Yarra Pub Cricket Association - YPCA

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Yarra Pub Cricket Association - YPCA We love our community, we love our cricket YPCA is a long running Sunday cricket league based in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne . Enjoy your cricket.

It’s a alternative to (serious) cricket, being able to play when you can and not have to train. We love our community, we love our cricket and we love our mates. The Yarra Pub Cricket Association is a long running Sunday afternoon cricket league based in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne Australia. Representing local Yarra pubs, players drag themselves out of bed every other Sunday to hopefully make it on time for the first ball bowled at 1pm.

25 overs per innings, no white clothing allowed, you can’t get out on the first ball you face and there are no LBW’s or wides plus everybody bowls. Top edge the ball over the keeper for four enough times and you might just get to retire at 30 runs. The YPCA is actively involved in numerous community and fund raising events and invites anyone and everyone in the Yarra City community to get involved. Check back regularly for information on events and fundraisers. YPCA.

Training starts tonight - 6.30pm at Edinburgh Gardens nets
20/10/2026

Training starts tonight - 6.30pm at Edinburgh Gardens nets

Just like Marnus, the pub cricket season is back.Training starts on Wednesday October 21st 6.30pm at the Edinburgh Garde...
05/10/2026

Just like Marnus, the pub cricket season is back.

Training starts on Wednesday October 21st 6.30pm at the Edinburgh Gardens nets.

Early season games look like they will be as follows:

Sunday October 25th
Rainbow v Rocky Ridge @ Fairfield
Pinnacle v Mountain Culture @ Cox Oval

Sunday Nov 1st
Rocky Ridge v Mountain Culture @ Alphington
Nomads v Rainbow @ Fairfield

Sunday Nov 8th
Empress v Royston @ Fairfield
Railway v Rainbow @ Alphington
Rose v Nomads @ Cox Oval

Will all be confirmed soon

Pub Cricket bowls competition at Fitzroy bowls club.Hi teams, if you want to be part of the Wednesday night 4 week bowls...
28/09/2026

Pub Cricket bowls competition at Fitzroy bowls club.

Hi teams, if you want to be part of the Wednesday night 4 week bowls competition starting October 7 check your emails and get back to the league by Friday.

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23/03/2026

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22/03/2026

The Final is on Royston Red Legs v Rainbow raccoons

BDNO 26 🙌🏻
22/03/2026

BDNO 26 🙌🏻

Cheers for your support 🙏🏻
22/03/2026

Cheers for your support 🙏🏻

19/03/2026

The log of wood comes down from its Home for the year at the Rainbow. Can they make it three years in a row or is it gonna hang on a new pubs wall?

Hi Teams, Thankyou HUSS…..🙌🏻As this is likely to be the last email of the season, it's time to say thanks to Peter Neal,...
18/03/2026

Hi Teams,

Thankyou HUSS…..🙌🏻
As this is likely to be the last email of the season, it's time to say thanks to Peter Neal, Huss to most of us, who has stepped down as treasurer after 7 years. The reason that fees are still only $100 a game is due to Huss's management of the funds and also his ability to get grants to cover things like the match balls and gear. His parting gift was this year's Bendigo Bank sponsorship which has meant the 3 main events this year have had funds to make them what they are. The YPCA is in a good place thanks largely in part to Huss. So if you see him around, buy him a b**r while discussing North Melbourne's return to the winners list or the glory years of the Rainbow Racoons.

Big Day Not Out - This Sunday
There is a lot of information to read, so please read it all to make the day runs smoothly.

Fees need to be paid up by Wednesday. These teams owe fees still - Cherry $250, Empress $150, Railway $250, Retreat $100, Royston $100, Rocky Ridge $450

BBQs and Tables - We need a couple of BBQs and Tables for cooking & serving lunch

Ground Set Up - Bring your stumps and cones to set up grounds and then swap over as teams get eliminated

Umpiring and Helping with lunch. Roster below, if you don't turn up to umpire you have to umpire your own game

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Draw is attached.

Rule changes for the day
-10 Over games
-No free hits
-retire the ball you get 20
-1 over per bowler
-Second innings of 9am game will start at 9.45am regardless of the overs bowled so far
-Countback for ties is 6's and then 4's
-Players to have played 2 games minimum during the season (email league for exceptions)
-Have fun, we've all lost our sheepstations already

We'll have some cash for a tab for the winners pub for everyone to come back and enjoy ($700 from memory)

Cheers
Ed, Foz, Gen, Natham Dave and Josh

Melbourne times 2003 Streak cricketTHREE streakers took to the field at last year's Cricket On Tap knockout tournament (...
15/03/2026

Melbourne times 2003

Streak cricket
THREE streakers took to the field at last year's Cricket On Tap knockout tournament (2003) among Fitzroy pubs. The number of competing pubs has increased this year from eight to 15, and organiser Mick Stevens thinks the streaking could be on the rise. "We've been asking some of the pubs what they can bring on the day, and they're all saying streakers, which is presumably easier than bringing trestle tables and chairs," Stevens says.
Sadly, there will be less cricket, thanks to Yarra Council's re-grassing of the Brunswick Street Oval.
Games will be played at the
smaller Alfred Crescent Oval, also in the Edinburgh Gardens. This year's scaled-down round-robin (dubbed The Little Day Out) will be divided into four zones:
North Fitzroy, mid-city, south-west and south-east.
The streaking, drinking, bar-becuing, cheering, live bands (including the Prayer Babies), jumping castle and a bit of cricket will begin at 11am this Sunday, March 7, with the grand final just before dusk. There will be commentary by Slim Whittle and, perhaps most impor-tantly, schooners of b**r for $2.50.

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27 St David Street
Fitzroy, VIC
3065

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