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| One Day name | ACT Comets | ||
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| Personnel | |||
| Captain | Jono Dean | ||
| Team information | |||
| Founded | 1928 | ||
| Home ground | Manuka Oval | ||
| Capacity | 15,000 | ||
| History | |||
| Futures League wins | 1 | ||
| Official website | ACT Comets | ||
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TheACT Comets (also known as theCanberra Comets) are acricket team that represent theAustralian Capital Territory. The Comets are the premier team of theCricket ACT who are affiliated withCricket Australia.
The ACT Comets were participants in the Australian domestic limited-oversMercantile Mutual Cup competition. They did not, however, field a team in the four-daySheffield Shield competition. Their Mercantile Mutual Cup involvement lasted from the 1997–98 season to the 1999–2000 season. It was found that there was insufficient local support at that time to be financially viable in thefirst-class andlist-A competitions. Former Australian Test bowlerMerv Hughes was brought out of retirement to help ACT, as was former Test batsmanMike Veletta.[1]
Australian internationalsBrad Haddin andNathan Lyon played for the Comets.[2] Former Australian Test batsmanMichael Bevan was born in Canberra and played cricket with the Weston Creek club, but did not play for the Comets.[3]
Police Magistrate A. T. Faunce was instrumental in bringing cricket to the Canberra-Queanbeyan region in the 1830s and died while playing the game at the Queanbeyan Market reserve (now Queen Elizabeth Park).[4][5] There have been 25 players to play 50 or more games for the ACT. Four players have reached 100, whilePeter Solway is the only to have reached 150 games. The highest individual scores in ACT grade cricket have been: 339 – PJ Solway (1989/90), 300 – JR Dean (2012/13), 246 – CE Hincksman (1926/27), 238 – L Lees (1932/33), 220 – C Brown (2008/9), 215 – L Lees (1933/34), 211 – PJ Solway (1990/91), 207- NH Fairbrother (1988/89), 205 – JN Williams (1988/89), 200 – MJ Dawn (2001/02), 200- C Brown (2008/09) Owen Chivers 204* and Michael Spaseski 221 in same match 2013/14 .[6]
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Today, the team represents ACT in the lower-levelSecond XI competition, a reserve grade to the Sheffield Shield. The Comets finished the 2005–06 season in fourth place with two outright wins. The Comets took out their first ever title in the 2010–11 season.[7]
