"night. When media giant Kerry Packer failed to obtain the television broadcast rights for cricket, he bought the top 30–40 players in the world and staged his own competition, World Series Cricket. Packer applied to use the SCG for WSC in 1977 but the SCG Trust, which administered the ground, refused. However the NSW Labor Government, under Premier Neville Wran, amended the ""Sydney Sports Ground and Cricket Ground Act"" to remove the Trust's power to decide who played at the SCG and the NSWCA's traditional right over the ground. A new Trust was established with 12 members appointed by the"
"in Casino is named for him. Clark Irving Clark Irving (1 January 1808 – 13 January 1865) was an Australian merchant pastoralist and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1856 until 1864. Irving was the son of a Cumberland farmer. He received only an elementary education and moved to London at an early age. After gaining business experience he emigrated to Sydney in 1836 and established a mixed mercantile business trading in watches, jewellery and wool. In 1843, he bought Casino station on the Richmond River and established a herd of short-horn cattle."
"Yabba Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba, (19 March 1878 - 8 January 1942) was an Australian sports fan, remembered as a heckler at Sydney Cricket Ground cricket and rugby league games in the early part of the 20th century. ""Yabba"" was known for his knowledgeable witticisms shouted loudly from ""The Hill"", a grassy general admissions area of the SCG. In Yabba's era, cricket matches were watched like tennis matches, and spectators at the SCG were much quieter than today. This is the reason Yabba's comments were so clearly heard by players and other spectators. ""The Hill"" area was"
"Sports Depot' to 'Shaw and Shrewsbury'. Their trademark of a kangaroo and emu with a cricket bat between them was introduced in 1886. Following the financial losses made during the tour of Australia in 1887/8 the firm downsized from the two buildings into a single building in Queen's Bridge Road. After Shrewsbury's death his share in the firm was split between his brother, William, and four of his nephews. The firm was closed in 1939 with its assets being bought by Grays of Cambridge. Arthur Shrewsbury Arthur Shrewsbury (11 April 1856 – 19 May 1903) was an English cricketer and"
"Geoffrey Howard (cricketer) Cecil Geoffrey Howard (14 February 1909 – 8 November 2002) was an English cricketer and cricket administrator. Geoffrey Howard was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, a grandson of Sir Ebenezer Howard, a founder of the Garden City Movement, who taught him a respect for people and a love for cricket. He was educated at the University College School. He is also related to the dancer and TV personality Una Stubbs. As a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, he represented Middlesex in three first-class matches in 1930, whilst on annual leave from the bank for which he worked."
"at St Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire. Sydney Fairbairn Sydney George Fairbairn MC (13 October 1892 – 19 January 1943) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood, he was born in Cape Colony, South Africa. Fairbairn made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Barbados, during the MCC tour of the West Indies in early 1913. The remainder of his 7 first-class matches came on this tour, with his final appearance coming against British Guiana. In his 8 first-class appearances on tour, he scored 241 runs at an"
"Jack Nitschke Homesdale Carl Nitschke (often, incorrectly, ""Holmesdale"", also known as ""Jack"", ""Sling"" or ""Slinger"") (14 April 1905 in Adelaide, South Australia – 29 September 1982 in North Adelaide, South Australia) was an Australian and South Australia cricketer. The son of Carl Hermann Wilhelm Luder Richard ""C. H."" Nitschke (1866–1922), Nitschke's uncle Richard Nitschke was a famous baritone. Nitschke's grandfather Wilhelm Nitschke (c. 1817–1889) was the founding owner of the Hackney Distillery. Described by E.W. Swanton as ""a left-handed bat of belligerent inclinations"", Nitschke played in only two Tests; against South Africa in Brisbane and Sydney in 1931, and could"
"John Gurney Hoare John Gurney Hoare (7 May 1810 – 16 February 1875) was an English cricketer with amateur status, later a banker. Hoare was born in Hampstead, north London, a son of Samuel Hoare (1783–1847), a partner in Bland, Barnett & Hoare, bankers (which after mergers and name changes was eventually taken over by Lloyds Bank) and his wife Louisa. Hoare was the grandson of the Quaker Samuel Hoare, one of the twelve founding members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. John Hoare was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as"
