North East Junior Country Week will be completed next month after Monday's play was called off due to the smoke haze.
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"All indications are the smoke will be as bad as today (Sunday)," Cricket Albury Wodonga chairman Michael Erdeljac said.
The annual Country Week event involves teams from CAW, Wangaratta and Wagga associations.
The first two days went ahead largely as planned before Saturday's play was abandoned in advance of Albury recording its hottest temperature in history of 46.1 degrees.
All of Sunday's matches in Albury-Wodonga were called off, although a number of games were played in outlying areas, particularly Wangaratta.
CAW is looking to finish the carnival, most likely on Sunday, February 2.
"We'll play two T20 rounds and at this point we'll bring everybody back to Albury-Wodonga," Erdeljac said.
"There will be no finals, it will be first past the post system and we'll still have a presentation and a function, we've just got to work that out."
Country Week caters for six boys' grades from under 17s to 12s, while the girls played under 15s on Thursday with representative commitments in Melbourne not allowing any more matches.
The smoke haze during Country Week was largely from the nearby Upper Murray fires with two potential air quality index readings causing some confusion.
As instructed by Cricket NSW, CAW used the AirVisual reading, which is an international air pollution app.
Yesterday's mid-morning's reading was 173.
Meanwhile, the NSW Government Department of Planning, Industry and Environment's AQI rating on Friday morning was 1010 - more than five times what the NSW Department of Health deems hazardous to human health.
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In Sunday's play, Wangaratta Gold's Waitai Tua posted an unbeaten 101 in the under 16 match against Wangaratta Blue.
Tua struck 14 boundaries from his 132 deliveries in the team's 2-199 from its 40 overs.
Blue was skittled for 92 as Caleb Mitchell snared the remarkable figures of 3-5 from six overs with five maidens, while Tom Montgomery also snared three wickets.
At under 15 level, Wangaratta Blue posted 6-118 from 36 overs with CAW Country dismissed for 87.
Jett Peters took 4-1 from four overs with three maidens.
In the under 13s, Wangaratta Blue's Jobe Fraser was retired not out on 54 in the 8-194 with Wangaratta Gold posting 7-124.
And in the under 12s, Wangaratta Blue toppled Gold with the latter's Jed Marek taking 3-10.
