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"I think this is my eighth season at the club and I can't ever recall winning three games in a row in first grade."

You're not going to get many better contests than that in Newcastle cricket."

"Certainly by NSW standards, we need to be doing a little bit better than we did last year."

He has been out with a calf complaint.

On a dock overlooking a coil of Nacote Creek in Atlantic County, New Jersey, earlier this month, Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University's Coastal Research Center, gave an impromptu master class on barrier islands, ancient geology, crab traps, coastal law, the Delaware Bayshore, and bulkheads.

"He's been doing a great job. He's a jack of all trades. You ask him to do anything and he'll give it a crack."

"Definitely not every day you knock off first and they just had three players selected in the NSW Country side, so all that makes the win even better."

He notched up a century and was only dismissed once in three digs.

"He can't do much more, almost every opportunity he's had he's scored runs."

"He came over to me and said 'I'm no good' so I finished off the over. It's a calf issue so it might be one-to-three weeks."

Fifty-five wickets were taken across Newcastle District Cricket Association's active first-grade matches but Toronto and Cardiff-Boolaroo were called off before they even arrived at the venue.