Ricky Thomas Ponting is an Australian cricket coach,commentator,and former cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time,Ponting was captain of the Australian national team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and is the most successful captain in international cricket history,with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%. He stands third in the list of cricketers by number of international centuries scored. He holds the record for winning most ICC tournaments as a captain in Men's Cricket. Under his Captaincy Australia won the 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cups and 2006 and 2009 Champions Trophies. He was also a member of the Australian team that won the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
David Clarence Boon is an Australian cricket match referee,former cricket commentator and international cricketer whose international playing career spanned the years 1984–1996. A right-handed batsman and a very occasional off-spin bowler,he played first-class cricket for both his home state Tasmania and English county side Durham. Boon was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup.
Bellerive Oval is a cricket and an Australian rules football ground located in Bellerive,a suburb on the eastern shore of Hobart,Australia. Holding 20,000 people,it is the largest capacity stadium in Tasmania. It is the only venue in Tasmania which hosts international cricket matches.
The Tasmania men's cricket team,nicknamed the Tigers,represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season,which consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield and the limited overs Matador BBQs One-Day Cup.
John Marshall Buchanan is the current First XI cricket coach at Brisbane Boys' College,and a former cricket coach of the Australia national cricket team and of Kolkata Knight Riders team in the Indian Premier League. John Buchanan is a King's Old Collegian and is also an old boy of The Southport School,located in Gold Coast,Queensland,Australia. Buchanan is also known in cricketing circles as 'Ned Flanders',due to his similarity in appearance to the character in The Simpsons. Buchanan led the Australian teams to being the champions of both the 2003 Cricket World Cup and the 2007 Cricket World Cup,along with winning the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
Awarded during the Australian Cricket Awards,the Allan Border Medal is considered to be the most prestigious individual prize in Australian men's cricket. First awarded in 2000,the medal is named after former Australian men's captain Allan Border and recognises the most outstanding male Australian cricketer of the past season as voted by his peers,the media and umpires. Votes are cast after each game on a 3–2–1 basis,with a weighting applied to give both One Day International and Test players an equal chance of winning the award.
Michael James Di Venuto is an Australian cricket coach and former first-class cricketer who represented both Australia and Italy. The bulk of his first-class cricket career was spent playing for Tasmanian Tigers. After retiring from representative cricket in Australia,he continued playing for Durham County Cricket Club till July 2012,when he announced retirement from County Cricket. He has also previously played cricket in England for Derbyshire and Sussex. A left hand opening batsman,his form for Tasmania throughout the mid-1990s earned him a call up for the Australian national cricket team in the One Day International arena,although after nine games he was dropped. Like some of his contemporary Tasmanian teammates such as Jamie Cox,Dene Hills,and Shaun Young,Di Venuto can be considered unlucky to have not had a more successful international career,as he was playing at a time when the Australian national cricket team was highly dominant,and difficult to earn selection for. After retiring from Durham,he was appointed Australia's full-time batting coach by head coach Mickey Arthur,and was then head coach of Surrey from 2016 until 2020.
The 2005–06 Australian cricket season took place from October 2005 to March 2006.
The Pura Cup 2006–07 season was the 105th season of the Australian domestic First-class cricket competition played in Australia,known as the Pura Cup. The Tasmanian Tigers defeated the New South Wales Blues in the final at Bellerive Oval,winning the trophy for the first time.
The 2006–07 Australian cricket season is made up of three domestic competitions for the men;the first-class Pura Cup,the List A Ford Ranger One Day Cup and the Twenty20 competition KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. The women compete in the Women's National Cricket League,although Tasmania does not have a first-class women's team. The season started on 11 October 2006 with a domestic Ford Ranger One Day Cup match between Queensland and Tasmania,and culminated with the World Cup Final between Australia and Sri Lanka on 28 April 2007.
Timothy David Paine is an Australian former cricketer and a former captain of the Australia national cricket team in Test cricket. A right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper,he played for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and was the captain of the Hobart Hurricanes before his selection for Australia in the 2017–18 Ashes series. During his time with Australia,Paine won the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.
Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian former professional cricketer who played for Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket and for the Australia national cricket team. He is right-arm fast-medium bowler known for his ability to swing the ball. Hilfenhaus plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club. He made his first-class cricket debut in the 2005/06 season and his haul of 39 wickets was a record for someone playing their first season for Tasmania. Before he was given a full-time contract for 2006/07,he worked as a bricklayer as well as playing cricket. He has best bowling figures of 7/58 in first-class cricket,achieved in his first season for Tasmania. During his time with Australia,Hilfenhaus won the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy.
Jason John Krejza is a former Australian cricketer. He played for the Tasmanian Tigers and Leicestershire. Krejza's father was an association football player from Czechoslovakia and his mother was born in Poland. His nickname is "Krazy".
Alexander James Doolan is an Australian former cricketer,who played domestic cricket for Tasmania from 2009 to 2021 and played four Test matches for Australia in 2014. Despite almost scoring a century on debut,Doolan was dropped after his fourth match and never returned to the national team. He retired from cricket in 2021. As of December 2022,Doolan is the eighth-highest Sheffield Shield run-scorer of all-time for Tasmania.
George John Bailey is a former Australian cricketer,who played all formats for the national team and captained the team in limited-over formats. Domestically,Bailey played for the Tasmanian cricket team in all three domestic state competitions as well as the Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars in the Twenty20 Big Bash's successor,the KFC Big Bash League. He has also played in the Indian Premier League and T20 Blast,and in Scotland with Grange Cricket Club. Bailey was a member of the Australian team that won the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
Brian Fettes Davison is a former cricketer who played 467 first-class matches for Rhodesia,Gloucestershire,Leicestershire and Tasmania,and former member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
Cricket is the most popular summer sport in Australia at international,domestic and local levels. It is regarded as the national summer sport,and widely played across the country,especially from the months of September to April. The peak administrative body for both professional and amateur cricket is Cricket Australia. The 2017–18 National Cricket Census showed 1,558,821 Australians engaged in cricket competitions or programs –an increase of 9% from the previous year. 30% of cricket's participants are now female,and 6 in every 10 new participants are female,one of the highest year-on-year participation growth figures. In terms of attendance figures,more than 2.3 million people attended the cricket during the 2017–18 summer,surpassing the record of 1.8 million set in 2016–17.
Ricky Ponting is a former Australian international cricketer who was born on 19 December 1974. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for the Australian cricket team against the South Africa cricket team in New Zealand at the age of 20 on 15 February 1995. The eldest of three children,Ponting emulated the feats of his father,playing cricket in summer and Australian rules football in winter,before breaking his arm while playing the latter sport for a junior North Launceston Football Club team as a 14-year-old. He was educated in the Tasmanian state school system,studying at Mowbray Heights Primary and Brooks High School.
