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Carlton Cricket Club is an Australian cricket team that competes in the Victorian Premier Cricket competition. The club was formed in 1864 [1] and plays its home matches at Princes Park in Carlton North. Known as the Blues, Carlton has won eleven First XI premierships, most recently in the 2023–24 season.
Princes Park (also known as Ikon Park under naming rights) is an Australian rules football ground located inside the Princes Park precinct in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. Officially the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a historic venue, having been Carlton Football Club's VFL/AFL home ground from 1897. [3]
For the 1889–90 season, a program of pennant matches was devised over eight rounds, which began the era of club competition recognisable today. The original competing teams were Carlton, Essendon, East Melbourne, Fitzroy, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, South Melbourne, University and Williamstown.
The club is based in Black Rock, north of Bridgetown and its home ground is the Desmond Haynes Oval. [1] Carlton was founded on 1 April 1940 as a club for "lower middle income whites and near whites for whom there was no space in Pickwick and Wanderers [cricket clubs]". [2]
He was also an outstanding cricketer in his youth and received many offers to play in England, but preferred to stay in Melbourne over the Australian winter and play football for Carlton. Gallagher played 34 first eleven games of Melbourne District cricket for the Carlton Cricket Club between 1966 and 1971. [1]
George Coulthard (1 August 1856 – 22 October 1883) was an Australian cricketer, umpire and Australian rules footballer.. Born and raised on a farm outside Melbourne, Victoria, Coulthard helped lead the Carlton Football Club to premiership success in the fledgling Victorian Football Association (VFA), and was a key member of the Victorian side that dominated the first intercolonial matches.
Alfred Carlton (13 November 1867 – 10 September 1941) was an Australian cricketer. He played three first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1893 and 1901. [ 1 ] He also played for Karrakatta Cricket Club , [ 2 ] Carlton Cricket Club , [ 3 ] and North Melbourne Cricket Club [ 4 ] [ 5 ]
Blackham was included in the first eleven of the Carlton Cricket Club as a batsman at the age of sixteen. He first appeared for the Victorian team in 1874, and remained an automatic selection as the team's wicket-keeper for over twenty years. He was a member of the first eight Australian cricket teams to visit England.