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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We've definitely taken a real change of pace right now
because it is so much happening when it comes to
cricket in the Northern Territory and the Top End is
gearing up to host five first class matches before international
cricket returns for the first time in more than a decade,
and the Australian women's cricket team will be in Darwin
for that preseason camp next week. There's so much going on.
(00:23):
Joining me on the show, Anti Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey,
Good morning, Gav. Oh mate, you're very busy busy at
the moment, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know, I feel like people are going to be
talking about cricket. But yeah, there's so much going on.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who win Australia. Would ever get sick of someone talking
about sport?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, and cricket exact.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, that's right, we love talking cricket. Now, tell me
what does the Top End a series consist of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We've got three fifty over games and two four day
games and yeah, absolutely thrilled that we're able to host
this content. It's the first time since two thousand and
six we've had first class cricket in dar One.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, right, so what like what kind of talent can
locals expect to see?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, first class cricket is the level underneath international cricket, right,
so you're going to have some established Test players in
that series. You're going to have the next generation of
guys that are pushing for the Baggy Green that might
have had a little taste and trying to sort of
cement a spot. So you know, I think you'll see
a really good mix of the likes of maybe like
(01:26):
someone like Curtis Patterson that's played Test cricket or Nathan
McSweeney that got a little taste through last summer, as
well as that sort of next generation coming through, like
a Josh Phillippy that people might have seen a fair
bit in the Big Bash, a Todd Murphy spinner that's
played a little bit of local cricket up here for
Tracy Village. So you see a real mix. But the
standard will be very, very high. I mean, it's proper
(01:47):
elite cricket.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That is awesome. It's going to be fantastic for so
many reasons. And I mean I think, like really you're
going to get some good crowds there as well. I
wouldn't anticipate.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, I think so. I mean it's been a long
time and I think the last time we had first
class cricket here it was to give people an idea
of what level we went there with the Mitchell Johnson's
and Brad Adams and guys that went on to become
superstars of the game. Right, So this is an opportunity
for people that either love their sport or love cricket
to come down to DX Arena or get across the
TOO Stadium and watch it. It's also school holidays too
(02:18):
around that time, so which would be great. It's free
entry to be really easy to come on down and
check it out, and all the games will be also
broadcast on KO, so fantastic, lots of different ways that
people can see it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you just touched on where the game are going
to be played, So just repeat that for us and
with like what when it is? Because the thing that
pinged my ears was during school holidays and we're always
looking for ways to entertain the kids. What better ways
than getting them out there to watch sports.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that's right. So the fifty over games are four, six,
and nine July and they'll all be at DX Arena.
One of them is at day night, so that's really
good to come down and see it today night cricket.
And then we've got these two four day games. The
first ones the thirteenth, sixteenth to JO and that's at
TOO Stadium, yeah right, and then the second four dur
(03:04):
games back at the Arena from the twentieth to twenty third.
But that first four to a game at TOO is
really important because we're playing long format cricket on that
dropping wicket. Yeah right, that's an important test case for
us in our efforts to try and get a Test match. Okay,
so we obviously got the two T twenties this year,
which is international cricket coming back for the first time
(03:27):
since or in seventeen years two thos eight. But you know,
we want more international cricket, whether it's T twenties one
day's Test match, we want more of it. And we
know this in Test match is scheduled next year in
the winter. They just haven't decided where yet, and so
this is our opportunity to have some red ball cricket
on the dropping wicket. And I guess put our hat
in the ring to say, look, we're ready for a
(03:47):
Test match. Next year if that opportunity comes up.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Our time to shine, yea. What can we do to really,
you know, to make ourselves even more attractive?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, well we've got we've got the platform, you know,
we've got this is the best place to through the winter.
