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Victoria cricket team

January 01, 1970

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Victoria women's cricket team.

The Victoria men’s cricket team is an Australian first-class men's cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. The men’s team, which first played in 1851, represents the state of Victoria in the Marsh Sheffield Shield first-class competition and the Marsh One Day Cup 50-over competition.

Victoria
Personnel
CaptainWill Sutherland (FC)
Peter Handscomb (List A)
CoachChris Rogers
Team information
Colours  Navy blue
  White
  Grey
Founded1851; 173 years ago (1851)
Home groundMelbourne Cricket Ground
Junction Oval
Capacity100,000
7,000
History
First-class debutTasmania
in 1851
at Launceston
Sheffield Shield wins32 (1893, 1895, 1898, 1899, 1907, 1908, 1915, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1947, 1951, 1963, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1991, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019)
One-day wins6 (1972, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2011, 2018)
Twenty20 Big Bash wins4 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
Official websiteVictorian Cricket Team
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First-class

One-day

It was known as the Victorian Bushrangers between 1995 and 2018, before dropping the Bushrangers nickname and electing to be known as simply Victoria in all cricket competitions.[1] Victoria shares home matches between the Melbourne Cricket Ground in East Melbourne and the Junction Oval in St Kilda. The team is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players primarily from Victoria's Premier Cricket competition along with players from throughout the country. Victoria also played in the now-defunct Twenty20 competition, the Twenty20 Big Bash, which was replaced by the franchise-based Big Bash League.

The Victorian cricket team is the second-most successful state team in Australian first-class cricket, having won 32 Sheffield Shield titles, the most recent of which was in the 2018–19 season. The Victorians have also claimed six One-Day Cups and four Big Bash tiles.

History edit

The team's origins date back to the very start of Australian cricket when the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) was formed in 1838, and in that same year an MCC team played its first match against the Victorian Military. However, the first official inter-colonial (now interstate) game was contested between Port Phillip and Van Diemen's Land in 1851, in Launceston.[2]

Victoria was the dominant force in the early days of Australian first-class cricket, winning two of the first three Sheffield Shield tournaments, and most of its early domestic friendly games against the other states. The first game between the great rivals Victoria and New South Wales was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 1856.

The annual Sheffield Shield tournament first began in the 1892/93 season, contested by Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. Victoria won that tournament by defeating both opponents twice each. During the history of the Shield, Victoria has won the competition 32 times, most recently in the 2018/19 season.

The Victorian Cricket Association, now Cricket Victoria, was founded in 1895 and since March 2018 has been based at its headquarters, the CitiPower Centre in St Kilda.

Victoria has featured a significant number of cricketing greats, such as Warwick Armstrong, Bill Woodfull, Bill Ponsford, Neil Harvey, Hugh Trumble, Lindsay Hassett, Dean Jones, Jack Blackham, Jack Ryder, Bill Lawry, Bob Cowper, Shane Warne, Keith Miller and Ian Redpath. (See here for a full listing of past players).

Victoria has been a powerful force in Australian cricket and the Australian cricket team has, at least until recent decades, never been short of Victorians in the line up.

The tradition of starting a cricket match at the MCG on Boxing Day also featured Victoria when they played New South Wales in 1965.

Victoria is the only first-class cricket team to have scored over 1,000 in an innings, which it achieved twice in the 1920s – 1,023 against Tasmania in 1922–23,[3] and 1,107 against New South Wales in 1926–27.[4]

Identity edit

Throughout its history, Victoria's dominant colour has been navy blue, either in full when playing One-Day or Twenty20 competitions or on predominantly white kits in first-class cricket. The team logo replicates that of Cricket Victoria and has done so since the organisation chose to cease referring to the Bushrangers nickname when describing the men's team.[1] The current major sponsor of the team is the CitiPower.[5]

