Men’s State History

WA has a proud history of interstate competition however it wasn’t until the 1960’s that players and matches were officially recorded, milestone badges began to be presented in the 90’s and later in the 2000’s players were recognized with official cap numbers.

The Alley Shield was first competed for in 1959 (WA teams were recognised from 1963 when the event was first held in a round robin teams format) and until 1974 was held only every second year before changing to an annual occurrence.  This event was played in a four rink (16 player) format until 2010 when it was reduced to 3 rinks (12 players) and is conducted between the eight states and territories in a round robin format; it is used to decide the winner of the shield. Prior to the Alley Shield from 1913 to 1959 the Australian Bowling Championships were held on a rotational basis hosted by state associations and open to all bowlers in Australia. At the conclusion of this tournament each state would select a team and play in interstate competition. These matches were never officially recognised due to the fact selection was limited to those competing in that event. Interstate competition from WA based players can be traced back to the early 1900’s including a team of four WA players sent to represent Australia against New Zealand in 1906. Many official and non-official WA teams toured the Eastern States or hosted interstate teams throughout this period, records of matches are in the main hard to ascertain with any degree of certainty.

WA has won the Alley Shield on 8 occasions – 1972, 83, 84, 87, 91, 92, 94 and 99.

State Player History

Last Name	First Name	Debut Club	Debut Year	Cap No.	Games
BAILEY	Aussie	BALINGUP	1963	1	81
SCOTT	Dave	BALINGUP	1963	2	60
NADEBAUM	Tom	KITCHENER PARK	1963	3	19
MCDONALD	Jim	BALINGUP	1963	4	52
DEACON	Daryl	DALKEITH	1963	5	48
CAMM	Jack	KINGS PARK	1963	6	46
COOK	Howard	DALKEITH	1963	7	5
PITTERSEN	Stan	NORTH PERTH	1963	8	5
SHARP	Tom	SOUTH PERTH	1963	9	22
ASHWORTH	Tom	KITCHENER PARK	1963	10	13
TAYLOR	George	SUBIACO	1963	11	13
RODIN	Joe	OSBORNE PARK	1963	12	103
WILLOUGHBY	Bert	KITCHENER PARK	1963	13	2
SAYERS	Gil	ALEXANDER PARK	1963	14	5
MCINTYRE	Frank	VICTORIA PARK	1963	15	5
DEBNAM	Alf	HOLLYWOOD	1963	16	5
HARRISON	Frank	KITCHENER PARK	1963	17	122
BANDY	Milton	VICTORIA PARK	1965	18	54
DIXON	Clem	BAYSWATER	1965	19	8
KATUNARICH	Branko	OSBORNE PARK	1965	20	58
MCCANN	Stan	NORTHAM	1965	21	58
MEREDITH	Luton	VICTORIA PARK	1965	22	8
NEEDHAM	Tom	HOLLYWOOD	1965	23	16
OSMETTI	Jack	BOULDER	1965	24	25
SADLER	J	GOOMALLING	1965	25	8
STAPLETON	Jim	KALGOORLIE	1965	26	24
SEXTON	Ron	KITCHENER PARK	1965	27	36
WARWICK	William	EAST FREMANTLE	1965	28	8
GRAFTON	Wally	NORTHAM	1966	29	28
HODGE	Rene	BAYSWATER	1966	30	17
