With Victor Trumper's death falling on June 28, it is worth pausing to reflect on the kind of man he was away from the cricket field — and perhaps nothing captures that better than a letter he wrote to a schoolboy in February 1913, just sixteen months before his death at the age of 37.

GARY Sheen took up cricket because his brother played it … and he wanted to be better than his brother.

Well, he succeeded, because he has been named to the NSW U19 side to contest the Australian U19 championships in Melbourne, and hopes to eventually play for the senior NSW, and maybe the Australian sides.

Founded in 1843 the Parramatta District Cricket Club has a vault full of rich cricketing memories and some of these are displayed in this article.

Anthony Sams is the greatest wicketkeeper / batter to have played Sydney 1st Grade Cricket, let alone the greatest to have played with Randwick Petersham Cricket. He retired as an active player after the 2025-26 Twenty20 Grand Final with a career record of 558 wicketkeeper dismissals and 9,361 runs, of which 548 and 8,752 respectively, were achieved with Randwick Petersham.

William Brodie was a towering figure in the history of the Parramatta District Cricket Club during a career that commenced with the Club in 1870 and concluded with Central Cumberland in 1896.