Honours edit

  • Sheffield Shield Titles – (32): 1892/93, 1894/95, 1897/98, 1898/99, 1900/01, 1907/08, 1914/15, 1921/22, 1923/24, 1924/25, 1927/28, 1929/30, 1930/31, 1933/34, 1934/35, 1936/37, 1946/47, 1950/51, 1962/63, 1966/67, 1969/70, 1973/74, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1990/91, 2003/04, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2018/19.
  • National One Day Cup Titles – (6): 1971/72, 1979/80, 1994/95, 1998/99, 2010/11, 2018/19.
  • KFC Twenty20 Big Bash Titles1 – (4): 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10

1 Now defunct competition

Squad edit

Squad for the 2024/25 domestic season. Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batters
23 Dylan Brasher   (2001-03-15) 15 March 2001 (age 23) Left-handed —
22 Ashley Chandrasinghe   (2001-12-17) 17 December 2001 (age 22) Left-handed —
54 Peter Handscomb   (1991-04-26) 26 April 1991 (age 33) Right-handed — Marsh Cup Captain
14 Marcus Harris   (1992-07-21) 21 July 1992 (age 31) Left-handed Right-arm off break
37 Campbell Kellaway   (2002-01-11) 11 January 2002 (age 22) Left-handed —
10 Will Pucovski   (1998-02-02) 2 February 1998 (age 26) Right-handed —
3 Tom Rogers   (1999-07-02) 2 July 1999 (age 24) Left-handed —
2 Matthew Short   (1995-11-08) 8 November 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm off break Cricket Australia contract
All-rounders
32 Glenn Maxwell   (1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Right-arm off break Cricket Australia contract
11 Jonathan Merlo   (1998-12-15) 15 December 1998 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
12 Will Sutherland   (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Sheffield Shield Captain
Wicket-keepers
8 Liam Blackford   (2004-01-10) 10 January 2004 (age 20) Left-handed —
7 Sam Harper   (1996-12-10) 10 December 1996 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Spin Bowlers
28 Todd Murphy   (2000-11-15) 15 November 2000 (age 23) Left-handed Right-arm off break Cricket Australia contract
9 Doug Warren   (2001-07-17) 17 July 2001 (age 22) Left-handed Left-arm orthodox
Pace Bowlers
25 Scott Boland   (1989-03-11) 11 March 1989 (age 35) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Cricket Australia contract
26 Xavier Crone   (1997-12-19) 19 December 1997 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
1 Sam Elliott   (2000-02-18) 18 February 2000 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium
13 Cameron McClure   (2001-09-25) 25 September 2001 (age 22) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
17 Fergus O'Neill   (2001-01-27) 27 January 2001 (age 23) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
35 Mitchell Perry   (2000-04-27) 27 April 2000 (age 24) Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium
64 Peter Siddle   (1984-11-25) 25 November 1984 (age 39) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium

Source:[6]

Records edit

 
Jack Ryder scored 4613 runs at 50.14 for Victoria

First Class Batting Records for Victoria

Matches Player Runs Average
140 Brad Hodge 10474 45.34
110 Dean Jones 9622 54.05
103 Matthew Elliott 9470 52.32
105 David Hussey 7476 45.58
135 Cameron White 7453 36.17
85 Bill Lawry 6615 52.92
76 Graham Yallop 5881 46.07
58 Lindsay Hassett 5535 63.62
76 Jason Arnberger 5504 42.01
43 Bill Ponsford 5413 83.27
 
Victorian great Bill Ponsford
 
Warwick Armstrong scored 4497 runs for Victoria and took 177 wickets at 24.12

First Class Bowling Records for Victoria

Matches Player Wickets Average
86 Paul Reiffel 318 25.91
71 Alan Connolly 297 26.07
94 Tony Dodemaide 281 31.61
76 Merv Hughes 267 30.59
75* Scott Boland 253 26.60
101 Ray Bright 252 35.00
41 Chuck Fleetwood-Smith 246 24.52
75 Jim Higgs 240 29.88
61 Peter Siddle 233 24.13
67 Damien Fleming 221 30.20

