COUNTRY Week organisers say they hope Cricket Albury-Wodonga ends its hiatus and re-joins the representative competition.
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CAW will not play in February’s tournament in Melbourne and has not entered a team since losing the Division 4 final to Warragul and District back in 2013.
Victorian Country Cricket League secretary Keith Thompson said while he was disappointed CAW wasn’t playing in 2016, he hopes it can return in the future.
“Yes it is disappointing not to have them because we’d like to have every association,” Thompson said.
“We’d like to think we’ll have them again.
“We’d like to think we could get Albury back to play because they are most welcome and we’d like to see them.”
Instead of playing Country Week, CAW opted to play in the SCG Country Cup and Konica-Minolta Cup.
It won the final of the Regional Big Bash at the SCG on December 6 against Northern Inland Bolters.
The Wangaratta association has entered a team in Division 3, in what will be its first tournament since the inclusion of the Benalla and district clubs.
It will be the first time in many years Benalla hasn’t entered a Country Week team and Thompson said the WDCA, which will be captained by Greg Daniel, could have entered two teams.
"Should they have wished to, there was nothing stopping Wangaratta entering one team or two teams or let the Benalla clubs field a Country Week team themselves,” he said.
The tournament runs from February 1-5.
