Cricket
Cricket spreads to 10th island of Aitutaki
Wednesday 11 April 2012 | Published in Cricket
Cricket is seeping into the sporting landscape in Aitutaki, finding inroads through the island’s student population and under the keen eyes of senior local cricketers. Students in all of Aitutaki’s schools have been receiving coaching lessons this year from visiting Cook Islands Cricket (CIC) officials and the island’s own top cricketers currently vying for a […]
Tough job for cricket selectors
Thursday 5 April 2012 | Published in Cricket
Cricket selectors have a problem with national women’s team, but it is a good problem to have. Nineteen women from Aitutaki and Rarotonga who have been put on a shortlist for the side have been hard at work in the last few months, trying to make their claim to one of 14 spots available in […]
19 cricketers chosen
Thursday 15 March 2012 | Published in Cricket
Rarotonga and Aitutaki women cricketers have impressed the national selection panel who have picked 19 players from the two islands to make up the first ever women’s cricket training squad and national squad. The players will now spend the next eight weeks training up to three times a week before a final squad of 14 […]
Pressure mounting in 20/20 cricket
Friday 17 February 2012 | Published in Cricket
Defending D-league cricket champions Puaikura-Titikaveka sit at the top of the table with two wins from two games heading into their double-header tonight in the third week of the Turtles Domestic League III tournament. While Puaikura-Titikaveka sits on the top spot, there’s plenty left to play for in the current Twenty/20 competition. The reigning champions […]
It's D-day for cricketers
Friday 3 February 2012 | Published in Cricket
Today is D-day – Domestic League cricket that is! If the sun shines today, and fingers crossed it does, the first two matches of the 2012 Turtles Domestic League will go boomtown at the BCI Stadium in Nikao. The Twenty-20 format promises to provide plenty of big-hitting and sly-bowling action and the community at large, […]
Cooks cricket clinches two awards
Friday 27 January 2012 | Published in Cricket
The Cook Islands have won two awards at the 2011 Pepsi International Cricket Council East Asia Pacific Development Programme Annual Awards this week. Cook Islands Cricket Association won the award for the best cricket promotion and marketing programme for attracting the New Zealand Northern Knights to Rarotonga for a pre-season camp and T-20 match against […]
Creeps v. Titans in epic cricket final
Saturday 14 January 2012 | Published in Cricket
Nukupure Park in Muri will be the scene of a cricket battle of epic proportions today in the Computer Man top four grand finals between the Muri Creeps and Titikaveka Titans. With home ground advantage the Creeps are looking to do the treble with the Cookie Sadaraka Twenty20 trophy and round robin competition title already […]
Aitutaki womens cricket off to a flier
Wednesday 14 December 2011 | Published in Cricket
While wet weather put a stop to the start of the Mangaia womens cricket season the Aitutaki womens league got off to a flier in front of a large crowd. After winning the toss Amuri elected to bat first against Tautu however could only manage 39 runs which the Tautu girls chased down with relative […]
Mangaia gets into cricket
Tuesday 6 December 2011 | Published in Cricket
On the island of Mangaia, kids got into the swing of things with a full day of cricketing fun down at the Oneroa field. As the schooling year draws to an end, Mangaia School put together some activities for the kids to enjoy with a cricket tournament being played amongst the juniors and secondary students. […]
Pastor blasts into NZ Cricket
Monday 5 December 2011 | Published in Cricket
Cook Islands Cricket has further extended its close partnership with Northern Districts Cricket by signing off on an agreement that will see the countrys top ANZ junior cricketers playing in major secondary school tournaments in New Zealand. The first of the local players to benefit from this newly formed agreement is rising talent Pastor Tekaria. […]
Cricket goes red
Saturday 3 December 2011 | Published in Cricket
Cook Islands cricket is going red for World AIDS Day. Teams and umpires taking to cricket fields this weekend will all pin on a red ribbon in support of the internationally recognised day, which this year is focusing on ending the transmission of HIV from mothers to their babies within the next four years. Though […]
Muri cricket champions
Wednesday 30 November 2011 | Published in Cricket
The Muri Creeps Womens team are the 2011 Edgewater Saturday Premier Champions following an epic final in the weekend. The Creep girls came up against top of the table Arorangi Red Hot Chicks at Raemaru Park in perfect conditions for cricket. Winning the toss, the Red Hot Chicks decided to exert pressure through their bowling […]
Extra special cricket matches on today
Saturday 5 November 2011 | Published in Cricket
While most Computer Man mens cricket teams have the day off, todays catch up matches are extra special, as the results will produce the winner of the Computer Man Mens Competition. The Arorangi Red Backs, Titikaveka Titans and the Muri Creeps will be throwing everything they have into their match to ensure victory. The Creeps […]
Cricket umpire here to share
Tuesday 1 November 2011 | Published in Cricket
Northern Districts Cricket umpire educator Colin Elstob is back on the island as part of a Cook Islands Cricket initiative to educate and up-skill local umpires. Elstob joins a strong line up of recent visits by cricket educators, administrators and professional players who have been invited to the Cooks to support the development of cricket. […]
Hot contest develops at top of cricket
Tuesday 1 November 2011 | Published in Cricket
Big wins on Saturday saw the most closely contested Computer Man Mens cricket season in recent memory get hotter keeping 3 teams hopes of Round Robin glory alive. Red Backs team manager Andrew Forbes described their affair against Avatiu Nikao as an intense one, batting first our openers Pare Rongokea and Apii Mamanu set a […]
Cricket carnival for primaries
Tuesday 1 November 2011 | Published in Cricket
With primary school athletics completed, the schools attention now shifts to the last big tournament of the year the 2011 ANZ Cricket Carnival. The carnival will be held on November 23 with venues to be confirmed. The carnival will be run under modified super sixes rules meaning there are 6 players per team with each […]
Turangi Whimps lead Super 8s cricket
Friday 28 October 2011 | Published in Cricket
Round 2 of the Edgewater Mid Week Super 8s womens cricket got underway on Wednesday, with some great results and plenty of action. At Nukupure Park, the Turangi Cheeky Babes batted first and posted 104 runs. In reply, Muri were in all sorts of trouble with some tight bowling from Turangi and were dismissed for […]
High calibre cricket draws crowd
Tuesday 18 October 2011 | Published in Cricket
A two hundred strong crowd witnessed history on Friday as a first class cricket team took on a Pacific country in the Pacific for the first time. The Yahoo! NZ Northern Knights and Telecom Cooks side squared off in a Twenty-20 match at Turangi. The match was a culmination of a weeklong spring training camp […]
Knights excite local junior cricketers
Thursday 13 October 2011 | Published in Cricket
The visiting Northern Knights cricket team joined junior cricketers at Takitumu School on Tuesday for a fun filled afternoon of cricket island style. The Northern Knights will face the Telecom Cook Islands national squad tomorrow at Turangi in what will be an historical match. But first the Knights faced the islands talented junior cricketers. Knights […]
Exciting results in cricket series
Wednesday 12 October 2011 | Published in Cricket
The first round of the Edgewater Womens Cricket Series has come to a close with some exciting results in both the mid week and Saturday morning premier competition. Wins to Turangi 1 and Titikaveka in the Open 1 and Open 2 mid week competitions respectively have secured the titles for their teams, with Titikaveka coming […]