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CONTENTS Members of the Association ........................................................................................................................... 2 Cricket NSW Strategic Plan ............................................................................................................................. 3 Message from the Chairman 4 Life Members .......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Message from the Chief Executive .............................................................................................................. 6 Reconciliation Action Plan 8 Partners 9 Cricket NSW Foundation ................................................................................................................................... 10 Community Cricket Experience ..................................................................................................................... 14 High Performance Report 16 Cricket NSW Awards 21 Sydney Sixers Club Report............................................................................................................................... 22 Sydney Thunder Club Report .......................................................................................................................... 23 Cricket Central Community Open Day 24 The Basil Sellers Scholarship Program ....................................................................................................... 25 Coach Education and Development............................................................................................................. 26 McDonald’s NSW Premier Cricket – Men’s 28 McDonald’s NSW Premier Cricket – Women’s 30 Sydney Cricket Association ............................................................................................................................ 32 Sydney Shires ........................................................................................................................................................ 34 NSW Country Cricket Association 35 NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association 38 Match Ops and Venue Team ............................................................................................................................ 41 Commercial ............................................................................................................................................................ 42 Cricket Business Services 43 Government Relations and Infrastructure ................................................................................................ 46 Association Notes ............................................................................................................................................... 49 Financials 52 ANNUAL REPORT AND YEARBOOK 2021/22 1
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Patron-in-ChiefPATRONS Her Excellency, The Honorable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales Vice Patron The Honourable John Howard OM AC NSW CRICKET BOARD RetireDIRECTORS2022 Hon Kevin Greene, Paul Marjoribanks, Neil Maxwell, Karen Robbins (Appointed) Retire 2023: John Knox (Appointed), Ed Cowan, David Gallop (Appointed), Courtenay Smith, Richard Timbs NSWDELEGATESPremierCricket Clubs S Beatty, R Cook, A Falk, I Finlay, S Foster, B Freedman OAM, P Goldsmith, G Gorrie, Hon. K Greene, T Iceton OAM, P Lindsay, G Monaghan, L Prittipaul, M Quinn, M Richardson, C Robertson, M Sanders, M Shields, M Swan, A Wright. Shires
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Neil Maxwell Karen Robbins Courtenay Smith Richard Timbs Cricket Cricket Clubs Biviano NSW Country Cricket Zones Burkinshaw, P Dilley, Erdeljac, Frecklington, Marjoribanks, L Masullo, Psarakis, Surman NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association Incorporated M Hughes NSW Districts Cricket Association Incorporated W Howard ACT Cricket Association Incorporated F Jolly Life Members G Atwell (2003); J Benaud (2004); MJ Bennett (2005); MG Bevan (2003); BC Booth MBE (1971); RJ Brenner (2007); CP Brierley OAM (2003); DJ Broad OAM (1992); RF Burgess (1975); BJ Clark AO (2007); MJ Clarke AO (2020); C Clowes (2007); DH Cole (2011); MJ Cornish OAM (2003); M Davies (2003); J Dyson (2002); PA Emery (2002); BF Freedman OAM (2000); RA French OAM (1996); BJ Gainsford OAM (2003); LR Gardner OAM (1988); DR Gilbert (2014); HJ Griffith (2003); GK Harinath OAM (2010): RN Harvey OAM MBE (1963); J Hayes (2021); K Hill (2020); RA Hore (2005); RE Horsell OAM (2002); BP Hughes (2015); THJ Iceton OAM (2005); V Jackson (2003); WJ Jocelyn (2003); SM Katich (2015); LM Keightley (2007); LA Larsen (2003); GF Lawson OAM (2002); B Lee (2019); NG Marks OAM (2000); K Marshall (2010): GRJ Matthews (2002); RB McCosker OAM (1990); GD McGrath AM (2008); JT McMahon OAM (2005); P Meyers (2005); HA Mitchell OAM (2003); G Monaghan (2018); JT O’Dwyer OAM (2006); KJ O’Keeffe (2018); MB Pawley OAM (2008); M Picton (2003); SJ Rixon (1996); MF Rosen (2014); WJ Saunders OAM (1977); BA Sellers AM (2009); C Sheehan (2015); MJ Silver OAM (2009); RB Simpson AO (1970); MJ Slater (2016); SB Smith (2010); LC Sthalekar (2017); HB Taber (1979); JMA Tait (1999); SJA Taufel (2019); MA Taylor AO (2002); G Thomas (2011); RF Tozer (1996); A Turner (1997); KD Walters AM MBE (1979); JA Warn (2021); ME Waugh AM (2003); SR Waugh AO (2003); MR Whitney AM (2002);
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Cricket will be New South Wales’ most loved and successful sport and we will be regarded as a world class organisation OUR PURPOSE To inspire everyone to play and love cricket OUR WILDLY IMPORTANT GOAL (WIG) Grow the number of 5–12 year olds and their families playing and watching cricket WE WILL ACHIEVE OUR STRATEGIC AMBITION BY: Transforming to customer-focusedaorganisation
Simplifying the way cricket is delivered to support and energise our volunteers Unifying our key partners to make NSW and Australian Cricket as strong as possible Protecting the long-term security of high-quality facilities at all levels of the game
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We will build our financial strength and continue to reinvest in cricket programs, experiences and facilities. We will deliver a new, sustainable and inclusive Home of NSW Cricket in 2022. We will get there through good corporate governance, growing our existing sources of income and through the creation of new and diversified Cricket NSW generated revenue.
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OUR VISION
CRICKET NSW STRATEGIC PLAN BREAKING NEW GROUND 2021-2025
THE LAUNCHPAD OF OUR STRATEGY WILL: Grow Passion Sustain PerformancePeak ParticipationImproveExperiences GrowinInvestmentCricket We will deliver irresistible and creativeandexperiencesmemorableforourfansthenextgenerationofsupporters.Wewillgettherethroughinnovationguidedbythevoiceofourfansandleveragingdataandtechnologytobuildloveandlongtermloyaltyforcricketandourclubs.
We will produce the best teams, players, umpires and coaches in the world to make NSW and Australian cricket as strong as possible. We will develop our people and talent to thrive and reach their potential. We will get there and sustain our success by creating the best high performance environment and experience in world cricket. We will create participantdriven experiences to make cricket NSW’s most loved sport. We will provide even more opportunities to attract female and social cricket participants to play and be involved in cricket. We will get there by providing the right support in the right places to our our volunteers, clubs, associations, schools and communities to grow cricket together. will
We are delighted by the role models we have in the game today – and we are delighted by the number of men and women representing Australia from NSW. Indeed, in the past 12 months, we had 21 NSW players (14 men and 7 women) represent Australia. The men, led superbly by Penrith’s own Pat Cummins, won two wonderful Test series against England and Pakistan as well as the T20 World Cup. The women, which included all time legends of our sport including the World Cup Player of the Tournament, Alyssa Healy, and other NSW greats such as Haynes, Perry and Gardner, took all before them in winning 21 and losing only one match they played over the past 12 months, including the Ashes Series and the World Cup in New Zealand. While NSW did not win a major title this year, we sure can be proud of the number of outstanding players and role models we are producing to allow Australian cricket to we completed the development of the best cricket training facility in the world at Wilson Park in Sydney Olympic Park. We moved into this incredible facility in June and thank the partnership with State and Federal governments as well as our other funding partners to make this happen. This facility will not only provide the world’s best training and administration facility but will also allow aspiring young cricketers to watch and even practice alongside their heroes. Another key initiative at Cricket NSW is working closely with our many great former players – both male and female. These players have and continue to contribute to the rich history of cricket in NSW. During the past season, we created a new perpetual trophy for Sheffield Shield matches between NSW and Victoria and we named the trophy after the player who has played the most Sheffield Shield matches for NSW, Greg Matthews. We also for the first time presented the Michael Bevan Award for the One Day Male Player of the Year. During the past year, Cricket NSW lost one of its best players and undoubtably its greatest off field leader and volunteer.
Finally, I want to thank you all for your contribution to and support of cricket in NSW. I assure all of you that we are here to continue to grow this great game.
Alan Davidson died in October at the age of 92. He was not only an outstanding Test cricketer who took 186 Test wickets at an average of 20 and scored 1300 runs, he also was President of the NSW Cricket Association for an astonishing 33 years. Davo’s funeral service was a tremendous reminder of how great cricketers can inspire thousands, if not millions, of people. We also recognise the many other fine cricketers and servants to the game that passed away over the past twelve months.
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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN
I want to finish by thanking the hard work from our CEO Lee Germon and his entire team throughout the past 12 months.
We are fortunate at Cricket NSW to have such strong leadership amongst both the management and playing group.
We work closely with the thousands of volunteers who make it possible from parents driving their children to practice and games, to coaches, team managers, scorers, canteen operators and umpires who all commit time and energy for the love of the game.
We must never forget that the health of the game of cricket is not just judged by the short-term nature of elite success, nor should we judge the game by its historical glories. It is equally, if not more importantly, judged by the number of girls and boys playing cricket across the State. At Cricket NSW, half of our staff are focused at the grassroots level – working hard to ensure everyone is given an opportunity to play and thrive in our game.
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Cricket NSW’s purpose is to inspire everyone to play and love the game of cricket. Everything we do is based around this purpose. Like generations before us, we want to create role models to inspire girls and boys (and their parents) to play and love our great game.
Hayes was an exceptional player renowned for her ability as a right-handed bat and right-arm medium pace bowler. She was the first to play 100 Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) matches for NSW, finishing with a then record 112, and completed her WNCL career with the NSW record for most wickets (112 at 27.05), remaining second on that list behind only CNSW Hall of Fame member Lisa Sthalekar.
LIFE MEMBERS
Hayes, a NSW Breakers and Australian representative, and Warn, a former Chairman of the Cricket NSW Board, were honoured as the 225th and 226th Life Members of Cricket NSW.
Hayes played in six Test matches for Australia between 2001 and 2005/06, taking 10 wickets at 25.70 with a best of 3-9. She also scored 118 runs at 14.75 with a highest score of 57. In 59 One Day Internationals (2000/01 to 2006/07), she took 65 wickets at 24.23, with an economy rate of 2.98 and a best of 4-31. She complemented her feats with the ball with 241 runs at 14.17 with a top score of 44. Throughout her career (1995/96 to 2006/07), and including overseas tours to England and New Zealand, Julie played in 181 List A matches. She took 203 wickets at 23.74 with five fourwicket performances, including a best of 6-18. She scored 889 runs at 12.01 with a highest of 58 not out. Warn played at the Manly Warringah District Cricket Club in a career spanning 15 years but it is in his contribution to the sport as an administrator that he excelled.
A delegate to the Sydney Cricket Association (SCA) from 20072018, and a member of the Cricket NSW Board of Directors from 2012-2018, Warn served as Chairman of the Cricket NSW Board from 2013-2018. When Warn was elected Chairman of the CNSW Board in February 2013, he was only 40 years-of-age - the youngest person to hold this position in the organisation’s 158-year history.
As Chairman, Warn oversaw a significant period of change, success and reform at Cricket NSW. This included strong financial performance, taking elite content to regional NSW, overseeing significant growth in grassroots funding for facilities, winning every available senior domestic title, the professionalisation of women’s cricket and the rebuild of Sydney Thunder.
John Warn Julie and John have both been enormous contributors to cricket in New South Wales and Life Membership is a wonderful way of recognising their passion and commitment to inspiring people to play and love cricket, Knox Julie’ssaid.on-field success is well documented and should be celebrated, while John was a terrific chairman of Cricket NSW and a big reason for the success and strength of cricket in NSW now is due to the leadership he showed as chairman for over five years. We congratulate them, and more importantly, thank them.
Cricket stalwarts Julie Hayes and John Warn were inducted as Cricket NSW Life Members at the Association’s Annual General Meeting in September 2021.
He was awarded Life Membership of the Manly club in 2006 and he served over 15 years in total on the committee, while in 2014 Warn was recognised across the state for his contribution to Cricket when he was awarded Volunteer Director of the Year at the Sport NSW Awards. Cricket NSW Chairman John Knox paid tribute to both Hayes and Warn.
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Financially, it was also a challenging year but one that was handled with discipline and flexibility. The loss of home matches in the BBL reduced our revenue significantly and we had major COVID-related costs to deliver cricket in the high performance area. Overall, a deficit is not one that was budgeted for, but the size of this deficit was mitigated by taking a very disciplined approach to saving costs. Our main priority when determining where to save these costs was not impacting the delivery of Onecricket.ofthe highlights of the season for me was the opportunity to go on an “Association Roadshow”. With other members of our staff, we held these sessions in Wagga Wagga, Orange, Newcastle, Coffs Harbour, Canberra, Tamworth and Sydney.
We owe our large cohort of volunteers a huge debt of gratitude and appreciation. Up against these challenges, they displayed personal fortitude and conviction of action to help as many people play our sport as possible.
At CNSW, we have continued the development of a greater customer focus in the community cricket space with a redesign of our delivery structure. One of the outcomes of this is a shift away from aligning with Local Government Areas to aligning with our cricket Associations. Peak Performance Our representative program was disrupted, although by the end of the season we had been able to play most of our originally scheduled matches. All senior domestic competitions were affected in some way. Our Sheffield Shield players started the season with three matches against Victoria, our WBBL teams had to once again play their matches from within a hub in Tasmania, our WNCL team was hurt by the weather and the inability to play most of our BBL matches at home impacted both the teams’ personnel and our organisational revenue. Our Premier Cricket was also disrupted but the season was concluded satisfactorily.
On reflection, we now know that the season started later and provided logistical and human challenges that made getting our sport played on our fields very difficult.
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We planned for the last season with the hope that it would not be as challenging or difficult as the previous season but with the rigour to manage anything that did make it another season “like no other”. Unfortunately, COVID once again had a significant impact on Cricket NSW, our wonderful game and the people who play and love cricket.
The completion of our incredible facility at Sydney Olympic Park – now called “Cricket Central” – was delayed but we were able to move into the new buildings at the end of June. The original occupation date was February but COVID-related impacts of staffing and supply chain, combined with abnormally wet weather, delayed the completion.
The lifeblood of our game, that feeds and develops those fortunate enough to play at elite levels, was threatened and our volunteers and Association, Zone and Club members responded admirably and passionately.
It was well worth waiting for, however. Cricket NSW now has, I believe, the best cricket facility in the world. Combining an ICCcompliant oval with 15 strips on the middle block, a 15-lane indoor centre, more than 40 outdoor turf practice pitches (containing Gabba, WACA and NSW soils), player gymnasium, rehabilitation and medical facilities and a wonderful working space for our people, this will provide an inclusive, world class hub for our sport, accessible to both community and elite cricketers.
Growing The Game Cricket was played and still in significant numbers, despite the late start and external pressures resulting in clubs having to focus on junior and senior cricket to the detriment, from a participation perspective, to our 5-10 year olds.
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We will rectify this reduction in the “top of our participation funnel” with a renewed focus on getting 5-12 year olds to play and love our sport.
Our NSW and Big Bash teams made two finals, but disappointingly we did not win a title this season. We continue to aspire to both develop and provide players to our Australian teams and win titles for NSW. Organisationally, our people all worked from home for a long period of time. This made continuing to build our culture difficult and particularly made it difficult for new people to CNSW to be inducted and understand our people and organisation. We eventually moved to a hybrid working situation and now, with the move to our new base at Cricket Central, we have our people in Sydney working predominantly from our office, but with the flexibility required in a “new way of working” environment.
Ambiguity of messages and direction from agencies responsible for planning the response to COVID meant that we had to be proactive in our discussions and interactions with these bodies to try to provide some certainty to our sport to enable planning and hope.
Our ambitious goal is to double the number of children aged between 5 and 12 playing cricket by 2025. To do this, CNSW will not only have to focus more strongly on it but provide additional support to our cricket family to help cater for these youngsters and, where required, CNSW will need to deliver some of these programs.
At Test level, Miller was even better with the ball, taking 170 wickets at 22.97 to go with 2958 runs at 36.96 in his 55 appearances for Australia.
Griffiths’ form for NSW, where she batted in the middle order, inevitably led to higher honours and the Newcastle-born all-rounder went on to play seven Tests and 32 One Day Internationals for Australia.
Griffith’s ODI record included 309 runs at 18.17, 17 wickets at 20.05 and 6 catches. Her debut, against New Zealand in Melbourne, was perhaps the most memorable of her 32 ODIS, returning 3-17 from 9 overs. Lee Germon
Overall, in 93 senior matches for NSW, Griffiths claimed 77 wickets at 17.54 with her right arm genuine fast bowling, being complemented by 1742 runs at 25.61, including a majestic innings of 100 against Western Australia in the 1992/93 Australian Championship Qualifying Final.
Volunteers, including those who sit on Committees across the State, people who work for Cricket NSW and our Board have all contributed to the season and our purpose and I appreciate the support that I receive from you all in the privileged role I have at Cricket NSW.
Miller, arguably the greatest Australian all-rounder, with a cavalier attitude to cricket shaped by his experiences as a combat pilot in WWII, played 50 matches for NSW between 1947 and 1955, including 26 as captain.
We have seen evidence of this shift in focus with the cancellation of the Australia vs South Africa One Day Internationals this summer to enable the South African players to play in their new, privately funded domestic T20 competition.
Thank you all. I hope you were able to replenish and renew in our off-season and I am looking excitedly forward to next season and our continued march to make cricket the most loved sport in NSW and have Cricket NSW regarded as a world-class organisation.
