The South Australia cricket team, named West End Redbacks, nicknamed the ’Southern Redbacks’, is an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia. The Redbacks play their home matches at Adelaide Oval and are the state cricket team for South Australia, representing the state in the Sheffield Shield competition and the limited overs Marsh One-Day Cup. Their Marsh One-Day Cup uniform features a red body with black sleeves. They are known as the West End Redbacks due to a sponsorship agreement with West End. The Redbacks formerly competed in the now-defunct KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, but were succeeded by the Adelaide Strikers in 2011 because this league was replaced with the Big Bash League.
Cranleigh School is an independent English boarding school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey.
Hunter Scott Thomas Laurie Hendry was a cricketer who played for New South Wales, Victoria and Australia.
James Darren Siddons is an Australian cricketer, renowned for his involvement in Sheffield Shield first-class cricket over a 16-year career. He initially played for Victoria, and later for South Australia. He is currently a professional cricket coach.
David Bertram Miller Smith was an Australian sportsman.
Shawn Craig is an Australian former first-class cricketer, who is now an umpire.
David James Saker is an Australian cricket coach and former player who played first-class cricket for the Victorian Bushrangers and then the Tasmanian Tigers later on in his career. He is currently the fast bowling coach for the Australian national cricket team.
Gregory Shipperd is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who is the current coach of the Sydney Sixers. He was also the coach of Delhi Daredevils. As a player, he represented Western Australia from 1977–78 to 1984–85 and finished his career with Tasmania in 1990–91. He went on to coach Tasmania and Victoria, as well as stints as coach of Twenty-20 cricket franchises Melbourne Stars and Delhi Daredevils.
Events from the year 1869 in Ireland.
Geoffrey Ian Foley is a former Australian cricketer. He was an all-rounder who played for the Queensland Bulls in Australia between 1989 and 2000, as well as seasons in England. He was no-balled for throwing by umpire Ross Emerson in a Sheffield Shield match in 1998 against Tasmania.
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, which was built between 1906 and 1921. It is dedicated to the memory of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and is now a museum and tourist destination under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. The memorial lies on the Maidan (grounds) by the bank of the Hooghly River, near Jawaharlal Nehru Road.
Edwin Emerson Rodwell, MM was an Australian soldier, cricket player, umpire, commentator and administrator. He fought in World War II, in New Guinea, and Borneo, and was awarded the Military Medal. Rodwell was an opening batsman and a prolific run-scorer at club level, and represented Tasmania on 15 occasions at first-class level, captaining the side five times between 1950–51 and 1955–56. He also played three times for a first-class "Tasmania Combined XI". During his captaincy Tasmania won their first first-class match after a winless period of over 20 years, making him the first successful Tasmanian captain since Jim Atkinson in the early 1930s.
Norman Emerson is an Australian former cricketer. He played four first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1960 and 1967.
David Cowper is an Australian former cricketer. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1965 and 1966.
David Broad is an Australian former cricketer. He played 13 first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1976 and 1980.
David Robinson is an Australian former cricketer. He played three first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1984 and 1985.
David Harris is an Australian former cricketer. He played six first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1990 and 1994.
David Shepard is an Australian former cricketer. He played one first-class cricket match for Victoria in 1998. He is now an umpire and stood in the tour match between Cricket Australia XI and England in November 2017, during England's tour of Australia.
The 1978–79 Sheffield Shield season was the 77th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship.
