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Brisbane Grade Cricket
Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the name Brisbane Electoral Cricket in 1897 and eventually came to be known as Brisbane Grade Cricket, but has since expanded to take in teams from Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Ipswich. As of the 2019/20 season there were six grades in the Two-Day Bulls Masters competition. In addition to the two-day Grade competition there is also a One-Day competition for the John McKnoulty Cup and a T20 competition for the Tom Veivers Trophy. There is also a women's One-Day competition for the Katherine Raymont Shield contested by eight sides as of the 2020/21 season, and a women's T20 competition under Queensland Premier Cricket. Western Suburbs are the reigning First Grade premiers, and Gold Coast are the reigning premiers in both the One Day and T20 competitions. History Early years: 1897 - 1915 The 1894-95 Queensland senior cricket season resulted in great di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Queensland Premier Cricket. Terry Svenson is the current CEO of the body, and Chris Simpson is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Grade Competitions Queensland Premier Cricket was founded for the 1897/98 season as the premier competition for Brisbane cricket clubs but it has since expanded to represent wider South East Queensland with Ipswich, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast teams competing. Other grade competitions affiliated with Queensland Cricket include Townsville Cricket, and Cricket Far North. History Early Queensland cricket administration: 1863 - 1876 An early effort to administ rate cricket in Queensland came in December 1863 when an Intercolonial Cricket Match between Queensland and New South Wales was proposed and a 'Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Renshaw
Matthew Thomas Renshaw (born 28 March 1996) is an Australian international cricketer. He played eleven Tests for Australia between 2016 and 2018 as an opening batsman, and was recalled to the Test team in 2023. In domestic first-class cricket he plays for Queensland, and in the Big Bash League he has played for the Brisbane Heat and Adelaide Strikers. Early life and domestic career Matt Renshaw was born in Middlesbrough, England. His family moved to New Zealand when he was seven, and then to Australia when he was ten. He attended Brisbane Grammar School. He scored his maiden first-class century on 6 December 2015 in the 2015–16 Sheffield Shield against New South Wales. He made his List A debut for the National Performance Squad against India A on 27 August 2016. In March 2018, Cricket Australia named Renshaw in their Sheffield Shield team of the year after making 686 runs. In December 2018, he made a record score for Brisbane senior cricket: 345 for Toombul off 273 ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Kruger
Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983) is an Australian cricketer who has played first-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania. A left hand opening batsman, Kruger made his debut in 2003 as 19-year-old, however, his career has been set back by a number of shoulder injuries. He scored his highest first-class score in a tour match against the touring West Indies cricket team The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on ... in November 2009. In 2011, Kruger transferred to Tasmania, and made his debut for them in a List A one-day game against Victoria at Hobart on 9 February 2011. He made 19 with the bat and took 2/25 with the ball. References 1983 births Living people Queensland cricketers Australian cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 prominent cricket administrator and barrister.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 259–60. Life and career Jack Hutcheon was born in Toowoomba, where he attended Toowoomba Grammar School. He moved to Brisbane in 1901, and played as a batsman for the state team for five years in the years before Queensland competed in the Sheffield Shield. His highest first-class score came in his last season, 1910–11, when he captained Queensland to a 66-run victory over Victoria cricket team, Victoria, scoring 20 and 73, Queensland's highest score in the match. Playing for Queensland against a Northern Rivers team in 1908-09 he scored 259 not out in 169 minutes in a team total of 828. He was invited to tour New Zea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Nye
Aaron James Nye (born 9 November 1978 in Brisbane, Queensland) is a professional Australian cricketer who played for Queensland between 2004 and 2008. He made his first-class debut for Queensland in March 2004 against New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es .... Nye was not offered a Queensland contract ahead of the 2009–2010 season. References External links * Queensland cricketers Living people 1978 births Australian cricketers Cricketers from Brisbane {{Australia-cricket-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aub Carrigan
Aubrey Herbert Carrigan (26 August 1917 – 23 May 2012) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played with Queensland in the Sheffield Shield. He was born at Zillmere, Queensland. Career Carrigan, a middle order batsman and part-time medium pace bowler, made his first-class debut in the 1945/46 season but had to wait until the following summer to make his first Sheffield Shield appearance as the competition had been in recess due to the war. It wasn't until his 20th first-class match that he made a century, an innings of 166 against South Australia in Brisbane, although he had previously amassed a pair of 90s. His bowling was used to good effect on occasions and he claimed 14 wickets at 30.92 in 1948/49. During his career he dismissed batsman to the calibre of Neil Harvey and Arthur Morris. Captaincy After filling in for two matches in 1950/51, Carrigan was Queensland's captain for the entire 1951/52 Sheffield Shield season, where they finished equal second on the point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Thompson (cricketer)
