You have come a long way since you first started playing cricket. Was your first A-grade club cricket with The Southport School?

AYes, I was at TSS when the school played in the GPS competitions on Saturdays then backed up on Sunday for Gold Coast first grade fixtures. We used to play against Southport, Palm Beach, Coomera-Hope Island, Queens and from memory there was also a Colts team. When your days at TSS came to an end where did you go from there? I finished school in 1977 and played three seasons with Mudgeeraba. We were based at Broadbeach Oval, on Chelsea Avenue, which is now a soccer ground, and we trained

Q Aat Broadbeach Primary School – that is if anybody turned up. Were you in Mudgeeraba’s grand final side when the late Greg Markwell took 10 wickets? That game was at TSS and I remember being one of the guys who carried him off the ground.

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