Kensington Cricket Club

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**Kensington Browns**

Full name	Kensington Cricket Club
Nickname	The Browns
Strip	Brown and Gold
Founded	1871
Sport	Cricket
League	South Australian Cricket Association
First season	1871/72
Ground	Parkinson Oval
Club song
President/Chair	Brian Guild
Coach	Dean Waugh
Captain	Dean Waugh
2007/08

The Kensington District Cricket Club ("The Browns") is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA).

In 1963, the Burnside City Council relocated the Club from the Kensington Oval to the Kensington Gardens Reserve. The Club has leases over the three cricket ovals in perpetuity as compensation for this relocation.

Kensington has an extremely rich past player history, dominated by the presence of Sir Donald Bradman and Clarrie Grimmett who played for the club in the 1930’s. Other famous names to play for Kensington include Sam Parkinson, Peter Brinsley, John Inverarity, Kevin Wright, Brian Hurn, Ian Glover, Neil Dansie, Terry Jenner, Jeff Hammond, Howard Mutton, James Brayshaw, Tim May, Jamie Siddons, Mark Cleary and Greg Blewett.

The Club has Four Senior Teams in the SACA Competition. A, B, C and D grade sides that compete in two day and one day games. The Club has Junior sides from Under 11's through to Under 17's. Kensington also has a team in the Adelaide Turf Cricket Association Amateur Competition. Currently the team features past players that are no longer up to the rigors of semi-professional cricket. The team is in the Limited Overs C grade competition.

Kensington has won 15 A Grade Premierships and has been runner up on 6 other occasions. The most recent A grade premierships were back to back wins in 2001/02 & 2002/03. The Club also won the One Day Premiership currently known as the XXXX Gold One Day Cup in 2005/06 & 2006/07. Kensington also celebrated it's first Twenty20 Premiership, winning the 2006/07 title.

Kensington were the second club behind Sturt Cricket Club to attempt to win all three A grade premierships in a season. Sturt was defeated by Kensington in the One Day Final in 2005/06 and Kensington was defeated by West Torrens Cricket Club in the 2006/07 Grade Final after already claiming the One Day and Twenty20 Premierships.