The team from the towns and suburbs of Australia:
B: Clayton Sutton Foster
HB: Carroll Hay Hamilton
C: Hawker Mitchell Bourke
HF: Young Ryan Osborne
F: Stanley Tomahawk Denham
Foll: Newman Butler Newhnam
I/C: Wellington Nicholson Clifton Hill
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Noel's background is in statistics including 13 years at the ABS. More recent employment has been at Deakin University and Services Australia. He has worked on every State and Commonwealth election this millennium plus a few Local Government Elections. His weekly article, 'The Stats Bench' appears weekly on the Eastern Football Netball League's website. Noel's legacy as a sportsman is that he tried hard; two cricket fielding trophies, a tennis premiership and boundary umpiring about 80 EFL senior games. He has completed over 35 parkruns in quite slow times in the last three years.
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G’day Noel, where’s Tomahawk?
Other player names/ place names: Mansfield, Seymour, Winton.
Glen!
Hey Glen. Found it while looking over google maps, on the NE coast of Tasmania.
Noel
Hawker in SA
Nice one Noel. A few nominations:
Keith Warburton – Carlton/Victoria
Ron Kingston – Collingwood/Tasmania
Mal Seddon – Collingwood/Victoria
Andrew Macleod – Adelaide/Victoria
Peter Somerville – Essendon/Victoria
Why stop at towns and suburbs when you can have whole countries?
Andrew Ireland and Heath Scotland.
Keith Forbes played for Essendon between the wars.
As a variant of Dave’s theme former publican of Hart’s hotel in Footscray, and North Melbourne half forward flanker Peter German, is an option.
Glen!
Noel I know you didn’t mention Queenstown in your team, though I can’t recall if Lucky Starr sung about it. I was there this week, visited the famous grassless oval; a sight to behold.
I never knew Ian Stewart was from there.
Glen!
When Washington was dismissed for India in the 1st Test against Australia in Perth, it got me thinking of a World XI cricket team, where the players names are either a suburb, city, town or country. The name can only be used once and it doesn’t matter if the spelling is different. The name can be a first name or surname. It also doesn’t matter if the player hasn’t played Test cricket. First class cricket or Big Bash cricket is enough.
Here is the World XI cricket team of destinations:
1. Sidney Barnes
2. Charles Coventry (Zimbabwe, 2 Tests and 39 ODIs/city in England)
3. Neil Harvey (town south west of WA)
4. Paul Collingwood
5. Washington Sundar
6. Will Sutherland (suburb in southern Sydney)
7. Darren Berry (town in SA)
8. John Hastings (town in Victoria)
9. Ray Bright (town in Victoria)
10. Nathan Lyon (city in France)
11. Joel Paris
12th man: Bob Holland
This team can play an exhibition match against a World XI team from many different countries and cities.
The venue will be in the City of Churches.
Entertainment will be provided by the song “We Built this City” and sings from the Bay City Rollers.
Let’s hope for an entertaining game of cricket where the teams are going places!