Hi Mackie CC Members,

We hope you are okay.

The last few months have thrown the sporting calendar into chaos, but we want to let you know that the Mackie Cricket Club executive committee and its sub-committees are still working in preparation for the coming cricket season.

Already, we have re-examined and reviewed the coach’s role within the club and appointed Bruce Haley. Some of you will remember Bruce as coach of Mackie a decade or more ago. Bruce is a Life Member of Mackie, a Level 2 coach, and has previously coached Carnegie South in SECA, currently coaches Salland in the Netherlands, and has coached numerous junior representative teams. We have wanted to get Bruce back at Mackie for quite some time and, fortunately, the opportunity has arisen. Bruce’s focus will be on junior development. With the assistance of the cricket committee, Bruce will be planning to implement a mentoring system to have seniors assist in that junior development.

Further, we have re-signed Nipun Haggalla as a senior wicketkeeper and as junior development and coaching coordinator, assisting Bruce. Nipun will operate in much the same capacity as last season, with both group and individual coaching.

As for the season itself, junior cricket is listed to begin from Friday, October 16, and senior cricket is listed to begin from Friday, October 23rd. Finals will be played in April. However, these details are yet to be confirmed by the local cricket associations. They are working through these issues and we will communicate further news as it comes to us. We have already booked pre-season at Cricket HQ to begin from August and this will continue until the season begins.

More good news is that the new pitch has been laid at Coatesville PS and we look forward to hosting matches and running a junior clinic there this coming season. We are also planning to field more junior teams and more female teams, including a senior female team too. If you know someone interested, please let us know.

Again, the last few months have been hard in many ways to everyone. Please support other members where you can. We have a list of sponsors and supporters on the front page of our website. If you are not and would like to be, please let us know.

Cheers,

The Mackie Exec.