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NORTHERN DISTRICT CRICKET CLUB
P.O. Box 154, Hornsby, NSW 2077
Founded 26th May 1925
2019/20 BLACKMAIL 19th Aug 2019 No.1
“Spring has sprung, the grass is riz,
I wonder where the boidies is?
The boid is on the wing.
How absoid, I always toid,
the wing was on the boid.”
Only 35 more sleeps ‘til round 1.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ND’s NATHAN LYON
Humble words from the man who has just equalled
Dennis Lillee’s wicket tally and about to move into
rd
3 spot behind Warne and McGrath … LEGEND!
“I really struggle to see myself up with the likes of
Warne, McGrath and Lillee,” Nathan said after equalling Lillee’s tally on the second day of the second
Ashes Test at Lord’s.
“It doesn’t sit well with me. In my eyes those guys are true legends of the game and I’m just some
bloke trying to bowl off breaks and trying to make Australian fans proud of the Australian cricket team.
It hasn’t really settled down with me yet, but I am sure I will have a message from Mum and Dad.
CLUB “WINTER” NEWS
PATRONS: New Addition:
Northern District Cricket Club is very honoured to announce that Matt Kean is
now one of our Patrons, joining Sir Ron Brierley, Neil Marks OAM, Mark
Taylor AO and Steve Taylor.
Matt is currently the Liberal Member for Hornsby in the NSW Legislative
Assembly, and since April 2019, the Minister for Energy and Environment.
Elected in March 2011, Matt has held prior positions, most recently the Minister
for Innovation and Better Regulation for over two years.
Matt was instrumental in obtaining $9 million worth of funding for the Club's Mark Taylor Oval
Development Project at Waitara, which he announced on Tuesday, 12th March 2019. Matt was the
Vice President, Berowra Cricket Club and the Delegate to the Hornsby Kuring-gai Hills District Cricket
Association in 2010. His interests include - Mental health and suicide prevention, education policy and
a variety of sports.
The ND family and community would like to congratulate Dom Thornely
on his appointment as NSW Breakers head coach.
Dom, 40, replaces former Australian player Joanne Broadbent, who stepped
down in late April after seven seasons as head coach.
Interim head coach for the past two months, Dom was the Breakers assistant
coach during their record 19th and 20th titles over the last two seasons. He
was also assistant to Joanne at the Sydney Thunder in that period.
“I’m extremely honoured and humbled. The NSW Breakers have got an
amazing history … they’re pioneers of women’s cricket, so to be able engage with their program, be
involved with that and lead that program is really exciting,” said Dom.
As a member of the Blues squad for 15 seasons, he won two Sheffield Shield titles in 2004/05 and
2007/08, as well as three domestic One-Day title victories. Dom captained the Blues 19 times in One-
Day and Sheffield Shield cricket between 2007 and 2009
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ND’s “Greenies”, AIDEN, COREY AND YASH NAMED IN U17 STATE CHALLENGE TEAMS
Congratulations and best of luck to Aiden Cahill (ACT/Country Sixers), Corey Miller (Metro Sixers)
and Yash Patel (Metro Thunder) chosen in the four NSW squads to compete at the Under 17 State
Challenge in Coffs Harbour, August 16-18.
Twenty-six players have been selected including two squads of 13 players, the Metro Sixers and
Thunder. The State Challenge acts as a final selection trial for the Under 17 National Championships
in October.
ACT/NSW Country also selected two squads, the Country Sixers and Thunder. The State Challenge
will take place at Coffs Harbour International Stadium No. 2 and 3.
BEST OF NSW COUNTRY CRICKET RECOGNISED
Congratulations to ND’s Toby Gray, who was announced as the Kookaburra Youth Cricketer of the
Year by NSW Country Cricket officials at the offices of Cricket NSW, Moore Park recently.
The 2019 ACT/NSW Country Male Under 17 and 19 Academy squads have been announced:
Congratulations to ND’s lads …
U17 ACT/NSW Country Academy Squad
Aiden Cahill Newcastle
U19 ACT/NSW Country Academy Squad
Will Fort Central North
Toby Gray Newcastle
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Rachel Trenaman makes
impression in England
NDs & New South Wales Breakers leg-spinning
allrounder Rachel Trenaman, defied her relative
inexperience at the International level against the
England Women’s bowling attack on Saturday
top-scoring for Australia A in Loughborough,
England.