"a clerk for the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company. He left a widow, Mary, and a son. Sydney Callaway Sydney Thomas Callaway (6 February 1868 in Redfern, Sydney – 25 November 1923 in Christchurch) was an Australian cricketer who played in three Tests, all of them against England in Australia. In 1891/92 he played in Sydney and Melbourne, and in 1894/95 he played in Adelaide where he took 5/37 in the first innings. In the Sydney Test, he was the second victim in a hat-trick by Johnny Briggs. He played in 62 first-class matches, taking 320 wickets at an average of"
"was a shrewd businessman who used the opportunities afforded by cricket to supplement his income through trading, journalism and property development. Increasing paranoia brought about by bipolar disorder saw Barnes lose many of the friends he had made through the game, as he sought treatment for his depression. On 16 December 1973, he was found dead at his home in the Sydney suburb of Collaroy; he had ingested barbiturates and bromide in a probable suicide. Barnes was born in 1916 in Annandale, an inner suburb of Sydney. However, in his autobiography, he claims to have been born in 1918 or"
"Barclay (1814–1878), daughter of Charles Barclay (1780–1855) and Anna Maria Kett (1781–1840) of Cheapside, London. Hoare's eldest son Samuel became Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Baronet. Hoare died on 10th March 1875 in the Grand Hotel, Biarritz, France, and was buried there. John Gurney Hoare John Gurney Hoare (7 May 1810 – 16 February 1875) was an English cricketer with amateur status, later a banker. Hoare was born in Hampstead, north London, a son of Samuel Hoare (1783–1847), a partner in Bland, Barnett & Hoare, bankers (which after mergers and name changes was eventually taken over by Lloyds Bank) and his"
"at Datchet Lodge, Datchet. He left £21,000 in his will and was buried at Wraxall. Philip Kington Philip Oliphant Kington (17 December 1832 – 2 July 1892) was an English businessman and landowner who inherited a Scottish clan chiefdom and also played a single first-class cricket game in Australia. From 1867, when he inherited Ardblair Castle in Scotland from his maternal Oliphant relatives, he took the triple-barrelled name ""Kington-Blair-Oliphant"". He was born at Clifton, Bristol and died at Datchet, then in Berkshire, now in Buckinghamshire. Kington was the son of Thomas Kington of Charlton House, Wraxall in north Somerset; he"
"Sydney Fairbairn Sydney George Fairbairn MC (13 October 1892 – 19 January 1943) was an English cricketer and British Army officer. The son of Victorian rower Steve Fairbairn and Eleanor Sharwood, he was born in Cape Colony, South Africa. Fairbairn made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Barbados, during the MCC tour of the West Indies in early 1913. The remainder of his 7 first-class matches came on this tour, with his final appearance coming against British Guiana. In his 8 first-class appearances on tour, he scored 241 runs at an average of 20.08, which included a"
"Henry Harris (Australian cricketer) Henry Vere Poulett-Harris (22 April 1865 – 7 March 1933) was an Australian cricket player, runner, footballer,gold prospector and gold mine owner. Vere Poulett-Harris played five first-class cricket matches for the Tasmania and Western Australia cricket teams between 1883 and 1899. One early news report described him as a ""sterling cricketer and footballer"" whilst another described him as a ""sterling batsman and good field."" Vere Poulett-Harris' father was Richard Deodatus Poulett-Harris, an educationalist, priest, the founder of the Masonic Lodge in Tasmania and the co-founder of the University of Tasmania. Amongst his other activities, Richard was"
"Samuel Morcom Samuel Morcom, Jr. (1847 – 15 January 1888) was a leading 19th-century South Australian cricketer. Born in Cornwall, England, in 1847 to miner and temperance lecturer Samuel Morcom, Sr. and Mary (née Toy), the fifth of nine children, Morcom sailed with his family to South Australia on the ""Rajah"", arriving at Port Adelaide on 24 September 1847. Morcom Snr. initially travelled to Reedy Creek to run a copper mine, then joined the Victorian gold rush before moving to Adelaide with his family, where he purchased a hotel in Hindley St, naming it ""Morcom's Temperance Hotel"". In Adelaide he"
"Christopher Pond Christopher Pond (1826–1881) was a British caterer and hotelier. Christopher Pond was born in Essex in 1826. While looking to seek his fortune in Australia he met Felix William Spiers, and the pair rented a room at the Melbourne National Hotel in which they created their first restaurant called ""The Shakespeare Grill Room"", catering for gold miners. They then created the Café de Paris in Melbourne, before moving into railway catering for the gold miners' Melbourne-Ballarat Railway during the 1850s. Spiers & Pond organised the first tour of a national English cricket team to Australia during 1861/2,and were"
