NSW’s best players will head to the state’s regions as part of the Country Blitz.
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The annual program sees players from the NSW Blues and Breakers as well as Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder travel throughout the state, visiting schools and community groups.
The Blitz is part of Cricket NSW’s ongoing support of the sport in regional NSW and the ACT, and aims to increase participation at a grassroots level.
During the three-day Blitz, players will attend MILO T20 Blast clinics, with the format one of the earliest steps in the Cricket Australia pathway by providing a link from MILO in2CRICKET to junior cricket as a fun, safe and affordable way to begin playing.
The Country Blitz begins what will be a big summer for Cricket NSW in the state’s regional towns and cities.
Continuing NSW’s commitment of taking matches to country areas, the Blues will play a Sheffield Shield match in Wollongong this season. The Thunder is also taking matches to regional NSW with the club’s BBL and WBBL teams to play the Melbourne Stars in Albury in December’s Border Bash. Besides the Border Bash, the reigning Big Bash and Women’s Big Bash champions will also be hosting the Camp Thunder School Holiday camps in Albury, Wagga Wagga, Orange, Dubbo and Canberra.
The Sixers will head to beaches in summer including Mollymook, Kiama and Wollongong with the new Beach Blast.
NSW/ACT has the highest cricket participation rate of any state/territory in Australia for the 2015/16 season, with more than 390,000 players.