Victoria cricket team

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 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 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]

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 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	Cricket Australia contract Usually only List A
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
15	Mackenzie Harvey		(2000-09-18) 18 September 2000	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	List A
36	Seb Gotch		(1993-07-12) 12 July 1993	Right-handed	—	First Class
-	Patrick Rowe		(2001-01-28) 28 January 2001	Right-handed	—	Rookie Contract
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
–	Zak Evans		(2000-03-26) 26 March 2000	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

Source:[6]

• 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

Jack Ryder scored 4613 runs at 50.14 for Victoria

First Class Batting Records for Victoria

Warwick Armstrong scored 6615 runs for Victoria and took 244 wickets at 22.46

First Class Bowling Records for Victoria

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

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