Cricket Australia (CA), formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board (ACB), is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the 'Australian Board of Control for International Cricket'. It is incorporated as an Australian Public Company, limited by guarantee.
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.
Dirk MacDonald Wellham is a former Australian cricketer who played in 6 Tests and 17 ODIs from 1981 to 1987. Dirk Wellham is one of three players to score a century in both his first class and Test debuts. He was the first player to captain three Australian states having captained New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland during his career. As NSW captain, he won the Sheffield Shield in 1984–85 and 1985–86 and the McDonald's Cup in 1984–85.He is the nephew of New South Wales first-class cricketer Walter Wellham.
Samuel Percy Jones was an Australian cricketer who played twelve Tests between 1882 and 1888.
Thomas Edmund O'Dwyer was an Australian cricketer who played 15 first-class matches for Western Australia between 1946 and 1960. He is best known as the last player to dismiss Donald Bradman in a first-class match in Australia. O'Dwyer was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, to John and Isabel O'Dwyer. His father was manager of the local Lands Department office. O'Dwyer's family moved to Perth when he was five, and he attended St. Patricks College. He began playing cricket with the North Perth C-grade team, and later played for Subiaco and Mount Lawley in the WACA District competition.
Arthur Alfred Mailey was an Australian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches between 1920 and 1926.
Herbert "Bert" Ironmonger was a Queensland, Victorian and Australian cricketer.
Clarence Everard "Nip" Pellew was an Australian cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1920 to 1921.
The Zimbabwe national cricket team toured Australia in the 1994-95 season and played two first-class matches versus Tasmania and Queensland.
Matthew Peter Mott is an Australian first-class cricket coach and a former first-class cricketer.
Paul Christopher Nobes is a former Australian first class cricketer. He was a right-handed top order batsman, usually playing at 3 or as an opener.
Dean Parma Waugh is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played a match for New South Wales and also represented South Australia at list A level.
Patrick James S. "Paddy" Carew was an Australian rugby union national and state representative and a first-class cricketer and public servant. He was born in Pine Mountain in southern Queensland.
James Alexander Sutherland is an Australian former first-class cricketer and cricket administrator. He played for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and was the CEO of Cricket Australia, from 2001 to 2018.
Peter Robert George is an Australian Test cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, George plays his first-class cricket for the Queensland Bulls.
Walter Thomas Walmsley was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for three Australian state teams and for Northern Districts in New Zealand between 1945–46 and 1959-60.
Paul William Jackson is an Australian cricketer who represented Victoria and Queensland from 1985–99. He was part of Queensland's side when it won the Sheffield Shield for the first time during the 1994/95 season. In the Sheffield Shield final, Jackson took the catch for the final wicket which gave Queensland victory.
Michael Gertges Neser is an Australian cricketer who plays for the national team. In domestic cricket, he represents Queensland and plays for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League.