Trenaman, 18, made 73 from 92 balls in the
Australia A total of 9/260. The visitors lost the
practice match by 81 runs after England posted 8/341 from its 50 overs.
In her first match for Australia A on English soil, coming to the crease at No. 7, Trenaman reached the
boundary on 11 occasions. The next best score was Queensland pace bowling allrounder Sammy-Jo
Johnson (39 from 22).
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FEMALE UNDER AGE SQUADS ANNOUNCED
15 Rangers have been included in the preliminary NSW Metro and ACT/NSW Country Female
Underage squads named for the 2019/20 season.
Congratulations and best of luck to all below from everyone at NDs:
ACT/NSW COUNTRY U15: Siena Eve; Kate McTaggett; Ashlie Stapleton and Maddie McGuigan
ACT/NSW COUNTRY U18: Alisha Bates; Grace Dignam; Jessica Davidson; Clare Levings; Deni
Baker; Abbey Taylor; Lara Graham (C); Allison McGrath and Anika Learoyd
METRO U18: Shivani Mehta and Sarah Turner
Final squads for the respective National Championships next season will be selected from each
preliminary squad that will train during the winter.
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Northern District Cricket Club is pleased to announce the following
Men’s Grade Captains for 2019/20:
1st Grade Ben Davis
2nd Grade Daniel Friedrich
3rd Grade Ben Fisher
4th Grade Clayton Waters
5th Grade Paddy Murton
Club Captain Nathan Smith
Four (Benny, Freddy, Fish and Paddy) are returning in the same
roles as in 2018/19, and all four are tremendous captains who can
build on their experience with their teams and the whole playing
group. Clayts takes on the 4th grade side, with Steven Burt
reducing his commitments ahead of the season. We thank him for
looking after 4s for the last two years and know he has a fantastic replacement in Clayts who will
bring energy and experience to the job. Clayts was a vital part of the 2017/18 2nd Grade premiership.
Congratulations and good luck gentlemen for the upcoming season
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Good Lords! … It seems ND’s
Life Member, Ross Turner, has
been spotted socialising with a
few Old Boys at the hallowed
ground. What a life!
Rowan McGregor, Peter Tout, Ross Ryan Bolger & Ross
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Best of luck to Melly and Webby who will be apart of the over 50s NSW
squad at the National Champs in Perth in November. From this a team will
be selected for the 2020 World Cup in South Africa. Age is just a number
for these two legends
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As the club dives into pre-season, our boy Chad Soper has
been tearing it up for his PNG domestic side (Cassowaries).
Chad has been involved in the PNG Smash, consisting of 4
teams sourced from the national Barramundi players and
talented players from outside the CBD. Chad has performed
well with bowling figures of 5/14 off 4 and scores of 21 no 30
no and 46.
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Meeting will be held on Thursday 18th July 2019 at the Hornsby RSL Club,
commencing at 7.30pm.
The club would greatly appreciate your efforts to attend this event. Hope to
see all involved with the running of NDCC there to discuss what will be a
massive year for the Rangers
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Last night at the NDCC 94th AGM, club legends were moved to be
inducted into Life Membership. Two of the greats men of our club in
Bobby Johnson and Ryan Nelson were selected to join the prestigious
group. Congratulations to both men for a wonderful service to the club
and this well deserved recognition
Bobby and Ryan shake on it!
ALAN DAVIDSON TURNS 90
One of the greatest cricketers to play for Australia, New South Wales
and Northern District, Alan Davidson AM MBE, celebrated his 90th
th
birthday on Friday, 14 June.
During a First Class career that spanned 193 matches, including 44
Tests and 72 for New South Wales, the prolific left-arm fast bowler
took a remarkable 672 wickets at an average of 20.9.
Alan was pivotal in a First Grade premiership won by Northern District
in 1948/49, and we all wish him many happy returns.
