Story

One of our Kanga’s was talking to Dominic Thornely, NSW Blues and Australia ‘A’ star and our Club Ambassador, (November 2004) about the Australian First Class record 11 sixers he hit the day before at the SCG during his innings of 261*.

During Dom’s visit at Edward Bennett Oval the day after this achievement, he came down to Kanga and picked up with every team, signed autographs and had pictures taken. He also brought along the ‘Beast’ the Gunn & Moore bat he used for the 261*. A highlight was a comment from one of our Kanga’s to Dom. He thought Dom’s effort in scoring 261* was ‘cool’ but was underwhelmed by the 11 sixers: “I got 12 sixers off dad in the backyard the week before!”

History

Edward Bennett Oval (1992/93)
Used for Juniors only since 1985/86 and Kanga since 1992/93.

Achievements

• October 1993 – Kanga cricket made its debut at this Oval having started at Pennant Hills Oval a year earlier
• Carl Madsen (U14 Red 12/11/2005 Vs Castle Hill White) set Club record with the most number of 6’s hit in an innings. Carl scored 100* and this included nine 6’s and nine 4’s. After 2 overs he was 32* after having come in at a team score of 3 down for not many in 25 overs chasing 118. The Club record is 10 in an innings by Alex Sutcliffe (D1) way back in 1998 at Mimosa Oval.