Dandenong Cricket Club
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The Dandenong Cricket Club is an Australia
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club based in Dandenong, Victoria
, an outer-city suburb of Melbourne
, Victoria. They play in Victorian Premier Cricket
, the highest competition in the state.
The clubs most successful season came in 2006/7 where it won its first Premier Cricket Premiership. The side included Peter Siddle, Darren Pattinson and Premier Cricket legend Warren Ayres.
Dandenong won its second flag in 2010/11 vs. Frankston Heat in one of the great finals in the competition's history. Siddle, Darren and James Pattinson all played for Dandenong in the final and their individual efforts went along way to Dandenong claiming the Premiership.
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...
club based in Dandenong, Victoria
Dandenong, Victoria
Dandenong is a suburb and major urban centre in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 30 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Situated on Dandenong Creek and mostly flat land at the foothills of Mount Dandenong, it is the main administrative centre for the City of...
, an outer-city suburb of Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Victoria. They play in 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...
, the highest competition in the state.
History
In 1989, Hawthorn/East Melbourne relocated to Glen Waverley in the eastern suburbs, and was later renamed Hawthorn/Waverley in 1994. The move of Hawthorn/East Melbourne caused Waverley to move to Dandenong, and the new team played as Waverley/Dandenong, but dropped Waverley from its name for the 1994–95 season. Dandenong currently use Shepley Oval as their home ground.The clubs most successful season came in 2006/7 where it won its first Premier Cricket Premiership. The side included Peter Siddle, Darren Pattinson and Premier Cricket legend Warren Ayres.
Dandenong won its second flag in 2010/11 vs. Frankston Heat in one of the great finals in the competition's history. Siddle, Darren and James Pattinson all played for Dandenong in the final and their individual efforts went along way to Dandenong claiming the Premiership.
International players from Dandenong
- Peter SiddlePeter SiddlePeter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
- Darren PattinsonDarren PattinsonDarren John Pattinson is an English cricketer who currently plays for Victoria and Nottinghamshire.Pattinson received considerable press coverage when he was surprisingly selected for the England cricket team in July 2008 for the 2nd Test against South Africa at Headingley...
- Cameron WhiteCameron WhiteCameron Leon White is an Australian cricketer and current Australian Twenty20 captain. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the 2000–01 season for the Victorian Bushrangers as a bowling all-rounder...
- Ian HarveyIan HarveyIan Joseph Harvey is an Australian cricketer. He is an all-rounder. He was named as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year for 2004.-Australian career:...
- James PattinsonJames PattinsonJames Lee Pattinson is an Australian cricketer who currently plays for Victoria.- Playing career :Pattinson played for Dandenong Cricket Club in Victorian Premier Cricket and also played for Australia in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia.On Wednesday 23 December 2009, James broke the record...