PERRY	Frank	CLAREMONT	1966	31	70
ROBERTS	Alan	SUBIACO	1966	32	6
KIRKHAM	Norm	SUBIACO	1966	33	6
LINDSAY	Colin	SCARBOROUGH	1966	34	9
MORLEY	Roy	SOUTH PERTH	1966	35	3
SHARP	Bert	VICTORIA PARK	1966	36	161
WILLIAMS	Robert	MOSMAN PARK	1966	37	8
CLEMENT	Gil	MOSMAN PARK	1967	38	14
FINDLAY	Tom	VICTORIA PARK	1967	39	48
MILLINGTON	R	NARROGIN	1967	40	9
HODGE	Alex	VICTORIA PARK	1968	41	24
SCOTT	Arthur	SUBIACO	1968	42	14
BUTLER	Ron	BRUCE ROCK	1969	43	14
CROSBIE	Noel	SOUTH PERTH	1969	44	26
COOK	Hector	BRUCE ROCK	1970	45	1
MCLEOD	Alan	FREMANTLE	1970	46	52
WARK	R	HOLLYWOOD	1970	47	5
PROUD	Peter	DALKEITH	1970	48	7
TAYLOR	Ron	WAROONA	1970	49	187
MOIR	Tom	SOUTH PERTH	1972	50	8
BAYLISS	R	YOKINE	1972	51	14
GODFREY	Graeme	DOUBLEVIEW	1972	52	14
SIDGWICK	Harry	ALEXANDER PARK	1972	53	40
HALL	Arthur	MANNING	1972	54	73
WILLIAMS	Brian	SCARBOROUGH	1973	55	40
COOK	Arthur	SCARBOROUGH	1973	56	8
MCCALLUM	Richard	BASSENDEAN	1973	57	27
ANDRIJASEVICH	Vic	CANNINGTON	1974	58	53
HOLLOWAY	Les	COCKBURN	1975	59	44
CAFFELL	John	TAMMIN	1975	60	137
CURRIE	Brian	NAREMBEEN	1975	61	24
OAKLEY	Geoff	COTTESLOE	1975	62	243
ARROWSMITH	Doug	SUBIACO	1975	63	51
NOVAK	Spiro	COCKBURN	1975	64	4
COLE	Alf	SUBIACO	1976	65	3
PARKER	Vern	BEDFORD	1976	66	3
MITCHELL	Charlie	MANNING	1976	67	3
GRAY	Lyle	YOKINE	1976	68	24
KITTO	Max	CUNDERDIN	1976	69	93
BACICH	Milan	COCKBURN	1976	70	78
FUNAZZI	Jim	BOULDER	1976	71	11
REID	Merv	OSBORNE PARK	1976	72	24
NICHOLAS	Ray	MELVILLE	1976	73	54
FALCONER	P	VICTORIA PARK	1976	74	13
SHEHAN	Merv	MELVILLE	1977	75	6
ATKIN	A	ROYAL PARK	1977	76	12
WELCH	Lenny	YOKINE	1977	77	6
SRHOY	Steve	COCKBURN	1978	78	238
SRHOY	Tony	COCKBURN	1978	79	8
LYNCH	Dennis	HOLLYWOOD	1978	80	7
RAINOLDI	John	SCARBORUGH	1979	81	247
KATUNARICH	Dennis	WA YUGOSLAV	1980	82	307
SARDELIC	Peter	COCKBURN	1980	83	174
YAKSICH	Marian	YUGOSLAV	1981	84	6
SMITH	Gordon	BUNTINE	1981	85	17
JEFFERIES	Byn	EAST FREMANTLE	1981	86	57
GILL	Geoff	MOORA	1981	87	18
SLATER	Laurie	VICTORIA PARK	1981	88	52
WEIR	Jim	MT BARKER GOLF	1981	89	1
MUTER	Lindsay	COCKBURN	1982	90	10
ADJUK	Geoff	KALAMUNDA	1982	91	92
HARRIS	Brian	NORTHAM	1982	92	10
COWIN	John	EATON	1983	93	10
DONCON	Keith	WICKEPIN	1984	94	104
BALL	Robert	BEDFORD	1985	95	219
BANDY	Larry	SCARBOROUGH	1985	96	30
MANNING	Phil	MOORA	1985	97	6
KRAJANCIC	Marko	COCKBURN	1985	98	98
WISHART	Graeme	BEDFORD	1985	99	336
JONES	Kim	KOJONUP	1985	100	36
PASCOE	Norm	BEDFORD	1985	101	115
GUELFI	Keith	SCARBOROUGH	1985	102	7
THORN	Lindsay	SCARBOROUGH	1985	103	197
RICHARDS	Paul	SCARBOROUGH	1985	104	9
RAVLICH	John	COCKBURN	1987	105	20
NORAC	Zvonko	COCKBURN	1987	106	52
CROSS	Clive	GERALDTON	1987	107	20
KRAJANCIC	Tony	COCKBURN	1988	108	26
KENNEDY	Joe	VICTORIA PARK	1988	109	3
ELLIS	Geoff	SCARBOROUGH	1988	110	205
MACKENZIE	John	MELVILLE	1988	111	3
KATUNARICH	Brian	DOUBLEVIEW	1988	112	41