"the modern game of Australian rules football and is commemorated by a statue depicting the game outside the Melbourne Cricket Ground. On 18 September 1856, a year after he arrived from Scotland, he married Elizabeth Clark in Melbourne, Australia. She had arrived three days before the wedding with her maid on the ""Admiral"", the same ship on which he had travelled out a year earlier, which reached Hobson's Bay (Melbourne's port) on 15 September 1856, having set sail from London on 7 June 1856. Elizabeth Clark was probably born on 7 October 1832 in Barony parish Scotland, near Glasgow (her"
"Margaret Marlow. He died in the Sydney suburb of Randwick and is buried at Waverley Cemetery. A road built in the 1890s outside the Sydney Cricket Ground called ""Driver Avenue"" is named in his honour. Richard Driver Richard Driver (junior) (16 September 1829 – 8 July 1880) was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator. Driver was born in Cabramatta, New South Wales, son of Richard Driver, hotel-keeper, and his wife Elizabeth, née Powell. In 1859, he became a solicitor for the Sydney City Council and also carried out a practice in the Sydney police court. Driver unsuccessfully contested three"
"from the Committee in 1961. He owned the champion New Zealand bred stallion High Caste. In 2007 Tancred was inducted into the Sydney Turf Club Hall of Fame as an associate. Harry Tancred Henry Eugene ""Harry"" Tancred (25 May 1897 – 15 November 1961) was a rugby union player and administrator who represented for New Zealand and Australia. He was an entrepreneurial businessman influential in meat wholesaling and exporting who together with his brothers, built Tancred Industries to become one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. He was active in the thoroughbred industry as a racing administrator and racehorse owner."
"Thomas Coombe Sir Thomas Melrose Coombe (3 December 1873 – 22 July 1959) was an Australian cricketer, businessman and philanthropist, best known for his role in the film industry of Western Australia. Coombe was born at Melrose, South Australia, to Thomas Coombe and his wife Sarah (""née"" Beddome). His father, of Cornish descent, was a timber and iron merchant who served as mayor of Broken Hill in 1890, having previously lived in Port Pirie. He moved to Western Australia in 1895, following the gold rushes, where he set up as a supplier of building materials, and subsequently served as mayor"
"Alexander Drummond (cricketer) Captain Alexander Victor Drummond (20 October 1888 – 29 April 1937) was an English cricketer. Drummond's batting and bowling styles are unknown. Born in Westminster, London, he was the son of George James Drummond and Elizabeth Cecile Sophia Norman. He later married actress Pauline Chase on 24 October 1914. The couple had three children. Drummond worked full-time as a banker. He served in the First World War, reaching the rank of captain, before continuing with his banking career after the war. He died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent on 29 April 1937. Drummond made his first-class debut for"
"Duncan Cooper (cricketer) Duncan Elphinstone Cooper (c. 1813 – 22 November 1904) was an Indian-born Australian cricketer who played for Victoria. He was born in Bengal, India and died in Paddington. He was the son of Major General George Cooper (1777–1847) and his first wife Jane née Munn (1778–1823). In 1841 he travelled from London to Australia with George and Harry Thompson, brothers who were to become his partners as squatters and sheep farmers near Fiery Creek, Raglan. In his spare time Duncan painted landscapes of the surrounding area which were later gathered together and published as ""The Challicium Sketch"
"Henry Eric Southey Harben Major Henry Eric Southey Harben (1 August 1900 – 1 October 1971) was an English cricketer. Harben was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. The son of Henry Devenish Harben and Agnes Helen Bostock, he was born at Farnham, Surrey. Harben married Helen Prudence Ramsay, daughter of the cricketer Francis Ramsay, on 5 June 1927, though the couple later divorced. They had two children. He later married Iris Constance Kathleen de Stacpoole, daughter of George Edward Joseph Patrick de Stacpoole, 5th Duc de Stacpoole and Eileen Constance Palmer, on 29 April 1947, with"
"in June 1924, ""in recognition of his public services"". However, in 1931, he was prosecuted and found guilty of income tax evasion, and fined ₤100. After Union Cinemas collapsed the same year, Coombe was forced to sell much of his property, although his sons remained in the cinema business. He later moved to Glenelg, a suburb of Adelaide, and then to Surrey in England, where he died in 1959. Thomas Coombe Sir Thomas Melrose Coombe (3 December 1873 – 22 July 1959) was an Australian cricketer, businessman and philanthropist, best known for his role in the film industry of Western"
"sports store in Martin Place, Sydney during 1926. It became a very profitable business. Two years later, on 20 April 1928 at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, he married Mabel Charlotte Catts. The New South Wales Cricket Association elected him a life member in 1943–44. In February 1949, Kippax was awarded a joint testimonial with his old teammate, wicketkeeper Bert Oldfield. Played between Lindsay Hassett’s XI and Arthur Morris’s XI at the SCG, the match raised ₤6,030, which was split evenly between Kippax and Oldfield. In later years, Kippax was an A-grade golfer at The Lakes course in Sydney and a"
