Valley District Cricket Club

Valley District Cricket Club is a cricket club playing in the XXXX Gold premiership, the leading club cricket competition in Queensland, 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 suburb of Fortitude Valley and now plays its home matches at Ashgrove Park.

Australian Test cricketers to play for the Valley club include Matthew Hayden, Allan Border, Don Tallon, Kepler Wessels and England wicket-keeper Geraint Jones, OBE (in third grade).

Notable Queenslanders to play for Valley include Leo O'Connor (cricketer), Roy Levy, Otto Nothling, Malcolm Francke, Stuart Law and Joe Dawes.

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.

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