Belgrave Cricket Club

A throwback to our presentation night that wrapped up our 25/26 season.
Thankyou to all who organised and attended the night.
Congratulations to all that received awards for a great season

SENIOR WOMENS COACH

The Belgrave Cricket Club is looking for our next Senior Women’s Coach. Coming off back to back B Grade finals series, you will be taking over a strong, competitive playing list ready to take the next step and more importantly the girls are an awesome crew to work with.

If you are passionate about cricket and ready to lead a fantastic team, we want to hear from you. Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis, so please don't hesitate to reach out.

To apply, or if you have any questions about the role, please contact our club secretary, Mel Davey, at [email protected].

Few more photos from the FTGDCA presentation night 🏅

TEA TIME THURSDAYS

One of the great traditions of local cricket, what’s the best spread you’ve seen and on the flip side what’s the most rogue item you’ve had dished up?

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INAUGURAL ADRIAN BROWN OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

At the FTGCA awards night, the association in conjunction with the League Radio show paid honour to the late Adrian Brown by striking a new honour in recognition of outstanding individual achievements in his name.

It is our pleasure to share that Reece Schelfhout was the inaugural winner, for his incredible innings of 300 this season. An innings that will be remembered for a lifetime, Reece not only broke club records galore but set a new benchmark for the associations highest senior score on record, in a one day game of all places off a mind blowing 108 balls. A truly outstanding achievement, fitting of the award.

Reece’s innings was the 3rd highest score in any 1st XI cricket in Australia over summer and set social media and traditional media alight, notching up nearly 300K views on our socials and featured in print and radio media.

It’s worth mentioning that Reece had an incredible year beyond that innings, making the most amount of runs for De Coite Shield in the home and away season with 744 runs @ 53.1 including 2 x 100s and 2 x 50s. This is the second highest individual 1st XI aggregate in our clubs 118 year history.

Reece also notched up his 2000th career run for Belgrave in the process, and now has 2,006 runs at 38.6 with 3 x 100s and 12 x 50s in only 4 seasons and he now comfortably sits in our top 20 for all time Mens 1st XI runs.

Adrian Brown was Sean’s uncle, a league executive member for many years, radio show host, life member of the footballers and a former Ron Lomax Medallist in 1993/94 so we think it’s fitting to share a photo in his honour of both Reece as the inaugural winner, and Aaron with this years Lomax.

Vale Adrian and well done Reece, superstar ⭐️

RON LOMAX MEDALlIST

It was a historic evening last night as club champion Aaron Brunner capped off an outstanding season by winning the Ron Lomax medal, polling an impressive 21 votes.

With 740 runs @ 74.0 and 25 wickets @ 23.8 his season ranks as one of the very best ever seen at Reserve Rd. Aaron has a seemingly insatiable appetite for runs and has repeatedly knocked on the door of winning a league medal in his 9 seasons at Belgrave with 6 second place finishes. Last night he finally broke through in a glorious triumph befitting all that he has accomplished in the black and white. And one that will be long remembered at Belgrave.

He becomes the 6th Belgrave player to win a league medal joining some of the clubs greatest players in Glenn Cook, Neville Toms, Lynton Toms, Scott Vozzo and Johnathon Levell. Company that he sits among comfortably.

Outside of Belgrave, he joins league legends of the likes of Mal Francis, Jason Fraser, Tony Sheehan, Nathan Walsh, Pete Dunlop and many more as recipients of the Ron Lomax medal.

Congratulations Aaron, the entire Belgrave family, past and present, salute you.

A quick afterword on the man the medal was named in honour of. Ron Lomax was a pioneer of the FTGDCA and served as Treasurer for the competition for 15 years between 1960 and 1975. Without him, the competition may not look the same as what it is today.

2026-27 COMMITTEE

Please give a warm welcome to our 2026-27 committee, including a message from our new president, Matt Skinner below.

“Firstly, Well done to the outgoing committee for a successful season, to Sean Connolly for his 5 year stint as president who oversaw the growth of our cricket club and to Ben Williams who managed the finances allowing us to improve facilities and culture.

I'm optimistic about the future ahead at BCC, improving community ties and perpetuating the same success focused mindset that has been entrenched over the last few seasons.

On field success is just around the corner for all teams across both the senior and junior clubs, it will take every single one of us to get there, together.

Thank you all for your support, let's swoop as one in 26/27. Cricket 🏏 “

THANK YOU

At our AGM last night, we elected a new executive and general committee. We will announce these positions later but we want to take a moment to say a massive thank you to our outgoing President, Sean “Bill” Connolly and our outgoing treasurer Ben “Ben” Williams.

Ben has been part of the Belgrave fabric for over 12 years now and he is the type of guy every club needs, willing to throw his hands up for everything whether it be coaching junior sides, being the play HQ king or treasurer for two seasons. In his time he has played an instrumental role in consolidating our overall financial position and building our facilities redevelopment fund so we have a long term future.

Thank you Ben 🙏

A larger than life character, Bill enters our record books as the equal second longest serving president in the clubs history alongside good friends David Hoppner and John Levell.

Across his 5 season tenure, Bill was critical in helping the club recover post COVID to rebuild back to 5 senior sides, strengthen women’s cricket and see our junior program grow to the largest it’s been. During his time he has overseen multiple club premierships across the grades which is ultimately what we exist for. An incredible tenure of service to the club, we are all forever grateful for your efforts.

Thank you Bill 🙏