In that time representing the Blues, Miller amassed 3538 runs at 57.06 and snared 119 wickets at 25.36.
The purpose of the CNSW Hall of Fame is to recognise NSW’s greatest cricketers for their contribution to NSW and Australian Cricket. I would like to make special mention of two very worthy inductees this season.
Across his entire First-Class career that spanned 1937/38 – 1959, Miller played 226 matches, plundering 14183 runs at a tick under 50 and grabbing 497 wickets at 22.30.
It was a real pleasure to be able to meet again, or for the first time, the people who are providing wonderful cricket opportunities right across the State.
Along with being a powerful, clean hitter and incisive bowler, Miller was also a sure handed slips fielder and all-round leader in an era of some of cricket’s greatest players.
Off the field, Miller lived a charismatic life, playing 50 Australian Rules matches for St Kilda, spending more than three years in the RAAF, including combat tours flying Mosquito fighter bombers, and working as a journalist and author.
In Test matches, she scored 204 runs at 34.00, mainly batting in the lower order, and took 5 wickets at 41.60, her career punctuated by a memorable 133 in the 1st Test against New Zealand in the 1989/90 season.
Finally, I would like to thank all members of our cricket family who enable our great sport to be played and loved by so many people.
Sally Griffiths Former NSW and Australia representative, Sally Griffiths, who became a destructive batter in the 1980s and early 90s after an injury put an end to her formidable fast bowling, was inducted as Hall of Fame member number 45.
Griffiths debuted for NSW in 1985 and played in 10 Australian Championships for the Breakers before two more seasons upon the inception of the WNCL.
We wanted to take this opportunity to listen to our people and understand the key issues. We also wanted to discuss the real current state of our sport. The reality is that we are still a strong sport, but we are declining in the numbers choosing to play our game as a percentage of the population. This declining relevancy of our sport requires Cricket NSW, together with our cricket family, to focus on providing our sport in ways that are so attractive, inspirational and enjoyable that particularly young children want to start and continue playing it for their lifetimes.
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The late Keith ‘Nugget’ Miller, the dynamic all-rounder who shone as a member of Don Bradman’s legendary 1948 Invincibles, became the 44th member of the Cricket NSW Hall of Fame at the annual awards night.
His best years in cricket came after the war and Miller made it very clear that his period of service had put his sporting endeavours in perspective with the famous quote “Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not”.
In her First-Class debut for NSW against the touring England team, Griffiths bowled fourteen overs and took 3-8, including 11 maidens.
Keith Miller (1919-2004)
To meet the demands of a changing society and a significantly changing cricket landscape, Cricket NSW needs to not take our eye off the ball currently, but also attempt to “look around corners” to predict where our sport is heading and to ensure we continue to play a major role in cricket as we have done for over 125 years. As well as the changing societal needs, globally we continue to see the increase in T20 club or franchise based competitions (plus The Hundred in England). Many franchises or clubs are looking to have teams in a number of these competitions and many are backed and funded by well financed individuals or companies.
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CNSW continues to develop relationships with several Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) groups to assist in developing programs and opportunities for ATSI Peoples to thrive through engagement with Cricket. The NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) delivered virtual camps this season to minimise the further spread of COVID-19 as opposed to their normal multi-day camps held in remote locations across NSW. The virtual camps aimed to allow the AECG to stay connected to young ATSI students and encouraged them to continue to engage with their culture. CNSW delivered a cricket component at each of the two virtual camps with elite ATSI players Hannah Darlington and Anika Learoyd, as well as Stella Campbell, joining alongside CNSW staff. CNSW has also worked with Aboriginal Land Councils to look at opportunities to deliver participation opportunities across regional NSW.
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• CNSW has funded all commitments for the past year including ATSI clothing, artwork and Cultural Awareness training.
The first 12 months of the CNSW Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) has seen many of the 90 deliverables started and quite a few completed. Staff across all aspects of CNSW have been involved in ensuring the focus on meeting the deliverables is maintained.
• W/BBL teams wearing ATSI designed playing kit during the past season.
• We have now completed the first report to Reconciliation Australia and report the Achievements in the CNSW Annual Report each year.
• Organising matches between Sixers, Thunder, Stars and Renegades community teams in Albury.
Respect Respect for ATSI cultures, histories, knowledge and rights is an important step to developing understanding, appreciation and pride. CNSW start all staff and team meetings by acknowledging the Traditional Owners of the land we meet on and any ATSI People present. CNSW have also begun promoting and participating in Reconciliation and NAIDOC weeks both within CNSW and with external groups.
CNSW acknowledges and pays respect to the land and waters across New South Wales, on which we are privileged to live, work, and play our great game of cricket. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples who have walked upon and cared for this land for thousands of years. We acknowledge their ongoing connection to this country as the Traditional Owners and we commit ourselves to the ongoing journey of Reconciliation, so that together we may bring about equity and equality, built on strong and trusting relationships.
• Engaging ATSI artists and players to design Sixers and Thunder W/BBL teams’ clothing to celebrate First Nations Rounds.
Acknowledgement of Country
• Engaging an ATSI business, Blakworks, to deliver Cultural Awareness training.
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• CNSW delivered 7 Woolworths Cricket Blast funded ATSI programs for 5-10 year olds across regional and metropolitan areas of NSW. Governance CNSW will ensure the RAP is delivered successfully by ensuring these governance measures are followed:
RECONCILIATION ACTION PLAN
Cricket NSW’s vision is to “Inspire everyone to Play and Love Cricket”. We recognise the provision of opportunities that celebrate and champion Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, is essential to achieving this vision. Cricket NSW have been proactive in providing opportunities for ATSI People in the following areas:
• Encouraging Associations and Clubs to link with local ATSI groups to assist in celebrating Community First Nations Round in February.
• Promoting and celebrating National First Nations Round for Community and Club Cricket across NSW
• The RAP Working Group has had several changes. However, it is still managing to deliver exceptional outcomes to keep CNSW on track to complete all deliverables.
• Continue our reconciliation journey by developing our next CNSWRAP.are committed to delivering on the Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan and look forward continuing our journey well beyond our first www.cricketnsw.com.au/governance/reconciliation-action-planRAP.
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• Matches between NSW and Queensland male and female ATSI teams were organised for Coffs Harbour but unfortunately these were washed out.
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CNSW Foundation Donors
Guy Stuckey-Clarke Susan Clear William Granger Dave Lyall North Coastal Cricket Zone
Dennis Stevenson Benevity Causes Brad Kean Chris Muldoon Riverina Cricket Zone
Cricket Zone Total Funds Committed = $2,425,000 Target $10,000,000 by 2025 CRICKET NSW FOUNDATION Thunder Season of Giving Toy Drive CRICKET NSW10
Michael Pain Jack Armitage John Randall
William Tunny Kris Gale Christopher Dalton Robert Shaw Newcastle Junior Cricket Richard Stewart David Garnsey John Granger Barry Spencer Western Cricket Zone
Quote from CNSW Foundation Chairman Dr Mark Nelson - The Cricket NSW Foundation has made wonderful progress this season both through donations made and programs and initiatives invested in which all link back to the purpose of further enabling access to the game of cricket. I would like to thank all donors for their generous contributions which helps achieve our purpose and further inspires everyone to play and love cricket.
Donors
Robert Wilcocks Stephen Gorry John Bowie Wilson Patrick Regan Greater Illawarra Cricket Zone
John Clark Jonathan Armitage Sam Paradice John Munro ACT Southern Districts Cricket Zone Central Northern
Phillip Towzell Tom Rutledge Christopher Bowman Matthew Ritchie Central Coast Cricket Association
Major Donors – Dr Mark Nelson, Mike Gregg, Basil Sellers AM, Warwick Johnson, John Sevior
The Cricket NSW Foundation is the charitable arm of Cricket NSW, increasing the access to cricket for all within NSW, and unlocking opportunities that “inspire everyone to play and love cricket”. We would like to thank and acknowledge all our donors and in particular our donors who have made a significant contribution to the CNSW Foundation this financial year
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CNSW Foundation and the NSW Past Players
The first of these trips to Newcastle, was the 14th the Baggy Blues have embarked on across NSW, and featured appearances from former NSW Blues Phil Marks, Phil Emery, Gavin Robertson, Rick McCosker and Peter Toohey, flanked by current players Chris Green, Mickey Edwards, Lachlan Hearne, Ryan Hadley, Nick Bertus and Hunar Verma, as well as CNSW CEO Lee Germon.
Baggy Blues and Waratahs Wollongong trip
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The visit comprised of a Mental Health dinner at the Wests Leagues Club held alongside the Rural Adversity Mental Health Programme (RAMHP), who delivered the important messaging regarding mental health amongst our regional cricket communities. The night also doubled as a celebration of Newcastle’s finest cricketers, with each player who has represented NSW receiving a numbered cap to recognise their Theachievements.visitalsoincluded school visits to St Mary’s Gateshead, where players past and present spoke to Year 12 Students, and to Hunter Sports High School, involving a session with the gifted athletes program. Unfortunately, due to wet weather, the planned Junior Cricket Clinic and T20 exhibition match had to be of the trips was south to Wollongong which also saw a collaboration between the Baggy Blues and the women’s past players association, the Waratahs. Current NSW players Matt Gilkes, Chris Tremain, Liam Hatcher, Hunar Verma and Josh Baraba were accompanied by past players Rick McCosker, Steve Rixon, Gavin Robertson, Steve Small, Wayne Holdsworth, Charlotte Anneveld and Michelle Goszko. Similarly to the Newcastle trip, wet weather caused the cancellation of the junior cricket clinic and T20 match, but the mental health dinner with RAMPH was held in conjunction with Cricket Illawarra’s annual presentation evening.
This season, the CNSW Foundation partnered with the Baggy Blues, the men’s NSW past players association, to embark on two trips to regional NSW promoting not only the game of cricket, but also the importance of mental health.
Both of these trips were made possible through funds raised at the CNSW Foundation’s Annual Charity Match at the SCG, courtesy of members of the Australian Club. The Cricket NSW Foundation would like to thank the Australian Club for their contributions that continue to help provide access to the game of cricket across NSW.
These two trips reinforced the importance of connecting with our regional cricket communities who for the best part of two years have had very limited exposure to any elite sport. The CNSW Foundation aims to increase access to all and this certainly includes providing experiences that our next generation of players will never forget, like meeting their heroes through initiatives like the Baggy Blues and Waratahs trips to regional NSW.
Baggy Blues Newcastle Trip
The CNSW Foundation also granted a donation to Stump to Stump, a multi-functional collaborative platform for all cricket fans, players, clubs, associations, governing bodies and cricket communities to share content and connect with other cricket fans. The platform further enables access to the game of cricket by allowing all members of the cricket community to consume content from elite cricket all the way to grassroots. The grant will help Stump to Stump further grow their online platform through investing in technology to remain leaders in the space. Stump to Stump will also share content related to initiatives undertaken by the CNSW Foundation, sharing our stories with the large online community.
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Breakers Relocation Fund
This past season saw the provision of the inaugural Breakers Relocation Fund awarded to NSW Breaker Emma Hughes. Hughes, who is originally from Dubbo, moved to Sydney to pursue her cricketing career and also undertake tertiary studies. The Breakers Relocation Fund, a $10 000 grant, is designed to help alleviate the financial strain, anxiety and pressures associated with relocating to Sydney for young female elite athletes. This grant will ultimately help future players pursue further education, with the goal of improving overall wellbeing and ensuring retention in the game, whilst living away from home.
Basil Sellers AM’s continued support of cricket in NSW is now made possible via the CNSW Foundation. The Basil Sellers Scholarship is awarded each year thanks to the generous donation by Basil. The CNSW Foundation would like to extend its appreciation to Basil for his continued contribution to the development of young cricketers across NSW and his support of the CNSW Foundation. Stump to Stump
Thanks to the CNSW Staff vaccine imitative rolled out in early 2021 which saw $100 raised for every staff member who got vaccinated against Covid-19, CNSW saw enough dollars raised for the CNSW Foundation to deliver four free skin cancer checks by Skin Patrol. The locations chosen to receive this wonderful opportunity were Albury, Coffs Harbour, Campbelltown and Manly which were greatly supported by each local cricket community. In total, we had 121 people checked across the four locations and we would love to roll this out to further associations in the coming seasons. Umpires This season, the CNSW Foundation donated to the NSWCUSA to help subsidise fees for regional umpire training courses, which aims to alleviate barriers to umpire accreditation whilst concurrently providing in-game experience for existing match officials. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, the umpiring courses were not able to be delivered, so this initiative will be carried over to next season. There were, however, 6 umpires from regional NSW who were afforded the opportunity to travel to and officiate in NSW Premier Cricket in Sydney. The umpires ranged in experience levels from 2 years to 26 years, but all gained valuable insight and will take lessons learned back to their regional associations to further improve the level of umpiring and subsequent experience for all involved in the game of cricket.
Emma Hughes centre Basil Sellers
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This season, the CNSW Foundation supported a number of activities undertaken by the Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder across the community. These ranged from programs within the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to supporting grassroots cricket clubs with financial grants.
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The CNSW Foundation also supported the inaugural Toyo Tires community grant program, also dollar-matching the investment from the Sixers’ major partner. In its first year, the program supported several initiatives for clubs from within the Sydney catchment all the way up to the Queensland border showing the stretch of the support for the Sixers club. Some of the projects included further support for all abilities programs, provision of sun-safe unforms for junior cricketers and providing more opportunities for young female cricketers.
Toyo Tires Community Grants
HomeWorld Grants
The CNSW Foundation dollar-matched the financial contribution from Sydney Thunder’s major partner HomeWorld to ensure more clubs than ever before could be supported across the Thunder Nation. The selected clubs were granted $1000 each to help foster the growth of junior cricket with funds going towards the purchase of marquees and shades, personalised drink bottles and engaging more young girls in cricket to name a few of the successful projects.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander T20 Cup
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander T20 Cup was this season held in Albury and, for the first time, featured four BBL clubs in the multi-day tournament focusing on providing a pathway for young indigenous cricketers and an opportunity to further explore and celebrate culture. The CNSW Foundation raised funds through a variety of initiatives throughout the season to support this year’s event, ranging from ticket sale and membership add-ons to online memorabilia auctions featuring signed items from the Sixers and Thunder men’s and women’s teams. Signed shirts from the W/BBL’s First Nations rounds were auctioned off and all proceeds were used to support the tournament and the players involved. Ultimately, the Sydney Thunder men were victorious over the Sydney Sixers, Melbourne Renegades and Melbourne Stars, but the connections made by the players throughout the event and the opportunities this initiative unlocks are imperative to inspiring more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to play and love cricket.
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Jake Balnave Head of Cricket NSW Foundation Dubbo Rugby CC - Homeworld Helpers Grant recipient
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Positive growth was achieved in female programs and competitions as engaged associations and clubs, supported by Community Cricket strategies, registered an 18% increase in participation.
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Our squad continued to work within the national Australian Cricket framework, remaining focused and united in its approach to grow the game. Community Cricket Priorities included:
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The Community Cricket team made the most of funding opportunities from both Cricket Australia and the NSW Office of Sport in season 2021/22, working with local cricket clubs to access funding to support development. Grants & funding opportunities included:-
ACA Grassroots Cricket Fund - 243 eligible clubs and associations funded for $732,500, a 133% increase on previous season.
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Our community cricket team developed plans to address each priority area in each region, with the purpose to inspire everyone to love and play cricket across NSW and the ACT.
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The 2021/22 pre-season period was severely impacted by COVID, resulting in schools being closed for recruitment visits. After a slow start, the Woolworths Cricket Blast entry-level program was boosted by staff-delivered Holiday Programs and the success of ‘Project Barty’, a targeted strategy aimed to increase registered participation of 5-10 year-olds during the second half of the season.
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Community Cricket is customer-obsessed, constantly striving to improve the quality of our service delivery and strongly value community feedback to help meet the needs of the cricket family.
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Nielsen were also engaged to conduct market research aligned to existing annual NPS programs conducted by Cricket Australia’s research partners, focusing on Junior and Senior Players, Volunteer Administrators, Local Government and Schools.
NSW Government - 610 eligible clubs and associations funded for $610,000. We were able to assist 25% more clubs and associations to meet the criteria than the previous year.
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The Community Cricket department continues to harness technology to deliver an improved experience for both volunteers and participants. In particular, the MyCricket Live Scoring App continues to grow in popularity with a total of 59.8% of matches e-scored, an 11% increase on 2020/21. The App has saved volunteers tens of thousands of hours of data entry since its inception and is popular amongst players and followers alike.
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These objectives provided leadership and support to clubs and associations, driving towards an aligned strategy for success.
The 2021/22 season drew several parallels to the previous summer, with coronavirus lockdowns and return-to-play impacting the first half of the season, while consistent heavy rain during February and March impacted end of season Finals matches, culminating in the catastrophic flooding in Lismore and the Northern Rivers.
Leading Clubs $56,800, Woolworths Community Fund $54,506 and Cricket Australia Next Innings funding $80,940. Additionally, $30,000 of cricket registration fees for school-aged children were subsidised through the continuation of the NSW Government’s Active Kids Voucher (AKV) Program. AKV use was impacted by registrations being taken later in the year due to delays in the season commencing.
Migration to the new Play HQ Platform commenced with registrations for Woolworths Cricket Blast Holiday Clinics and Cricket NSW managed programs being loaded onto the system.
During the year, Cricket NSW and Cricket Australia’s Woolworths Cricket Blast teams engaged in a trial with AskNicely, a customer experience platform connecting real-time feedback based on the Net Promoter Score (NPS) framework.
