But while Saturday's mark of 46.1 degrees Celcius is official, Albury's air quality index reading went missing in action on Sunday.

Environmental Protection Agency readings were available for Wangaratta and Wagga at midday, though Albury's had not been updated since a "hazardous" reading of 461 was recorded on Friday at 8pm.

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Smoke from major bushfires burning in the North East, East Gippsland and the NSW South Coast reduced visibility on the Border to just a few hundred metres yesterday.

The Albury air quality monitoring site is located at Jelbart Park in North Albury and is meant to provide hourly pollutant concentrations, a 24-hour summary and an air quality index.

The smoke led to all of Sunday's Albury-Wodonga-based matches in North East Junior Country Week being called off, but play continued in some outlying areas, including Wangaratta and Holbrook.

The temperature peaked at 46.1 degrees Celsius on Saturday at 2.43pm, having broken the 40-degree barrier by about 1pm.

These high temperatures were accompanied by strong winds from the north and west, then later south-west, of around the 30km/h to 35km/h mark for five hours from about 2pm.

Gust of up to 61km/h were recorded by the Bureau of Meteorology.

Albury's previous heat record was set on January 16, 2019, when the temperature peaked at 45.3 degrees.

Meanwhile, two major junior cricket tournaments scheduled to be played across Albury-Wodonga next week have been cancelled due to the Upper Murray bushfire crisis.

The Bradman and Kookaburra cups, which the Border successfully hosted last year, was due to begin on Tuesday, but parents of players due to compete were notified by Cricket NSW officials on Saturday of its cancellation.

"As all would understand, this decision has not been taken lightly," Cricket NSW said.

"The conditions in our state are unprecedented, including the destruction of property and nature, mass evacuations of towns and the loss of loved ones.

"Cricket NSW takes pride in caring for our people, and this is one time where we could not guarantee the safety of players and their families throughout the state to Albury, the air quality once in Albury, the danger of impending fire threat while in Albury as well as not being able to guarantee a timely return to home ports from Albury following the tournaments."