Adelaide Cricket Club or is a semi-professional cricket club in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. It competes in the

South Australian Grade Cricket League South Australian Premier Cricket (previously known as South Australian District Cricket and South Australian Grade Cricket) is the semi-professional State league based in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. It is currently the highest level o ...

, which is administered by the

South Australian Cricket Association The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) is the peak body for the sport of cricket in South Australia. The association administers the Southern Redbacks based in Adelaide. SACA is the controlling body for the South Australian Grade Cri ...

(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,

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, Gillespie, Grimmett, Giffen, Hogg, Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and

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have played. International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, 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) was also a long term player and B Grade Captain of the club. The club plays its Senior Home Games at Glandore Oval,

Glandore, South Australia Glandore (postcode 5037) is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, partly in the City of Marion and partly in the City of West Torrens. The name is believed to come from Glandore in County Cork, Ireland, whence the family of John O'Dea, one ...

. Other grounds used by the club include Park 23 and Immanuel College. Today the club fields four senior men's teams and four junior boy's teams in the South Australian Cricket Association competition.

References

External links

ACC official site

SACA
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