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{{Infobox sport club
| name            = Adelaide Buffalos
| logo            = AdelaideCricketClubLogo.png
| fullname        = Adelaide Cricket Club 
| nickname        = The Buffalos
| colours         = {{color box|Yellow}} Yellow, {{color box|Blue}} Blue and {{color box|Red}} Red
| founded         = 1905
| sport           = [[Cricket]]
| league          = [[South Australian Grade Cricket League]]
| ground          = Glandore Oval
| song            = "We are the mighty Buffalos"
| president       = Mr Neil Ricketts 
| coach           = Damian Kelly
| captain         = Sam Raphael
| season          =
| position        =
}}

'''Adelaide Cricket Club''' or {{sic|'''The Buffalos'''}} 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). The Adelaide Cricket Club was formed on 12 September 1905.

Many great names of Australian and South Australian cricket have played for the Adelaide Cricket Club: Badcock, Causby, [[Ken "KG" Cunningham|Cunningham]], [[Jason Gillespie|Gillespie]], [[Clarrie Grimmett|Grimmett]], [[George Giffen|Giffen]], [[Rodney Hogg|Hogg]], Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and [[Ashley Woodcock|Woodcock]] have played. International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, [[Gordon Greenidge|Greenidge]], Mendis and White.  All in all the Adelaide Cricket Club has provided the State with 64 representatives, more than any other grade Club.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adelaidecricketclub.org.au/clubhistory.htm|title = Adelaide Cricket Club}}</ref>

Record breaking South Australian Jockey John McGowan (see [[Brooklyn Park, South Australia|Brooklyn Park]])  was also a long term player and B Grade Captain of the club.<ref>{{Cite news|date=17 February 1933|title=Semi Final Teams|work=The News|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/133068647|access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>

The club plays its Senior Home Games at Glandore Oval, [[Glandore, South Australia]].  Other grounds used by the club include Park 23 and Immanuel College.

Today the club fields four senior men's teams and four junior boy's teams in the South Australian Cricket Association competition.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.adelaidecricketclub.org.au/ ACC official site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150923071409/http://www.cricketsa.com.au/ SACA]

{{South Australian Grade Cricket}}

[[Category:South Australian Grade Cricket clubs]]
[[Category:1905 establishments in Australia]]
[[Category:Cricket clubs established in 1905]]


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