Yarra Pub Cricket Association - YPCA

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 hopefu

lly 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.

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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 beer 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 beer for $2.50.

Dear Teams, The upcoming event is scheduled in 10 days. Will the Rainbow team achieve a historic three-peat victory or w...
13/03/2026

Dear Teams, The upcoming event is scheduled in 10 days. Will the Rainbow team achieve a historic three-peat victory or will a new team claim the trophy?

We require assistance with BBQs and tables for lunch; please notify us if you can bring either. Additionally, scoreboards would be appreciated. Please take note that rubbish bins will not be available at the ovals, so kindly dispose of your waste accordingly.

The draw, which includes the umpiring roster, food roster, and rules, is attached. It is essential to review the umpiring roster, particularly if you are scheduled to umpire the 10:30 am, 12 pm, or 1:30 pm games earlier in the day.

Cheers legends

11/03/2026

HI Teams

Fees
All fees need to be paid by Wednesday (March 18th) for the season which includes the $150 for the BDNO. You need to be 100% financial to play in the BDNO.

Big Day Not Out
Sunday March 22nd McCutchen and Olnly Ovals with one 9am game at Fairfield
$150 per team covers lunch and ground fees etc
Draw will be at training on Wed March 11th @ 6.45pm - need a player there for the draw and to hear rules/running items for the day otherwise you're a lock for a 9am game.
All teams will need volunteers to umpire and help with food - will put in the draw once games are sorted
Players have to have played 2 games for the season or 1 game and be a historial member of your team. If you have players that don't meet this criteria you need to email us and get permission.
On the day we need tables, 2 bbqs, 2 scoreboards and some eskys - let me know if you can bring any of these
Training
The Standard is hosting training this week and we need a volunteer for the last training of the season on Wed March 18th.

This weeks games
Pinnacle v Cherry @ Alphington 1pm
Rocky Ridge v Curtin @ Cox Oval 1pm

This kit bag was stolen from one of the empress players utes on Sunday. It’s all junior and senior kookaburra gear. If y...
03/03/2026

This kit bag was stolen from one of the empress players utes on Sunday. It’s all junior and senior kookaburra gear. If you see or hear anything let us know

Spirit of Pub CricketIt is more important, and indeed telling towards the broader philosophy, to phrase what Pub Cricket...
21/02/2026

Spirit of Pub Cricket

It is more important, and indeed telling towards the broader philosophy, to phrase what Pub Cricket is, rather than what it isn’t, and for whom it is designed, rather than for whom it isn’t.
Like the pubs that grace the leafy streets in this blessed pocket of Melbourne, Pub Cricket is social and inclusive. A plasterer bowls to a doctor who edges to a musician who drops it, much to the amusement of a local retiree and a new mother relaxing in the shade on the boundary. An excited puppy scurries onto the field whilst children keenly await a snag from the barbie, then drinks are called. This is Pub Cricket.
It’s about mixing with those in your pub, and those in the pub community. It’s about getting the family. out for an afternoon in the sun. It’s about having a bit of a hit and drink with friends and against. It’s about taking that camaraderie that is born of sharing a frosty ale beyond the doors and beer gardens of our public houses. And sure, it’s about the great game we call cricket. The game itself is a contest and the winner takes bragging rights, but no season points. The fact is there aren’t any points for a win, or points to make really; that’s the point – this is Pub Cricket.
In the great Australian film The Castle, Tiriel Mora plays the keen legal mind of Dennis Denuto who, in describing the platform of the Kerrigan case, mutters the phrase, “It’s just the vibe of the thing”. That phrase resonates through many parts of Australian life, but nowhere more truly than with Pub Cricket. Remember the vibe of the thing people; embrace it, and carry with you the Spirit of Pub Cricket.
It is about the social interaction, about taking the talk in a pub into the light of the summer.

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27 St David Street
Fitzroy, VIC
3065

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