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District Team Self Nomination Forms for Yr 7 – Yr 10 Boys & Girls Now Open
South Canterbury Cricket are calling for nominations for our Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 Boys and Girls District teams for this season.
The Festivals take place on the following dates;
- Year 10 Boys – Timaru Dec 16th – 18th
- Year 9 Boys – Christchurch Dec 16th -18th
- Year 9 & 10 Girls – Oamaru Dec 15th – 17th
- Year 8 Boys – Blenheim & Buller January 5th – 8th 2025 (2 teams)
- Year 7 Boys – Timaru January 17th – 19th 2025
- Year 7 & 8 Girls – Christchurch January 15th – 17th 2025
There are also warm up matches starting November 3rd so we need nominations in by 5pm Friday October25th !!!!
While the deposit to confirm your entry isn’t required until Nov 8th it is imperative that you register your interest asap as we have the first warmup match scheduled for a fortnight.
Please follow the link below for full details and to nominate yourself.
Club Registrations open for Adult & Youth Grades for 2024-25
Player Registrations for all South Canterbury Cricket Players playing in Senior, Second, Third and Colts Grades for the 2024-25 cricket season are now open.
Junior cricketers DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER again unless they are new players as you already registered for the year in January.
Visit this page to register now https://www.southcanterburycricket.co.nz/club-player-registration/
Find your club name and the correct link for adult grades and fill in the details.
KEEP THE DATE !!
BINGO, AUCTION & PRIZEGIVING FUNDRAISER
South Canterbury Cricket is holding a major fundraising event on Friday night October 4th in the Southern Trust Events Centre Lounge (upstairs in stadium at Aorangi Park).
The cost of living continues to rise as does the costs associated with playing and managing cricket so our Board is putting together this Bingo and Auction Night Event as a major fundraiser to help avoid raising club affiliation fees too much as well as costs to participate in district tournaments and other cricket activities.
We would love your support by registering for a table at the event (minimum of 4, maximum of 6 per table) using the link below.
* Note this event is R18 due to our liquor license.
REGISTER HERE TO CONFIRM YOUR TABLE NOW
On the night the doors will open from 6pm and the event itself will get under way at 7pm.
Once you are settled in with your group at your table there will be table service – you will be given a number to text with your order and it will be brought to your table. We will have eftpos available for easy pay!
For those of you asking why ‘Bingo’ we can assure you it isn’t just normal Bingo, there are stories, fun sections and a variety of ways to fill up your numbers. and win prizes.
We will also be holding an Auction on the night with some great items available to bid for. Nearer the event we will publish a list of the main items so you can put in bids if unable to attend.
If you read this and have any items you wish to donate to the Cricket Auction please get in touch with Mark on 0272698654 or via email to sccricket@xtra.co.nz – he would love to hear from you.
Also during the break we will present some of the individual awards from last season. We will notify recipients to ensure they can attend.
Costs:$20 per person (includes bingo tickets, finger food).
Pay on the night individually when you get your tickets, etc, but teams still need to register a table and name a contact person please.
A fully licensed bar including eftpos and table service
Raffles, Auction and Prizegiving.
FUN FUN FUN for a great cause.
We look forward to receiving your registrations and a great way to kick the season off with Senior Cricket getting under way the next day.
Year 9 & 10 District Teams Nominations
Start Dates Update
School Holiday Programme Registrations Open
South Canterbury Cricket will be running a Cricket Holiday Programme for boys and girls from Yr 2 – Yr 6 at the Graeme Blanchard Indoor Cricket Centre during the first week of the Sept/Oct school holidays from September 26th – 28th 2023.
We are notifying you early so you can plan your holidays around your child’s love for cricket!
For full details and to register visit https://www.southcanterburycricket.co.nz/holiday-programmes/
Register Now For Pre-season Training for Year 7 -13 Players
Registrations for South Canterbury Cricket Pre-season training have NOW CLOSED for people in the Year 7 -13 age groups as fully subscribed.
