In part 2 of - A History of Harvey Cricket, we enter the world of Cricket in Harvey in the early 21st Century with two very dominant Clubs in the town who faced the challenge of reluctantly acknowledging the need to connect together to form one club and put aside at times, quite bitter rivalries of the past. The Harvey Benger Cricket Club was formed in the winter of 2004, going into the 2004/05 Cricket season and entering the Bunbury & Districts Cricket Association. This episode explores what was to be a period of time for Harvey Cricket that ranks arguably as its greatest in the 100 plus years to that date. Taking on the might of the Bunbury Clubs and setting a new bar in WA Country Cricket in so many ways was to be the legacy and success that is the hallmark of this golden era for Harvey Cricket. How that happened and the difficult pathway to how that was achieved is the focus in a couple of interviews with those who were there to witness this, premiership winning captain from the 2025/06 season John Crognale as well as someone who has carried the new Club into the next phase of Harvey Cricket history, Haydn Jones. This episode highlights the ongoing challenges and struggles that so many Country Cricket Clubs in WA and in fact Australia face from time to time across their own history and why incredible volunteers and those with a passion for Cricket, somehow make things happen that previously seemed impossible.

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