List A Batting Records for Victoria

Matches Player Runs Average
139 Brad Hodge 5597 47.03
120 Cameron White 3643 37.55
101 David Hussey 3546 43.77
78 Matthew Elliott 2640 37.71
74 Rob Quiney 2361 36.89
62* Aaron Finch 2353 42.01
55 Dean Jones 2122 50.52
63* Peter Handscomb 1911 39.81
53 Matthew Wade 1696 37.68
84 Andrew McDonald 1589 31.15

List A Bowling Records for Victoria

Matches Player Wickets Average
54 Shane Harwood 88 23.72
62 Mick Lewis 83 28.53
69 Ian Harvey 81 27.40
48 John Hastings 78 29.11
84 Andrew McDonald 72 38.23
54* Jon Holland 68 33.44
120 Cameron White 57 39.01
39 Clint McKay 51 32.43
26* James Pattinson 50 24.46
46 Damien Fleming 48 33.00

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Victorian Cricket Team name update". Cricketvictoria.com.au. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  2. ^ Rose, Thomas (16 April 2000). "The Initial First-Class Match in Australia". Espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Victoria v Tasmania scorecard". Cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Victoria v New South Wales scorecard". Cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  5. ^ "Cricket Victoria, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy sign major new partnership". Cricketvictoria.com.au. 4 March 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Players". Cricket Victoria. Retrieved 27 August 2023.

External links edit

  • Official Website of the Victorian cricket team
  • Official Website of Cricket Australia

