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Kensington Browns
Full name	Kensington Cricket Club
Nickname(s)	The Browns
Strip	Brown and Gold
Founded	1871
Sport	Cricket
League	South Australian Cricket Association
First season	1871/72
Ground	Parkinson Oval
Club Song	Kensy Boys Are Happy
President	Brian Guild
Coach	John Palmer Junior
Captain	Jake Brown
2008/09	3rd

The Kensington District Cricket Club ("The Browns") is a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide, South Australia. It competes in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA).

[edit] Location

In 1963, the Burnside City Council relocated the Club from the Kensington Oval to the Kensington Gardens Reserve. The Club has leases over the three cricket ovals, (Parkinson Oval, Ford Oval and Col. Waite Oval) in perpetuity as compensation for this relocation.

[edit] Club History

Kensington has an extremely rich past player history, dominated by the presence of Sir Donald Bradman and Clarrie Grimmett who played for the club in the 1930s. Other famous names to play for Kensington include Sam Parkinson, Peter Brinsley, John Inverarity, Kevin Wright, Brian Hurn, Ian Glover, Neil Dansie, Rex Sellers, Ashley Woodcock, Terry Jenner, Jeff Hammond, Howard Mutton, James Brayshaw, Tim May, Jamie Siddons, Mark Cleary and Greg Blewett.

Kensington has won 15 A Grade Premierships and has been runner up on 6 other occasions. The most recent A grade premierships were back to back wins in 2001/02 & 2002/03. The Club also won the One Day Premiership currently known as the XXXX Gold One Day Cup in 2005/06 & 2006/07. Kensington also celebrated its first Twenty20 Premiership, winning the 2006/07 title.

Kensington were the second club behind Sturt Cricket Club to attempt to win all three A grade premierships in a season. Sturt was defeated by Kensington in the One Day Final in 2005/06 and Kensington was defeated by West Torrens Cricket Club in the 2006/07 Grade Final after already claiming the One Day and Twenty20 Premierships.

[edit] Teams

The Club has four Senior Mens Teams and two Womens Teams in the SACA Competition. A, B, C and D grade sides that compete in two day, one day and twenty20 games. The Club has Junior sides from Under 13's through to Under 17's. It also has an U11 development squad

Kensington also has a team in the Adelaide Turf Cricket Association Amateur Competition. Currently the team features past players that are no longer up to the rigors of semi-professional cricket. The team is in the Limited Overs B grade competition.

[edit] 2008/09 Season

Kensington recruited Aaron O'Brien and Michael Klinger, two first class interstate players that signed with the South Australian Redbacks. Kensington have four members in the Redbacks Squad for the 2008/09 season, with Jake Brown and Mark Cleary also securing contracts. Former West Torrens, Redback and Australian representative Matthew Elliot also signed with the club after retiring from representative cricket last season.

Long time servant and playing member of the Club, John Palmer Junior was appointed Coach for 2008/09 season. Jake Brown captained the Browns taking over from Dean Waugh.

Kensington played Glenelg Cricket Club at Adelaide Oval on the 1st February 2009 in the XXXX Gold One Day Cup Final. Winning the toss, Kensington skipper Jake Brown elected to bat and were bowled out for 153 in the 48th over. Glenelg overhauled the score in the 41st over with the loss of only three wickets. Kensington have now appeared in four One Day Cup finals this decade with a 50% win rate.

The Kensington A grade side made it through to the XXXX Golde Grade Cup semi-finals, pitted against 2007/08 season's premiers Woodville Cricket Club. Club veteran Jamie Panelli took seven wickets to dismiss Woodville for 80. Woodville ended Kensington's season by then bowling the Browns out for 71.

[edit] 2009/10 Season

Kensington maintained Jake Brown as the Club Captain and John Palmer Junior as Coach. Brown lost his rookie contract with the Redbacks while Cleary, Klinger and O'Briened maintained their contracts. Sam McNeil was selected to represent the SA U23's Futures Team. Tom Brinsley is in the Australian U19 Squad for 2009/10. 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the Melbourne Cricket Club and Kensington Cricket Club association which sees an annual match between the two clubs, alternating venue each year.

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