright and Chris York. The following 36 members have paid in advance for next season, 2008-09: Andrew Ackerman, John Affleck, Bernard Bayley, John Benaud, Gary Bensley, Len Cartwright, John Connell, Ross Davies, Tim Dein, Lyall Gardner, Todd Greenberg, Wayne Heathcote, Brett Hunter, Trevor Jay, John Johnson, Bill Knowles, Paul Ledwidge, John Letson, Graeme Marston, Gary Mathew, Royce McCormack, Wayne Mulherin, John Nesbitt, Gordon Owen, John Pearson, Shane Redenbach, Ray Stafford, Chris Sullivan, John Sullivan, Peter Taylor, Paul Toole, Alan Turner, Mike Whitney, Barry Wood, Alan Wright and Chris York

The annual fee for the 2008-09 season is $25 (or $50 for the next two seasons) and is due and payable from 1 September 2008. To renew or join, please contact Lyall Gardner at 1 Jefferson Crescent, Bonnet Bay, 2226 or by phone on 9528 4126 or email [email protected]. We are very keen to hear from as many “oldies” as possible as the Society is a fun way of keeping involved and remaining in touch with each other.

Page: 89 Coaching Report by Peter Devlin, Club Coach

Season 2007-08 saw the club win it’s first Club Championship, win the 4th and 5th Grade Premiership finals and contest the Semi-Finals in 1st, 2nd and 6th grades. An outstanding result and all involved this season and the past seven seasons, on and off the field are to be congratulated. Those present at Petersham RSL and the Randwick Rugby Club on Finals day celebrated in true Randy Pete’s style.

The off season saw the unavailability of Shawn Flegler, Matthew Mott, Andrew Harrison, Nathan Rosser, Brett Hunter, Jamie Bottiger, Paul Greentree, Joe Hill, Jody Whitehead, Dean White, Neil Cohen, Tony Martin, Tristan Marshall, John Tierney, Steve Bright, Sean Porter, Fabian Heaton (½ season), Daniel Laus (½ season), Lance Kahler (½ season) and David Mitchell (½ season). These losses really tested our resources.

The Club was very fortunate to recruit outstanding fast bowler Burt Cockley and talented young batsman Brett Jackson (both NSW Country reps) from Newcastle as well as wicketkeeper Ashley Doolan (NSW U19’s rep) from Sutherland who was recommended by former Australian ‘keeper Steve Rixon. All rounder Shane Pargeter (South Sydney Shires) recommended by Richard Chee Quee and Alex Brown (NSW Country Under 19’s) recommended by Life Member Rhys Banwell also joined our ranks.

The recruitment of these quality players certainly played an enormous role in replacing the huge void left by the unavailability of 20 graded players from the previous season. Many thanks to all in the Club who assisted in sourcing these players and helping with the transition to Sydney Grade Cricket while assisting with employment opportunities and helping them cope with the city life style and its demands.

The Club’s coaching staff of Bill Anderson, Peter Devlin, David Skuthorpe, Rob Huxley, Darren McCoy, Grant Rimmer and a number of players, attended the following Cricket NSW High Performance Seminars.

• High Performance Coaches • Simon Taufel - Match Preparation • Warren Smith - Batting Drills • Mark O’Neill - Batting • Steve Rixon - Wicketkeeping • Michael Haddin - Recovery Sessions • Troy Baker - Routines and Processes • Gavin Fingleson - Throwing/Fielding • Fast Bowling - Troy Cooley • Wrist Spin Bowling - Terry Jenner • Wicketkeeping - Brad Haddin

Despite our very successful year there are still many areas of our coaching/training program and training facilities which can be improved. A review involving players, coaching staff and committee members has highlighted areas requiring improvement. The Club is fortunate to have a very passionate coaching team and committee who will do everything possible to achieve the best possible environment and coaching facilities to achieve our players cricketing goals.

A simple way of assisting the committee and coaching staff is for players to be committed to attend practice and assist in training pre-match and match day duties on a regular basis. Attendance at club functions is another important aspect of club life.

When the Club was formed in 2001, the main goal was to win the Club Championship in our first 10 years. We achieved that aim in just seven years. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following coaches for their assistance and contributions to our success this year and over the past seven years:

Bill Anderson, David Skuthorpe, Rob Huxley, Paul Toole, Joe Hill, Richard Chee Quee, Andrew Millican, Shawn Flegler, Darren McCoy, Grant Rimmer, Matthew Mott, Brett Hunter along with our various Academy coaches.

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Specialist Coaches over the past seven years consisted of:

* - Fast Bowling * Bob Simpson - Batting, spin bowling, one day tactics * David Freedman - Spin Bowling * Mark Atkinson - Wicketkeeping * John Sullivan - Fast Bowling * Murray Creed - Batting * Callum Davis - Sprint Training and Fitness * Michael Haddin - Fitness and Nutrition * Troy Baker - Fast Bowling, Video Analysis * Graham Arnold - Introduction to Skins wear * Alan Campbell - NSW High Performance Team

To the sponsors, managers, volunteers and the superb group of ladies who look after our teams at home games, especially Robin and Sue and celebrity ‘kitchen nightmare’ chef, Chris Sullivan and his team, many thanks for your valued support from all the players and coaching staff.

Special thanks to the Green Options staff for the practice wickets at Snape Park, and the outstanding condition of Coogee Oval, which was again one of the top grounds in Sydney, being awarded Grand Final approval for all grades.

On behalf of Bill, David, Rob and myself we would like to thanks our wives and partners for their support and understanding of the time required to coach at the Randy Pete’s. Special thanks to my daughters Kacey and Ashleigh for their support this season.

“Remember to fulfil your goals, prepare with purpose, train with purpose, play with purpose and enjoy your cricket”.

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Our Cricket Grounds by Wayne Mulherin, Grounds Manager

What a great season for the club. To win the Club Championship is sensational and a just reward to all players and volunteers involved.

Grounds, what a battle the year was. I think we had covers down more times than off during the year or so it seems. I am pleased to say that despite the continual rain we experienced, games lost due to rain at home were minimal. A great effort by all involved. What has been extraordinary is that the ground ratings for all grounds were similar to the previous year. This highlights the focus on the standard of grounds by most clubs. Nearly half the first grade grounds in Sydney now have the preparation completed by a specialist service provider, a trend commenced by our club many seasons ago.

Coogee Oval again rated in the top five grounds in Sydney Grade Cricket. While the ratings were not as high as last season the fact that we had minimal playing days lost due to rain certainly impacted the ratings. The balance between playing cricket and ground ratings is important. Additionally, unlike other grounds, Coogee was used every Saturday and Sunday during the season further highlighting the extraordinary work by our ground preparation team Green Options. Congratulations to all at Green Options.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said of Petersham Oval. The ground was available until Christmas and then the wicket table was to be replaced. Due to the poor weather in January the table was not replaced. This may be rescheduled for the 2008-09 season. Petersham Oval rated 17th of 21 in the ground ratings. This result is despite numerous attempts to improve the situation with Council including a meeting with the Mayor and Club President Mike Whitney. Compounding the issue has been the recently relaid practice wickets which remain a very poor standard, a fact highlighted by players in a recent survey. Meetings have commenced again with Council to try to resolve this important issue for our club.

Congratulations to St George for winning the Ground of the Year for the 5th consecutive season with Hurstville Oval. As we have seen at our club, there is a link to success on the field and the state of the grounds. Well done St George.

What will be happening with grounds next season? As mentioned above, the relaying of the wicket table at Petersham next season is currently being negotiated with Marrickville Council. Our CEO Greg Hartshorne has been dealing with Randwick Council concerning improvements to the change rooms and scoreboard at Coogee which we hope will be available next summer. Additionally as witnessed at the end of last season, the wicket and ground at Kensington Oval is improving and it is expected this improvement will continue.

The financials for grounds was on budget with a regular number of social games booked. Kensington, Snape and Coogee are booked nearly every weekend during the season. We were also able to support a number of charities with our facilities, such as The Schizophrenia Fellowship and Aftercare Society, the Heart Foundation and Surf Lifesaving Association. We are privileged to be able to support such worthy causes.

Our club also provides strong support to our local junior association and local schools with practice and game facilities. The junior association and schools used our facilities on 130 days this season which is only just below our own use. I am sure the need for this support will continue next season. I would also like to thank Eastern Suburbs CC, South Sydney Shires and Moore Park Cricket who hired our grounds during the year.

The major focus for the 2008-09 season will be to ensure the continued improvement of the facilities at Petersham and Kensington ovals while maintaining the excellent standard at Coogee Oval.

Thank you to: Randwick Council - Chris Hunter; Marrickville Council - Richard Herring, Richard Sage, Paul Kostis, Sean Lipsett and Pat Walsh; Green Options -Tony Herman, Dane, Steve, Darren and the rest of the crew from this very professional organization.

Page: 92 Junior Development by David Townsend, Junior Development Manager

Once again one of the main aims of the club was to continue to improve in our area of Junior Development. This strategy looks to achieve a number of aims: - To provide playing opportunities for local juniors - To offer specialist coaching to selected juniors through our Academy - To offer free coaching support to local junior clubs - To assist in developing the knowledge of local junior club coaches - To provide coaching assistance in local schools

During the year we were fortunate to be able to provide a number of qualified personnel to run these sessions. These included: • David Skuthorpe (Assistant Club Coach) • Rob Huxley (Assistant Club Coach) • Tom Merilaht (Glamorgan County CC)

Highlights of this year’s program included: - Continued support of the Randwick Juniors Club SCG Coaching Program - Coach Eddie Otto working as part of the SCG Indoor Centre Coaching Program - An invitation for all clubs within both the Canterbury Wests and South East Juniors Associations to receive a minimum of two free visits throughout the season - A structured program of visits to both Primary and High schools within the area - Advice on a program of activities for both junior club coaches and schoolteachers to use with their cricket teams - An invitation for talented youngsters to train with the Randwick Petersham Cricket Academy / Grade Club

Congratulations to Canterbury Wests Association which continues to strive for excellence under the guidance of Secretary Garry Peats. The Association this year, amongst other achievements, was able to put a side in the new Sydney Rivers Girls U14 cricket competition. The South Eastern JCA also had an outstanding year with a record five teams in the semi finals of the NSWDCA competition as well as receiving the Shell Shield as the most successful Association in the NSWDCA for the first time.

Randwick Petersham Cricket will continue to foster links with local junior cricket by offering its junior development program again next year. We encourage all clubs to take up our offer of free coaching and would be delighted to sit down with any club and work out how we can assist them next season.

Page: 93 South Eastern Junior Cricket

The past season has been a very strong one for SEJCA. We managed over 1000 players playing in over 90 teams from 8 clubs. The highlight of the season was another extremely successful season of Representative cricket for the SEJCA. In the preliminary rounds of the NSWDCA competition SEJCA teams won 30 of a possible 35 games and had a record 5 teams represent in the semi finals.

Three teams made the finals but were beaten in close contests, the U/10 Foster, U/12 Cawsey and U/16 Watson teams, showing just how difficult it is to win these competitions

The outstanding efforts of all players and coaches resulted in SEJCA being awarded the Shell Shield as the most successful Association in the NSWDCA for the first time in our history. We are most grateful to Simon Jagot for overseeing the rep teams and his contribution is much appreciated.

Our competition continued to offer Saturday matches for U8’s to U10’s and Sunday matches for the U11’s to U16’s and this season we allowed the inclusion of a limited number of 17yo per U16 team to participate so they could continue to enjoy cricket. Ground availability and our ability to pay for the ever increasing costs of grounds continue to be one of our biggest challenges. Randwick and Botany councils continue to be our staunch supporters within an increasingly competitive and commercial environment. Regular proposals are put to other councils to modify rates for junior teams but these have had little impact.

We were delighted to be again approached by Mosman; they joined our U16 and U14 Sunday competition this season. These teams joined our local club teams and Balmain, who have participated in our Sunday competition for a number of seasons. Increasingly, children attending private schools can no longer play unless it is made available on Sundays. We have offered this facility for years and it would seem we are still one of the only, if only, association in Sydney to do so.

One very special aspect of our U16 competition is that we endeavour to play as many matches as possible on turf. The wet weather this season reduced our opportunities to play on the turf but the boys and girls enjoy the challenge whenever they can get on to a turf wicket. This is a particularly high expense with the current cost of turf wickets. We always endeavour to encourage our local grade clubs to contribute in some way to this challenge, either by donation or in kind – e.g. the free use of turf wickets as available and this season; Easts were very generous with Balmain, UNSW and Mosman also making significant contributions.

Results Vault, which is a computer based facility that enables all draw and team details to be easily displayed on the web again proved to be a valuable asset. We are most grateful for the tireless efforts of our President, Mr. Nick Cousins in administering this facility. Results Vault has proved such a valuable tool that it is to be offered to all cricket associations free of charge by CNSW for the coming season.

The Randwick Petersham Cricket Club offered the use of their grade players to provide clinics for the coaches at the various junior clubs within the Association; these clinics were well attended and much appreciated. The club also hired out the following turf grounds to the association; Coogee, Kensington and Snape Ovals – all prepared in excellent condition.

This season, we assisted with the development of a girl’s cricket association. It is called the Sydney River’s Girls Cricket Association. The successful development of girls’ cricket will take much time and effort, but we are committed to getting the ball rolling. Two CricHit clinics were offered in the area to develop basic skills for girls. The Eastern Suburbs Cricket Club attracted a number of keen U14 girls who were able to join with a St George group to play Saturday afternoon games. This team won the competition. Girls wishing to play should keep an eye on the SEJCA website in August

We continue to be ever grateful to our strong band of volunteers, without whom, all this would not happen for the boys and girls in our area and increasingly beyond. This has been the last season for our long time Treasurer and tireless worker, Sam Leung. We thank Sam for his great work and friendly manner. Sonyia Barron who was the Honorary Secretary and Representative Co- ordinator for a number of seasons is also stepping down and we thank her for the great work she has done over the years. Christine Hoenig, a long time committee member is also not seeking re-election and her work has been greatly appreciated, especially as grounds co-ordinator to Randwick Council. . The interest of Randwick Petersham is appreciated and we look forward to a strong working relationship with your club in the future.

Alan McFadyen Honorary Secretary

Page: 94 Randy Pete’s Masters Golf Classic – 2008 Nelson Bay / Pacific Dunes Golf Courses by Peter Rolls

President Fous and Captain Skewey Sean Sampson

David Skuthorpes’ Captains Courageous winning by the narrowest of margins against a “new look” Presidents outfit led for the first time by Chris Sullivan – the famous Fous!

Masters blasted by the strength of Sampson. Sean winning the coveted “Green Jacket” by a country mile! (And winning the hearts of some Delilah’s at the Pacific Dunes clubhouse even though they were old enough to be his mother!!)

Sammo off a handicap of 5, shoots rounds of 41, 31 and 37 for a total of 109 stableford points (well clear of Roller on 103 and Towno on 99) to be an impressive Masters champion. Two points behind Ross Hardy after Day 2, Sammo tamed Pacific Dunes which felled Rosco and so many others on Day 3. He won Day 3 and the jacket in emphatic style and with more gusto than Fous eating a lamb shank!

Again 24 men lined up (12 x Presidents, 12 x Captains) for the prestigious Presidents v Captains “Yard Glass” trophy. Captains up 20 to 16 over the Presidents after Days 1 and 2 (at Nelson Bay) were quietly confident but still pensive after losing the previous two years. Day 3 was a see-sawing affair at Pacific Dunes as the six groups (consisting 2 Pres and 2 Capt for each group) came in one after another with points evenly distributed within the groups. It was down to the last group to decide the outcome. Presidents Towno and Devo v Captains Roller and Rosco. Towno and Roller had a tough tussle all day while Devo easily accounted for Rosco who invariably succumbed to the Masters leader pressure. Rosco and Roller combined well to be neck-n-neck with Towno and Devo in the 2 Ball. With a gallery of 20 men surrounding the par 5 eighteenth green, Towno and Roller (with balls only 2 metres apart) had nerve racking 30 metre chips to the green over the dam. Towno delighted the Captains men by chipping into the dam. Roller lands 2 metres over the dam on the edge of the green. With the other group members wiping the hole, and an anticipating hush over the crowd, Roller sinks a nervous 4 footer to secure the points needed to snatch the trophy away from the Presidents. Captain Skewey is elated and Fous is gallant in defeat and passes wind as the pressure is now off!!

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“How do you do that?” awards go to: • David Bourke scores 9 stableford points on Day 3 to win the “Hackers Cardy” for the tournament (by one point from Chris Singh). Skewey has nominated Bourkey for a “Sorbent” sponsorship due to his 12 wipes on Day 3. • Singhy (a first time Masters tourist) picks up his partners ball on the fairway thinking he had found a stray ball. His partner Prince, was not amused as it incurs a 2 shot penalty. Lucky his opponents did not enforce the rule as they reckon you can’t penalize a guy who dresses like Justin Timberlake? PS – nice hat Princey! PSS – Prince and Burty more fashionable than the Australian Olympic swim team in their “skins”!! • Tony Martin sends an email before the tour about not over-indulging to the guys. Dinner on Saturday night at up-market restaurant, he passes out on his entrée. Bourkey helps him stagger to the loo for what looks like a cross between a Waltz and a Canadian two step. “Captain Snooze” retires for the evening. • Hollywood’s vision for world cricket on the boat ride to the restaurant is not the only vision some tourists get that night. He and roommates also get a vision of Worm’s new hair style! Worm also amused partner Apps on a hole where after three drives off the tee he was still not past the ladies tee! Then sculls his 4th to “Brazilian” the ladies marker!! Pick-up!!! • Trent Griffith’s passion of hurling his club 70 metres back down the fairway after chipping into a bunker versus the quite achieving of Rosco. Rosco was interviewed by Towno after claiming the leader jersey on Day 2. With no answers coming from Towno’s questions, in frustration, Towno asks Rosco what he would do if he won Lotto? Rosco’s reply: “Not tell anyone in case my ex wife finds out!” • Fous shines as a 2 Ball partner on a tour total of 126 (1 point behind Roller on 127 and even with Griffo and Ollie on 126). He says the tour will be even bigger in 2009…or he will be!

