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ELAIDE AD ffal the BuBu os allrounder Official Newsletter of the Adelaide Cricket Club Exciting Changes ahead... The lead-up to prepare our Club for In another fantastic move, the club yet another successful season has has now signed an agreement with been probably the busiest ever - as Adelaide High School to play U/14 every sector of our club has worked and U/16 games at the school. The extremely hard anticipating some 16’s will play on a turf wicket to be new and exciting times ahead... laid over the next 2 seasons, & the 14’s on a hard wicket. The ovals are Our new committee has embraced adjoining each other to make good a refreshing new approach with the viewing and socialising for parents addition of several young players and players. This now means the to the ranks in Damien Kelly, Sam A’s and B’s are the only teams not Williams and Scott Buchanan. Our playing in the Adelaide Parklands, Damien Kitto new website will be operational by the once home of our Club. It’s also the first game which will allow you interesting to note in the program Adelaide Cricket to pay your subscriptions on-line, for this season that Glandore is Club President the A grade squad will wear a club now referred to as ‘Buffalo Park’... uniform to and from games, a new selection of clothing is available for On a final note, Cricket Australia - all members and a number of fresh and also SACA - are going to great fundraising activities are planned. lengths to stamp out inappropriate behaviour on the cricket field, and A ‘changing of the guard’ has also commencing this season’, a ‘Spirit taken place on the Coaching front - of Cricket’ Award for all Grade with Brad Wigney now in control cricket will be introduced - from ‘A’ of the Seniors, and Greg Wyman in Grade right down to Under/14’s. A charge of the juniors. monthly Community Cricket Award will include all Grade and also all Inside: Ian Wallace - who achieved such community clubs. The final winner great things in player development will receive an award of $2,000! for our club last season - has been Introducing: appointed ‘Performance Manager’ As something different, each Team our new with the responsibility for ensuring Captain will also be asked - at the Club Coaches... that Coaching Programs are put in beginning of the first game - to place at the club to encourage all introduce their players to the day’s players to develop their skills and Umpires, and also be asked to say ‘A Life of Sport...’ play at the highest level possible. something to launch the season. a quick chat with This is an interesting concept and Ian Wallace Ian will continue to promote our one that will extend all the way club to adjoining community clubs from the top to the bottom in an Richmond-Clarence Park, Marion effort to improve the true spirit of SACA’s New and Brighton and to all the various cricket. Our club will be providing ‘Spirit of Cricket’ primary schools within our area. its full support for this initiative, Awards... asking all our players to adhere to This is a critical job for the future the spirit of our wonderful game... success of our club - to ensure that How to get we remain the TOP choice in the Good luck for season 2003/04! your Club Gear minds of people in our area when it NOW... (see Page 6) comes to playing Grade cricket! Damien Adelaide Cricket Club Newsletter, Edition 5: Number 1, 2003/2004 Page 1 Pictured above are a few well-known Club faces, obviously dressed up and ready to impress the selectors! From left to right are Tommy CLARK, Tim CAMERON, Sam WILLIAMS, Michael TALBOT, Warren SMITH, and Craig Past COOPER. Love those Ties, Fellas! Player FROM THE ARCHIVES For the present-day fashion-plates who News think losing a button is a cricket tragedy - check out the great RICK DREWER batting for South Australia in the mid 70’s... ‘Stumpy’ represented S. A. for fourteen State games as a talented left-handed batsman - playing alongside many of the game’s biggest names - in an era when cricketers used exposed chest hair & gold medallions to keep the sun at bay! Hopefully the poor bowler in the foreground (possibly Ray Bright from Victoria) realised just in time the extreme danger to his right hand fingers - as Stumpy gallops ever closer! ‘HALL OF FLAME’ Giant Quick MATTHEW TUCKER has married ELISE BUCKERIDGE in the For those of you without a 2003 Fire Westminster School Chapel (in June). Brigade Calendar here is something Can’t testify to his speed at the time a little special... It seems Past Player, but Tucks was reported by the Tiser Life Member and new Glenelg DCC