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The cricket season may just be begining and the oval at Masterton’s Queen Elizabeth II park won’t see any action for a week or two yet, but for head groundsman John Fletcher the preparation has been underway for months. In fact work on preparing the block began almost immediately after the previous playing season was over. “Our first job was to scarify the surface of the block which is basically a machine the rips up the grass and a little bit of the clay. Then we put new gra

Recently appointed Wairarapa senior women’s cricket coach Patrick Wootton is looking forward to the new challenge. “Yeah, I’m pretty happy and looking forward to stepping up into the senior space and challenging myself and seeing how we can go as a team,” he says. This year’s squad has a number of new players whom Patrick has coached at secondary school level. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the younger girls can do at the senior level. So seeing how they stack up against

A combined Red Star/Lansdowne team and Greytown will play in this year’s Pre-Christmas Coastal Challenge cricket competition. Wairarapa Cricket Operations Manager Melissa Hansen said that just a few weeks ago things weren’t looking good for the competition with Manawatu reluctant to join in, “but after a bit of work they eventually decided it would be good preparation for the Furlong Cup.” The competition begins on October 17th and both Wairarapa teams have drawn home games f

Wairarapa Cricket has released the representative draw for the Wairarapa Men’s and Women’s teams. There are four senior women’s games to be played at the Masterton Oval in November and early December, and the senior men have two home games in January. Representative home games: Senior Women Sunday 8th November Wairarapa (vs) Hawkes Bay Sat 21st & Sun 22nd November Wairarapa (vs) Taranaki (two matches) Sunday 6th December Wairarapa (vs) Manawatu Senior Men Sat 9th & Sun 10th J

The Wairarapa senior men's cricket squad held a training session at Rathkeale College’s cricket centre on Saturday morning. Coach Chris Jefferies and assistant coach Alistair Payne had the team in the nets getting in practice for the upcoming season. The squad has two pre-season warm-up T20 games against Wainuiomata at Wairarapa College this coming Saturday, 3rd October.