About Us
The Australian Transplant Cricket Club is an arm of Transplant Australia.
While Australia has one of the best transplant success rates in the world, it has one of the lowest organ donation rates. The ATCC's aim is to promote and demonstrate through cricket the extra chance at life that organ and tissue donation can make and to provide cricket-loving members with the opportunity to play a second innings and become Twice the Cricketer.
The outcome that the ATCC would like to see is that more Australians are encouraged to consider organ donation so that lives are not lost to chronic disease where transplantation is a viable form of treatment.
Generally when the ATCC takes the field, eleven players represent twenty-two lives. Other than non-transplant supporters invited to play on special occasions, all ATCC members have had an organ or tissue transplant of some kind and their match participation is largely self-funded. The team composition is not fixed and is made up of players from around Australia identifying themselves as available for fixtures.
Not all ATCC players compete regularly, but when the opportunity to promote the cause of organ and tissue donation is available, members come together from all walks of life, and across age groups and from various parts of the country to competitively take the field.
In recognition of its unique character, the Australian Transplant Cricket Club was recognised by ABC Grandstand in January 2006 as its 2005 Cricket Club of the Year.
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