The Kingston Hawthorn Cricket Club is an Australian

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 striki ...

club based at Walter Galt Reserve, situated in

Parkdale, Victoria Parkdale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Parkdale recorded a population of 12,308 at the . It is situat ...

. They play in

Victorian Premier Cricket Victorian Premier Cricket is a club cricket competition in the state of Victoria administered by Cricket Victoria. Each club fields four teams (firsts through to fourths) of adult players and usually play on weekends and public holidays. Matche ...

, the highest competition in the state.

History

The club was originally known as East Melbourne. It shared dominance of Melbourne cricket with its neighbour, the

Melbourne Cricket Club The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia. The MCC is responsible for management and development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground ...

. East Melbourne won the Victorian cricket competition 20 times and was runner-up another 20 times. When the

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took over the East Melbourne Oval for expansion to its railyards the club amalgamated with Hawthorn (Sub-District) in 1921 and moved to

Glenferrie Oval Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the historic home of, and is synonymous with, the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL ...

, playing as Hawthorn-East Melbourne. In the 1980s the club was hampered by the success of its co-tenant, the

Hawthorn Football Club The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawt ...

, and being unable to use the oval until after the football club's finals campaign had finished, the cricket club agreed with financial assistance to relocate. In 1989 it moved to Central Reserve,

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and became known as Hawthorn Waverley, after the former Waverley Cricket Club amalgamated with the

Dandenong Cricket Club The Dandenong Cricket Club is an Australian cricket club based in Dandenong, Victoria, an outer-city suburb of Melbourne. They play in Victorian Premier Cricket, the highest competition in the state. History In 1989, Hawthorn/East Melbourne reloc ...

at Dandenong. The club amalgamated with Monash University (Sub-District) in 2003 and moved to the Monash University Sports Complex in Clayton in 2004, changing its name to Hawthorn-Monash University. The club's Monash University ground was taken over during 2015 by a new residential development on the campus. The club initially announced in late 2014 that it would amalgamate with the premier

from the 2015–16 season, and likely be based at Dandenong's

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; but the merger collapsed in March 2015 when the clubs were unable to agree on terms. Consequently, the club instead merged with the sub-district Kingston Saints Cricket Club to form the Kingston Hawthorn Cricket Club, and moved to Kingston's Walter Galt Reserve in Parkdale.

Premierships

District era: 1906-2002
First grade premierships as East Melbourne, Hawthorn East Melbourne or Hawthorn Waverley: *1906–07 East Melbourne *1907–08 East Melbourne *1927–28 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1949–50 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1950–51 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1955–56 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1962–63 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1971–72 Hawthorn East Melbourne *1998–99 Hawthorn Waverley

References

External links

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Victorian Premier Cricket website
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