Our 31st Annual Junior World Series will be held on Monday 22nd to Wednesday 24th January 2024.

We are excited to announce that our major sponsors for the 31st Annual Junior World Series Tournament are Enable.me, Yarntons, Cricket Express & Grassroots Trust.

A few other bits of information to help you prepare for the 2024 JWS tournament:

WEATHER NOTIFICATIONS

The forecast is pretty good, save for perhaps a spot of rain on Monday morning. 

If it is likely that we will be impacted by the weather at any stage, we will place notifications up on the NSCC Facebook page (North Shore Cricket Club | Auckland) and on the front page of the main NSCC website (www.northshorecricket.co.nz)

No news is good news - so if you don’t see anything on the above channels, then we are all go!

GAME TIMES

Each grade plays two games per day:

Junior Grade

• 9am: Warm up and skills

• 9:30am Game 1 (Approx 2 hours)

• 1pm: Game 2 (Approx 2 hours)

Middle & Senior Grades

• 9am to noon: Game 1 (10 min drinks break between innings)

• 1pm to 4pm: Game 2  (10 min drinks break between innings)

On Wednesday, the Middle players will need to be transported from BIS to the club for prize giving. (There are usually several parents from each team making the trip - so perhaps chat to parents of team mates during the tournament if your son/daughter might need a ride.)

FOOD AND DRINK

We recommend that your child brings a packed lunch/snacks and plenty of water every day. 

For Junior and Senior Grades, the NSCC caterers (Fork & Willow) will have the club kitchen at the Devonport Domain open, and will serve food and hot/cold drinks for the duration of the tournament.

For Middle Grade, Fork & Willow will be selling food and drink from BIS - a slightly more limited option (as they won’t have a full kitchen), but they will still be selling food and drink for the three days.

GEAR

For Junior Grades, we will provide all gear required - bats, balls, and stumps.

For Middle and Senior Grades, the assumption is that players will already have their own gear.  We will ensure that there are a few spare items (e.g. helmets, pads, wicketkeeping gear) available to borrow – players can talk to their Coach or Grade Convenor if they need anything. 

TEAMS

If you have sent through questions about team placements, we will respond in the next few days. 

Please note that Middle and Senior teams are full (registrations have now closed, and we have a waitlist in place) and the Convenors have literally spent hours getting teams prepared - with new registrations coming in right up until the day the teams were released!

COACHES, CONVENORS, RUNNERS

If you have any questions or concerns relating to the games, please first talk to the Grade Convenor in the first instance  - we ask that you don’t raise any issues directly with the coaches.  

Grade convenors are: Kennedy Scott (Senior), Heidi Woodhead (Middle), and Narly Kalupahana (Junior).   

PRIZEGIVING

There is a prizegiving for each grade on Wednesday afternoon at NSCC’s clubrooms at the Domain.  Junior Grades will be first (approx 3:30pm) with Middle and Senior following shortly after the conclusion of their finals.

Please do bear in mind that this is a participation tournament and playing opportunities will be rotated within teams to give everyone a go over the course of the tournament. If your child doesn't have a prominent role on day one, rest assured they will have opportunities later in the tournament.  

Furthermore, while we will be awarding a range of prizes based on performance at Wednesday's prize giving, the prizes are not necessarily awarded solely on the basis of statistics - the coaches, convenors and sometimes even players provide feedback and comments that help the organisers to determine the winners for each grade category. 

Please also note that players are only eligible to win one prize category in their grade (e.g. Winner of the Best Bowler is not eligible to win Best Batter or MVP in that grade).

If you have any other questions on the day, please find one of the organising team - they will be in bright pink shirts, and will be pretty hard to miss!