The Tenth Tour and still Masterful and packed with entertainment! Thanks again to Mully and wife Anne for organizing another super tour. Also thanks to Burty for the much appreciated refreshments (Marto loves you) and prizes. Thank you also to Devo and Big Timer for their generous prizes. Towno eloquent as ever as round post mortem MC. Long live de tour!!!

Page: 96 Report from the Financial Controller

The past year has presented the committee with a number of financial challenges , not the least being a 15% drop in sponsorship. Having said that, the club finished in a reasonable position with a surplus of $17,799.32.

The Foundation was again a source of valuable funds with a contribution to our operations of $13,726. Our functions, particularly the Sportsman’s luncheon, were very successful and the organisers deserve a round of applause for their hard work.

Ground hire and maintenance costs rose again, up from $103,000 in 06-07 to $110,000 in 07-08. This was mostly offset by hire costs and council contributions of $100,000.

The club continued to invest in our future players with a contribution to the Academy of $6700 and the provision of $2500 in scholarships.

I would like to thank all the members of the management committee for their assistance over the past year. Our thanks also to our sponsors. The club would struggle to perform as well as we have over the past 6 years without your assistance.

The new season will present RPCC and the management committee with a new set of challenges as we come to terms with the current economic conditions. Bernie Dagg Financial Controller

INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF RANDWICK PETERSHAM CRICKET CLUB INCORPORATED

Scope

We have audited the financial accounts of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Incorporated for the year ended 30 April 2008, consisting of an Income and Expenditure Statement and a Balance Sheet.

The committee is responsible for the preparation and presentation of the financial accounts and the information contained therein. We have conducted an independent audit of the financial accounts in order to express an opinion to the members of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Incorporated on their preparation and presentation.

Our audit has been conducted to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial accounts are free of material misstatement. Our procedures included examination, on a test basis, of evidence supporting the amounts and other disclosures in the financial accounts.

Audit Opinion

In our opinion, the financial accounts of the Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Incorporated for the year ended 30 April 2008 are drawn up to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Incorporation for the financial year ended on that date.

STEPHENS TILLEY Chartered Accountants

Wayne Tilley FCA Partner Dated in Sydney this 7th day of July 2008.

Page: 97 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2008 2008 2007 Income Canteen $4,499.04 $3,448.83 Functions $38,628.00 $25,097.86 Grants $47,250.00 $46,544.68 Ground Hire $100,436.51 $103,294.25 Interest $357.89 $254.37 Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Foundation $13,726.74 $23,861.79 Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Academy $440.00 $67,160.35 Rent Received $3,001.42 $4,400.00 Sales of Cricket Clothing $511.82 $607.27 Sponsorship / Donations $59,862.50 $69,620.00 Subscriptions $19,082.19 $20,316.29 Total Income $287,796.11 $364,605.69

Expenditure AGM Expenses $741.64 $737.36 Annual Report $3,500.00 $2,415.11 Bank Charges $711.38 $773.48 Canteen Supplies $3,053.10 $2,701.12 Coaching / Development $18,940.00 $55,036.92 Consultancy Fees $10,000.00 $0.00 Cricket Clothing $19,533.55 $24,378.90 Depreciation $324.00 $648.00 Filing Fee - Dept Fair Trading $40.00 $40.00 Functions $22,210.19 $16,886.97 Grade Expenses $19,907.71 $32,634.06 Ground Hire and Maintenance $109,675.89 $102,859.84 Incentives - Player Performance $3,795.00 $9,705.00 Incentives - First Grade Team $15,375.00 $10,410.00 Indoor Training $3,785.45 $0.00 Insurance - Public Liability $0.00 $1,622.23 Maintenance - Website $1,861.99 $2,065.14 Marketing Expenses $970.00 $0.00 Miscellaneous $1,984.09 $304.46 Postage, Printing & Stationery $435.53 $362.22 Presentation / Awards $1,197.27 $1,700.06 Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Academy $6,679.52 $86,717.55 Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Museum $50.00 $4,989.95 Randwick Petersham Cricket Club Scholarships $2,500.00 $3,750.00 Scorebooks $0.00 $29.10 Telephone $629.48 $271.23 Fees $1,043.19 $565.00 Equipment Expenses - Balls $13,828.26 $10,540.91 - Stumps $1,697.28 $1,491.37 - Covers $5,527.27 $6,028.19 Total Expenditure $269,996.79 $379,664.17

Operating Surplus $17,799.32 -$15,058.48

Page: 98 BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 APRIL 2008

Assets 2008 2007

Cash at Bank - St George $25,065.52 $17,033.43 Other Debtors $19,766.87 $7,555.00 Plant & Equipment - Written Down Value $324.00 $648.00

Total Assets $45,156.39 $25,236.43

Other Creditors $17,633.88 $15,513.24

Total Liabilities $17,633.88 $15,513.24

Net Assets $27,522.51 $9,723.19

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Page: 99 CURRENT PLAYERS CAREER STATISTICS Grades 1 to 5

S=Season, M=Matches, R=Runs, W=Wickets, Ct=Catches, RO=Run Outs, D=Dismissals, HS =Highest Score 100s = Centuries, B/B = Best Bowling, 5W = 5 Wickets in Innings, 10W = 10 Wickets in Match, Player S M R W Ct/RO D HS 100s B/B 5W 10W Peter Alevizos 4 47 108 86 11/3 0 18* 6/35 2 Marc Anderson 6 90 1418 93 21/1 0 95 4/47 Brenton Barker 6 62 1489 2 25/4 9/0 106 1 1/49 Steve Bidwell-Brown 4 57 414 128 6/6 0 61* 7/41 7 David Bourke 7 115 1966 45 17/1 0 84 5/21 2 Richard Bowles 1 4 21 0 0/0 0 15 Troy Brewster 7 75 2292 0 17/6 0 148 8 Alex Brown 1 8 84 6 1/0 0 39 2/33 Luke Bush 1 1 0 0 0/0 0 DNB James Byrne 6 103 1047 167 34/13 0 46* 7/20 2 Mark Carlton 1 6 118 1 3/0 0 43 1/10 Nick Charlwood 2 5 52 6 2/0 0 23* 3/74 Steve Clarke 5 72 1995 0 17/4 0 117 3 Robert Close 2 11 220 13 3/1 0 69 3/28 Burt Cockley 1 19 31 36 6/0 0 13* 5/48 1 Robert Cummings 1 15 364 0 0/2 5/4 76 Campbell Dash 4 30 586 0 1/1 38/2 138 1 Ashley Doolan 1 20 286 0 0/2 37/5 65 Andrew Downton 1 9 82 14 0/0 0 49 5/17 1 Matthew Doyle 1 7 109 0 1/0 0 46* Noel Ellis 2 30 361 33 13/3 0 64* 4/34 Glenn Farquharson 3 39 239 80 11/3 0 53 5/44 1 Cameron Fowler 2 17 30 26 4/0 0 10 4/11 George Frazakis 7 34 689 0 12/0 0 66* 0/1 Sean Gardner 3 45 1096 4 9/2 0 125* 1 1/6 Cameron Gray 6 73 1352 76 23/5 0 101 1 5/64 1 Jason Gray 1 6 145 1 3/0 0 48* 1/1 Scott Gray 1 7 85 0 0/0 2/0 34* Chad Greenberg 5 75 985 127 38/5 0/1 72 6/89 1 Trent Griffiths 7 80 1691 35 20/0 0 64 4/39 Will Halstead 3 14 217 0 4/3 0 76 Andrew Harrison 7 111 606 208 23/0 0 36 6/51 6 Nathan Hauritz 2 37 1206 61 27/3 0 122 1 6/48 3 1 Fabian Heaton 7 90 2459 1 8/1 103/12 112 2 1/0 Kieran Hewar 1 1 0 0 0/0 0 0 0/2 Matthew Hilder 7 113 2391 96 66/3 0 153* 2 7/45 2 Joseph Hill 6 102 3138 0 65/8 0 126 4 Denis Hinds 7 79 179 160 20/2 0 32 6/35 7 Thomas Holland 2 23 345 0 8/1 6/3 39 Denis Howard 2 11 157 2 2/1 0 39 2/5 Brett Hunter 6 105 2061 104 56/8 0 120* 1 5/25 1 Brett Jackson 1 18 537 7 4/2 0 91* 3/27 Lance Kahler 2 15 343 0 7/0 0 58 Manul Kandarra 1 1 0 0 0/0 0 0 Simon Katich 6 38 1693 24 18/0 0 177 4 3/27 Usman Khawaja 7 101 3758 24 37/4 0 138 9 4/26 Darren Kumar 1 1 0 3 0/0 0 0 3/19 Daniel Laus 2 18 139 40 8/1 0 36 4/9 Tim Laws 2 37 1087 3 28/3 0 133 2 1/4 Daniel Levitt 2 8 96 6 2/1 0 52 2/8 Barton Lynch 1 3 36 0 0/0 0 23 George Mafi 1 1 5 0 0/0 0 5

Page: 100 CURRENT PLAYERS CAREER STATISTICS Grades 1 to 5

S=Season, M=Matches, R=Runs , W=Wickets, Ct=Catches, RO=Run Outs, D=Dismissals, HS=Highest Score 100s = Centuries, B/B = Best Bowling, 5W = 5 Wickets in Innings, 10W = 10 Wickets in Match, Player S M R W Ct/RO D HS 100s B/B 5W 10W Jordan Magro 2 28 369 24 12/0 0 60 3/11 Scott Manning 3 3 17 0 1/0 1/0 14 Tony Martin 6 87 1931 9 42/9 0 155 2 3/11 Darren McCoy 5 67 1083 85 26/2 0 88 5/34 3 Nathan McCoy 1 18 150 26 3/0 0 41 3/9 James McKenzie 1 4 11 3 4/0 0 6 3/25 Simon McKenzie 4 33 253 69 6/1 0 28* 8/34 2 John McLoughlin 7 87 2436 12 46/3 0 163 3 3/11 Eddie Otto 7 111 1567 138 40/9 0 124* 1 7/42 2 Shane Pargeter 1 16 472 19 3/0 0 159* 1 5/33 1 William Passas 5 36 654 7 4/2 0 67 2/21 Andrew Redman 3 44 819 0 1/0 47/7 87 Grant Rimmer 7 94 318 145 35/17 0 36 6/22 3 Karl Schubert 3 27 313 0 0/1 26/6 73 Alex Sciascia 7 109 2732 6 33/6 0 135 2 5/49 1 Adam Semple 2 38 802 48 12/3 0 105 1 5/42 1 Chris Singh 7 92 870 186 21/1 0 79 7/24 8 1 Melvin Singh 6 84 503 134 37/0 0 51 6/58 5 Nigil Singh 7 98 247 185 15/3 0 33* 6/35 8 Rodney Stafford 7 104 1294 195 54/4 0 72* 7/105 11 1 Nicholas Stapleton 1 2 53 0 0/0 4/0 49 Matthew Taylor 7 117 3435 1 14/2 150/32 144 4 1/8 Alex Tomkins 3 32 555 11 12/3 4/3 93 2/7 David Townsend 7 111 3152 4 39/8 0 118* 5 1/4 James Tyson 1 12 21 41 1/0 0 7* 7/16 4 Matthew Wallis 3 46 629 90 24/3 0 63 6/55 5 Andrew Walters 4 48 1107 2 13/1 0 123* 1 2/10 Michael Watson 7 116 2957 19 49/18 0 125 4 3/1 Benn West 3 45 437 96 13/1 0 45* 6/29 5 Glen Whichello 2 31 223 54 9/5 0 47 4/20 Thomas Whitaker 1 1 15 0 0/0 0 15 0/10 Jody Whitehead 2 17 427 0 4/1 0 55

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PLAYER MILESTONES

Matthew Taylor (117); Michael Watson (116); David Bourke (115); Matthew Hilder (113); Andrew Harrison (111); Eddie Otto (111); David Townsend (111); Alex Sciascia (109); 100 Games Brett Hunter (105); Rodney Stafford (104); James Byrne (103); Joseph Hill (102); Usman Khawaja (101) 4000 Runs Richard Chee Quee (4,028) 3000 Runs Usman Khawaja (3,758); Matthew Taylor (3,435); David Townsend (3,152); Joseph Hill (3,138) Michael Watson (2,957); Alex Sciascia (2,732); Paul Toole (2,638); David Mitchell (2,469); 2000 Runs Fabian Heaton (2,459); John McLoughlin (2,436); Matthew Hilder (2,391); Troy Brewster (2,292); Neil Cohen (2,225); Brett Hunter (2,061); Paul Greentree (2,051) Steve Clarke (1,995); David Bourke (1,966); Tony Martin (1,931); Richard Phillips (1,913);Simon 1500 Runs Katich (1,693); Trent Griffiths (1,691); Daryl Parmenter (1,656); Eddie Otto (1,567); Greg Hartshorne (1,546) Brenton Barker (1,489); Marc Anderson (1,418); Cameron Gray (1,352); Rodney Stafford (1,294); Nathan Hauritz (1,206); Matthew Mott (1,149); Andrew Walters (1,107); Sean Gardner 1000 Runs (1,096); Tim Laws (1,087); Darren McCoy (1,083); Dean White (1,079); Nathan Rosser (1,072); James Byrne (1,047) 200 Wickets Andrew Harrison (208) Rodney Stafford (195); Chris Singh (186); Nigil Singh (185); Steve Bright (177); Dean White 150 Wickets (174); James Byrne (167); Denis Hinds (160) Grant Rimmer (145); Eddie Otto (138); Melvin Singh (134); Peter Bayley (133); Steve Bidwell- 100 Wickets Brown (128); Chad Greenberg (127); Adam Warren (109); Brett Hunter (104) Matthew Taylor (182); Neil Cohen (176); Daryl Parmenter (152); Fabian Heaton (115); David 100 Dismissals Mitchell (111) Matthew Hilder (66); Joseph Hill (65); Richard Chee Quee (61); Brett Hunter (56); 50 Catches Rodney Stafford (54) 10 Run Outs Michael Watson (18); Grant Rimmer (17); Paul Greentree (13); James Byrne (13) 100 Wkts & Rodney Stafford (195/1294); Dean White (174/1079); James Byrne (167/1047); Eddie Otto 1000 Runs (138/1567); Brett Hunter (104/2061) Usman Khawaja (9); Troy Brewster (8); Richard Chee Quee (6); David Mitchell (5); David Centuries Townsend (5); ); Simon Katich (4); Joseph Hill (4); Matthew Taylor (4); Michael Watson (4) Rodney Stafford (11); Nigil Singh (8); Chris Singh (8); Steve Bidwell-Brown (7); Denis Hinds (7); 5 Wicket Innings Peter Bayley (6); Steve Bright (6); Andrew Harrison (6); Adam Warren (6); Scott Obey (5); Melvin Singh (5); Matthew Wallis (5); Benn West (5); Dean White (5); James Tyson (4)

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Page: 102 CURRENT PLAYERS CAREER STATISTICS Metropolitan Competition

S= Season, M= Matches, R= Runs,W= Wickets, Ct= Catches, D= Dismissals, HS = Highest Score 100s = Centuries, B/B = Best Bowling, 5W = 5 Wickets in Innings, 10W = 10 Wickets in Match, Player S M R W Ct/RO D HS 100s B/B 5W 10W Mamun Amin 11410/00 4 1/17 Marcus Bain 1 10 83 15 3/2 0 29* 4/17 Richard Bowles 1 5 191 0 2/1 0 65 DNB Philip Bracken 1 7 143 1 3/0 0 48 1/4 Luke Bush 11500/00 5*DNB Andy Coles 1 1 31 0 0/0 0 31 DNB Matthew Coles 3 18 178 15 4 0 40 3/16 Charith De Silva 1 9 15 5 0/0 0 14 3/22 Matthew Doyle 1 3 226 0 0/0 0 90 DNB James Edwards 11200/00 2 DNB Cameron Fowler 2 14 36 39 5/1 0 14 6/12 3 George Frazakis 7 85 2567 31 16 37/12 135* 5 3/20 Bradley Gray 2 3 30 0 2/0 0 29 DNB Jason Gray 2 11 198 9 3/0 0 74 3/41 Scott Gray 2 14 263 0 0 8/4 55 DNB Fabian Heaton 2 1 74 0 0 0 74 DNB Kieran Hewar 1 9 145 28 3/1 0 52* 5/29 1 Denis Hinds 3 32 139 58 11/0 0 56 6/52 2 Thomas Holland 6 28 279 0 0 21/5 39 DNB Denis Howard 2 13 422 26 3/0 0 57* 5/78 1 John Hughes 110000 DNBDNB Michael Issa 11000/10 0 0/20 Joe Jenkins 11012/00DNB 1/10 Mitchell Jones 1 5 31 2 3/0 0 12* 2/28 Manul Kandara 2 20 120 13 3/0 0 28* 3/20 Tim Kelly 2 15 298 0 2/0 0 45 0/14 Darren Kumar 1 3 6 11 0/0 0 6 5/15 1 Daniel Laus 1 2 66 3 0/0 0 25 2/7 Barton Lynch 1 6 43 0 4/0 0 20 0/21 George Mafi 2 14 248 4 2/2 0 60 2/23 Scott Manning 3 10 174 2 2/0 0/1 62* 1/21 Sam Maree 11610/00 6 1/45 James McKenzie 2 5 41 3 0/0 0 41* 2/11 Simon McKenzie 12330/00 2 2/20 Robert McMinn 2 9 55 19 1/0 0 23* 3/21 Edward Mobbs 1 7 529 15 0/0 0 139 1 4/21 Shaylin Moodliar 1 3 119 0 0/0 0 63 0/20 Edward Neaves 1 1 25 0 0/0 0 25 DNB Sam Rochaix 3 36 271 22 9/0 0 47 3/14 Peter Rogers 2 22 346 2 0/0 13/3 35 2/11 Nicholas Saady 1 9 127 0 4/1 0 36 0/0 Daniel Schroder 1 3 46 4 0/0 0 39 3/51 John Stewart 5 67 226 63 11/0 0 25 5/33 1 Harry Tagg 1 1 25 3 0/0 0 23 3/30 Lachlan Taylor 1 8 54 1 3/0 0 12 1/3 Patrick Toole 1 5 20 8 1/1 0 17 4/18 Jason Trindall 1 9 194 11 1/1 0 51 2/2 James Tyson 12181/10 1 5/20 1 Jonathan Walsh 4 25 637 0 4/1 3/0 172 1 0/2 Kurt Webb 13030/00DNB3/7 Thomas Whitaker 2 15 267 13 4/0 0 64 7/28 1

