ELAIDE AD ffal the BuBu os allrounder Official Newsletter of the Adelaide Cricket Club Ano ther Exciting Season... After an incredibly busy winter lead- (for the best results in all 4 senior up, the 2002/2003 season is here at grades) has not been won by our last and our club looks forward to it Club for over 10 years, but I really do with eager anticipation. Both the believe we can do it this year! seniors and juniors have experienced near record numbers at pre-season It is also a big year off the field. The training. This year they will be more Committee is looking to plant new than ably assisted by Ian Wallace pitches at Park 23, purchase a new and Greg Wyman, both of whom will roller and install safety netting at the provide some valuable extra skills practice wicket facilities. Also crucial coaching to our younger players. to lifting the profile of our Club is a significant upgrade of our website to Damien Kitto Ian has already been busy coaching make it a valuable marketing tool - Adelaide Cricket potential ‘Ray Sutton’ boys through something you’ll all want to use on a Club President the winter months and has been able regular basis to obtain important to attract a number of additional match statistics and updates about teams and schools to the primary what is happening at your club. school cricket competition that we now operate. This will not only help Social events this season will be put the Adelaide Cricket Club become a forward using the creative ideas and ‘hub’ for community cricket, but also organisational skills of those two increase the flow of talented young well-known ‘social’ animals - Jeremy cricketers to our Club. Well done, Ian! Appleton and Nathan Job. With your support, it should REALLY be an A big welcome to a number of new enjoyable season off the field as well! players joining our Club this season. In particular keep an eye out for Jack In the last ‘Allrounder’ I indicated the Inside: Smith - a fluent young batsman from Marion Council supported a major Canberra - who should dominate at development of our Glandore Adelaide’s the top of the order for the ‘A’s. Also, clubrooms. Unfortunately, they have ‘Newest’ only just announced, comes the great now done a complete backflip by significantly reducing their proposed Life Member! news that Craig White (a former club AND English Test player!) has agreed funding towards this project. Your to play for us this season. He is Committee will, however, continue to This Season’s looking to stay fit and fine-tune his negotiate with Council to upgrade Social Events skills prior to the up-coming World the building for the betterment of the Calendar Cup. community. We are still confident something will happen - it will just In the four years that I’ve been take a little longer than we had Our Senior Coach involved with our Club’s Committee, originally hoped... looks at some I strongly believe this is our most ‘changes’... important year to prove that we are Finally, let me take this opportunity one of the top clubs in the SACA to wish members and players every District Competition. For so long success this season. This could well ‘Facing Up’ now we have dominated at ‘A’ grade be the greatest ‘Year of the Mighty with Club Captain level with only mixed success. In Buffalos!’ Lachlan Stevens... fact, the SACA Club Championship Damien Adelaide Cricket Club Newsletter, Edition 4: Number 1, 2002/2003 Page 1 SINCOCK RETIRES... Past Player News Former Adelaide Cricket Club From SACA’s “Long Boundary” George GIFFEN - after a fine great ANDREW comes the news of a competition career, including 39 Tests, came SINCOCK has with a twist... Over the summer, to Adelaide Cricket Club and at last (finally!) the public were invited to choose played between 1906 and 1911. announced his (from a short list of 28 SA greats) In 64 first-class matches took retirement from 12 West End Legends of Cricket, 412 wkts. & scored 4,667 runs. playing grade in CORRECT BATTING ORDER!, cricket... as selected by a prominent panel Clarrie GRIMMETT - In only 105 Now aged 50, he began at the age of of judges. The Prize? Only a cool first-class matches managed an 15 - & played for six clubs. His long $500,000! Unfortunately, no-one incredible 668 wickets at 24.80. career included winning two SACA managed to pick them exactly... Apart from 58 catches, also took Bradman Medals - one while he was 5 wkts. in an innings 62 times, & representing Adelaide from 1979 to The selected SA Legends were, in more than 10 wkts. (in a match) 1986. For Adelaide he took a fine 213 batting order: Jack Badcock, Clem 16 