Scarborough Cricket Club
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Founded:
1947-48.

1st Grade Premierships:
1976-77, 1994–95, 1997–98, 1999–2000, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009-10.

Sunday League Premierships:
2002-03.

WACA Club Champions:
1993-94, 1996–97, 1999–2000, 2003–04, 2004-05.

Test Cricketers
Sam Gannon
Sam Gannon
John Bryant 'Sam' Gannon is a former Australian cricketer who played in 3 Tests from 1977 to 1978.-External links:*...

, Mick Malone
Mick Malone
Michael Francis Malone is a former Australian cricketer who played in one Test and 10 ODIs from 1977 to 1982. Malone played in only one Test prior to joining World Series Cricket. In English county cricket he had a period with Lancashire...

, Tom Hogan
Tom Hogan
Tom George Hogan is a former Australian cricketer.Hogan was a left arm spinner who played in 7 Tests and 16 One Day Internationals for Australia from 1983 to 1984....

, Justin Langer
Justin Langer
Justin Lee Langer AM is a former international cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches and the current Assistant Coach and Batting Coach of the Australian cricket team. A left-handed batsman, his opening partnership with Matthew Hayden was one of the most successful of all time...

, Matthew Nicholson
Matthew Nicholson
Matthew Nicholson is an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1998 and over 100 first-class games for New South Wales, Western Australia, Northamptonshire and Surrey....

, Brad Williams, Graeme Watson
Graeme Watson (cricketer)
Graeme Donald Watson is a former Australian cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 2 ODIs from 1966 to 1972. He also played Australian rules football for Melbourne in the VFL.-External links:***...

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Australian Representatives
Ryan Campbell
Ryan Campbell
Ryan John Campbell is a former Australian cricketer who currently plays for ICL's Ahmedabad Rockets. Known as Cambo, he played for the Western Warriors as a wicket-keeper and as a quick-scoring right-handed batsman, often as an opener...

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Scarborough Cricket Club plays in the Western Australian Grade Cricket
Western Australian Grade Cricket
Grade Cricket in Western Australia refers to the semi-professional cricket league played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and colts teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association...

 competition, the Retravision Shield. Nicknamed the Gulls, its home ground is Abbett Park.


One of Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

's most successful cricket
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...

 clubs in recent history, Scarborough won the 1st Grade competition in 2006-07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10, the first team to win four straight titles since 1919.

Scarborough's head coach since 2006 is former Gulls paceman Simon Bowman, while batsman Clint Heron
Clint Heron
Clinton Jack Heron is a Zimbabwean cricketer, who played for Western Warriors. Heron, nicknamed Torus, is a right-handed batsman and bowls right arm off-break. On his first-class debut in November 2005 he scored 84 against Tasmania, this remains his highest score in first-class cricket...

 captained the 2008-09 and 2009–10 grand final wins.

The club has produced several players who have represented Australia in Test cricket, most notably Justin Langer
Justin Langer
Justin Lee Langer AM is a former international cricketer who represented Australia in 105 Test matches and the current Assistant Coach and Batting Coach of the Australian cricket team. A left-handed batsman, his opening partnership with Matthew Hayden was one of the most successful of all time...

.

Its most recent State representatives include Theo Doropoulos
Theo Doropoulos
Theo Paul Doropoulos in Subiaco, Western Australia is a cricketer currently listed with South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers...

, Michael Johnson, Marcus Stoinis
Marcus Stoinis
Marcus Stoinis is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Western Warriors. He is an opening batsman who bats right-handed and is an occasional right-arm medium bowler....

 and Justin Coetzee
Justin Coetzee
Justin Petrus Coetzee is a South-Africa-born Australian cricketer who previously played for Western Australia...

, while Scarborough players presently in the WA squad are Johnson and Marcus Harris.
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