CLUB HISTORY

Welcome to Woodville

The Woodville District Cricket Club is affiliated with the South Australian Cricket Association and is one of thirteen Premier Cricket clubs in the SACA competition. In Season 2023/24 the Woodville 1st Grade will play in the 1st Division of the SACA Premier Cricket competition. The Peckers have four senior teams and four junior teams that participate in the Saturday afternoon SACA Premier Cricket competition. The WDCC also fields one-day teams in the West End One Day Cup (1st Grade), T20 Cup, Under 18 Shield, Under 17 One Day Cup and the Ray Sutton Shield (Under 13) competitions. We have a membership of approximately 330 (players, members, life members and sponsors).

The Woodville District Cricket Club is located at Woodville Oval, approximately 12km West of Adelaide at Oval Avenue, Woodville South, South Australia. The Woodville Oval complex includes the spectacular Woodville Oval, our WDCC club rooms, the Woodville West Torrens Football Club (SANFL) facilities and our high performance turf net facilities.

HISTORY OF CRICKET AT WOODVILLE

With acknowledgment to Kevin Bockman “A RECORD TO COMMEMORATE THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLUB

A RECORD TO COMMEMORATE THE SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLUB.

“The Woodville Cricket Club was one of the earliest having been formed in 1874. The members were very enthusiastic at first but in the early eighties the Club seems to have gone into obscurity. It was reformed in 1886 and played matches in the paddock opposite the present Town Hall.”

The club was formed in 1937 clue largely to Mr. James Spencer Butler, the Mayor of the Woodville District Council at the time. He was an interested follower of cricket and was convinced that there was adequate potential of cricket talent within the district to establish a sound and successful club and provide the youth of Woodville the opportunity of representation in the highest standards associated with cricket.

The Club became affiliated with the Adelaide Turf Cricket Association for the 1937/38 season. The first captain was Charlie Deverson, a very experienced cricketer who had played for Port Adelaide.
The first season’s match play resulted in 7 wins, 4 losses and one drawn game, but in the next season 1938/39 the Club won its first Grade Al premiership, this was later followed by Grade Al premierships in 1943/44 and 1944/45. Woodville had some fine players during the years it played in Adelaide Turf, notably Charlie Deverson, Len Williams, Alby Ellis, Jack Todd, Ken Shepherd, George Davis, Allan Hussey, Vic Marks and George Grindley.

With the cessation of the 1939-1945 hostilities, the District Cricket Competition, that had been suspended since 1939/40, was to resume in 1945/46. The time was opportune for Woodville to make a move for entry into SACA. The development of the Club from 1937 to 1945 and the consistency in which success was registered in the Adelaide Turf Cricket Association, presented sufficient grounds to justify an application for admission to the SAGA District Competition. The outcome was the SACA’s approval to grant Woodville permission to compete in the District B Grade Competition. The Club officially became what we call ourselves today…

…the Woodville District Cricket Club.

SACA GRADE
CRICKET TITLES

1st Grade Premierships:
1965/1966, 1977/78, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2011/12

One Day Cup:
1967/68, 1998/99

Club Championships:
1956/57, 1979/80, 2011/12

2nd Grade Premierships:
1953/54, 1954/55, 1979/80

3rd Grade Premierships:
1949/50, 1951/52, 2011,12

Under 23 Premiership:
1980/81

STATE AND NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

Tom Andrews Redbacks & TAS
John Beagley Redbacks
Jeff Benton Redbacks
Gordon Brooks Redbacks
John Causby Redbacks
Mick Clingy Redbacks
Robbie Christensen Redbacks
John Drennan Redbacks
Andrew Eime Redbacks
Rod Gehan Redbacks
Shane George Redbacks
Garry Goodman Redbacks
Daniel Harris Redbacks
Colin Harrison Redbacks
Denis Hickey Redbacks & AUS
Rodney Hogg Redbacks & AUS
Barry Jarman Redbacks & AUS
David Kelly Redbacks
Conor McInerney Redbacks
Mick Miller Redbacks
Harry Nielsen Redbacks
Chris Owen Redbacks
Geoff Parker Redbacks
Trevor Pearson Redbacks
Chadd Sayers Redbacks & AUS
Dean Sayers Redbacks
Duncan Sharpe Redbacks
Bob Simunsen Redbacks
Ken Skewes Redbacks
Tom Stray Redbacks
Carl Tietjens Redbacks
Peter Trethewey Redbacks
Len Weekley Redbacks