Camberwell Magpies Cricket Club
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Camberwell Magpies Cricket Club is an Australia
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team competing in the Victorian Premier Cricket
competition. The club formed in 1996 from an amalgamation of Collingwood
Cricket Club, a foundation member of Victorian Premier Cricket in 1905, and Camberwell Cricket Club, a Victorian Sub-District Association team formed in 1864.
The Magpies play at Camberwell Sports Ground, which was Camberwell Cricket Club's home ground from 1906-07. The ground had a turf wicket laid down in 1908-09 in time for the second season of the Sub-District competition.
Its best known recent player is the former Test
batsman Matthew Elliott. Jack Ryder was a great stalwart of the former Collingwood Cricket Club, and also played for Australia.
Prior to the merger the Collingwood Cricket Club had won senior Victorian premierships in 1912-1913, 1970–71, 1974–75 and 1987–88, while Camberwell Cricket Clubhad won senior premierships in 1907-08 (B.H.R.D.C.A. A Grade), 1920–21, 1921–22, 1948–49, 1961–62 and 1985-86 (V.S.D.C.A. First XI).
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team competing in the Victorian Premier Cricket
Victorian Premier Cricket
Victorian Premier Cricket is the elite club cricket competition in the state of Victoria, administered by Cricket Victoria. Each club fields four teams of adult players and usually play on weekends and public holidays. Matches are played on turf wickets under limited-time rules, with most results...
competition. The club formed in 1996 from an amalgamation of Collingwood
Collingwood, Victoria
Collingwood is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...
Cricket Club, a foundation member of Victorian Premier Cricket in 1905, and Camberwell Cricket Club, a Victorian Sub-District Association team formed in 1864.
The Magpies play at Camberwell Sports Ground, which was Camberwell Cricket Club's home ground from 1906-07. The ground had a turf wicket laid down in 1908-09 in time for the second season of the Sub-District competition.
Its best known recent player is the former Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
batsman Matthew Elliott. Jack Ryder was a great stalwart of the former Collingwood Cricket Club, and also played for Australia.
Prior to the merger the Collingwood Cricket Club had won senior Victorian premierships in 1912-1913, 1970–71, 1974–75 and 1987–88, while Camberwell Cricket Clubhad won senior premierships in 1907-08 (B.H.R.D.C.A. A Grade), 1920–21, 1921–22, 1948–49, 1961–62 and 1985-86 (V.S.D.C.A. First XI).