ORC Cricket Club is a member of the Bathurst District Cricket Association (BDCA). The club is affectionately known as ‘The Orcans’.

The clubs logo of a Tiger is used by many sporting teams from the Oberon area. ORC’s club colours are red, gold and black.

Our major sponsor is PANTHERS BATHURST.

History

The club was formed as the result of a merger between three parent clubs: Oberon Cricket Club, Bathurst RSL Cricket Club and the Country Cricket Club. There is evidence of an ‘Oberon Cricket Club’ playing as far back as the 1890’s.

If you have any ORC Cricket Club related memorabilia (score cards, photos) you would like to share, please email us and we will add it to our website.

ORC Today

ORC currently fields sides in three grades of the BDCA senior competition: First Grade, Second Grade and Presidents Cup, as well as having two sides in the BDCA Monday Night T20 competition.

 

Representative Players

In addition to the many players who have represented Bathurst, ORC has supplied several higher representative players.  Bruce Webb and Brendan Inwood are both former captains of  Western Zone teams.

Ex-ORC opening bowler Kent French made his senior representative début playing for the ACT against a full strength Queensland side in a Mercantile Mutual Cup match in 1999. He played five ‘A List’ matches for the ACT side during the 1999/2000 season, bowling to the likes of Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Simon Katich, Michael Slater, Mike Hussey and Darren Lehmann.

Junior Cricketers

The club encourages junior cricketers to make the step up into senior cricket through the Presidents Cup side.

The Presidents Cup grade is aimed at giving young cricketers a path into senior cricket, by placing restrictions on players over 17 and by requiring teams to field a certain number of players between the ages of 13 and 17.

A number of the clubs First Grade team, such as Brendan Inwood, Dave and Wayne Sellers and Tim McKinnon are graduates of the ORC Presidents Cup team, while talented youngster Jeremey Judge made his first grade début 2011/12 season after winning Junior Player of the Year in Presidents Cup the season prior.

The Future of ORC

ORC Cricket Club, its players and its supporters are looking forward to an equally successful season.