Story

David Carey had a long apprenticeship before playing A1 Grade. After making his debut in 1979/80 David played his first game in A 1 Grade in 1999/2000 with 600 wickets to his credit. David took 4/53 against the top team. David is our most successful bowler having taken 623 wickets at 18.78 bowling slow medium pace cutters.

History

The Glade
Opened in 1967 as a turf ground.

Achievements

• Tony Ford scored 155* (A Grade Vs Beecroft, 1992/93). This innings is rated by Barry McDonald (A Grade umpire for over 20 years), as the finest ton he has seen in this Association.
• 2000/01 A2 Grade Amir Marzouk took 9/38 Vs Mt Colah in an innings.
• 18/12/2004 – Simon Smyth (A1) took his 150th wicket Vs CHRSL.
• 22/12/2007 – Matt Dawson (A1) took his 200th wicket Vs Normanhurst- Warrawee.
• 16/2/2013 – James Makin (A1 Captain) scored his 4,000th run against Mt Colah. To quote James “it was not the most glamorous shot (a fend off the gloves to fine leg from one that popped), but they don’t draw pictures in the scorebook!”
• 9/3 & 16/3/2013 – an amazing A2 Semi Final against SKLPS. After bowling SKLPS out for 47 we were dismissed for 44 on a reasoanble wicket but very slow, uncut outfield. Day 2 and we rolled SKLPS for 22 with Riley Miedler taking 8/13. We struggled to 6/26 to earn a place in the Final.
• 19/10/2013 – a Club record A1 10th wicket partnership of 79 by Riley Miedler (46) and Sam Baidya (42*) just fell 5 runs short to steal an improbable win in the clash against Kissing Point.
• 29/3/2015 – Justin Edwards (C3) took 10/37 (4/26 & 6/11) Vs Beecroft in the Grand Final.
• 21/1/2017 – Matt Jobson (A1) took his 300th wicket to become only the 11th player in our history to reach this milestone and also the youngest player at 27 years to reach 300 wickets.