Victoria cricket team

Victoria
Personnel
Captain	Peter Handscomb
Coach	Chris Rogers
Team information
Colours	Navy blue ; White ; Grey
Founded	1851
Home ground	Melbourne Cricket Ground; Junction Oval
Capacity	100,000; 7,000
History
First-class debut	Tasmania; in 1851; at Launceston
Sheffield Shield wins	32 (1893, 1895, 1898, 1899, 1901, 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 wins	6 (1972, 1980, 1995, 1999, 2011, 2018)
Twenty20 Big Bash wins	4 (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
Official website	Victorian Cricket Team; Facebook; Twitter; Instagram
First-class	One-day

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.

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[]

Victorian great Bill Ponsford

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[]

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]

Squad[]

Squad for the 2019/20 domestic season. Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
2	Matthew Short	(1995-11-08) 8 November 1995 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
5	Aaron Finch	(1986-11-17) 17 November 1986 (age 35)	Right-handed	Left-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract Usually only plays List A
10	Will Pucovski	(1998-02-02) 2 February 1998 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
14	Marcus Harris	(1992-07-21) 21 July 1992 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
22	Eamonn Vines	(1994-01-17) 17 January 1994 (age 28)	Left-handed	—
29	Travis Dean	(1992-02-01) 1 February 1992 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm Medium
54	Peter Handscomb	(1991-04-26) 26 April 1991 (age 30)	Right-handed	—	Captain, Cricket Australia contract
15	Mackenzie Harvey	(2000-09-18) 18 September 2000 (age 21)	Left-handed	Right-arm Medium
-	Edward Newman	12 March 1999 (age 19)	Left-handed	Left-arm off break	Rookie Contract
53	Nic Maddinson	(1991-12-21) 21 December 1991 (age 30)	Left-handed	Left-arm orthodox
All-rounders
12	Will Sutherland	(1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 22)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
32	Glenn Maxwell	(1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract Usually only plays List A
Wicket-keepers
7	Sam Harper	(1996-12-10) 10 December 1996 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	List A
36	Seb Gotch	(1993-07-12) 12 July 1993 (age 28)	Right-handed	—	First Class
-	Patrick Rowe	(2001-01-28) 28 January 2001 (age 21)	Right-handed	—	Rookie Contract
Bowlers
3	Jackson Coleman	(1991-12-18) 18 December 1991 (age 30)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
16	Tom O'Connell	(2000-06-14) 14 June 2000 (age 21)	Left-handed	Right-arm leg spin
18	Jon Holland	(1987-05-29) 29 May 1987 (age 34)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
19	James Pattinson	(1990-05-03) 3 May 1990 (age 31)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast	Cricket Australia contract (Since retired from International Cricket)
25	Scott Boland	(1989-03-11) 11 March 1989 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium
26	Xavier Crone	(1997-12-19) 19 December 1997 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
–	Zak Evans	(2000-03-26) 26 March 2000 (age 21)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Rookie Contract
–	Sam Grimwade	(1996-12-16) 16 December 1996 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
35	Mitch Perry	(2000-04-27) 27 April 2000 (age 21)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Rookie contract

Source:^[6]

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

Records[]

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

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

References[]

^ ^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.
^ "Victoria cut eight players for 2018-19". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

External links[]

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

[NicknameDrop-1] "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] "Victoria cut eight players for 2018-19". Cricket.com.au. Retrieved 20 December 2018.

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