Recently appointed Wairarapa senior women’s cricket coach Patrick Wootton is looking forward to the new challenge. “Yeah, I’m pretty happy and looking forward to stepping up into the senior space and challenging myself and seeing how we can go as a team,” he says. This year’s squad has a number of new players whom Patrick has coached at secondary school level. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the younger girls can do at the senior level. So seeing how they stack up against

Despite not making it into the semi finals, the Douglas Villa U19 team had a somewhat successful time at the annual Bob Bamford U19 tournament played in Upper Hutt over the weekend. Placed in the toughest pool, Villa started the competition on Saturday with a good win over Upper Hutt, lost their second game to eventual tournament winners Wellington Olympic, and then Western Suburbs ran away with the third game, six to nil, leaving the Wairarapa side bottom of the table on goa

A combined Red Star/Lansdowne team and Greytown will play in this year’s Pre-Christmas Coastal Challenge cricket competition. Wairarapa Cricket Operations Manager Melissa Hansen said that just a few weeks ago things weren’t looking good for the competition with Manawatu reluctant to join in, “but after a bit of work they eventually decided it would be good preparation for the Furlong Cup.” The competition begins on October 17th and both Wairarapa teams have drawn home games f

Wairarapa Cricket has released the representative draw for the Wairarapa Men’s and Women’s teams. There are four senior women’s games to be played at the Masterton Oval in November and early December, and the senior men have two home games in January. Representative home games: Senior Women Sunday 8th November Wairarapa (vs) Hawkes Bay Sat 21st & Sun 22nd November Wairarapa (vs) Taranaki (two matches) Sunday 6th December Wairarapa (vs) Manawatu Senior Men Sat 9th & Sun 10th J