WELCOME

The Goolwa Cricket Club would like to welcome players (new and old), parents and care givers to the Club for the upcoming season. You will find our Club to be a welcoming, supportive and inclusive Club that has an active off field social atmosphere and an on field passion to above all enjoy playing cricket. As a GOLD level Good Sports Club we have effective policies & action plans in place to create a safe & family-friendly club.

We strive to keep our Subs affordable. Our Junior players pay NO fees to the Club and only have to pay the National Registration fee to Cricket Australia currently at $16.

Senior fees at this stage are $120 which includes the National Registration fee.

COME & PLAY WITH US IN 2023 - 2024

We are already preparing for Blasters, Junior and Senior cricket for next season. We are currently looking for senior & junior players, a junior coach, a junior coordinator and volunteers to further develop our Club.

Our Teams & Programs

The Goolwa Cricket Club has a range of grades and teams to suit all levels of ability.
At the top end our A Grade team is in one of its most successful eras and has only missed the finals once in the last 10 years. However, we are still chasing an elusive premiership. With a re-energised Club this year with a state of the art practice facility, a new clubrooms, electronic scoreboard, and perhaps the best oval in the Association it is a great time to play in our top side.

Our lower grade teams play in the all 1 day game competitions that do not require players to commit to games over 2 weekends . The games are over in 1 day, and a reduced number of overs compared to the A Grade makes for a more enjoyable experience for our players whilst still catering for a competitive game. 2

Our C2 team includes some of the veterans of our Club, many of whom are past premiership players and who definitely play for the love of the game. They are looking for some younger players to join their team to do some of the more physical parts of the game from fast bowling to running quick singles, to fielding in the outfield and chasing down the big hits!!

They bring a lot of experience to the game and no matter what the final score they enjoy the game and the after match review back in the clubrooms where they discuss how lucky or unlucky their day went.

Our Under 12's Junior teams plays on Friday nights from 4.30 to approx 7.30 and is a modified rules match with each pair of batters facing 4 overs so that everyone gets a bat and bowl. It is a great fun night with the players gaining valuable cricket skills as well as learning how to enjoy a team environment with their local friends. The parents also have a great time watching and encouraging their children and seeing them gain confidence and those other life skills that come from playing any sport. Ages range from 9 - 12 and many teams have a mixture of boys and girls playing. At the change of innings the home clubs put on a BBQ and for parents it's a good social end to the week. Our coach Luke Giddings is a graduate of our first Under 12s team from the 1980s and is fantastic with the kids and at the end of every match goes through the highlights of what the team did well and awards a person of the match.

The Club is keen to get an Under 14s team together this year to build our future for the Club. Practices will start for all Juniors on Thursday 21st of September from 4.00 coinciding with the Club's first big event of the year - the Ofiicial opening of the brand new cricket nets, as well as the receiving of the grant we won from NRMA insurance. There will be a come and try program as well for potential new Juniors along the lines of the Woolworths Blasters program. Special guest is Strikers and Australian cricketer Megan Schutt.

After that Under 12s will practice Wednesdays. Woolworths blasters will start in term 4 on Thurdays beginning October 26th from 4.45- 5.45 for 5-6 weeks.

Goolwa Cricket Club - About Us

The Goolwa Cricket Club (the Magpies) plays in the Great Southern Cricket Association a relatively strong country Association just south (within an hour’s travel approx. 80 km) from the state capital Adelaide. It is a hard wicket competition with 3 teams in the Association having a turf pitch. The Association is made up of 12 -14 teams from the surrounding areas. The first recorded cricket match in Goolwa was in 1859 and we have been a foundation Club since then in the original Encounter Bay Cricket Association and then the Great Southern Cricket Association established in 1921-22.

Our Club is in one of its more successful eras. We have played in 9 of the last 10 years’ finals series finishing runner up in the A Grade competition 4 times. We won the T20 Association competition in 2015-16, whilst the B2 team won the premiership in that year and our C2 team won a premiership in 2020-21. We are an accredited GOLD level Good Sports Club and have a dedicated administration that runs the Club professionally. You will find our Club to be a welcoming, supportive and inclusive Club that has an active off field social atmosphere and an on field passion to above all enjoy playing cricket.

Register To Play & Teams

Full instructions will be provided on the use of the new PlayHQ platform and we will provide assistance to all players and families with registrations as required.

Where We Play & Train

Goolwa Oval

Perhaps the best cricket oval in the Great Southern Cricket Association

Facilities

New clubrooms established in 2022. New Cricket Practice facility should be ready by the start of the 2023-24 season

Practices

Senior practices are Thursday nights 4.30 - 7.00.

Juniors train Wednesday nights 4.30 - 6.00.

For more Info contact Paul 0428601060

Contact Us

Goolwa Oval SA 5214.

PO Box 444 Victor Harbor SA 5211

0428 601060

p-thurlow4653@bigpond.com

Events

Event 1: Opening of the new Cricket nets and presentation of the NRMA grant of $15000 we were awarded : Thursday Sept 21st 4.00 - 8.00. All Senior & junior players, members, supporters invited. Special guest Megan Schutt.

Event 2 : Junior practices begin: Thursday Sept 21st U12s, U14s, Come & try. Then U12s will be on all Wednesdays from Sept 27 th through the school holidays and term 4.

Event 3 : First Senior Games October 7th

Event 4 : First Junior Games Under 12s Friday October 20th, U14s Saturday October 21st

Event 5 : Woolworths Blasters program begins Thursday Oct 26th 4.45 - 6.00