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Guess
who I saw at Indoor-Cricket . . .
In 1984 I
umpired a game at the Australian National Indoor-Cricket championships.
It was in Perth, Western Australia, at the Lord's Indoor-Cricket
Centre in Subiaco. It
was the Grand Final of the National Indoor Cricket Open Championships.
The favourites, New South Wales, were taking on a team of young
upstarts from Victoria. In an outstanding game, the young upstarts
won by one run.
Despite losing
the Grand Final, N.S.W. had in their midst two young players of
exceptional ability. They were twins. Their names were Mark and
Steve ... Mark and Steve Waugh. They are perhaps Indoor-Cricket's
most famous sons.
Other former
Australian Test players had significant involvement with Indoor-Cricket.
Dougie Walters, Max Walker, Dennis Lillee and Bruce Yardley were
involved in the early formative years of the game especially.
During the
2002 Indoor Cricket World Cup, one of the umpires, Marc Nickl
from Australia, decided to compile a list of players who had represented
their country in both Indoor and Outdoor cricket. The criteria
was players who had played Test or One-Day Internationals for
their country, plus indoor cricket games at an international level
(including in the Masters division).
In consultation
with Bob Manca, Ric Smith, Paul Walter, Paul Botterill, Robbie
Kerr, Ross Collins, Brad Zeller, Ross Gregory and Hiran De Mel,
the following eleven men were identified (thanks again to Marc
Nickl for his work in compiling this list):
| PLAYER |
COUNTRY |
INDOOR
RECORD/DATE |
OUTDOOR
RECORD |
OUTDOOR
CAREER DATES |
| MIKE
GATTING |
(ENG) |
2
GAMES OPEN 1991 |
79
TESTS, 92 ODI |
1977-95 |
| CHRIS
HARRIS |
(NZ) |
4
GAMES OPEN 87-89 |
23
TESTS, 216 ODI |
1990--
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| SIMON
DOULL |
(NZ) |
6
GAMES OPEN 89-92 |
32
TESTS, 42 ODI |
1992-2000 |
| ROGER
WOOLEY |
(AUS) |
5
GAMES OPEN 1990 |
2
TESTS, 4 ODI |
1982-84 |
| TERTIUS
BOSCH |
(S.
AFRICA) |
3
GAMES OPEN 1993 |
1
TEST, 2 ODI |
1991-92 |
| SCOTT
STYRIS |
(NZ) |
9
GAMES OPEN 1995 |
1
TEST, 47 ODI |
1999-- |
| ANDREW
HALL |
(S.
AFRICA) |
19
GAMES OPEN 1995-98 |
1
TEST, 20 ODI |
1998-- |
| ANDRE
ADAMS |
(NZ) |
3
GAMES OPEN 1998 |
1
TEST, 16 ODI |
2000-- |
| KIM
BARNETT |
(ENG) |
4
GAMES O/35s 2000 |
4
TESTS, 1 ODI |
1988-89 |
| NIROSHAN
BANDARATILLEKE |
(S.
LANKA) |
3
GAMES OPEN 2000 |
7
TESTS, 3 ODI |
1997-- |
| BRUCE
REID |
(AUS) |
4
GAMES O/35s 2001 |
27
TESTS, 61 ODI |
1985-93 |
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Apologies
for any omissions, and if anyone has any further information,
please let us know. We'll keep this record updated as we receive
new information.
Marc also
began looking at women players as above, but found there were
so many that the chances of getting even a slightly accurate list
was going to be impossible. Therefore, we are calling for any
information on women players who qualify as above. As we gain
information we'll publish it here.
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