Shaun Young is an Australian Football administrator for Eastlake Football Club,Canberra,and former professional cricketer who played in a single Test match for Australia in 1997. He played for Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket.
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.
Australia won the 1930 Ashes series against England,winning two of the matches and losing one,with the other two tests drawn. The Australian tourists were captained by Bill Woodfull,while the home side were led by Percy Chapman,who was dropped in favour of Bob Wyatt in the final Test.
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.
Travis Rodney Birt is an Australian former cricketer. A left-handed batsman,Birt represented the Australian national under-19 team before making his debut for Tasmania during the 2003–04 season. Strong form at state level led to his selection for Australia A during the 2006 off-season,as well as a two-year stint with Derbyshire in English county cricket. Birt transferred to Western Australia for the 2011–12 season,but has found more success in the Twenty20 format,variously representing the Wellington Firebirds,Delhi Daredevils,Nagenahira Nagas,and Khulna Royal Bengals in New Zealand,Indian,Sri Lankan,and Bangladeshi domestic tournaments,respectively. Birt made his Twenty20 International debut for Australia in February 2010,and played a total of four matches for the team,with his last international match coming in February 2012.
Timothy David Paine is an Australian cricketer and a former captain of the Australia national cricket team in Test cricket. A right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper,he plays 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.
Jonathan Wayne Wells is an Australian cricket player,who plays for Western Australia in first-class and one-day cricket,and the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League (BBL). He originates from Tasmania,and represented Tasmania in both first-class and one-day cricket prior.
Matthew David Pascoe is an Australian cricketer who played for Tasmania and Queensland.
James Archibald "Snowy" Atkinson was an Australian rules footballer and first class cricketer.
Colin Mansfield Campbell was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and a first-class cricketer,representing Tasmania.
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.
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.
Ken Hall is a former Australian rules football player from Tasmania. He played junior football in his home state and spent two years in the seniors at North Hobart. Hall then moved to Victoria in 2001 to play for Essendon Football Club's reserves side in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
George Herbert Bailey was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Tasmania from 1873 to 1893 and for the Australian team in England and North America in 1878.
Sean William Willis is an Australian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 20 July 2014 for the Australia National Performance Squad against South Africa A,as part of the Australia A Team Quadrangular Series in 2014.
Richard Joseph Hassett was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria from 1930 to 1932. He was the elder brother of Lindsay Hassett.
Norman Dodds was an Australian first-class cricketer. He played for Tasmania from 1899 to 1908,and toured New Zealand with an Australian XI,but did not play Test cricket.
Ashley Cooper Facy was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1909 to 1923. He toured New Zealand with the Australian team in 1909-10 but did not play Test cricket.
William Holden Walker was an English-born Australian cricketer. As captain of the Tasmanian cricket team,Walker was one of Tasmania's leading cricketers of his time. Known for his all-round capabilities,he was a right-handed batsman and an underarm bowler,as well as keeping wicket. Walker was named in the Cricket Tasmania Premier League's "Team of the Decade" for the decade spanning 1866–67 to 1875–76.
On 11 and 12 February 1851,teams from Van Diemen's Land and Port Phillip District played the first cricket match between two Australian colonies,recognised in later years as the inaugural first-class cricket match in Australia. It took place at the Launceston Racecourse,known now as the NTCA Ground,in Tasmania. The match was incorporated into celebrations marking the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851 as the colony of Victoria.
