Club History

PREMIERSHIPS:

Year	Team	Opposition
1969-70	1st Grade
1971-72	1st Grade
1973-74	1st Grade
1977-78	1st Grade
1978-79	1st Grade	Palm Beach
1981-82	4th Grade
1982-83	4th Grade
1988-89	4th Grade
1993-94	3rd Grade	Palm Beach
1993-94 *	4th Grade
1994-95 *	2nd Grade
1994-95 *	3rd Grade
1995-96	2nd Grade	Coomera Hope island
1996-97	4th Grade	Queens
1997-98 *	1st Grade
1998-99	3rd Grade	Surfers Paradise
2003-04	5th Grade
2004-05	4th Grade	Southport Labrador
2005-06	3rd Grade	Tamborine
2005-06	4th Grade	Palm Beach
2005-06	5th Grade
2005-06	6th Grade	Southport Labrador
2006-07	1st Grade	Palm Beach
2006-07	5th Grade
2007-08	2nd Grade	Palm Beach
2007-08	3rd Grade
2008-09	2nd Grade	Queens
* One Day Cup Premiership

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100 Games
Name	Matches
Veivers, Clyde	300+
Hinze, Darren	200+
Bauman, Andrew	200+
Phillips, Wayne	100+
Veivers, Charlie	100+
Short, Travis	100+
Whitchurch, Dean	100+
Wilson, Joel	100+
Windt, Graeme	100+
Wesener, Alan	100+
Dalton, Keith	100+
Shaffer, Michael	100+
Jackson, Peter	100+
Johnson, Ben	100+
Smith, Peter	100+
Johnson, Mark	100+
Matheson, Daniel	100+
Laws, Adam	100+
Keys, Ashley	100+
Lockey, Robson	100+

1000 runs / 100 wickets club
Name	Matches	Runs Scored	Wickets
Hinze, Darren	175	4311	131
Phillips, Wayne	194	3478	387
Bauman, Andrew	196	2881	326
Dalton, Keith	115	1925	114
Shaffer, Michael	108	1919	189
Day, Scott	88	1774	107
Park, Hayden	81	1301	132
McGrath, Scott	85	1159	186
Windt, Graeme	120	1139	107
Wharton, Jeff	82	1107	103
Laws, Adam	102	1088	181
Wilson, Joel	122	1042	134
Smith, Peter	105	1003	217

The history of the club:


In the early 1870's a family by the name of 'Andrews' immigrated from Northern Ireland to Australia and settled on the south coast of Queensland at Mudgeeraba. The brothers Samuel, Isaac and William farmed land for a long time belonging to Mr Fredericks. Isaac Andrews was a very keen cricketer and together with William soon established a cricket team along with a number of other locals, including a few timber getters, John and James McIntyre. Also believed to be in the team were names such as Herbert, Duncan, at least one Veivers, a very young Stephen Berrigan and an aboriginal who had a very accurate arm.

The first known cricket and sports ground was across the swamp from the old sawmill and to the north-east of where the original Lavers Hotel stood. The original wicket was a rolled ant bed wicket.

As the years passed, the district brought more settlers and together with the natural
population increase more cricketers joined the club.

In 1910 the playing venue was moved to the Andrews' Somerset property after the transfer of the hotel to the present Wallaby Hotel site. The pitch was constructed of concrete in the Andrews paddock near a very large Moreton Bay Fig Tree and cricket was played here for a good number of years. Players around this time were some of Isaac's sons, namely Stanley, William, Rankin and later the well known Arthur (Rusty).

Around 1930 when Sunday Cricket became the norm, the club had to find a new ground as the Andrews family did not want Sunday cricket at all in those days. The wicket was moved to Mr Geoff Rudd's property, what was known as "Rudd's Flat", below the memorial hall. The cricket ground remained there until the early 1950's.

The Merrimac cricket club folded in 1933 and a number of players joined the Mudgereeba team, which enabled the Mudgereeba club to field two teams. The second division team won the premiership in 1935 & 1936. The A grade team reached the grand final on a number of occasions, however were unsuccessful until 1939.

The outbreak of the second world war put a stop to competition cricket being played until the war ended, however a few social matches were played amongst those who wanted a game. The Nerang Shire Cricket Association was eventually reformed and every team in the competition joined the Southport District Cricket Association - which is now known as the Gold Coast & District Cricket Association.

In the early 1950's the home ground was transferred to "Talgai" the Veivers property that had been the Merrimac home ground. The late Harold Veivers and his family became enthusiastic players and supporters of the club. In fact, the Veivers family became (and still should be regarded as) the backbone of the club for their efforts on and off the field.

The Veivers property was the home ground of the club until the 1960's. After that the Broadbeach Oval, Carrara Stadium and the TSS ovals were also used as home grounds. It wasn't until the new grounds and clubhouse at Nielsens Rd that we had a permanent home.

During the offseason of 1987-88, the club made the decision to amalgamate with OSA cricketers which enabled us to obtain the grounds and turf wickets at TSS. Many fine cricketers from TSS played with our club during this time.

In 1991 our new clubhouse and oval complex at Nielsens Rd was built with the number one oval being a turf pitch and the number two ground a synthetic wicket.

Today the club is thriving, with 8 senior and 12 junior teams. We have had players represent us at all levels of domestic and international cricket. Future plans include the construction of two more grounds to the north of the current clubrooms.

Following is a list of club founding members and early players:

Samuel Andrews, Issac Andrews, William Andrews, John McIntyre, James McIntyre, The Herbert's, The Duncan's, Harold Veivers, Stephen Berrigan, Stanley Isaac, William Isaac, Rankin Isaac, Arthur "Rusty" Isaac, The Hardy's, Greg Franklin, Cliff Franklin, Ben Franklin, Alf "Dutch" Tobin, John Tobin, Adam Myers, Joe Lalor, Arthur Sprenger, George Moreton, Jack Cuddihy Snr, Jim Cuddihy, Arthur Andrews, Stan Sprenger, Colin Sprenger, Jack Lawton Snr & Jnr to name but a few!

Life Members

Charlie Veivers

Arthur Auld

Clyde Veivers (dec)

Russell Kurz

Peter Stormonth

Peter Jackson

Darren Hinze

Andrew Bauman

Wayne Phillips

Kevin Veivers

Peter Schulz

Peter Smith