Cricket Albury-Wodonga’s ability to handle successive junior tournaments will dictate whether it hosts the second one on a three-year deal.
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The annual North East Junior Country Week starts on Wednesday, but it’s next week’s Bradman and Kookaburra Cups which will be monitored.
“Cricket NSW has asked us to host the statewide competitions but, to be fair, we want to see how it works,” CAW chairman Michael Erdeljac said.
“Nobody’s done what we’re doing, we’re holding Country Week for five days straight into the Bradman-Kookaburra Cups for five days.
“It’s 10 days worth of cricket, we just need to make sure that we’re capable of doing what we say we can do.”
Country Week involves eight grades and around 500 players at almost 40 venues in CAW, Wangaratta and Wagga associations.
The competition’s heat policy has been enforced for Wednesday and Thursday.
Matches have been brought forward an hour to 9am and will be played in Quarters cricket, whereby a team bowls 10 overs from one end, followed by a drinks break, with another 10 from the opposite end.
A decision on whether play proceeds on Friday, which is tipped to hit 43 degrees, will be made on Thursday afternoon.
Information will be available on CAW’s Facebook, website and team apps.
The under 16 Bradman and under 14 Kookaburra Cups comprise the state’s eight country zones.
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