Australian first class cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria
Victoria
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Captain
| Will Sutherland
(
FC
)
Peter Handscomb
(
List A
)
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Coach
| Chris Rogers
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Colours
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Navy blue
White
Grey
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Founded
| 1851
; 173 years ago
(
1851
)
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Home ground
| Melbourne Cricket Ground
Junction Oval
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Capacity
| 100,000
7,000
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First-class
debut
| Tasmania
in 1851
at
Launceston
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Sheffield Shield wins
| 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
)
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One-day wins
| 6
(1972, 1980, 1995, 1999,
2011
,
2018
)
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Twenty20
Big Bash
wins
| 4
(
2006
,
2007
,
2008
,
2010
)
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Official website
| Victorian Cricket Team
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
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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
[
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
Titles
1
? (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
.
Source:
[6]
Records
[
edit
]
First Class Batting Records for Victoria
First Class Bowling Records for Victoria
List A Batting Records for Victoria
List A Bowling Records for Victoria
See also
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]
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Notes
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- Italics
indicate that the team no longer competes in state cricket
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Big Bash League
franchise teams
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Women's Big Bash League
franchise teams
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Competitions
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Grounds
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Honours
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Lists
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Other
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Teams
| National
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State-level
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- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- Cricket Australia XI
(2015?18)
- New Zealand
(1969?75)
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Notes
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- Italics
indicate that the team no longer competes in state cricket.
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BBL/WBBL
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- Adelaide Strikers
- Brisbane Heat
- Hobart Hurricanes
- Melbourne Renegades
- Melbourne Stars
- Perth Scorchers
- Sydney Sixers
- Sydney Thunder
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First-class
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List A
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Twenty20
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