Page: 103 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS and MILESTONES Season Details 2001-02 1st Grade team wins 11 successive matches on first innings 2001-02 1st Grade loses minor premiership and relegated to 4th following protest by Fairfield-Liverpool 2001-02 Richard CheeQuee wins Bill O'Reilly Medal as Player of the Season 2001-02 1st Grade wins Sydney Morning Herald Club of the Year competition 2001-02 Petersham Oval wins SCA Most Improved Ground Award 2001-02 1st Grade scorer Ruth Kelleher appointed official scorer for Test Match at SCG Aust. v South Africa 2002-03 All 5 grades win against Fairfield-Liverpool and Blacktown 2002-03 1st Grade loses Final of Limited Overs Competition to Sutherland 2002-03 Tailend batsman Matt Barnes hits 32 from one over in 2nd Grade match v Penrith at Howell Oval 2002-03 30 centuries scored for season in five grades 2002-03 Andy Hollingsworth scores club's first double century--218 in 4th Grade 2002-03 Simon Katich hits 9 sixes in innings of 177 against Mosman at Petersham Oval 2003-04 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade teams play in Grade Qualifying Finals 2003-04 1st, 3rd and 5th Grade teams play in Grade Semi Finals and Finals 2003-04 Joseph Hill hits 26 sixes in 1st Grade season total of 780 runs 2004-05 Chris Singh takes 4th Grade hat-trick in each innings against Sydney University at Petersham Oval 2004-05 All 5 grades win against Blacktown (second time against this club in past 3 seasons) 2004-05 Sean Gardner selected in NSW Schoolboys under 15 years representative team 2004-05 Usman Khawaja selected in NSW and Australian Under 19 years teams 2004-05 Greg Hartshorne takes a hat trick against Bankstown in 2nd Grade…his first in 38 years of Grade cricket 2004-05 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade teams play in Grade Qualifying Finals (2nd successive year 4 teams qualify) 2004-05 2nd, 4th and 5th Grade teams play in Semi Finals (2nd successive year 3 teams qualify) 2004-05 2nd and 4th Grade teams play in Grade Finals 2004-05 Greg Hartshorne achieves third successive premiership as captain in three grades….4th, 3rd and 2nd 2005-06 Campbell Dash effected 7 dismissals as wicketkeeper in 4th Grade against Campbelltown Camden 2005-06 All 5 grades lose against Penrith 2005-06 All 5 grades win against Blacktown (third time against this club in past 4 seasons) 2005-06 Usman Khawaja, representing NSW, named "Player of the Under 19 Championships" 2005-06 Usman Khawaja named in Australian team for 2006 Under 19 World Cup 2005-06 4th Grade bowl out Bankstown for 37 and UTS Balmain for 57 2005-06 No RP batsman scores double figures in 1st Grade total of 64 against Bankstown which wins in 41 overs. 2005-06 1st Grade fail to win a game until 17th match of season when they defeat St George at Hurstville 2005-06 Simon Katich tours NZ, South Africa and Bangladesh with Australian team 2005-06 Richard CheeQuee retires as 3rd highest run scorer in Sydney 1st Grade Cricket 2005-06 Matthew Hilder takes a hat-trick in 5th Grade as part of a 7 for 45 performance 2005-06 Matthew Taylor hits 7 boundaries in one over in 1st Grade against Blacktown 2005-06 4th Grade team plays in Grade Qualifying Final for fifth successive year 2005-06 5th Grade team plays in Grade Qualifying Final for fourth successive year 2005-06 5th Grade team plays in Grade Semi Final for fourth successive year 2005-06 4th and 5th Grade teams play in third Grade Final in past five years 2005-06 Greg Hartshorne wins fourth successive premiership as a member of winning 4th Grade team 2005-06 5th Grade captain Dean White wins first premiership in his 16th Grade Cricket season 2005-06 5th Grade team wins 10th successive match to take premiership 2006-07 Ist Grade hit record Limited Overs score of 6-336 against UTS Balmain including 106 from final 8 overs 2006-07 4th Grade hit record Limited Overs score of 6-325 against UTS Balmain 2006-07 4th Grade lose 9 wickets for 34 runs after being 1 for 161 to lose by 19 runs against Manly 2006-07 Rod Stafford takes a personal best 7 wickets for 132 off 43 successive overs against Manly in 2nd Grade 2006-07 Usman Khawaja scores 174 for Sydney South East v NSW Country in the State League Cup (50 overs) 2006-07 Brett Hunter (51no) and James Byrne (17no) set 1st Grade 10th wkt partnership record of 57 to defeat Mosman 2006-07 Ollie Saffel (97no) and Grant Rimmer (36) set 5th Grade / club 10th wicket partnership record of 123 v Mosman 2006-07 Simon Katich tours India with Australian team 2006-07 Greg Hartshorne appointed NSW State selector 2006-07 1st Grade take 10 wickets for 63 against Sydney Uni after they were 0-103 to record an outright win by 29 runs 2006-07 Benn West takes 4th Grade hat-trick in performance of 6 for 61 against North Sydney at Petersham Oval 2006-07 3rd Grade defeats North Sydney by huge 257 run margin at North Sydney No.2 2006-07 2nd Grade lose only 4 wickets in defeating North Sydney outright at Coogee 2006-07 Dean White records match figures of 10 for 90 (7-37 and 3-53) in 2nd Grade against Parramatta 2006-07 Campbell Dash (88) and Sean Gardner (52) set new club 2nd wicket partnership record of 136 in PG competition 2006-07 Poidevin Gray team sets new club highest score record scoring 7-294 in win over Penrith 2006-07 2nd Grade defeat Wests in 25 overs in 50 overs match to gain 2 bonus points and win place in Qualifying Final 2006-07 1st Grade lose final 7 matches to slump from 2nd to 12th in 1st Grade competition

Page: 104 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS and MILESTONES Season Details 2007-08 Club records four tied matches in first 7 rounds (two in 1st Grade ; one in 2nd Grade and 4th Grade) 2007-08 1st Grade dismiss Campbelltown Camden for record low 75, reply with record low 56 yet win outright 2007-08 4th Grade dismissed by Campbelltown Camden for record low 49 before winning outright 2007-08 3rd Grade dismiss Campbelltown Camden for record low 55 2007-08 Rod Stafford takes 7 for 105 in Semi-Final against Sydney Uni at Coogee with remaining 3 batsmen run out 2007-08 All 5 grades win against Manly with 1sts and 2nds winning outright and return 164 Club Championship points 2007-08 All 5 grades win against Uni NSW and return 128 Club Championship points 2007-08 All 5 grades win against St George (1st Grade tie) and return 110 Club Championship points 2007-08 Bill Anderson named NSWCA Coach of the Year

TEAM PERFORMANCE IN FINALS Season Grade Match Result Opposition Venue Scores 2001-02 1st Qual Final Lost UTS Balmain Drummoyne 220 to 280 2001-02 1st LO Semi Lost Mosman Coogee 158 to 201 2001-02 4th Qual Final Lost Sutherland Petersham 163 & 9-152 to 202 & 5-118 2002-03 1st LO Semi Won Eastern Subs. Waverley 2-232 to 231 2002-03 1st LO Final Lost Sutherland Caringbah 187 to 6-188 2002-03 2nd Qual Final Won Uni NSW Village Green 8-262 to 261 2002-03 4th Qual Final Won UTS Balmain Coogee 405 to 81 2002-03 5th Qual Final Won St George Petersham 5-212 to 211 2002-03 2nd Semi Final Lost St George Hurstville 307 to 368 2002-03 4th Semi Final Drawn St George Coogee 365 to 7-167 2002-03 5th Semi Final Won Bankstown Petersham 251 to 190 2002-03 4th Final Won Manly Petersham 237 to 185 2002-03 5th Final Lost Sydney Uni Caringbah 220 to 239 2003-04 1st Qual Final Won Mosman Coogee 7-236 to 234 2003-04 3rd Qual Final Won Mosman Petersham 95 & 161 to 75 & 172 2003-04 4th Qual Final Lost Gordon Killara 9-216 dec to 9-217 2003-04 5th Qual Final Drawn Gordon Kensington 8-232 to 294 2003-04 1st Semi Final Drawn UTS Balmain Coogee 6-310 to 5-318 dec 2003-04 3rd Semi Final Drawn Bankstown Petersham 258 to 9-255 2003-04 5th Semi Final Won Penrith Kensington 9-236 to 232 2003-04 1st Final Lost Eastern Subs. Coogee 234 to 273 & 4-187 2003-04 3rd Final Drawn Penrith Petersham 207 to 5-105 (rain) 2003-04 5th Final Drawn Campbelltown Raby No.1 1-18 to 221 (rain) 2004-05 1st LO Semi Lost Sydney Uni Syd Uni No.1 115 to 200 (25 overs match) 2004-05 AWG Qual Final Lost Penrith Coogee 179 to 4-182 2004-05 AWG Semi Final Lost Campbelltown Raby No.1 205 to 5-206 2004-05 PG Semi Final Lost St George Hurstville 212 to 7-247 2004-05 2nd Qual Final Won Fairfield Liverpool Coogee 5-205 to 204 2004-05 3rd Qual Final Lost Penrith Petersham 149 to 8-199 2004-05 4th Qual Final Won Penrith Nth Sydney 1 282 to 272 2004-05 5th Qual Final Drawn Sutherland Kensington 8-165 to 7-315 dec 2004-05 2nd Semi Final Won Mosman Rawson 184 to 110 2004-05 4th Semi Final Drawn Sydney Uni Coogee 7-311 to DNB 2004-05 5th Semi Final Lost Parramatta Kensington 136 to 2-150 2004-05 2nd Final Won UTS Balmain Bankstown 193 and 6-43 to 78 and 157 2004-05 4th Final Lost Gordon Killara 141 to 2-141 2005-06 AWG Qual Final Drawn Gordon Coogee no play-rain 2005-06 AWG Semi Final Lost Campbelltown Raby No.1 58 to 8-250 2005-06 4th Qual Final Won Sutherland Coogee 333 to 178 2005-06 5th Qual Final Won Fairfield Liverpool Kensington 200 to 198 2005-06 4th Semi Final Drawn Campbelltown Coogee 5-183 to 7-267 dec 2005-06 5th Semi Final Won Penrith Howell 9-267 to 164 2005-06 4th Final Won Fairfield Liverpool Coogee 163 and 7-101 to 128 2005-06 5th Final Won Fairfield Liverpool Village Green 260 to 221

Page: 105 TEAM PERFORMANCE IN FINALS Season Grade Match Result Opposition Venue Scores 2006-07 1st LO Semi Won Fairfield Liverpool Coogee 4-254 to 6-253 (D/L) 2006-07 1st LO Final Lost Bankstown Coogee 7-270 to 6-281 2006-07 2nd Qual Final Lost Sydney Uni Syd Uni No.1 87 to 6-131 2006-07 4th Qual Final Won Mosman Coogee 150 to 84 2006-07 5th Qual Final Won Penrith Petersham 178 to 133 2006-07 4th Semi Final Won St George Coogee 4-172 to 170 2006-07 5th Semi Final Lost Sutherland Petersham 139 to 170 2006-07 4th Final Lost Sutherland Coogee 123 & 4-144 dec to 147 & 9-98 2007-08 1st Qual Final Won St George Hurstville 5-308 TO 307 2007-08 2nd Qual Final Won Mosman Allan Border 174 and 0-4 to 112 and 64 2007-08 4th Qual Final Won Gordon Coogee 280 and 2-71 to 106 2007-08 5th Qual Final Won Sutherland Petersham 212 to 164 2007-08 1st Semi Final Lost Gordon Chatswood 220 to 6-223 2007-08 2nd Semi Final Lost Sydney Uni Coogee 135 to 307 2007-08 4th Semi Final Drawn Sutherland Kensington 9-176 to 244 2007-08 5th Semi Final Won Bankstown Jensen 7-224 dec to 82 2007-08 4th Final Won Penrith Coogee 9-220 to 218 2007-08 5th Final Won North Sydney Tunks 5-223 to 121

Seven Year Summary: Played 62 ; Won 29 ; Lost 22 ; Drawn 11 as at 2007-08 SCA INDIVIDUAL SEASON WINNERS SeasonWinner Grade Performance 2001-02 Richard Chee Quee 1st Leading runscorer with 1,003 runs 2001-02 Daryl Parmenter 1st Most wicketkeeping dismissals with 64 (53c / 11s) 2002-03 Richard Chee Quee 1st Leading fielder with 23 catches 2002-03 Geoff Hodgkinson 3rd Best batting average of 100.20 2002-03 Troy Brewster 4th Leading runscorer with 676 runs 2002-03 Anthony Martin 5th Leading runscorer with 640 runs 2002-03 Denis Hinds 4th Most wickets with 37 2002-03 David Mitchell 2nd Most wicketkeeping dismissals with 41 (36c / 5s) 2002-03 Neil Cohen 3rd Most wicketkeeping dismissals with 30 (23c / 7s) 2002-03 Matthew Taylor 4th Most wicketkeeping dismissals with 38 (30c / 8s) 2002-03 Steven Yates 5th Most wicketkeeping dismissals with 33 (29c / 4s) 2003-04 Richard Chee Quee 1st Leading runscorer with 907 runs 2004-05 Peter Alevizos AWG Most wickets with 19 2005-06 Matthew Wallis 4th Best bowling average of 13.97 2006-07 Melvin Singh 4th Equal Most Catches 14 2007-08 Usman Khawaja 1st Leading runscorer with 1,134 runs 2007-08 Simon Katich 1st Best batting average of 96.83 2007-08 Chris Singh 4th Most wickets with 38

Page: 106 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: SEASON RECORDS Qualification: Batting = 8 Innings or 200 Runs; Bowling = 85 Overs or 15 Wickets BATTING BOWLING FIRST GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Richard Chee Quee 1003 Paul Toole 50.71 2001-02 Adam Warren 63 Adam Warren 18.43 Richard Chee Quee 874 Simon Katich 55.00 2002-03 Scott Obey 53 Scott Obey 18.04 Richard Chee Quee 907 Richard Chee Quee 47.74 2003-04 Jonathan Lewis 52 Jonathan Lewis 15.29 Matthew Mott 839 Matthew Mott 44.16 2004-05 Glenn Farquharson 36 Andrew Harrison 18.62 Richard Chee Quee 601 Richard Chee Quee 31.63 2005-06 Andrew Harrison 37 James Byrne 21.31 Usman Khawaja 690 Matthew Mott 51.67 2006-07 Shawn Flegler 29 James Byrne 23.36 Usman Khawaja 1134 Simon Katich 96.83 2007-08 B.Cockley/G.Whichello 36 Burt Cockley 20.08 SECOND GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE David Mitchell 517 Brett Hunter 39.17 2001-02 Melvin Singh 30 Scott Obey 13.31 Matthew Parker 487 Richard Phillips 57.38 2002-03 P Bayley/R Stafford 36 Peter Bayley 17.50 Neil Cohen 430 Usman Khawaja 97.25 2003-04 J.Byrne/A.Hildred 23 Neil Saker 19.56 David Mitchell 581 Paul Horton 57.67 2004-05 Peter Bayley 37 Nigil Singh 14.53 Matthew Taylor 433 Matthew Taylor 36.08 2005-06 Peter Alevizos 21 Peter Alevizos 14.57 John McLoughlin 607 Tim Laws 57.20 2006-07 Brett Hunter 39 Brett Hunter 13.97 Shane Pargeter 436 Eddie Otto 61.00 2007-08 Rodney Stafford 37 Eddie Otto 18.45 THIRD GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Geoff Hodgkinson 612 Geoff Hodgkinson 55.64 2001-02 Dean White 30 Dean White 18.13 Geoff Hodgkinson 501 Geoff Hodgkinson 100.20 2002-03 Melvin Singh 27 Eddie Otto 20.50 Matthew Taylor 458 Michael Watson 64.25 2003-04 Nigil Singh 38 Greg Hartshorne 15.34 John McLoughlin 425 Matthew Taylor 80.40 2004-05 Marc Anderson 24 Marc Anderson 17.54 Steve Clarke 343 Steve Clarke 31.18 2005-06 James Le Huray 21 James LeHuray 20.29 Tristan Marshall 458 Troy Brewster 33.67 2006-07 Matthew Wallis 22 Matthew Wallis 21.73 Andrew Redman 343 Noel Ellis 39.71 2007-08 B.West/J.Magro 14 Nigil Singh 23.70 FOURTH GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Neil Cohen 463 David Townsend 31.43 2001-02 Denis Hinds 42 Jeremy Dwyer 15.63 Troy Brewster 676 Matthew Banes 139.50 2002-03 Denis Hinds 37 Aaron Hildred 12.97 David Bourke 283 Steve Clarke 66.75 2003-04 Denis Hinds 25 Darren McCoy 15.46 Trent Griffiths 402 Nathan Rosser 49.67 2004-05 Peter Devlin 25 Chris Singh 9.06 David Townsend 508 Greg Hartshorne 37.17 2005-06 Matthew Wallis 30 Chris Singh 13.06 David Townsend 527 Alex Sciascia 57.43 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown 30 Steve Bidwell-Brown 10.57 David Townsend 441 Troy Brewster 49.29 2007-08 Chris Singh 38 Chris Singh 14.05 FIFTH GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Michael Watson 325 Nathan Silvy 55.25 2001-02 Grant Rimmer 30 Trent Griffiths 10.69 Tony Martin 640 Tony Martin 49.23 2002-03 Steve Bright 36 Sean Sampson 13.73 Alan Wright 305 Steve Bright 45.00 2003-04 Grant Rimmer 28 Chris Singh 13.73 Alan Wright 319 Edward Neaves 25.90 2004-05 Denis Hinds 32 Steve Bright 14.83 Matthew Hilder 440 Matthew Hilder 40.00 2005-06 Ben West 28 Matthew Hilder 10.95 Matthew Hilder 442 Matthew Hilder 55.25 2006-07 Daniel Laus 34 Steve Bright 11.74 Darren McCoy 229 Robert Cummings 41.40 2007-08 James Tyson 39 James Tyson 8.67 POIDEVIN GRAY PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE David Mitchell 159 John McLoughlin 27.25 2001-02 Sean Sampson 10 Kirk Rimmer 16.00 Alex Sciascia 285 Alex Sciascia 47.50 2002-03 James Byrne 13 Eddie Otto 15.64 Michael Watson 165 Daniel Loader 35.25 2003-04 James Byrne 8 Usman Khawaja 15.17 Matthew Taylor 295 Matthew Taylor 59.00 2004-05 Steve Bidwell-Brown 10 Michael Watson 20.22 Jamie Boettiger 176 Chris Whelan 57.00 2005-06 Jamie Boettiger 12 Jamie Boettiger 9.75 Usman Khawaja 217 Usman Khawaja 54.25 2006-07 Peter Alevizos 9 Peter Alevizos 24.89 Brett Jackson 211 Brett Jackson 35.17 2007-08 Peter Alevizos 9 Peter Alevizos 17.11