Francis Cecil Thompson (17 August 1890 – 24 September 1963) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for Queensland from 1912 to 1933. Biography Educated at Brisbane Grammar School, Cecil Thompson made his first-class debut against New South Wales in 1912–13.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket'', Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 529. He was one of the leading Queensland batsmen in the 1920s, along with Leo O'Connor. He played for University in district cricket until moving to South Brisbane in 1925. In the 1925–26 season, in matches for Queensland and his South Brisbane club, he scored 1525 runs at an average of 152.50. In 1926–27, in Queensland’s first Sheffield Shield match, he scored their first century in the first innings (O'Connor scored a century in the second innings). In the 1928–29 Sheffield Shield he scored 743 runs at an average of 74.30; in the whole competition only Don Bradman scored more. A careful player, judiciously selecting whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Truloff
Sam Truloff (born 24 March 1993) is an Australian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Queensland in the 2016–17 Sheffield Shield season on 26 November 2016. He made his List A debut on 23 February 2022, for Queensland in the 2021–22 Marsh One-Day Cup The 2021–22 Marsh One-Day Cup was the 53rd season of the official List A domestic cricket competition played in Australia. New South Wales were the defending champions. On 21 July 2021, Cricket Australia confirmed the schedule of the tournam .... References External links * 1993 births Living people Australian cricketers Queensland cricketers Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-cricket-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Broad
Ryan Andrew Broad (born 9 March 1982 in Herston, Queensland) is an Australian professional cricketer who plays for the Queensland Bulls. He is a right-handed opening batsman. Broad was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School. Broad is the son of Wayne Broad, who played for Queensland between 1977 and 1983. He was first selected to represent Queensland in November 2005 in a four-day match against Victoria (he scored 23 and 3 in each innings). He took the field for the Australian national team as a substitute fieldsman during the 2006–07 Ashes series, where he caught Andrew Strauss. In November 2011, he reached his highest score in first class cricket, hitting 135 in the second innings of a Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia. Broad last played for Queensland in the 2011/12 season and he retired from Queensland Premier Cricket Queensland Premier Cricket is the top cricket competition played in Queensland, Australia. The competition was founded under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 times in his 25 appearances. Playing career In cricket, Levy was a prolific left-handed batsman who was a right-handed medium pace bowler; in baseball, he was a right-handed pitcher who also played shortstop. He played with the Waverley cricket and baseball clubs under coach and ex-international player Alan Kippax. Levyassisted Waverley to dominate the Sydney Baseball Premiership winning the competition from 1924 through to 1928 and represented New South Wales through these years. Through his success in baseball he became the first player to be offered a scholarship to play and study in the US. Although he declined this offer so he could continue his studies on insurance in Australia. In 1928, Levy's insurance company moved him to an off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Morgan (Queensland Cricketer)
Charles Morgan (10 January 1877 – 12 July 1942) was an Australian cricketer. He played in seven first-class matches for Queensland between 1899 and 1906. Morgan played for Valley in Brisbane electorate cricket and was a highly successful batsman at district level being referred to as the "Trumper Trumper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable People * Gillian Trumper (1936–2019), Canadian politician * Lutz Trümper (born 1955), German politician * Simon Trumper (born 1963), English poker player *Victor Trumper (18 ... of Brisbane". He scored 258 not out in a district game setting the record for highest score in Brisbane cricket which stood until the 1980's. After his playing career Morgan coached cricket at secondary schools in Brisbane. In 1934 the Queensland Cricket Association was criticized for not doing more to support former players and Morgan was mentioned as a player who had contributed to Queensland cricket and was deserving of financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Lynn
Christopher Austin Lynn (born 10 April 1990) is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who plays for Queensland in Australian domestic cricket. Lynn was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and attended St Joseph's Nudgee College and the Queensland Academy of Sport. He is known for being an explosive batsman capable of hitting big sixes. Early career When not on professional duties, Lynn plays senior cricket for Toombul District Cricket Club in Brisbane. Lynn played for the Queensland under-19 side and made his first-class debut as a 19-year-old against South Australia at the Gabba in March 2010. A week later, against Western Australia, he scored 139 runs in the second innings and effectively saved Queensland from defeat. He represented the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League between 2011 and 2022. In his first season, he made 109 at an average of 21.80, in his second he made 175 at 35.00, including 51 off 29 balls against the Perth Scorchers and in his third he sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
