History

The club was formed as Lambton-New Lambton District Cricket Club in 1926-27 from the amalgamation of Lambton and New Lambton Cricket Clubs.

During the next 78 seasons the club wins 3 Club Championships, 22 Grade Premierships, 17 Age Championships and numerous Runners-Up Trophies. Numerous players were recognised through representative honours or individual performance awards.

The Club’s colours of bottle green and gold with red have been worn by many fine cricketers including Jim DeCourcy, selected from Newcastle for the 1953 Ashes tour to England, Rick McCosker, a former NSW Captain and Australian opening batsman who played 27 Tests and World Series Cricket but is probably best known for his heroics in the 1977 Centenary Test batting with a broken jaw in front of 100,000 at the MCG and Kerry O’Keeffe, a leg-spinner for NSW & Australia. 

Other First-Class cricketers the club developed include fast bowler Mark Cameron (NSW, WA and Australia A), NSW wicket-keeper Ossie Lambert and NSW all-rounder Michael Hill in addition to several Newcastle Senior and Junior Age team representatives. 

In 2004-05 the membership voted to change the club name to Western Suburbs District Cricket Club. Given the rich history of the club, the decision wasn’t taken lightly but with an eye to the future. The area is synonymous with the Wests name in football, netball and the junior cricket club. While the western suburbs of Newcastle stretches out to the M1 today, the name embraces greater opportunities than two adjoining suburbs with the common thread, the mighty Rosella. 

So what are the benefits? 

• Alignment or pathway for junior boys and girls to a senior cricket club 
• Improvements to facilities and infrastructure 
• Increased revenue opportunities through sponsorship 
• Marketing to a wider audience 

Cricket is such a statistically based game and it was agreed that the club’s rich history should carryover with the new name and act as a benchmark for contemporary player achievements. 

Some lean years followed the brand change with the shining light a few trophies in Under-Age Competitions. One of the endearing features of the club through its history has been the strength of the Management Committee and the volunteers who have served on it. 

Through blend of talent, mateship and determination, the tide turned for Wests as it claimed its first First Grade Final win for 50 years in 2017/18 defeating Merewether. 

After the COVID pandemic ruined a crack at the 2019/20 final series, more silverware followed last season where the club won the First Grade Premiership and Final, the Locker Cup Limited Overs competition, the Semi-Finals of the T20 Summer Smash and were Finalists in the U15 T20 Age Competition.