Christian Brothers Cricket Week 06

Story Added : April 2006

27 teams from 19 different schools participated in this year’s Christian Brothers’ Cricket Week, held at Brisbane’s Nudgee College from 10 – 17 January.

School boy cricketers and their coaches, managers and supporters travelled from Charters Towers, Rockhampton, Yeppoon, Melbourne, Sydney, Goulburn, Canberra, Auckland and Dunedin to participate in the annual event, now in its 30th year.

“The standard of cricket was extremely high, and there were numerous games decided in the last few balls of the match,” said Nudgee’s cricket co-ordinator Matt Hawkins. “All games were played in fantastic spirit,“ he said.

Kavanagh College from Dunedin won the Shield Division of the event over St Laurence’s 1. Nudgee 3 was successful in taking out the Br Dave White Plate in the second division, with a win over St Laurence’s 2.
Australian cricket coach John Buchanan spoke at the closing ceremony, expressing similar sentiments. He congratulated the boys for being part of such a good carnival.

Mr Buchanan also spoke about the importance of holding onto dreams and of working towards those dreams. He presented medallions to the players selected in the Australasian XI – one of whom was Year 11 Nudgee boy, Chris Lynn - as well as individual awards. Congratulations Chris!

Joe Burns from Nudgee College & Ryan Archer from St Peters NZ on the pitch at Nudgee’s oss Oval.