Victoria cricket team

{{Short description|Australian first class cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria}}

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

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|name = Victoria cricket team

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|colours = {{color box|#000042}} Navy blue
{{color box|White}} White
{{color box|lightgrey}} Grey

|coach = Chris Rogers

|captain = Will Sutherland (FC)
Peter Handscomb (List A)

|founded = {{start date and age|1851}}

|ground = Melbourne Cricket Ground
Junction Oval

|capacity = 100,000
7,000

|first_fc = Tasmania

|first_fc_year = 1851

|first_fc_venue= Launceston

| title1 = Sheffield Shield

| title1wins = 32 (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)

| title2 = One-Day Cup

| title2wins = 6 (1972, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2011, 2018)

| title3 = KFC Twenty20 Big Bash

| title3wins = 4 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)

| title4 = Global Super League

| title4wins = 0

|website = [https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team/ Victorian Cricket Team]
[https://www.facebook.com/VicStateCricket/ Facebook]
[https://twitter.com/VicStateCricket Twitter]
[https://www.instagram.com/vicstatecricket/?hl=en Instagram]

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The Victoria 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.

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team-name-update/|title=Victorian Cricket Team name update|date=24 May 2018|website=Cricketvictoria.com.au|access-date=20 December 2018}} 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

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/84671.html |title=The Initial First-Class Match in Australia |first=Thomas |last=Rose |date=16 April 2000 |website=Espncricinfo.com |access-date=21 September 2018}}

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,{{cite web|title=Victoria v Tasmania scorecard|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10684.html|website=Cricketarchive.co.uk|access-date=6 June 2012}} and 1,107 against New South Wales in 1926–27.{{cite web|title=Victoria v New South Wales scorecard|url=http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/12/12150.html|website=Cricketarchive.co.uk|access-date=6 June 2012}}

Identity

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. The current major sponsor of the team is the CitiPower.{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/cricket-victoria-citipower-powercor-united-energy-sign-major-new-partnership/|title=Cricket Victoria, CitiPower, Powercor and United Energy sign major new partnership|date=4 March 2018|website=Cricketvictoria.com.au|access-date=20 December 2018}}

Honours

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

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

No. !Name !Nationality !Birth date !Batting style !Bowling style !Notes
class="wikitable"
colspan="8" style="background: #DCDCDC" align="right" \| Batters
style="text-align:center" \|23	Dylan Brasher	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2001\|03\|15\|df=y}}	Left-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|23	Josh Brown	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1993\|12\|26\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
style="text-align:center" \|22	Ashley Chandrasinghe	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2001\|12\|17\|df=y}}	Left-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|–	Harry Dixon	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2005\|2\|16\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
style="text-align:center" \|54	Peter Handscomb	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1991\|4\|26\|df=y}}	Right-handed	{{n/a}}	Marsh Cup captain
style="text-align:center" \|14	Marcus Harris	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1992\|07\|21\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
style="text-align:center" \|37	Campbell Kellaway	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2002\|01\|11\|df=y}}	Left-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|10	Will Pucovski	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1998\|2\|2\|df=y}}	Right-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|3	Tom Rogers	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1999\|7\|2\|df=y}}	Left-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|2	Matthew Short	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1995\|11\|8\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract
colspan="7" style="background: #DCDCDC" align="right" \| All-rounders
style="text-align:center" \|32	Glenn Maxwell	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1988\|10\|14\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract
style="text-align:center" \|11	Jonathan Merlo	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1998\|12\|15\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
style="text-align:center" \|12	Will Sutherland	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1999\|10\|27\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Sheffield Shield captain
colspan="7" style="background: #DCDCDC" align="right" \| Wicket-keepers
style="text-align:center" \|8	Liam Blackford	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2004\|01\|10\|df=y}}	Left-handed	{{n/a}}
style="text-align:center" \|7	Sam Harper	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1996\|12\|10\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
style="text-align:center" \|8	Jai Lemire	{{cr\|AUS}}		Right-handed	{{n/a}}
colspan="7" style="background: #DCDCDC" align="right" \| Spin bowlers
style="text-align:center"\|9	Reiley Mark	{{cr\|AUS}}		Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
style="text-align:center" \|28	Todd Murphy	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2000\|11\|15\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract
style="text-align:center"\|9	Doug Warren (cricketer)\|Doug Warren	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2001\|7\|17\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox
colspan="7" style="background: #DCDCDC" align="right" \| Pace bowlers
style="text-align:center" \|–	Austin Anlezark	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2005\|6\|16\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
style="text-align:center" \|25	Scott Boland	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1989\|3\|11\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Cricket Australia contract
style="text-align:center" \|26	Xavier Crone	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1997\|12\|19\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
style="text-align:center" \|1	Sam Elliott	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2000\|2\|18\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
style="text-align:center" \|13	Cameron McClure	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2001\|9\|25\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
style="text-align:center" \|17	Fergus O'Neill	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2001\|01\|27\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
style="text-align:center" \|35	Tyler Pearson	{{cr\|AUS}}		Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
style="text-align:center" \|35	Mitchell Perry	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|2000\|4\|27\|df=y}}	Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
style="text-align:center"\|64	Peter Siddle	{{cr\|AUS}}	{{birth date and age\|1984\|11\|25\|df=y}}	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium

