Adelaide Cricket Club or 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, Cunningham, Gillespie, Grimmett, Giffen, Hogg, Hammond, Nobes, Sincock and Woodcock have played. International Test Cricketers who have played for Adelaide include Chauhan, Greenidge, Mendis and White. All in all the Adelaide Cricket Club has provided the State with 64 representatives, more than any other grade Club.
The club plays its Senior Home Games at Glandore Oval, Glandore, South Australia. Other grounds used by the club include the Bone Timber Reserve, Cabra Dominican College Oval and the Marion Primary School Oval.
Today the club fields four senior men's teams and six junior boy's teams in the South Australian Cricket Association competition.
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