Lindisfarne Cricket Club
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| Founded: | 1891 |
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| Team Colours: | Dark Blue/Light Blue |
| Home Ground: | Anzac Park |
| Current Captain: | Brendan Drew Brendan Drew Brendan Gerrard Drew is an Australian cricketer, who plays domestic cricket for the Tasmanian Tigers. When not on Tasmanian duty, Drew plays Tasmanian club cricket for the Lindisfarne Cricket Club... |
| Current Coach: | Andrew Downton Andrew Downton Andrew Graham Downton is an Australian cricketer, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He plays club cricket for South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club.... |
| 2010/11 Position: | 1st |
| TCA Titles: | 2 |
Lindisfarne Cricket Club (LCC), also known as "The Lightning", is a grade level cricket club representing Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...
in Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
's Grade Cricket Competition
Tasmanian Grade Cricket
Tasmanian Grade Cricket, or the Tasmanian Grade Competition, refers to the hierarchically graded cricket competitions played in Tasmania, Australia...
. The
LCC play their home games at Anzac Park, in Lindisfarne, a suburb of the City of Clarence..
Lindisfarne were formed in 1891 and originally played in the Clarence Cricket Association. They joined the Southern Suburban Cricket Association in 1947, and were admitted into the TCA Grade Competition in 1992. It took Lindisfarne 9 years to win their first premiership in 2000-01. Lindisfarne are the current TCA first grade champions after triumphing over Clarence in last season's grand final.
Many top players have played for Lindisfarne including Jamie Cox
Jamie Cox (cricketer)
Jamie Cox is a former opening batsman cricketer, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australia's domestic competitions....
, Andrew Downton
Andrew Downton
Andrew Graham Downton is an Australian cricketer, who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He plays club cricket for South Hobart/Sandy Bay Cricket Club....
, Brendan Drew
Brendan Drew
Brendan Gerrard Drew is an Australian cricketer, who plays domestic cricket for the Tasmanian Tigers. When not on Tasmanian duty, Drew plays Tasmanian club cricket for the Lindisfarne Cricket Club...
, Rod Tucker
Rod Tucker
Rodney James Tucker is a cricket umpire and member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel. He was a cricketer who played briefly for New South Wales from 1985/86 to 1987/88, before moving to Tasmania who he played for from 1987/88 to 1998/99. He was also vice-captain of Tasmania from 1991/92 until 1995/96...
, Colin Miller
Colin Miller (cricketer)
Colin Reid Miller is a former Australian cricketer. Known for his ever-changing hair colour; he played with blue hair in a test match against the West Indies in 2001. His hair apparently made West Indies captain Courtney Walsh laugh.Miller began as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, but changed to...
, Calum Marshall, Shane Watson
Shane Watson
Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....
and Jason Krejza
Jason Krejza
Jason John Krejza is an Australian cricketer. He also plays for the Tasmanian Tigers and Leicestershire. Krejza's father was a association football player from Czechoslovakia and his mother was born in Poland...
. The club has also produced many legends of lower grades such as Bruce Johnson, Barry Duvall, Nathan Wilson, Mark Waddington and Super Skipper Kim Dillon.