In line with our focus on registered participation, NSW/ACT achieved 153,055, a 3.2% decrease on the previous year.
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NSW volunteers and clubs featured prominently in the 2022 National Community Cricket Awards, with the successful nominees being:-
CONCLUSION Season 2021/22 will be remembered as a season of continued disruption and our Community Cricket Leadership Team will reflect on the season as one of resilience and agility as we again delivered leadership and support to our customers to deliver cricket in their communities.
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The School sector was severely impacted during the recruitment window of Terms 3 and 4 due to COVID-19, with visits by field force staff not permitted and local school cricket competitions and inter-region carnivals cancelled. The four primary cricket programs include School Cups, Health & PE, Mascot Challenge and Sporting Schools, with the last two teacher-delivered. On the back of some strong school-to-club relationships, we were able to achieve a degree of success in promoting recruitment opportunities to students.
Women and Girls Initiative of the Year winner - West Pennant Hills
Indoor Cricket faced another challenging year in the face of the pandemic, with some centres closing. Programs including Woolworths Cricket Blast, Holiday Clinics and regular tournaments were played at centres that remained open.
We wish to sincerely thank all our volunteers involved in administration and match-day to get cricket happening across the state during 2021/22. Your efforts to comply with Public Health Orders and get cricket played for a second season was enormous – thank you!
The majority of local community club cricket competitions were able to commence their competitions on time and run a full season; however, flood rains damaged infrastructure and impacted several competitions particularly in the north of the state.
CLUBS AND COMPETITIONS
Our squad supported clubs and associations to comply with government regulations to implement a safe return to play and recommended amendments to Playing Conditions for the safety of players and match officials and their continued enjoyment of the game.
Cherrybrook Cricket Club Inclusion & Diversity Initiative of the Year winner - Mechelle HareManly Warringah District Cricket Club Technology & Media Initiative of the Year Runner-Up - Aaron Hagenbach – Mid-North Coast Cricket Council.
Community Cricket Club of the Year Runner-Up - Bega/Angledale Bulls Cricket Club Cricket NSW’s Community Club of the Year is the Bega-Angledale Bulls. Through their tireless work, the club has bucked the COVID trend by experiencing a rapid growth of players across a wide age group. The club is a keen driver of female registrations, as well as participation in the Woolworths Cricket Blast Program. In addition to Cricket, the club has been a central part of the community response to bushfires, the COVID pandemic and as a place of social gathering, emotional support and engagement for their community.
The Competition Administration service offered to Associations continues to grow and deliver positive outcomes for players and volunteers alike.
The Community Cricket team delivered Association Roadshows for the first time to all parts of the state. The well-attended sessions featured CEO Lee Germon, joined by members of the Executive Leadership and Community Cricket Teams, to listen to volunteers, acknowledge the health of cricket in the region and state with comparisons to other sports and to workshop identified areas of concern and solutions.
The Community Cricket team again delivered exciting match-day experiences for kids involved in Cricket Blast programs during the SCG Test match, at BBL fixtures and the CommBank Women’s Ashes Test match at Manuka Oval, providing the opportunity for local Blast participants to be involved in On Ground Entertainment during the lunchbreak where they demonstrated their skills through activities and games. The kids enjoyed an amazing experience in front of large crowds.
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Phoebe Litchfield, Maitlin Brown and Stella Campbell starred for the Breakers and Australia A and Jason Sangha, Tanveer Sangha and Hayden Kerr made significant strides across the three formats for our Men’s teams.
Congratulations must go to Western Australia on an amazingly successful summer. Our Australian men and women again represented us with distinction, with Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes starring in the World Cup triumph in NZ and Pat Cummins leading the men through gripping series in Pakistan and Sri Lanka on the back of the successful Ashes series at home.
The future of our Australian representation looks bright, with several of our young stars having successful personal seasons.
We finished season 2020/21 with a sense of relief that we wouldn’t have to face the same pandemic challenges again. As it turned out, season 2021/22 presented more challenges and complications than we could have imagined.
Ash Gardner, Alyssa Healy and Rachael Haynes after winning the World Cup
With all borders except the one to Victoria closed, the Blues began the season in unusual fashion, playing Victoria in three back-to-back Sheffield Shield matches, more than a month after the rest of the competition had got underway, following failed attempts to enter South Australia and the Northern Territory via quarantine environments. This proved a significant challenge for Phil Jaques and the team, coming away from the three match series with two losses, one draw and a mountain to climb to get back into contention. The post-BBL series of matches proved more fruitful, notching wins against Queensland and Tasmania, but ultimately, we finished in fourth position. The One-Day Cup competition was truncated due to Covid and adverse weather, with the Blues qualifying for the final despite only playing two matches. Unfortunately, the Blues were unable to capitalise on a strong performance in the field, and despite several starts with the bat, fell 18 runs short of the 225-run target set by Western ThereAustralia.were
individual highlights for the Blues: Daniel Hughes, who showed immense physical and mental resilience to twice carry his bat in the Shield; Chris Tremain, who grasped his opportunity with the new ball after missing selection for the whole of the previous season, earning the coveted Steve Waugh Medal; Jason Sangha, who followed a strong BBL with consistent performances, including a century in his first match as captain deputising for Kurtis Patterson; and debutants Tanveer Sangha and Hayden Kerr both had break out seasons, managing to make an immediate impact at the top level.
CNSW staff and players are to be congratulated on the effort required to navigate a complex and difficult environment all summer. At the elite level, results on the field were not where we would have liked, with our teams participating in 2 of 5 finals and not winning a title.
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The Blues farewelled Peter Nevill who chose to call time on his illustrious career. Peter is one of only four players to play 100 Sheffield Shield matches for NSW and captained NSW more times than any other player. He leaves behind a significant legacy as a humble and trusted teammate, astute leader and inspiration to Ourmany.NSW Women finished the WNCL in third place, a stuttering run chase against Queensland meant they missed out on a spot in the final. The season started brightly, back-to-back wins against a strong Victorian side courtesy of strong batting performances from Rachael Haynes, Erin Burns, Alyssa Healy, Phoebe Litchfield, Ash Gardner and Tahlia Wilson, were punctuated with a steamrolling of the ACT side, Stella Campbell taking career best figures of 7-25 in bundling the opposition out for just 56. Momentum slowed in the post-WBBL part of the season, losses to Tasmania and Queensland saw the team miss the final. Erin Burns picked up the Belinda Clark Medal as the player of the Theseason.WBBL was a real challenge for our teams. The program started with two weeks of hard quarantine in Hobart and required our teams to stay out of NSW for the entire two-month tournament. Players, coaches and support staff should be commended on their positive approach to tackling those challenges and managing to make the best of the extended time away. To add to those challenges, key players Erin Burns (Sixers) and Rachael Haynes (Thunder) were unable to join the teams, having spent time at home. On-field results didn’t go as we would have liked, with the teams finishing seventh and eighth. The Sixers were able to recognise significant milestones, with Alyssa Healy and coach Ben Sawyer celebrating 100 matches for the Club. Ben has left the Sixers and NSW to take an opportunity with the NZ Women’s team. We are excited to welcome English legend Charlotte Edwards as Head Coach for the next two seasons. Charlotte is an immensely respected figure in world cricket and we look forward to her involvement with the group. The BBL was also a significant challenge for players and staff, with increasing restrictions placed on the teams’ travel and activities through the tournament in order to keep the show on the road. Again, all involved should be congratulated on the resilience shown to make the best of the situation. We also managed to play some good cricket too.
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Daniel Sams playing for Sydney Thunder
Daniel Hughes batting for the NSW Blues Peter Nevill announced his retirement
The Thunder made the finals series for the second consecutive season, for the first time in their history. They finished the regular season in third place but were unable to get past Adelaide in the Knockout. New coach Trevor Bayliss and the team also showed great strength of character to navigate the tournament. Imports Sam Billings and Alex Hales were again strong contributors, while Jason Sangha made the most of his increased opportunities, making the no 3 spot his own after a couple of quiet seasons. Daniel Sams was also instrumental in some big wins, including a spectacular 98 (44) against the Renegades. Many of our younger players made good progress this year and the Thunder look well placed to go deep into the tournament next time around.
The Sixers made yet another final to continue their form in the competition under Head Coach Greg Shipperd. The depth of the list was tested with scheduling and injury, but the team showed a lot of character to keep performing at such a high level. Hayden Kerr had a breakout tournament, taking 25 wickets and playing some crucial innings, including a match winning 98 (58) against Adelaide to book his side a spot in the finals. Ultimately the side were defeated by Perth in the final, to write another chapter in the rivalry between the clubs. The list looks in good shape for yet another tilt at the title in BBL|12. In coaching news, the Sixers have added Cameron White as an assistant to Greg Shipperd for the next two years. Cameron has a wealth of experience as a player and captain, and we look forward to adding his perspectives to the Sixers set up.
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National Championships at an under 19 level were reintroduced to the program this year, having been cancelled due to border restrictions in 2020/21. This provided a great opportunity for our young talent to compete on the national stage. Our Metropolitan and ACT/Country NSW teams performed strongly, but were outplayed by Queensland who took home both titles. We were able to take an opportunity to send our Under 17 male team to compete at the Under 19 carnival, due to the absence of the CA XI. The boys played exceptionally well and finished third overall in a great sign for the emerging talent that exists here in NSW.
Overall, we didn’t finish where we would have liked on the field in 2021/22. That said, players and staff can be immensely proud of the effort and resilience shown given the challenges we faced across the season. We look forward to 2022/23 with high expectations.
CNSW had five representatives in the 15-man squad for the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies. Coach Anthony Clark and players Aidan Cahill, Corey Miller, Jack Nisbet, William Salzmann and Lachlan Shaw represented us well, reaching the semi-finals and ultimately finishing third.
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Will Salzmann celebrates a wicket at the ICC U19 World Cup
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Coffs Harbour is home to some of the most passionate cricket fans and to get more than 12,000 supporters to two very rain impacted matches in the backdrop of COVID was a great result and we’re looking forward to continuing our relationship with Coffs Harbour in the future.
In addition to these beautifully designed shirts, we were proud to welcome Gadigal Elder, Uncle Allen Madden to our matches at the SCG to perform the Acknowledgment of Country, while we also had the privilege of hosting a memorable Didgeridoo performance and smoking ceremony by Terry Olsen, a traditional indigenous dancer and community mentor.
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Sydney Sixers-Coffs Harbour - 9 Jan 2022 Ash Gardner during WBBL First Nations Round launch
Returning to C.ex Coffs International Stadium on the Coffs Coast for the first time since 2019 was an exciting initiative for the Club and it was a pleasure to work with such a great partner in Coffs Harbour City Council.
This season, we set ourselves the target of running five Junior Super Clinics, offering young Sixers fans the opportunity to play with their Sydney Sixers heroes. Due to the restrictions placed on our players through the season, these were pushed back until the completion of the WBBL and BBL, only for rain to force a cancellation of our events in Sutherland, Newcastle and Coffs Harbour. We were able to run two successful events at Waverley and on the North Shore and are determined to repay the trust and support of our young fans in the coming season as we look to expand our fan engagement programs across New South Wales.
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One of the highlights of the previous season was the introduction of an indigenous shirt for the Club. This season was the first time that the Sydney Sixers had be the privilege of wearing a specially designed shirt for the WBBL and BBL First Nations Rounds.
Our BBL matches at the SCG will have been memorable, not only for some edge of your seat cricket, as Moises Henriques and his side to made their way to the Final, but also for a new look match day experience.
Chris Botherway GM Big Bash League Experience / Acting Head of Sydney Sixers
This season saw the Club focus in our customer experience with the introduction of a DJ, new look dance group and new look pyrotechnic displays, all of which helped us reach a Net Promoter Score so high that it has never been matched by any other Club in any other season of the BBL. A proud moment for our Club.
The summer proved to be one of the most challenging and complex to execute, with both Cricket Australia and Big Bash Clubs navigating the rise of COVID cases, unpredictable state border restrictions and fixtures being moved at the last minute. Despite these challenges, the staff and players from both the Club’s men’s and women’s teams attacked the season with positivity and professionalism, while the off-field staff were able to put on some of our most memorable events.
While it was disappointing to not be able to host any Weber Women’s Big Bash League fixtures in Sydney, the Club were determined to ensure that our Members and fans were able to interact with our squad through an increase in digital and video content through our official Club channels.
The Sixers again partnered with the Sony Foundation for their YouCan campaign, providing great awareness as both WBBL and BBL players wore playing shirts for one match that featured three inspirational words dedicated to a young cancer patient. These shirts were also auctioned off to raise $19,600 for the campaign.
All of the player-worn shirts were auctioned off and provided some much appreciated funds to help raise more than $14,000 to expand our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander T20 Cup and Sport, Health, Opportunities and Well-Being Camps.
I’d like to thank the players, staff and front office staff as well as the support of the wider cricketing community for their assistance, patience and belief in what was a tough but also rewarding season for the Sydney Sixers. It has made us even more determined to put on the most fun, fast, family entertainment we can for next season’s WBBL and BBL.
This season, the Sixers partnered with global sports apparel providers Nike. The Club’s playing and merchandise was well received, with it being the leading Club for sales in the league.
Designed by Jordan Adler, a Sydney-based Bidjigal woman, in close collaboration with Sixers stars Dan Christian and Ashleigh Gardner, the shirt symbolises the connection the Club has to the community and its home of the SCG, represented by a large circle as the centre piece of the design.
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The HomeWorld Helpers Grant initiative continued with 10 grassroots cricket clubs awarded $1,000 each. This program aims to give back to clubs and volunteers through financial assistance in helping support coaching and development of local talent. All the cricket clubs across the Thunder Nation do a terrific job and the HomeWorld Helpers Grant is one way of helping Sydney Thunder and HomeWorld give back. Thank you to HomeWorld for their ongoing support of the program and their commitment to our Thunder Nation.
Homestar Finance supported the Sydney Thunder in raising money and meals for OzHarvest by hitting fours throughout BBL and WBBL. Collectively, over 212,750 meals have been raised through OzHarvest, which also included $11,000 with 220 fours this season. Rachael Haynes, Hannah Darlington, Chris Green and representatives from Homestar Finance volunteered time to help pack meals for those in need.
Across the summer, Thunder’s Season of Giving continued with over four Santa sacks worth of toys being donated to the Westmead Children’s Hospital for boys and girls in need. Thank you to the incredible support from the Thunder Nation, both at matches and through support shown online for this initiative.
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ATSI T20 Cup In what was again an interrupted season both on and off field, Sydney Thunder would like to acknowledge and thank the members and fans of the club for their support in BBL|11 and WBBL|07. Sydney Thunder would also like to acknowledge the players and staff of both our WBBL and BBL teams who had to relocate to ensure the competitions could continue. Despite the challenges presented throughout the summer, Thunder continued to make a meaningful difference in the community through delivering programs designed to safely connect people in a time that being physically distanced was Theencouraged.HomeWorld Thunder Nation Cup shifted to a new time of year for the first time due to an extended lockdown and period of rain. Despite the challenges in completing the competition due to weather and ground availabilities, there have been an incredible 400 participants involved through six communities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Finally, thank you to the staff at Sydney Thunder for all the work behind the scenes in delivering the season. From the early morning stadium or event set up, to the late-night pack downs — the commitment and passion from each person is the reason Sydney Thunder achieves what it does each year.
Andrew Gilchrist Head of Sydney Thunder
During April, Albury-Wodonga hosted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander T20 Cup involving Sydney Thunder, Sydney Sixers, Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades. The quadseries style competition celebrated culture, connection and cricket. Sydney Thunder were crowned winners of this newly formed quad-competition, defeating the Melbourne Stars in the final. Thank you to the Albury-Wodonga Council and Cricket Association for hosting competition.
While the communities competed on-field, they all came together for an online mental health discussion provided by the Mental Health Foundation of Australia, discussing the importance of mental health and becoming ambassadors in their community.
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Each of the 12 scholars is a product of the strong Cricket NSW Pathway system, representing either NSW Metropolitan or ACT/ NSW Country at various Underage National Championships. The program has an enviable record of producing high class international players, with 20 scholars going on to represent Australia, including Pat Cummins, Alyssa Healy, Ellyse Perry and Steve Smith.
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Former Cricket NSW Director, Basil Sellers AM, continued his long-term generous philanthropic contribution to NSW cricket in 2021/22, with 12 Scholarships awarded to the state’s most prodigious young cricketers under 19 years of age.
Mr Sellers’ support, through the Cricket NSW Foundation, aims to assist Scholars and their families with education, training, employment and social skills, particularly those rural and regional cricketers who may need to adjust to a city lifestyle. Through the ongoing and generous support of Kookaburra Sport, each scholar is also offered a two-year cricket equipment Thissponsorship.groupof scholars took the total number inducted since 2006/07 to 144.
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In recent years, the Basil Sellers Scholarship Program has grown its focus towards the holistic development of the players, both on and off the field. This year’s cohort of scholars weren’t able to come together in person due to covid restrictions so, for the second season in a row, the induction evening was forced to be held online. Scholars joined in virtually from their homes with parents and guests watching on as this year’s group were introduced to Basil Sellers AM himself. Due to the ongoing commitments of the scholars during the cricket season, the off-field development was held off until we moved into our new home at Cricket Central. In early July the scholars were invited to the new home of Cricket in NSW for a leadership development course delivered by Burn Bright, a not-for-profit who exist to help Australia’s young people flourish and understand that they can make a difference in the world. This session was followed by a tour of the new world-class facility and function attended by Basil Sellers AM, former scholar
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Representative Coach Three Representative Coaching Courses (Orange, Sydney, Newcastle) were conducted within NSW in the 2021/22 season, with 80 new Representative-accredited coaches. Cricket NSW made changes, for the first time, to the structure of the course, combining both online and face-to-face modules, allowing participants to complete the course safely and in a more time friendly manner.
