After the PMs XI I had a few quibbles with the running of Manuka Oval.
It seems nothing was learned despite a China People’s Daily impersonation at the Canberra Times which promised all would be well the second time around.
Business coach Tony Ozanne has offered up a critique which differs from the enthusiastic tweeting of those [...]

ACT Policing has praised the good behaviour of people who attended the one day international between Australia and the West Indies at Manuka Oval last night (Wednesday, February 6).
Operation Commander for the event, Station Sergeant Matthew Corbitt said the crowd was generally well behaved with sixteen people being ejected for being intoxicated or behaving in [...]

What a beautiful thing to see on the TV, international cricket live from Manuka Oval!
Hopefully they’ve fixed the “technical issue” which scuppered the beer filling machines at all the bars for the PM’s XI.

TAMS are letting the world know you don’t have to drive to the cricket on Wednesday:
Cricket fans attending the 2013 One Day International Commonwealth Bank Series on Wednesday 6 February 2013 are encouraged to catch a free ACTION bus to the match.
The match starts at 2.20 pm at Manuka Oval and will be the first [...]

A man couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend a birthday.
A cracking game of cricket with the home side getting home and over 640 runs scored.
An afternoon and evening sitting on the grass on the hill with friends and a very great amount of beer.
The lights at Manuka were magnificent.
Sadly the catering was [...]

To celebrate your correspondent’s 40th birthday the powers that be have put on a rather grand game of cricket next tuesday and Ricky Ponting is going to captain a side against the West Indies at Manuka Oval.
Migrane@Kingston has sent in these cracking pictures of the new lights turned on for the first time despite the [...]

Come along and support Menslink at the PM’s XI cricket match on Tuesday January 29th.
Menslink are a Canberra born and bred charity who have supported local young men for over ten years through our free counselling and mentoring programs. We strongly believe in the potential of all young men regardless of background.
We’ve been selected by [...]

Senator Lundy has announced the Prime Minister’ side to face the West Indies at the first ever day night match at Manuka Oval coming up this January 29.
• Ricky Ponting (Captain) TAS
• Brad Haddin (VC) NSW
• Fawad Ahmed VIC
• Jono Dean ACT
• Alex Doolan TAS
• James Faulkner TAS
• Peter Handscomb VIC
• Usman Khawaja QLD
• [...]

Chris Bourke has the curious announcement that Canberra’s getting a local twenty over cricket competition. But how are they forming the teams?
The eight Champions Trophy teams are the Pakistan Greens, Pakistan Stars, Sri Lankan Lions, West Indies Lions, Australian Taipans, Afghanistan Leopards, Indian Royals and the Indian Strikers.
Dr Bourke said, “With the support of the [...]

Andrew Barr has let it be known that at 9am this morning the first light tower is going up at Manuka Oval.
I eagerly await Canberra’s admission into the horrifically named Big Bash League on this basis.

Well look at this.
Cricket Australia have announced that the greatest Australian batsman since Bradman is going to do a victory lap as captain of the Prime Minister’s XI at Manuka Oval on January 29.
The match will be played against the West Indies on Tuesday 29 January at Manuka Oval, and a capacity crowd is [...]

To say it had been an average season for the Haq boys (note I use the term boys) would not be inaccurate. Running into the Final series EVER at the Lyneham CC, I can’t remember back-to-back wins, I certainly can’t remember big epic wins of old. What I can remember however, is playing short a [...]

Are there any decent cricket teams worth watching round here in the summer?
I see Australia have got WI in February at Manuka, but is there a local league, or any professional sides?

Andrew Barr has excitedly announced Canberra’s first One Day International will be on 6 February 2013 between Australia and the West Indies:
Manuka Oval will host the one-day international match on 6 February 2013 as part of the 2012-13 Commonwealth Bank Series. It will be a day-night fixture.
The Australian team is coming to Canberra as part [...]

Andrew Barr has the happy news that the Centenary will feature a game of One Day Cricket now that the interim format is well and truly on the nose.
This morning I joined Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland to announce that Australia will play a one-day International at Manuka Oval as part of the 2012-13 Commonwealth [...]

The Daily Telegraph has musings from Cricket Australia about expanding the woefully named Big Bash League to include a Canberra team next year.
THE Gold Coast, Canberra, Newcastle and Geelong are all in the running to have a Big Bash team as soon as next summer as the reinvigorated Twenty20 competition continues to explode.
With ratings [...]

The Canberra Times have the bizarre news that with no rain, decent light, and 45 runs needed for victory the teams at Manuka have decided they don’t feel like playing any more.
But at 0-100, with dropped Test batsmen Usman Khawaja on 56 runs and Phil Hughes on 42 runs, both teams agreed to end the [...]

