Sport
7 October, 2024
Cricket season almost underway
WITH summer searing its way back into Far North Queensland, local cricket clubs are gearing up for another season beginning 12 October.
The Mareeba Bandits have been at it in their preparation, training hard and developing
confidence as a team and are looking to “pull a couple teams’ pants down this season”.
“Numbers are looking great this season, we are looking to fill three senior teams in first, third and fourth grade, but we would definitely love to see more people join the club” said Bandits captain Brendan Falvo.
“Our preparation for this season has been better than ever, we had a personal trainer of the club conduct fitness training in the winter.
“And coming into the season we have been doing skill-based training with 20 seniors and
many juniors training hard with coach Gary Toshach being the driving force.
“There’s been half a dozen of us who got picked up for regional rep duties and drafted into the Barrier Reef Big Bash. “I feel that as players and a club we are getting recognised
as a force and that our players do have the skills to match the best, which is a proud moment as a captain and a born and bred Mareeba boy,” said Falvo.
“Last year was our first season back in first grade for over a decade and with the limited
experience we had we only managed to win one game.
“But with that experience behind us and players both new and returning added to the squad, we’ll be looking to pull a couple teams’ pants down this season with the confidence we have built up as a team,” said Falvo.
For more information on how to become a Bandit visit the Mareeba Cricket page on Facebook and Instagram or “contact the club directly if you are keen and looking for a great club and sport to be a part of”. The Atherton Cricket Club has recently installed new nets at their Loder Park training facility, also noting that their numbers are looking better than last year, especially the juniors, whose numbers are “well up”.
After being “washed out” in the semi-finals last year due to wet weather, Atherton wrote the season off and are determined to come back firing this season.
“Our preparations are going great, we’ve just put in new nets and it looks like we’ve got
more players than last year, the junior numbers are well up,” said Atherton Cricket president Tony Potts.
“We got washed out in the semi’s last year, so it didn’t count.”
Visit Atherton Cricket on Facebook for more information on joining the club.
