Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur

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in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket'. It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee. Cricket Australia operates all of the Australian national representative cricket sides, including the Men's, the

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and Youth sides. CA is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and

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s with other nations, and scheduling the home international fixtures.

Background

Cricket Australia is an administrative organisation responsible for

in Australia. Cricket Australia has six member organisations that represent each of the Australian states. These organisations are: *

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Cricket NSW Cricket NSW (officially known as the ''New South Wales Cricket Association'') is an Australian sporting association that administers cricket in New South Wales. It is based at the Sydney Olympic Park. The New South Wales Blues, the New South Wal ...

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Queensland Cricket Queensland Cricket, formerly known as the Queensland Cricket Association, is the governing body of Cricket in Queensland, Australia. Formed in 1876, it is directly responsible for the Queensland Bulls, Queensland Fire, Allan Border Field and Qu ...

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– South Australian Cricket Association *

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Cricket Tasmania Cricket Tasmania (formerly the ''Tasmanian Cricket Association'') is the administrative body for cricket in Tasmania, Australia, and they are based at Bellerive Oval. Cricket Tasmania's primary purpose is to promote and develop the game of cr ...

* Victoria –

Cricket Victoria Cricket Victoria (CV) is the governing body for the sport of cricket in the Australian state of Victoria. It was formed on 29 September 1875 as the Victorian Cricket Association. It is integrated with the Victorian Women's Cricket Association to ...

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– Western Australian Cricket

Cricket ACT Cricket ACT is the governing body of cricket in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). In 1922, the Federal Territory Cricket Association (FTCA) was established to govern the sport of cricket in the then Federal Capital Territory, which had been ...

and

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are non-member associations, although the ACT participates in Cricket Australia tournaments such as the

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and the

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, and previously briefly also competed in the domestic limited-overs competition. Cricket Australia is governed by eight independent directors, who work collectively in the national interest of Australian cricket. The chief executive officer reports to the board of directors. Each of the state cricket associations that are members of Cricket Australia also selects a representative side to participate in Australia's major domestic cricket tournaments.

Domestic teams, playing national tournaments

Cricket Australia also maintains a healthy but independent association with the

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to provide proper player's rights and welfare requirements.

History

The first centralised authority for the administration of cricket in Australia was established in 1892 when representatives from the state associations of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria came together to establish the Australasian Cricket Council. However the Australasian Cricket Council was disbanded in 1898, and what is now known as Cricket Australia was established in 1905 as the "Australian Board of Control for International Cricket".Pollard, p. 57. Before its establishment, tours by Australian teams to England were organised and funded by private groups or by the players themselves. Similarly, invitations to English teams were made by private promoters or by individual clubs, such as the Melbourne Cricket Club. The Australasian Cricket Council's one lasting action was to establish the

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, the first-class cricket competition between the Australian colonies. These early tours were lucrative for the players and promoters and cricket administrators looked to find ways to channel some of this money to the destitute clubs, through the state associations. Formal discussions began in January 1905 in Sydney for the formation of a body to take control of tours from the players. A draft constitution was discussed by members of the New South Wales, Victoria, South Australian and Queensland associations. The first meeting of the new board was held at Wesley College in

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on 6 May 1905. The foundation members were the New South Wales Cricket Association and the

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. South Australia's delegates refused to join the Board because the Board structure denied the players any representation. The

Queensland Cricket Association Queensland Cricket, formerly known as the Queensland Cricket Association, is the governing body of Cricket in Queensland, Australia. Formed in 1876, it is directly responsible for the Queensland Bulls, Queensland Fire, Allan Border Field and Q ...

was represented as an observer only. Queensland did decide to formally join the association with one delegate member the following year, and the constitution was amended in 1906, so that New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria would each have three permanent representatives, and Queensland one representative. In 1907 Tasmania was permitted to send a single representative, and Western Australia did likewise in 1913. Changes to this structure were made in 1914 and 1974 respectively when Queensland and Western Australia formally increased their representation to two each. As a result of the strict border policies introduced by the Australian government due to the Coronavirus epidemic, Cricket Australia effectively withdrew its team from Test match competition from February to November 2021. During this period

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and

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played 11 Test matches and

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and the

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each played 8 Tests. The Australian Test team resumed international competition at the Gabba on December 8 against England.

Name changes

Cricket Australia has had three different names since its foundation. They are: *Australian Board of Control for International Cricket (1905–1973) *Australian Cricket Board (1973–2003) *Cricket Australia (2003–present)

Finances

The organisation's revenue was A$380.9 million in the year ended 30 June 2015, with a net surplus of $99 million largely attributed to the success of co-hosting the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Competitions

As well as responsibility for Australian international sides, Cricket Australia organises interstate cricket in Australia, including the three premier competitions in each of the major forms of the game. These are the

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, the JLT One-Day Cup, which is the domestic one-day competition, and the KFC Big Bash League, which is the domestic

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competition. Cricket Australia's competitions: *

Marsh One-Day Cup The One-Day Cup, known as the Marsh One-Day Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an Australian domestic List A 50-over limited-overs cricket tournament. It has had many different names, formats and teams since the inaugural 1969-1970 season. Initi ...

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(Second XI) *

* Women's Big Bash League Cricket Australia also runs the Under 19 and Under 17 Male Championships, the Under 18 and Under 15 Female National Championships, the

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and the National Cricket Inclusion Championships.

