
Malvern
Valley
One club, one square. Community cricket in Melbourne’s south-east since 1996. Since 1996.
1st XI v Manningham
Saturday 10 October · 12:30pm
Basil Reserve, 5 Basil Street, Malvern East VIC 3145
12:30pm start · One-day
Basil Reserve, 5 Basil Street, Malvern East VIC 3145 · Home
Second XI starts at 12:30pm, at Princes Highway Reserve.
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Two senior XIs this season, and room in them for new players. Debut or comeback, start by reaching out to us. Juniors and a women’s side are our next build: put your name on the list and you will hear first.

Seniors
Two senior XIs in the ECA. One-day cricket, Saturday afternoons.
Two senior sides in the Eastern Cricket Association. One-day format, Saturday afternoons. If you can hold a bat or turn an arm over, there is a spot.

Juniors & Blast
Blast and junior grades are the next build. Join the interest list now.
Woolworths Blast and junior grades are the next thing we want to build. Put your name on our interest list and we will contact you before anything opens. No fees until then.
Women & Girls
About twelve names and there is a side. Put yours down.
We need about twelve names to field a side. Put yours down and we will build the team around whoever turns up.
Sam Marsh, Child Safety Officer
Concerns come to us by email and are read by our committee volunteers. If a child is in immediate danger, call 000.
Never played?
Good.
Experienced pro, backyard legend or first time in whites: we have always wanted all three. Nobody is going to make you bowl at the pace you did at school.
Train with us
We train Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Thursdays being our main training session. Reach out and we will tell you the times and where to come down.
Questions everyone asks first
Tap oneNot to start. Since the association made helmets compulsory in 2019, we have kept helmets on hand at games and training for anyone without one. Bring runners and a hat, and ask us what else we can lend.
Three steps
and you’re in
Nobody asks who your father played for. If you can hold a bat the right way up, or are willing to learn by Thursday, we want to hear from you.
Tell us your age, your last club, and whether you bat, bowl or keep. We will point you to the right XI and send you the PlayHQ registration link.
Reach out to us
Tell us your age, your last club, and whether you bat, bowl or keep. We are all volunteers, so a reply can take a few days.
Come to training
Tuesdays and Thursdays, with Thursday the main session. Ask us for the times and where to come down, then turn up in runners and ask about club gear.
Register on PlayHQ
Once you have had a hit. Ask us about this season's fee before you do.
Ask us about this season’s fee, and about paying it in instalments if that helps.
Club news

1st XI win the Shaw Shield
“It’s been a few years in the making,” the club wrote on 15 March 2020. Matt Pryor captained the side that took the Eastern Cricket Association premiership, with Nathaniel Symes, Luke Cleave and Ben Ryan among the twelve.

Two coaches, both off a national title
Rohan Best came in as head coach for 2017/18 with Alex Kerr as his assistant, both straight from winning the National Indigenous Cricket Championships with Victoria. Kerr held the inaugural Lord’s Taverners Australia indigenous scholarship.

Pink Stumps Day raised $1,103.70
A pink afternoon in February 2017: barbecue, afternoon tea, face painting, a raffle, and a Captain’s XI against a President’s XI that the club’s own report says the Captains won “in controversial circumstances”. All of it for the McGrath Foundation.
@malvernvalleycc
What the week looked like from the boundary: team photos, the odd catch, and whatever the clubrooms were talking about on Saturday night.
The rest of the club lives on Instagram@malvernvalleycc

Three names,
one club
St James merged with Malvern Valley, which had been St Andrews East Malvern, in 1995, and the two took the field together from 1995/96. We now play at Basil Reserve, and every career record we keep starts at that merger.
- St James Glen Iris
- Premiers 1991/92
- St Andrews East Malvern
- Became Malvern Valley
- St James & Malvern Valley
- Merged 1995
Backed by the neighbourhood
Lead partnerPartner with MVCC
The board lapsed and we are rebuilding it for this season, which means every package is still open to talk about: signage, playing kit, a match day. Reach out to us and we will talk it through with you.

