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Melbourne Cricket Club Founded — Victoria, 15 November 1838

Melbourne Cricket Club

1838-11-15

The Melbourne Cricket Club — destined to become one of the most powerful institutions in Australian and world cricket — was founded at a meeting on 15 November 1838, only three years after the city itself had been established. The MCC would in time own and operate the Melbourne Cricket Ground, host the first Test match (1877), and shape every major decision in Australian cricket for the next 150 years.

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Cape Town Cricket Club Formally Founded — 1832

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1832-11-15

In November 1832 the Cape Town Cricket Club was formally constituted with a committee, a subscription roll and a leased ground at Green Point Common. The founding was the institutional successor to the garrison cricket that had been documented in 1819 and is the foundation entry of organised civilian cricket in South Africa. Cape Town CC is one of the oldest constituted cricket clubs in the southern hemisphere.

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