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Masvingo Sports Club, Masvingo Scottish Saltires2 The Grange Club, Edinburgh Changed England to Great Britain webb sites for India, kenya, Canada, Bengal Cricket Association, Delhi & District Cricket Association, Goa Cricket Association, Hyderabad Cricket Association, Mumbai Cricket Association,Punjab Cricket Association, Rajasthan Cricket Association, were also put by the same user why not thank him for that :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.109.14.129 (talk) 00:43, 28 April 2008

He also changed kenyan select from the Zimbabwe table and put it as a guest team. You think he knows nothing about cricket.

Why not have a list domestic cricket teams. (UTC)

No reason why? Northern Territory should not play first-class cricket they produced the likes of Mathew Stuart Sinclair Born November 9, 1975, Katherine, Northern Territory Australia and played for Major teams like New Zealand, Central Districts. there is Darwin League. ... The Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) Masters will be touring Alice Springs and Darwin from 1-5 May. Some of the players touring include Darren Lehman, Greg Matthews, Terry Alderman and local boy Ken Skewes. The ACA Masters will be playing an Alice Springs representative side on Thursday 1 May at Traeger Park starting at 6pm. A Sportsmans VIP function will be held on the Top Deck of the Grandstand, tickets are avaliable for purchace. For more information please see the attached FLYER. A super clinic will also be held for school kids on Friday 2 May. The ACA Masters will head to Darwin on Sunday 4 May and will be attending the first round of the McDonald's Cup Twenty20 competition at Gardens Oval starting at 11am for a super clinic which will be held in between matches. On Monday 5 May the ACA Masters will be playing a Darwin represetnative side at Gardens Oval starting a 1:30pm. Tickets for the game will be available at the gate or at the NT Cricket office. Tickets are $5 for Adults and children under 16 are free. A sportsmans luncheon will be held at the Waratah Sports Club starting at 12 noon, tickets are available for purchase from the NT Cricket office (limited number of tickets available). Please see FLYER for more details. there is a test venue Marrara Oval Darwin

comments Transcript 13/11/2000 Cricket's big guns inspire untapped talent of the Top End.

KERRY O'BRIEN: A trivia question to test the keenest of cricket buffs.

Name the only current Test cricketer born in the Northern Territory?

The answer is Matthew Sinclair, who bats at number three for New Zealand but who was born in Katherine.

That's just a slightly roundabout way of pointing out the paucity of first-class cricketers who've come from the Top End.

Understandable, of course, given that the Territory is not on the beaten track as a rule for touring teams.

So local cricket will receive a much-needed boost when the West Indies takes on a Territory XI in Alice Springs tomorrow.

Mike Sexton reports.

MIKE SEXTON: Ken Vowles is preparing for the match of his life.

Tomorrow, the all-rounder lines up for the Northern Territory against the West Indies.

KEVIN VOWLES: I think you've got to have a love for the game.

Most cricketers say they keep playing until the legs won't work any more and they can't lift their arm above their shoulder, and I think I'll be the same.

MIKE SEXTON: While this match is a big one for Ken, it's also a huge test for the sport in the Top End because a good result against the tourists will boost the Territory's ambitious plans to expand the sport.

RALPH WIESE, PRESIDENT, NORTHERN TERRITORY CRICKET ASSOCIATION: It's a feature game for the Northern Territory cricket.

Within the context of our development across the future, we need to be able to perform well and our players need to be able to perform well to highlight where cricket can possibly go in the Northern Territory in the future.

DENNIS LILLEE: Fast bowling requires what we call fast twitch muscles and you only have to look at them playing football and see how quick they are and how dynamic they are.

Then you can relate certainly that that muscle movement would go very well for fast bowling.

MIKE SEXTON: Australia's greatest ever fast bowler, Dennis Lillee, agrees there's enormous potential in the Territory just waiting to be harnessed.

It's an opinion he formed after coaching in and around Darwin this year.

DENNIS LILLEE: The first thing I did when I got back was I got in touch with the people at the board of control and said, "You've got to send people out there as much as you can, your top-line players, so they can relate to them from telly, and do some coaching in those communities, because there are so many young lads and girls there that are just so keen on having a go".

The Northern Territory desperately wants to be included in the ACB Cup, the state's second XI competition.

DAVID KELLY, NORTHERN TERRITORY COACH: I think it's vital.

You have to have something for the young cricketers in the Northern Territory to aspire to and obviously the higher competition that's available to them, the better it is for them.

MALCOLM SPEED, CEO, AUSTRALIAN CRICKET BOARD: Yes, we see the Northern Territory as an opportunity to expand cricket.

This year, the Northern Territory team has been to South Australia and Victoria to play against a mixture of their first XI and their second XI, so there is an opportunity to do more there.

MIKE SEXTON: The Territory's second goal is to make Northern Australia a venue for international matches.

A new agreement makes it compulsory for all Test nations to play each other at least once every five years which means Australia will soon be meeting cricketing newcomers Kenya, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

MALCOLM SPEED: There's a good chance that over the next few years, we'll be playing some of the newer Test-playing nations, countries like Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in Darwin or Far North Queensland.

MIKE SEXTON: For Ken Vowles, the possibility of furthering his first-class career while living in the Top End is the best of both worlds.

With his Aboriginal heritage, he has deep roots in the Territory and like so many others, he believes the future of cricket in this part of the country lies in its Indigenous communities.

KEVIN VOWLES: If you go over to the islands - Bathurst and Melville islands - it's just amazing over there.

All the guys who play football are just naturally gifted.

There's a few quick guys over there, pretty scary to face, actually.

MIKE SEXTON: For years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island players have electrified Australian Rules football and Rugby League, but the Indigenous history of cricket is a different story.

In 1868, a team of Aborigines were the first Australians to tour England.

But since then, there has been less than a dozen Aboriginal first-class cricketers.

Current fast bowler Jason Gillespie is the only man with Aboriginal heritage to make the Test side.

Today, ACB officials met Aboriginal leaders to discuss promotion strategies.

MALCOLM SPEED: It's very important they we get feedback from them.

It's not appropriate that we come in and say, "Look, this is what we do in other parts of Australia so we're going to do it here with you."

We want to have those meetings and we'll go away from them and give that some thought.

MIKE SEXTON: Territory officials believe their strategy will put the game on the front foot and it will be helped considerably if tomorrow they can put the Windies on the back foot.

KEVIN VOWLES: It puts competitive cricket in front of people and it gives us an opportunity to show what we can do.

We'll be going all out to win it.

We never enter anything to lose.

KERRY O'BRIEN: If you're ever going to play the West Indies, now's the time to do it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.109.14.130 (talk) 02:30, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


Why d'ont we make a page for regional cricket associations in each country —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.109.14.130 (talk) 02:36, 30 April 2008 (UTC)