ACT Comets
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| One-day name: | ACT Comets |
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| Captain: | Jono Dean |
| Founded: | 1928 |
| Home ground: | Manuka Oval |
| Capacity: | 15,000 |
| Futures League wins: | 1 |
| Official website: | ACT Comets |
The ACT Comets (also known as the Canberra Comets, previously the Federal Capital Territory) are a cricket team that represent the Australian Capital Territory. The Comets are the premier team of the Cricket ACT who are affiliated with Cricket Australia.
ACT Comets in the Domestic One Day Competition
The ACT Comets were participants in the Australian domestic limited-overs Mercantile Mutual Cup competition. They did not, however, field a team in the four-day Sheffield Shield competition. Their Mercantile Mutual Cup involvement lasted from the 1997–98 season to the 1999–2000 season. It was found that there was insufficient local support at that time to be financially viable in the first-class and list-A competitions. Former Australian Test bowler Merv Hughes was brought out of retirement to help ACT, as was former Test batsman Mike Veletta.[1]
ACT and Canberra region players
Current Australian internationals Brad Haddin and Nathan Lyon played for the Comets.[2] Former Australian Test batsman Michael Bevan was born in Canberra and played cricket with the Western Creek club, but did not play for the Comets.[3]
Police Magistrate AT Faunce was instrumental in bringing cricket to the Canberra-Queanbeyan region in the 1830s and died while playing the game at the Queanbeyan Market reserve (now Queen Elizabeth Park).[4][5] There have been 25 players to play 50 or more games for the ACT, the first player to reach this milestone was EKBP Carnal in the 1937–38 season. Four players have reached 100, while Peter Solway is the only to have reached 150 games. The highest individual scores in ACT grade cricket have been: 339 - PJ Solway (1989/90), 300 - JR Dean (2012/13), 246 - CE Hincksman (1926/27), 238 - L Lees (1932/33), 220 - C Brown (2008/9), 215 - L Lees (1933/34), 211 - PJ Solway (1990/91), 207- NH Fairbrother (1988/89), 205 - JN Williams (1988/89), 200 - MJ Dawn (2001/02), 200- C Brown (2008/09).[6]
Jono Dean is the current captain of the side.[7]
ACT Comets in Futures League
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Today, the team represents Canberra in the lower-level Futures League. The Comets finished the 2005–06 season in fourth place with two outright wins. The Comets took out their first ever title in the 2010–11 season.[8]
Player Transfers
In the period 2011-2012 six 20-23 yo first class listed players who learnt cricket in Canberra have had to transfer interstate – Jason Floros (20, QLD), Jason Behrendorff (20, WA), Nathan Lyon (23, SA), Ashton May (21, Tas), Ryan Carters (20, VIC) and Will Sheridan (23, VIC).[9]
2015/16 squad
This is current players that played for ACT Comets in 2015/16[10]
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See also
References
- ↑ Fox Sports 1 March 2011 http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/following-north-queensland-furys-axing-foxsportscomau-looks-at-the-graveyard-of-australian-sporting-teams/story-e6frf4gl-1226014253318#.UQ4_6JjRw_o
- ↑ Kyle Mackey-Laws (28 October 2008). "Comets fight back late with ball". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
- ↑ Wester Creek CC. Hall of Fame http://www.wccc.org.au/halloffame/index.asp (accessed 4 February 2013)
- ↑ Lake George, Molonglo Valley and Burra- Thematic History Jan 2008 p51 https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Kdc3SqnkWhoJ:www.richardgraham.com.au/Resources/Documents/Thematic%2520History%2520Part%25202.pdf+faunce+and+queanbeyan+history+walk+and+cricket&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgeJqiudJkq849MGhL1s-yczptfc4ZcsywFqzJEXf26yJlCMH-KsIrgYv2jpHyMS5a5FCo_mnWUNDgSKZQ5z7YttRGaR_oXt8fIOjPbSRvvr_y5fjCjk5_mvcVm2vHvd-1Ieh79&sig=AHIEtbRkFK2kXQI7AhEgFxtl8Y4lf1iJYw (accessed 3 February 2013)
- ↑ Captain AT Faunce Ancestry.Com http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jray/gordon/faunce.htm (accessed 3 February 2013)
- ↑ Lee Gaskin 'Unbeaten 300 puts Dean with Elite' Canberra Times 3 Feb 2013 p 36.http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/cricket/unbeaten-300-puts-dean-with-elite-20130202-2drty.html (accessed 3 February 2013)
- ↑ Sam Debenham "Dean's Making the Grade' Western Advocate 4 Jan 2013 http://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/1215355/deans-making-the-grade/ (accessed 4 February 2013)
- ↑ Kieran Deck. 'ACT Comets- Time to Bring Them Back' The Fooyt Almanac 15 March 2011 http://www.footyalmanac.com.au/act-comets-time-to-bring-them-back/
- ↑ Kieran Deck. 'ACT Comets- Time to Bring Them Back' The Fooyt Almanac 15 March 2011 http://www.footyalmanac.com.au/act-comets-time-to-bring-them-back/
- ↑ 2015/16 ACT Comets squad announced
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