• Stephen O’Keefe (Spin Bowling)
The 2021/22 season has seen a new structure in the delivery of coach development at Cricket NSW. To enhance coach development, education and accreditation, Jay Lenton has been appointed as the Coach Development Specialist. This role will oversee the expansion and implementation of coach development initiatives such as updated social media platforms, online masterclasses, podcasts and a new online mode of delivering ten hours of theory of the Representative Coach Accreditation course. Cricket NSW Coach and Talent Specialists have continued utilising online coach education and development sessions where appropriate, while overseeing a return to face to face Iprograms.wouldlike to take this opportunity to thank all Cricket NSW Coach and Talent Specialists, Community Cricket staff and casual staff who have organised, facilitated, promoted and led coach education and development sessions this past season. Without their hard work and dedication, Cricket NSW would not have been able to reach as many coaches as we did.
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This program was complemented by face-to-face programs conducted by the Coach and Talent Specialists NSW Breakers Coach
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There was a total of 27 Community Coaching Courses with 275 new accredited Community Coaches (Level 1) in the last season. These courses were held across NSW. Through Cricket Australia, the delivery method of this course was broken into a two-hour online and two-hour face-to-face process.
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COACH EDUCATION Coach education continued to be a focus for Cricket NSW over the last season. Over 450 coaches worldwide experienced the Cricket NSW ‘Masterclass Monday’. Three sessions were presented by the following coaches
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HIGH PERFORMANCE COACH DEVELOPMENT
In the 2020/21 season, Cricket NSW, in conjunction with Cricket Australia, funded a one-year Female Coaching Internship. The purpose of the internship was to identify and develop high potential female coaches in NSW.
Three coaching interns, Sarah Aley, Lisa Griffith and Hannah Trethewy, were recruited to undertake the program.
High performance coach development continued at Cricket NSW for the 2021/22 season with a broad variety of programs and Thecourses.performance-oriented learning model is utilised in the highperformance coach development process at Cricket NSW. This model is based upon a 70:20:10 ratio of experience, where 70% of workplace learning comes from the coaches learning through workplace experiences, 20% is aided by learning directly from others and 10% of workplace learning is undertaken via formal training. This model allows the high-performance coaches to implement their learnings at a faster rate and immediately integrate and practice their skills with the playing group they Asidecoach.from the in-situ coach development, where coaches are observed, coached, and undertake reflection at practice, in matches and in meetings, coaches undertook the following learning opportunities in the 2021/22 season: Sixers and Thunder W/BBL
The program consisted of a coaching experience module where coaches were allocated coaching opportunities and were observed and critiqued with comprehensive feedback, a theoretical module that was based upon the ‘Fast Tracking Women’s Coaching’ program that was conducted by Sport NSW and Australian College of Physical Education (ACPE) and a selfawareness module where coaches undertook a profiling process to identify their effectiveness. Aley and Trethewy excelled and were offered fulltime positions in in our Pathways program during 2021/22.
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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP - THE SYDNEY SMITH CUP Northern District won the Club Championship for the second consecutive season and for the seventh time overall, by a margin of 156 points over Mosman, with Manly Warringah in third place.
Final: Randwick Petersham 114 (C Hawkins 52 R McElduff 4-16 D Malone 3-13) def Sydney University 83 (H Kerr 37 A Semple 3-11 D Sams 2-8 D Singh 2-29) at University Oval. Kingsgrove Sports Player of the Final: Camden Hawkins (Randwick Petersham).
THIRD GRADE - THE MITCHELL CUP Minor Premiers Northern District won the Mitchell Cup for the second consecutive season and for the seventh time overall after defeating Bankstown in the final at Pratten Park.
FOURTH GRADE - THE REID CUP The Reid Cup was won by Manly Warringah for the first time since 2017/18 and for the third time overall by defeating Parramatta in the final at Hurstville Oval.
McDonald’s NSW Premier Cricket Belvidere Cup Champions - Mosman Cricket Club
Final: Northern District 7/250 (W Coffey 108 M Crayn 50 N Kimberley 44 N Cheadle 27 K Layton 3-76) def Bankstown 198 (R Freeman 80 A Kouventaris 27 A Melnyk 23 J Fullagar 4-27 A Bartlett 3-33 J Camp 2-12). Mick Favell Medal for Player of the Final: Will Coffey (Northern District).
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Final: Mosman 300 (L Hearne 144 D Crawford 46 P Forrest 29 M Calder 28 C Green 4-82 G Furrer 2-24) def Northern District 279 (C Green 80 D Anderson 72 D Lowery 34 R Pawson 22 B Davis 21 J Turner 5-102 E Eales 2-51 J Park 2-58). Benaud Medal for Player of the Final: Jake Turner (Mosman).
The NSW Premier Cricket competition again comprised 20 clubs. Following the relaxation of Covid-19 lockdowns, the season was able to commence on 6 November 2021, six weeks later than the traditional late-September starting date. This resulted in the First Grade competition comprising 15 one-day limited-overs rounds and 2 two-day rounds, with twoday and three-day finals series matches. The lower grades commenced on 6 November 2021 for Second Grade and 13 November 2021 for Third, Fourth and Fifth Grades and comprised solely of one-day limited-overs rounds, including Finals Series matches. Those grades, together with the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup, Poidevin-Gray Shield and AW Green Shield, contributed to the Club Championship.
Jack Moran Medal for Player of the Final: Justin Green (Sutherland).
David Givney Medal for Player of the Final: Brynn Mendal (Manly Warringah).
SECOND GRADE - THE ALBERT CUP Mosman won the Albert Cup for the first time since 2006/07 and for the sixth time overall by defeating Sutherland in the final at Allan Border Oval.
FIRST GRADE LIMITED-OVERS CUP
Final: Mosman 9/217 (A Doolan 49 H Farquharson 45no T Colgan 35 L Hehir 3-38 J Green 2-31 J Almond 2-39) def Sutherland 9/212 (C Barton 54 J Green 52 J Horner 32 B Piggott 25 D Holdstock 20 H Singh 3-58 S McAvoy 2-29 J Venianakis 2-54).
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The First Grade Limited-Overs Cup competition was suspended in 2021/22 due to the Covid-related shortened season.
KINGSGROVE SPORTS T20 CUP Randwick Petersham won the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup and $12,000 prize money by defeating Sydney University in the final at University Oval. Sydney University received $4,000 as runner-up, while Parramatta and UNSW received $1,000 each as Conference finalists. The competition was made up of two Conferences, with participating teams aligned with the Sydney Sixers and the Sydney Thunder respectively.
Final: Manly Warringah 3/185 (B Mendel 105 L Charles 48no M Jones 2-31) def Parramatta 180 (K Gunawardane 45 L Apps 33 S Vemulapalli 32 Y Brown 22 L Kerr 4-33 J Cooper 2-33 J Hobson 2-35).
FIRST GRADE - THE BELVIDERE CUP Mosman won the Belvidere Cup for the first time since 1938/39 and for the fifth time overall by defeating Northern District in the final at Bankstown Oval.
The David Sherwood Cup was won by Eastern Suburbs for the first time by defeating University of NSW in the final at Sydney University Oval.
Sam Skelly (Eastern Suburbs): 31 wickets
POIDEVIN-GRAY SHIELD (U/21)
FIFTH GRADE - THE SHERWOOD CUP
St George won the AW Green Shield for the first time since 2011/12 and for the thirteenth time overall by defeating Northern District final at Hurstville Oval.
Leading players: 25 votes: Scott Rodgie (Northern District). 19 votes: Adam Semple (Randwick Petersham). 15 votes: Peter Forrest (Mosman). 13 votes: Joshua Clarke (Western Suburbs) and Mark Stoneman (St George).
Luke Courtney (Hawkesbury): 31 wickets
Fourth Grade: Stephen Wark (St George)
Fifth Grade: Trevor Whittall (Campbelltown Camden) SPIRIT OF CRICKET
Third Grade: Daniel Stickland (Northern District)
The Kingsgrove Sports First Grade Merit XII was first introduced in 2012/13 to recognise the leading players in the First Grade Competition. Selection is based on statistics in First Grade preliminary-round matches during the season. The team includes the six highest run-scorers, the five leading wicket-takers, the leading wicketkeeper and the O’Reilly Medallist named as captain. Players with an equal number of runs or wickets are separated by superior average and, for wicketkeepers, by most runs.
Second Grade: Andrew Jamieson (Manly Warringah)
Justin Avendano (UTS North Sydney): 836 Joshuaruns Clarke (Western Suburbs): 826 Danielruns Solway (Bankstown): 715 runs Angus Robson (Eastern Suburbs): 705 Raveeshruns Srivastava (Fairfield-Liverpool): 652 runs
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Wicketkeeper: Tim Cummins (Sydney University): 28 dismissals & 486 runs
O’REILLY MEDAL – FIRST GRADE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
First Grade: Joshua Clarke (Western Suburbs)
The O’Reilly Medal for the First Grade Player of the Year is named after former Australian and NSW leg-spinner and journalist, Bill O’Reilly. It is judged by umpires who award votes on a 3-2-1 basis at the end of each match. Northern District allrounder Scott Rodgie was the winner of the prestigious award. It was a dominant season from Scott, who scored 813 runs at an average of 54.2 including three centuries with a highest score of 147. Scott was also one of the leading bowlers with 32 wickets at an average of 15.28 and was named Player of the Match by the umpires on no less than 6 occasions.
The Spirit of Cricket award was won by Northern District for the second consecutive season. Officiating umpires assessed each team’s support for the Spirit of Cricket, as set out in the Preamble to the Laws of Cricket, during each match.
Final: Eastern Suburbs 8/181 (O Patterson 49no A Prasan 41 C Thanos 32 D Carew 3-28 H McCarthy 3-37) def UNSW 164 (D Siu 45 T Viswasam 32 D Bowcock 21 B Coates-Grayson 21 D Carew 20 A Prasan 3-31 S Kertesz 2-30 O Patterson 2-32).
Leading Clubs: Northern District 8.67 points average, Sydney University 8.79, UNSW 8.50, St George 8.38, Campbelltown Camden 8.54, Randwick Petersham 8.59.
Commemorative caps were generously donated by Harry Solomons of Kingsgrove Sports. Batsmen: Scott Rodgie (Captain, Northern District): 813 runs & 32 wickets
James Rodgers Medal for Player of the Final: Akshay Prasan (Eastern Suburbs).
CAPTAINS OF THE YEAR Each captain is assessed by the umpires at the conclusion of each match for on-field captaincy skills, personal performance, team management and communication skills.
Sutherland won the Poidevin-Gray Shield for the first time since 2015/16 and for the seventh time overall by defeating Penrith in the final at Glenn McGrath Oval.
Hunar Verma (Blacktown): 33 wickets
KINGSGROVE SPORTS MERIT XII - FIRST GRADE TEAM OF THE YEAR
Final: Sutherland 9/214 (A Ritchie 48 L Ball 33 J Green 25 Z Philipson 21no R Wilson 2-32 L Doddrell 2-47) def Penrith 98 (H Railz 29 W Straker 5-25 J Green 3-10) at Glenn McGrath Oval.
Shane Lee Medal for Player of the Final: Will Straker (Sutherland). AW GREEN SHIELD (U/16)
Final: St George 7/208 (T Forrester 59 S Konstas 54 E Anderson 36 J Ingram 27no P Murray 4-37) def Northern District 8/205 (S Weir 78 T Bermingham 57 J Slater 32 J Ingram 3-39 J Konstas 2-29).
Bowlers: Devlin Malone (Sydney University): 35 RyanwicketsFelsch (Sydney): 33 wickets
BOB SIMPSON AWARD - COACH OF THE YEAR Mosman’s Peter Forrest won the Bob Simpson Award for Coach of the Year. The Award is designed to recognise the contribution of coaches towards the development of the teams and individual players in their respective clubs.
Kevin Cunningham Medal for Player of the Final: Thomas Forrester (St George). AW Green Shield Player of the Year: Sam Konstas (St George).
Final: St George-Sutherland drew Gordon at Olds Park. Match Abandoned due to wet weather.
FIRST GRADE SEASON HIGHLIGHTS & MILESTONES St George DCC and Mosman CC celebrated the centenary of their entry into the first-grade competition.
Joshua Clarke (Western Suburbs) - 8,000 runs and 20 career centuries. Nick Larkin (Sydney University) and Anthony Sams (Randwick Petersham)7,000 runs. Chris Williams (Sutherland) and Daniel Solway (Bankstown) - 6,000 runs. Justin Avendano (UTS North Sydney) and Sam Robson (Eastern Suburbs) - 5,000 Harjasruns. Singh (Blacktown Mounties) scored his maiden century aged 16 years 349 days, the 8th youngest in First Grade Samhistory.and Angus Robson (Eastern Suburbs) became the only brothers to twice score centuries in the same innings.
Player of the Final: Anika Karlsson (St George-Sutherland).
Robert Aitken (UTS North Sydney): First player to achieve 500 matches. Rob made his first-grade debut in 1992/93 and has scored 11,386 runs at 29.34 with 8 centuries and 59 half-centuries and taken 618 wickets at 27.08 with 14 five wickets in an Jarrydinnings.Burke announced his retirement at the age of 39. After a distinguished career, which commenced in 2000 as a 17-yearold, Jarryd has played 428 matches, scored 10,965 runs at 29.71 and taken 683 wickets at 22.03. Scott Rodgie (Northern District) - 300 Joshmatches.Lalor (Penrith) and Adam Semple (Randwick Petersham) - 400 wickets.
Player of the Final: Nell Bryson-Smith (Sydney)
Lower Grade: Tunks Park (UTS North Sydney)
Highest Partnership: 224 (4th wicket)
Brewer Shield (U/18)
GROUNDS OF THE YEAR
First Grade: Pratten Park (Western Suburbs)
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The McDonald’s Women’s NSW Premier Cricket competition comprised 11 clubs, across the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade and Brewer Shield (U18) competition’s this season.
The club championship incorporated the First, Second, Third Grade and Brewer Shield competitions.
The Second Grade Premiership this season consisted of a combination of both 50 over and T20 matches. Parramatta were declared Second Grade Premiers for the third time when the Final against Bankstown Sports was abandoned due to wet weather at Rothwell Park.
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Sean Mantle Competitions Officer
MCDONALD’S NSW PREMIER CRICKET – WOMEN’S
Final: Sydney 2/98 (N McDonald 40*, J Hicks 29) def Penrith 96 (N Bryson-Smith 6-18, M Brown 2-29)
Final: Parramatta drew Bankstown Sports at Rothwell Park. Match Abandoned due to wet weather. Third Grade The Third Grade Premiership this season consisted of a combination of both 40 over and T20 matches. Minor Premiers St George-Sutherland were declared Third Grade Premiers for the 13th time when the Final against Gordon was abandoned due to wet weather at Olds Park.
Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup ChampionsRandwick Petersham Cricket Club
FIRST GRADE – THE RUTH PREDDY TROPHY
Justin Avendano & Tim Reynolds (UTS North Sydney).
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP – THE ANN MITCHELL SHIELD
Highest scores: Jarryd Biviano (Sutherland) 172, Justin Avendano (UTS North Sydney) 171, Jay Lenton (Manly Warringah) 159 and Mark Stoneman (St George) 150.
Most wickets in an innings: Luke Courtney 7-68, Muhammad Irfan Jr 7-82, Samuel Skelly 6-37, Adam Semple 6-37, Declan White 6-44, Jonathon Craig Dobson 6-45, Thomas McKenzie 6-75.
The First Grade Premiership this season consisted of a combination of both 50 over and T20 matches. For the ninth time in their history, the Ruth Preddy Trophy was won by Sydney after defeating Penrith in the Final by 8 wickets at Drummoyne Oval.
The Brewer Shield Premiership this season consisted of a combination of both 50 over and T20 matches. St GeorgeSutherland won its second Brewer Shield Premiership after defeating Penrith by 65 runs via DLS method in the Final at Glenn McGrath Oval.
Final: St George-Sutherland 8/167cc (I Bellhouse 38, A Karlsson 28*, L Martin 25, K Grosse 2-11, M Spence 2-22) def Penrith 82 (J Morton 4-27, A Karlsson 2-9).
Sydney won the Club Championship for the 11th time in their history. They had a total of four teams competing in the NSW Women’s Premier Cricket competitions, finishing with minor premierships in First Grade, Second Grade and Brewer Shield.
KINGSGROVE SPORTS MERIT XII – WOMENS FIRST GRADE TEAM OF THE YEAR
Women’s Premier Cricket Annual Awards Award Winner
Players with an equal number of runs or wickets are separated by superior average and, for wicketkeepers, by most runs.
