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The Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club, nicknamed the Lions, play cricket in the elite club competition of Melbourne, Australia, known as Victorian Premier Cricket.The club was formed by a 1986 amalgamation of Fitzroy Cricket Club, a foundation member of Victorian Premier Cricket in 1905, and Doncaster Cricket Club, a Victorian Sub-District Association team formed in 1864.
Victorian Premier Cricket is the highest level club cricket competition in the state of Victoria, administered by Cricket Victoria. Each club fields four teams (firsts through to fourths) of adult players and usually play on Saturdays and public holidays. Matches are played on turf wickets.
The Prahran Cricket Club is an Australian cricket club based in Prahran, an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. [1] They play in Victorian Premier Cricket, the highest competition in the state. The club was originally known as Hawksburn Cricket Club, being founded in 1879. [2] The club plays its home matches at Toorak Park in Armadale.
The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), founded in 1838, played a pivotal role in promoting cricket and establishing it as a significant sporting pursuit in Victoria. The Melbourne Cricket Ground, affectionately known as the MCG, is synonymous with cricket in Victoria. Established in 1853, the MCG is one of the world's most renowned cricket stadiums ...
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It played its first season of premier cricket in 1906–07. It is the second-most successful club in the competition with 18 first-XI premierships and 52 premierships across all grades. The club's colours, as adopted in the 1915/16 season, are red, black and yellow.
It shared dominance of Melbourne cricket with its neighbour, the Melbourne Cricket Club. East Melbourne won the Victorian cricket competition 20 times and was runner-up another 20 times. [2] When the Victorian Railways took over the East Melbourne Oval for expansion to its railyards the club amalgamated with Hawthorn (Sub-District) in 1921 and ...
The First XI has been Victoria's premier club on seven occasions: in the pre-district era 1872–73, 1878–79, 1888–89, 1891–92; and in the district era 1952–53, 1959–60 and 1967–68. The club's team of the 20th century includes five players who captained Australia and three others who captained state teams: Lindsay Hassett (Captain)