The Cricket Ireland Overseas Scholarship Programme’s links with Randwick Petersham CC emerged after the club hosted the Ireland Men’s team ahead of the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia.
Today, an Irish cricketer is selected to take up the scholarship annually.
You can see the Honour Roll of past scholarship recipients below.
Irish international Barry McCarthy played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2015-2016.
First Grade 2-day and 1-day
First Grade T20
Second Grade
Current Test captain Andrew Balbirnie played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2016-2017. Read a great account of the benefit and experience of the programme via Andrew Balbirnie: read here
First Grade
Second Grade
Leinster Lightning's Jack Tector played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2017-2018.
First Grade
Second Grade
PGs
Irish International Harry Tector played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2018-2019.
Second Grade
PGs
Irish International Stephen Doheny played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2019-2020.
Second Grade
Leinster Lightning's Tim Tector played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2021-2022.
Second Grade
PGs
North West Warriors' Scott Macbeth played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2022-2023.
Second Grade
Third Grade
Fourth Grade
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Northern Knights' Jake Egan played with Randwick Petersham in 2023-2024.
First Grade (Belvedere Cup)
First Grade (LO)
First Grade (T20)
Second Grade
PGs
Leinster Lightning's John McNally played for Randwick Petersham CC in 2024-2025.
Second Grade
Third Grade
PGs
In October 2022, Ireland played ‘Randy Petes’ as part of its warm-up programme for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup – you can watch it below…