The beginning

The Adelaide Cricket Club was formed on 12th September 1905 for the prime purpose of providing the residents of the City of Adelaide the opportunity to play and enjoy the game of cricket.

For many years the club used a number of city hotels as a meeting place for members to gather, and played its games on the playing fields around the City of Adelaide. Eventually Adelaide Number Two Oval became the club's home ground.

Famous names involved in the club

Many great names of Australian and South Australian cricket have played for the Adelaide Cricket Club, indeed many have learnt their trade with the Adelaide - Badcock, Causby, Cunningham, Gillespie, Grimmett, Giffen, Hogg, Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and Woodcock to name but a few. All in all the Adelaide Cricket Club has provided the State with 64 representatives, more than any other grade Club. International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, Greenidge, Mendis and White.

Our coat of arms

During the 1930's the Council of the City of Adelaide awarded the Adelaide Cricket Club the unique honour of allowing the Coat of Arms of the City of Adelaide to be adopted by the club as our Coat of Arms. The club wears this Crest with great pride and distinction and is fiercely proud of this honour.

In 1951 the then Mayor of the City of Adelaide agreed to become the club’s Patron, that Patronage has remained with us ever since and has now become a tradition and to day the current Lord mayor is our Patron.

Club rooms and grounds

In the late 1970's the members of the club decided that the club had to acquire a "Proper" home - clubrooms and exclusive use of a playing field. The club negotiated a sublease of Bailey Reserve with the Head Lessee - The South Australian Rugby Union Association and together with the South Australian Rugby Union Association obtained a long term loan from the City of Mitcham to build substantial clubrooms on the Reserve. The Adelaide Cricket Club was always a sub lessee at Bailey and this together with the ever increasing costs of occupancy and maintenance resulted in the venue becoming much too expensive for our club to maintain. The availability of the Glandore Oval complex in late 1996 and the efforts of the Marion City Council in helping arrange the lease for the club allowed us to move from Bailey pre season 1996/97. The clubrooms have since been enhanced and the grounds improved to provide a most comfortable venue for both the cricket and football membership.

Our club plays it’s Senior Home Games at the Glandore Oval, South Road, Glandore, South Australia 5039.

Other grounds used by the club include the Bone Timber Reserve, Park 23 West Terrace, Adelaide. CabraDominicanCollege, Cross Road, Cumberland Park and the MarionPrimary School Oval.

Net practice for all teams is on the training pitches at Glandore Oval. Senior teams practice on the afternoons of Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Junior teams practice on the afternoons of Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

In 1990 two long established Women's cricket clubs - Olympic and Mercury - merged with the Adelaide Cricket Club and women's cricket became an integral part of the Adelaide Cricket Club. Unfortunately, the decline of women’s cricket in the mid 90’s resulted in the disbandment of our teams pre season 1995/96.

Some few years ago, the then Committee of Management and indeed the majority of our members acknowledged that the Adelaide Cricket Club must at some time in the future return to it's rightful home - the City of Adelaide. During 1992 the club acquired clubrooms at Park 23 West Terrace, Adelaide. In 1993 we obtained a Federal Government Grant to renovate these clubrooms. This work was completed during the winter of 1994. Much more work needs to be carried out on both the club rooms and playing field at Park 23 before it can be the home of a SACA A Grade team. Nevertheless the foundations are well and truly laid and the Return Home may not too many years away.

In 1993 the Adelaide Cricket Club responded to a request for assistance from the State Department of Aboriginal Affairs and sponsored and helped form an all Aboriginal Under 13 cricket team to compete in the Ray Sutton Shield Competition. The Joint Venture proved somewhat successful and continued on until the end of 1996.

Today the club fields four senior men's teams and six junior boys' teams in the South Australian Cricket Association competition.

Season 1997/98 is the Centenary of Grade (previously known as District) Cricket. In an attempt to highlight Grade Cricket, SACA has requested all Grade Clubs to revisit their nicknames and logos, with a view to assist with the marketing of the competition. The Adelaide Cricket Club has never really had a nickname and after much thought we have adopted THE ADELAIDE BUFFALOS.