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Aaaaaaaand they’re off! The ND Rangers season officially kicked off last night with Pre-season
Strength and Conditioning training and testing. Lead by Ross Pawson and Daniel Anderson, the boys
were put through their paces with a mixture of skills and fitness tests. S&C sessions run every
Monday night from 7pm
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Need some Sunday morning reading? The 94th Annual Report is available
now online and will also be available at Pre Season. Head to our website and
follow the links. Check out everything from the men’s side, the successful
women’s season and what your skipper said about you!
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Well done to all the winners at the latest Hornsby Ku-ring-gai awards night.
NDs fearless leader and president Jeremy Hook and Club Captain Nathan
Smith, were both on hand to present awards to some fine young cricketers.
Well done to all who received awards and all who attended a fantastic
evening to celebrate another successful season!
The Club is very pleased to welcome Scott Rodgie to the Club. Scott is
one of most accomplished players in Sydney Premier cricket, and a great
addition to the Rangers for 2019/20. Scott grew up in Wahroonga and played
all his early cricket in the Hornsby area. He played junior club cricket with the
Hornsby club and representative cricket with Hornsby Kuringai. Scott played
school cricket at Barker College, Hornsby before a Premier Cricket career
that started at North Sydney. For the last four years Scott has played at
Mosman. We're delighted to see him in ND colours and looking forward to
seeing him in action at MTO this season. Welcome to NDs, Scott!
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The NDs committee and community want to thank the social
media team for all their work over the last year. They have
done a fantastic job keeping the wider audience up to date
with what is happening inside our club and also producing new
and exciting content to engage with all. Big thank you from all
of us to Clayton Waters, James Dudley, Oliver Hing and
Nathan Maskell (not pictured) for all their efforts. There is more
exciting things coming from this team this year, including new
members, content and opportunities.
LEFT: Clayton Waters, James Dudley, Ollie Hing
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ND’S SECRETARY, GRAHAM GORRIE,
FOR HIS APPOINTMENT TO:
PRESIDENT OF THE SYDNEY CRICKET ASSOCN (SCA)
“Gozza” replaces our good mate Andrew Falk. We thank Falky for all his
great work over the last few years, and we know Goz will continue that
good work. Goz is an ND’s legend. He has helped so many players and
locals when it comes to needing legal advice. He is the best in the
business!
HUGE THANKYOU TO ALL VOLUNTEERS AT NDs
Volunteering is about giving and helping other individuals
and to make a meaningful contribution to a better
community. No better feeling than giving. At NDs, it’s also
bloody good fun! For cricket clubs all across Sydney,
volunteers are the life-blood. We could not exist without
them.
It’s very easy to get on board at a very exciting time of
ND’s life.
This is what you do …Press the reply button and type in …
“How can I help!”. It’s that easy!
HARPO’S VAULT – “Scoreboard” As a very young bloke I first visited Waitara Oval in 1948 when my parents moved from the Eastern Suburbs to Wahroonga. My father played his cricket for Randwick and cricket-wise I must admit that I wasn’t happy moving from Coogee Oval by the beach to Waitara Oval in the bush. To me, as a tiny kid, Coogee seemed a holy place, sort of, somewhere between the Pearly Gates and Sydney Harbour. However, as I grew older and began to play on grade wickets I realised that God and my parents had done me a huge favour – fancy having to bat every second week on Coogee Oval! Anyway that was the first time I saw the Waitara scoreboard. Physically, the board looked much the same as it does now, however it was manned by schoolboys and some of them weren’t too good at mathematics. So the captains were never quite sure how the game was going – also there was no mechanical or telephonic link-up between the kids on the board and official scorers back in the grandstand. No ‘Robyn Sanday’ in those days! I remember once when Ian Black (a schoolteacher known as “Blackie”) came into bat and it so happened that a couple of these kids were in his class and instead of putting his name on the board they put letters up there which read “DON BRADMAN”. After Blackie potted around for about 6 overs and hadn’t scored a run the kids took the Bradman name down and replaced it with “BILL EDRICH”. Edrich was a fine English batsman but he also had the reputation of being the slowest scoring batter in test cricket. When Neil Harvey had returned from South Africa, after pulverising the opposition and helping Australia to win the