EDCA District Tournaments

The Eastern District Cricket Association (EDCA) is an association between 3 Auckland Cricket Clubs – Auckland University Cricket Club, the Grafton United Cricket Club, and the Parnell Cricket Club.  It also encompasses two secondary schools, Sacred Heart College and St Peters College.  For representative honours, the Auckland Cricket Association divides the greater Auckland area into regional associations, of which EDCA is one.  The other regions are North Harbour, Western District, Central and Manakau.  The aim of the EDCA is to promote cricket in the region, and to have a strong united voice to take to Auckland Cricket.

In October, EDCA calls for nominations from the clubs for their elite cricketers to make up teams in each of the following age groups:

• Primary School Boys (Years 7 and 8) – two & half teams

• Colts – Yrs 9 & 10 Boys – two teams

• Under 15 (as of 1 Sept) Girls - one team

• Under 18 (as of 1 Sept) Boys – two teams

These nominated players will then go through a series of trials, games and coaching before final teams are announced to represent the District at the annual district tournaments run by Auckland Cricket (run prior to Xmas, between Xmas and New Year, and early January).  At the conclusion of these tournaments, Auckland Cricket announces Auckland Representative teams to play other cricket associations from around the country.

As a lead in to these tournaments EDCA has organised training academies currently being held through Sept. & Oct to prepare the cricketers from around the district. EDCA is inviting the Clubs to nominate trialists for the District teams above and encourages the Clubs to hold their own trials to select their players for the District trials particularly as the EDCA wants a wide and transparent process, and Clubs have large player numbers.

Click here for Primary School Boys

Click here for Year 9 & 10 Boys

Click here for U15 Girls

Click here for U18 Boys

EDCA Development Tournaments

In addition to the District representative teams selected above, EDCA each season sends development teams in January 2011 to:

-       Wanganui (Year 6, Year 7, Year 8 , U 14 and U15 )

-       Hawkes Bay (Year 6, Year7, Year8 and U14) and

-       Hamilton (Under16) coached by Shoruban Pasupati

The number of teams entered at the Wanganui and Hawkes Bay tournaments are subject to the player demand from the clubs and the team spaces in each tournament. Parents must realise that these are not selected teams and that these tournaments can be particularly gruelling at times, with the Wanganui tournament, for example being played on 4 consecutive days with a 35 over game on the 1^st day, followed by two days of 30 over games and a 35 over game on the final day.  As such, we encourage players who will have the ability and passion to last through the demands. 

EDCA particularly encourages players not in the District Teams to partake in these Development Tournaments as EDCA will consider the player statistics and contributions when naming representative squads for the coming season. EDCA believes these tournaments are excellent experience for boys to develop their skills, and the trips away are tremendous fun for boys and parents alike.

Player numbers for both Wanganui and Hawkes Bay tournaments are required from Clubs by the Wed 15 October 2010, and a deposit of $100 from each player upon confirmation of a place in a team prior to the end of October.

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