Honours

Cricket Australia also provides awards for various categories of players, including: * Male: Test Player of the Year, One-Day Player of the Year, Bradman Young Player of the Year, Domestic Player of the Year, and the Allan Border Medal for the overall best Australian men's cricketer of the year. * Female: the Belinda Clark Award for the best Australian women's cricketer of the year, the Betty Wilson Young Player of the Year, and the Domestic Player of the Year Cricket Australia also honours players for exceptional service to the game of cricket in Australia by annually adding former players of great distinction to the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

Principals / Chairman of Cricket Australia

Chairmen

* Richard Teece: 1892–1893 * Richard Best: 1893–1895 * Mostyn Evan: 1895–1896; 1910–1911 * John Gibson: 1896–1897 * Will Whitridge: 1897–1900 *

Lawrence Adamson Lawrence Arthur Adamson, CMG, (20 April 1860 – 14 December 1932) was a schoolmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Australia. Early life Lawrence Adamson was born at Douglas, Isle of Man, the second son of Lawrence William Adamson. LL.D., ...

: 1905–1906 * Ernie Bean: 1906–1907; 1912–1913 * George Barbour: 1907–1908 * George Foxton: 1908–1910 *

Charles Eady Charles John Eady (29 October 1870 – 20 December 1945) was an Australian sportsman, lawyer and politician. Life and career Eady was a cricketer who played for Tasmanian clubs and representative sides in the era before Tasmania was accepted ...

: 1911 * William McElhone: 1911–1912 * James Allen: 1913–1914 *

Harry Blinman Harry Blinman MVO (30 December 1861 - 23 July 1950) was an Australian cricket player. Born in Adelaide, Blinman was educated at Pulteney Grammar School under Headmaster W.S. Moore and played 23 first-class cricket matches for the South Aust ...

: 1914–1919 * Harold Bushby: 1919; 1925–1926 * Harry Gregory: 1919–1920; 1922–1923; 1926–1927 * Harry Rush: 1920–1922 *

Jack Hutcheon John Silvester Hutcheon Order of the British Empire, CBE Queen's Counsel, QC (5 April 1882 – 18 June 1957) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Queensland cricket team, Queensland from 1905 to 1910. He was later a pro ...

: 1923–1924 * Bernard Scrymgour: 1924–1925 * Aubrey Oxlade: 1927–1930; 1933–1936; 1945–1948; 1951–1952 * Dr Allen Robertson: 1930–1933; 1936–1945; 1948–1951 * Roy Middleton: 1952–1955 * Frank Cush: 1955–1957 * Bill Dowling: 1957–1960 * Sir

Donald Bradman Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has b ...

: 1960–1963; 1969–1972 * Ewart Macmillan: 1963–1966 * Bob Parish: 1966–1969; 1975–1978 * Tim Caldwell: 1972–1975 *

Phil Ridings Philip Lovett Ridings (2 October 1917 – 13 September 1998) was an Australian cricketer. Nicknamed "Pancho", Ridings played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1937 to 1957, scoring nine hundreds. Primarily a batsman, he also took 61 ...

: 1980–1983 * Fred Bennett: 1983–1986 * Malcolm Gray: 1986–1989 * Colin Egar: 1989–1992 * Alan Crompton: 1992–1995 * Denis Rogers: 1995–2001 * Robert Merriman: 2001–2005 * Creagh O'Connor: 2005–2008 * Jack Clarke: 2008–2011 *

Wally Edwards Walter John Edwards (born 23 December 1949) is a former Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches and one One Day International in 1974 and 1975. He has maintained his links with Australian cricket since retirement, being the vi ...

: 2011–2015 * David Peever: 2015–2018 * Earl Eddings: 2018–2021 * Richard Freudenstein: 2021–2022 (interim) * Dr Lachlan Henderson: 2022–present *

Mike Baird Michael Bruce Baird (born 1 April 1968) is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Western Sydney, and the Leader of the New South ...

: 2023– (incoming)

Secretaries & Chief Executive Officers

* John Portus: 1892–1896 * John Creswell: 1896–1900 * William McElhone: 1905–1910 * Colin Sinclair: 1910–1911 * Sydney Smith: 1911–1927 * William Jeanes: 1927–1954 *

Jack Ledward John Allan Ledward (22 April 1909 – 22 July 1997) was an Australian cricketer and cricket administrator. Ledward played 22 first-class cricket matches as a batsman for Victoria between 1935 and 1939. His highest score was 154 against ...

: 1954–1960 * Alan Barnes: 1960–1980 * David Richards: 1980–1993 * Graham Halbish: 1993–1997 * Malcolm Speed: 1997–2001 * James Sutherland: 2001–2018 * Kevin Roberts: 2018–2020 * Nick Hockley: 2020–present

National Selection Panel

The National Selection Panel is the part of Cricket Australia responsible for team selections for each of the Australian national sides in every form of cricket. The current three-man panel for the Australian men's sides is: George Bailey (chairman), Andrew McDonald (head coach) and

Tony Dodemaide Anthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide (born 5 October 1963) is an Australian former test cricketer. After a three-year stint as Chief Executive of the Western Australian Cricket Association in Perth, he became the current chief executive of Cricke ...

. The current four-person panel for the Australia women's sides is: Shawn Flegler (chairman), Matthew Mott (head coach), Avril Fahey and

Julie Hayes Julie Hayes (born 2 May 1973 in Ryde, New South Wales, Ryde, Sydney) is an Australian former cricket player. Hayes played 111 Women's National Cricket League matches and two Women's Twenty20 cricket, Women's Twenty20 matches for the New South ...

Board of directors

Cricket Australia is governed by nine directors, who work collectively in the national interest of Australian cricket. The chief executive officer reports to the board of nine directors. The current nine board members are: Last updated: 13 October 2022

References

Bibliography

* ''Wisden Cricketers Almanack'' *

External links

Cricket Australia official website

Cricket news, scores and highlights produced by Cricket Australia's digital content team

Official CA Facebook page

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