CRICKET: Don Campbell played cricket with the Australian Hotel reserve-grade team as a teenager before a break of 27years ended when he debuted with the Palace Cows in the Australia Day Carnival in a decade ago.

"I played hockey with Bevan Henningsen and asked him if I could play for the Cows,” he said.

"After four years of asking if he had a position available, he finally said yes and I have only missed one day since due to a training mishap.

"We were training at the Condamine Sports Club and I decided it was time to go home but team mate Gary Millard told me training was to continue at the Warwick RSL. I stayed at training and didn't surface in time the next day.

"I am only going to one training session this year.”

Before his debut for the Cows, Henningsen told Campbell he was opening the batting.

"I was opening with Phil Rolfe, who didn't like facing the first ball against the police team Hugh's XI at Glennie Heights State School,” Campbell said.

"The first ball was a short half tracker that hit the edge of the pitch and I stepped back to cut the ball and it took the off-stump clean out of the ground.

"The teams decided no one gets out for a first-ball duck so I went on to make 18.

"The same happened in Hugh's XI's innings and their player was allowed tocontinue and made acentury.”

This year's will be the Cows' 25th in the carnival.

Best score: 18

Ducks: Three - Gary Millard ran me out once for a duck.

Slowest innings: Eight off 20 balls, they call me Stonewall, like Geoff Boycott

Catch ratio: Two caught and no dropped catches in past three years.

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