Page: 107 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: SEASON RECORDS Qualification: Batting = 8 Innings or 200 Runs; Bowling = 85 Overs or 15 Wickets BATTING BOWLING AW GREEN SHIELD PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Matthew Tilley 223 Glen Carroll 32.00 2001-02 Shahzad Ali 12 Shahzad Ali 18.75 Usman Khawaja 277 Usman Khawaja 55.40 2002-03 Usman Khawaja 17 Usman Khawaja 13.24 William Passas 302 William Passas 50.33 2003-04 Peshala Kariawasam 7 Dean Bowen 20.17 Sean Gardner 341 Sean Gardner 37.89 2004-05 Peter Alevizos 19 Prinya Kham 11.92 Sean Gardner 206 Will Halstead 36.75 2005-06 Robert Close 14 Robert Close 12.21 Declan Lavender 158 Declan Lavender 26.33 2006-07 Nick Charlwood 20 Nick Charlwood 8.30 Barton Lynch 187 Barton Lynch 26.71 2007-08 Devlin Foulis 10 Devlin Foulis 20.90 SIXTH GRADE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE SEASON PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE Peter Johnson 460 Peter Johnson 51.11 2001-02 Nathan Boyd 19 Nathan Boyd 13.89 Alan Wright 400 Alan Wright 66.67 2002-03 D. Hewa-Gamage 24 Peter Spurr 11.14 Paul Varughese 465 George Frazakis 87.33 2003-04 D. Hewa-Gamage 24 Sharzah Ali 12.80 Ben Chaplin 527 Ben Chaplin 52.70 2004-05 Shane Brien 19 James Pryde 10.33 George Frazakis 456 Graham Hinds 49.00 2005-06 Shane Brien 27 Denis Hinds 11.65 Jimmy Ellis 553 Robert Cummings 53.00 2006-07 Cameron Fowler 35 Cameron Fowler 16.00 Edward Mobbs 529 Edward Mobbs 58.78 2007-08 Kieran Hewar 28 Denis Hinds 10.47 WICKETKEEPING - DISMISSALS FIRST GRADE SECOND GRADE THIRD GRADE FOURTH GRADE SEASON PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL Daryl Parmenter 64 David Mitchell 31 2001-02 Steven Yates 25 Neil Cohen 29 Daryl Parmenter 46 David Mitchell 41 2002-03 Neil Cohen 30 Matthew Taylor 38 Daryl Parmenter 30 David Mitchell 13 2003-04 Matthew Taylor 9 Steven Yates 9 Daryl Parmenter 12 Neil Cohen 38 2004-05 Matthew Taylor 13 Fabian Heaton 17 Neil Cohen 16 Matthew Taylor 26 2005-06 Fabian Heaton 17 Fabian Heaton 15 Matthew Taylor 27 Neil Cohen 39 2006-07 Fabian Heaton 11 Andrew Redman 20 Ashley Doolan 37 Matthew Taylor 18 2007-08 Andrew Redman 10 Fabian Heaton 15

FIFTH GRADE POIDEVIN GRAY AW GREEN SHIELD SIXTH GRADE SEASON PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL PLAYER TOTAL Matthew Taylor 23 David Mitchell 6 2001-02 Matthew Tilley 15 Matthew Taylor 8 Steven Yates 33 Neil Cohen 8 2002-03 Campbell Dash 9 Grant Frakes 6 Fabian Heaton 14 Matthew Taylor 4 2003-04 Campbell Dash 7 Mark Holland 21 Ian Paterson 24 Matthew Taylor 8 2004-05 Campbell Dash 16 M.Holland/G.Frazakis 4 Andrew Redman 14 Campbell Dash 10 2005-06 Andrew Redman 19 Thomas Holland 21 Andrew Redman 7 Campbell Dash 2 2006-07 Andrew Redman 13 Scott Gray 12 Karl Schubert 13 Ashley Doolan 10 2007-08 Scott Gray 5 George Frazakis 26 SOUTH SYDNEY SPORTS MEDICINE A.P.A. SPORTS PHYSIOTHERAPISTS Rehab Gym Area Manipulation, X-Ray PARKING UNDERNEATH 111 Anzac Parade KENSINGTON 9663 5999

Page: 108 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: RECORDS AND PARTNERSHIPS Qualification: Batting = 8 Innings or 200 Runs; Bowling = 85 Overs or 15 Wickets GRADES 1 to 5 - RECORDS GRADES 1 to 5 PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Usman Khawaja 1st 1134 2007-08 1st Matthew Hilder-Troy Brewster 189 v Easts 5th 2002-03 Highest Individual Score Andy Hollingsworth 4th 218* 2002-03 2nd Usman Khawaja-Matthew Mott 214 v Nth Sydney 1st 2004-05 Bowling Aggregate Adam Warren 1st 63 2001-02 3rd Troy Brewster-David Townsend 265 v Blacktown 4th 2002-03 Best Bowling in Innings Simon McKenzie 5th 8/34 2003-04 4th Paul Toole-Joseph Hill 197 v UTS Balmain 1st 2003-04 Most W/K Dismissals Daryl Parmenter 1st 64 2001-02 5th Jeff Hemming-Matthew Parker 197 v Sutherland 2nd 2002-03 Most Catches-Fielder Richard CheeQuee 1st 23 2002-03 6th Fabian Heaton-Nathan Rosser 163 v Sydney Uni 4th 2004-05 High Team Score - For v Mosman 1st 6/428 2002-03 7th David Fraser-Marc Anderson 133 v Parramatta 3rd 2001-02 High Team Score - Agst v Manly Warringah 2nd 369 2006-07 8th Aaron Moseley-Scott Obey 106 v Parramatta 2nd 2001-02 Low Team Score - For v North Sydney 3rd 51 2002-03 9th Shane Pargeter-Rodney Stafford 156* v Sydney Uni 2nd 2007-08 Low Team Score - Agst v Bankstown 4th 37 2005-06 10th Oliver Saffell-Grant Rimmer 123 v Mosman 5th 2006-07 FIRST GRADE RECORDS FIRST GRADE PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Usman Khawaja 1134 2007-08 1st Joseph Hill-Paul Toole 165* v Gordon 2002-03 Best Batting Average Simon Katich 96.83 2007-08 2nd Usman Khawaja-Matthew Mott 214 v North Sydney 2004-05 Highest Indivudal Score Simon Katich 177 2002-03 3rd Usman Khawaja-Simon Katich 188 v St George 2007-08 Bowling Aggregate Adam Warren 63 2001-02 4th Paul Toole-Joseph Hill 197 v UTS Balmain 2003-04 Best Bowling Average Jon Lewis 15.29 2003-04 5th Nathan Hauritz-Shawn Flegler 164* v University of NSW 2006-07 Best Bowling in Innings Jon Lewis 7/35 2003-04 6th Usman Khawaja-Tim Laws 112 v Gordon 2007-08 Most W/K Dismissals Daryl Parmenter 64 2001-02 7th Richard CheeQuee-Paul Staunton 117 v Sydney University 2001-02 Most Catches-Fielder Richard CheeQuee 23 2002-03 8th Matthew Mott-James Byrne 110* v Campbelltown 2004-05 High Team Score For v Mosman 6/428 2002-03 9th Nathan Rosser-Rodney Stafford 102 v Mosman 2003-04 High Team Score Agst v University of NSW 362 2005-06 10th Nathan Hauritz-Burt Cockley 62 v Gordon 2007-08 Low Team Score For v Campbelltown 56 2007-08 Low Team Score Agst v Campbelltown 75 2007-08 SECOND GRADE RECORDS SECOND GRADE PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate John McLoughlin 607 2006-07 1st Richard Phillips-Matthew Taylor 122 v Gordon 2004-05 Best Batting Average Usman Khawaja 97.25 2003-04 2nd Matthew Taylor-David Mitchell 126 v University of NSW 2004-05 Highest Indivudal Score John McLoughlin 163 2006-07 3rd Richard Phillips-David Mitchell 168 v St George 2002-03 Bowling Aggregate Brett Hunter 39 2006-07 4th David Mitchell-Paul Toole 189 v Gordon 2004-05 Best Bowling Average Scott Obey 13.31 2001-02 5th Jeff Hemming-Matthew Parker 197 v Sutherland 2002-03 Best Bowling in Innings James Byrne 7/20 2004-05 6th William Passas-Eddie Otto 198 v Gordon 2007-08 Most W/K Dismissals David Mitchell 41 2002-03 7th John McLoughlin-Brett Hunter 121* v Mosman 2005-06 Most Catches-Fielder Michael Watson 15 2006-07 8th Aaron Moseley-Scott Obey 106 v Parramatta 2001-02 High Team Score For v Campbelltown 6/362 2006-07 9th Shane Pargeter-Rodney Stafford 156* v Sydney University 2007-08 High Team Score Agst v Gordon 6/394 2007-08 10th Andrew Harrison-Matthew Barnes 74 v Penrith 2002-03 Low Team Score For v Sydney University 87 2006-07 Low Team Score Agst v Mosman 64 2007-08 THIRD GRADE RECORDS THIRD GRADE PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Geoff Hodgkinson 612 2001-02 1st Brenton Barker-Matthew Taylor 162 v Parramatta 2004-05 Best Batting Average Geoff Hodgkinson 100.20 2002-03 2nd Alex Sciascia-Geoff Hodgkinson 198 v Mosman 2002-03 Highest Indivudal Score Matthew Taylor 144 2003-04 3rd Paul Greentree-John McLoughlin 144* v Mosman 2004-05 Bowling Aggregate Nigil Singh 38 2003-04 4th Tristan Marshall-Tim Laws 103 v Bankstown 2006-07 Best Bowling Average Greg Hartshorne 15.34 2003-04 5th Andrew Redman-Brett Hunter 162 v Gordon 2007-08 Best Bowling in Innings Nigil Singh 6/35 2002-03 6th Will Halsted-Cameron Gray 75 v University of NSW 2007-08 Most W/K Dismissals Neil Cohen 30 2002-03 7th David Fraser-Marc Anderson 133 v Parramatta 2001-02 Most Catches-Fielder John McLoughlin 14 2004-05 8th Jordan Magro-Matthew Wallis 76 v North Sydney 2006-07 High Team Score For v North Sydney 9/374 2006-07 9th Dean White-Eddie Otto 86 v Manly Warringah 2004-05 High Team Score Agst v Sydney University 4/322 2006-07 10th Sean Sampson-Nigil Singh 41 v St George 2003-04 Low Team Score For v North Sydney 51 2002-03 Low Team Score Agst v Campbelltown 55 2007-08 FOURTH GRADE RECORDS FOURTH GRADE PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Troy Brewster 676 2002-03 1st Matthew Taylor-Troy Brewster 155 v UTS Balmain 2002-03 Best Batting Average Matthew Banes 139.50 2002-03 2nd Steve Clarke-David Bourke 173 v Manly Warringah 2003-04 Highest Indivudal Score Andy Hollingsworth 218* 2002-03 3rd Troy Brewster-David Townsend 265 v Blacktown 2002-03 Bowling Aggregate Denis Hinds 42 2001-02 4th David Bourke-Neil Cohen 142 v Campbelltown 2001-02 Best Bowling Average Chris Singh 9.06 2004-05 5th David Townsend-William Passas 156 v Campbelltown 2006-07 Best Bowling in Innings Chris Singh 7/24 2004-05 6th Fabian Heaton-Nathan Rosser 163 v Sydney University 2004-05 Most W/K Dismissals Matthew Taylor 38 2002-03 7th David Townsend-Peter Devlin 95 v Penrith 2004-05 Most Catches-Fielder Melvin Singh 13 2006-07 8th Marc Anderson-Zachary Levein 71 v Manly Warringah 2002-03 High Team Score For v UTS Balmain 405 2002-03 9th Marc Anderson-Matthew Wallis 74 v Sutherland 2005-06 High Team Score Agst v Parramatta 290 2001-02 10th Benn West-Grant Rimmer 51 v Blacktown 2007-08 Low Team Score For v Gordon 68 2001-02 Low Team Score Agst v Bankstown 37 2005-06

Page: 109 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: RECORDS AND PARTNERSHIPS Qualification: Batting = 8 Innings or 200 Runs; Bowling = 85 Overs or 15 Wickets FIFTH GRADE RECORDS FIFTH GRADE PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Tony Martin 640 2002-03 1st Matthew Hilder-Troy Brewster 189 v Eastern Suburbs 2002-03 Best Batting Average Matthew Hilder 55.25 2006-07 2nd Steve Clarke-Grant Frakes 136 v Manly Warringah 2002-03 Highest Indivudal Score Tony Martin 155 2002-03 3rd Andrew Walters-Sean Porter 169 v UTS Balmain 2005-06 Bowling Aggregate James Tyson 39 2007-08 4th Steve Clarke-Tony Martin 187 v Western Suburbs 2002-03 Best Bowling Average James Tyson 8.67 2007-08 5th Alex Tomkins-Darren McCoy 129 v Sutherland 2007-08 Best Bowling in Innings Simon McKenzie 8/34 2003-04 6th Alan Wright-Barry Spencer 115 v Eastern Suburbs 2004-05 Most W/K Dismissals Steven Yates 33 2002-03 7th John Tierney-Mark Carroll 113 v Bankstown 2003-04 Most Catches-Fielder Matthew Hilder 10 2007-08 8th Nathan Silvy-Steve Bright 90 v Balmain 2001-02 High Team Score For v Hawkesbury 7/331 2003-04 9th Jon Griffiths-Jeremy Dwyer 73 v Sutherland 2002-03 High Team Score Agst v Sutherland 7/315 2004-05 9th Will Halstead-Jake Berry 73 v Western Suburbs 2005-06 Low Team Score For v Hawkesbury 80 2005-06 10th Oliver Saffell-Grant Rimmer 123 v Mosman 2006-07 Low Team Score Agst v Northern District 43 2004-05 POIDEVIN-GRAY RECORDS POIDEVIN-GRAY PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Matthew Taylor 295 2004-05 1st Usman Khawaja-Eddie Otto 160 v Western Suburbs 2004-05 Best Batting Average Matthew Taylor 59.00 2004-05 2nd Sean Gardner-Campbell Dash 136 v Penrith 2006-07 Highest Indivudal Score Eddie Otto 106 2004-05 3rd Michael Watson-Matthew Taylor 98* v Mosman 2004-05 Bowling Aggregate James Byrne 13 2002-03 4th Matthew Taylor-Paul Greentree 170 v UTS Balmain 2004-05 Best Bowling Average Usman Khawaja 15.17 2003-04 5th Campbell Dash-William Passas 92 v University of NSW 2007-08 Best Bowling in Innings Usman Khawaja 5/57 2004-05 6th Scott McGeachie-Neil Cohen 69 v Hawkesbury 2001-02 Most W/K Dismissals Neil Cohen 8 2002-03 7th Paul Greentree-James Byrne 78 v UTS Balmain 2002-03 Matthew Taylor 8 2004-05 8th James Byrne-Peter Conomos 45 v St George 2004-05 Most Catches-Fielder Usman Khawaja 4 2004-05 9th Alex Brown-Alex Tomkins 51 v Parramatta 2007-08 High Team Score For v Penrith 7/294 2006-07 10th Stephen Hurworth-Peter Alevizos 38 v Western Suburbs 2006-07 High Team Score Agst v Penrith 4/293 2006-07 Low Team Score For v Northern District 96 2001-02 Low Team Score Agst v Fairfield 103 2002-03 A W GREEN SHIELD RECORDS A W GREEN SHIELD PARTNERSHIPS Batting Aggregate Sean Gardner 341 2004-05 1st Campbell Dash-Sean Gardner 134 v University of NSW 2004-05 Best Batting Average Usman Khawaja 55.40 2002-03 2nd William Passas-Nicholas Lennings 65* v North Sydney 2003-04 Highest Indivudal Score William Passas 103 2003-04 3rd William Passas-Mark Carroll 156 v Northern District 2003-04 Bowling Aggregate Nick Charlwood 20 2006-07 4th Mark Carrol-Andrew Redman 74 v Eastern Surburbs 2004-05 Best Bowling Average Nick Charlwood 8.30 2006-07 5th Mark Carroll-Sean McInnes 104* v University of NSW 2004-05 Best Bowling in Innings Nick Charlwood 6/9 2006-07 6th Shahzad Ali-Glen Carroll 57 v Northern District 2001-02 Most W/K Dismissals Campbell Dash 16 2004-05 7th Mark Carroll-Nirjon Kader 66 v Campbellton 2002-03 Most Catches-Fielder P.Alevizos, S.Gardner 5 2004-05 8th Robert Close-Alex Tomkins 50 v Campbelltown 2005-06 High Team Score For v University of NSW 4/264 2004-05 9th Denesh Hewa-Gamage-Shahzad Ali 43 v St George 2001-02 High Team Score Agst v Hawkesbury 7/253 2001-02 10th James McKenzie-Nibir Kader 31* v St George 2006-07 Low Team Score For v Penrith 53 2006-07 Low Team Score Agst v North Sydney 64 2006-07