to have ‘bowled his maiden over’ - by Coach BEN HOOK has had no trouble proposing on the Glenelg foreshore! adapting to the basic fundamentals Heartiest Congratulations to the ‘new’ of his new job in the SA Fire Brigade. Doctor (he finally finished his Thesis) Usually a shy and retiring type, Hooky and his bride, from all his team-mates... has taken on a starring role as “Mr. February” and is pictured cooking Popular ‘A’ Grade left-handed batsman up the Sunday Roast (well, baked DAMIEN KELLY has also ‘tied the beans, anyway). We can now also knot’ with CATHERINE MALONEY at announce that this could be the first Our Lady of Victories Church at in a series entitled ‘Life Members Glenelg (in May). In the expected getting their Gear Off’ to be possibly classy celebrations afterwards - with featured in some future Allrounders... many team-mates on their best behaviour - some hilarious ‘exposures’ by the groomsmen were a highlight! Our thoughts are with our own JOHN Our Best Wishes to the happy Couple. ‘J. R.’ RAMAGE - struggling with his health at the moment - who is doing a spell in Ashford at the time of writing. ANOTHER ‘DR.’ STORY All his many friends at Adelaide hope In 1882, Sammy Jones (Aust.) was batting on a very damp it won’t be long before we see ‘Dallas’ wicket at The Oval. While playing a delivery, he swiped a divot back eating cray at the cricket, and out of the pitch. The famous Dr. W.G. Grace, fielding close to the resuming his mantle as the ‘oracle’ of wicket, quietly asked him ’if he would like to replace the divot?’ all things cricket-wise at our Club... When he did so, the good doctor promptly RAN HIM OUT! Adelaide Cricket Club Newsletter, Edition 5: Number 1, 2003/2004 Page 2 A Life of Sport... Hands up anyone who recognises while the Best Batsman he ever played the two fresh young faces at left? against was the great South African, A Big Clue - BOTH played for the Barry Richards. Glenelg District Cricket Club! After taking up coaching, he coached The well-known face with the cute the Bays to a West End Cup Title (’91), twinkle in his eye (and no cap) is Turf Club Richmond/Clarence Park to indeed our very own IAN “Wally” the 1993/94 ‘A’ Grade premiership, and WALLACE, (nicknamed after great Brighton to the A1 Title in1999/2000. Aussie Wicket-keeper Wally Grout). In a 30 year Coaching career Wal has Wal has accepted the important also coached Hope Valley, Richmond, role of Club Performance Manager Woodville North, and Immanuel Old at Adelaide Cricket Club this year Scholars Cricket Clubs. after a stint last year as Assistant Club Coach and Development Other achievements in an extremely Officer. Now a ‘retiree’ (he was the busy sporting life include coaching the Human Resources Manager at Julia S.A.A.F.L. Umpires, and Chairing the Farr Services) he says he is busier than S.A.A.F.L. Umpires Appointment Board ever - with even more involvement in (for over ten years). Wal is still serving cricket coaching/ development pro- as a Tribunal Commissioner with the grams, particularly at the junior level. S. A. Amateur Football League, and is a Life Member of the S.A.F.U.A. Wal admits to being about 170 cms. & a cuddly 86 kg., & has a wife (who we Asked “Which 3 people would you assume likes cricket) and two married most like to meet?” Wal quickly named children. He enjoys a beer or red wine, Pat Rafter, Paul Roos and Ian Thorpe, prefers to dine on fish and steaks, and which says something about this quiet dislikes those batsmen ‘who give their achiever’s life ‘away’ from sport... wickets away too easily’. His hobbies, PLAYER (when he has time?) include golf, table SPONSORSHIP tennis and footy, and the sporting icon Here’s a great idea for this he most admires is Barrie Robran (”the season! Why not try to find Great No. 10”). Not surprisingly, he still a SPONSOR? follows North Adelaide, Sydney, South Any player of our club who Fremantle - “and any other red & white can help us to organise a sides going around...” $300 Sponsorship for any player (preferably himself) Wal started his Cricket career at the will automatically receive Glenelg District Cricket Club, playing a $150 Rebate off his Club for six seasons in the then Junior Colts Subscriptions for that year. before progressing to play seven years This offer is available to ALL as a talented Wicketkeeper at District our Grades NOW... just ring level. Highlights include captaining GRANT CULLEN, on Mobile Glenelg to a Gillette (now known as Number: 0417 823 415 the West End) Cup win in the 1969/70 If YOU know of a Company season, and finishing Runner-up in the or even just someone who SACA’s C.