O’BRIEN	Colin	MELVILLE	1988	113	33
GUPANIS	Jim	SCARBOROUGH	1989	114	12
DAVIES	Stewart	SCARBOROUGH	1989	115	138
LANDER	Chris	SCARBOROUGH	1990	117	12
FLEAY	Colin	WICKEPIN	1989	118	9
ZUSMAN	Mike	COCKBURN	1990	119	81
RICHARDS	Jeff	DOUBLEVIEW	1990	120	30
CARBERRY	Gary	MANNING	1991	121	40
HARRIS	Pieter	WONGAN HILLS	1993	122	216
TREZISE	Kevin	OSBORNE PARK	1994	123	30
WHYATT	Geoff	EATON	1994	124	71
HALL	Jeff	COCKBURN	1994	125	140
PAYNE	Neil	VICTORIA PARK	1996	126	115
RANKIN	Dave	OSBORNE PARK	1996	127	106
ROBERTSON	Dean	BASSENDEAN	1996		9
CAFFELL	Gary	OSBORNE PARK	1997	128	109
CRUICKSHANK	Robert	GOSNELLS	1997	129	43
DEMPSEY	Ross	DOUBLEVIEW	1997	130	140
HEATON	Rod	MELVILLE	1998	131	100
HUGHES	Russell	YOKINE	1997	132	126
ROACH	Sean	DOUBLEVIEW	1996	133	57
BOYLAN	Steve	MELVILLE	1998	134	13
DELAPORTE	Aaron	OSBORNE PARK	1998	135	52
SHARP	Jon	FLOREAT PARK	1998	136	132
ARMSTRONG	David	FLOREAT PARK	1999	137	12
OPIE	Justin	VICTORIA PARK	1999	138	40
WOOTTON	Paul	MELVILLE	1999	139	3
ADAMS	Clive	WANNEROO	2000	140	224
GODDARD	John	OSBORNE PARK	2000	141	179
McCANN	Syd	YOKINE	2000	142	3
McILROY	Kyle	DOUBLEVIEW	2000	143	202
MITCHELL	Bob	MELVILLE	2000	144	3
SLAVICH	Charlie	DOUBLEVIEW	2000	145	17
GALLOWAY	William	GOSNELLS	2001	146	14
BULLER	Patrick	FLOREAT PARK	2002	147	23
KUZIELA	Ron	NORTH BEACH	2002	148	12
TREWHELLA	Daniel	OSBORNE PARK	2002	149	78
CRAMERI	Maurice	CUNDERDIN	2003	150	35
BEILBY	Kevin	MELVILLE	2003	151	22
WITHERS	Steve	FLOREAT PARK	2003	152	45
SMALLACOMBE	Trystan	CAMBRIDGE	2004	153	102
BROWN	Daniel	COCKBURN	2004	154	51
PROVOST	Anthony	SPORTSMENS	2004	155	55
SLAVICH	John	DOUBLEVIEW	2005	156	165
URQUHART	Bruce	DOUBLEVIEW	2005	157	33
BUTLER	Rhett	LEEMING	2006	158	57
JONES	Andrew	BEDFORD	2007	159	22
OPIE	David	VICTORIA PARK	2007	160	39
MITCHELL	Thomas	VICTORIA PARK	2009	161	102
TUNSTALL	Cameron	DOUBLEVIEW	2009	162	9
EDMONDS	Scott	OSBORNE PARK	2009	163	23
ELLUL	Matthew	SOUTH PERTH	2009	164	54
KNOTT	Shane	VICTORIA PARK	2010	165	54
BRESLAND	Ross	SOUTH PERTH	2011	166	17
PACKER	Cody	BEDFORD	2011	167	92
STEVENS	Neville	STIRLING	2012	168	21
PATTERSON	Daniel	BASSENDEAN	2012	169	66
TILLER	Robert	MANNING	2012	*	1
RICHARDSON	Luke	CAMBRIDGE	2013	170	25
AYRES	Matthew	STIRLING	2013	171	16
BAINBRIDGE	Stuart	DOUBLEVIEW	2013	172	24
SIMPSON	Mark	GINGIN	2013	173	13
BRANDSMA	William	DOUBLEVIEW	2013	174	43
GRIGG	Lewis	OSBORNE PARK	2013	175	26
VALLANCE	Travis	SOUTH PERTH	2013	*	2
WALKER	Scott	SOUTH PERTH	2015	177	17
BESSANT	Corey	DOUBLEVIEW	2016	178	17
MITCHELL	Matthew	MANNING	2016	179	34
WILLIAMS	Anthony	MANNING	2018	180	24
BATES	Russell	DUDLEY PARK	2019	181	17
McKAY	Kevin	KARDINYA	2019	182	9
EAST	Jack	OSBORNE PARK	2022	183	8
HARRIS	Cameron	CAMBRIDGE	2022	184	8
HOLT	Warren	WAGIN	2022	185	8
MARSLAND	Dale	MOSMAN PARK	2022	186	8
NAIRN	Blake	CAMBRIDGE	2022	187	8