Mount Lawley District Cricket Club is a semi-professional cricket club which plays in
Western Australian Grade Cricket competition which is now referred as Western Australian Premier Cricket. The club joined the
Western Australian Cricket Association "A" grade district competition as the Maylands-Mount Lawley Cricket Club in 1924-25 after having applied for entry two years earlier. The name was changed to Mount Lawley Cricket Club in 1927–28.
The club's first home ground was Maylands Oval, which later became known as Shearn Park. This was granted in 1923.
In 1947-48 senior matches moved to Inglewood Oval, then in October 1978 to Cornwall Reserve in
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. In 1982-83 the ground was renamed
Breckler Park.
Current A grade squad
Current A grade team is captained by former Sussex and Glamorgan first class cricketer
Stewart Walters and include players like
Clint Hinchliffe who now represents Melbourne stars in Big Bash league and formerly represented Perth scorchers and Western Australia in first class cricket. All rounder
Darius D'Silva represents United Arab Emirates in International Cricket where he debuted in ODI and T20I formats recently.Veteran Chris Prescott and Braydon Thompson adds experience in pace department while spinner Mohamed Ijaz, a former Sri Lanka under 19 representative is also part of the squad. Opening Batsman Corey Evans has represented the State in under age cricket. Other squad members include pace bowling all rounder Liam Purdy, wicket keeper batsman Andrew Bottega, middle order batsmen Oliver Mouchemore, Ethan Petta and Nic Marciano. Head coach of the club is David Virgo.
Notable players
Chris Matthews
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was the first homegrown Mount Lawley player to join the
Australian team. Other notable Mount Lawley players who played international cricket include
Ashley Mallett
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,
Terry Jenner,
Tony Mann,
Colin Milburn
Colin Milburn (23 October 1941 – 28 February 1990) was an English cricketer, who played in nine Test matches for England, before an accident led to the loss of much of his sight and prompted his retirement.
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,
Geoff Marsh
Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958) is an Australian former cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test cricket, Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia national cricket team, Australia as an Batting order (cr ...
,
Dermot Reeve,
Ravi Ratnayeke,
Mike Veletta,
Michael Klinger,
Dean Brownlie
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, and
Chris Jordan, Even though
John McGuire hasn’t played international cricket, he was considered to be one of the best batsman of his generation and scored over 10000 first grade runs and holds several of the batting records of Mount Lawley. Other notable first class cricketers include Paul Davis and
Tom Beaton.
References
External links
Mt Lawley Hawks
Cricket clubs established in 1886
Western Australian Grade Cricket clubs
1886 establishments in Australia
Sports clubs and teams in Perth, Western Australia
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