And Australia the only cricket playing country that plays three
hundred and sixty five days a year and it's because
of us, it's because of the territory. So we are
really making that case and we've probably never made it
as strong as we have now where we've got four
Australian teams who are spending time in the territory of
(04:17):
this winter. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And so does it help them? Do you reckon, like
if we have big crowds turn up and that kind
of thing. Do they look at that kind of stuff
when they consider where the further games are going to
be played?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I think they definitely were with those two T twenty
internationals with the Australian team against South Africa in August,
which we announced earlier in the year and they're on
the tenth and twelfth of August, and really encourage Territorians
to register for the pre sale, which goes live on
the third of June, so Territorians can go onto the
Cricket Australia website register and they'll get priority access for tickets.
(04:50):
They'll get them at the best prices. I think the
tickets for the t twenties are already going to be
real cheap. They're going to be got twenty bucks. But
I think it just gives people an opportunity to get
in and secure their tickets. And yeah, we obviously, you know,
we want to pack the joint out and show creup
Australia that this is a great place to host cricket.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, And it's not like you've touched on. I mean,
there's so much happening at the moment when it comes
to cricket. You and I spoke just a couple of
weeks ago with the Australian women's cricket team doing their
training camp here in the Top End. How far off
are they from arriving.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They arrive on Sunday, so yeah, a few days away,
and we've had one of their players actually up here,
Heather Graham, who's been training already up here because her
partner is living up here. So yeah, so they touched
down on Sunday and then on Monday, which I'm really
keen to talk to you about is yeah, we've got
a launch of Social Cricket at DX on Monday night.
And so for anyone that's been thinking about playing or
(05:40):
wants to give it a go, there's an under sixteen
and over sixteen and you don't have to join a club,
you don't have to come with a team. You literally
can turn up and just for an hour play some
social cricket, have a hit tried out. Should be really
really fun and so that'll be on Monday night. The
Australian Women's cricket team will be there for that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that gets sick hope. All I was thinking is
how useless side be at cricket and if there was
people watching, we have to.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Get you down. We promise we won't. We won't have
at least Perry bowling out your first ball. But I
think that should be really good fun. And then even
if people don't want to play, the women's team are
doing a meet and greet down there for six thirty,
So five thirty if you want to give it a crack,
if you just want to come down and meet Eliza
Heeley or Eles Perry Ash Gardner, Annabel Southern, the whole
team will be there.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's Monday evening, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Six thirty Monday evening, DX Arena. They're going to do
a Q and a. Amy Heatherington very kindly has agreed
to do the Q and A and and she's a
cricket tragic so she's promised to certainly not be composed
or cool. I think she'd be losing her mind. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I love that. That's so good.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The players are ready for that. But yeah, a chance
to come down, get some autographs. I've actually also got
the World Cup trophy fifty over a World Cup trophy there,
so you know, bring your kids down and come down
meet some players, get to get a snaper, an autograph,
and there's a barbecue on as well. So it should
be a great night on Monday night.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And is that sort of the main event that territories
can go along too if they do want to interact
and see the women's the women's team.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, absolutely, We've put all our eggs in that basket.
So that's the best opportunity to engage with them while
they're in town. And then they're shooting off to Kakadu.
Actually on Wednesday and Thursday for a bit of a
cultural opportunity there. So yeah, really exciting weekend. We're delighted
to host them. You know, they've been incredibly successful. You know,
they've won seven fifty over World Cup, sixty to twenty
(07:32):
World Cups, more World Cups in any other country combined.
They've just been amazing for a long period of time
and have inspired a generation of young girls to play
the game.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, I was going to ask you, how do you
have any numbers in terms of the young girls that
play cricket in the Northern Territory at the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, Well, we're just seeing, certainly our junior numbers just
going out all the time. And like a lot of sports,
you know that it poses challenges with grounds and fields
and fields under lights and stuff. But yeah, our junior
numbers are really really st and we're seeing more and
more girls playing, which is fantastic. Actually, one of our
volunteers at Tracy Village actually won a national award which
(08:11):
will go love on Friday for what Tracy Village has
done in the women and girls space. Yeah, fantastic. So
we're seeing a huge level of interest in women and
girls cricket in the territory. Our local competition in Darwin's
two divisions this year for the first time. Good so
there certainly, Yeah, we're on a growth trajectory there, which
is I think also why it's so exciting to have
the women's team.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Here exactly right, How wonderful and how wonderful for those
for those juniors to be able to see women at
that elite level here in the Northern Territory and it
inspires them, right, But that's how those dreams are.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Made, absolutely, and you just you know, you know, as
a parent, you can't underestimate the power of that. You
really get the opportunity to get up close to your hero,
get a photo, get an autocraft to a young boy
or girl that can be you know what inspires them
to sort of dream big and go after it. And
we don't always get those opportunit news up here. So
when they happen, I just think it's it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It is awesome. Gave before I let you go. I
mean there's still more to come as well. After after that,
I believe in August you've got well, we've got those
two twenties against excuse me, South Africa in August Sorr.
