User:OhMyGodTheChips/Darwin Cricket Club

The Darwin Cricket Club ("The Eagles") is a semi-professional cricket club in Darwin, Northern Territory. It competes in the Darwin & District Cricket Association, which is administered by the NT Cricket.

Location
The Club is located at Kahlin Oval in the suburb of Larrakeyah which is just minutes from the CDB.

Club history
Darwin has an extremely rich past player history, first class cricketers that have to played for the Eagles include Paul Nobes, Greg Mail, Ritchie Sherlock among others with Will Sheridan and Jake Fawcett most recently.

Darwin has won 5 A Grade Premierships, the most recent A grade premierships was back in 2000. The Club has also won the One Day Premiership currently known as the Casuarina Club One Day Cup five times, the most recent in the 2011 season.

Teams
The Club has five Senior Mens Teams D&DCA Competition. A, B and C grade teams compete on Saturday while the D and E grade sides play on Sunday, Saturday competition play in two day, one day and twenty20 games, while the Sunday competition features just One Day (40 over per side) and T20 cricket. The Club has Junior sides from Milo In2Cricket through to Under 17's.

The competition is played during the dry season which is from April to September.

2009 Season
Joel Boucher was captain the A grade side, with the Eagles finishing 5th in the 2009 season. Ronnie Andrews was Club Coach.

2010 Season
Joel Boucher was replaced as skipper by Greg Brautigam who led the side to 4th on the table and eventual runners-up in the Grand Final against Nightcliff CC. Roland Hyatt was Club Coach.

2011 Season
Jack Flynn was appointed captain of the A grade side with Leigh Rowley taking the Coaching role.

In the One Day competition, Darwin defeated PINT CC in the Grand Final at Gardens Oval. Restricting PINT to 9 for 199 in their 50 overs, Darwin were clinical with victory being achieved in the 28th over with the loss of only one wicket.