First Grade Player of the Year Saskia Horley (Manly Warringah) Second
Grade Player of the Year Stephanie Gillett (St George-Sutherland) & Natalie Guyot (Manly Warringah) Third Grade Player of the Year Kristen Dorsch (Gordon) Brewer Shield Player of the YearThe Trish Langsford Trophy Lucy Wilson (Parramatta) Spirit of Cricket Award Campbelltown Camden First Grade Captain of the Year Mikaela Turik (Manly Warringah) Second Grade Captain of the Year Emma Howe (Northern District) Third Grade Captain of the Year Kristen Dorsch (Gordon) Brewer Shield Captain of the Year Lucy Wilson (Parramatta) Bob Simpson Award – Women’s Coach of the Year Russel Grimson (Sydney) McDonald’s NSW Premier Cricket Women’s First Grade Player of the Year Saskia Horley McDonald’s NSW Premier Cricket Ruth Preddy Trophy Champions - Sydney Cricket Club ANNUAL REPORT AND YEARBOOK 2021/22 31
Captain Saskia Horley (Manly Warringah): 646 runs Batters Heidi Cheadle (Gordon): 397 runs Rhiannon Dick (St George-Sutherland): 389 GracerunsDignam (Northern District): 321 runs Anika Learoyd (Campbelltown-Camden): 319 NaomirunsMcDonald (Sydney): 310 runs Wicketkeeper Kate Pelle (Parramatta): 12 dismissals Bowlers Samantha Devlin (Bankstown Sports): 20 EbonywicketsHoskin (Campbelltown Camden): 19 Jannatulwickets Sumona (Bankstown Sports): 17 JaclynwicketsVickery (St George-Sutherland): 17 KirawicketsChurchland (Sydney): 15 wickets
The Kingsgrove Sports Women’s First Grade Merit XII recognises the leading players in the Women’s First Grade SelectionCompetition.isbased on statistics in the First Grade Limited Overs and T20 preliminary round matches during the season. The team includes the five highest run-scorers, the five-leading wicket-takers, the leading wicketkeeper and the First Grade Player of the Year as captain.
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT
O’Reilly Medal winner for Men’s First Grade Player of the Year - Scott Rodgie
Former Code of Conduct Commissioner John McGruther stood down after 20 years in the role. The SCA extends its appreciation to John for his outstanding dedication and service to the Association.
CODE OF CONDUCT COMMISSIONERS AND JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
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All rulings by the Commissioners were accepted, meaning the Judiciary Committee was not called upon to consider any reports.
New Delegate Members were D Collins, M Starr, P Mizzi, C Hynes, B Cherry, M Creed, M Sanders, E Sidgreaves, D Eve, G Healy, A Garey, S Chapman. They replaced A Day, A Smith, H McKay, P Edwards, A Simonsen, J Toyer, D Jones, J Henry, N Afaras, M Henderson, B Tregea and J Bolt respectively. The SCA wishes to record its appreciation of the efforts of all retiring Members and to welcome all new Members.
MEMBERSHIP OF THE ASSOCIATION
The Board appointed Gordon Salier and Tom Payton as the SCA’s Code of Conduct TheCommissioners.JudiciaryCommittee for the season comprised Bob Browne & Terry Buddin (Chairmen), Gary Bensley, Richard Chee Quee, Ross Collins, Randal Green, Chris Hynes, Dean Magee, Eric Myatt and Peter TheToohey.Committee thanks those members for their assistance, when required, in considering alleged breaches of the Code of DuringConduct.theseason, the Commissioners considered 31 alleged breaches of the Code, down from 49 in the previous season. The Commissioners offered 28 players a penalty, ranging from a caution to 3 matches. On three (3) occasions, the Commissioners determined to take no action.
The Committee thanks those members for their contribution to the successful conduct of the Women’s Premier Cricket.
*denotes deceased Management (NSWCA Administration)
Appointed Members, Committee of Management J Biviano, S Rodgie. Life Members J Aitken (2011), J Barrett (2007), M Bonnell (2016), R Browne (2005), P Burkhart (2007), D Chappelow (2004), A (Anthony) Clark (2019), A (Tony) Clark (2009), R Cook (2016), A Falk (2020), I Field (2014), D Givney (2004), K Hall (2002), G Hartshorne (2005), W Hayes (2009), Ms J Henry (2015), T Jay (2002), C Jefferies (2012), A Kershler (2011), G Lambert (2014), N Laming (2001)*, G Lill (2016), G Mail (2017), C Matthews (2004), J McGruther (2015), I Moran (2019), M O’Sullivan (2002)*, J Robson (2002), J Rodgers (2004), D Tribolet (2002)*, A Watson (2002), B White (2012), M Wood (2008).
NEW AND RETIRING MEMBERS
Delegates B Freedman, R Bilimoria (Bankstown); D Collins, S Foster (Blacktown Mounties); M Richardson, J Evans (Campbelltown Camden); M Coles, M Quinn (Eastern Suburbs); R Cook, M Starr (FairfieldLiverpool); A Falk, M Cant (Gordon); P Mizzi, M Shields (Hawkesbury); S Beatty, C Hynes (Manly Warringah), I Finlay, B Smith (Mosman); G Gorrie, C Hambleton (Northern District); B Cherry, G Monaghan (Parramatta); P Goldsmith, D Turner (Penrith); A Wright, C Sullivan, (Randwick Petersham); S Gray, K Greene (St George); E Atkins, T Iceton (Sutherland); P Rashleigh, L Prittipaul (Sydney); M Creed, C Robertson (Sydney University); M Sanders, J Lupton (University of NSW); P Lindsay, K Campbell (UTS North Sydney); M Swan, R Wayde (Western Suburbs); S Aley (Bankstown Women’s); C Hollis (Campbelltown Camden Women’s); E Sidgreaves (Gordon Women’s), M Turik (Manly Warringah Women’s); D Eve (Northern District Women’s), S Reibelt (Parramatta Women’s); D Williams (Penrith Women’s); C Fountain (St GeorgeSutherland Women’s); G Healy (Sydney Women’s), G Lomis-Futeran (Universities Women’s); S Berman (UTS North Sydney Women’s), C Munro (Auburn); A Garey (Balmain South Sydney); T Murphy (Burwood Briars); G Baird (Epping); R Buchanan (Georges River); I Kensall (Lane Cove); S Chapman (Lindfield); M Muhammed (Mount Pritchard-Southern Districts); A Macic (North West Sydney); C Lahoud (Pennant Hills); R Burcham (Roseville); D Chappelow (Strathfield); L Parkinson (Warringah); L Borg (NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association); W Howard (NSW Districts Cricket Association); J Biviano (NSW Women’s Premier Cricket).
At its 35th Annual General Meeting on 16 August 2021, the SCA elected a Committee of Management comprising Graham Gorrie (Chairman), Paul Goldsmith (Deputy Chairman), Evan Atkins, Andrew Falk, Brian Freedman and Craig Hambleton. The SCA subsequently approved the Committee’s nomination of Scott Rodgie and John Biviano to serve as Appointed Members of the Committee.
WOMEN’S COMPETITION SUB-COMMITTEE
The Committee of Management formally delegated specific duties to the above sub-committee, comprising members elected by Shires clubs, as follows: Messrs John Biviano (Chairman), Anthony Boorer, Anthony Clarke, Daryl Chappelow, Damian Naughton and Mike Wood. The Committee thanks those members for their contribution to the successful conduct of the Shires competition.
The Committee of Management formally delegated administration of Women’s Premier Cricket to the above subcommittee, as follows: John Biviano (Chair), Nicholas Afaras, Sarah Aley, Ross Denny, Cailyn Fountain and Greg Healy.
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SHIRES COMPETITION SUB-COMMITTEE
• Ground staff and ground authorities and all clubs, particularly those that hosted competition finals and representative matches.
• Adam Morehouse, SCA Statistician.
The SCA acknowledges the support and co-operation provided by NSWCUSA management and staff including Troy Penman (Executive Officer), Darren Goodger (State Umpiring Manager), Bede Sajowitz (Administration Officer), Ben Treloar (Education Officer) and Clair Polosak (Umpire Educator / Female Umpire Engagement).
Unfortunately,competitions. a suitable date could not be found to conduct the match.
• McDonald’s - major sponsor of SCA competitions. • Kingsgrove Sports - major sponsor of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup.
UMPIRES
CRICKET AUSTRALIA Cricket Australia again demonstrated its direct commitment to club cricket by allocating $324,400 and $52,655 to Cricket NSW for the development of NSW Premier Cricket and Women’s Premier Cricket respectively. The Board distributed those grants among all clubs, to facilitate projects such as ground improvements and coaching programs.
• The Sydney Women’s Cricket Umpires’ Association, its Committee and all officiating umpires.
APPRECIATION The Sydney Cricket Association thanks the following people and organisations for their contribution to the success of its 2021/22 season:
OBITUARY Parramatta District Cricket Club paid tribute to club stalwart and Life Member Ron Wright (OAM) who passed away on 27 July 2021, at the age of 89. Ron provided outstanding service to his club as Honorary Secretary for over 40 years and to the NSW Cricket Association and Sydney Cricket Association as delegate for over 30 years. Ron was awarded Life Membership of the NSWCA, the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in Ron2012.was genuinely well-liked, respected and a great friend to the wider cricket community.
• Kookaburra Australia Pty Ltd - official cricket ball of the SCA.
• Transport for NSW - SCA Community Sponsor.
The SCA conducted a joint Premiers’ and Awards Function for both the Men’s and Women’s Premier Cricket competitions on 26 May 2022 with 116 guests in attendance. This function was a fitting way in which to end a very successful season and to congratulate all premiership teams and award winners.
• Australian Cricketers’ Association - for its Premier Cricket Program, a program which provides funding to Premier clubs for non-contracted current and former first-class cricketers to be engaged in playing, coaching or mentoring roles.
• The Sydney Shires Cricket Umpires’ Association, especially David Goodman (President) and Stephen Blomfield (Secretary), its Committee and all officiating umpires.
• Managers and coaches of all AW Green Shield competition teams.
• Cricket Australia - for its Premier Club Funding Program.
• The NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association, especially Mark Hughes (Chairman), Troy Penman (Executive Officer) and its Board and all officiating umpires and scorers.
The SCA appreciates the efforts of the NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association (NSWCUSA), which again appointed accredited umpires to officiate in Premier Cricket matches. The NSWCUSA also assisted the Sydney Shires Cricket Umpires’ Association and the Sydney Women’s Cricket Umpires’ Association to make similar appointments.
FUNCTIONS
• First Grade scorers - for their valuable contribution in providing timely online match scorecards.
• Dave Lyall and Liam Ferreira (Cricket NSW Marketing and Communications) - for providing extensive social media content during the season.
• Tom Iceton - for proofreading of the SCA’s competition’s playing conditions.
• Colin Clowes, Bob Brenner, Colin Jefferies and Richard Cook (Honorary Librarians, NSWCA) - for the provision and maintenance of records, milestones and statistics.
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Community Radio 2HHH-FM 100.1 provided live broadcast of the Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup during the season.
MEDIA During the season, the SCA’s competitions enjoyed regular media coverage, in particular from metropolitan newspapers, suburban newspapers and the Cricket NSW’s social media channels. In addition, the NSW Premier Cricket competition website provided live ball-by-ball coverage of 100% of all First Grade preliminary round matches, together with regular live streaming of First Grade, Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup, Second Grade, Poidevin-Gray Shield and AW Green Shield matches including all Finals Series matches during the season.
U/16 CITY – COUNTRY CHALLENGE St George DCC and ACT Southern Districts qualified to represent the SCA and the NSWCCA respectively, in the annual match between the Premiers of the AW Green Shield and Bradman Cup U/16
Digital streaming service Kayo Sports provided a multi camera broadcast of 12 featured Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup and Women’s First Grade T20 matches.
• Pagemasters Media Services - for the publication of match results in newspapers.
Defending premiers Warringah won the Harry Culbert Trophy for the fourth time overall after defeating Mount PritchardSouthern Districts in the final at Weldon Oval.
Muhammad Y Ali (Auburn): 23 wickets
Tully Moffatt (Warringah): 19 wickets
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First Grade Captain of the Year Corey Lowe (Auburn)
Warringah and North West Sydney were declared joint premiers when the final was abandoned due to wet weather at Weldon Oval.
Thirteen clubs contested the Shires competitions. For the first time Shires 5th Grade (Tim Creer Cup) was included within the Club Championship along with the top four grades and the Frank Gray Shield.
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP – THE DAVID TRIBOLET TROPHY Burwood Briars won the Shires Club Championship for the 10th consecutive season and for the 25th time overall, by a margin of just 4.5 points over Warringah with Auburn in third position.
FIFTH GRADE - THE TIM CREER CUP (40 over matches) Burwood Briars and Roseville were declared joint premiers when the final was abandoned due to wet weather at Rothwell Park.
Sean Mantle Competitions Officer
FOURTH GRADE - THE HARRY CULBERT TROPHY
SCA Medal for Player of the Final: Alex Vendrasco (Burwood Briars)
SCA Medal for Player of the Final: Benjamin Cook (Warringah)
Peter Toohey Medal for Player of the Final: Scott Mackedie (Balmain South Sydney)
Spirit of Cricket Award Warringah
Wicketkeeper Kaoser Ahmed (Balmain South Sydney): 22 dismissals Bowlers Tahmidul Islam (Captain - Balmain South Sydney): 32 wickets Jack Kovacic (Burwood Briars): 26 wickets
North West Sydney won the J B Hollander Trophy for the first time by defeating Strathfield by 6 wickets via DLS in the final at Kanebridge Oval.
Shires Umpire of the Year Simon Dodwell Shires Ground of the Year Bexley Oval – Groundsmen Trent Malley Balmain South Sydney’s First Grade team from the Final NSW
SYDNEY CRICKET ASSOCIATION MERIT XISHIRES FIRST GRADE TEAM OF THE YEAR
Second Grade Captain of the Year Brett Bastow (Burwood Briars)
Final North West Sydney 4/110 (T Stubbs 58*, S Dua 2-23) def Strathfield 127 (R Sheth 29, V Daly 26, K Grady 3-21, D McDonald 2-22, C Pathrinage 2-26, N Keast 2-28) at Kanebridge Oval.
SECOND GRADE - THE SJ MAYNE TROPHY Burwood Briars won the SJ Mayne Trophy for the first time since 2018/19 and the 20th time overall, by defeating Auburn by 8 wickets in the final at Rothwell Park.
For the first time since 2009/10, the RB Clark Cup was won by Balmain South Sydney, after defeating Burwood Briars in the final at Drummoyne Oval. This was Balmain South Sydney’s 5th First Grade Premiership.
The Merit XI recognises the leading players in the First Grade Competition. Selection into the team is based on statistics in First Grade preliminary rounds only. Eleven players are selected including the five highest run-scorers, the leading all-rounder, the four leading wicket-takers, the leading wicketkeeper, and the Shires Player of the Year is named captain.
Final Warringah 176 (N Morrison 67, K Morrison 35, P Maithani 3-25, R Kamboj 2-32, M Paradiya 2-41) def Mount Pritchard-Southern Districts 71 (B Cook 6-27, G Gerry 2-13) at Weldon Oval.
Frank Gray Shield Player of the Year Jamie McLeod (Burwood Briars)
Final Burwood Briars 2/53 (J Goulding 2-8) def Auburn 52 (A Vendrasco 4-18, A Gardner 2-3, M Roper 2-16) at Rothwell Park.
Shires First Grade Player of the Year Tahmidul Islam (Balmain South Sydney)
Sydney Shires Cricket Annual Awards Award Winner
THIRD GRADE - THE JB HOLLANDER TROPHY
FIRST GRADE – THE RB CLARK CUP
Third Grade Captain of the Year Phillip Maxwell (Burwood Briars) & Aaron Hadley (Auburn)
SCA Medal for Player of the Final: Trent Stubbs (North West Sydney)
Fourth Grade Captain of the Year Kel Morrison (Warringah)
SYDNEY SHIRES
Final Balmain South Sydney 9/215cc (S Mackedie 54, A Haider 47, T Islam 35, J Kovacic 3-35, D Reddy 3-43) def Burwood Briars 81 (A Raizada 3-17, P Rahman 3-18, T Islam 2-16) at Drummoyne Oval.
FRANK GRAY SHIELD (U/24)
Any players tied on the same number of runs or wickets are separated by superior average and, in the case of wicketkeepers, by most runs. Commemorative caps were presented to all players. Batters Cosikan Beadle (Mount PritchardSouthern Districts): 334 runs Max Squire (Burwood Briars): 330 runs Tom Moffitt (Burwood Briars): 329 runs Corey Lowe (Auburn): 324 runs Ian Janda (Epping): 300 runs All-Rounder Adrian Isherwood (Pennant Hills) 330 runs & 22 wickets
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Western Zone Mark
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Ian Strudwick Zone Administrators ACT
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• NSW Bush Blues – Nick Foster (Captain - Newcastle), Daniel Arms (Newcastle), Nic Broes (Western), Ryan Brown (Riverina), Scott Burkinshaw (Central Coast), Adrian Chad (Newcastle), Dan Chillingworth (Newcastle), Shaun Eaton (Central Coast), Matt Everett (Western), Jeff Goninan (Newcastle), Tom Groth (Central Northern), Alex Patterson (Central Coast), Jono Rose (Greater Illawarra), Caleb Ziebell (North Coastal), Anthony Kershler (Coach - North Coastal), Shane Burley (Assistant Coach/Manager - Newcastle), David Redden (ScorerNewcastle).
