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If you're looking for a great cricket club in Melbourne then Youlden Parkville Cricket Club warmly invites you to check us out! We're a cricket club with a difference. A place where you'll find good people and good cricket. To learn more, watch our video and/or contact the Club.
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"THE sun is low in the sky over the Ryder oval, home ground of my old club Youlden-Parkville. The Ryder pitch, the track upon which over many seasons I experienced so much pleasure and so much pain, is cordoned off for the weekend match and tomorrow's cricketers, my son and his schoolmates among them, the Super 8s, the under-12s and under-14s, are going through their paces. It is clubs and grounds such as these, as Greg Chappell notes in his new autobiography, Fierce Focus, that have been the nursery of Australian cricket for three centuries. Cricket during that time has woven itself into the national story and the history that has emerged from that nursery is reflective of the country itself." - Steve Carroll, former YPCC fast bowler writing in The Age 23-24 December 2011. Read More.
YPCC plays in the senior division of the Victorian Turf Cricket Association and fields four senior teams who play at the Ryder and McAlister Ovals in Parkville/Brunswick in Melbourne. We also proudly run an extensive junior program for boys and girls aged between 5 and 14 years old.
The Club's unusual name is derived from Harry Youlden, our founding father and Kensington bookmaker who established Youlden Kensington Cricket Club in 1922. Youlden Kensington and Parkville Cricket Club merged in 1972 to create Youlden Parkville Cricket Club.