Peter Landrebe (Captain)

Some of Pete’s favourite croquet accomplishments and memories have been representing New South Wales in the Eire cup for ten consecutive years, representing Australia in the 2009 Trans Tasman Test Series, and representing Australia in the 2008 world championship.  Being selected to play the MacRobertson Shield event in 2010 is an enormous honour.  Pete is a member of Cammeray and Blue Mountains croquet club, both in NSW, and plays with a 37inch 2lb 12oz Pidcock mallet with an Irish / golf grip.  The highlight for Pete regarding croquet in the last few years has been the emergence of new and highly skilled talent to arrive on the tournament circuit, young and old, and with three debutants in the Australian starting Team this year it is going to be an exciting time.

Kevin Beard

Kevin Beard was born into a dairy farming family but left the farm for University to avoid having to milk cows twice a day for the rest of his life.  He went on to complete a PhD in Animal Breeding and worked as a geneticist in the Victorian Department of Primary Industries for 30-odd years.  Kevin took up croquet in 1999 and plays Association, Golf and Gateball at the Brunswick Mallet Sports Club in Melbourne.  Kevin now lives in Moonee Ponds (of Dame Edna fame).  As well as representing Victoria 6 times,  Kevin has won a number of State titles and was semi-finalist in the Australian Open Singles in 2004 and 2007, and won the Australian Open Doubles in 2008 with Stephen Mulliner.

Martin Clarke

Marty lives in Rockingham, Western Australia, and works as a despatch clerk for a brushware company.  He learned to play croquet through a social club in 1992 when living in Geraldton.  Since then, Marty has won every major Western Australian event at least twice.

On the National scene, he won the Australian Open Singles in 2003, two Australian Doubles titles, and the Australian Gold Medal. Marty has also played one Trans Tasman Test Series and this will be his fourth MacRobertson Shield campaign.

Ian Dumergue

Ian is an underground miner with Barrick Gold Australia, at Darlot Gold Mine in Western Australia.  He is married with a young daughter and lives in the Perth hills.  Born in Christchurch New Zealand, Ian was introduced to croquet by his great-uncle Jack McNab in 1986 at the Sumner Croquet Club.  He won the Australian Doubles title in 2000 and has won the Australian Gold Medal twice.  He represented NZ in the Trans-Tasman Test Series of 1991 (ironically, in Perth).  He moved to Australia in 1997.  Ian debuted in the Australian MacRobertson Shield Team in 2006 and is looking forward to participating again in this series.

Robert Fletcher

Robert started playing croquet in 2004 and played in his first major tournament, the Australian Open, in 2007.  He was a close runner-up to Pete Landrebe in the 2008 Australian Open, and won the Australian Gold Medal in 2009.  Robert represented Victoria in the Eire Cup for the first time in 2009 and was also on the team in 2010.  He represented Australia for the first time at the World Championships in Florida 2009, where he lost in the semi-final to the winner Reg Bamford.  Other interests include history, chess, current affairs, photography, cricket, table tennis, snooker, and showing rabbits.

 Stephen Forster

Married with two children, Stephen works as a Theatre Technician at the Geelong Hospital in Victoria.  He won the Australian Gold Medal in 2007, and the Australian Men's Singles title in 2009 as well as numerous Victoria State titles.  Stephen reached the final 16 at the 2009 World Championships in Florida and has also represented Australia in the last 3 MacRobertson Shields, in the 2009 Trans Tasman Test Series, as well as 15 times for Victoria.  Stephen is an ardent AFL (Aussie Rules Footy) fan.

Trevor Bassett

Trevor works as a Financial Adviser in Kyabram, Victoria, and started playing croquet in 1990 at the age of 10.  He has played in six Australian teams, including 3 previous MacRobertson Shields) and ten Victoria State teams.  During his career, Trevor has won 6 National titles including the Australian Open in 2000 and 2004, and Australian Gold Medal in 2000, as well as an amazing 26 State titles.  For those that haven’t heard, Trevor and his wife Claire have welcomed the safe arrival of their little daughter Evie on 28 August 2009, and she is “the highlight of our lives”.

Greg Fletcher

Greg started playing croquet in 2004 and won the Australian Open plate 2007 in his first major tournament.  He has also won the selectors’ Invitation twice, the Major Tingey Tray 2 in the Presidents 3rd 8 in 2009, and represented Australia at the World Championships in Florida in 2009.  Greg has recently started to enjoy playing doubles after having a wonderful time playing with Robert in the New Zealand Open Doubles in 2010.  His other interests include music, history, reading, chess, jokes, funny stories, table tennis, snooker, and convincing people that Robert and Greg don't look alike....and shooting rabbits. 

Steve Jones (Coach/Manager)

Steve began his croquet career in Cheltenham, England, before shifting to New Zealand in 1982.  There he won the NZ Open in 1996 and 4 Open Doubles titles as well as playing in 4 Trans Tasman Tests and 4 MacRobertson Shields.  Steve was also World Champion at Sonoma in 1989, and in 1997 wrote a book on croquet “Peel Appeal”.  After jumping the ditch in 1999 he was reserve for the 2006 Australian Mac team, before becoming Australian Team Coach in 2007.  In real life he is Business Development Manager for a marketing company in Brisbane and, more importantly, spends as much time as possible travelling the world, drinking Italian coffee and wine, as well as (and sometimes at the same time as) boating and fishing!