• NSW Bush Breakers – Kate Jackson (Captain - North Coastal), Dharmini Chauhan (Greater Illawarra), Kira Churchland (Western), Jodie Hicks (Riverina), Joanne Kelly (Greater Illawarra), Ally McGrath (Newcastle), Melissa Norup (North Coastal), Olivia Osborne (North Coastal), Kelly Rowlings (ACT Southern Districts), Alana Ryan (Western), Abbey Taylor (Newcastle), Jaclyn Vickery (Central Northern), Naomi Woods (Greater Illawarra), Tommy Anderson (Coach - Newcastle), Michael Minns (Assistant Coach/Manager – ACT Southern Districts), Allison Brockley (Scorer – Greater Illawarra).
The Association extends its congratulations to:
Total Investment in Country Cricket Season 2021/22 Investment in Country Cricket Amount Country Cricket Programs 489,345 Academy Coaching Grants and Staff 516,029 General Grants 358,136 Youth Programs Male 374,858 Youth Programs Female 159,918 Regional Game Development Field Force 2,796,605 Facilities Grants (CNSW Contribution) 162,500 Other Administration Costs 221,664 TOTAL $5,079,055 Women’s Plan B Regional Bash. Riverina Bullets bowling their way to victory in the final CRICKET NSW36
• ACT/NSW Country Under 19s (female) – Grace Dignam (Captain - Central Coast), Jade Allen (ACT Southern Districts), Julia Bassett (ACT Southern Districts), Callee Black (Western), Kayla Burton (Greater Illawarra), Emily Cross (Central Coast), Jessica Davidson (Central Northern), Ebony Hoskin (Riverina), Kate Letcher (Western), Phoebe Litchfield (Western), Grace Lyons (ACT Southern Districts), Maddy McGuigan (Newcastle), Claire McGuirk (Central Northern), Tara Rudd (Greater Illawarra), Sophie Shelley (Central Coast), Steve Davies (Coach), Brett Rankin (Assistant Coach).
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• ACT/NSW Country Under 19s (male) – Jack Hartigan (Captain - Newcastle), Connor Cook (Vice Captain - North Coastal), Eric Bell (ACT Southern Districts), Aidan Cahill (Newcastle), Tom Coady (Western), Max Farmer (Central Northern), Ethan Fitzpatrick (ACT Southern Districts), Zak Keogh (ACT Southern Districts), Tim Martin (North Coastal), Harry McGregor (Western), Angus McTaggart (Newcastle), Jeremy Nunan (Newcastle), Nick Toohey (Central Coast), Harrison Townsend (Central Coast), Kyle Piper (Coach), Dean Burke (Assistant Coach).
Country Cricket received generous financial assistance from the NSW Cricket Association with $5,079,055 being made available. Financial support was also received from Transport for NSW to assist in the conduct of the Plan B Regional Bash male and female competitions, McDonald’s for the McDonald’s Country Championships (male and female) and McDonald’s Country Colts, Bathurst Regional Council for the McDonald’s Country Colts, Lake Macquarie City Council for the Bradman Cup, Dubbo Regional Council for their support of the NSW Youth Championships and State Challenges and finally Clarence Valley Council for their support of the Under 14 and Under 15 northern pool Youth Championships Carnival. The following programs received the majority of McDonald’sfunding:Country Colts 68,187 McDonald’s Female Country Championships (Under 16 and Under 19) 77,693 Under 16 Men’s Bradman Cup 91,030 McDonald’s Country Championship 51,764 Toyota Australian Country Cricket Championships (Male and Female) 85,465 Plan B Regional Bash (Male and Female) 115,206 TOTAL $489,345
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Competition Winner McDonald’s ChampionshipsCountry Newcastle McDonald’s Country Colts ACT Southern Districts Bradman Cup (Under 16 Male) ACT Southern Districts
In addition, thanks are expressed to:
• NSWCCA Selection Panel Members Greg Arms, Neil Doherty, Greg Griffith and Glenn Grimmond for their valued contribution throughout the season.
• Troy Penman and the NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association for their support of Country Cricket.
Contribution to Country Cricket Award Guy Marks (Raymond Terrace – Central Northern) Country Coach of the Year Randall Starr (ACT Southern Districts) Country Umpire of the Year Keiran Knight (Newcastle)
• All Female Cricket Representatives for their work with the various women’s programs in their respective Zones and Associations.
• The New South Wales Cricket Board, in particular Chairman John Knox, Chief Executive Lee Germon, Head of Cricket Greg Mail and Head of People Development Darren Goodger for their continued support of NSW Country Cricket.
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• Neil Findlay for his contribution as NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association Country Umpire Coach.
• All sections of the media for their continued coverage of Country Cricket.
McDonald’s Under 19 Female Country Championships ACT Southern Districts McDonald’s Under 16 Female Country Championships ACT Southern Districts Plan B Regional Bash (male) ACT Aces Plan B Regional Bash (female) Riverina Bullets Hogg Silver Shield – Country Zone Championship ACT Southern Districts COUNTRY ANNUAL AWARDS Award Winner Josh Hazlewood Medal – Male Player of the Year Aidan Cahill (Newcastle)
• Carnival Referees and Umpire Observers Graham Chudleigh (NSWCUSA Coaching Panel), Neil Findlay (Greater Illawarra), Keith Griffiths (North Coastal) and Kim Norris (Newcastle), as well as all members of the Country Representative Umpire Panel.
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• Zone Administrators Luke Masullo (ACT Southern Districts), Garry Burkinshaw (Central Coast), Hayley Bullock (Central Northern), Steve Jenkin (Greater Illawarra), Tim Cox (Newcastle), Rob Pye (North Coastal), David Nichols (Riverina) and Ian Strudwick (Western), for their valued contribution throughout the season.
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Alex Blackwell Medal – Female Player of the Year Ebony Hoskin (Riverina)
• To photographers - Merrillee Redden Photography, Ben Churcher Photography and Ian Bird Photography for the use of photographs contained in this report.
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Kookaburra Youth Player of the Year Claire McGuirk (Central Northern) Country Curator of the Year Kris Milosta (Alexandra Park, Albury – Riverina)
To the umpires who officiated at all levels of Country Cricket throughout the season and to the many honorary administrators and volunteers, the Association would like to acknowledge its appreciation for your outstanding contribution and dedicated support. The contribution of local government bodies throughout all our country regions is also recognised.
• Anthony Kershler (Coach), Shane Burley (Assistant Coach/ Manager) and David Redden (Scorer) for their contribution to Men’s Country Invitational Tournament held in Albury in April 2022.
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• To all New South Wales Blues and Breakers Squad members and Regional Development Managers who participated in the Country Blitz Promotion.
• Tommy Anderson (Coach), Michael Minns (Assistant Coach/ Manager) and Allison Brockley (Scorer) for their contribution to the Women’s Country Invitational Tournament held in Albury in April 2022.
• All Zone Academy Coaches and Regional Coaches for their contribution to the coaching and development of players within their respective regions.
Honorary Treasurer: Laurie Borg. Liaison Officer: Neil Findlay. Patrons: Brian Booth MBE, Richard French OAM, Graham Reed.
Appointed Board Director: Darren Goodger.
George Borwick Memorial Award: Michael Meehan. Sponsorship
Delegate to Cricket NSW: Mark Hughes. Delegate to Sydney Cricket Association: Laurie Borg.
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Administrator: Bede Sajowitz. Education Officer: Ben Treloar. Umpire Educator–Female Engagement: Claire Polosak. State Umpiring Manager, Cricket NSW: Darren Goodger. Executive Officer: Troy Penman.
NSW Premier Cricket Panel 3 Umpire of the Year: Nathan Harvey.
McDonald’s continued as the major sponsor of the Association, whilst the Association also continued its sponsorship arrangement with Beastwear which provided umpires with field shirts, and other merchandise, of the highest quality.
Elected Board Directors: Mark Hughes (Chair), Andrew Coates, Geoff Garland, Claire Polosak, Ben Treloar.
The 108th Annual General Meeting of the Association was held online on 4 August, with 147 members in attendance. Principal Membership was awarded to seven members for their outstanding contribution to the Association – Kevin Battishill, John Colwell, Tony Hackett, Claire Polosak, Owen Ridge, Tony Wilds and Sue Woodhouse. The AGM was preceded by a
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NSW Premier Cricket Panel 2 Umpire of the Year: Michael Meehan.
The Association’s Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation took place on 23 April with 150 members and guests in attendance to celebrate the 2021/22 season, with significant award winners as follows: Alan Marshall Medal (Rookie Umpire of the Year): Ram Tadepalli.
NSW Premier Cricket Umpire Observer Panel: Laurie Borg, Graham Chudleigh, Errol Cranney, Bob Davis, Berend du Plessis, Rupert Mathews. Country Umpire Observers: Graham Chudleigh, Neil Findlay, Darren Goodger, Keith Griffiths, Ian Thomas.
NSW Premier Cricket Panel 1 Umpire of the Year: Darren Goodger. Kevin Pye Medal (Country Umpire of the Year): Keiran Knight (Newcastle). Ted Wykes Medal (Affiliated Association Award): Simon Dodwell (Sydney Shires Cricket Umpires’ Association).
Malcolm Gorham Scorers’ Award: Harpreet Singh (Sydney Cricket Club). NSW Premier Cricket Panel 4 Umpire of the Year: Andy Storey.
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Fourth Grade: Parramatta v Manly Warringah at Hurstville Oval –Roberto Howard and Bede Sajowitz. Premiers Manly-Warringah.
The umpires appointed to the NSW Men’s Premier Cricket finals were:
A.W. Green Shield: St. George v Northern District at Hurstville Oval – Bede Sajowitz and Bruce Whitehouse. Premiers St. George.
Second Grade: Parramatta v Bankstown at Rothwell Park – Aldo Cantori and Elizabeth O’Dwyer. Premiers Parramatta.
The Association offers congratulations to umpires Ben Farrell, Michael Meehan and Scott Rogan, each of whom were appointed to make their Men’s Premier Cricket First Grade debut during season 2021/22.
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Third Grade: Northern District v Bankstown at Pratten Park –Andrew Hamilton and Troy Penman. Premiers Northern District.
Stephen Blomfield (Sydney Shires Cricket Umpires’ Association) and Dr. John Colwell (Sydney Women’s Cricket Umpires’ Association) are thanked for their assistance in managing the umpire appointment process on a round-by-round basis to ensure all matches were officiated by accredited umpires. A total of 143 umpires officiated in Men’s Premier Cricket in season 2021/22, including 10 members from affiliated associations, who accepted the opportunity to further their experience.
Poidevin-Gray Shield: Sutherland v Penrith at Glenn McGrath Oval – Bede Sajowitz and Andrew Yarad. Premiers Sutherland.
In collaboration with the Sydney Women’s Cricket Umpires’ Association, 60 umpires were appointed to officiate in Women’s Premier Cricket during the season.
The Association maintained its commitment to umpire training and development across New South Wales, continuing to offer online umpire training whilst restrictions on travel and movement were in place. By being able to facilitate courses online, we were able to accredit 111 new umpires and scorers, a result the training team can be well pleased with.
Fifth Grade: Eastern Suburbs v UNSW at University Oval – Daniel Moran and Andrew Yarad. Premiers Eastern Suburbs.
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Membership NSWCUSA membership stands at 1,288 with 44 affiliated associations.
First Grade: Sydney v Penrith at Drummoyne Oval – Nathan Harvey and Bob McGregor. Premiers Sydney.
First Grade: Northern District v Mosman at Bankstown Oval – Greg Davidson and Ben Treloar. Premiers Mosman.
Second Grade: Mosman v Sutherland at Allan Border Oval –Darren Goodger and Sharad Patel. Premiers Mosman.
Third Grade: St George-Sutherland v Gordon at Olds Park – John Colwell and Kevin McFarlane. Premiers St George-Sutherland.
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Kingsgrove Sports T20 Cup: Sydney University v Randwick Petersham at University Oval – Troy Penman and Ben Treloar. Premiers Randwick Petersham.
Brewer Shield: St George-Sutherland v Penrith at Glenn McGrath Oval – Sue Gregory and Varun Marwaha. Premiers St GeorgeTheSutherland.Association extends its thanks and appreciation to the NSW Premier Cricket Umpire Observer Panel. Their feedback and observations have assisted to improve umpiring performances across the grades. The observers completed a total of 237 observations of 129 different umpires.
The Association was again unwwable to facilitate its Annual Convention in-person, but was able to provide an online series of live and pre-recorded events for all members. The Association’s keynote speaker was Olympian Leisel Jones who spoke with great positivity and strong messages about thriving in an elite environment. Vote of Thanks
The NSWCUSA Board and Management Team offers a vote of thanks in appreciation to Cricket NSW for its support of match officials and the Association during the past season. The Association sits in Cricket Performance. To Greg Mail, Lee Germon, and the NSW Cricket Board, NSWCUSA expresses its gratitude. The leadership and management of the State Cricket Association during the season and throughout the COVID-19 crisis has been first-class. Bede Sajowitz Interim Executive Officer NSWCUSA
To have such an extensive coverage is pleasing and a credit to those umpires who made themselves available so willingly and who fulfilled their appointments in a professional manner.
The umpires appointed to the NSW Women’s Premier Cricket finals were:
Drummoyne Oval Lawrence Prittipaul & Sydney Cricket Club Matt Sommerville & his grounds team Ian Field & City of Canada Bay Council
North Sydney Oval Nick Baglin & North Sydney Council David Somerville & his grounds team UTS North Sydney Cricket Club Sydney StadiumShowground Darryl Jeffrey & the RAS team Steve King & his grounds team Hurstville Oval Kevin Greene & St George District Cricket Club Phil Rainis & his grounds team
MOV showed great flexibility and an ability to adapt across a range of cancellations and relocations all while in trying conditions and still able to delivery over 250 turf sessions for our elite programs.
Daniel Marshall & Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Club
CNSW Match Ops and Venue team would like to thank the following people and organisations.
Category Stakeholder Name Venues SCG Johnny Naofal Adam Lewis & his grounds team Blake Vanderwoude Dan ParisHayleyToscanoGouldRoditis
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Blacktown International Sports Park Bryce Alley, Heath Taylor & the BVM team Kieran Meurant & his grounds team
Cricket Australia Operations Team Peter Roach, Bianca Binch, Chris Grant, Laura Piekarski Events & Security Team Lauren Boyle, Ashleigh Miranda, Stuart Bailey Match Officials All our Match Referees & Umpires Staffing Scorers Troy Penman, Bede Sajowitz
BBL Events Chris Botherway, Laura Partington, Alexis Mavrantonis and the entire BBL events team
The MOV team successfully delivered: 1. 259 Elite turf training sessions across six venues 2. 34 matches over 55 match days 65% less matches delivered than ‘normal’ season Approx. 40 matches cancelled / relocated due to COVID Hosted only 5 female elite matches in 2021/22 with Women’s International matches and Women’s Big Bash League both relocated 75% of matches hosted at a major venue (SCG / Showgrounds / NSO / Manuka)
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C.ex Coffs Harbour The entire team at C. ex Coffs Harbour International Stadium Bankstown Oval Brian Freedman & Bankstown District Cricket Club Nick Mamolis & his grounds team Rosedale Oval Chris Corby, Damien Curtis, Robert Vander Straaten & Liverpool City Council
The team, which comprised of Dale Bryant, Casey Studden, Jonathon De Lyall and Harjit Singh, set out to deliver training sessions and matches throughout another season of COVID protocols and border restrictions, with vast fixture and match condition changes.
CNSW Staff High Performance Greg Mail, Michael Klinger, Clare Crewdson and all of the Blues, Breakers, Sixers & Thunder support staff Andrew Gilchrist, Chris Steffan & Elle Thompson in Team Ops Nic Bills & the pathways coaching team Pat Farhat & the SSSM team
All of our scoring team Room Attendants Doug Williams, Noel Moig, Bruce Scheffers, David Gardiner, Wayne Challinor Suppliers Catering Rob & Karen Mooney of Port Mac Catering Security Caitlin & Vito of ACES Security Medical David Bennett of First on Scene
In a challenging and interrupted season due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cricket NSW would like to thank its partners for their support and understanding through this Transportperiod.
Sydney Sixers humm, the bigger buy-now-pay-later, continued as WBBL Principal Partner and with brand awareness their key objective, upgraded their partnership to include the branding across the BBL team as well. To launch the season, humm cleverly created a Snapchat game allowing fans to be the first in the country to wear the brand new Nike playing apparel. They then followed this up with a season-long grassroots competition, giving away a total of $30,000 to six lucky clubs. BBL Principal Partner, iiNet, continued in the men’s front of shirt position, taking them into their ninth season with the Sixers. Toyo Tires also continued as Major Partner across both WBBL and BBL. They signed a new three year partnership, giving them great exposure through their apparel branding, as well as a regular match day competition inviting fans at each match to guess where our top-scoring player would score their most runs.
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Our most exciting ‘signing’ of the season was the announcement of the partnership with Charter Hall, who became Principal Partner of the NSW Breakers and have exciting plans in place to deliver a mentoring program which will partner our female state contracted players with senior Charter Hall executives.
Office of Responsible Gambling continued to use the partnership to promote the Reclaim the Game messaging. This program continues to seek to address the normalisation of sports betting and raise awareness of the associated risks. This partnership aligns with our values at Cricket NSW and efforts to provide a family-friendly experience at Big Bash League games and ensures it is kept free of betting advertising.
SIXT Car and Truck Rentals launched a new three-year partnership with Cricket NSW, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder alongside their official brand launch in December.
for NSW continues to be a key contributor via our partnership with the State Government which, with a renewed three-year deal, has now entered the 20th year of the Plan B anti-drink driving campaign. The new deal also saw them become the Official Coaches Partner across both of our Big Bash clubs for the men and women, with prominent branding across all support staff apparel.