series, there was a story came back with him that while in South Africa he had his eyes tested and the eye specialist had claimed that the great player was having difficulty with his eyesight. Australians just laughed when they heard this and to the best of my knowledge it was seldom mentioned again. “Harv” just continued on belting the bowlers and became the most important bat in the test team after Bradman retired. A couple of years after he retired from first class cricket himself, Harv found that he was missing cricket and came back and played 4 years of club cricket with ND’s. (“Four of the best cricket years of my life,” he once said). Anyway, in the first of these club years I was batting with him at Waitara and at the end of one over he walked up to me and asked, “What’s the score?” “The board is pretty correct,” I replied. “Yes, but what does the board say?” Quite aghast, I said, “We are 2 for 118.” “That’s not bad,” he said, “how many am I?” “64.” Suddenly I realised that the magnificent left hander couldn’t see as well as normal folk. Just imagine if he had been blest with perfect sight. Move over Bradman!! Years ago, when I was 14, I was chosen in the P-G Shield. In this team was also the first grade opening bowler, Ian Humphries (“Humph”). Humph was big strong man who also played first grade for the Eastwood Rugby Club as a second row forward. Although he wasn’t particularly accurate and only 21 years of age Humph was by far the fastest bowler in NSW – if not Australia. I guess because Graham Southwell and I were the youngest in the team, Humph, sort of, looked after us and he called us both “Nipper”. However, his opinion of we nippers was not the same opinion he had for the captain. You see, the captain was a bit of a smarty and thought he was being funny when actually he was being rude. For example, before the first game he said, “I’ll now put up the batting order. Let’s start with the easiest part first; Humphries at number 11.” Humph was seething. We batted first and we collapsed. Due to a bit of luck I stuck around and with 9 down Humph came storming on the ground – still seething. So the little 14 year old confidentially walked up and said:
“You see if you can hold up an end, Humph, and I’ll get as many as I can.” Humph just roared past
me but to my instructions he replied, “Nipper, you can go forth and multiply,” or words to that affect.
The first ball he wound up and hit with a mighty force. It was still rising as it crashed into the
scoreboard. I saw one of the schoolboys dive for cover (I’d describe it as “two and half with tuck.”).
The next ball was a repeat of the first as it crashed into the board, with the scorer lad yelling, “Look
out!” The third ball flew past the batsman’s flailing bat and knocked the middle stump out. Humph
turned and stormed off the ground with Nipper trailing 15 yards behind. Two or three games later, the
captain again said something “Funny?” to Humph but the fast bowler / second rower was having none
of it. He walked over to the captain, grabbed him by the collar and laid him out as cold as an ice block
in a freezer. I don’t know who tossed the coin that day but it wasn’t the skipper.
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ROUND 1
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Round 1 starts on Sat 28 Sept with a one-dayer. The draw will be announced soon showing what
club we will be facing and at what venues.
SEASON LAUNCH
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28 September at Hornsby RSL 6.30pm
STAND BY FOR FURTHER DETAILS
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PRESS
THE PETER TAYLOR STORY
Having once feared for his place in the New South Wales team, Taylor went on
to play 13 Tests and 83 ODIs for Australia Popperfoto/Getty Images
By John Harms
January, 1987. Half of Australia is at the beach. Swimming. Lazing
around. Watching tennis on the telly. Talking about the lamentable
state of Australian cricket. The Englishmen have beaten us by an
innings at the MCG to retain the Ashes. We've capitulated for 194,
having made just 141 in the first innings.
Australian cricket really was in the doldrums. The batting line-up was
unsettled, and failing against top-class bowling; the quick-bowling stocks were dogged by injury and
inconsistent form; various keepers were tried, with Mike Veletta and Wayne Phillips even playing as
specialist batsmen; and the selectors were desperate to find a spinner. Greg Matthews could handle
the bat, and while he did a good impression of the aggressive fingerspinner with his cap on and his
dig-this-you-cats interviews, the gods had not blessed him with the gift of taking wickets.
It had been going on for a few years. We had been belted around the park in England in 1985, and
the following summer we became New Zealand's bunny. If Richard Hadlee wasn't taking a nine-for,
John Bracewell was knocking over Allan Border. And now this.