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Page: 110 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: PERFORMANCE RECORDS BATTING - CENTURIES FIRST GRADE THIRD GRADE SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2001-02 Richard CheeQuee Sydney University 103* 2001-02 Geoff Hodgkinson Gordon 104 2001-02 Richard CheeQuee Western Suburbs 113 2001-02 Geoff Hodgkinson Bankstown 101 2001-02 Richard CheeQuee Northern District 106 2002-03 Geoff Hodgkinson Mosman 119 2001-02 Paul Toole Gordon 100 2002-03 Geoff Hodgkinson Western Suburbs 122* 2002-03 Joseph Hill University of NSW 123* 2002-03 Alex Sciascia Mosman 135 2002-03 Simon Katich Mosman 177 2002-03 Brenton Barker Sutherland 106 2002-03 Simon Katich Eastern Suburbs 100* 2002-03 Kallin Davies Western Suburbs 119 2002-03 Richard Chee Quee Eastern Suburbs 139* 2002-03 Neil Cohen Northern District 120 2002-03 Richard Chee Quee Penrith 102* 2003-04 Michael Watson St George 105 2002-03 Darren Wotherspoon North Sydney 100* 2003-04 Matthew Taylor University NSW 144 2002-03 Matthew Cassar Blacktown 123 2004-05 Matthew Taylor North Sydney 102* 2003-04 Simon Katich Manly Warringah 110* 2004-05 Tony Martin Penrith 107 2003-04 Richard Phillips Bankstown 114 2004-05 Troy Brewster Blacktown 102 2003-04 Daryl Parmenter Blacktown 134* 2005-06 Steve Clarke North Sydney 111* 2003-04 Joseph Hill UTS Balmain 126 2006-07 Tristan Marshall Bankstown 100 2003-04 David Mitchell Parramatta 108 2007-08 Brett Hunter Gordon 120* 2003-04 Richard CheeQuee Hawkesbury 111 2007-08 Cameron Gray University of NSW 101 2004-05 Usman Khawaja North Sydney 120 FOURTH GRADE 2004-05 Matthew Mott North Sydney 157 SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2004-05 Matthew Mott Campbelltown 168* 2001-02 David Townsend Sydney University 100* 2005-06 Usman Khawaja Mosman 102 2001-02 Clive Cachia Parramatta 116* 2005-06 Paul Horton UTS Balmain 110 2002-03 Michael Watson Sutherland 125 2005-06 Joseph Hill Sutherland 121 2002-03 Andy Hollingsworth Western Suburbs 218* 2006-07 Usman Khawaja Blacktown 115* 2002-03 Matthew Banes Hawkesbury 181 2006-07 Joseph Hill Fairfield-Liverpool 110* 2002-03 Troy Brewster North Sydney 103 2007-08 Usman Khawaja Sydney University 138 2002-03 Troy Brewster Blacktown 135* 2007-08 Usman Khawaja Western Suburbs 127* 2002-03 Troy Brewster UTS Balmain 112 2007-08 Usman Khawaja Northern District 101 2002-03 Troy Brewster Manly Warringah 148 2007-08 Usman Khawaja Gordon 102 2002-03 David Townsend Blacktown 118* 2007-08 Usman Khawaja St George 111 2003-04 Steve Clarke Manly Warringah 117 2007-08 John McLoughlin Blacktown 126 2004-05 Glen Carroll Parramatta 114* 2007-08 Adam Semple Blacktown 105* 2004-05 Nathan Rosser Bankstown 100 2007-08 Tim Laws Gordon 133 2004-05 Nathan Rosser Sydney University 112 2007-08 Simon Katich St George 149* 2004-05 Fabian Heaton Sydney University 108* 2007-08 Nathan Hauritz Gordon 122 2005-06 Fabian Heaton University of NSW 112 SECOND GRADE 2005-06 David Townsend Western Suburbs 105* SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2005-06 David Townsend Blacktown 101 2001-02 John Moffatt University of NSW 116* 2005-06 Sean Gardner Blacktown 125* 2001-02 Matthew Parker Manly Warringah 101 2006-07 Campbell Dash UTS Balmain 138 2001-02 David Mitchell Manly Warringah 107 2006-07 David Townsend Campbelltown 101 2002-03 Jeff Hemming Sutherland 115 2006-07 Alex Sciascia Gordon 100 2002-03 Jeff Hemming Western Suburbs 112* 2007-08 Troy Brewster Manly Warringah 117* 2002-03 Matthew Parker Sutherland 118* 2007-08 Troy Brewster Gordon 148 2002-03 David Mitchell Manly 105 FIFTH GRADE 2002-03 Richard Phillips Northern District 129* SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2003-04 David Mitchell Mosman 123* 2001-02 Neil Cohen University of NSW 128* 2003-04 Usman Khawaja Parramatta 110* 2001-02 Nathan Silvy UTS Balmain 116 2003-04 Michael Watson Hawkesbury 119 2002-03 Steven Yates Mosman 101* 2004-05 David Mitchell Sydney University 140 2002-03 Tony Martin Western Suburbs 155 2004-05 Paul Horton Campbelltown 126 2002-03 Steve Clarke Manly Warringah 109 2004-05 Matthew Taylor Blacktown 111 2002-03 Troy Brewster Eastern Suburbs 136 2004-05 Paul Toole Gordon 104 2003-04 Brent McNee UTS Balmain 119 2006-07 John McLoughlin Manly Warringah 163 2005-06 Matthew Taylor Northern District 138 2006-07 John McLoughlin Eastern Suburbs 107* 2005-06 Sean Porter UTS Balmain 117* 2006-07 Tim Laws Mosman 122 2005-06 Matthew Hilder Penrith 105 2007-08 Michael Watson St George 103* 2006-07 John Dunne Eastern Suburbs 113 2007-08 Shane Pargeter Sydney University 159* 2006-07 Andrew Walters North Sydney 123* 2007-08 Eddie Otto Gordon 124* 2006-07 Matthew Hilder Parramatta 153*

Page: 111 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: PERFORMANCE RECORDS BATTING - CENTURIES POIDEVIN GRAY AW GREEN SHIELD SEASON BATSMANOPPOSITION SCORE SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2004-05 Matthew Taylor UTS Balmain 100* 2003-04 William Passas Northern District 103 2004-05 Eddie Otto St George 106 2006-07 Usman Khawaja Blacktown 102 2007-08 Brett Jackson Mosman 104*

BOWLING - 5 OR MORE WICKETS IN AN INNINGS FIRST GRADE SECOND GRADE (Continued) SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITIONFIGURES SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES 2001-02 Adam Warren Parramatta 6/59 2006-07 Rodney Stafford Manly Warringah 7/132 2001-02 Adam Warren Balmain 5/76 2006-07 Cameron Gray Bankstown 5/64 2001-02 Adam Warren North Sydney 7/36 2006-07 Dean White Mosman 5/32 2001-02 Adam Warren UTS Balmain 5/84 2006-07 Dean White Parramatta 7/37 2001-02 Scott Obey Manly Warringah 5/39 2006-07 Brett Hunter North Sydney 5/25 2001-02 James Le Huray Eastern Suburbs 5/55 2006-07 Matthew Wallis Campbelltown 5/35 2001-02 Andrew Harrison Campbelltown 5/52 2007-08 Rodney Stafford Sydney University 5/72 2002-03 Robert Smith Western Suburbs 7/82 2007-08 Rodney Stafford Hawkesbury 6/78 2002-03 Scott Obey St George 7/64 2007-08 Rodney Stafford Penrith 5/50 2002-03 Scott Obey North Sydney 6/50 2007-08 Rodney Stafford Sydney University 7/105 2002-03 Adam Warren Eastern Suburbs 5/43 2007-08 Steve Bidwell-Brown Blacktown 5/35 2002-03 Adam Warren Gordon 5/52 2007-08 Steve Bidwell-Brown Manly Warringah 5/68 2003-04 Rodney Stafford UTS Balmain 6/85 2007-08 Peter Alevizos Campbelltown 6/35 2003-04 Rodney Stafford Eastern Suburbs 6/62 2007-08 Eddie Otto Sydney 7/42 2003-04 Jonathan Lewis Sydney University 6/41 2007-08 Shane Pargeter Manly Warringah 5/33 2003-04 Jonathan Lewis Mosman 7/35 2007-08 Andrew Downton Mosman 5/17 2003-04 Jonathan Lewis Fairfield - Liverpool 5/35 THIRD GRADE 2003-04 Glenn Farquharson Eastern Suburbs 5/44 SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES 2004-05 Nathan Rosser Mosman 5/33 2001-02 Nigil Singh Penrith 6/49 2004-05 Andrew Harrison Penrith 5/36 2001-02 Kallin Davies UTS Balmain 5/70 2004-05 Andrew Harrison Blacktown 5/54 2001-02 Dean White North Sydney 6/49 2005-06 Eddie Otto Western Suburbs 5/85 2002-03 Chris Singh Mosman 5/53 2005-06 Nathan Rosser St George 5/50 2002-03 Chris Singh Eastern Suburbs 5/55 2005-06 James Byrne Sutherland 5/47 2002-03 Nigil Singh Western Suburbs 6/35 2006-07 Nathan Hauritz Fairfield - Liverpool 5/69 2002-03 Melvin Singh North Sydney 6/58 2006-07 Adam Semple North Sydney 5/42 2002-03 Kallin Davies Blacktown 5/13 2007-08 Nathan Hauritz Sutherland 5/54 2003-04 Sean Sampson Manly Warringah 5/31 2007-08 Nathan Hauritz University of NSW 6/48 2003-04 Peter Spurr Penrith 5/35 2007-08 Burt Cockley St George 5/48 2003-04 Nigil Singh Fairfield 5/22 SECOND GRADE 2003-04 Nigil Singh Mosman 5/73 SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES 2004-05 David Bourke Parramatta 5/48 2001-02 Scott Obey University of NSW 5/47 2004-05 James Le Huray Northern District 6/39 2001-02 Scott Obey Parramatta 7/68 2005-06 Dean White North Sydney 5/26 2001-02 Andrew Harrison Northern District 5/29 2005-06 Matthew Wallis Hawkesbury 5/29 2001-02 Andrew Harrison North Sydney 5/51 2005-06 Kenny Attanayake Northern District 5/23 2001-02 Melvin Singh Campbelltown 6/74 2005-06 James Le Huray Western Suburbs 5/51 2001-02 Melvin Singh Fairfield - Liverpool 5/76 2005-06 Steve Blissenden Blacktown 5/22 2002-03 Peter Bayley Western Suburbs 5/31 2006-07 Matthew Wallis Bankstown 6/55 2002-03 Rodney Stafford Eastern Suburbs 6/84 2007-08 Benn West Campbelltown 6/29 2002-03 Matthew Barnes Gordon 7/88 FOURTH GRADE 2003-04 Peter Bayley Eastern Suburbs 6/41 SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES 2003-04 Peter Devlin Hawkesbury 6/69 2001-02 Peter Bayley Parramatta 5/62 2004-05 Nigil Singh Mosman 5/23 2001-02 Peter Bayley North Sydney 6/55 2004-05 Melvin Singh Sydney University 5/103 2001-02 Denis Hinds Western Suburbs 6/35 2004-05 Rodney Stafford Blacktown 6/69 2001-02 Denis Hinds Campbelltown 5/52 2004-05 Rodney Stafford Northern District 6/71 2001-02 Denis Hinds Fairfield - Liverpool 5/26 2004-05 Rodney Stafford Northern District 5/32 2001-02 Alex Sciascia Western Suburbs 5/49 2004-05 Peter Bayley Bankstown 6/29 2002-03 Denis Hinds Manly Warringah 5/34 2004-05 Peter Bayley Fairfield 5/45 2002-03 Denis Hinds UTS Balmain 5/18 2004-05 James Byrne Mosman 7/20 2002-03 Nigil Singh Penrith 5/44 2005-06 Peter Alevizos Hawkesbury 5/31 2002-03 Nigil Singh Blacktown 5/43 2002-03 Aaron Hildred Northern District 5/71 2002-03 Aaron Hildred Blacktown 5/17

Page: 112 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: PERFORMANCE RECORDS BOWLING - 5 OR MORE WICKETS IN AN INNINGS FOURTH GRADE (Continued) FIFTH GRADE SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION SCORE 2003-04 Darren McCoy St George 5/42 2001-02 Steve Bright UTS Balmain 6/18 2003-04 Neil Saker Fairfield Liverpool 5/33 2001-02 Aaron Hildred Campbelltown 5/19 2004-05 Chris Singh Sydney University 7/24 2002-03 Steve Bright Manly Warringah 6/43 2004-05 Chris Singh Sydney University 6/39 2002-03 David Bourke Gordon 5/21 2004-05 Grant Rimmer Hawkesbury 5/28 2003-04 Steve Bright Campbelltown 5/35 2004-05 Barry Spencer Gordon 5/57 2003-04 Simon McKenzie Bankstown 8/34 2004-05 Darren McCoy Northern District 5/61 2003-04 Steve Bidwell-Brown Eastern Suburbs 6/48 2005-06 Darren McCoy Hawkesbury 5/34 2003-04 Grant Rimmer Gordon 5/52 2005-06 Chris Singh Bankstown 5/12 2003-04 Chris Singh Penrith 5/43 2005-06 Chad Greenberg Western Suburbs 6/89 2004-05 Denis Hinds Campbelltown 5/15 2005-06 Matthew Wallis UTS Balmain 5/20 2004-05 John Tierney Blacktown 5/31 2005-06 Matthew Wallis Fairfield-Liverpool 5/40 2004-05 Simon McKenzie Gordon 5/53 2006-07 Denis Hinds Fairfield Liverpool 5/43 2005-06 Dean White St George 7/70 2006-07 Matthew Hilder Bankstown 6/49 2005-06 Matthew Hilder Sutherland 7/45 2006-07 Oliver Saffell Sydney University 5/60 2005-06 Steve Bright Fairfield-Liverpool 5/56 2006-07 Benn West North Sydney 6/51 2006-07 John Tierney Bankstown 5/37 2006-07 Benn West Parramatta 5/22 2006-07 Steve Bright Eastern Suburbs 6/43 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown Campbelltown 5/26 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown Sydney University 5/21 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown Mosman 7/41 2006-07 Steve Bidwell-Brown North Sydney 5/33 2007-08 Chris Singh Sydney University 5/45 2006-07 Nigil Singh Gordon 5/37 2007-08 Chris Singh Manly Warringah 5/42 2007-08 James Tyson Blacktown 7/21 2007-08 Benn West Sutherland 5/62 2007-08 James Tyson Penrith 5/30 2007-08 Benn West Northern District 5/23 2007-08 James Tyson Bankstown 7/16 2007-08 Melvin Singh Blacktown 5/24 2007-08 James Tyson North Sydney 6/26 2007-08 Andrew Harrison Campbelltown 5/16 2007-08 Grant Rimmer Campbelltown 6/22 POIDEVIN GRAY AW GREEN SHIELD SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION SCORE SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION SCORE 2004-05 Usman Khawaja UTS Balmain 5/57 2001-02 Shahzad Ali Eastern Suburbs 5/25 2002-03 Usman Khawaja Sydney University 5/37 2002-03 Usman Khawaja Fairfield 5/36 2004-05 Peter Alevizos UTS Balmain 5/34 2006-07 Nick Charlwood North Sydney 6/9

BOWLING - HAT-TRICKS

SEASON GRADE BOWLER OPPOSITION DATE 2004-05 2nd Greg Hartshorne Bankstown 12-Mar-05 2004-05 4th Chris Singh Sydney University 30-Oct-04 2004-05 4th Chris Singh Sydney University 6-Nov-04 2006-07 4th Benn West North Sydney 13-Jan-07 2007-08 4th Benn West St George 22-Sep-07 2001-02 5th Steve Bright Northern Districts 22-Dec-01 2005-06 5th Matthew Hilder Sutherland 25-Feb-06 2001-02 AWG Shahzad Ali Eastern Suburbs 3-Jan-02

