Quokkas Cricket Club

Match Report: Empress Quokkas CC v Nomads

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Location:
Fairfield Park Oval
Time: 1.30p.m. start
Captain: F1

Conditions

Five Sundays in a row that the day did not feature a lot of sun. It rained on the morning of the game with threats of further rain during the day. This reduced the match down to a 21 over game!

Fielding

After losing a couple of key Quokkas, we managed to recruit the nemesis of the Nomads – Brendan O’Sullivan who the previous week had smashed a score in the 30s in under 20 deliveries! This may have helped push us to win against the always formidable Nomads.


A Fabulous Innings

Derek Alan Bradley 1946-2025 Derek Zoolander Bradley It is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of our friend and fellow Quokka, Derek ‘Zoolander’ Bradley. As I’m sure everyone who knew him would agree, Zoo was a wonderful man, and he will be deeply missed by us all. If you ever met him, you’ll know how effortlessly he could take you from being a stranger to feeling as though you’d known him your entire life—often in a matter of seconds.


Match Preview: Empress Quokkas CC v The Nomads

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Location:
Fairfield Park Oval
Time: 1.30 p.m. start
Captain: F1

The Big Picture

The Quokkas are coming off a win. That’s right, an actual win where they scored more than the other team in allotted overs and batters. I’m pretty sure that’s how this work, though it has been a while.

We come up against our old friends The Nomads again, who we actually managed a victory against in the none-too-distant past. That victory was even more surprising than our win last week given that we hadn’t got close to beating The Nomads in 15 years of pub competition to that point.


Almost got a roasting

Reigate CC 133–8 (Faggie 3-15, Ali 2-19, Irfan 2-28) beat Quokkas CC 125 all out (Faggie 14, Seagull 18 not out)

I realise now that I have been wasting my life. Rather than spend my weekends standing in a field, basically watching other people play cricket, I should have been emulating Lord Gravy by hunting out the best roast dinner money can buy. He suggests The George in the Strand is the place to go, but unless they serve Yorkshire’s as the starter, I have my doubts it reaches the required Seagull standard. Due to having the back of an 80-year-old man, I have spent most the of Quokkas season perfecting my own Sunday roast rather than playing. I’m confident I’d win Master Chef, assuming they have a roast dinner category – I wouldn’t know, as I draw the line at watching civilians cook food as a form of entertainment.


The Pirate is Quokka treasure

Quokkas CC 206-2 (Irfan 114 no, Faggie 72 no) beat Salix CC 204-6 (Jez 2-14, Tom 2-20, Irfan 1-23)

This is another game I missed I’m afraid. The fact we won is evidence of that. Having rid himself the skipper curse, Faggie seems to have got the hang of it now. I am guessing he was the skipper for this one, as bowlers were taken off and then brought back on later. Typical Aussie, doing things to actually win games.