I haven't quite joked there at the same time, mate,
that'll be I mean you touched on that a moment ago,
but there is like there's literally so much happening at
(09:24):
the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and it's great, and you know, we want more
of it. You know, we think the global sort of
power and interesting cricket where there's billions of fans that
are fanatical about it. The territory is becoming more and
more multicultural, and so we just think cricket's got a
really big role to play here and you can drive
tourism and visitation and education sector population growth, you know.
(09:47):
I think we think the international aspect of cricket can
be a real point of difference in the future of
the territory. So we want more international teams coming here.
We want eyeballs on the territory and we want people
to see what a great place this is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, absolutely, well INTI Cricket CEO Gavandovey always good to
catch up with you. Thank you so much for your
time this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It was a pleasure. I think.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thank you
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We've definitely taken a real change of pace right now
because it is so much happening when it comes to
cricket in the Northern Territory and the Top End is
gearing up to host five first class matches before international
cricket returns for the first time in more than a decade,
and the Australian women's cricket team will be in Darwin
for that preseason camp next week. There's so much going on.
(00:23):
Joining me on the show, Anti Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey,
Good morning, Gav. Oh mate, you're very busy busy at
the moment, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I know, I feel like people are going to be
talking about cricket. But yeah, there's so much going on.
It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who win Australia. Would ever get sick of someone talking
about sport?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, and cricket exact.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, that's right, we love talking cricket. Now, tell me
what does the Top End a series consist of.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
We've got three fifty over games and two four day
games and yeah, absolutely thrilled that we're able to host
this content. It's the first time since two thousand and
six we've had first class cricket in dar One.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, right, so what like what kind of talent can
locals expect to see?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, first class cricket is the level underneath international cricket, right,
so you're going to have some established Test players in
that series. You're going to have the next generation of
guys that are pushing for the Baggy Green that might
have had a little taste and trying to sort of
cement a spot. So you know, I think you'll see
a really good mix of the likes of maybe like
(01:26):
someone like Curtis Patterson that's played Test cricket or Nathan
McSweeney that got a little taste through last summer, as
well as that sort of next generation coming through, like
a Josh Phillippy that people might have seen a fair
bit in the Big Bash, a Todd Murphy spinner that's
played a little bit of local cricket up here for
Tracy Village. So you see a real mix. But the
standard will be very, very high. I mean, it's proper
(01:47):
elite cricket.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That is awesome. It's going to be fantastic for so
many reasons. And I mean I think, like really you're
going to get some good crowds there as well. I
wouldn't anticipate.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, I think so. I mean it's been a long
time and I think the last time we had first
class cricket here it was to give people an idea
of what level we went there with the Mitchell Johnson's
and Brad Adams and guys that went on to become
superstars of the game. Right, So this is an opportunity
for people that either love their sport or love cricket
to come down to DX Arena or get across the
TOO Stadium and watch it. It's also school holidays too
(02:18):
around that time, so which would be great. It's free
entry to be really easy to come on down and
check it out, and all the games will be also
broadcast on KO, so fantastic, lots of different ways that
people can see it.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you just touched on where the game are going
to be played, So just repeat that for us and
with like what when it is? Because the thing that
pinged my ears was during school holidays and we're always
looking for ways to entertain the kids. What better ways
than getting them out there to watch sports.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that's right. So the fifty over games are four, six,
and nine July and they'll all be at DX Arena.
