When the Vintage Cricket Carnival took place in Perth, the
Claremont-Nedlands Cricket Club were one of the 1st to offer to host
teams and be part of the Carnival. Under the management of Graeme
Chinnery, the club provided wonderful facilities and hospitality
thoroughly enjoyed by visiting teams. Graeme commenced his illustrious
cricket career in junior grade cricket in 1960 and has now played over
600 outdoor games and still manages 10 two day and 10 one day games per
season. In 1964 Graeme was a member of a Western Australia Under 21
team that included Dennis Lillee, Bruce Yardley and Rod Marsh.
Graeme generally bats in the middle order and has scored in excess
of 8,000 runs and as an into the wind opening bowler has taken over
1,200 wickets. As an administrator, Graeme has had an illustrious
career and is currently involved as a Director of Claremont-Nedlands
Cricket Club with responsibility for 4 grade sides, Colts, Masters and
46 junior sides. Graeme is Captain of the Masters side and if all that
is not enough he is also a Director of Western Suburbs Cricket Club
where he is Chairman of Board and the Selection Committee with
responsibility for 9 grade sides and the Colts. Additionally Graeme is
Captain of the Club 4th Eleven.
Well travelled, Graeme spent the 2006 season playing and coaching in
England and now joins the Auckland University Fingletoads Chardonnays
for the tour of Ireland, Shrewsbury and the Vintage Cricket Carnival in
Stratford-upon-Avon. Graeme is a proud 5th generation Australian
descendant of Thomas Chinnery, a convict sent to Australia in 1856 for
setting fire to a barn in Essex-we don't know why yet - maybe the barn
belonged to a cricket umpire who gave him out LBW - no doubt Graeme
will explain over a Guinness on tour.