Dates & Events

??/02/1855 – A cricket ground is marked on the site of the current recreation reserve

01/01/1864 – Earliest mention of a cricket match at WCG (Bell’s Life…)

10/09/1866 – State Lands Department officially mark site as a Recreation Ground

01/12/1882 – Earliest obtained detailed record of a WCC cricket match in a newspaper

03/01/1885 – First documentation of an AGM

18/11/1905 – First competitive game in Cameron Cricket Association (CCA)

24/01/1906 – First documentation of a Womens game

24/02/1906 – John Till scores the first ever century for the WCC

??/04/1906 – Potato Culture lecture & Warrandyte Football Club formed

07/07/1906 – Warrandyte Football Club plays its first game

16/03/1907 – First premiership – 1st XI in CCA

24/04/1907 – Warrandyte Tennis Club formed

17/10/1908 – First game in Box Hill Reporter District Cricket Association (BHRDCA)

11/12/1909 – Thomas Schubert takes 9/17 (a club record that stood for 86 years)

03/10/1925 – 2nd XI formed for the first time

03/10/1931 – South Warrandyte CC plays its first game

01/10/1932 – 1st XI plays first game in RDCA

1934/35 – Concrete pitch laid

13.10/1934 – Returns to BHRDCA for just 1 season

05/10/1935 – Returns to RDCA

01/10/1938 – Allan Chapman plays his first senior game

13/01/1939 – Black Friday bushfires

1948/49 – Did not play for 2 seasons due to club dispute

14/10/1950 – First game as ‘West Warrandyte’

1951/52 – First junior team plays

08/01/1956 – 100th Anniversary Match vs Victorian Cricket Association

04/10/1958 – North Warrandyte plays its first game (played 3 seasons)

1958/59 – First edition of the Warrandyte Directory

01/10/1960 – First game as ‘Warrandyte Footballers’ & colours changed to red & white

14/01/1962 – Bushfires at Warrandyte

07/10/1967 – Return to ‘Warrandyte’ name

27/10/1973 – Club played its 1,000th senior game (1st XI, R2)

04/10/1975 – Returns to RDCA

1975/76 – Womens team formed

01/10/1977 – Steve Pascoe plays his first senior game

14/10/1978 – Gerald Walshe’s first senior game

06/01/1979 – Brett Kline’s first senior game

17/02/1980 – 125th Anniversary Match vs Melbourne CC

27/03/1982 – 1st XI Chandler Shield Premiers (Club’s first top grade premiership)

24/03/1984 – 1st XI Chandler Shield Premiers

??/10/1988 – First over 40s Veterans team

26/01/1991 – Club played its 2,000th senior game (3rd XI, R8)

24/02/1996 – Chris Snaidero takes 10/56 at Norwood (Best WCC bowling figures)

18/01/1997 – David Mooney scores 184no at Croydon North (Highest score in the 1st XI)

2000/01 – First over 50s Veterans team

25/11/2000 – Club 12 function held

16/11/2001 – Website launched

2001/02 – Club demotes itself to Wilkins Cup

08/11/2003 – A world record occurs at Stintons

06/03/2004 – First Steve Pascoe Medal function held

12/02/2005 – Gerald Walshe claims the record for most senior wickets (532)

13/02/2005 – 150th Anniversary Match vs Invitational XI

2010/11 – First over 60s Veterans team

08/10/2011 – Brett Kline breaks WCC record for most senior games (325)

19/10/2013 – Brett Kline breaks WCC record for most senior runs (6486)

17/02/2015 – Cameron Day makes the highest score ever – 212 at Stintons in the 3rd XI

21/02/2015 – The 4th XI make the highest team score ever – 9/584 at WCG #2

22/03/2015 – The 1st XI win premiership. Return to the top grade. 50th club premiership

20/10/2018 – 1,000th senior cricket game at Warrandyte Reserve #1

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