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Pink Stumps day
Congratulations and thank you to Ratna Siva and
his team of U9 parents who ran Pink Stumps Day at Campbell Park. The Team are on track to raising over $9,000 for this great cause and this brings us up over $37,700 since our involvement in 2010/11.
The McGrath Foundation has called out our Club as being one of the largest supporters of Pink Stumps day in Australia and last year was invited to a special ‘Thank you’ function at Government House.
Outstanding achievement
We are home to two of the greatest women players to have ever played the game – Lisa Sthalekar (Australia 2003- 2013) and Denise Annetts (Australia 1985 to 1993).
Lisa played all her Junior cricket with us (1989/95) and Denise played Seniors, managed and then coached Junior sides between 2003/2014.
On 23 July 2017 Denise was formally inducted as an Honorary Life Member of the MCC (Lord’s) to be one of only 320 people worldwide to receive this honour. There are only 75 Australians and 19 Women on this global list.
Photo: Denise on being inducted into the Cricket NSW Hall of fame.
MCC Life Membership is offered by the MCC Committee “....to any person who in its opinion has given long and distinguished service to the game and as such offers are comparatively rare”
Lisa was inducted 2 years ago and our other MCC Life Member is former Prime Minister John Howard (Seniors 1963/64 to 73/74). So our Club has 3 of the global list of Life Members in this distinguished list.
The Future
This is an exciting period in our history. The platform we have with playing numbers, strong culture, relationships with our Schools, great volunteers and a talented leadership team is the envy of all Clubs – not just within our Association.
Coming up, we have the Association, under our President, Andrew Miedler, completing a strategic review of the Association – the first such review ever. The Norwest Metro Project will provide a tremendous opportunity to be part of the growth that this significant infrastructure development will deliver.
Through the combined effort of all the local sporting groups that use Greenway Park (AFL, Baseball, Cricket, Little A’s and Rugby League), Julian Leeser (our Federal Member) announced $2.7m in funding. This includes $1.6m for a Community Club House facility to be built on the grass bank between Greenway Park 1 and 2 Ovals and $1.1m upgrade to the Ovals. This will give us the opportunity to create an outstanding home ground at Greenway Park.
Barry McDonald Chairperson
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