History-making Toombul cricket day-night match against Tigers – Code

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Toombul District Cricket Club will host Redlands in an historic day-night, two day Bulls Masters Premier Cricket match on Saturday and Sunday at the club’s Nundah grounds.
Off the back of a recent 1.3-million-dollar Federal Government grant for a lighting upgrade, Ken Mackay Oval will be illuminated to Premier Cricket standard for night matches.
Toombul operations manager, Greg Blake, said the event would be not only a celebration of cricket, but also “a celebration of the Nundah community’’.
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“We want to celebrate Nundah as a community, and provide opportunities for the community to come and watch local sport,’’ Blake said.
“The club now provides an opportunity for girls and boys from the age of five to play our national sport under lights.
“We’d like to see any young child who likes cricket to come down and be a part of the experience.’’
Mackay Oval is named after former Queensland and Test champion “Slasher’’ Mackay, a legend from the 1950s-1960s.
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As a result of the upgrade, La Frantz Oval, named in honour of club legend Errol, was also lit for training standards.
Both Mackay and La Frantz Ovals were incorporated within the Oxenham Park precinct, Nundah. The Park was named in honour of the great Ron Oxenham, Toombul’s first Australian player.
Overall Toombul has had 12 Test players, the latest of whom is Matthew Renshaw.
Another prominent current Big Bash player, Chris Lynn, is a Toombul junior.
A foundation club of Queensland Cricket and one of the oldest sporting clubs in Queensland, Toombul is a great nursery for elite cricket talent.
Local junior Connor Sully, Sydney import Lachlan Hearne and local junior Renshaw were current Queensland Sheffield Shield squad members, while the club has a host of rising local juniors including former Australian U19 representative Toby Snell, Padua College old boy Joe Cotgreave and elite fast bowler Tom Balkin.
Taverner’s U19 ace players Spencer Green and Jack Balkin, the U19 Queensland co-captain, were also some of the exciting juniors.
Play starts at 1.30pm, with stumps at 8.30pm.
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Originally published as History-making Toombul cricket day-night match this weekend against Redlands
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