12/01/2023
🏏 Day 4
What an amazing day to end a fantastic 4 days of cricket at the Kookaburra NZ U17 Girls Tournament.
Wellington took out the finals against Central Districts and Auckland beat Northern Districts to finish third.
But it was the high standard of play, game awareness and camaraderie that took centre place and this is a credit to the respective Major Associations and their Pathway Staff involved (Auckland/Jonny Bassett-Graham, Central/Jamie Watkins, Northern/Brett Sorrenson & Wellington/Chris Nevin) in the development of the cricketers.
Winners of the Inaugural Kookaburra NZ Under 17 Girls Tournament.
👏 Spotlight Reporting Wellington Under 17
Anya Birmingham, Kendyll Cooper, Hannah Francis (C), Ashleigh Henderson, Bree James, Isla McKenzie, Esme Olney-Boyd, Emma Parker, Neha Ramanathan, Lucy Robinson, Hannah Ryan (C), Carys Seddon. Coach, Justine Dunce. Assistant Coach, Paul Young.
MVP Award - Kookaburra Sponsorship
👏👏 - Hannah Ryan
Most Improved Award - Players Kookaburra Award
👏👏👏 - Issy O'Connell (Auckland)
👏👏👏 - Caitlin Marshall (Central Districts)
👏👏👏 - Aimee Unwin (Northern Districts)
👏👏👏 - Emma Parker (Wellington)
Thank you to Kookaburra Cricket AUS and NZ for partnering with Manawatū Cricket Association in creating and driving this initiative for the development of this age group which leads nicely to the Under 19 space.
Many thanks to:
🟩 Palmerston North City Council, Andy May, Dylan Lynch and the awesome ground staff for preparing great wickets despite the testing weather conditions.
🟩🟩 Our Umpires : Georgia Atkinson, Cole Freeman, Logan Hey, Akhil Kumar, Pramveer Kharoud, Gareth Pringle, Alex Pringle
🟩🟩🟩 Team Coaches and Management for working with MCA throughout the tournament to ensure an enjoyable cricket experience was had: Henry Cameron & Shelly Fruin (Auckland), Jess Watkin & Amy Foreman (CD), Jason Onslow & Janice Fraser, Justine Dunce & Paul Young
🟩🟩🟩🟩 The fantastic Parents from all the teams who helped with the daily packdowns - Massive thank you!
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MCA Staff: Tim Richards, Dilan Raj, Cole Freeman, Jess Watkin. Central Disticts Staff: Nigel Brooke
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Photo Credit - Sally Wenham
Tournament Photographs (Free to use, please tag Kookaburra NZ Under 17 Girls Tournament) - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VTkwYZ85EDdDFKgMl8vwVL8Ijorp2SqH?usp=share_link
Scorecards: https://www.playhq.com/new-zealand-cricket/org/central-districts-cricket/age-group-tournaments-summer-202223/kookaburra-under-17-girls-tournament/8631bdc2
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