You will be notified soon of training times, etc.
Graeme Blanchard Indoor Cricket Centre Hire Rates
Unfortunately due to inflation and the increase in the lease costs, South Canterbury Cricket has had to increase the Graeme Blanchard Indoor Net hire costs as of August 1st 2023.
These are still great value and cheaper than other districts in our region so we hope you continue to utilise these great facilities.
The new charges are;
Single Lane $25 / Hour
Bowling Machine $25 / Hour
Whole Centre $70 / Hour
1-1 Coaching $50 / Hour
Bookings are still essential so either contact Mark on 027 269 8654 or Gilky on 02102313118 to book.
You can check the nets availability any time at https://www.southcanterburycricket.co.nz/bookings/ or if booking form unavailable visit the top of our Facebook page to check at https://www.facebook.com/southcanterburycricket
South Canterbury Cricket Association Awards 2022-2023 Season
Below you can find the list of the South Canterbury Cricket award winners for the 2022 – 2023 season.
Congratulations to all trophy or award winners, and hard luck to close runners-up, both teams and individuals.
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Featured Awards – Highlights
ALLAN EDGINTON TROPHY
Roger & Nic Buckingham
FOR SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR:
Roger & Nic Buckingham (Pleasant Point, SC)
The ‘A’ team since moving to South Canterbury this power couple have become fully involved in cricket, and not just for their own children but for the community around them.
Roger has used his expertise (and his labour) to this year build 3 new grass pitches at Pleasant Point which will all be fully utilised by their club and others by next season. He was instrumental in the transition of Colts grade to a mid week competition which has brought many more cricketers along while organising 3 Pleasant Point sides, communicating with other clubs and schools so that we could get all players a game somewhere as well as helping the growing third grade competition.
He still coaches at all these levels, fills in as a player in whichever team needs him for his club and can be seen around the matches all weekend.
He also manages or coaches South Canterbury rep sides.
Nicola (Nic) is just as an important part of this partnership – if she didn’t let Roger out none of this would happen, but Nic isn’t just the supportive wife – she does all the paperwork too managing the Point playhq databases, sorting scoring and scorers, loading teams, and that alone has been huge this year with PlayHQ. She always has a smile (especially before she is about to ask Mark Medlicott a trick question) but always with the intention of making things run smoothy. While Point won NZ Club of the Year last season due to a community and many individuals efforts, Roger and Nic’s contribution to that effort has also been recognised by Pleasant Point.
Everyone in South Canterbury Cricket knows this great couple, you never hear a bad word said because we all understand they do everything they do to make cricket a better game with better resources, administration and opportunities not just for their own family but for the whole community and this year I don’t believe we could have better recipients of the Sports Personality(s) of the Year Award.
SOUTH CANTERBURY SUPPORTERS CLUB TROPHY
Josh Rooney
To Player/Umpire/Administrator who contributes most on or off the field::
While still young Josh Rooney has taken on responsibilities that many of his peers steer well clear of. He is secretary and senior captain for the Temuka Cricket Club, ends up organizing the team most weeks, plus does the scoring. He has also been a valuable Board member for South Canterbury after starting as the Players Representative a couple of years back and is always available to help fix or sort issues that arise whether at club or administrative level. Even his work bosses leave him in charge of cricket accounts, and he still finds time to play as well.
A great person who understands that all sports need administrators as much as players and continues to put his hand up. A very deserved recipient of this trophy.
GRAEME BLANCHARD MEMORIAL TROPHY
Jed McKerrow
For a youth cricketer who displays an excellent attitude on and off the field for fair play, a team player who inspires the spirit of cricket and has good work ethics:
Jed McKerrow (Roncalli, Celtic, SC A, SC Yr 11 & 12) – Jed has been involved with lots of teams this year, trialling for Canterbury U17 before Xmas, captained Roncalli 1sts, played senior for Celtic and was also in the SC A side as well as Year 11 & 12 rep team. Now that his injuries seem to be more behind him he has been able to train hard and play at every opportunity and shows dedication and commitment which are important aspects of this special award.
