Valley District Cricket Club is a

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 playing in the Bulls Masters premiership, the leading

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competition in

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, Australia. The club was established on 16 August 1897 and is one of only four remaining foundation clubs (along with South Brisbane, Redlands and Toombul). They have historically been located in the inner

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suburb of

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and now play home matches at the Ashgrove Sportsground Park. Australian

Test cricket Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last fo ...

ers to play for the Valley club include

Matthew Hayden Matthew Lawrence Hayden (born 29 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer. His career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed batting order (cricket)#opening batsman, opening batsm ...

Allan Border Allan Robert Border (born 27 July 1955) is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test ma ...

Don Tallon Donald Tallon (17 February 1916 – 7 September 1984) was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953. He was widely regarded by his contemporaries as Australia's finest ever wicket-keeper and ...

Kepler Wessels Kepler Christoffel Wessels (born 14 September 1957) is a South African-Australian cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. Since retiring he has been a lawn bowls competitor. He ...

Usman Khawaja Usman Tariq Khawaja ( ur, ; born 18 December 1986) is an Australian cricketer who represents Australia and Queensland. Khawaja made his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in 2008 and played his first international match for Australi ...

Stuart Law Stuart Grant Law (born 18 October 1968) is an Australian-born cricket coach and former cricketer. He played one Test and 54 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Australia. Law also captained Queensland to five Sheffield Shield titles and two one ...

and England wicket-keeper

Geraint Jones Geraint Owen Jones (born 14 July 1976) is a former cricketer who played for both England and Papua New Guinea. Born to Welsh parents in Papua New Guinea, between 2004 and 2006 he was the first-choice wicketkeeper for the England cricket team. ...

OBE (in third grade). Notable Queenslanders to play for Valley include Leo O'Connor (cricketer),

Roy Levy Roy Mark Levy (20 April 1906 – 12 December 1965) was an Australian cricketer and baseballer who represented the Australian baseball team in 1936. He also played for Queensland in the Sheffield Shield for eight seasons, captaining them 11 time ...

Otto Nothling Otto Ernest Nothling (1 August 1900 – 26 September 1965) was a rugby union player who represented Australia, as well as an Australian cricketer who played in one Test cricket, Test in 1928. He is one of only two Australian rugby and cricket Li ...

, Malcolm Francke,

Joe Dawes Joseph Henry Dawes (born 29 August 1970) is an Australian cricket coach and former player. He played for the Queensland Bulls in Australian domestic cricket as a right-arm fast bowler. He spent much of his early career in and out of the side du ...

, Geoff Foley, Lee Carseldine and

Luke Feldman Luke Feldman (born 1 August 1984) is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Queensland Bulls. He is the son of former Queensland One Nation party leader Bill Feldman. He was a policeman in the North Queensland country towns of Chart ...

. Current contracted

Queensland Bulls The Queensland cricket team or the Queensland Bulls is the Brisbane-based Queensland representative cricket side in Australia's domestic cricket tournaments: *Sheffield Shield: four-day matches with first-class status, since the 1926–27 sea ...

players are

, Lachlan Pfeffer,

Mark Steketee Mark Thomas Steketee (born 17 January 1994) is an Australian cricketer. He plays for Queensland cricket team, Queensland. He plays his club cricket for Valley District Cricket Club in Brisbane. During the 2017–18 season, Steketee represented ...

and

Jack Wildermuth Jack David Wildermuth (born 1 September 1993) is an Australian cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Queensland. He made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI on 5 October 2015 in the 2015–16 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. He made his Tw ...

, along with

Queensland Fire The Queensland Women cricket team, also known as the Konica Minolta Queensland Fire, is the women's representative cricket team for the Australian State of Queensland. They play most of their home games at Allan Border Field, Brisbane and they ...

players Mikayla Hinkley,

Georgia Prestwidge Georgia Kate Prestwidge (born 17 December 1997) is an Australian cricketer who plays as a right-arm Fast bowling, medium Bowling (cricket), bowler and right-handed Batting (cricket), batter for Queensland Fire in the Women's National Cricket Lea ...

and Jessica Jonassen Valley is the largest club in Australia in player numbers and is believed to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest cricket club in the world; it currently (2019/20 season) has over 1,300 junior players, 200 senior players, including 180 female players.

Success

Valley is one of Brisbane's most successful cricket clubs in both senior and junior competitions. They have recently won the following:

References

External links

Official club websiteOfficial Facebook page
Queensland District Cricket clubs Sporting clubs in Brisbane 1897 establishments in Australia Cricket clubs established in 1897 Fortitude Valley, Queensland {{Australia-cricket-team-stub

Success

See also

References

External links