Gold Coast Dolphins greatest team of all time – the coach

Who would coach the greatest Gold Coast Dolphins team of all time? This man. We have rolled out the best Dolphins juniors and performers, so who makes the Gold Coast’s all-time greatest team? We reveal the man who would head the side here.

The Gold Coast Dolphins are the city’s premier cricket side. We brought a panel of the club’s most respected figureheads together to come up with the greatest Dolphins team, made up of the best performers in their 30-year history.

We have rolled out the best Dolphins juniors and performers, so who makes the Gold Coast’s all-time greatest team? Hint, there are Test internationals from both Australia and overseas.

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1. John Stephenson

■ Born 1965. All Dolphins matches: 21. Runs 714, average 32.45. Wickets 9 at 50.33. Played in the club’s first two seasons, having been capped for England in the last Ashes Test of 1989. Two spells at Essex and a couple of years at Hampshire produced 14773 first-class runs (average 32.39) and 396 wickets (at 32.55) in 304 matches. Now Head of Cricket at Lord’s

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh speaks to John Stephenson as he opens the new Warner Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground on May 3, 2017 in London, England. The Duke of Edinburgh is an honorary Life Member of Marylebone Cricket Club. (Photo by Arthur Edwards – WPA Pool /Getty Images)

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2. Matthew Mott

■ Born: 1973. All Dolphins matches: 132. Runs 5294, average 42.02.

Wickets 65 at 21.80.

Australian cricket coach Matthew Mott. (Photo: Brenton Edwards)

Durable left-hand batsman. Queensland 1994-98, Shield winner 1997,

Victoria 1998-2004. First-class: 3723 runs at 33.84, HS 216, seven 100s. Coached NSW to Shield 2008, Glamorgan to YB40 final 2013, Australian women (Southern Stars) coach since 2015, T20 World Cup winners 2020.

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3. Graeme Hick

■ Born 1966. All Dolphins matches: 7. Runs 474, average 118.50. Wickets 4 at 41.75. The game’s all-time most prolific scorer with 63372 runs – 41112 at 52.23 in 526 first-class matches, a not out 405 the highest of 136 centuries. For England he made 3383 runs at 31.32 in 65 Tests. As Queensland import, he was a member of the GCDCC inaugural team. Came to the Coast after retiring and until recently was Australia’s batting coach.

Pictured are the new coaching group for the Gold Coast Dolphins Cricket Club, Graeme Hick (batting)

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4. Dirk Wellham

■ Born 1959. All Dolphins matches: 19. Runs 560, average 37.33. A schoolteacher, studious, enigmatic and sometimes a polarising character who captained NSW, Tasmania and Queensland. Scored 103 at The Oval on his debut for Australia in 1981, but played only five more Tests, and 17 one-dayers. First-class record of 8662 runs, average 42.25 with 16 100s.

Acting Queensland cricket captain Dirk Wellham batting in the Adelaide Oval nets, 07 Jan 1993. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)

5. Andrew Symonds

■ Born: 1975. All Dolphins matches: 170. Runs 6812, average 44.82.

Wickets 160 at 24.52.

One of Australia’s most flamboyant all-rounders, with 26 Tests, 198 one-dayers and 14 T20 appearances.

Queensland 1994-2010, five times a Shield winner.

Indian Premier League’s first million-dollar man. Scored 14475 first-class runs at 42.20 with 40 tons, a top score of 254, and took 242 wickets.

Andrew Symonds in 2009.

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6. Michael Neser

■ Born: 1990. All Dolphins matches: 167. Runs 4668, average 32.42. Wickets 174 at 20.78.

On the fringe of Australian selection for a couple of years, two one-dayers so far, a Queensland rep since 2010, twice a Shield winner, three times Shield player of the year with 1758 first-class runs at 24.41 and 181 wickets at 25.85. Accomplished limited overs player, two one-day titles, Big Bash star with Adelaide Strikers, 2018 title-winner.

Gold Coast Dolphins's Michael Neser. Picture: Jerad Williams

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7. Peter Anderson

■ Born 1961. All Dolphins matches: 23. Runs 668, average 33.40. Dismissals 38 (31 caught, 7 stumped). But for untimely injuries he could have been Australia’s long-term wicketkeeper. Technically as accomplished a gloveman as any in the country, he played for Queensland and South Australia, claimed 172 victims (157 caught, 15 stumped) in 56 first-class matches and scored 1399 runs at 17.93. He has coached national teams in Papua New Guinea and Afghanistan.

Afghanistan World Cup Cricket team have a trial match against Grade Club West Torrens at Henley Oval. Assistant coach Peter Anderson (white hat) and Coach Andy Moles watch the match. Photo Sarah Reed

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8. Daniel Doran

Born: 1981. All Dolphins matches: 188. Runs 2467, average 17.62. Wickets

406 at 19.78. The club’s finest interstate acquisition, an immediate hit when he moved from

Victoria and quickly found his way into the Shield side, playing in a final win in his fifth

match. Figures don’t properly reflect his skill as a leg-break bowler, 43 wickets in 31 firstclass matches. Club stats tell more, and he also is arguably the club’s most successful

captain.

Bowler Daniel Doran playing for Gold Coast against Sunshine Coast in the Brisbane Premier Grade cricket competition. Picture Mike Batterham

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9. Craig McDermott

■ Born 1965. All Dolphins matches: 14. Runs 181, average 18.10. Wickets 21 at 19.19. One of the most decorated Australian fast bowlers, who debuted at 19 and took 291 wickets in 71 Tests and 203 in 138 one-dayers. After his first-class career (174 matches, 677 wickets at 28.10 and 2856 runs at 16.32) he played briefly for the Coast, was club president, and his sons Alistair and Ben both came through to win Australian caps in limited overs internationals.

Craig McDermott poses for a portrait at Allan Border Field on February 05, 2020 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

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10. Scott Muller.

Born: 1971. All Dolphins matches: 158. Runs 1057, average 13.05. Wickets

324 at 22.33. The first home-grown player to be chosen for Queensland, the first local

product to win a Test cap (played twice in 1999 against Pakistan), and the first Dolphins

premiership-winning coach. Took 102 first-class wickets at 23.50, and signed off with the

Shield-winning team in 2000.

Bowler Scott Muller playing club cricket for Gold Coast Dolphins at Kerrydale, 04/12/99. Pic Geoff McLachlan. Cricket A/CT

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11. Greg Campbell.

■ Born 1964. All Dolphins matches: 52. Runs 311, average 10.72. Wickets 66 at 26.58. Tasmanian product, uncle of Ricky Ponting, and a 1989 Ashes tourist who played four Tests and 12 one-dayers. In a first-class career of 44 matches he took 120 wickets at 33.46. After relocating he was a club stalwart as a player and highly successful coach. Chief executive of Papua New Guinea Cricket.

Australian cricket's latest potential new cap, Tasmanian opening bowler Greg Campbell, practising during the Sheffield Shield match against SA at Adelaide Oval, 08 Mar 1989.

Coach: Frank Tyson (1930-2015). Coached the Dolphins in the early 90s. Was a renowned English fast bowler of the 1950s nicknamed “Typhoon Tyson” regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket. Took 76 wickets, average 18.56 in 17 Test matches. After emigrating to Australia in the 1960s, he coached Victoria to two Sheffield Shield victories and later coached the Sri Lankan national cricket team. He was a cricket commentator for 26 years on ABC and Channel Nine.

Cricket - England cricketer Frank Tyson bowling in match during Ashes tour of Australia, Nov 1954-Mar 1955. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)

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