Valley 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 playing in the XXXX Gold premiership, the leading club cricket

Club cricket

Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal, form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the evening. There is a great deal of variation in game format although the Laws of Cricket are always observed...

 competition in Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, Australia. The club was established on 16 August 1897 and is one of only four remaining foundation clubs. They have historically been based around the inner Brisbane

Brisbane

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 suburb of Fortitude Valley and now plays its home matches at Ashgrove Park.

Australian Test cricket

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

ers to play for the Valley club include Matthew Hayden

Matthew Hayden

Matthew Lawrence Hayden AM is a former Australian cricketer, and was signed to the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL until the 2010 season. Hayden is a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and one day levels.Hayden holds the record...

, Allan Border

Allan Border

Allan Robert Border AO is a former Australian cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh...

, Don Tallon

Don Tallon

Donald "Don" Tallon was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953...

, Kepler Wessels

Kepler Wessels

Kepler Christoffel Wessels is a former South African cricketer who captained South Africa after playing 24 Tests for Australia. He was the first man to have played One Day International cricket for two countries....

 and England wicket-keeper Geraint Jones

Geraint Jones

Geraint Owen Jones MBE is an England cricketer of Welsh extraction but raised in Australia. Until August 2006 he was the first-choice wicketkeeper for England in both Test and One-day cricket, but fell behind Chris Read, Paul Nixon, Matt Prior and Tim Ambrose...

, OBE (in third grade).

Notable Queenslanders to play for Valley include Leo O'Connor (cricketer), Roy Levy

Roy Levy

Roy Mark Levy is a former Australian cricketer and baseballer who represented the Australian baseball team in 1936...

, Otto Nothling

Otto Nothling

Otto Ernest Nothling was a rugby union player who represented Australia, as well as an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1928...

, Malcolm Francke

Malcolm Francke

Fredrick Malcolm Francke is a former Australian first class cricketer who played for Queensland.Francke was a leg spinner and played for Ceylon in 1957/58, prior to migrating to Australia. He represented Queensland from 1971/72 to 1985/86, making his debut against a touring World XI side...

, Stuart Law

Stuart Law

Stuart Grant Law OAM is an Australian-born cricketer. He is also the head coach of Bangladesh national cricket team, as from July, he succeeded fellow Aussie Jamie Siddons, who left shortly after the 2011 Cricket World Cup...

 and Joe Dawes

Joe Dawes

Joseph Henry Dawes is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Queensland Bulls in Australian domestic cricket. He was a right-arm fast bowler....

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Valley is believed to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest cricket club in the world; it currently (2010/2011 season) runs 71 teams through all grades and age divisions.