times! wickets @ 23.91 and made 1266 runs Hill, Donald Bradman, Ian @ 24.82. In total, he snared 762 ‘A’ Chappell, Greg Chappell, Darren Jason GILLESPIE - present Test Grade wickets - 3rd. on the S. A. all- Lehmann, George Giffen, keeper player who obviously needs no time list! He also took 98 wickets for Gil Langley, Neil Hawke, Jason introduction! The way Dizzy’s S. A. over 39 matches. Gillespie, Clarrie Grimmett and bowling at the moment we Rodney Hogg. Not a bad group! won’t see much of him playing Andrew’s magnificent career included for Adelaide CC for quite a a number of Premierships - one as the For added interest, at least FIVE while... Has notched up around playing Captain/Coach for East of the 12 have played with the 25 first-class games and more Torrens in 1990/91 - plus some Adelaide Cricket Club, and short than 26 Test Matches! coaching stints for both the cricket summaries of their efforts follow: academy and also the S. A. Redbacks. Jack BADCOCK - 3128 runs @ Finally, we can claim the former In retirement, he intends contributing 59.01 for ACC - including a Club Victorian bowler Rodney HOGG: to the game he loves by continuing to record for Most Runs Scored for he DID play ONE GAME for us, work on a number of SACA and ACB us in a Season (845 @ 70.41). taking 5/35 and scoring 43 n.o.! committees... For most young cricketers, since around 1974, Murray has had many their first introduction to a roles - including District Club is being chosen running the club bar to play for the Ray Sutton FROM THE BACK OF Shield - SA’s Competition for HIS CAR at Adelaide elite Under/13 Primary No.2 (around 1976), LIFE MEMBERSHIP School players. But, most of running the bar as Bar them would not be aware of If you have been to Manager at Bailey the administrator after watch an “A” Grade Reserve (1977-1984), whom this Shield is named... game sometime lately serving as an ACC you will almost certainly Committee Member Ray Sutton (pictured right) was a key figure in have seen a couple of (1977-1984) and as a establishing the SA Past Players and Umpires regular fans sitting on Team Manager from Association, the Cricket Academy, and the World the boundary intently 1980 - 1984. Youth Cup held here in 1988. After a long term as watching the wickets secretary of the Prospect Club (during which the fall and the runs flow... In recognition of his out- club won 7 Premierships in 11 seasons) he joined MURRAY CHURCHETT standing support for S.A.C.A. in 1980 as District Cricket Co-ordinator (and his good wife, Pam, over 25 years, Murray and set up the present Primary Schools Comp. to both pictured above) has been granted Club introduce junior cricketers to Grade Clubs. have hardly missed Life Membership. Our In 1994, Ray was awarded the Medal of the Order a ball for over 25 years. Congratulations go to a of Australia, for his ‘services to cricket’. Sadly, A staunch Adelaide great Club friend - and Ray passed away on June 21, 2002, but his legacy Cricket Club Member his wife, Pam... still lives on in South Australia whenever young cricketers play for the ‘Ray Sutton Shield’... Adelaide Cricket Club Newsletter, Edition 4: Number 1, 2002/2003 Page 2 Changes to make us better... Perhaps the only real ‘constant’ we This season Ian Wallace - well-known experience in today’s world is Change. and widely respected cricket identity - In our work, school or home life, new has been appointed to our Senior technology is constantly changing the Coaching Panel. Ian’s specific role will way we learn, work and play. And, as be to work closely with our ‘C’ & ‘D’ we have seen numerous times in other grade players with the particular aim sporting environments, competitors or of developing them for competing in clubs who are continually seeking higher grades. improvement are generally leaders in their own particular field. Damien Kelly has been appointed as Senior Fitness Coach to measure and For many years AFL clubs have first analyse the fitness levels of every analysed and then adapted their senior player. He is already working training programs, game plans, player with most of them, developing their recovery and injury management. individual programs after taking into Though Grade Cricket will never come account many variable factors. To put Shane Bernhardt, close to matching AFL football, at it simply - an 18 yr. old fast bowler will Senior Club Coach, Adelaide Cricket Club we are well obviously need a different program to explains plans aware of how we must continue to a 28 yr. old batsman. for an exciting improve. Simply, we have to create a new season..