Mowbray Cricket Club
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Founded: | 1950 | |
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Team Colours: | Maroon Maroon (color) Maroon is a dark red color.-Etymology:Maroon is derived from French marron .The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.-Maroon :... and Gold |
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Home Ground: | Invermay Park | |
Club Chairman: Simon Howard Current Captain: Clinton Reid |
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Current Coach: Clinton Reid | ||
2010/11 Position: 3rd | NTCA Titles: Games Record Holder: Michael Sellers (434) |
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Mowbray Cricket Club (MCC), also known as Mowbray Eagles is a cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
team which represents the Launceston
Launceston, Tasmania
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suburb of Mowbray
Mowbray, Tasmania
Mowbray is a suburb of Launceston in the Australian state of Tasmania, it also contains the minor suburbs of Mowbray Heights and Vermont.The name 'Vermont' was given to the area of Mowbray in about 1823 by William Effingham Lawrence, a famous Tasmanian pioneer and colonist...
in the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association
Tasmanian Grade Cricket
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grade cricket competition, in the Australia
Australia
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n state of Tasmania
Tasmania
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The Mowbray cricket club has a history of nurturing outstanding Tasmanian talent including Australian
Australian cricket team
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representatives, Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting
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and Greg Campbell
Greg Campbell
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, and well as Tasmanian Tigers
Tasmanian Tigers
The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket tournaments. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and...
players Richard Soule
Richard Soule
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and Troy Cooley
Troy Cooley
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Mowbray CC was the first club in NTCA history to win Premierships from 1st to 4th grade in a single season.