Victoria cricket team

Not to be confused with the Victoria women's cricket team.

Victoria

Personnel
Captain	Peter Handscomb
Coach	Lachlan Stevens (interim)
Team information
Colours	Navy blue   White   Grey
Founded	1851
Home ground	Melbourne Cricket Ground Junction Oval (most games)
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 Victorian cricket team, who were named Victorian Bushrangers between 1995 and 2018, is an Australian first-class cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. The Victoria cricket team, which first played in 1851, represents the state of Victoria in the Sheffield Shield first-class competition and the Marsh One Day Cup competition. The team shares home matches between the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Junction Oval. They currently play most of their games at the Junction Oval.

The team is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Victoria's Premier Cricket competition and throughout the country. Victoria also played in the now-defunct Twenty20 competition, the KFC 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 KFC Twenty20 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.

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 Junction Oval 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's home ground, the MCG.

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, and 1,107 against New South Wales in 1926–27.

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.

Squad

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

No.	Name	Nat	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
2	Matthew Short		(1995-11-08) 8 November 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
5	Aaron Finch		(1986-11-17) 17 November 1986	Right-handed	Left-arm off break	Vice Captain, Cricket Australia contract
10	Will Pucovski		(1998-02-02) 2 February 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
14	Marcus Harris		(1992-07-21) 21 July 1992	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract
22	Eamonn Vines		(1994-01-17) 17 January 1994	Left-handed	—
29	Travis Dean		(1992-02-01) 1 February 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm Medium
54	Peter Handscomb		(1991-04-26) 26 April 1991	Right-handed	—	Captain, Cricket Australia contract
-	Mackenzie Harvey		18 September 2000 (age 18)	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	Right-handed	Left-arm orthodox
All-rounders
12	Will Sutherland		(1999-10-27) 27 October 1999	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
32	Glenn Maxwell		(1988-10-14) 14 October 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Cricket Australia contract
Wicket-keepers
7	Sam Harper		(1996-12-10) 10 December 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
36	Seb Gotch		(1993-07-12) 12 July 1993	Right-handed	—
-	Patrick Rowe		(2001-01-28) 28 January 2001	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
3	Jackson Coleman		(1991-12-18) 18 December 1991	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
16	Tom O'Connell		(2000-06-14) 14 June 2000	Left-handed	Right-arm leg spin
18	Jon Holland		(1987-05-29) 29 May 1987	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
19	James Pattinson		(1990-05-03) 3 May 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm fast	Cricket Australia contract
20	Chris Tremain		(1991-08-10) 10 August 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
25	Scott Boland		(1989-03-11) 11 March 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium
26	Xavier Crone		(1997-12-19) 19 December 1997	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
34	Jake Reed		(1990-09-28) 28 September 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm fast
64	Peter Siddle		(1984-11-25) 25 November 1984	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
–	Zak Evans		–	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	Rookie Contract
–	Sam Grimwade		(1996-12-16) 16 December 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
35	Mitch Perry		–	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	Rookie contract

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Honours

• Sheffield Shield Titles – (32): 1882/83, 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 – (4): 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2009/10

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
85	Bill Lawry	6615	52.92
119*	Cameron White	6596	36.04
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 6615 runs for Victoria and took 244 wickets at 22.46

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
101	Ray Bright	252	35.00
41	Chuck Fleetwood-Smith	246	24.52
75	Jim Higgs	240	29.88
67	Damien Fleming	221	30.20
62	Max Walker	220	29.43
44	Bert Ironmonger	215	24.60

See also

• Cricket Victoria
• Cricket Australia
• List of Victoria first-class cricketers
• List of international cricketers from Victoria
• Victoria women's cricket team

External links

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