Churchill Cricket Club founders, Col Wells and Herb Kennedy, must have wondered what they
had got themselves into after their newly established club slumped to four successive
outright losses from the first four matches it ever played.

It was season 1973/74 and the club, boasting just one team - a B Grade side that was
entered into the Central Gippsland Cricket Association - was considered somewhat
of a laughing stock in local cricketing circles. It had, afterall, only been formed to
suit the needs of a couple of blokes wanting to play cricket in their home town and didn't 
even have a ground to call its own.

Now, some 25 years later, that laughing stock of a club called Churchill has developed into
arguably, one of the strongest in Gippsland. With a proud history of premiership success, 
a long list of top cricketing names and, dare we say it, enough memories to write a book.

The Churchill Cricket Club was actually founded during 1972/73 season, when Kennedy and 
Wells, both long time Churchill residents, placed an advertisement in the Churchill News
calling for expressions of interest from prospective players within the town.

A meeting was held in the Housing Commission Offices at the top of the Churchill Shopping
Centre shortly after, where it was decided that the concept of forming a cricket team in
Churchill had merit. A committee was formed and Jim Brick was elected the inaugural 
president.



*Reproduced with permission from "Cobras come of age : Churchill Cricket Club
				  25 year history / written and compiled by Jason Shields"   

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