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World Champions seek players

The Australian Lawyers Cricket Council (ALCC), with the support of major sponsor Lexis Nexis, is sending a team to defend our ‘world champion’ status at the 3rd Lawyers Cricket World Cup to be held in Barbados in August 2011.

The ALCC is looking to add a number of talented lawyer-cricketers over the age of 32 to our touring squad for the tournament.

Tournament rules stipulate that each team can field a maximum of 5 players under the age of 32 in any playing 11.

The tournament will be held from 7 – 21 August, with the final at the famous Kensington Oval. All matches will be played in coloured clothing and are 30 over one day matches, some of which will be played under lights.

The Australian team is the current holder of the Butterfield Cup, awarded to the winners of the Lawyers Cricket World Cup, following our triumph at the 2nd Lawyers Cricket World Cup held in Cambridge in July-August 2009.

If you are over the age of 32 with relevant cricket experience at a Sydney grade competition level, please contact ALCC President Alex Martin on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

LexisNexis Sponsorship

The Australian Lawyers' Cricket Council is delighted to announce its recent renewal of a 4 year sponsorship deal with the legal IT supplier, LexisNexis.

LexisNexis has partnered with the ALCC as its first platinum sponsor between 2010 - 2013. LexisNexis has also taken an option to be the ALCC's ongoing platinum sponsor through the period 2014 - 2017.

This sponsorship deal is worth $100,000 over the first 4 year period and will be instrumental in assisting Australia to take its teams to Barbados in 2011 and the next International Lawyers' Cricket World Cup thereafter in 2013.

Selection Carnival 2011

Australia's second national selection carnival will take place a Barker College, Hornsby - a northern suburb of Sydney. Barker College, established 1890, has excellent playing fields. No 1 Oval is shown below in rugby mode, but this will be one of the pitches upon which the selection carnival will be played. Please have a look at www.barker.nsw.edu.au.

The selection carnival will be competed among teams made up of barristers and solicitors from all 6 states and 2 territories throughout Australia. We expect to hold 2 x 35 over matches per day - 1 in the morning and one in the afternoon - on each of No 1 Oval and Rosewood Oval at Barker. In addition to teams being made up of whoever arrives from the various states and territories, the English cricket team and the New South Wales Bar Association will be providing their own teams. Any state or territory which chooses to bring its own team will be welcome to do so. We are expecting 100 plus players to assemble for the selection carnival. We expect the standard to be 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade metropolitan competition.

We encourage any cricketer holding a practising certificate to attend. Even if you are wondering about the likelihood of eventual selection, the feedback we had from the first selection carnival was so uniformly positive, we strongly urge you to attend the second selection carnival, if for no other reason than to have fun.

Undoubtedly you will have worked out that the selection carnival conincides with the 5th and FINAL ASHES TEST in Sydney between 3 - 7 January, 2011.

Lawyer's winning knock

Australia has overcome a strong Indian team to emerge victorious in the International Lawyers Cricket World Cup in England this week, finishing off the tournament undefeated. After a serious night's celebrations, team manager and TressCox partner Ron Heinrich told Hearsay yesterday Australia won a nail-biting 35-over, one-day final at The Oval, with two wickets and one ball to spare.

Man of the match Ashley Tiplady top scored with "a hard-hitting" 75, while Greg Rowell added a crucial 24 at the end to help the team recover from a horror start, when it lost three wickets for eight runs.

Fast bowlers Rowell, Chris McGowan and Dan Maroske rattled the Indian batsmen and captain Karl Prince bagged three wickets.

Source: The Australian Financial Review, p.42, 7 August 2009. Edited by James Eyers, with Alex Boxsell.

Indian lawyers lose in World Cup final

LONDON: India's title defence faltered in the final hurdle as Australia pipped them by two wickets in a nail-biting summit clash to win the
Lawyers Cricket World Cup.

Chasing 194 from 35 overs, Australia rode on opener Ashley Tiplady's brilliant 75 to romp home with one ball to spare.

Batting first, India had earlier posted 193 for nine in their 35 overs after most of their batsmen failed to convert the start into a big knock.

Tiplady was the obvious choice for the Man of the Match award while teammate Andrew Forbes was declared Man of the Series.

R Santhan Krishnan, President, Indian Advocates' Cricket Association, said the next Lawyers Cricket World Cup will be held in Barbados in 2011.

Brief Scores:

India 193 for nine in 35 overs (A K Archiya 29, V N Upadhyay 26, G Mishra 25, B S Khan 24; Karl Prince 3/31, Greg Rowell 2/30, Daniel Maroske 2/41, Tim Wheller 2/18).

Australia 194 for 8 in 34.5 overs (A Tiplady 75, A Forbes not out 42, Greg Rowell 24, V P Singh 3/31, A K Archiya 2/23).
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Source: The Times of India, PTI 5 August 2009, 11:30am IST

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