Western Australia cricket team

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"Western Warriors" redirects here. For the baseball team, see Western Warriors
(baseball). For the association football (soccer team), see Western Warriors SC.

Western Australia

Personnel

Captain  Mitchell Marsh

Coach  Adam Voges

Team information

   Gold & Black
Colours

Founded 1893

Home ground WACA Ground (1899-)

Capacity 20,000[1]

History

First-class debut South Australia

in 1893

at Adelaide Oval

Sheffield 15 (1948, 1968, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978,

Shield wins 1981, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1998, 1999)

 One-Day Cup wins 14 (1971, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1990,

1991, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2014, 2017, 2019)

Official website WACA

First-class One-day

The Western Australia cricket team, nicknamed the Western Warriors, represent

the Australian state of Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket. The team is
selected and supported by the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA), and
plays its home games at the WACA Ground and Perth Stadium in Perth. The team
mainly plays matches against other Australian states in the first-class Sheffield
Shield competition and the limited-overs JLT One-Day Cup, but occasionally plays
matches against touring international sides. Western Australia previously also fielded
sides at Twenty20 level, but was replaced by the Perth Scorchers for the
inaugural 2011–12 season of the Big Bash League. Western Australia's current
captain is Mitchell Marsh, and the current coach is Adam Voges.

Contents

 1History
 2Current squad
  3Coaching staff
 4Lists of players
 5See also
 6References
 7External links

History[edit]
Western Australia played their opening first-class matches on a tour of the Eastern
states during the 1892–93 season, playing two games, against South Australia at
the Adelaide Oval,[2] and against Victoria at the MCG.[3] The team was captained
by Herbert Orr.
They continued to play first-class matches against South Australia, Victoria and New
South Wales, interspersed with matches against visiting teams from overseas, until
they were admitted to the Sheffield Shield in the 1947–48 season. They played each
other state only once a season at first, then beginning in 1956-57 they began playing
each state twice, like the other teams.
Since joining the Sheffield Shield in 1947–48, Western Australia has won the
competition 15 times, second only to New South Wales in that period.[4] In the One-
Day Cup, the team leads the winners table comfortably with 12 wins followed by New
South Wales with eight wins.
The state has a proud history in producing Australian Test players such as Justin
Langer, Dennis Lillee, Adam Gilchrist, Michael Hussey, Terry Alderman and Geoff
Marsh, along with Shaun Marsh, Marcus North, Adam Voges, and Mitchell Marsh[5] in
recent times. Englishman Tony Lock also represented his country in the 1967–68
season as a WA player - he was no longer attached to any English county.
Aside from test players, several Western Australian players have recently made their
international debut in other forms of the game, such as Joel Paris[6] with his One Day
International debut, and Andrew Tye[7] with his debut in
international Twenty20 cricket.
Langer was appointed as coach of WA, along with the Perth Scorchers, in late 2012
and oversaw a period of success after almost a decade without silverware. Langer's
Warriors won the 2014–15 One-Day Cup, while the side were Sheffield
Shield runners-up in both 2013–14 and 2014–15. The Scorchers also went back-to-
back in the Big Bash League in 2013–14 and 2014–15.