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The Bear Essentials

Stories from the clubrooms. Players, life members and friends of the Bayswater Morley Districts Cricket Club talk cricket, club history and life in Perth's eastern suburbs.

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Four-part special

The Miracle Match

The original radio commentary of the 1998-99 grand final: 9/154 chasing 330, and a record unbroken last-wicket stand of 177 between Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder. Read the story →

Episode 8 · 3 Nov 2026 · 15 min

Dennis Baker: raising the bar

Former WA and Tasmania fast bowler Dennis Baker on bringing a professional training ethic to Bayswater Morley, the 1985-86 premiership, practical jokes and what he thinks of load management.

Episode 7 · 27 Oct 2026 · 19 min

Matthew Garnaut & Bret Mulder: the last-wicket stand

Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder relive the unbeaten 177-run last-wicket partnership that won Bayswater Morley the 1998-99 First Grade premiership against Midland Guildford at the WACA.

Episode 6 · 20 Oct 2026 · 31 min

Ken & Neil McAullay: you ducked or you hooked

Brothers Ken and Neil McAullay, 88 First Grade games each, on combining top-level football and cricket, a famous weekend in 1972, lightning-fast Hillcrest wickets and the volunteers who kept the club going.

Episode 5 · 13 Oct 2026 · 15 min

Tim Brookes: timed out at the drive-thru

Fast bowler Tim Brookes on the road from Kalgoorlie, 300 First Grade wickets, bowling Michael Hussey in a grand final, proposing at the awards night and life as Chairman of Selectors.

Episode 4 · 6 Oct 2026 · 19 min

Gary Ireland: first premiership captain

Gary "GI" Ireland, the club's leading run-scorer, on arriving from Collie in 1977, captaining Bayswater Morley to its first First Grade flag in 1985-86 and a decade in the WA state squad.

Episode 3 · 29 Sept 2026 · 32 min

Bob Massie: Bassendean to Lord's

Bob Massie, the club's first Test cricketer, on filling in as scorer and ending up in fourth grade, the plan behind his 16 wickets on debut at Lord's, and a long career behind the ABC microphone.

Episode 2 · 15 Sept 2026 · 28 min

Ryan Campbell: still here

Former Australian and WA keeper-batter Ryan Campbell on premierships at Bayswater Morley, playing behind Adam Gilchrist, an accidental international coaching career and surviving a cardiac arrest in 2022.

Episode 1 · 8 Sept 2026 · 27 min

Mel O'Neil: 100 not out

Life member Mel O'Neil, who turned 100 in May, looks back on 11 years as First Grade captain, 20 years as Secretary and WACA delegate, and how he kept Bassendean Bayswater alive through its toughest years.