Individual Awards
WARNER CUP
Damon Morrison
Outstanding Club Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year (JAB Yr 7 & 8):
Damon Morrison (Pleasant Point, SC) – 500 + runs across club and rep with a best of 66, and took 10 wickets and a few catches and also kept wicket at times. Leading batsman at Festival for SC and second over all of the festival teams with 134 runs, so a great all round effort.
Yr 8 Festival Christchurch - Sportsmanship
Ryan Hampton
Sportsmanship and Spirit of Cricket Award at the South Island Schoolboy’s Festival – Christchurch:
Ryan Hampton (Star, SC) -– a really good lad who was always involved whether helping coach Taine Cordell-Hull or interacting with his team mates. He also had a top score of 46 at the festival, but importantly embodied sportsmanship and the spirit of cricket with everything he did and is a worthy recipient as we look to the future.
ROCKDALE KIA ORA TROPHY
Taine Cordell-Hull
Best Cricketer Under 21:
Taine finished second on the senior club bowling table with 30 wickets for the season as well as picking up wickets for SC A and also playing a couple of Hawke Cup matches. While this award is for the best cricketer U21 we would be remiss not to point out that Taine also coached a SC Yr 9 & 10 side at their festival in Chch and also a Year 8 rep side also at a festival in Chch where there was heaps of positive feedback about how great he was with the youngsters and the respect and learnings they ad got from him, and there were lots of happy parents about how he conducted himself with the team too.
SCCUA GRAEME LOWRIE SPIRIT OF CRICKET AWARD
Liam Beck
For the Senior Cricketer who Epitomizes the Way the Game should be Played: Decided by Umpires:
Liam Beck (Pleasant Point) – The batsmen had ran, then called yes for the second run, with the batsman going to the non strikers end with him clearly short of the popping crease, there was an excited appeal. “Liam Beck said immediately, I withdraw the appeal as I removed the bails before the ball arrived”.
L NIXON CUP
Josh Caird
Outstanding South Canterbury Player at the South Island Schoolboy’s Festival – Alexandra:
Josh Caird (Waihi, SC) – topped the festival bowling with 10 wickets including 6 for 5 in one match! He was also SC’s second highest aggregate batsman with 85 runs and a HS of 58.
EDDIE McEWEN MEMORIAL TROPHY
Fletcher McCall
Best Player Year 9 & 10 Festival:
Fletcher McCall (Pleasant Point, TBHS, SC) – Fletcher had a high score of 81 finishing 3rd on the overall festival batting table as well as taking wickets.
MOA PUBLICATIONS CUP
Luke Slee
Best Player at Year 11 & 12 Festival:
Luke Slee (STAC, Temyua, SC) – Averaged 53 with the bat at tournament including a high score of 75 and fielded well too. The coach said it was a tough decision with a few contenders but Luke has a good attitude on and off the field as well and respect from peers.
WARD CUP
Alan Reid
Best Player in Second Grade:
Alan Reid (Waimate) – Alan took 34 wickets @ average of 8.32 for the season as well as scoring 250 runs @ 31 and taking 7 catches and is always someone opposition teams target still.
Individual Awards – Senior Club & Representative
WILLIAMS CUP
Sam Carlaw
Club Bowler of the Year:
Sam Carlaw (Celtic) – Took 38 wickets @ 4.79 average – Economy rate of 1.77 with a best bowling of 6/12
SENIOR REP BATSMAN
Glen Drake
Rep Batsman of the Year:
Glen Drake (Temuka, SC) – scored 238 runs with a top score of 112 and also scored two fifties to average 47.6 in Hawke Cup this season finishing second overall in the zone.
GALWEY TROPHY
Matt Brown
GALWEY TROPHY – Senior CLUB Batsman of the Year:
Matt Brown (Pleasant Point) – scored 572 runs @ 40.86 ave, High Score of 123, plus 3 more fifties.
