Fremantle District Cricket Club
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Fremantle District Cricket Club 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...

 club which competes in the Western Australian Grade Cricket
Western Australian Grade Cricket
Grade Cricket in Western Australia refers to the semi-professional cricket league played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and colts teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association...

 competition, the highest level of club cricket in Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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History

Records of a cricket club known as Fremantle Cricket Club date back to at least the early 1880s when an annual cricket match was played between the Metropolitan Cricket Club (representing Perth) and Fremantle CC. The current club dates its history to 1886.

Home ground

The club plays its home fixtures at Stevens Reserve, Fremantle
Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle is a city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829...

 and shares the facilities with the Fremantle Hockey Club.

Records

  • Highest Score For: 9/587 v. Subiaco-Floreat
    Subiaco-Floreat Cricket Club
    Subiaco-Floreat Cricket Club is one of the sixteen cricket clubs playing in the Western Australian Grade Cricket A-Grade competition. It was founded in 1977 as a result of the amalgamation of Subiaco Cricket Club and Floreat Park Cricket Club....

     1978/79
  • Highest Score Against: 495 by Karrakatta 1897/98
  • Lowest Score For: 10 v. North Perth 1907/08
  • Lowest Score Against: 12 by I Zingari
    I Zingari
    I Zingari are English and Australian amateur cricket clubs.-History:...

     1886/87

  • Highest aggregate in career: 6133 by Merv Inverarity
    Merv Inverarity
    Mervyn "Merv" Inverarity was an Australian cricketer who played 26 matches for Western Australia between 1925 and 1940. He attended Scotch College in the 1920s, also playing for Western Australia Colts during the same period...

  • Highest aggregate in season: 834 by Phil O'Meara
    Phil O'Meara
    Phillip Anthony "Phil" O'Meara is an Australian former cricketer. He played one match for Western Australia in the 1978 Sheffield Shield against Queensland at The Gabba, making 29 runs all-up. O'Meara also played grade cricket for the Fremantle District Cricket Club in the Western Australian...

     in 1978/79
  • Highest individual score: 208 by Mitchell Marsh v. Gosnells Cricket Club, Sutherland Park 2008/09
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