Tasmania cricket team Tasmania cricket team The Tasmanian cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield and the limited overs Matador BBQs One-Day Cup. Tasmania played in the very first first-class cricket match in Australia against Victoria in 1851, which they won by three wickets. Despite winning their first match, and producing many fine cricketers in the late 19th century, Tasmania was overlooked when the participants in Australian first-class tournament known as the Sheffield Shield were chosen in 1892. For
The Cricketers of My Time now rich literary history. Writing in 1957, John Arlott described it as "still the finest study of cricket and cricketers ever written". "The Cricketers of My Time" was first published in serial form by a weekly London newspaper called "The Town" in 1832. The following year, the series with some modifications appeared as the second part of an instructional book entitled "The Young Cricketer's Tutor", which was also the title of the book's first part. There was a third part called "A Few Memoranda Respecting the Progress of Cricket" and that is generally referred to as the "Memoranda". The first