PHIL D’AUVERGNE TROPHY
Phil Lill
For Player who Contributed Most on and off the field for the Senior Rep team: Chosen by Coach and Players.:
Phil Lill (Temuka, SC) – Phil was the players choice this season as he retired and farewelled his fellow seahorses with his best season yet. Always part of the banter, Phil has performed all sorts of roles for SC since making the team from 12th man duties, wicketkeeping, off-spin and most positions in the batting order covered off over the years, but he has always encouraged his team mates, gets right into the “mind games of cricket” and loved representing South Canterbury so fitting the coaches and players have chosen him for this award as he bows out.
SENIOR REP BOWLER
Shaun Rooney
Rep Bowler of the Year:
Shaun Rooney (Temuka, SC) took 12 wickets including a match analysis of 5-66 in the Hawke Cup match v North Otago.
JIM DAVIES CUP
Phil Lill
For Best Single Senior Club or Representative Performance for Season:
Phil Lill (Temuka, SC) took 6-25 in the Hawke Cup match against North Otago to destroy them in the second innings giving SC the outright win after taking 2-18 in their first innings. SC’s only outright win of season.
Team Awards
- NZ Cricket YR 7 & 8 Boys Cup – SC Tournament Winner: Waihi
- NZ Cricket YR 7 & 8 Girls Shield – SC Tournament Winner: Craighead
- THIRD GRADE Pre-Xmas: Twizel
- THIRD GRADE Post-Xmas: Roncalli
- SCCA Trophy Winner Senior Reserve/Second Grade A: Timaru
- SECOND GRADE SHIELD T20: Timaru
- SC CRICKET SHIELD SENIOR 20-20: Celtic
- Woolworths Cup Runner Up in One Day Competition: Technical
- DAILY FREIGHT WAYS One Day Trophy – ROUND ROBIN WINNER: Celtic
- TWEEDY CUP: Celtic
Situations Vacant – Groundsman
South Canterbury Boys Year 7 team named for March
The following South Canterbury Boys Year 7 team has been named to play 2 inter-district matches against Mid Canterbury in March 2023.
Nathan Andrew
Luke Bailey
Ethan Box
Henry Caird
Ben Compton
Oscar Elliotte
Cameron Hampton
Carter Horsley
Harry Jones
Jack Powell
Chase Thomas
Match dates and venues will be communicated to parents once confirmed.
Thank you to all the boys that came to the training.
* Note. While these players have been named for the two matches listed we expect to have 2 teams of this age group named for the festivals in January 2024, so there will still be plenty of opportunities for all players to be involved when the 2023-24 season gets under way.
January School Holiday Cricket Programme – Yr 2 – 6 Children
South Canterbury Cricket is holding our January Holiday cricket programme for boys and girls aged Year 2 to Year 6 next week from Tuesday to Thursday, January 24th, 25th & 26th. Register before Friday!
South Island Girls Year 9 & 10 Festival
This page has a link to the updated draws/ ground changes for the girls festival running Sunday (abandoned), Monday and Tuesday for coaches to access their new grounds for matches and also has links to maps to locate each venue.
Game Format Changes
The Festival has now been changed to a T15 not T20 Festival i.e. 15 overs aside and games are now scheduled to start at 9.30am each day not 10.30am.
As it is only 15 overs aside, bowlers will be restricted to a maximum of 3 overs each.
There are still no batting restrictions but we are strongly encouraging coaches to retire girls after about 20 balls in order to give as many players the opportunity to bat. Retired batsmen may return to bat once all the team are out and if there are overs remaining. With the fickle weather we ask that you try and ensure everyone gets a good opportunity across the three matches each day.
At this stage it looks highly likely that tomorrow’s matches will be transferred to artificial pitches at School Park and Anzac Square so a couple of teams may have a short drive to change venues in between games if playing at Anzac Square.