"Harry Tancred Henry Eugene ""Harry"" Tancred (25 May 1897 – 15 November 1961) was a rugby union player and administrator who represented for New Zealand and Australia. He was an entrepreneurial businessman influential in meat wholesaling and exporting who together with his brothers, built Tancred Industries to become one of Australia's largest wholesale butchering firms. He was active in the thoroughbred industry as a racing administrator and racehorse owner. Born in Balmain, New South Wales, Henry was the sixth of ten children born to Thomas Tancred, a butcher from California, United States of America, and his Victorian-born wife Anna, née"
"Lloyd Williams (businessman) Lloyd J. Williams (born c. 1940) is an Australian property developer and businessperson, with significant interests in thoroughbred horse racing. In 2012 ""Forbes Asia"" assessed his net worth as . He holds the record as a thoroughbred owner to have won the Melbourne Cup on the most occasions, including in 2017 with the horse, Rekindling. Williams was educated at Xavier College, Melbourne. He is the founder of Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, established in 1994, located in Melbourne, Victoria. Crown is Australia's largest casino and one of the largest single casinos in the world. In 1999, Williams"
"Henry Kingscote (cricketer, born 1802) Henry Robert Kingscote (25 May 1802 – 13 July 1882) was a philanthropist and English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1825 to 1844. Born at Hinton, Hampshire, Kingscote was educated at Harrow and devoted much of his early life to cricket and hunting. He became a founding director of the South Australian Company. The town of Kingscote in South Australia is named after him. After a narrow escape from drowning he turned his attention to religion and good works; becoming a friend of bishop Charles Blomfield, he helped found the Church of England"
"Syd Gregory Sydney Edward Gregory (14 April 1870 — 1 August 1929), sometimes known as Edward Sydney Gregory, was a cricketer who played for New South Wales and Australia. At the time of his retirement, he had played a world-record 58 Test matches during a career spanning 1890 to 1912. A right-handed batsman, he was also a renowned fielder, particularly at cover point. Gregory was born at Moore Park, New South Wales, not far from the present site of the Sydney Cricket Ground, attending Sydney Boys High School. The Gregorys were Australia's first cricketing dynasty. Syd's father Ned Gregory was"
"was developed in 1985. Edward Cephas John Stevens Edward Cephas John Stevens MLC (18 October 1837 – 6 June 1915) was a New Zealand politician in provincial government in Canterbury, and a member of both the lower and upper houses of parliament. A businessman, he controlled the Christchurch ""Press"" for many decades. He was instrumental in introducing cricket to Canterbury and one of his dealings as a land and estate agent resulted in the creation of Lancaster Park, currently known as AMI Stadium. Stevens was born at Salford in the county of Oxfordshire, England. He was the youngest son of"
"in the barony by their son George Harris, 5th Baron Harris. George Harris, 4th Baron Harris Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, (3 February 1851 – 24 March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay. He was also an English amateur cricketer, mainly active from 1870 to 1889, who played for Kent and England as captain of both teams. He had a political career from 1885 to 1900 and was for much of his life a highly influential figure in cricket administration through the offices he held with Marylebone Cricket"
"Ned Gregory Edward James ""Ned"" Gregory (29 May 1839 in Waverley, New South Wales – 22 April 1899 in Randwick, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in the first recognised Test in 1877 between Australia and England in Melbourne. Ned was the father of a famous Australian cricketer, Syd Gregory, and brother of Dave Gregory who captained the first Australian eleven in England in 1878. Ned was also father-in-law of Harry Donnan. In the latter part of his life he was custodian of the Association ground at Sydney (later to be known as the Sydney Cricket Ground)"
"William Herbert Fowler William Herbert Fowler (28 May 1856 – 13 April 1941), also known as Bill Fowler and Herbert Fowler, was an English amateur cricketer who played 26 first-class cricket matches during the 1880s, principally for Somerset County Cricket Club. He was an all-rounder who was best known for his big-hitting when batting. He was also a famous golf course architect, and designed Walton Heath Golf Club among many others in the United Kingdom and United States. Fowler was born in Tottenham, London as the son of William Fowler, a barrister, and Rachel Maria, née Howard. In 1893, he"