Motueka Cricket Club is the oldest cricket club in New Zealand and is currently in a rebuilding phase. Filled with young talent it is an exciting place to be. Located about 35km from Nelson, Motueka is a quiet country town.
Committee Member Gary Agnew says, “We’ve been providing cricket in our local community in one form or another for 164 years now. We are the oldest surviving cricket club in New Zealand (going on advice by the NZ cricket museum and other cricket historians). We are determined to keep our club legacy alive and thriving for future cricket generations in our community.”
“To date we have sufficient players to fill 2 and a half Senior sides, 1 College, 1 intermediate and 2 Primary School teams. Plus at least 50 on the Friday evening junior development programme that runs for 16 weeks of the season. This year we ran an Adult/Child social 6-a-side Friday evening tournament for 8 weeks where parents and kids played together and it was lots of fun and inclusive. Plus we will be running our in-school 'Have a go” sessions through the season. We'll aim to do at least 15 days which we estimate will connect with approximately 750 children.
A big part of this development is finding sufficient volunteers to support the sides. I am proud to say that this year we have sufficient volunteers to provide coaching and management support to all of our sides. As part of this effort we were very pleased to see our Junior Co-ordinator, Mark Simkin was awarded the Sir Jack Newman Award which recognises an outstanding junior cricket administrator for his or her voluntary services to the development of the junior game in New Zealand - and is named after a man who epitomised that kind of service. It was very much deserved and reflects the huge effort Mark and his wife Karla have put in over the last 10 years of being involved with junior cricket at the Motueka Cricket Club and Mark’s involved with the club over the last 30 years as a player, coach and committee member.
A big part of this development is finding sufficient volunteers to support the sides. I am proud to say that this year we have sufficient volunteers to provide coaching and management support to all of our sides. As part of this effort we were very pleased to see our Junior Co-ordinator, Mark Simkin was awarded the Sir Jack Newman Award which recognises an outstanding junior cricket administrator for his or her voluntary services to the development of the junior game in New Zealand - and is named after a man who epitomised that kind of service. It was very much deserved and reflects the huge effort Mark and his wife Karla have put in over the last 10 years of being involved with junior cricket at the Motueka Cricket Club and Mark’s involved with the club over the last 30 years as a player, coach and committee member.
NZCT provided a grant of $12,832 for indoor venue hire, new equipment, and ground fees.