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Matt Turner is a sports reporter for The Advertiser and CODE Sports who covers mainly AFL and basketball. He has been with News Corp for more than a decade, starting at The Messenger, where he was sports editor for two years. Matt isn’t to be confused with Matt Turner, the award-winning Advertiser photographer, who also shares the same middle name (James).

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East, Inner Suburbs & Hills

21/2/2015 pic today at Minnamurra Drive ,Redwood Park Where they both live in the same street , are cricket veterans Paul Johnson ,66, (White hat) Enfield united Cricket Club and Ian Kinsman,61,(red hat) Magill Morialta Cricket Club.They are two of only a handful of Adelaide Churches and Community Cricket Association cricketers to have played 500 games.....PHOTO DAVE CRONIN

Are these Adelaide’s oldest cricket rivals?

WITH a combined 1000 community association games under their belt and counting, they’re two of Adelaide’s oldest cricket rivals. And they live just a few houses apart.

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20/09/14 - Amateur football division one grand final - Rostrevor Old Collegians v Goodwood at Thebarton Oval. Goodwood celebrate their Grand Final victory. Photo Tom Huntley

Amateur footy premier to take on Port Magpies

AMATEUR football club Goddwood Saints will battle AFL players and on Adelaide Oval before the end of pre-season.

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Shuja Naqvi is a Pakistani-born American cricketer in town with the Darren Lehmann Academy. He is also playing for Woodville Rechabites. [PIC] Shuja pictured at the Darren Lehmann academy, Thebarton. pic by Bianca De Marchi

Cricket academy recruits first American

THE fastest bowler in Texas has arrived in Adelaide as the first American to join the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy.

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15/8/14 Matt Whelan has taken on the toughest job in footy - coaching the Kilburn Football Club. Matt Whelan at the club. Picture Roger Wyman

Battling footy club given lifeline after winless 2014

KILBURN Football Club is confident it can be competitive this season after meeting a league requirement of registering 50 players before last weekend.

North & North East

21.11.2014.Salisbury West Football Club will head into next season with a new coach (Darryl McIntyre) and it is optimistic about its future in the amateur league. pic tait schmaal.

Footy club ‘shattered’ as demoted to eighth-tier

A NORTHERN suburbs footy club has been demoted to the amateur league’s eighth-tier – five months after reaching a division four grand final. Here’s why …

West & Beaches

Aldinga coach Shane Lynch during quarter time in the Southern Football League match between Hackham (yellow/brown) and Aldinga (black/yellow) at Hackham Oval.

Coach sacked after 300-point loss is back on job

THE Adelaide footy coach sacked last year after his team lost the first two games of the season by a combined 457 points is back — as coach of another club.

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5/2/2015 Pic today at the Cowandilla Oval is, Keswick cricketer Alan Doubleday, 49, who doesn't wear gloves when he bats yet is celebrating his second double century of the season. He's created his record with his favorite 26-year-old bat that has had 3 handles over this period ED NOTE>>> ONLY HAD BAT NO BALL for pic …PHOTO DAVE CRONIN” sizes=”150px” src=”https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e” srcset=”https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e?width=150 128w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e?width=150 150w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e?width=320 320w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e?width=650 650w, https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/f33573402baaff27d1ff638f691d905e?width=1024 1024w” loading=”lazy” /></div></a><h4 class=

No box, no gloves but two tons for veteran cricketer

KESWICK cricket veteran Alan Doubleday wears no gloves or box, does not train and uses a 26-year-old bat, but that has not stopped him smashing two double tons this season.

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