January 01, 1970
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This article is about the men s team For the women s team see Victoria women s cricket team The Victoria men s cricket team is an Australian first class men s cricket team based in Melbourne Victoria The men s team which first played in 1851 represents the state of Victoria in the Marsh Sheffield Shield first class competition and the Marsh One Day Cup 50 over competition VictoriaPersonnelCaptainWill Sutherland FC Peter Handscomb List A CoachChris RogersTeam informationColours Navy blue White GreyFounded1851 173 years ago 1851 Home groundMelbourne Cricket GroundJunction OvalCapacity100 0007 000HistoryFirst class debutTasmaniain 1851at LauncestonSheffield Shield wins32 1893 1895 1898 1899 1907 1908 1915 1922 1924 1925 1928 1930 1931 1934 1935 1937 1947 1951 1963 1967 1970 1974 1979 1980 1991 2004 2009 2010 2015 2016 2017 2019 One day wins6 1972 1980 1995 1999 2011 2018 Twenty20 Big Bash wins4 2006 2007 2008 2010 Official websiteVictorian Cricket TeamFacebookTwitterInstagramFirst classOne day It was known as the Victorian Bushrangers between 1995 and 2018 before dropping the Bushrangers nickname and electing to be known as simply Victoria in all cricket competitions 1 Victoria shares home matches between the Melbourne Cricket Ground in East Melbourne and the Junction Oval in St Kilda The team is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players primarily from Victoria s Premier Cricket competition along with players from throughout the country Victoria also played in the now defunct Twenty20 competition the Twenty20 Big Bash which was replaced by the franchise based Big Bash League The Victorian cricket team is the second most successful state team in Australian first class cricket having won 32 Sheffield Shield titles the most recent of which was in the 2018 19 season The Victorians have also claimed six One Day Cups and four Big Bash tiles Contents 1 History 2 Identity 3 Honours 4 Squad 5 Records 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksHistory editThe team s origins date back to the very start of Australian cricket when the Melbourne Cricket Club MCC was formed in 1838 and in that same year an MCC team played its first match against the Victorian Military However the first official inter colonial now interstate game was contested between Port Phillip and Van Diemen s Land in 1851 in Launceston 2 Victoria was the dominant force in the early days of Australian first class cricket winning two of the first three Sheffield Shield tournaments and most of its early domestic friendly games against the other states The first game between the great rivals Victoria and New South Wales was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground MCG in 1856 The annual Sheffield Shield tournament first began in the 1892 93 season contested by Victoria New South Wales and South Australia Victoria won that tournament by defeating both opponents twice each During the history of the Shield Victoria has won the competition 32 times most recently in the 2018 19 season The Victorian Cricket Association now Cricket Victoria was founded in 1895 and since March 2018 has been based at its headquarters the CitiPower Centre in St Kilda Victoria has featured a significant number of cricketing greats such as Warwick Armstrong Bill Woodfull Bill Ponsford Neil Harvey Hugh Trumble Lindsay Hassett Dean Jones Jack Blackham Jack Ryder Bill Lawry Bob Cowper Shane Warne Keith Miller and Ian Redpath See here for a full listing of past players Victoria has been a powerful force in Australian cricket and the Australian cricket team has at least until recent decades never been short of Victorians in the line up The tradition of starting a cricket match at the MCG on Boxing Day also featured Victoria when they played New South Wales in 1965 Victoria is the only first class cricket team to have scored over 1 000 in an innings which it achieved twice in the 1920s 1 023 against Tasmania in 1922 23 3 and 1 107 against New South Wales in 1926 27 4 Identity editThroughout its history Victoria s dominant colour has been navy blue either in full when playing One Day or Twenty20 competitions or on predominantly white kits in first class cricket The team logo replicates that of Cricket Victoria and has done so since the organisation chose to cease referring to the Bushrangers nickname when describing the men s team 1 The current major sponsor of the team is the CitiPower 5 Honours editSheffield Shield Titles 32 1892 93 1894 95 1897 98 1898 99 1900 01 1907 08 1914 15 1921 22 1923 24 1924 25 1927 28 1929 30 1930 31 1933 34 1934 35 1936 37 1946 47 1950 51 1962 63 1966 67 1969 70 1973 74 1978 79 1979 80 1990 91 2003 04 2008 09 2009 10 2014 15 2015 16 2016 17 2018 19 National One Day Cup Titles 6 1971 72 1979 80 1994 