Manawatu Cricket Association
Why we should receive the grant:
The Manawatu Cricket Association is the driving force behind community and school cricket in the Manawatu, Tararua and Dannevirke regions. Numbers in Junior cricket have slipped over the 2017 winter and it is our duty to help promote and encourage our national summer game as best as we can. Unfortunately, most of the time this requires money. We are introducing new cricketing formats such as, Last Man Stands and Dual Pitch, as well as running NZC and MCA programs like Superstar Cricket Academy, Skills challenges, Country Schools festival days and cricket modules etc. We need more than just to turn up and play cricket. We believe banners (signs), clothing and coloured balls and stumps are all essential in promoting our game and changing negative perceptions (that our game takes all day) in to positive ones.
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