Matthew Garnaut & Bret Mulder: the last-wicket stand

Host David Baird sits down with Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder to look back on the club’s historic 1998-99 season, and the miraculous 177-run last-wicket partnership that won the First Grade premiership against Midland Guildford at the WACA. The comeback defined both their careers and is still one of the great moments in Western Australian club cricket.

In this episode

• 0:03 Introducing Matthew Garnaut and Bret Mulder, and their record 177-run last-wicket stand
• 1:43 1998-99: undefeated in all formats from November, and both the one-day and two-day titles
• 3:08 Matt on juggling state cricket with shift work as a police officer
• 5:19 Earlier partnerships against Melville and Claremont-Nedlands that helped the team finish on top
• 6:49 A torn stomach muscle, and nearly missing the grand final for the birth of his son
• 9:02 Bret’s only First Grade half-century, from a man who rarely padded up in the nets
• 10:11 Coming together at 9 for 196, and slowly wearing down the field
• 11:59 The celebrations and the pile-on
• 13:15 The story of Bret’s premiership bat, signed as a prank by his state teammates
• 14:44 Why it’s the highlight of both their sporting lives

Quotes

“I’m sitting there in front of the doctor going, ‘That can’t happen.’ I said, ‘Any chance of pushing that out a bit?’”

“Oh, look, the game was over. When I went out to bat, the game was all over, and I thought, ‘Oh, well, I’m going to go down swinging.’”

“There’s times in sport where you’re just in that clear mindset and everything’s going to plan, I suppose. It was just one of those days, you know, it was amazing.”