The Richmond 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 in

Glen Waverley Glen Waverley is a list of Melbourne suburbs, suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government ...

in the south-eastern suburbs of

Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung–Taungurung language, Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the St ...

. The club plays in the Victorian Premier Cricket Association. Founded in 1854, the Richmond Cricket Club home ground was for most of its history the

Richmond Cricket Ground Punt Road Oval, also known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and former cricket oval located within the Yarra Park precinct of East Melbourne, Victoria, situated a few hundred metres to ...

(better known as the Punt Road Oval), a few hundred metres to the east of the

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. It was a founding member of the Victorian District/Premier Cricket competition in 1906/07. In 2011, the club moved its home base from Richmond to

Central Reserve Central Reserve is a cricket and Australian rules football ground in the suburb of Glen Waverley, in the south-east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located at the intersection between Waverley Rd and Springvale Rd. It is the current h ...

in Glen Waverley. It continued to be known as Richmond until the 2012/13 season. From the 2013/14 season until the 2019/20 season, the club traded as the Monash Tigers but legally remained known as the Richmond Cricket Club. Since the start of the 2020/21 season the club returned to the "Richmond Cricket Club" name while still playing out of Central Reserve.

Australian Test cricketers

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(1877) *

Tom Kendall Thomas Kingston Kendall (24 August 1851 – 17 August 1924) was an Australian cricketer, who played in two Test matches in 1877, including the inaugural Test which was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877. Kendall was a lower ...

(1877) * Sam Morris (1885) * Dave Smith (1912) * Leo O'Brien (1932–36) *

Ernie McCormick Ernest Leslie McCormick (16 May 1906 – 28 June 1991) was an Australian cricketer who played in 12 Test matches from 1935 to 1938. McCormick was an instrument-maker and jeweler. After the 1960–61 West Indies tour of Australia, Donald Brad ...

(1935–38) *

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(1947–55) *

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(1948–53) *

Graham Yallop Graham Neil Yallop (born 7 October 1952) is a former Australian international cricketer. Yallop played Test and One Day International cricket for the Australia national cricket team between 1976 and 1984, captaining the side briefly during the W ...

(1976–84) *

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(1978–81) *

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(1992–98) *

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(2008–)

English Test Cricketers

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(2001–)

Netherlands cricketers

* Scott Edwards (2018-) *

Fred Klaassen Frederick Jack Klaassen (born 13 November 1992) is an English-born Dutch international cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He made his List A debut for the Netherlands against Zimbabwe on 24 June 2017, having played club cricket in ...

(2018-)

Club achievements

Championships

*1st XI Premiers: 6 (1946/47, 1976/77, 1982/83, 1989/90, 1999/2000, 2011/12) (White Ball Premiers 2014/15) *2nd XI Premiers: 12 (1914/15, 1926/27, 1931/32, 1937/38, 1946/47, 1950/51, 1959/60, 1979/80, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1989/90, 2014/15) *3rd XI Premiers: 5 (1952/53, 1971/72, 1988/89, 1998/99, 2006/07,2020/21) *4th XI Premiers: 1 (2016/17)

Innings Records

*Highest Score For: 8/647 v. St Kilda 1881/2 *Highest Score Against: 880 by

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1898/9 *Lowest Score For: 15 v.

1921/22 *Lowest Score Against: 12 by

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1869/70

Individual Achievements

*Most Matches (Career): D.R. Cowper 294 *Jack Ryder Medal: P.D. Collingwood 2000/01

Batting records

*Most Runs (Career): J.A. Ledward 7,726 *Most Runs (Season): J.A. Ledward 834 – 1938/9 *Highest Score (Innings): S. Morris 280 v. St Kilda 1881/2

Bowling records

*Most Wickets (Career): G.C. Paterson 505 *Most Wickets (Season): G.C. Paterson 73 – 1965/66 *Best Figures (Innings): C. Manion 10/72 v. East Melbourne 1880/81 *Best Figures (Match): W.L. Kelly 11/29 (6/13 & 5/16) v. Northcote 1908/09

Wicket-Keeping Records

*Most Dismissals (Career): D.R. Cowper 588 (524 catches 64 stumpings) *Most Dismissals (Season): G.J. Holland 51 (51 catches) 1999/2000 *Most Dismissals (Innings): G.J. Holland 7 (7 catches) v Camberwell Magpies 1997/98 *Most Dismissals (Match): G.J. Holland 10 (10 catches) v Camberwell Magpies 1997/98

References

External links

Richmond Cricket Club official siteVictorian Premier Cricket website