BYD was an exciting new vehicle supplier who delivered branded, electric vehicles for our interstate and overseas players to use whilst in Sydney. Sydney Thunder Sydney Thunder was delighted to welcome Homestar Finance as our new BBL Principal Partner, on a three-year deal.
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HomeWorld continued their support as Major Partner of both our W/BBL teams. HomeWorld’s support goes beyond both our W/BBL teams, with strong support for our community. They are the naming rights partner of the HomeWorld Thunder Nation Cup and are assisting local cricket clubs by providing $10,000 in HomeWorld Community Grants. Chamberlain DIY Garage Doors continued their support of women’s cricket through a second year in partnership with our WBBL team. We were thrilled to return to Sydney Showground Stadium this season, after no matches were held there in BBL|10. This allowed us to continue our partnership with Sydney Olympic Park Authority, showcasing the fantastic facilities and precinct in which our BBL team is based.
Ben Hirschfeld General Manager - Commercial Experience
McDonald’s, Kookaburra, Summit Fleet Leasing & Management, Masuri, Kingsgrove Sports and People & Culture Strategies all continued as valued partners of Cricket NSW. Brokenwood Wines and Gage Roads Brew Co also maintained their support, supplying key Cricket events throughout the season. We thank all these partners for their support of Cricket NSW.
The Summer of SIXT was leveraged across the entire Big Bash season with exciting activations, display vehicles and match-day Sydneypartnerships.Water continued their successful campaign to educate Sydneysiders about the many benefits – environmental, health, financial and more – of drinking Sydney world class tap water rather than bottled water. Sydney Water also utilised the partnership to educate cricket fans about water conservation and waste reduction. Our unique partnership spans across the NSW Blues, Breakers, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder teams.
Homestar Finance has been an Official Partner for the past three seasons and now features on the front of the BBL playing shirt. Homestar’s commitment to the Thunder Nation is a crucial component of their partnership. Homestar supports our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander T20 Cup teams and in this past season donated 22,000 meals to those in need through our partnership with OzHarvest.
The team faced another challenging season in 2021/22 due to COVID-19, albeit the challenges were different and the landscape more fluid. Numerous changes to the scheduling of matches, training requirements, events and hosting changes, and financial challenges were met and managed by the team exceptionally well. Whilst the year produced an operating loss, the cost base was managed well to contain the size of the loss. Lost BBL content, reluctance of fans to attend during the height of the Omicron wave and numerous additional COVID-related costs provided a challenging climate in which to operate.
The end result is truly exceptional. A world class training and administration facility, that will also get to host elite level matches in the near future. At the time of writing, works are continuing to finish the remainder of stage 1, including landscaping, the café and maintenance shed.
The CBS team supports and services Cricket NSW. It comprises Finance, Facilities, Administration and Corporate Events, Government Relations and State Infrastructure, Match & Venue Operations (MOV) and, towards the end of this financial year, we also welcomed Team Operations (TO). Collectively, MOV and TO form the Cricket Operations team. We also welcome the national technology team into our family.
Opportunities were pursued with the major political parties during the Federal Election campaign, with a raft of funding commitments made to enhance cricket infrastructure around the State. It was enlightening to see “campaign headquarters” in our Herb Elliott Office with a tally board enthusiastically keeping track of commitments made. It was outstanding! Meanwhile, the Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund delivered on numerous cricket projects across the State.
Michael Dalton Chief Operating Officer & Company Secretary
We left our offices on Herb Elliott Avenue and moved to Cricket Central A big thank you to our project partners for their outstanding work on a complex site and in a difficult climate. Our partners include Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA), Buildcorp, Ford Civil, Evergreen, Mostyn Copper, Waypoint, RLB and Ethos Urban.
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All CBS teams have continued to provide outstanding service to CNSW, with some fantastic achievements that will have enduring benefits. I would like to thank all the CBS staff for their wonderful contribution, commitment and excellence in making a real difference. We look forward to continuing to make CNSW a better place, day by day.
A big thanks also to our Cricket Central (nee Wilson Park) subcommittee for their support during the project and Ed Smith, for Chairing our Joint Steering Committee. We also thank our funding partners – SOPA, NSW State Government, Federal Government, Cricket Australia and Venues NSW. We look forward to welcoming the cricket community for our community open day on Sunday 21 August 2022.
Another highlight of the year was our move in the last week of June 2022 to our new home, Cricket Central. It has been 8 years in the making, but well worth the wait. Numerous challenges were faced by the project, not the least the persistent wet weather, and productivity challenges faced due to COVID-19.
The first two milestones have been delivered on time. Preparation is underway for CNSW to migrate 100% of their community to the PlayHQ platform this upcoming summer.
COVID19 continued to challenge the team throughout 2021/22.
We were extremely fortunate to be able to host most planned internal and external events this year, in a COVID safe setting for all stakeholders, whilst maintaining a premium event experience, albeit with reduced numbers in some cases.
Since my commencement in late August, the focus has been on the development and activation of Cricket Central. We initiated over 20 work streams that included participants across all squads, involving 50 plus team members and several external participants who provided their input and expertise towards bringing Cricket Central to life.
In FY22, key local and national initiatives were completed: Continue cost-out program and reduce Australia Cricket technology spends and find savings. Deliver At-Match support with zero major incidents.
Information Technology FY22 proved to be another challenging year for Australian Cricket (AC) Technology team. The AC Technology remains a reduced workforce from the previous years and Covid impacts. The team is sitting at the highest turn-over in headcount over the last 12 months, while nationally, user counts have increased back to the pre-Covid demands.
The focus for FY23 will be to deliver Project Kondo, deliver the Australian Cricket Season and the ICC T20 World Cup, while continuing to optimise automation to drive efficiencies and keep Service Level Agreements/Expectations with the reduced workforce.
The 2021/22 corporate event schedule was reformatted on a number of occasions this year as we juggled many government changes and strived to comply with strict COVID restrictions.
A new ERP platform has been determined and planning is underway for delivery in FY23.
David McDonald General Manager Venues and Development
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As we continue to work through the demands, there has been clear direction on priorities and projects.
Several significant outcomes included naming all 16 meeting rooms after volunteers, the internal graphics reflecting the spirit of cricket and highlighting how this wonderful game has enriched people’s lives.
Ongoing protection in the Cyber Security space has ensured data exfiltration is being alerted to, with further changes and awareness to continue into FY23. A significant amount of work to further harden servers and Mac devices has resulted in our secure score percentage increase.
Emma Cashen Senior Client Services Manager
In 2022/23, the Facilities & Corporate Events team will focus on the activation and revenue generation of Cricket Central along with the implementation of our Operational Plan of Management. We look forward to welcoming you to the new centre in 2022!
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Project Kondo (Grassroots Project) remains the highest priority.
The introduction of well-regarded Sydney caterers Create Catering and our turf curators Green Options will complement our world class facility, making it the envy of the sporting world.
The Facilities team continued to lead and drive the CNSW Return to Work & Training working group in order to support a smooth transition back to normal business functions and the seamless re-opening of all metro and regional office locations.
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• A people focus to improve capabilities within the finance team, uplift team member roles and continue their development and enhance retention.
• Assist with developing a sustainable funding model for Cricket Central, work with venues team on effective costs management and provide analytical support on usage, pricing and reporting;
• Managed the financials, cash flows, governance and reporting for the Cricket Central facility project at Wilson Park; and
We continued to evolve our way of working approach. The completion of Cricket Central in June 2022 has provided a muchanticipated space to inspire a way of working that enables great collaboration and an exceptional employee experience, with our people working and playing in world class office and cricket facilities.
With extended restrictions, we focused on the wellbeing of our people, ensuring communication and connection opportunities were maximised, and promoted our Employee Assistance Program to provide additional support.
In 2022/23, the finance team will continue to focus on providing ongoing support to the business strategy and our ‘wildly important goal’ (WIG), to double the number of 5-12 year olds playing cricket by 2025. There will still be a level of risks and challenges associated with achieving our budget for the upcoming cricket season. The finance team’s ongoing leadership will have a key role in navigating through these challenges and risks. We will need to remain nimble and provide timely and accurate financial information to our leaders for decision-making.
The Cricket NSW People Experience Team are looking forward to the next 12 months as we focus on enhancing our employee experience, building on our talent and capability and cultivating a world class culture.
Some of our key focus areas for 2022/23 include:
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In 2021 the People Experience team saw much change within our function. There was turnover with both resignations and parental leave, resulting in welcoming new team members. We have a new business partnering model, with our HR advisors working alongside each division to closely partner managers. This model is working well. With COVID dominating our season, we developed our CNSW vaccination approach for our workforce. In addition, our COVID response continued to evolve to align government, stakeholder and Australian Cricket requirements. As restrictions increased and eased, we developed protocols to support our people while also ensuring we supported our community and highperformance needs.
People Experience Report
Organisational culture continues to be a focus. In collaboration with our leaders and people, we developed and launched new organisation values. These values (Relationships, Humility, Excellence and Imagination) continue to be embedded. Our most recent employee engagement scores indicate a strong understanding and evidence of our people living and demonstrating these values.
The finance team’s deliverables and objectives were achieved in 2021/22 and the team continued to provide valuable support to the business. We collaborated with all Cricket NSW Squads and Teams to ensure that we provide adequate support in achieving their objectives. We were initiative-taking and purposeful and we gave timely, robust financial and non-financial information to resolve issues and risks.
The team led and supported the financial management of another COVID-19 pandemic-impacted season. Through regular, accurate and timely reporting of financial information, our leaders remained informed to make effective and accountable decisions, resulting in the business minimising the adverse financial impact to the 2021/22 year. The team has been involved in some key projects in 2021/22, including:
• A robust budget for 2022/23 and a four-year financial plan was refreshed; it provided our leaders with key insights into the opportunities and challenges facing the business over the next five years
• Continue to assist with improving financial literacy across the business and collaborate with other ‘Teams’ and ‘Squads’ to support the deliverables;
• Improve the internal customer experience through enhanced technology, including online timesheets for casuals, better financial reporting and P&L experience; and
Leigh Kearney General Manager - People Experience Finance
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Alister Henskens (Member for Ku-ring-gai), Hornsby Shire Mayor Phillip Ruddock, Matt Kean (Treasurer and Minister for Energy, Member for Hornsby), Greg Mail (Chief of Cricket Performance), Northern District Cricket Club President Jeremy Hook & representatives and Hornsby Rugby Club representatives.
Infrastructure
Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund
The Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund (ACIF) committed $1.63 million in grant funding for community cricket facility projects in NSW. Pleasingly, the highest ever NSW ACIF allocation was fully exhausted with a record number of 50 projects receiving a grant. Since 2013, Cricket NSW, in partnership with Cricket Australia, has provided approximately $7.86 million in funding to support 335 NSW cricket projects worth almost $100 million in facility investment.
ADCA junior cricketers Jacob Miller, Vanessa Simpson, Armidale Regional Council Deputy Mayor Deb O’Brien, Clancy McDermott, then Premier Gladys Berejiklian, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall, ADCA Treasurer John Croft, Toby Miller, President Mike Porter, Ethan Relf, Secretary Kris Croft and Deputy Premier John Barilaro.
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The official sod turn of the $3.5 million Mark Taylor Oval indoor cricket practice facility was held on Monday 16 May. The event marked the commencement of stage 2 of the $9 million redevelopment of Waitara Park. Council had commenced stage 1 (oval redevelopment) in August 2021. Expected completion of stages 1 and 2 is early 2023. Stage 1 of the Armidale Regional Cricket Hub, the three-lane indoor cricket practice facility, has been completed. Stage 2 construction has commenced which includes change room facilities, office administration and a 130,000-litre water storage tank to collect water from the roof to allow Armidale District Cricket Association (ADCA) to supplement water supply for the nearby cricket pitch area of the sportsground. The facility was jointly funded by the NSW Government’s ICC T20 World Cup 2020 Cricket Legacy Fund, Armidale Regional Council, ADCA, Easts Cricket Club and the Australian Cricket Infrastructure CricketFund. NSW is also collaborating and progressing major project discussions with several councils, project partners and cricket stakeholders across NSW such as Raby Sports Complex (Campbelltown), Richie Benaud Oval (Parramatta), Drummoyne Oval (Canada Bay), No.1 Sportsground (Newcastle), Lavington Sportsground (Albury) and Hastings Regional Sports Complex We(Wauchope).wouldlike to acknowledge the local, state and federal authorities for their continued support and investment.
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Engagement across all levels of government and government departments during these months was extensive, particularly as our elite squads’ ability to train was impacted by the restrictions placed on gatherings and movement across Sydney and NSW.
As other Australian jurisdictions began to place travel restrictions on NSW residents, the start to the 2021/22 domestic and international seasons became the subject of intense rounds of quarantine proposals with various state and territory Cricketgovernments.NSWand Cricket Victoria collaborated with respective state governments and state Health Departments to get the green light for several consecutive matches to be played between the NSW and Victorian men’s teams to get the season started. In addition, Cricket Australia was in negotiations with the Tasmanian Government to start the WBBL in Tasmania.
We would like to acknowledge and thank Cricket Australia for its continued investment into NSW cricket facility projects since 2013.
As NSW vaccination numbers climbed, Cricket NSW became involved in active negotiations with the NSW Government, the Opposition, and departments to develop a ‘Return to Play’ plan for community cricket. The plan covered aspects such as dates for a return to community sport, rules surrounding vaccination and rules for training and match days.
The Grassroots Cricket Fund - Equipment Fund (GCF) committed $2.5 million across the country this year. Over the two rounds held, NSW received $746,000 in grants to 248 projects.
The CNSW Infrastructure Strategy (2020-2030) emphasised the need to roll out a program to encourage cricket clubs, LGAs and other codes to install Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
Cricket NSW joined forces with Cricket Australia’s Community Heart Program (Program) alongside the charitable initiative, Heart of the Nation. This year, five NSW applicants received an AED through the Program.
As things appeared to be settling down, the Omicron variant emerged in mid-December and caused a much different set of problems to be resolved to ensure the BBL season could continue across the Christmas and New Year period. Cricket NSW worked hand in glove with Cricket Australia and other state associations through these weeks to respond to the outbreak.
Considering the floods impacting NSW and Queensland, round 2 of the GCF was extended for six weeks to applicants from Clubs or Centres affected by the situation, with assessments and payments prioritised and expedited. Of the 83 successful NSW applications, 17 were identified as flood impacted.
The work that was done by volunteers across NSW to ensure community cricket could proceed safely was immensely important in all discussions with government.
Wednesday 27 October, launch of the Community Heart Program as part of the Grassroots Cricket Fund. (l-r) Harry Conway, Trent Copeland, Greg Mail, Heart of the Nation Director Greg Page and Cricket Victoria players Scott Boland and Will Sutherland.
Government Relations Responding to COVID-19
Grassroots Cricket Fund – Equipment Fund
The lead up to the 2021/22 season was filled with a multitude of uncertainties created by the lockdown across NSW that commenced in winter 2021. For a second year, COVID-19 meant much of what would take place in any normal year was actively subject to government approval and changing circumstances.
2022 Federal Election Cricket in NSW had a very successful period during the 2022 Federal Election campaign, as numerous infrastructure projects advocated by Cricket NSW and members of the cricketing community won support by one or both major parties.
Cricket in NSW received nearly $53 million in commitments during the 2022 campaign from both the Coalition and Australian Labor Party (ALP) pledging funding to major cricket and sporting infrastructure projects. This is a near trebling on the total committed during the 2019 campaign. The ALP increased its support for cricket infrastructure by over 500% from the previous election.
Summer of Hospitality
The realities of COVID-19 created several hurdles for Cricket NSW’s ability to host elected officials throughout the season. Nevertheless, key MPs, Ministers and Shadow Ministers from across the NSW Government and Opposition attended matches during the BBL season and the Sydney Test match. Cricket NSW Patron, Her Excellency the Hon Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales, attended the Test match.
Two significant projects that the ALP pledged funding to included $6.2 million to the redevelopment of Richie Benaud Oval in Parramatta and $9 million to develop sporting facilities such as club rooms, a community centre and a pair of new cricket grounds at Darkes District Sports Park, West Dapto.
We acknowledge and thank for Federal and State Governments for their continued support and investment into cricket facility developments and programs across NSW.
We would also like to acknowledge our Community Cricket colleagues involved in engaging and providing advice and feedback to our team since mid-2021. The whole team was central to all the work that happened through the campaign and the months prior.
Teale Blessington Head of Infrastructure & Government Representatives from Cricket NSW, North Sydney District DCC, North Sydney Bears RLFC and Northern Suburbs RFC pose with Senator Hon Marise Payne, then Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women and Trent Zimmerman MP, then Member for North Sydney at North Sydney Oval. Andrew Charlton MP, Member for Parramatta with Parramatta District Cricket Club.
Cricket NSW would like to particularly acknowledge the efforts of Cricket Australia for the development of the National Priorities booklets. The success of the campaign demonstrates the healthy collaboration between Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW for infrastructure and government relations.
Michael and Adelaide Dalton with Her Excellency the Hon Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales attends Sydney Test Match.
The largest Coalition funding commitment of $6 million was made to enhancing North Sydney Oval as the unofficial Home of NSW Women’s Cricket. The Coalition also committed $3.75 million to deliver upgrades and new facilities at Drummoyne Oval to help grow female participation in cricket and AFL.
