St Bernard's Hilbert Oval - Couch Grass Roll Out

With the generous funding from the St Bernard's College, our Hilbert Oval has had a major renovation.

The wicket table has been laser levelled, raised and had roll out instant Santa Anna couch applied to 5 of the 6 wickets.

The 6th wicket has been seeded with normal RYE grass for use whilst the couch grass beds into the merry creek clay soil.

Resulting from this will be a significantly improved cricket playing wicket for both the College teams and the Old Collegians.

Previously many of the College games have had to be rescheduled onto the Murphy oval or off site as the quality of the wickets was below standard. This renovation will enable our College teams to play on above standard wickets - safer in terms of reliable bounce and competitive with more harder wearing grass. The Old Collegians club has been criticised for the last 2 years for sub standard wickets.

The better, more consistent and harder wearing grass will be a much improved benefit through the football season whilst the raising and flattening of the wicket deck should reduce the amount of water held due to the poor natural drainage.

Our club aims to play round 2 on the Hilbert Oval with the couch wickets being used from Round 3 or 4.

SBOCCC DONATE TO GRASS ROOTS CRICKET IN FIJI

Cricket4Kids would very much like to thank the SBOCCC for their contribution of cricket equipment to our 2012/2013 Drive. The equipment will be sent to Fiji in December and distributed to villages where grassroots cricket is loved and played, yet equipment is scarce.

2012 in 2012 Campaign
 We are also continuing our campaign to double our intake of equipment. We are well on the way to achieving our target of collecting and shipping 2012 kilograms this year.

The equipment you have donated has also contributed 20 kilograms toward our target of 2012 kilograms in 2012.   

As you play out the season remember to discuss Cricket4Kids within your club. We will happily accept any equipment of reasonable quality that you no longer require. We are particularly keen to 'tap' into the equipment hiding out at the homes of players within your club. If you could circulate this email to your player list, we are very confident we will access far more equipment to give a second home.

Again, thank you St Bernard’s for your efforts. They will be making a difference to children in Fiji. When you have a moment, jump on our Cricket4Kids Facebook page and 'like' us! 

For further information please see our website: www.cricket4kids.org, or email me directly at luke@cricket4kids.org.