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Bayswater Morley Districts Cricket Club

The Bear Essentials

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Stories from the clubrooms. Players, life members and friends of the Bayswater Morley Districts Cricket Club talk cricket, club history and life in Perth's eastern suburbs.

Newest episodes

Steven Walker: why they call him Angry

10 min

Life member Steven "Angry" Walker on 50 years around the club: how he got his nickname, his famous pre-match routines, afternoon tea duty and the friendships cricket has given him.

Dennis Baker: raising the bar

14 min

Former WA and Tasmania fast bowler Dennis Baker on bringing a professional training ethic to Bayswater Morley, the 1985-86 premiership, practical jokes and what he thinks of load management.

Matthew Garnaut & Bret Mulder: the last-wicket stand

18 min

Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder relive the unbeaten 177-run last-wicket partnership that won Bayswater Morley the 1998-99 First Grade premiership against Midland Guildford at the WACA.

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Steven Walker: why they call him Angry

10 min

Life member Steven "Angry" Walker on 50 years around the club: how he got his nickname, his famous pre-match routines, afternoon tea duty and the friendships cricket has given him.

Dennis Baker: raising the bar

14 min

Former WA and Tasmania fast bowler Dennis Baker on bringing a professional training ethic to Bayswater Morley, the 1985-86 premiership, practical jokes and what he thinks of load management.

Matthew Garnaut & Bret Mulder: the last-wicket stand

18 min

Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder relive the unbeaten 177-run last-wicket partnership that won Bayswater Morley the 1998-99 First Grade premiership against Midland Guildford at the WACA.

Ken & Neil McAullay: you ducked or you hooked

30 min

Brothers Ken and Neil McAullay, 88 First Grade games each, on combining top-level football and cricket, a famous weekend in 1972, lightning-fast Hillcrest wickets and the volunteers who kept the club going.

Tim Brookes: timed out at the drive-thru

14 min

Fast bowler Tim Brookes on the road from Kalgoorlie, 300 First Grade wickets, bowling Michael Hussey in a grand final, proposing at the awards night and life as Chairman of Selectors.

Gary Ireland: first premiership captain

18 min

Gary "GI" Ireland, the club's leading run-scorer, on arriving from Collie in 1977, captaining Bayswater Morley to its first First Grade flag in 1985-86 and a decade in the WA state squad.

Bob Massie: Bassendean to Lord's

31 min

Bob Massie, the club's first Test cricketer, on filling in as scorer and ending up in fourth grade, the plan behind his 16 wickets on debut at Lord's, and a long career behind the ABC microphone.

Ryan Campbell: still here

28 min

Former Australian and WA keeper-batter Ryan Campbell on premierships at Bayswater Morley, playing behind Adam Gilchrist, an accidental international coaching career and surviving a cardiac arrest in 2022.

Mel O'Neil: 100 not out

27 min

Life member Mel O'Neil, who turned 100 in May, looks back on 11 years as First Grade captain, 20 years as Secretary and WACA delegate, and how he kept Bassendean Bayswater alive through its toughest years.

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