By Dongyun Kwon
Yarra Glen Cricket Club House was crowded with about 100 people reminiscing the past years of the club in the Yarra Valley Cricket Association.
The cricket club competed in the Yarra Valley Cricket Association from 1961 to 2021.
The special reunion event was hosted on Sunday 23 February to celebrate those 60 years, following the success of the last year’s event.
Yarra Glen Cricket Club president Travis Gloury said it was an opportunity to reconnect with past players.
“As part of the event, we thought it was appropriate to acknowledge significant contributions from different people over those years,” he said.
“We inducted three legends and also inducted three hall of famers.
“We put a small committee together of people who had been at the club over the bulk of those years to select the best team of those years.”
A special match between past players and current players was a highlight of the day.
Cowan brothers led each team as skippers; Andrew Cowan led the past players team, Phil Cowan led the current players team.
Gloury said the game was played in a friendly atmosphere with a slight competitive tension.
“Andrew Cowan is a significant past player and got some good contacts with the whole group of past players of his years over the last 15 or 20 years,” he said.
“He was able to put a past players team together.”
Club Legends: Les Weller, Norm Hargreaves and Maurice Adams.
Inductees into the club Hall of Fame: John Orren, David Ball and Tom Davey.
Best 12 players to represent the club in the 60 years the club competed in the Yarra Valley Cricket Association (criteria – minimum 30 games):
1. Nick Foster
2. Merv Hubbard
3. David Ball
4. Craig Sarre
5. Brett Ratten
6. Maurice Adams (c)
7. Luke Sarre
8. Geoff McBride (wk)
9. Dale Foster
10. Norm Hargreaves
11. Darren Edwards
12. Simon Davidson
