Brighton Cricket Club extends a welcome to new players in all age groups, from juniors to young adults to veterans. The club has four senior teams in the Victorian Sub-District competition and currently fields twelve junior teams. We also run a Milo Have-A-Go program for 5-8 year old boys and girls on Sunday mornings at Brighton Beach Oval.

The club’s main ground is the Brighton Beach Oval (Melways 76 D3), a picturesque ground overlooking Port Phillip Bay, at the beach end of South Road. Due to the unavailability of last year's 3rd and 4th XI home ground at the MacDonald Reserve, these two elevens will play their home fixtures on Sundays at the main Beach Road Oval during the 2007-08 season.

Training is conducted on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Beach Road oval on the club’s turf and hard practice wickets, and prospective new players are invited to attend, or can ring either chairman of selectors Ross Teschendorff on 0418 408034 or senior coach James McMahon on 0424 528780 to find out more.  

End of Season Trip to Warrnambool 1900

Brighton Cricket Club, founded in 1842, is the second oldest cricket club in Australia. It has a proud and successful history, and a heritage that in cricketing terms would warrant “national trust” status. It has been the home of ten Test cricketers and another 44 players who have played cricket at first-class level.

Players to have represented Brighton include legendary 19^th century test captains, Harry Trott and Jack Blackham, fast bowler Lisle Nagel who played a solitary test in the 1932-33 bodyline series, and freakish spinner Jack Iverson who played his first game of senior cricket with Brighton 3^rd XI in 1946 at the age of 31 before his meteoric rise to test cricket just four years later. In more recent years, star Australian opening batsman Colin McDonald played several seasons for Brighton in the 1960s and current test legend Shane Warne played a season with the club as a 17 year old whilst still at Mentone Grammar.

Former Dandenong player and country star James McMahon (pictured at left) has been appointed coach for season 2007-08 and, along with Assistant Coach, David Gates, will be on hand to provide guidance and assistance to young players in Brighton’s senior elevens.

Brighton currently fields twelve junior teams, including five under-12 teams, four under-14 teams and three under-16 teams. Games are held on Friday nights for Under 14 and Under 16 teams and Saturday mornings for Under 12's.  Prospective new players can contact Brian Pascoe on 0407 554103 for further information.

Since the inauguration of the Sub-District competition in 1908, Brighton has won 10 premierships at 1^st eleven level, second only to Brunswick Cricket Club. Brighton had a “golden era” in the 1920s winning four premierships between 1917 and 1925, with the 1924-25 side being described as the greatest ever in the history of the competition.

 Brighton cricket has undergone a resurgence since the late 1980s, with the 1^st XI winning four premierships since the 1989-90 season. During this same period, a further six premierships have been won by Brighton’s lower elevens to make the club one of the competition’s most successful in the modern era.

The Brighton 2nd XI 2008

 Throughout its history, Brighton has been a club with strong family links, a tradition that continues to the present day. In earlier days, some of Brighton’s famous cricketing families were the Robinsons, including Brighton batting legend Gordon Robinson, and the Jewells from Castlemaine who had at one stage four brothers playing cricket at Brighton. A famous father and son combination prior to World War 1 was Jimmy and Percy Thompson, with Jimmy missing only two games (one was for his honeymoon!) between his debut in 1877 and his retirement in 1921.

The tradition has continued in modern times with five family members and three generations of the Watmuff family representing the club at 1^st XI level, and father-son representatives of the Salter, Teschendorff, Harrod, Treasure and Tudor families playing prominent roles in the club’s fortunes in recent years.