Tours

OVERSEAS TOURS – By Adrian Hawkes

REMINISCENCES OF TOURS GONE BY
– By the Players on Tour

CCNSW TOURING TEAMS 1989-2023

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.comor 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

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)