Founded | 1989 |
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Team history | Burnie Cricket Club and Yeoman Cricket Club merged |
Based in | West Park Oval Burnie Tasmania |
Colours | Maroon and Grey |
Head coach | Shaun "Horn" Redman |
Captain | Nick Revell |
Burnie/Yeoman Cricket Club (BYCC) is a cricket team which represents Burnie in the North Western Tasmanian Cricket Association grade cricket competition, in the Australian state of Tasmania.
The Burnie Yeoman Cricket Club was formed in 1989 when the Burnie Cricket Club and the Yeoman Cricket Clubs decided after many meetings to combine and form the Burnie Yeoman Cricket Club to be based at the Les Clarke Oval at Cooee, a suburb of the city of Burnie on the North West Coast of Tasmania A state of Australia.
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Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. Burnie was proclaimed a city by Queen Elizabeth II on 26 April 1988.
Wynyard is a rural town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia, about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of Burnie. At the 2011 census Wynyard had an urban population of 5,061 and a total greater area population of 5,990. The town is a regional hub servicing the surrounding rural areas, the adjacent Burnie Wynyard Airport provides commercial flights to Melbourne and other districts. The main council offices for the Waratah-Wynyard local government area are located in Wynyard.
Australian rules football in Tasmania known as "football" officially and locally, has a history dating back to the 1860s, with the state having the distinction of being the first place outside Victoria to play the sport.
A yeoman was a member of an English social class, generally a freeman who owned his, or her, own farm. The term was also used in North America.
Acton is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Burnie in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the town of Burnie. The 2016 census provides a population of 1349 for the state suburb of Acton. It is a suburb of the Burnie in north-west Tasmania.
Danny James Buckingham was an Australian cricket player, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers from 1983 to 1984, until 1993–94.
The Darwin Football Association is an Australian rules football league in Tasmania. The clubs belonging to the association are from localities close to Burnie and on the West Coast of Tasmania. This includes Queenstown, making this competition the only competition in Australia to play some of its games on a gravel surface.
Kade Michael Munday is an Australian cricketer who has played for Tasmania and an Australian rules footballer who played for the Tasmanian Football League club Burnie Dockers.
Sport in Tasmania is participation in and attendance at organised sports events in the state of Tasmania in Australia.
West Park Oval is an Australian Rules football, cycling and athletics venue located on the shores of Bass Strait in Burnie, Tasmania. It is the current home of the Burnie Dockers in the Tasmanian State League and previously in the NTFL and in the original TFL Statewide League.
Geoffrey Bernard "Paddy" Martin was an Australian rules footballer who played in Tasmania with Launceston, Sandy Bay, Ulverstone and Burnie. He was a half back flanker in Launceston's official 'Team of the Century' and in 2005 was inducted into Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame as a coaching legend. Martin also represented Tasmania once in first-class cricket.
The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was contested at the conclusion of the season, initially between the reigning Tasmanian Football League (TFL/TANFL) and Northern Tasmanian Football Association (NTFA) premiers, and then from 1950 also by the NWFU premiers, to determine an overall premier team for the state of Tasmania. The state premiership was contested 57 times between 1909 and 1978.
The North Western Football Association is an Australian rules football competition based on the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.
The Circular Head Football Association (CHFA) is an Australian rules football competition based in the Circular Head area of north-western Tasmania, Australia. The CHFA currently features four clubs from small communities in the region and is the second oldest regional competition in Tasmania.
The Yeoman Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Burnie, Tasmania, which plays its home games at Wivenhoe Showgrounds, Burnie. It competes in the Darwin Football Association, running Senior and Reserve Grade sides.
Frank Hanna was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Downlands is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Burnie in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of the town of Burnie. The 2016 census provides a population of 240 for the state suburb of Downlands. It is a small suburb of the Burnie in north-west Tasmania.
East Cam is a semi-rural locality in the local government area (LGA) of Burnie in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south-west of the town of Burnie. The 2016 census has a population of 170 for the state suburb of East Cam. The Burnie Golf Club is located within the suburb. The suburb is also the location for the Burnie Lawn Cemetery and as such there is a funeral home also located within the suburb. Forestry Tasmania have an office located in East Cam, there is a storage centre and there is also a vehicle repair centre.
Stowport is a rural residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Burnie in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south-east of the town of Burnie. The 2016 census has a population of 404 for the state suburb of Stowport. It includes Glance Creek in its population statistics.
Upper Burnie is a residential locality in the local government area (LGA) of Burnie in the North-west and west LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of the town of Burnie. The 2016 census provides a population of 1821 for the state suburb of Upper Burnie. It is a suburb of Burnie in north-west Tasmania. It is situated on the hill above Burnie accessed via Mount Street.