"Peter Taylor's brother-in-law is sitting on a tractor when he hears that Taylor has been picked for
Australia. Like everyone, he initially assumes it's Mark Taylor"
We had high expectations; we had become used to the free-spirited cricket played by the Chappell
generation. And so the debate raged: what should the selectors do? The XI for the fifth Test, in
Sydney, was picked in every pub in Australia.
Just into the new year of 1987, Dirk Wellham and Peter Taylor are driving back down the freeway to
Sydney together after playing for New South Wales against Tasmania in Newcastle. Peter Taylor took
just one wicket: Neville Jelich, caught by a young, highly regarded Mark Taylor, who is being talked
about as a future Test opener and Test captain, the way Prime Minister Bob Hawke had once been
talked about as a future leader.
Peter Taylor is somewhat anxious about his place in the New South Wales side.
"Do you reckon I'll get picked again?" he asks.
"You should be okay," Wellham replies.
A few days later Peter Taylor's brother-in-law is sitting on a tractor when he hears that Taylor has
been picked for Australia. Like everyone, he initially assumes it's Mark Taylor. But he rings Peter:
"You're in. You've been picked for Australia."
Holiday-makers wake to huge newspaper headlines: "Peter Who?" Channel Nine's Morning Show host
Steve Liebmann is telling the slow-rising nation that his producers are trying to find out who Peter
Taylor is, and where he lives. By the time Peter Taylor peers through the blinds in Sydney, there are
well-dressed reporters and outside-broadcast crews with satellite dishes on his footpath.
The nation is bamboozled. Peter Who has played a handful of Shield games. He wasn't in the New
South Wales team for the previous two SCG Shield matches in December because Greg Matthews,
Murray Bennett and Bob Holland were selected ahead of him. And he is 30, which is ancient for 1987.
This is the final straw. Australian cricket is now officially lost at sea and the selectors are copping a caning. They have also recalled Wellham. Australia win the Sydney Test. Taylor's bouncy, wind-up and windmill action is observed from lounge chairs around the country. He cleans up the Englishmen, taking six wickets. Then he contributes 42 second-innings runs. The Poms, with nothing to lose, take up the chase, making for an entertaining final day. They fall short. Peter Who is Man of the Match in his debut Test. The selectors are geniuses. Peter Who becomes something of a cult hero. He is more than useful in the World Series Cup triangular, his fizzing topspinning offspinners attacking the off bail of the English right-handers. He takes wickets. He bowls tightly. He plays shots. And he is solid in the field. He plays 13 Tests and 83 ODIs for Australia. I know what happened in the days preceding that Sydney Test because I tracked Peter Who down. I knew he owned a wheat farm around Moree in northern New South Wales. So I rang the Gurley post office and a lovely woman gave me his phone number. Gurley is an old railway siding on the Newell Highway, with silos and a pub, surrounded by grain country. When Peter Taylor answered the car-phone, he and his wife Julie had just begun a 650km drive to visit family in Sydney. Their 18-year-old son Charlie is making his way in grade cricket as an offspinner for Northern District, where Peter had played. Peter grew up in Sydney. His family owned a car dealership, but, uninterested in selling cars, he studied agricultural science at the University of Sydney. He hoped one day to become a farmer. He had been an outstanding junior cricketer, at the same time as Allan Border, whom he knew well from three years together in the New South Wales schoolboys' side. "Holiday-makers wake to huge newspaper headlines: "Peter Who?" Of course he has great memories of his shock selection for Australia. He remembers lobbing to practice and AB saying, "Geez, this is a bit of a bolt from the blue!" But Taylor was a handy influence in the team. He was thoughtful and competitive, and despite his inexperience projected an air of maturity. He moved to Brisbane in 1990, where he played at the University of Queensland CC and two seasons for Queensland. But he knew he had limited time. "I got old!" he recalls. "I was tired and sore. I started to ask myself what I was doing playing cricket." His final Test was against India, at the MCG in 1991. He was replaced by Shane Warne for the Sydney Test the following week. He loved playing international cricket. It took him around the world. "I just wish I'd started younger," he says. Taylor bought a wheat and cotton property outside Moree, which he still farms, and has since developed a cattle property at Inverell. For a while in the late 1990s he was an Australian selector. nge!”
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