style="font-size: larger;" | Wynyard Cricket Club

Founded:	1952
Team Colours:	Blue/White
Home Ground:	Wynyard show ground
Current Captain:
Current Coach:
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Wynyard Cricket Club (WCC) 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 town of Wynyard

Wynyard, Tasmania

Wynyard is a rural town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It lies west of Burnie on the Bass Highway at the mouth of the Inglis River....

 in the North West Tasmanian Cricket Association

Tasmanian Grade Cricket

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 grade cricket competition. The side was founded in 1952 and originally played on a concrete wicket. There appears to have been an earlier Wynyard CC, but records are difficult to find.

By 1954 they had laid a turf pitch, and in the 1957-58 season they narrowly missed out on their first title by losing to Sheffield

Sheffield Cricket Club (Tasmania)

Sheffield Cricket Club is a cricket team which represents Sheffield in the North Western Tasmanian Cricket Association grade cricket competition, in the Australian state of Tasmania. Based under Mount Roland the Sheffield Cricket Club have recently won back to back to back titles and will be...

 in the Grand Final by 29 runs on first innings, and running out of time in run chase for outright victory. The club remained competitive for the next decade, and played a remarkable grand final tie led by captain John Coughlan against Burnie/Yeoman Cricket Club

Burnie/Yeoman Cricket Club

Burnie/Yeoman Cricket Club is a cricket team which represents Burnie in the North Western Tasmanian Cricket Association grade cricket competition, in the Australian state of Tasmania.-History Burnie Yeoman:...

 in the 1965-66 season, both sides being all out for 122. However Wynyard were awarded the title on the basis of having finished higher in the league, and so won their first NWTCA premiership.

In the 1974-75 season new clubrooms were constructed at the Showground with an incredible amount of voluntary work contributed, and it proved the start of another successful season, with the club wrapping up their second premiership that season under the captaincy of Maurice Hodgetts.

The club struggled for success in the 1980s, but managed to finally win a third title in the 1990-91 season under the guidance of Shane Walker.

Wynyard Cricket Club has produced some outstanding players, and many state representatives, including Jamie Cox, Dene Hills

Dene Hills

Dene Fleetwood Hills was an Australian First Class cricketer who played for the Tasmanian Tigers. He was a left-handed top order batsman, who spent much of his career opening the batting alongside Jamie Cox. He currently works as a batting coach for the England and Wales Cricket Board...

, Shaun Young

Shaun Young

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, Phillip Blizzard

Phillip Blizzard

Phillip Ashley Blizzard was an Australian cricket player, who played for Tasmania. He was a right-handed batsman and left arm fast-medium bowler who represented Tasmania from 1979 until 1984. He also played in one season for New South Wales.-External links:*...

, John Coughian, Peter Mancell and Les Allen

Les Allen

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