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Obituaries
Following the previous severely broken year of operation, the Library again had to go into recess from July 2021 to October 2021. We exist now with work regimes of masks and distancing. Dr Colin Clowes worked from home to pursue Library aims by producing general publicity and special information that was required to keep the public informed. We are pleased to have moved the Library from the temporary location at Homebush to our new headquarters and beautiful home at Cricket Central.
Sadly, we have to note the passing of a special person in the cricket world. Peter Philpott OAM was not only a cricketer and coach of high distinction but also a writer of great note who contributed so much to cricket literature. Congratulations to Kershi Meher-Homji on the award of his OAM. We were always delighted when either visited, collected their information and left us delighted with their company and cricket tales.
Life member of NSWCA and former Chair NSW Cricket Board and Australian Cricket Board [now Cricket Australia].
ASSOCIATION
Peter Philpott OAM 31.10.2021
Honorary Librarians
Life Member and Vice-Patron and former President of the NSWCA. One of cricket’s finest players and most influential and beloved figures.
Life Member of the NSWCA.
Life Member of NSWCA and SCA. Alan Davidson AM MBE 30.10.2021
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Dr Colin Clowes continued working with Associate Librarian Colin Jefferies on the task of updating statistics for our many First Class and Premier players. We thank our other valued Associate Librarians Richard Cook and Michael Falk who have worked tirelessly on the computerisation of the Library collection.
NOTES Cliff Winning Library Report
We have purchased many new books and periodicals that have been produced despite all the problems and we have welcomed writers as they seek information in putting together their new publications. Peter Lloyd has followed up his wonderful Bradman book with a masterful book on Warren Bardsley.
Former Manly, New South Wales and Australian Test cricketer. Dr Erica Sainsbury 24.12.2021
Co-Librarian
Bob Brenner and Dr Colin Clowes
Noel Laming 25.09.2021
Former NSW Wicketkeeper. Alan Crompton OAM 20.04.2022
Attendance - Meetings of NSW Cricket Board The Board met 9 times between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022.
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R Timbs (Elected Board Director – 3) N Maxwell (Elected Board Director – 1) E Cowan (Elected Board Director – 2)
As at 30 June 2022 Audit & Risk J Tait (Chair), D Gallop, K Robbins, C Smith and R Timbs People & Culture J Knox (Chair), E Cowan and K Robbins Cricket E Cowan (Chair), J Hayes, N Maxwell and M Rosen
D Jones (University of NSW – 1/1) M Saunders (University of NSW – 2/2) M Swan (Western Suburbs – 2) G Burkinshaw (Central Coast – 3) T Psarakis (Central Northern – 3)
D Chappelow (Shires Clubs – 1) J Biviano (SCA Women’s – 1)
D Gallop (Appointed Board Director – 3) K Robbins (Appointed Board Director – 3)
Sub-Committees
J Stewart (Randwick Petersham – proxy for A Wright – 1) Hon K Greene (St George – 2)
LG (Lewis) Abrams (1927)*; EJ (Ted) Briscoe (1927)*; AC (Sandy) Buckle (1927)*; Sir Joseph Carruthers KCMG (1927)*; PC (Percy) Charlton (1927)*; JC (John) Davis (1927)*; Sir Alexander Gordon (1927)*; TJ (Thomas) Hartigan CMG (1927)*; HG (Harold) Hewlett (1927)*; HF (Harry) Holt (1927)*; CFW (Charles) Lloyd (1927)*; WP (William) McElhone MBE (1927)*; MA (Monty) Noble (1927)*; The Hon CW (Charles) Oakes (1927)*; JT (John) Pope (1927)*; W (Walter) Renshaw (1927)*; Sir Colin Sinclair KBE (1927)*; R (Richard) Shute (1927)*; R (Richard) Teece (1927)*; VA (Vincent) Macauley (1929)*; AC (Alfred) Jones (1932)*; CDB (Carl) Wright (1932)*; EL (Gar) Waddy (1934)*; AL (Arthur) Rose (1935)*; TJE (Tommy) Andrews (1936)*; WW (Warwick) Armstrong (1936)*; W (Warren) Bardsley (1936)*; HS (Hanson) Carter (1936)*; HL (Herbie) Collins (1936)*; H (Harry) Donnan (1936)*; TW (Tom) Garrett (1936)*; JM (Jack) Gregory (1936)*; HV (Herbert) Hordern (1936)*; WP (Bill) Howell (1936)*; C (Charlie) Kelleway (1936)*; JJ (James) Kelly (1936)*; AF (Alan) Kippax (1936)*; CG (Charlie) Macartney (1936)*; AA (Arthur) Mailey (1936)*; HH (Hugh) Massie (1936)*; TR (Tom) McKibbin (1936)*; RB (Roy) Minnett (1936)*; H (Harry) Moses (1936)*; JM (Johnny) Taylor (1936)*; CTB (Charles) Turner (1936)*; NI (Neil) Blue (1937)*; WC (William) Bull (1937)*; TH (Thomas) Howard (1937)*; RA (Aubrey) Oxlade CBE (1937)*; S (Sydney) Smith CBE (1937)*; EA (Edwin) Tyler (1937)*; HA (Henry) Parker (1938)*; EG (Scouty) MacMillan (1939)*; WA (Bert) Oldfield MBE (1939)*; RCM (Ray) Boyce (1940)*; WW (Walter) Rothwell (1941)*; HA (Horace) Russell (1941)*; FM (Frank) Cush OBE (1943)*; BH (Bert) Bicknell (1943)*; JD (John) Durham (1943)*; CA (Charles) Fairland (1943)*; GJ (George) Gavey (1943)*; RG (Reg) Herford (1943)*; KOE (Keith) Johnson MBE (1943)*; EA (Edgar) Paton (1943)*; AT (Andrew) Ratcliffe (1943)*; EW (Ted) Adams CBE (1944)*; EA (Chappie) Dwyer (1944)*; LJ (Leslie) Fingleton (1944)*; CL (Cyril) Gentle ISO (1944)*; RJA (Jack) Massie (1944)*; SA (Sidney) Storey (1944)*; OA (Oliver) Taylor (1944)*; AH (Albert) Vincent
T Iceton (Sutherland – 3) L Prittipaul (Sydney – 1) C Robertson (Sydney University – 2)
C Smith (Elected Board Director – 2)
J Surman (Greater Illawarra – 3) P Marjoribanks (Newcastle – 3) P Dilley (North Coastal – 3) L Masullo (ACT Southern Districts – 3) M Frecklington (Western – 3) M Erdeljac (Riverina – 3)
J Miller (ACTCA – 1/1) F Jolly (ACTCA – 0/2) M Hughes (NSWCUSA – 3) W Howard (NSWDCA –1)
Constitution Review M Bonnell (Chair), T Iceton and R Timbs Life Member and National Honours Hon K Greene (Chair), R Hore, M Rosen, J Tait and M Whitney Wilson Park R Timbs (Chair), Hon K Greene, M Rosen BBL/International D Gallop (Chair), N Maxwell, K Robbins, E Cowan, J Knox Attendance – Meetings of NSW Cricket Association J Knox (Chairman –Appointed Board Director – 3) B Freedman (Bankstown – 3) S Foster (Blacktown – 2) M Richardson (Campbelltown Camden – 3) M Quinn (Eastern Suburbs – 2) R Cook (Fairfield-Liverpool – 2) A Falk (Gordon – 2) H McKay (Hawkesbury – 0/1) M Shields (Hawkesbury – 0/2) R Timbs (Hawkesbury –proxy for M Shields – 1) S Beatty (Manly Warringah – 2) P Edwards (Manly Warringah –proxy for S Beatty – 1) I Finlay (Mosman – 3) P Lindsay (North Sydney – 3) G Gorrie (Northern District – 3) G Monaghan (Parramatta – 1) P Goldsmith (Penrith – 2) A Wright (Randwick Petersham – 2)
J Knox (Chair) (9) E Cowan (9) D Gallop (9) Hon K Greene (9) P Marjoribanks (9) N Maxwell (9) K Robbins (9) C Smith (7/8) R Timbs (9) LIST OF ALL LIFE MEMBERS OF NSW CRICKET ASSOCIATION (in order of election)
(1944)*; SG (Syd) Webb OBE QC (1944)*; LW (Leslie) Gwynne (1945)*; PC (Paul) Harrison (1945)*; S (Sam) Stone (1945)*; AG (Arthur) Chipperfield (1947)*; JH (Jack) Fingleton OBE (1947)*; SJ (Stan) McCabe (1947)*; WJ (Bill) O’Reilly OBE (1947)*; AR (Mick) Alterator OAM (1951)*; SJ (Selby) Burt (1951)*; MB (Mort) Cohen (1951)*; Rt Hon HV (Herbert) Evatt QC (1951)*; CJ (Cyril) Jagoe (1951)*; JE (Jack) Norton ISM (1951)*; CD (Dudley) Seddon (1951)*; SC (Sydney) Trumper (1951)*; AP (Billy) Wells (1951)*; A (Alf) Farrow (1954-55)*; JW (Jack) Chegwyn MBE (1956)*; JS (Stan) Dinan (1956)*; S (Stroy) Donnan (1956)*; F (Fred) Lyons (1956)*; JP (Jack) Ross (1956)*; JO (Ossie) Stenmark (1956)*; RH (Reg) Tulk (1956)*; FW (Fred) Bennett OBE (1959)*; GB (George) Barter (1959)*; JW (Jim) Burke (1959)*; KR (Keith) Miller AM MBE (1959)*; J (Jack) Moroney (1959)*; AR (Arthur) Morris MBE (1959)*; RA (Ron) Saggers (1959)*; AK (Alan) Davidson AM MBE (1963)*; RN (Neil) Harvey OAM MBE (1963); R (Richie) Benaud OBE (1964 – res’d 1970)*; G (George) Borwick MBE (1964)*; M (Maurie) Lilienthal OAM (1964)*; RLP (Roy) Turner OAM (1964)*; TCJ (Tim) Caldwell OBE BEM (1967)*; RG (Ron) Davies (1967)*; RW (Ron) Eaton OBE (1967)*; RCJ (Ray) Little OAM (1967)*; CA (Charles) Harris OAM (1970)*; BC (Basil) Sheidow (1970)*; RB (Bob) Simpson AO (1970); F (Fred) Snell (1970)*; GWA (George) Lowe MBE (197071)*; S (Syd) Boddy (1971)*; BC (Brian) Booth MBE (1971); AE (Alf) Owen (1971)*; W (William) Ray (1971)*; CM (Cliff) Winning (1971)*; RF (Dick) Burgess (1975); JF (John) Hodgson (1975)*; D (Doug) Kennedy (1975)*; BC (Bryan) Hazell OAM (1977)*; EE (Eric) Johnson (1977)*; WJ (Warren) Saunders OAM (1977); GJH (Geoff) Weir (1977)*; Sir Donald Bradman AC (1979)*; TF (Tom) Brooks OAM (1979)*; WA (Bill) Brown OAM (1979)*; ID (Ian) Craig OAM (1979)*; JW (John) Gleeson (1979)*; RV (Ron) James (1979)*; RR (Ray) Lindwall MBE (1979)*; AD (Alan) McGilvray AM MBE (1979)*; NCL (Norm) O’Neill OAM (1979)*; SG (Stan) Sismey OAM (1979)*; HB (Brian) Taber (1979); KD (Doug) Walters AM MBE (1979); Sir Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE (1980)*; RH (Dick) Guy (1981)*; AR (Alan) Barnes OBE (1981)*; EF (Ted) Wykes OAM (1982)*; AB (Alan) Crompton OAM (1983)*; AJ (Austen) Hughes OAM (1984)*; NWL (Noel) Bergin OAM (1986)*; LR (Lyall) Gardner OAM (1988); JA (John) Chapman AM (1990)*; RB (Rick) McCosker OAM (1990); RCA (Roger) Wotton AM (1990)*; DJ (Denis) Broad OAM (1992); KR (Kevin) Cunningham (1992)*; FJ (Frank) Clark OAM (1995)*; TH (Trevor) Wholohan OAM (1995)*; RA (Dick) French OAM (1996); RM (Bob) Radford AM (1996)*; SJ (Steve) Rixon (1996); RF (Ray) Tozer (1996); IH (Ivor) Ewin OAM (1997)*; A (Alan) Turner (1997); EW (Ern) Cosgrove (1998)*; NS (Noel) Laming (1998)*; JMA (Jim) Tait (1999); BF (Brian) Freedman OAM (2000); RG (Rocky) Harris (2000)*; NG (Neil) Marks OAM (2000); R (Ron) Wright OAM (2001)*; P (Phil) Tresidder (2001)*; PA (Phil) Emery (2002); J (John) Dyson (2002); RE (Bob) Horsell OAM (2002); GF (Geoff) Lawson OAM (2002); GRJ (Greg) Matthews (2002); MA (Mark) Taylor AO (2002); MR (Mike) Whitney AM (2002); MG (Michael) Bevan (2003); BJ (Brian) Gainsford OAM (2003); HJ (Hilary) Griffith (2003); WJ (Bill) Jocelyn (2003); ME (Mark) Waugh AM (2003); SR (Steve) Waugh AO (2003); J (John) Benaud (2004); PI (Peter) Philpott OAM (2004)*; RA (Rina) Hore (2005); P (Pam) Meyers (2005); MJ (Murray) Bennett (2005); THJ (Tom) Iceton OAM (2005); JT (John) McMahon OAM (2005); JT (John) O’Dwyer OAM (2006); D (Dion) Bourne (2006)*; RJ (Bob) Brenner (2007); BJ (Belinda) Clark AO (2007); CF (Colin) Clowes (2007); LM (Lisa) Keightley (2007); GD (Glenn) McGrath AM (2008); MB (Mike) Pawley OAM (2008); DB (Darrell) Hair (2009 – res’d 2013); RG (Bob) Holland OAM (2009)*; BA (Basil) Sellers AM (2009); MJ (Mike) Silver OAM (2009); GK (Harry) Harinath OAM (2010); K (Kerry) Marshall (2010); SB (Steve) Smith (2010); DH (Doug) Cole (2011); G (Grahame) Thomas (2011); DR (David) Gilbert (2014); MF (Marshall) Rosen (2014); BP (Brian) Hughes (2015); SM (Simon) Katich (2015); C (Carolyn) Sheehan (2015); MJ (Michael) Slater (2016); LC (Lisa) Sthalekar (2017); GK (Greg) Monaghan (2018); KJ (Kerry) O’Keeffe (2018); B (Brett) Lee (2019); SJA (Simon) Taufel (2019); MJ (Michael) Clarke AO (2020); K (Karen) Hill (2020); J (Julie) Hayes (2021); JA (John) Warn.
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LIST OF LIFE MEMBERS OF NSW WOMEN’S CRICKET ASSOCIATION WHO BECAME LIFE MEMBERS OF NSW CRICKET ASSOCIATION WHEN NSWCA & NSWWCA MERGED IN 2003 G (Gwen) Atwell; R (Bob) Brewer*; CP (Christine) Brierley OAM; MJ (Marie) Cornish OAM; M (Menna) Davies; V (Verna) Jackson; LA (Lyn) Larsen; HA (Ann) Mitchell OAM; M (Muriel) Picton; O (Olive) Smith*; L (Lorna) Thomas MBE*; W (Wendy) Weir AM* * = Deceased ANNUAL
YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2022 NSW CRICKET ASSOCIATION & CONTROLLED ENTITIES REVENUE & EXPENDITURE STATEMENT 2022$ 2021$ Revenue 49,376,786 44,644,388 Expenditure 49,606,487 45,457,640 Deficit from Operations (229,701) (813,252) Realised gains - Investments (net) 642,223 1,080,440 Unrealised gains (loss) - Investments at FVTPL (net) (1,300,122) 1,193,363 Facilities Grant (net) (325,000) (273,570) CNSW Foundation (net) 63,582 (118,356) Innovation Fund (net (87,489) (187,679) (Deficit) / surplus from ordinary operations (1,236,507) 880,946 Abnormal - Interim facilities expense (net) (822,357) (896,000) Abnormal - Wilson Park (Cricket Central) Development (net) 50,850,652 74,494 Unrealised gains (loss) - Investments to Reserve (1,198,392) 1,017,103 Total Comprehensive Income 47,593,396 1,076,543 BALANCE SHEET 2022$ 2021$ Current Assets Cash and cash equivalents 16,750,993 36,509,584 Receivables 445,694 174,937 Other financial assets 20,771,521 22,824,738 Prepayments and deposits 52,715 60,000 Total Current Assets 38,020,923 59,569,259 Non-Current Assets Lease assets 3,706,707 3,021,533 Property, plant and equipment 54,442,803 23,045,755 Total Non-Current Assets 58,149,510 26,067,288 Total Assets 96,170,433 85,636,547 Current Liabilities Payables 4,372,193 6,192,620 Lease liabilities 253,962 743,246 Provisions 4,881,523 3,169,557 Other liabilities 6,973,146 44,373,067 Total Current Liabilities 16,480,824 54,478,490 Non-Current Liabilities Lease liabilities 3,588,425 2,355,086 Provisions 276,347 571,530 Total Non-Current Liabilities 3,864,772 2,926,616 Total Liabilities 20,345,596 57,405,106 Net Assets 75,824,837 28,231,441 Equity Asset revaluation reserve (331,302) 867,090 Retained surplus 76,156,139 27,364,351 Total Equity 75,824,837 28,231,441CRICKETFINANCIALSNSW52
