by John Jackson Galle International Cricket Stadium is one of the most distinctive and famous international cricket venues. Sandwiched between the 17th century Dutch Fort area, the city centre and the Indian Ocean it is a historic and picturesque venue. It was a special place for CPCC to make our …
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by John Jackson Kandy is 115 KM from Colombo by road and 500 m higher in elevation. After a 5 hour road journey in a maze of tuk tuks and government buses ‘screaming down the non-existent third lane’ we arrived in Kandy at the height of Buddhist New Year’s celebrations. …
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By John Jackson All three of the Colombo games were played against young teams from the Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) School of cricket. The teams turned out to be pretty evenly matched with CPCC winning the series 2-1. The oppressive heat was the ever present factor in all our games …
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Club legend John Jackson is currently touring in South Africa with the Sydney Classics Cricket Team. The Over 50’s tour has seen him take on various teams in Cape Town thus far. Jacko’s been pretty handy with the bat, scoring 83 runs in his 4 games at an average of …
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Saturday evening before last, Plateau treasurer Toby Horstead sat in the pub with a beaming smile, anxious to tell his fellow clubmen about the career milestones he had achieved thanks to a solid 47 that day. He whipped out his iPad and brought up the list of players with the …
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1st Grade 1st Grade’s tough run continued with a heavy defeat at the hands of reigning premiers Harbord Bowling. The CPCC bowlers were unable to contain some fast scoring by HBCC despite yet another tight spell from Jeff Porter-Denning (1/19 off 7) and 4 wickets to President and stand-in skipper …
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Collaroy Plateau Cricket Club The biggest park cricket club on Sydney's Northern Beaches
