Rushworth sporting legend Peter ‘‘Rags’’ Raglus has been rewarded for his support of the annual Melbourne Country Cricket Week carnival, being installed as a Hall Of Fame member of the Victorian Country Cricket League at a function at St Kilda’s Junction Oval in Melbourne on Sunday.
The honour adds to his long list of accolades which include life memberships of the Goulburn Murray Cricket competition and former KDCA as well as the Rushworth cricket and football clubs.
Rags transported the former Kyabram District Cricket Association representative teams and in recent times the Goulburn Murray sides to the annual Melbourne country carnival for 37 years.
In the first 15 years of these trips he was a playing all-rounder with the KDCA side and took a memorable 8-50 in a final which Kyabram was defeated by Albury.
The now 66-year-old said he would still love to be driving the bus to Melbourne Country Cricket Week, but since the merger of the Kyabram and Campaspe cricket associations to form the GM Cricket competition representative sides are now not being sent to the century old carnival.
Despite being in the veterans age group Rags still loves playing the game and will line-up again this season with Rushworth in GM Cricket’s D-grade competition, which has been named in his honour for his service to the KDCA and GM Cricket associations.
