Welcome to the home of the Royal Park/Brunswick Cricket Club; located on Park Street in Parkville, just a few minutes north of the CBD. The club fields four teams in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association (VTCA). All teams play on turf wickets, and the majority of games are two-day matches.
Royal Park/Brunswick Cricket Club is currently seeking sponsorship for the 2011/2012 season in order to ensure our long term viability and success in the Victorian Turf Cricket Association's (VTCA) Senior Division. The RPBCC Executive Committee is currently offering a number of different packages to ensure sponsors receive value for their contribution, along with adequate advertising within the community.
Sponsorship packages for the 2011/2012 season include:
> Signage advertising inside our cricket club pavilion
> Advertising boards displayed at all Senior home games
> Advertising through our club website - www.rpbcc.com.au
> Company logo on club playing and/or social shirts
> Tickets to club major functions (TBA)
To enquire about any of the sponsorship packages that RPBCC has to offer, please forward an expression of interest to rpbcclub@hotmail.com to find out more.
ROYAL PARK/BRUNSWICK CHAMPION WINS PAXINO MEDAL
Royal Park/Brunswick captain, Adam Contessa, has won his second Paxino Medal for player of the year in Senior Division, as voted by the umpires, after previously winning the medal in 2006/2007.
Contessa scored 456 runs at 50.67 including 5 fifties, as well as taking 13 wickets. He has been outstandingly consistent in the past nine seasons, all in Senior or Senior A Division. He has made 4,026 First XI runs at an average of 50.33, with 9 hundreds and 21 fifties, and taken 199 wickets at 18.
After being named as Captain of the 2004/2005 Senior A Division Team of the Year, Adam has been named in the Kingston Trophies' Senior Team of the Year five of the past six years, including twice as Captain, in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008. St Bernards captain Craig Osborne finished second, while Bentleigh leg-spinner Chris Hill was third.
- Brian Quinn, VTCA 'Leading Edge' newsletter
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Congratulations to all award winners from our 2011/2012 Presentation day, held at the Lomond Hotel on March 23rd, 2012. Please see below for a full list of award winners:
Thanks to Scott Condon, club legend Bill McLachlan was recently nominated as a local hero on SEN 1116, in recognition of his 63 years of hard work and commitment to the Royal Park/Brunswick Cricket Club. As part of receiving SEN's weekly 'Fuzzy Award', an extremely proud Billy Mac was interviewed by Nicole Livingstone and Daniel Harford. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW!
RIP Stanley 'Sponge' Hughes, 8/2/1939 - 3/11/2009
In November 2009, the club received some terrible news as we learned of the passing of club stalwart Stanley 'Sponge' Hughes. 'Sponge' was a true legend of our club and people of his calibre are irreplaceable. Thanks to the staff at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Viva Care (Lionsville Hostel) for their assistance with Stan in recent times. Our thoughts are with the Hughes family at this very sad time.