BOWLING - 10 OR MORE WICKETS IN A MATCH

SEASON GRADE BOWLER OPPOSITION FIGURES WKTS 2001-02 1st Adam Warren North Sydney 11/87 7/4 2002-03 1st Scott Obey North Sydney 10/93 6/4 2007-08 1st Nathan Hauritz University of NSW 10/70 6/4 2004-05 2nd Rodney Stafford Northern District 11/103 6/5 2006-07 2nd Dean White Parramatta 10/90 7/3 2001-02 3rd Dean White North Sydney 10/105 6/4 2004-05 4th Chris Singh Sydney University 13/63 7/6

Page: 113 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: PERFORMANCE RECORDS WICKETKEEPING - 6 OR MORE DISMISSALS IN A INNINGS

SEASON GRADE WICKETKEEPER OPPOSITION DISMISSALS 2001-02 1st Daryl Parmenter Parramatta 7 5C/2S ` 2001-02 2nd David Mitchell Gordon 6 3C/3S 2001-02 2nd Paul Greentree North Sydney 6 5C/1S 2005-06 4th Campbell Dash Campbelltown 7 7C 2005-06 4th Karl Schubert Eastern Suburbs 7 6C/1S WICKETKEEPING - 8 OR MORE DISMISSALS IN A MATCH

SEASON GRADE WICKETKEEPER OPPOSITION DISMISSALS 2001-02 1st Daryl Parmenter North Sydney 8 3C/5C 2007-08 2nd Matthew Taylor Mosman 8 8C

PARTNERSHIPS OF 200 RUNS or MORE

RUNS WKT BATSMEN OPPOSITION GRADE SEASON 265 3rd Troy Brewster-David Townsend Blacktown 4th 2002-03 214 2nd Usman Khawaja-Matthew Mott North Sydney 1st 2004-05 205 3rd Sean Gardner-David Townsend Blacktown 4th 2005-06

BATTING - CENTURIES 5 WICKETS IN AN INNINGS SIXTH GRADE SIXTH GRADE SEASONBATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE SEASONBOWLER OPPOSITION SCORE 2001-02 Peter Johnson Gordon 165 2001-02 Ben Ezekiel Eastern Suburbs 5/22 2001-02 Peter Johnson South Sydney 107 2003-04 Cooper Devine University of NSW 6/29 2002-03 Matthew Hilder UTS Balmain 103 2003-04 Denesh Hewa-Gamage Blacktown 5/73 2002-03 Alan D'Arcy Maccabi 107 2003-04 Paul Varughese Gordon 5/24 2002-03 Alan Wright Eastern Suburbs 125 2004-05 Daniel Gardner South Sydney 5/31 2002-03 Alan Wright South Sydney 101 2004-05 Daniel Gardner South Sydney 5/26 2003-04 Jonathon Walsh Gordon 172 2004-05 Sean Porter University of NSW 5/42 2003-04 George Frazakis UTS Balmain 113 2004-05 Sean Brien Blacktown 5/53 2003-04 John Tierney Sydney University 104 2004-05 James Pryde North Sydney 6/80 2003-04 Paul Varughese Gordon 100 2005-06 Graham Hinds South Sydney 5/14 2004-05 Paul Varughese UTS Balmain 112 2005-06 Shane Brien Blacktown 5/37 2004-05 Paul Varughese Penrith 121 2005-06 Denis Hinds Holroyd Hills 6/52 2004-05 Ben Chaplin RP Gold 111 2006-07 Daniel Levitt South Sydney 5/11 2004-05 Ben Chaplin UTS Balmain 153 2006-07 Cameron Fowler RP Gold 6/12 2005-06 Graham Hinds UTS Balmain 120 2006-07 Cameron Fowler University NSW 5/43 2006-07 Jimmy Ellis RP Gold 150 2006-07 Cameron Fowler Sydney University 5/57 2006-07 George Frazakis Penrith 117 2006-07 John Stewart Blacktown 5/33 2006-07 Robert Cummings Penrith 164 2006-07 Denis Howard Gordon 5/78 2007-08 Edward Mobbs South Sydney 139 2007-08 Thomas Whitaker University of NSW 7/28 SEVENTH GRADE 2007-08 Kieran Hewar University of NSW 5/29 SEASON BATSMAN OPPOSITION SCORE 2007-08 Denis Hinds Penrith 5/54 2001-02 Paul Chapman Burwood 114 2007-08 Darren Kumar Sydney Tigers 5/15 2002-03 David Fraser Maccabi 100* 2007-08 James Tyson Blacktown 5/20 2002-03 Steven Chakarovski Lindfield 101 SEVENTH GRADE 2002-03 George Frazakis Georges River 135* SEASON BOWLER OPPOSITION SCORE 2002-03 George Frazakis Roseville Gordon 105 2001-02 Jeremy Dwyer South Sydney 5/13 2002-03 George Frazakis UTS Balmain (1) 100* 2001-02 Nathan Boyd South Sydney 7/41 2002-03 Barry Greenwood Macquarie University 102 2002-03 John Tierney George River 5/24 2002-03 M Chandraskeharan Auburn 6/34 2002-03 Gavin Dennett UTS Balmain (1) 5/21

Page: 114 CLUB POSITION IN COMPETITION Year 1st 1st LO 2nd 3rd 4th 5th PG's AWG CC 2001-02 5th 3rd 17th 12th 5th 7th 15th 15th 7th 2002-03 7th 2nd 3rd 10th 1st 2nd 6th 19th 5th 2003-04 2nd 5th 13th 1st 5th 2nd 14th 16th 4th 2004-05 10th 4th 1st 5th 2nd 3rd 4th 4th 3rd 2005-06 19th20th 9th 14th 1st 1st 9th 4th 16th 2006-07 12th 2nd 6th 9th 2nd 3rd 20th 13th 5th 2007-08 4th12th 3rd 10th 1st 1st 13th 13th 1st

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th PGs AWG Club Club Season Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Captain Coach 2007-08 N Hauritz R Stafford N Singh D Townsend D McCoy U Khawaja N Stapleton B Hunter P Devlin

PREMIERSHIPS Season Grade Captain Manager Scorer 2002-03 Fourth Grade Greg Hartshorne John Connell Owen Ridge 2003-04 Third Grade Greg Hartshorne John Connell Richard McCord 2004-05 Second Grade Greg Hartshorne John Connell Richard McCord 2005-06 Fourth Grade David Townsend John Connell Lynette Jackson 2005-06 Fifth Grade Dean White Peter Chaplin Janice Chaplin 2007-08 Fourth Grade David Townsend John Connell Richard McCord 2007-08 Fifth Grade Darren McCoy Neville Walters David Holland

MINOR PREMIERSHIPS

Season Team Captain 2003-04 3rd Grade Tony Martin 2006-07 4th Grade David Townsend 2007-08 4th Grade David Townsend

SCA SPIRIT OF CRICKET AWARD

Season Team Captain 2004-05 2nd Grade Greg Hartshorne 2004-05 4th Grade David Townsend 2005-06 2nd Grade Rodney Stafford

SCA CAPTAIN OF THE YEAR AWARD

Season Team Captain 2003-04 3rd Grade Greg Hartshorne 2004-05 2nd Grade Greg Hartshorne 2004-05 4th Grade David Townsend 2005-06 3rd Grade James Le Huray 2007-08 4th Grade David Townsend

Page: 115 RANDWICK PETERSHAM: CAPPED PLAYERS No. PLAYER YEAR No. PLAYER YEAR 1 Paul Toole 2001-02 32 Usman Khawaja 2003-04 2 Daryl Parmenter 2001-02 33 Geoff Hodgkinson 2003-04 3 Ian Barter 2001-02 34 Eddie Otto 2003-04 4 Richard CheeQuee 2001-02 35 Neil Cohen 2003-04 5 Graham Doig 2001-02 36 Aaron Hildred 2003-04 6 Andrew Millican 2001-02 37 Matthew Mott 2004-05 7 Paul Staunton 2001-02 38 James Byrne 2004-05 8 Grant Parmenter 2001-02 39 Paul Horton 2004-05 9 Adam Warren 2001-02 40 Nigil Singh 2004-05 10 Andrew Harrison 2001-02 41 Melvin Singh 2004-05 11 James LeHuray 2001-02 42 Matthew Taylor 2004-05 12 Matthew Parker 2001-02 43 Jamie Boettiger 2005-06 13 John Moffatt 2001-02 44 Michael Watson 2005-06 14 Brett Hunter 2001-02 45 Jade Dernbach 2005-06 15 Scott Obey 2001-02 46 Paul Greentree 2005-06 16 David Mitchell 2001-02 47 Chris Whelan 2005-06 17 Matt Cassar 2002-03 48 Arun Harinath 2005-06 18 Joseph Hill 2002-03 49 Shawn Flegler 2006-07 19 Simon Katich 2002-03 50 Nathan Hauritz 2006-07 20 Robert Smith 2002-03 51 Jordan Magro 2006-07 21 Darren Wotherspoon 2002-03 52 Adam Semple 2006-07 22 Chris Benjamin 2002-03 53 Tim Laws 2006-07 23 Richard Phillips 2002-03 54 Glen Whichello 2006-07 24 Jeff Hemming 2002-03 55 Lance Kahler 2006-07 25 Peter Bayley 2002-03 56 Peter Alevizos 2006-07 26 Matthew Banes 2002-03 57 Burt Cockley 2007-08 27 Glenn Farquharson 2003-04 58 Brett Jackson 2007-08 28 Tim Lloyd 2003-04 59 John McLoughlin 2007-08 29 Nathan Rosser 2002-03 60 Ashley Doolan 2007-08 30 Jonathan Lewis 2003-04 61 Shane Pargeter 2007-08 31 Rodney Stafford 2003-04

RANDWICK PETERSHAM: REPRESENTATIVE PLAYERS AUSTRALIA 2003-08 Simon KatichAustralia U19 2004-06 Usman Khawaja

AUSTRALIA - 1 Day 2003-07 Simon KatichNSW U19 2004-06 Usman Khawaja 2007-08 Peter Alevizos NSW 2002-08 Simon Katich 2006-08 Nathan Hauritz NSW U17 2005-06 Peter Alevizos 2007-08 Usman Khawaja 2007-08 Burt Cockley Comb. Green Shield 2002-03 Usman Khawaja Comb. Green Shield 2003-04 William Passas NSW - Captain 2002-08 Simon Katich 2004-05 Sean Gardner 2004-05 Peter Alevizos Australia "A" 2002-03 Simon Katich 2004-05 Mark Carroll 2005-06 Robert Close Aust "A" - Captain 2002-03 Simon Katich 2006-07 Nick Charlwood

NSW 2ND XI 2001-02 Adam Warren NSW Schoolboys 2003-04 Usman Khawaja 2005-08 Usman Khawaja 2004-05 Sean Gardner 2006-08 Nathan Hauritz 2007-08 Burt Cockley

Page: 116 CLUB RECORDS OF FOUNDING CLUBS RANDWICK PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE

FIRST GRADE FIRST GRADE Highest Score Alan Turner 230no 1979-80 Highest Score Con Karantz 228no 1999-00 Most Runs Jack Chegwyn 939 1941-42 Most Runs Graeme Hughes 784 1983-84 Best Batting Average Rodney Davison 86.83 1984-85 Best Batting Average Graeme Hughes 84.80 1991-92 Most Wickets Scott Obey 65 1998-99 Most Wickets Dave Chardon 69 1983-84 Best Bowling Average Trevor Bennetts 9.14 1980-81 Best Bowling Average William Moffatt 11.00 1973-74 Most Dismissals Alan Campbell 58 1981-82 Most Dismissals Ray Phillips 39 1976-77 SECOND GRADE SECOND GRADE Highest Score Jim Noonan 244 1906-07 Highest Score Brian Riley 182no 1977-78 Most Runs Les Turner 943 1916-17 Most Runs David Baxter 741 1971-72 Best Batting Average Greg Doyle 129.00 1986-87 Best Batting Average Barry Holland 60.50 1969-70 Most Wickets Eric Voges 93 1943-44 Most Wickets Robert McLean 75 1966-67 Best Bowling Average Barry Corry 3.84 1954-55 Best Bowling Average Clem Baldwin 10.70 1955-56 Most Dismissals Barry Wood 33 1965-66 Most Dismissals John Millington 40 1974-75 THIRD GRADE THIRD GRADE Highest Score Gary Landow 220no 1934-35 Highest Score John Sherring 161 1951-52 Most Runs Alan Ward 634 1930-31 Most Runs Robert Pearce 677 1956-57 Best Batting Average Paul Toole 296.00 1992-93 Best Batting Average Colin Munford 65.85 1972-73 Most Wickets Eric Smith 81 1923-24 Most Wickets Barry Holland 70 1971-72 Best Bowling Average Les O'Brien 3.55 1932-33 Best Bowling Average Darren McCoy 7.50 1998-99 Most Dismissals Geoff Field 35 1976-77 Most Dismissals Shane Penson 39 1995-96 Most Dismissals Paul Foster 35 1987-88 FOURTH GRADE FOURTH GRADE Highest Score Les Wilson 199 1984-85 Highest Score Tim Levinson 159 1998-99 Most Runs Ray Dever 554 1959-60 Most Runs Graham Brown 586 1969-70 Best Batting Average Greg Doyle 202.00 1993-94 Best Batting Average Ross Hardy 69.00 1987-88 Most Wickets Peter Brennan 60 1968-69 Most Wickets Nick Sterrey 53 1973-74 Best Bowling Average John McCauley 6.04 1956-57 Best Bowling Average Shaun Murphy 4.80 1986-87 Most Dismissals Michael Meadows 40 1996-97 Most Dismissals Barry McDonald 30 1954-55 FIFTH GRADE FIFTH GRADE Highest Score Alex Williams 192 1991-92 Highest Score Tony Wright 171no 1995-96 Most Runs Geoff Hodgkinson 605 1994-95 Most Runs Todd Shipp 462 1995-96 Best Batting Average Paul Homann 159.00 1983-84 Best Batting Average Michael Harrison 44.70 1986-87 Most Wickets James Le Huray 66 1994-95 Most Wickets Steven Green 28 1995-96 Best Bowling Average James Le Huray 8.58 1994-95 Best Bowling Average David Kelly 10.90 1988-89 Most Dismissals David Mitchell 24 1997-98 Most Dismissals Alan Biddle 27 1992-93 Most Dismissals Rowan Brewster 27 1994-95 POIDEVIN GRAY POIDEVIN GRAY Highest Score Craig Wiseman 179 1993-94 Highest Score 163 1998-99 Most Runs Craig Wiseman 512 1993-94 Most Runs Jamie Bray 494 1993-94 Best Batting Average Malcolm Brown 139.00 1979-80 Best Batting Average Bob Simpson 236.00 1952-53 Most Wickets Keith Lee 38 1930-31 Most Wickets Colin Hollingsworth 29 1961-62 Best Bowling Average Darren Quint 6.28 1991-92 Best Bowling Average 6.20 1952-53 Most Dismissals Richard Bennison 19 1988-89 Most Dismissals Martin Bedkober 23 1970-71 AW GREEN SHIELD AW GREEN SHIELD Highest Score John Letson 130no 1960-61 Highest Score David Carson 183 1991-92 Highest Score Mark Sundin 130 1985-86 Most Runs Martin Bedkober 645 1968-69 Most Runs Michael Watson 358 1991-92 Best Batting Average Bob Simpson 156.70 1951-52 Best Batting Average Robert Duff 73.25 1964-65 Most Wickets Russell Waugh 37 1957-58 Most Wickets Alan Heatley 37 1956-57 Best Bowling Average Jim Kazaglis 6.30 1995-96 Best Bowling Average Peter Barnes 6.60 1963-64 Most Dismissals Martin Bedkober 23 1968-69 Most Dismissals Keith Edwards 20 1960-61

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RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE P Clifford 615 A Turner 51.00 1981-82 P Taylor 444 G Hartshorne 27.70 P Clifford 766 D Knox 41.83 1982-83 B Riley 533 B D'Jura 61.40 G Mathew 594 P Clifford 72.62 1983-84 G Hughes 784 G Hughes 49.00 G Bensley 706 G Bensley 50.43 1984-85 G Hughes 636 B D'Jura 63.80 G Bensley 420 D Knox 54.86 1985-86 M Kelaher 404 N Anderson 40.40 R Banwell 392 P Devlin 41.50 1986-87 P Taylor 554 B D'Jura 45.50 G Doyle 500 A Millican 46.00 1987-88 B Patman 504 M Atkinson 30.50 P Devlin 349 R CheeQuee 30.70 1988-89 M Atkinson 410 M Atkinson 25.60 R CheeQuee 730 R CheeQuee 45.63 1989-90 G Hartshorne 608 G Hartshorne 55.90 A Millican 519 I Austin 33.21 1990-91 M Atkinson 562 G Hughes 40.00 R CheeQuee 549 R CheeQuee 39.21 1991-92 G Hughes 424 G Hughes 84.80 R Davison 703 R Davison 58.58 1992-93 J Bray 476 G Hughes 73.20 M Haywood 798 R Davison 81.56 1993-94 J Bray 619 G Cunningham 61.20 R Davison 521 R Davison 86.83 1994-95 G Cunningham 783 G Cunningham 46.10 R CheeQuee 526 R CheeQuee 65.70 1995-96 G Cunningham 500 P Stepto 34.20 R CheeQuee 663 R CheeQuee 47.30 1996-97 S Moran 433 T Crosland 34.30 R CheeQuee 621 A Millican 39.23 1997-98 G Cunningham 597 D Arnold 41.70 R CheeQuee 757 R CheeQuee 36.05 1998-99 D Fulton 541 D Fulton 31.80 P Toole 563 A Millican 35.77 1999-00 D Fulton 661 C Karantz 44.00 R CheeQuee 601 O Hodges 36.20 2000-01 G Doig 463 D Smith 30.30 BOWLING

RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE E Gordon 51 E Gordon 9.82 1981-82 D Chardon 34 J Sullivan 18.40 T Jay 46 T Jay 13.13 1982-83 W Mulherin 64 D Chardon 16.40 G Bensley 53 G Bensley 12.39 1983-84 D Chardon 69 D Chardon 16.00 T Jay 47 T Jay 16.79 1984-85 D Chardon 33 D Chardon 24.80 T Jay 39 T Jay 16.95 1985-86 M Appleton 22 M Appleton 20.60 T Jay 39 M Whitney 18.76 1986-87 D Chardon 23 M Appleton 21.90 T Jay 27 M Whitney 17.35 1987-88 D Chardon 44 D Chardon/B Patman 19.10 N Javed 38 P Devlin 16.92 1988-89 A Meakin 28 A Meakin 19.80 T Jay 36 M Whitney 16.11 1989-90 W Mulherin 33 J Bain 21.60 T Jay 39 I Austin 16.97 1990-91 W Mulherin 43 W Mulherin 20.80 D Somerville 31 M Whitney 21.00 1991-92 W Mulherin 48 W Mulherin 17.60 P March 36 G Bensley 17.80 1992-93 G McFadden 27 M Cassar 18.30 G Parmenter 29 P Fitzgerald 19.26 1993-94 W Mulherin 38 M Cassar 20.90 A Stuart 39 A Stuart 17.67 1994-95 W Mulherin 42 D Capel 17.80 G Parmenter 34 A Stuart 17.00 1995-96 A Graham 39 R Aitken 19.40 A Downton 43 A Downton 16.07 1996-97 D Wright 48 D Wright 15.60 G Parmenter 43 J Lehuray 19.44 1997-98 M Burton 28 M Burton 25.70 S Obey 65 S Obey 11.11 1998-99 G Farquharson 41 G Farquharson 18.10 J Lehuray 43 J Lehuray 17.95 1999-00 M Cassar 37 M Cassar 20.50 A Warren 34 J Lehuray 18.67 2000-01 R Smith 33 G Doig 18.60

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RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE S Devlin 333 D Knox 30.57 1981-82 B Sharp 402 B Riley 39.57 A Wright 336 D Knox 35.33 1982-83 S Sullivan 481 S Sullivan 34.30 S Devlin 439 S Hunt 37.11 1983-84 C Sullivan 421 C Sullivan 30.00 R Banwell 497 G Arms 54.66 1984-85 S Irwin 429 C Sullivan 39.30 A Millican 440 A Millican 48.89 1985-86 S Sullivan 515 C Horner 45.00 M CheeQuee 408 G Doyle 129.00 1986-87 H Templeman 497 D Skuthorpe 39.30 M CheeQuee 423 N Herps 63.00 1987-88 D Buchanan 412 B Pozuelo 36.80 M CheeQuee 489 M CheeQuee 48.90 1988-89 S Irwin 489 S Irwin 34.90 G Whitaker 305 D Barclay 37.43 1989-90 D Skuthorpe 374 D Gainsford 38.50 T Greenberg 378 R Banwell 52.25 1990-91 D Skuthorpe 489 J Affleck 56.50 G Davison 565 G Davison 80.71 1991-92 P Clarke 406 P Clarke 40.60 G Davison 510 T Greenberg 54.22 1992-93 P McGee 403 C Eckersley 30.30 R Banwell 571 D Barclay 80.14 1993-94 C Eckersley 459 G Cunningham 49.00 A Harris 576 J Quint 69.40 1994-95 D Townsend 388 P Clarke 45.80 C Mongan 350 D Quint 105.60 1995-96 D Kelly 408 J Aitken 53.20 K Geyer 335 S Zantides 52.83 1996-97 I Moran 463 I Moran 36.10 C Chapman 478 O Hodges 35.60 1997-98 P Staunton 381 J Kelly 35.20 S Zantides 330 S Carpenter 53.50 1998-99 D Smith 494 K Lawrence 44.20 S Zantides 335 D Barclay 75.67 1999-00 J Moffatt 341 J Moffatt 42.70 M Parker 585 D Mitchell 64.33 2000-01 T Crosland 311 T Crosland 44.40 BOWLING

RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE G Anderson 21 D Ledwidge 17 1981-82 B Timbrell 37 B Timbrell 14.40 G Anderson 35 R Banwell 18.19 1982-83 P Rolls 27 P Bishell 14.60 M Preddey 31 C Pentecost 14.04 1983-84 P Rolls 35 M England 17.50 C Pentecost 34 C Pentecost 18.2 1984-85 J Gilligan 30 R Buchanan 17.20 W Heathcote 29 G Anderson 10.54 1985-86 B Timbrell 27 B Timbrell 19.10 A Ackerman 31 D Barclay 16.09 1986-87 K McKenna 36 K McKenna 20.20 D Hinds 18 D Hinds 17.11 1987-88 D Gibson 20 D Gibson 16.30 A Ackerman 23 P Fitzgerald 11.72 1988-89 G Duffield 19 C Horner 20.90 R Anderson 24 R Anderson 14.33 1989-90 D Gibson 25 D Gibson 16.60 D Hooper 37 P Homann 20.75 1990-91 M Whitby 38 W Pepper 12.40 D Carroll 24 D Carroll 16.92 1991-92 A Meakin 21 A Meakin 16.80 G Whitaker 28 M Sundin 20.00 1992-93 D White 31 G Mason 18.30 P Devlin 23 P Fitzgerald 17.26 1993-94 A Graham 17 A Graham 27.00 P Devlin 26 A Warren 16.35 1994-95 G McFadden 12 D Wright 19.30 L Murphy 28 L Murphy 22.96 1995-96 A Harrison 22 D Wright 20.90 S Obey 30 S Obey 18.2 1996-97 M Burton 31 R Aitken 15.80 M Barnes 33 M Barnes 13.6 1997-98 P Staunton 23 K Qayyam 24.90 M Barnes 26 A Moseley 17.77 1998-99 S Aamir 28 S Aamir 18.30 M Barnes 34 M Barnes 16.59 1999-00 D White 30 S Greenburg 17.10 G Blake 29 G Blake 20.62 2000-01 D White 18 D Bourke 15.10

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RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE R Duff 297 S Hughes 29.37 1981-82 M Bourke 367 P Rolls 26.00 R Davies 381 P Wright 64.33 1982-83 P Johnston 428 D Skuthorpe 25.80 R Duff 419 G Gordon 57.67 1983-84 I Maroya 315 K McKenna 25.80 N Zografakis 559 N Zografakis 55.90 1984-85 S Hookey 604 S Hookey 40.30 D Barclay 247 D Barclay 35.29 1985-86 P Hegarty 277 S Quaken 24.70 S Devlin 307 N Zografakis 49.75 1986-87 P Hegarty 360 P Hegarty 32.70 C Jones 463 C Jones 28.94 1987-88 I Blue 411 I Blue 41.10 D Paduch 290 D Paduch 48.33 1988-89 P Toner 285 K McKenna 25.00 A Wright 284 R Montedoro 35.40 1989-90 P Toner 510 P Toner 36.40 R Montedoro 352 J Ramsey 43.50 1990-91 J Nazar 284 C Story 33.30 G Doyle 438 B Young 66.50 1991-92 C Eckersley 302 D Bradstock 29.40 S Cohen 374 P Toole 296.00 1992-93 D Chardon 314 D Chardon 31.40 R Montedoro 331 M Sundin 44.20 1993-94 D Chardon 194 D Cremin 30.00 I Barter 296 D Barclay 97.50 1994-95 C Manning 274 C Manning 27.40 C Mongan 411 C Mongan 82.20 1995-96 M Burton 296 M Burton 32.90 P O'Connell 359 D Barclay 88.00 1996-97 R Brewster 267 R Brewster 26.70 M Parker 433 A Moseley 36.30 1997-98 D Smith 294 D Najdek 51.20 J McLoughlin 342 G Hodgkinson 52.01 1998-99 N Ludgate 190 G Burt 23.30 S Geyer 345 E Irwin 61.33 1999-00 S Marsh 171 G Burt/ R Brewster 20.30 J Holt 172 A Moseley 46.33 2000-01 M Anderson 219 M Anderson 27.40 BOWLING

RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE P Ledwidge 23 C Pentecost 17.00 1981-82 J Soames 32 S Sullivan 8.80 G Parker 24 G Parker 18.19 1982-83 W Brown 39 W Brown 15.80 P Ingle 30 C Pentecost 14.04 1983-84 J Gilligan 17 J Gilligan 22.70 W Heathcote 67 C York 18.20 1984-85 G Wilkin 34 G Wilkin 16.30 A Ackerman 40 W Martin 10.54 1985-86 D Bransdon 26 K McKenna 13.40 G Whitaker 20 D Creagh 16.09 1986-87 D Gibson 24 S Murphy 22.90 D Carroll 43 I Brown 17.11 1987-88 G Duffield 29 D Gibson 15.10 D Hinds 29 D Hinds 11.72 1988-89 I Fowler 19 D Gainsford 15.40 I Brown 33 I Brown 14.33 1989-90 G Duffield 23 W Pepper 17.50 P Fitzgerald 57 P Fitzgerald 20.75 1990-91 D Gainsford 15 R Buchanan 12.10 P Fitzgerald 48 P Fitzgerald 16.92 1991-92 C Feltham 16 C Feltham 21.20 P Fitzgerald 42 P Fitzgerald 20.00 1992-93 D Chardon 22 P Rolls 18.20 A Downton 22 D Lawrence 17.26 1993-94 D Rojo 15 D Rojo 16.10 B Barber 29 B Barber 16.35 1994-95 D Rojo 23 D Buckmaster 12.00 D Hinds 39 S Obey 22.96 1995-96 W Mulherin 40 D White 15.30 R Banwell 31 M Sundin 18.20 1996-97 W Mulherin 38 A Clements 12.80 A Hildred 36 A Hildred 13.60 1997-98 D McCoy 29 D McCoy 13.40 D Hinds 31 D Hinds 17.77 1998-99 R Harris 21 D McCoy 7.50 A Hildred 19 M Sundin 16.59 1999-00 B Croker 24 D McCoy 14.70 A Bailey 17 A Bailey 20.62 2000-01 P Bayley 17 E Otto 20.50

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RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE G Gordon 389 G Gordon 48.63 1981-82 C Sullivan 399 C Sullivan 28.50 D Kenny 345 R Banwell 168.00 1982-83 R Oberman 375 C Storey 20.90 B Jones 286 B Jones 35.75 1983-84 G Wilkin 378 G Wilkin 27.00 G Inger 275 L Wilson 44.00 1984-85 D Thomas 387 D Thomas 25.80 A Birimac 260 S Devlin 43.00 1985-86 P Bain 349 P Bain 34.90 C Jones 329 C Jones 47.00 1986-87 S Dawle 259 N Sterry 43.00 R Montedoro 297 R Regan 88.00 1987-88 D Heather 425 R Hardy 69.00 R Charlton 346 R Charlton 49.43 1988-89 D Wood 143 C Storey 34.80 M Sundin 304 T Greenberg 53.66 1989-90 D Meakin 216 D Meakin 43.20 C Jones 395 B Young 80.00 1990-91 D Sue 458 M Cassar 51.60 P Platus 459 P Platus 51.00 1991-92 R Hanzek 189 J Sutton 22.00 A Williams 527 M Whitmee 61.83 1992-93 D Wright 366 R Hanzek 32.10 G McElroy 382 G Doyle 202.00 1993-94 C Story 313 C Storey 28.50 S Cohen 364 S Cohen 91.00 1994-95 A Wright 241 B Harris 29.90 M Parker 453 P Richardson 56.70 1995-96 T Brewster 301 T Brewster 37.60 M Parker 463 C Chapman 63.60 1996-97 S Penrose 282 B Harris 29.40 S Howes 527 S Howes 35.13 1997-98 S McCabe 182 D Mathie 22.00 R Banwell 287 R Stafford 38.17 1998-99 R Bushell/ D Buckley 205 R Bushell 22.80 S Howes 187 T Reilly 42.25 1999-00 D Skuthorpe 173 N Ludgate 22.30 S Clarke 220 N Ross 52.50 2000-01 D Townsend 438 P Greentree 33.50 BOWLING

RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE G Eastick 25 E Fletcher 10.92 1981-82 W Brown 41 W Brown 10.20 A Ackerman 34 J Lupton 8.38 1982-83 P Hilder 28 J Gilligan 25.00 W Heathcote 29 W Heathcote 11.62 1983-84 G Wilkin 22 T Panecasio 14.70 J Lupton 24 P Gale 14.00 1984-85 B Pat 35 M Mathews 19.90 S Pal 24 P Gale 14.06 1985-86 B Thompson 17 B Thompson 13.10 J Lupton 12 S Pal 19.54 1986-87 T McMahon 26 S Murphy 1.80 D Hooper 40 I Brown 12.56 1987-88 C Jackson 18 D McCoy 12.50 W Heathcote 29 R Yamine 13.65 1988-89 G McFadden 14 D Gainsford 13.40 R Withers 25 R Withers 13.04 1989-90 K McKenna 26 G McFadden 28.30 D Hinds 45 D Hinds 14.89 1990-91 K McKenna 23 K McKenna 13.50 M Dart 31 D Hinds 13.21 1991-92 D Harrison 22 D Harrison 11.90 D Hinds 21 D Hinds 17.81 1992-93 D Wright 15 R Hanzek 16.60 D Hinds 29 I Brown 14.73 1993-94 D Rojo/ B Lampier 15 D Rojo 22.50 P Richardson 21 S Obey 10.73 1994-95 B Lampier 17 M Chatto 20.90 R Montedoro 34 S Obey 13.50 1995-96 A Meakin 15 R Mear 21.40 D Hinds 44 A Hildred 9.70 1996-97 S Penrose 35 S Penrose 11.90 M Singh 24 M Singh 14.42 1997-98 P Buckley 24 T Payne 19.00 D Willis 26 A Myers 13.79 1998-99 B Croker 12 B Croker 15.80 G Rimmer 289 G Rimmer 12.82 1999-00 A Marsh 15 J Kalagzis 9.10 D Hinds 21 S Sampson 14.74 2000-01 A Marsh 24 A Harrison 6.40

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RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE PLAYER RUNS PLAYER AVE N Zografakis 344 D Downing 52.00 1981-82 no team no team B Jones 304 R Scott 44.00 1982-83 no team no team A Birimac 251 P Homann 159.00 1983-84 no team no team P Wright 602 P Smith 43.66 1984-85 no team no team P Homann 291 A Harris 63.50 1985-86 B Pat 289 B Pat 32.10 S Condon 405 P Foster 43.55 1986-87 M Harrison 268 M Harrison 44.70 A Russell 230 P Smith 30.67 1987-88 D Wood 250 D Wood 25.00 O Hodges 338 D Hodges 37.55 1988-89 B Pearce 115 D Redden 28.70 O Hodges 212 A Duffy 44.75 1989-90 J Bray 162 D Harrison 34.60 C York 585 C York 58.50 1990-91 C Eckersley 402 P Geftakis 44.30 A Williams 529 A Williams 75.57 1991-92 G Flint 260 D McClatchley 25.80 D Cashin 261 A Duffy 54.00 1992-93 C Halliday 215 C Halliday 43.00 M Parker 404 D Cashin 46.50 1993-94 J Crain 191 B Harris 31.00 G Hodgkinson 605 G Hodgkinson 75.63 1994-95 A Staunton 228 A Staunton 22.70 T Jay 341 M Parker 40.40 1995-96 T Shipp 462 T Wright 36.90 S Blacker 403 R Betteridge 85.00 1996-97 D Smith 249 D Marsh 29.70 P Lyons 327 A Bridge 24.42 1997-98 P McKenna 449 P McKenna 26.40 T Griffiths 262 T Griffiths 23.82 1998-99 A Sciascia 228 M Robinson 32.60 J Boyle 395 J Boyle 49.38 1999-00 P McKenna 107 P McKenna 26.30 F Heaton 238 S Clarke 69.00 2000-01 M Masters 322 M Masters 32.20 BOWLING

RANDWICK SEASON PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE PLAYER WICKETS PLAYER AVE G Thompson / R Ingle 18 G Owen 16.00 1981-82 no team no team G Owen 23 P Homann 9.07 1982-83 no team no team G Koufis 33 P Gale 15.35 1983-84 no team no team S Pal 35 G Koufis 11.04 1984-85 no team no team D Simpson 34 S McInnes 11.88 1985-86 R Roberts 21 D McClatchley 13.10 C York 27 D Carroll 10.90 1986-87 J Stone 16 R Hardy 17.70 G Owen / M Griffith 26 G Owen 9.92 1987-88 J Stone 18 D Parker 16.00 R Withers 29 M Griffith 11.86 1988-89 N Sterry 14 D Kelly 10.90 J LeHuray 15 J LeHuray 16.67 1989-90 D Harrison 18 A Chinnery 10.90 A Ramsay 29 A Ramsay 11.00 1990-91 J Helm 24 G Stafford 14.20 A Warren 33 P Barnes 8.93 1991-92 S Stone 15 T Dein 22.20 D Willis 20 W Tilley 11.60 1992-93 A Harrison 26 S Penrose 12.10 D Hooper 22 L Morris 15.89. 1993-94 C Staunton 20 C Staunton 19.40 J LeHuray 66 J LeHuray 8.58 1994-95 S Green 19 P Buckley 17.30 T Jay 38 T Jay 10.00 1995-96 S Green 28 S Green 13.90 K Staples 25 T Jay 8.47 1996-97 A Marsh 17 S McCabe 18.00 R Stafford 41 R Stafford 14.51 1997-98 G Joyce 20 G Joyce 19.30 G Rimmer 37 S Bright 10.40 1998-99 M Milosavljevic 25 S Marsh 12.50 M Devlin 20 N Singh 11.27 1999-00 C Staunton 16 G Greenburg 17.10 C Kruit 28 C Kruit 10.21 2000-01 C Johnston 13 B Murphy 11.50