Members from ACT Policing’s Criminal Investigations (CI) and Traffic Operations (TOPs) are gearing up to play in a modified rules charity cricket match today (Monday, December 19).
The cricket match is to raise money for a member’s 5-year-old daughter, Sarah, who has recently been diagnosed with leukaemia.
The match is being held at the enclosed playing fields, [...]

The cricket is going down to the wire with Australia chasing victory and on the last wicket.
Canberra raised Nathan Lyon is last man in after a pretty good bowling performance.
Here’s hoping he can hold in there!
UPDATE: And our man has been clean bowled. New Zealand win the test.
Great effort though.

[ 6 November, 2011; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] OPEN INVITATION THIS SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2011 – FIRST BLOKE’S XI vs AUSTRALIAN TRANSPLANT CRICKET CLUB

Pack up a picnic and bring the family and friends this Sunday 6 November 2011 to Phillip Park, Woden to cheer on the First Bloke’s XI versus the Australian Transplant Cricket Club from 11am – 4pm.
 
The Prime Minister’s partner Tim Mathieson [...]

Cricket fans are especially spoilt for choice in Canberra this summer with several National and International cricket events to be held at Manuka Oval. The inaugural Festival of Cricket sees the NSW Speedblitz Blues taking on Tasmania in a one-dayer and test match, and Cricket Australia’s Chairman’s XI battling India in an event that should [...]

A quick shout out for debutant Test cricketer and local lad Nathan Lyon who took 5 for 34 in his debut against Sri Lanka at Galle last night. Not a bad effort for just his sixth first class match!
Given Lyon is so new to the international scene there may a few that have not heard [...]

Cricket is not what it was, and so of course now is the time we get a Festival of Cricket!
Andrew Barr has announced December will bring us a protracted period of flanneled excitement:
The festival which has been funded for 3 years is great news for local cricket fans and great news for local tourism [...]

Cricket Australia have announced that the mighty Indian cricket team is coming to Canberra for a four day game against a Chairman’s XI before Christmas!
Canberra will also enjoy plenty of action, hosting the traditional PM’s XI game against Sri Lanka, whilst also playing host to the CA Chairman’s XI v India tour game in the [...]

Andrew Barr brings word that the ACT is shelling out $330,000 so the NSW Blues can play to an empty stadium in Canberra instead of in Sydney.
Canberra cricket fans will love today’s announcement that the NSW Blues will play one Shield match and one 50-over match in Canberra every year for the next three [...]

If you’re over 18 then, for most, if you remember a day at the Prime Minister’s XI you weren’t there.
And yet, a few days later, you might check the card on your camera and, surprise! You were there, and things happened.
Below are Pommy Bastard’s shots of the action.
Although we note that Australia’s calamitous cricketing [...]

As we troop down to Manuka Oval for Cricket Australia’s annual drip feed of the sport to Canberra there’s some hope for patriots this morning.
London’s Telegraph has a lengthy piece on just how hard perfidious Albion has been partying since turning our once proud nation into the equals of Bangladesh.
While there is no lower form [...]

[First filed: Jan 4, 2011 @ 15:53]

Tickets are selling fast for the highly anticipated fixture that will take place on Monday 10 January between the Australia’s traditional rivals, the English Cricket team and the Prime Ministers XI.
Leading the charge as Prime Minister’s XI captain will be Australian test batsman Tim Paine, with world-class paceman [...]

[ 10 January, 2011; ] Cricket Australia’s announced the line-up of the Prime Minister’s XI to take on the rampaging poms at Manuka Oval on 10 January.

– Tim Paine (TAS – Captain),
– Callum Ferguson (SA – Vice captain),
– Dan Christian (SA),
– Xavier Doherty (TAS),
– Josh Hazlewood (NSW),
– Alex Keath (VIC),
– Usman Khawaja (NSW),
– [...]

The Hindustan Times is quite excited that Indian cricket star Irfan Pathan is has popped the question to one Shivangi Dev, a Canberra based accountant:
Irfan, 24, met Shivangi, 22, in Canberra in 2003 when the Indian team was touring Australia and proposed to her when she was on a visit here three years back.
Shivangi, daughter [...]

While the men still can’t get a go, Cricket Australia has announced that the ACT has been admitted into the Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) and inaugural Women’s Twenty20 competition for 2009-10.
The new competition will provide additional opportunities for Australia’s elite women’s cricketers to play Twenty20 cricket, an important consideration given the Commonwealth Bank Southern [...]

[First filed: May 27, 2009 @ 15:06]

Cricket Australia has this day announced the schedule of international cricket games for 2009-10.
Ominously there is no mention of a PM’s XI game, or any other game here in Canberra.
No day of drinking in the sun?
UPDATE: A week later Cricket Australia have replied with a somewhat, but not entirely [...]