Victorian Stormers - Joint Winners Division 3 National Championships 2011

                                             Armidale NSW - November 2011    

                       The Victorious Over 60 Division 2 National Champions for 2010

                                                Canberra ACT - November 2010                    

            The Other Victorian teams at Canberra

  "MY GAME- MY LIFE"

The world's first game with all participants over 60 years, was played at Brighton , Victoria , Australia , Saturday , 4th January 2003. Two teams of 13 a side , named Yarra North, captained by Alan Duffus, and Yarra South , jointly captained by Jim Williams and David Wingfield played a 40 overs one day match, won by Yarra North . Both umpires Frank Robinson and Kevin McDermott were aged over 60, as were the husband and wife team of scorers, Betty and Stan Hogben, after whom the Hogben-Meckiff Mentone CC oval is jointly named, with the Meckiff family.

Back Row (from LHS)

I Wood, I Sharp, C Williams, R Grosvenor, R Luckman, D Parker, U Pathy, I McCullum, T Dunn, I Beazley, R Dalton, A Jelliffe, S Charlton, D Moyes, J Hammer

Front Row (from LHS)

F Robinson, K McDermott (Umpires), R Thompson, D Fisher, L Mills, Ms B Stubberfield, A Duffus (Capt Yarra Nth), J Williams,  D Wingfield (Co-Capt Yarra Sth), Mrs B Hogben (Scorer), H Jelliffe, D Tomlinson, A Broadbent, T Ambrose.

Absent from photo: S Hogben , R Magree.

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Lloyd Mills 81 years, Australia's oldest registered cricketer, and one of two ex-servicemen from World War 2 still playing cricket, travelled down from his farm at Mincha (Near Pyramid Hill). Lloyd played his last game in January 2004.

The oldest player to have played 0ver 60 cricket in Australia, is Bill Coghlan, born 13 April 1923. The world's oldest to have played 0ver 60 cricket is Jack Hyams, aged 88years in 2007, from UK. One lady, Barbara Stubberfield, played in the inaugural game.

The inaugural National/Interstate 0ver 60 Carnival was held in Canberra in November 22-24, 2006, on three ovals at the Australian National University.

Teams were: ACT, NSW, Tasmania, Victoria, Victoria 2nds, Composite X1, National Parliamentary X1, World's Oldest X1

On February 10, 2006, the first International Over 60 match took place in Onehunga, Auckland, between Australia and New Zealand.

A group of 12 players 0ver 60 toured UK from August 27-September 15, 2007, and played nine games vs 0ver 60 teams there.  

The World's Oldest Cricket Team (as reported in the Wisden Cricketer Jan 2008 issue Vol5, No.4), is pictured below. The Team with an average age of 75 years and 5 months, played in a friendly match in Melbourne in November 2007 as part of the National Over 60 Cricket Carnival. Their opponents had a youthful average age of 70 years and 6 months, with veteran Umpires Max O'Connell (a former Test official) and Kevin Barker officiating.

Back Row (from LHS)

Max O'Connell (71), Geoff Norton (74), Ellis Shaw (73), Dr. Uma Pathy (73), Rodger Grosvenor (73), Robert Durant (73), Douglas Fisher (75), John McDonald (78), Kevin Barker (70)

Front Row (from LHS)

Ian Huntington (76), Jim Murphy (73), Jim Usher (74), Harold Fletcher (73), Don Tanner (77), Brendan Lyons (80)

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In 2008, England visited Australia  with 19 players over 60 and 10 WAGS of undisclosed ages.

The reciprocal series saw Australia, with a 35 strong party, including 10 ladies and an umpire,  play 12 games in England during August 2009. The UK Tour Program, random photos, some highlights and score sheets from the individual UK matches are posted under the Events tab above.

               The Co-Founders of Over 60 Cricket - Addington CC, Kent (Aug '09)

                                     John Hammer (Aus: Jan '03) & Barry Smith (UK: June '04)