Quokkas Cricket Club

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.

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.

Date: Sunday, November 23, 2025
Location: W.J. Cox Oval, Fairfield
Time: 1 p.m. start
Captain: Radar

The Big Picture

After a great weekend in Walhalla, the Empress Quokkas return enthusiastically to the YPCA and our old friends at The Rose Hote.

One of the founding members of the YPCA, we have played them intermittently through the years with some notable matches. These have included the debut of F1 (Quokka #111) and TBC (#112) in the same game!

Another tour game gone, another loss. That, however, is about the only downside to game against Blackbridge CC.

A startlingly beautiful location, a fun opposition and some great times made this into a tour game to remember and a good reminder of why we do it.

As is the way with all tour games, some of the squad arrived very early (Ed, F1, Gelder, Dusty), some arrived the day before (Maxy, Fargo, TBC, Rev), some arrived on the day (Animal, Radar) and some didn’t arrive at all (Daisy).