Page: 122 REPRESENTATIVE RECORDS OF FOUNDING CLUBS TEST CRICKET - RANDWICK Test Test Years Years Name Cap Tests Name Cap Tests Played Played No. No. Geoff Davies 12th Man 1 1968-69 John Dyson 289 30 1977-85 John Benaud 261 3 1972-73 Michael Whitney 313 12 1981-94 Alan Turner 273 14 1975-77 TEST CRICKET - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE Test Test Years Years Name Cap Tests Name Cap Tests Played Played No. No. Sidney Emery 102 4 1911-12 P Ernie Toshack 170 12 1945-48 M Johnny Taylor 112 20 1920-26 P Ron Saggers 182 6 1948-50 M Tommy Andrews 115 16 1921-26 P 183 7 1949-52 M Bill Brown 150 22 1934-48 M Pat Crawford 202 4 1955-56 163 13 1938-46 P Johnny Martin 216 8 1960-67 Note: Petersham Marrickville since 1951/52. P = Petersham, M = Marrickville ONE DAY INTERNATIONALS - RANDWICK ODI ODI Years Years Name Cap ODI's Name Cap ODI's Played Played No. No. Alan Turner 30 6 1975-76 Michael Whitney 77 38 1982-93 John Dyson 60 29 1980-83 Anthony Stuart 131 3 1996-97 NSW LIMITED OVERS - RANDWICK Name Debut Year Name Debut Year John Dyson 1979-80 Martin Haywood 1993-94 Gary Bensley 1981-82 Richard CheeQuee 1993-94 Evan Gordon 1981-82 Rodney Davison 1993-94 Michael Whitney 1981-82 Anthony Stuart 1995-96 Peter Clifford 1983-84 NSW 1ST CLASS CRICKET - RANDWICK NSW NSW First Played First Played Name Cap Name Cap at Club at Club No. No. Claude Achurch 315 1921-22 Geoff Davies 532 1964-65 Norbert Phillips 324 1922-23 Alan Turner 548 1968-69 289 1923-24 John Benaud 537 1969-70 Ray McNamee 349 1926-28 Ron Crippin 556 1970-71 Jack Carter 366 1928-29 John Dyson 573 1977-78 Alex Marks 374 1928-29 Michael Whitney 595 1980-81 Greg Ryan 408 1934-35 Evan Gordon 600 1981-82 Max Ward 420 1936-37 Gary Bensley 606 1983-84 Bede McCauley 425 1937-38 Peter Clifford 610 1983-84 Bill Beath 460 1946-47 Richard CheeQuee 646 1992-93 George Powell 450 1946-47 Rodney Davison 647 1993-94 Len Livingston 449 1946-47 Martin Haywood 641 1993-94 Bill Donaldson 452 1948-49 Anthony Stuart 657 1994-95 Ernie Toshack 455 1949-50

Page: 123 REPRESENTATIVE RECORDS OF FOUNDING CLUBS NSW 1ST CLASS CRICKET - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE NSW NSW First Played First Played Name Cap Name Cap at Club at Club No. No. John Scott 236 1908-09 P James Murphy 430 1938-39 M Sidney Emery 237 1908-09 P Francis Gilmore 433 1938-39 M Andrew Farnsworth 239 1908-09 P Cyril Solomon 390 1938-39 M George Harvey 242 1909-10 P Ron Saggers 438 1939-40 M Tommy Andrews 271 1912-13 P Arthur Roper 435 1939-40 P Cecil McKew 260 1912-13 P Ken Grieves 458 1945-46 P Johnny Taylor 280 1914-15 P Ernie Toshack 455 1945-46 M Edward Adams 300 1919-20 P Jack Moroney 453 1946-47 M Charles Everett 317 1921-22 P Fred Johnston 465 1948-49 M Albert Scanes 318 1921-22 P Robert Madden 478 1949-50 P Bernard Russell 313 1921-22 M Robert Simpson 488 1952-53 Robert Osborne 331 1924-25 M Clive Johnston 475 1952-53 Ernest Tweeddale 340 1925-26 M Pat Crawford 495 1954-55 Leslie Campbell 342 1925-26 P Johnny Martin 501 1956-57 Dudley Seddon 350 1926-27 P Bruce Livingston 500 1956-57 Harry Steele 351 1926-27 M Russell Waugh 518 1960-61 Gordon Amos 346 1926-27 M Peter Anderson 534 1966-67 Norman Morris 370 1928-29 P Colin Blackman 538 1966-67 Bill Brown 393 1932-33 M David Chardon 574 1975-76 Frank Easton 400 1933-34 P Graeme Hughes 575 1975-76 Sid Barnes 422 1936-37 P Peter Maloney 581 1976-77 Leslie O'Brien 423 1937-38 M Wayne Mulherin 609 1983-84 Cec Pepper 431 1938-39 P Note: Petersham Marrickville since 1951/52. P = Petersham, M = Marrickville NSW COLTS - RANDWICK Name Debut Year Name Debut Year B Smith 1928-29 Peter Clifford 1979-80 Jack Carter 1928-29 Gary Bensley 1979-80 Bede McCauley 1934-35 Evan Gordon 1981-82 John Bolster 1964-65 Richard CheeQuee 1991-92 Geoff Davies 1965-66 Darren Quint 1991-92 Ron Crippin 1969-70 Andrew Downton 1997-98 Trevor Jay 1972-73 NSW COLTS - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Albert Scanes 1920-21 P Colin Hollingsworth 1963-64 Edward Adams 1920-21 P David Martin 1964-65 Allen Thatcher 1920-21 P David Martin 1964-65 J Yeates 1934-35 P David Chardon 1971-72 Leslie O'Brien 1934-35 M Bill Anderson 1972-73 Ron Saggers 1937-38 M Brian Riley 1973-74 Arthur Roper 1938-39 P Graeme Hughes 1974-75 Robert Madden 1948-49 P Ray Rhillips 1976-77 Ronald Briggs 1948-49 M Greg Hartshorne 1976-77 Noel Hughes 1951-52 Mark Atkinson 1987-88 Johnny Martin 1953-54 Jeremy Bray 1992-93 Richard Tovey 1953-54 Matthew Whitby 1992-93 Pat Crawford 1954-55 Jeremy Bray 1993-94 Russell Waugh 1960-61 Matthew Cassar 1993-94 Arthur Elvy 1962-63 Corey Pearson 1993-94 Graham Cunningham 1994-95

Page: 124 REPRESENTATIVE RECORDS OF FOUNDING CLUBS NSW 2ND X1 - RANDWICK Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Alex Marks 1929-30 Gary Bensley 1984-85 Bede McCauley 1933-34 Richard CheeQuee 1991-92 Greg Ryan 1937-38 Rodney Davison 1992-93 Charles McLaughlin 1939-40 Martin Hayward 1993-94 Len Livingston 1947-48 Anthony Stuart 1994-95 Bill Beath 1948-49 Grant Parmenter 1994-95 George Powell 1954-55 Andrew Downton 1998-99 Alan Campbell 1983-84 NSW 2ND X1 - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Allen Thatcher 1923-24 M Jack Moroney 1946-47 M Bernard Russell 1923-24 M Clive Johnston 1947-48 P Robert Osborne 1924-25 M W Yeates 1947-48 P Dudley Seddon 1925-26 P Ronald Briggs 1948-49 M Gordon Amos 1926-27 M Clive Johnston 1956-57 Harry Steele 1927-28 M Bruce Livingston 1956-57 A J Cleary 1928-29 M Greg Hartshorne 1976-77 J C Armstrong 1935-36 M Brett Patman 1987-88 Ron Saggers 1938-39 M Mark Atkinson 1989-90 Charles Price 1938-39 M NSW UNDER 19 - RANDWICK Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Andrew Ledger 1980-81 Richard CheeQuee 1989-90 David Knox 1980-81 Heath Muller 1992-93 Craig Pentecost 1988-89 Andrew Downton 1994-95 Andrew Millican 1985-86 NSW UNDER 19 - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Bronco D'Jura 1981-82 Matthew Whitby 1991-92 John Rose 1981-82 Jeremy Bray 1991-92 Michael Herbert 1981-82 Jeremy Bray 1992-93 Mark England 1982-83 Graham Cunningham 1993-94 Mark Atkinson 1987-88 Craig Eckersley 1994-95 Corey Pearson 1990-91 Daniel Smith 1999-00 AUST UNDER 19 - RANDWICK Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Andrew Ledger 1980-81 David Knox 1980-81 AUST UNDER 19 - PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE Name Debut Year Name Debut Year Bronco D'Jura 1981-82 Jeremy Bray 1991-92 Mark England 1982-83 Jeremy Bray 1992-93

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PETERSHAM 1899 – 1951 MARRICKVILLE 1921 – 19511 1st Grade 1917-18 1st Grade 1943-44 2nd Grade 1905/06; 1924/25; 1926/27; 1932/33 2nd Grade 1922-23 3rd Grade 1917/18; 1925/26; 1944/45 3rd Grade 1923/24; 1931/32 4th Grade Nil 4th Grade 1936/37 Club Champion 1924/25 Club Champion 1922/23

PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE 1951 – 2001 1st Grade 1954/55; 1955/56; 1961/62; 1974/75 2nd Grade Nil 3rd Grade 1951/52; 1963/64; 1968/69; 1976/77; 1981/82 4th Grade 1951/52; 1979/80; 1981/82 5th Grade 1951/52; 1968/69 Club Champion 1951/52; 1968/69

RANDWICK 1900 – 2001 1st Grade 1930/31; 1937/38; 1951/52; 1977/78; 1979/80; 1981/82; 1983/84 2nd Grade 1930/31; 1933/34; 1942/43; 1978/79 3rd Grade 1913/14; 1930/31; 1932/33; 1933/34; 1935/36; 1936/37; 1942/43; 1943/44; 1979/80; 1984/85; 1990/91; 1992/93; 1995/96 4th Grade 1955/56; 1957/58; 1977/78; 1978/79; 1992/93; 1995/96; 1997/98 5th Grade 1984/85; 1985/86; 1990/91; 1997/98 Club Champion 1930/31; 1932/33; 1933/34; 1935/36; 1944/45; 1977/78; 1991/92; 1992/93

DECEASED LIFE MEMBERS

The deceased Life Members of the founding clubs are recorded here as a tribute to their contribution to Randwick Petersham, through their involvement with the Randwick and Petersham Marrickville clubs.

Their memory will always remain.

DECEASED RANDWICK LIFE MEMBERS (The year represents when Life Membership was awarded) 1905 - Isaac Earnshaw 1946 - Frank Merchant 1967 - Bill Beath 1912 - Percival Beveridge 1947 - Alex Marks 1967 - Frederick Snell 1912 - Sydney Brown 1952 - Walter Byrne 1970 - William Ellison 1924 - Henry Parker 1952 - Jack Chegwyn MBE 1973 - Walter Dowd 1931 - Oswald Taylor 1961 - David Sherwood

DECEASED PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE LIFE MEMBERS (The year represents when Life Membership was awarded) 1916 - E A Tyler 1935 - W Henson 1951 - Ernest Russell 1917 - Sydney Smith 1936 - F Banfield 1959 - Sidney Bain 1921 - U Mallett 1936 - E O Tyler 1959 - John Ross 1924 –Thomas Andrews 1940 - Dudley Seddon 1965 - Clive Johnston 1925 - Horace Russell 1948 - Cyril Graham 1966 - Russell Toogood 1931 - Sidney Emery 1949 - Arthur Gee 1972 - John Martin 1931 - D Veron 1949 - Algy Wright 1991 - Stuart Gardner 1935 - R Crane 1951 - Bert Bicknell

DECEASED RANDWICK PETERSHAM LIFE MEMBERS (The year represents when Life Membership was awarded) 1950 - Stroy Donnan (2002) 1982 - Philip Tresidder (2003) 1965 - Alf Debnam (2004)

Page: 126 RANDWICK PETERSHAM OFFICIALS

PRESIDENT CHIEF EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT CEO 2001-08 Michael Whitney 2001-02 Laurie Heil 2001-02 Ray Stafford 2002-07 Ray Stafford 2002-03 Tony Parker 2007-08 Greg Hartshorne 2003-08 Tony Martin

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER ASST. FIN. CONTROLLER ASST. FIN. CONTROLLER 2001-03 Stephen Devlin 2001-02 Alan Wright 2003-04 Tony Parker 2003-08 Bernie Dagg 2002-03 Bernie Dagg 2004-08 David Holland

NSWCA DELEGATE SCA DELEGATE SCA DELEGATE 2001-08 Peter Wright 2001-08 Peter Wright 2001-02 Chris Sullivan 2003-07 Ray Stafford 2002-03 Greg Hartshorne 2007-08 Greg Hartshorne

COMMITTEE MEMBERS 2001-08 Chris Sullivan 2001-08 David Townsend 2001-08 Alan Wright 2001-06 Greg Hartshorne 2001-02 Dean White 2001-02 David Skuthorpe 2002-08 Wayne Mulherin 2006-08 Darren McCoy

CLUB COACH CLUB CAPTAIN FIRST GRADE CAPTAIN 2001-08 Peter Devlin 2001-06 Andrew Millican 2001-04 Paul Toole 2006-08 Brett Hunter 2004-05 Matthew Mott 2005-06 Joseph Hill 2006-07 Shawn Flegler 2007-08 Nathan Hauritz

PAST OFFICIALS OF FOUNDING CLUBS (PAST 50 SEASONS) RANDWICK

PRESIDENT SECRETARY SECRETARY 1951-58 Walter Byrne 1947-58 Stroy Donnan 1995-96 Stanley Beal 1958-60 Arthur Brennan 1958-70 Frederick Snell 1996-97 Ruth Kelleher 1960-64 Stroy Donnan 1970-72 John Corcoran 1997-98 Stanley Beal 1964-78 Bill Beath 1972-74 John Letson 1998-01 Laurie Heil 1978-89 Alan Turner 1974-75 Frederick Snell 1989-91 Lyall Gardner 1975-89 Lyall Gardner TREASURER 1991-01 Philip Tresidder 1989-91 Michael Drew 1948-64 George Simpson 1991-92 Stephen Devlin 1964-91 John Hayward 1992-95 Michael Drew 1991-01 Stephen Devlin

PETERSHAM MARRICKVILLE

PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER 1951-59 Sidney Bain 1951-68 John Ross 1951-53 William Single 1959-68 Dudley Seddon 1968-70 John Crossley 1953-78 Alfred Debnam 1968-88 John Ross 1970-79 Brian Hughes 1978-86 Raymond Brown 1988-91 Clive Johnston 1979-80 Gregory Hancock 1986-88 John Pearson 1991-95 John Pearson 1980-86 Alan Nelson 1988-90 John King 1995-96 Neale Anderson 1986-98 Timothy Dein 1990-91 Steven McIntyre 1996-97 Alan Staunton 1998-01 John King 1991-93 Bruce Turpin 1997-98 John Greenberg 1993-97 John Kelly 1998-01 Wayne Mulherin 1997-98 John Brewster 1998-99 Gavin Burt 1999-01 Bernie Dagg

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Club Song for Randwick Petersham Cricket Club (Sung to the Tune of ‘ Glory Glory to South Sydney‘)

WHEN SPEAKIN’ OF THE CHAMPIONS US RANDY PETE’S ARE IT WE SING OUR SONG – OUR HISTORY’S LONG TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF IT

OUR HEARTS ARE TRUE WE PLAY F’ YOU WE’RE BOLD ‘N GREEN ‘N GOLD WE ARE THE RANDY PETE’S

WHEN SITTIN’ IN THIS DRESSIN’ ROOM WE’RE PLAYIN’ WITH THE BEST WE’RE RANDY PETE’S WE WON T’DAY OUR GUTS WAS PUT T’ TEST

WE FEEL NO PAIN PLAY CRICKET’S GAME WE’RE TOUGH GOT HEAPS O’ FIGHT WE ARE THE RANDY PETE’S

CRRRRR ICKET PITCH RED BALLS ‘N STICKS WE ALWAYS PLAY THE GAME WE LOVE THE UMPS WE BAT T’ STUMPS OUR CRICKET IS OUR FAME

THE MOB NEXT DOOR THEY KNOW THE SCORE HOW BLOODY GREAT WE ARE WE ARE THE RANDY PETE’S

Written by Bobby Barter August 2001 for Randwick Petersham Cricket inaugural season 2001 / 2002

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ALAN L. WRIGHT B.P. WOODWARD & ASSOCIATES & ASSOCIATES CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS Consulting Structural & Civil Engineers PARTNERS Brian P. Woodward F.C.A. 13 BEATTIE STREET, BALMAIN 2041 Anthony J. Woodward B. Bus., C.A. Mary-Ann Woodward B. Ec., C.A. P: (02) 9818 1100 Suite 501, 83 York Street, Sydney 2000. Postal Address: GPO Box 7089, Sydney NSW 2001 (02) 9818 1036 P: (02) 9299 3603 F: (02) 9290 3401 F: (02) 9810 1686 E: [email protected] PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH RANDWICK PETERSHAM CRICKET

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PROUD TO BE A SPONSOR The Club Championship and two more Premierships Flags add up to another fantastic season for our great club. But there is still more to achieve. We must all work together and in the same direction. We must not waver from the foundation stones of the club “Trust, Respect and Humility” and always remember “Willing is not enough, WE MUST DO”.

Bring on the summer !!!!

from a very proud President