Nightcliff Cricket Club

The Nightcliff Cricket Club was formed in 1968 from the old Commonwealth Department of Works Cricket Club and was a foundation affiliate club of the Nightcliff Sports Club the following year.

In its first few seasons were tough on the newly formed club. Fielding only one side in the A grade competition, NCC spent most of its first ten years as the competition's easy-beats.

With no cricket played in 1975 due to the destruction caused by Cyclone Tracy, Nightcliff returned with renewed vigor for the 1976 season fielding sides in all three senior grades and for the first time, sides in the junior competition.

In 1979 Nightcliff had its first taste of premiership success, winning the C grade competition. A second C grade premiership soon followed in 1981.

NCC truly came of age in 1983. Following an active recruitment drive which saw Nightcliff gain the services of then Australian Test Cricket leg spinner, Peter Sleep and Western Australian Sheffield Shield player, Peter Gonella, Nightcliff not only one its first A grade premiership but backed it up with Grand Final wins in B grade and the clubs first junior premiership in the under 12 competition.

Since that time NCC has grow and achieved moderate success in the Darwin Cricket competition, including a second A grade premiership in 1996 and the installation of a turf pitch at our home ground, Nightcliff Oval, as part of the resurfacing of the Oval in 1997.

In December 1994, Mark Hatton became the first 'home grown' Nighcliff cricketer to play first class cricket, with his selection in the Tasmanian Sheffield Shield team.

NCC currently fields sides in five senior and eight junior grades of the Darwin and Districts Cricket competition and runs a in2cricket (fromally milo) most fridays during the cricket season.

 

Our mission is to become the most successful community based cricket club in the Northern Territory. It is our philosophy to foster sporting, social and cultural aspects of the community with an emphasis on the development our junior cricketers.  To this end the NCC runs a comprehensive juniors program, incorporating ages 5-17 and open to both girls and boys with the primary aim of developing a love for the game of cricket.  We believe that fostering the sporting ability of youth not only establishes our strength into the future, it also leads to an enhanced social and cultural acceptance with a well-balanced outlook on life