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Adelaide Cricket Club
Adelaide Cricket Club or is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA). The Adelaide Cricket Club was formed on 12 September 1905. Many great names of Australian and South Australian cricket have played for the Adelaide Cricket Club: Badcock, Causby, Ken "KG" Cunningham, Cunningham, Jason Gillespie, Gillespie, Clarrie Grimmett, Grimmett, George Giffen, Giffen, Rodney Hogg, Hogg, Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and Ashley Woodcock, Woodcock have played. International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, Gordon Greenidge, Greenidge, Mendis and White. All in all the Adelaide Cricket Club has provided the State with 64 representatives, more than any other grade Club. Record breaking South Australian Jockey John McGowan (see Brooklyn Park, South Australia, Brooklyn Park) was also a long term player and B Grade Captai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