95 1998 99 2010 11 2018 19 KFC Twenty20 Big Bash Titles1 4 2005 06 2006 07 2007 08 2009 10 1 Now defunct competitionSquad editSquad for the 2024 25 domestic season Players with international caps are listed in bold No Name Nat Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters 23 Dylan Brasher nbsp 2001 03 15 15 March 2001 age 23 Left handed 22 Ashley Chandrasinghe nbsp 2001 12 17 17 December 2001 age 22 Left handed 54 Peter Handscomb nbsp 1991 04 26 26 April 1991 age 33 Right handed Marsh Cup Captain 14 Marcus Harris nbsp 1992 07 21 21 July 1992 age 31 Left handed Right arm off break 37 Campbell Kellaway nbsp 2002 01 11 11 January 2002 age 22 Left handed 10 Will Pucovski nbsp 1998 02 02 2 February 1998 age 26 Right handed 3 Tom Rogers nbsp 1999 07 02 2 July 1999 age 24 Left handed 2 Matthew Short nbsp 1995 11 08 8 November 1995 age 28 Right handed Right arm off break Cricket Australia contract All rounders 32 Glenn Maxwell nbsp 1988 10 14 14 October 1988 age 35 Right handed Right arm off break Cricket Australia contract 11 Jonathan Merlo nbsp 1998 12 15 15 December 1998 age 25 Right handed Right arm medium fast 12 Will Sutherland nbsp 1999 10 27 27 October 1999 age 24 Right handed Right arm medium fast Sheffield Shield Captain Wicket keepers 8 Liam Blackford nbsp 2004 01 10 10 January 2004 age 20 Left handed 7 Sam Harper nbsp 1996 12 10 10 December 1996 age 27 Right handed Right arm medium Spin Bowlers 28 Todd Murphy nbsp 2000 11 15 15 November 2000 age 23 Left handed Right arm off break Cricket Australia contract 9 Doug Warren nbsp 2001 07 17 17 July 2001 age 22 Left handed Left arm orthodox Pace Bowlers 25 Scott Boland nbsp 1989 03 11 11 March 1989 age 35 Right handed Right arm fast medium Cricket Australia contract 26 Xavier Crone nbsp 1997 12 19 19 December 1997 age 26 Right handed Right arm fast medium 1 Sam Elliott nbsp 2000 02 18 18 February 2000 age 24 Right handed Right arm medium 13 Cameron McClure nbsp 2001 09 25 25 September 2001 age 22 Right handed Right arm fast medium 17 Fergus O Neill nbsp 2001 01 27 27 January 2001 age 23 Right handed Right arm fast medium 35 Mitchell Perry nbsp 2000 04 27 27 April 2000 age 24 Left handed Right arm fast medium 64 Peter Siddle nbsp 1984 11 25 25 November 1984 age 39 Right handed Right arm fast medium Source 6 Records edit nbsp Jack Ryder scored 4613 runs at 50 14 for Victoria First Class Batting Records for Victoria Matches Player Runs Average 140 Brad Hodge 10474 45 34 110 Dean Jones 9622 54 05 103 Matthew Elliott 9470 52 32 105 David Hussey 7476 45 58 135 Cameron White 7453 36 17 85 Bill Lawry 6615 52 92 76 Graham Yallop 5881 46 07 58 Lindsay Hassett 5535 63 62 76 Jason Arnberger 5504 42 01 43 Bill Ponsford 5413 83 27 nbsp Victorian great Bill Ponsford nbsp Warwick Armstrong scored 4497 runs for Victoria and took 177 wickets at 24 12 First Class Bowling Records for Victoria Matches Player Wickets Average 86 Paul Reiffel 318 25 91 71 Alan Connolly 297 26 07 94 Tony Dodemaide 281 31 61 76 Merv Hughes 267 30 59 75 Scott Boland 253 26 60 101 Ray Bright 252 35 00 41 Chuck Fleetwood Smith 246 24 52 75 Jim Higgs 240 29 88 61 Peter Siddle 233 24 13 67 Damien Fleming 221 30 20 List A Batting Records for Victoria Matches Player Runs Average 139 Brad Hodge 5597 47 03 120 Cameron White 3643 37 55 101 David Hussey 3546 43 77 78 Matthew Elliott 2640 37 71 74 Rob Quiney 2361 36 89 62 Aaron Finch 2353 42 01 55 Dean Jones 2122 50 52 63 Peter Handscomb 1911 39 81 53 Matthew Wade 1696 37 68 84 Andrew McDonald 1589 31 15 List A Bowling Records for Victoria Matches Player Wickets Average 54 Shane Harwood 88 23 72 62 Mick Lewis 83 28 53 69 Ian Harvey 81 27 40 48 John Hastings 78 29 11 84 Andrew McDonald 72 38 23 54 Jon Holland 68 33 44 120 Cameron White 57 39 01 39 Clint McKay 51 32 43 26 James Pattinson 50 24 46 46 Damien Fleming 48 33 00See also editCricket Victoria Cricket Australia List of Victoria first class cricketers Victoria women s cricket teamReferences edit a b Victorian Cricket Team name update Cricketvictoria com au 24 May 2018 Retrieved 20 December 2018 Rose Thomas 16 April 2000 The Initial First Class Match in Australia Espncricinfo com Retrieved 21 September 2018 Victoria v Tasmania scorecard Cricketarchive co uk Retrieved 6 June 2012 Victoria v New South Wales scorecard Cricketarchive co uk Retrieved 6 June 2012 Cricket Victoria CitiPower Powercor and United Energy sign major new partnership Cricketvictoria com au 4 March 2018 Retrieved 20 December 2018 Players Cricket Victoria Retrieved 27 August 2023 External links editOfficial Website of the Victorian cricket team Official Website of Cricket Australia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Victoria cricket team amp oldid 1222721612, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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