INDOOR CRICKET WORLD

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 have 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, and Roger Woolley is still active, playing for Tasmania in the National Masters Championships.

Bruce Reid is another recent Test Player heavily involved in the game, running a centre in Ballajura, Western Australia; playing in the Western Australian State League, and representing Western Australia in National Championships (including as playing coach in 1996).

Many former Sheffield Shield (Australia's national domestic competition) players are, or have been, heavily involved in Indoor-Cricket. For example, Peter Gladigou, of South Australia, is one player who still represents his State in the National Masters championships. (Note - any flames re: the Australian Cricket Board's cynical, soul-selling step of replacing the Sheffield Shield with some milk company's cup will be treated with a small percentage of the same contempt all cricket-lovers in Australia should be feeling toward the ACB for that move)

I know there are many international Test Cricketers also involved in the game, and I am endeavouring to track them all down - I don't want to just roll off their names without knowing anything about their level of involvement. If you know of any, drop us a line with a brief description of them and their involvement in indoor cricket, and we'll add them to this page.

And then there are those players who have become famous purely within the Indoor-Cricket world - but more of them later.