We are hopeful that the final day we can get all games back on Celtic Sports Ground and grass pitches, but as always the weather is outside our control.
A revised draw that shows what grounds you are playing on if not at Celtic can be found here -> Girls Yr 9 & 10 Draw & Grounds Backup
** Note: Monday matches are all now scheduled at the Reserve ground which are all artificial.
Start Times:
These have been adjusted on PlayHQ but ideally when teams are both ready please just start and tell the umpires you are all set to go. The new start times are also shown on the draws link above.
We recommend girls eat their lunches when batting as we don’t want to waste too much time between matches with ground changes required and hopefully we can get plenty of cricket in. There is a bigger break between game 1 and game 2 than later games to allow for delayed starts due to weather but after that we will hopefully run two matches one after the other.
As the draw is built to allow Southland the bye on the last game, on Monday if we can’t start on time, or close to it, then round 1 would be abandoned and we would move to round 2 and so on and on Tuesday regardless of what has happened on Monday we will start with Round 4 then Round 5 and 6 to follow.
Ground Location Maps
Any issues please contact Mark Medlicott directly on 027 2698654 or if his phone is busy check with Shane Gilkison on 021 0231 3118.
South Canterbury Cricket District Teams Representative Policy – Girls Year 9 & 10
South Canterbury Cricket District Teams Representative Policy – Girls Year 9 & 10
South Canterbury Cricket Assn due to an increase in the player numbers at most levels is now able to enter more inter-district festivals to give more players the opportunity of an experience playing at a higher level than club cricket.
For our female cricketers this is becoming more of the case too and this year we are hosting the South Island Girls Year 9 & 10 Festival here in South Canterbury.
This means we will now be asking for a registration of interest via the online form, and a signed Player Agreement (see attached) signed by the Guardian(s) to be available for selection to attend the festival.
South Canterbury has a representative team that will be attending theTimaru festival from Sunday 18th – Tuesday 20th of December 2022.;
We appreciate your support of this policy and hope that you can read the information, register your child, complete and sign the agreement by Saturday 18th November 2022.
The signed agreement can be returned to South Canterbury Cricket as follows;
- In person to Mark Medlicott or Shane Gilkison
- By scanning the signed document and returning to the SC Cricket office email sccricket@xtra.co.nz
- By post to PO Box 335, Timaru 7940
Representative Player Agreement – Please Print off, complete and return
South Canterbury Cricket Year 9 & 10 Rep Player Self-Nomination
South Canterbury Cricket District Teams Representative Policy – Year 9 & 10
South Canterbury Cricket Assn due to an increase in the player numbers at most levels is now able to enter more inter-district festivals to give more players the opportunity of an experience playing at a higher level than club cricket.
Entries to these festivals are regularly decided well in advance of the season and as such the Association has this year upgraded our policy to attempt to ensure that players who wish to partake, stay committed to attending the various festivals.
This means we will now be asking for a registration of interest via the online form, a non-refundable $100 deposit (see attached Player Agreement document for more details) and the Player agreement signed by the Guardian(s) to be available for selection to attend one of the festivals.
The deposit will be deducted from the final costs of attending the festival.
If registration numbers required do not meet team numbers required to attend/enter a festival, then the deposit would be refunded.
South Canterbury has representative teams that will be attending the following two festivals in Christchurch from Tues 13th – Thursday 15th of December 2022.;
- Nichols Festival
- Latham Festival
- (Both these festivals run on the same days / week.)
We appreciate your support of this policy and hope that you can read the information, register your child, complete and sign the agreement and make the deposit by Saturday 12th November 2022. Failure to do so indicates that your child is not available for selection in any Year 9 & 10 district sides this season.
The signed agreement can be returned to South Canterbury Cricket as follows;
- In person to Mark Medlicott or Shane Gilkison
- By scanning the signed document and returning to the SC Cricket office email sccricket@xtra.co.nz
- By post to PO Box 335, Timaru 7940
Representative Player Agreement – Please Print off, complete and return