The Richmond Cricket Club is an Australian

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club based in

Glen Waverley Glen Waverley is an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located southeast of the Melbourne central business district. It is the council seat of the City of Monash local government area and a prominent suburban commercial distric ...

in the south-eastern suburbs of

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. 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 as the Richmond Cricket Ground or known by naming rights sponsorship as the Swinburne Centre, is an Australian rules football ground and a former Cricket oval located within the Yarra Park precinct of East Melbourne, ...

(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 (1935–38) * Bill Johnston (1947–55) *

Doug Ring Douglas Thomas Ring (14 October 1918 – 23 June 2003) was an Australian cricketer who played for Victoria and for Australia in 13 Test matches between 1948 and 1953. In 129 first-class cricket matches, he took 426 wickets bowling leg spin, a ...

(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 th ...

(1976–84) *

Jim Higgs James Donald Higgs (born 11 July 1950) is a former Australian leg spinner who played in 22 Test matches between 1978 and 1981. In the words of Gideon Haigh "Jim Higgs was Australia's best legspinner between Richie Benaud and Warne. His misfort ...

(1978–81) *

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(1992–98) *

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(2008–2018)

English Test Cricketers

Paul Collingwood Paul David Collingwood (born 26 May 1976) is an English cricket coach and former player, who played in all three formats of the game internationally for England cricket team, England. He played for Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood was a ...

(2001–2011)

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 Carlton 1898/9 *Lowest Score For: 15 v. Carlton 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