Source:{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team/players/|title=Players|website=Cricket Victoria|access-date=27 August 2023}}

Records

Image:Jack Ryder cricketer c1930.jpg scored 4613 runs at 50.14 for Victoria]]

First Class Batting Records for Victoria

class="wikitable"
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

class="wikitable"

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

|Bill Lawry

|6615

|52.92

|Graham Yallop

|5881

|46.07

|Lindsay Hassett

|5535

|63.62

|Jason Arnberger

|5504

|42.01

|Bill Ponsford

|5413

|83.27

Image:Bill Ponsford.jpg]]

Image:Warwick Armstrong 1902.jpg scored 4497 runs for Victoria and took 177 wickets at 24.12]]

First Class Bowling Records for Victoria

class="wikitable"
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

class="wikitable"

Matches

! Player

! Wickets

!Average

|Paul Reiffel

|318

|25.91

|Alan Connolly

|297

|26.07

|Tony Dodemaide

|281

|31.61

|Merv Hughes

|267

|30.59

75*

|Scott Boland

|253

|26.60

101

|Ray Bright

|252

|35.00

|Chuck Fleetwood-Smith

|246

|24.52

|Jim Higgs

|240

|29.88

|Peter Siddle

|233

|24.13

|Damien Fleming

|221

|30.20

List A Batting Records for Victoria

class="wikitable"

!Matches

!Player

!Runs

!Average

139

|Brad Hodge

|5597

|47.03

120

|Cameron White

|3643

|37.55

101

|David Hussey

|3546

|43.77

|Matthew Elliott

|2640

|37.71

|Rob Quiney

|2361

|36.89

62*

|Aaron Finch

|2353

|42.01

|Dean Jones

|2122

|50.52

63*

|Peter Handscomb

|1911

|39.81

|Matthew Wade

|1696

|37.68

|Andrew McDonald

|1589

|31.15

List A Bowling Records for Victoria

class="wikitable"

!Matches

!Player

!Wickets

!Average

|Shane Harwood

|88

|23.72

|Mick Lewis

|83

|28.53

|Ian Harvey

|81

|27.40

|John Hastings

|78

|29.11

|Andrew McDonald

|72

|38.23

54*

|Jon Holland

|68

|33.44

120

|Cameron White

|57

|39.01

|Clint McKay

|51

|32.43

26*

|James Pattinson

|50

|24.46

|Damien Fleming

|48

|33.00

References

External links

Official Website of the [https://www.cricketvictoria.com.au/victorian-cricket-team/ Victorian cricket team]
Official Website of [http://www.cricket.com.au Cricket Australia]

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Victoria cricket team

History

Identity

Honours

Squad

Records

See also

References

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