The VCA Colts cricket team competed in the Melbourne district 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 between 1929–30 and the start of World War II

World War II

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. Administrated by the Victorian Cricket Association

Cricket Victoria

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 (VCA), it was a developmental team that included mainly young players with potential who were led by one or two players with first-class

First-class cricket

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 experience. Some of the notable cricketers who played with the team before their rise to fame included Lindsay Hassett

Lindsay Hassett

Arthur Lindsay Hassett MBE was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia. The diminutive Hassett was an elegant middle-order batsman, described by Wisden as, "... a master of nearly every stroke ... his superb timing, nimble footwork and strong wrists enabled him to make batting look a...

, Ian Johnson

Ian Johnson (cricketer)

Ian William Geddes Johnson CBE was an Australian cricketer who played 45 Test matches as a slow off-break bowler between 1946 and 1956. Johnson captured 109 Test wickets at an average of 29.19 runs per wicket and as a lower order batsman made 1,000 runs at an average of...

 and Keith Miller

Keith Miller

Keith Ross Miller MBE was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite...

. At one stage, the team was captained by the former Australian skipper Jack Ryder. The team was discontinued during the war years, and replaced in the competition by the Footscray club in 1948–49.