OVERSEAS TOURS – By Adrian Hawkes
REMINISCENCES OF TOURS GONE BY
– By the Players on Tour
Upcoming Tours
If you have any views or any interest in coming on or helping organise an overseas tour in the next few years, read below and contact Greg Brooks
prez@ccnsw.com) or Adrian Hawkes secretary@ccnsw.com).
The Club has just returned in January 2023 from a week’s tour to Tasmania see reports on tour here . There are currently no future tours being organised. The Club is open to suggestions from members either for next winter or 2024.
Suggestions have been made that we should consider returning to New Zealand or maybe the Northern Territory or South Australia but nothing concrete as yet.
CCNSW Barbados Tour Preliminary Concept – Are you interested in going?
These are preliminary conceptual ideas for a possible CCNSW Tour to Barbados and require expressions of interest from CCNSW players of any age to proceed further. Immediately prior to Covid, the Committee had resolved in principle that the next ‘long’ tour should be West Indies but everything has been on hold the past two years.
Previous CCNSW tours to the West Indies
CCNSW has toured the West Indies twice – in 1996 playing 8 games in Barbados and Trinidad; and in 2011 playing 9 games in Barbados, Grenada Trinidad and Tobago, both times in April. Following the recent Australian over 60s tour in Barbados, we have been in preliminary correspondence with the Barbados Masters Cricket Association.
Who went on 2011 Tour and is still playing with CCNSW whom I can talk to
In alphabetical order, Greg Brooks, David Byrnes, Mick McCormick and Scott Wells. (Ian Allmey and Scott McCallum also went).
What would it cost
Preliminary estimates (based on the recent Australian over 60s tour) are that airfares and 2 weeks’ three star accommodation in Barbados would cost about $AUS5000pp twin share
What age group would we play
Barbados has Veterans cricket at over 40s, 50s and 60s level. If some of our under 40 players wanted to come we would arrange opposition accordingly
Could we bring partners/children
Yes
When would we go
While nothing is fixed and depending on numbers Easter in 2024 (Sunday March 31) seems practicable and would maximize holiday leave for those in work and give time to save.
Where would we go
Barbados but if there is demand and numbers, more islands could be added or/and the tour expanded beyond 2 weeks but the cost will increase.
How many games would we play
In part this will depend on the number of players but envisaged minimum of 3 games per week.
What do I do now if I want to come
Express your interest now (and whether likely coming by yourself or with partner/children) to Greg Brooks: 0409 450 334 (Mob): preferably in writing to prez@ccnsw.comby the end of March so that if numbers are viable we can start organising this winter. Greg will definitely want help.
Corfu-Croatia and Slovenia – Postponed from 2020
There is an outside possibility this proposed 2020 tour to Corfu-Croatia and Slovenia which had to be cancelled because of Covid could be revived during the winter of 2024 if sufficient players were interested. Anyone considering going should contact Ken Yardy. To date no-one has and it is very unlikely the trip will proceed as a cricket tour
In essence the tour was for 8 games in 20 days: 3 in Corfu; 1 in Croatia and 3 in Slovenia over 3 weeks at an approximate cost (in 2020) of $4500 AUS + airfares. Costs for the tour include internal flight from Corfu to Athens and international flight to Croatia. These costs also include all hotel accommodation in Corfu, Croatia and Slovenia, breakfast in all hotels, all transfers and costs of sightseeing tours in Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb and Ljubljana, a day in Lake Bled, and wine tasting on the Peljesac Peninsula.
Costs especially airfares will have increased since 2020.
Past Tours
Brochures and Tour team photographs of most past tours may be found on separate sub pages of this web site
- Brochures at http://ccnsw.com/index.php/tours/tour-brochures/
- Photographs at http://ccnsw.com/index.php/tour-photographs/
Below are team photographs from our most recent tours to Darwin and Tasmania
Tour of Tasmania 2023
Back Row: John Fish, Andrew Davis, Rodger Robertson (non player), Craig Fletcher, Joe Scarcella,
Darcy Kent, Jed Wesley-Smith, Soren Hughes (Mgr), Ian Robertson, Greg Ballarino, Luke Holman, David Kent
Front row: Edward Robertson, Dan Turner, Jim Hadley, Tom Robertson (c)
Absent: Richard Clark, Charlotte Kent, Martin Speiser
Darwin Tour 2022
Back: Dave Stewart, Steve Kish, Rob Bevilacqua, Richard Clark, Tom Robertson, Luke Holman, Richard Howard, Mike Weaver
Front: Tom Reaney, Martin Speiser, Soren Hughes, John Wise, Trevor Whittall, Mike Pinter, Mike Whittall, Joe Scarcella
All Past Tours
The Sri Lanka Tour at Easter 2019 was the Club’s 35th overseas tour in the past thirty five years (plus seven other separate domestic tours to Cairns. Darwin, Lord Howe, Norfolk Island, Perth, and Tasmania twice):
|
1989 |
Fiji |
2007 |
South Africa |
|
1991 |
Asia |
2008 |
Hawaii |
|
1992 |
Christchurch, New Zealand |
2009 |
India |
|
1993 |
Christchurch, New Zealand |
2009 |
France-Ireland-England |
|
1993 |
Canada and West Coast USA |
2010 |
Tasmania (not overseas) |
|
1994 |
Malaysia and Singapore |
2010 |
Italy |
|
1995 |
Auckland, New Zealand |
2011 |
West Indies |
|
1996 |
Barbados/Trinidad |
2012 |
South America |
|
1997 |
England |
2013 |
Amsterdam-England-Malta |
|
1998 |
Norfolk Island Not overseas) |
2014 |
South East Asia |
|
1999 |
Lord Howe (not overseas) |
2015 |
Wellington New Zealand |
|
1999 |
South Africa |
2015 |
Canada & East Coast USA |
|
2000 |
Vanuatu |
2016 |
Queenstown, New Zealand |
|
2001 |
Bali |
2017 |
Nelson, New Zealand |
|
2002 |
Kenya |
2017 |
Scotland and England |
|
2003 |
Sri Lanka |
2018 |
Christchurch New Zealand. |
|
2004 |
Cook Islands (Easter) |
2019 |
Auckland New Zealand. |
|
2004 |
Cairns (July not overseas) |
2019 |
Sri Lanka-Easter |
|
2005 |
England |
2020 |
Perth (not overseas) |
|
2006 |
Samoa |
2022 |
Darwin (not overseas) |
|
2007 |
New Zealand, North Island |
2023 |
Tasmania ( not overseas) |