One of them is at day night, so that's really
good to come down and see it today night cricket.
And then we've got these two four day games. The
first ones the thirteenth, sixteenth to JO and that's at
TOO Stadium, yeah right, and then the second four dur
(03:04):
games back at the Arena from the twentieth to twenty third.
But that first four to a game at TOO is
really important because we're playing long format cricket on that
dropping wicket. Yeah right, that's an important test case for
us in our efforts to try and get a Test match. Okay,
so we obviously got the two T twenties this year,
which is international cricket coming back for the first time
(03:27):
since or in seventeen years two thos eight. But you know,
we want more international cricket, whether it's T twenties one
day's Test match, we want more of it. And we
know this in Test match is scheduled next year in
the winter. They just haven't decided where yet, and so
this is our opportunity to have some red ball cricket
on the dropping wicket. And I guess put our hat
in the ring to say, look, we're ready for a
(03:47):
Test match. Next year if that opportunity comes up.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Our time to shine, yea. What can we do to really,
you know, to make ourselves even more attractive?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Yeah, well we've got we've got the platform, you know,
we've got this is the best place to through the winter.
And Australia the only cricket playing country that plays three
hundred and sixty five days a year and it's because
of us, it's because of the territory. So we are
really making that case and we've probably never made it
as strong as we have now where we've got four
Australian teams who are spending time in the territory of
(04:17):
this winter. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
And so does it help them? Do you reckon, like
if we have big crowds turn up and that kind
of thing. Do they look at that kind of stuff
when they consider where the further games are going to
be played?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I think they definitely were with those two T twenty
internationals with the Australian team against South Africa in August,
which we announced earlier in the year and they're on
the tenth and twelfth of August, and really encourage Territorians
to register for the pre sale, which goes live on
the third of June, so Territorians can go onto the
Cricket Australia website register and they'll get priority access for tickets.
(04:50):
They'll get them at the best prices. I think the
tickets for the t twenties are already going to be
real cheap. They're going to be got twenty bucks. But
I think it just gives people an opportunity to get
in and secure their tickets. And yeah, we obviously, you know,
we want to pack the joint out and show creup
Australia that this is a great place to host cricket.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yeah. Absolutely, And it's not like you've touched on. I mean,
there's so much happening at the moment when it comes
to cricket. You and I spoke just a couple of
weeks ago with the Australian women's cricket team doing their
training camp here in the Top End. How far off
are they from arriving.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
They arrive on Sunday, so yeah, a few days away,
and we've had one of their players actually up here,
Heather Graham, who's been training already up here because her
partner is living up here. So yeah, so they touched
down on Sunday and then on Monday, which I'm really
keen to talk to you about is yeah, we've got
a launch of Social Cricket at DX on Monday night.
And so for anyone that's been thinking about playing or
(05:40):
wants to give it a go, there's an under sixteen
and over sixteen and you don't have to join a club,
you don't have to come with a team. You literally
can turn up and just for an hour play some
social cricket, have a hit tried out. Should be really
really fun and so that'll be on Monday night. The
Australian Women's cricket team will be there for that.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So that gets sick hope. All I was thinking is
how useless side be at cricket and if there was
people watching, we have to.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Get you down. We promise we won't. We won't have
at least Perry bowling out your first ball. But I
think that should be really good fun. And then even
if people don't want to play, the women's team are
doing a meet and greet down there for six thirty,
So five thirty if you want to give it a crack,
if you just want to come down and meet Eliza
Heeley or Eles Perry Ash Gardner, Annabel Southern, the whole
team will be there.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's Monday evening, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Six thirty Monday evening, DX Arena. They're going to do
a Q and a. Amy Heatherington very kindly has agreed
to do the Q and A and and she's a
cricket tragic so she's promised to certainly not be composed
or cool. I think she'd be losing her mind. I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I love that. That's so good.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
The players are ready for that. But yeah, a chance
to come down, get some autographs. I've actually also got
the World Cup trophy fifty over a World Cup trophy there,
so you know, bring your kids down and come down
meet some players, get to get a snaper, an autograph,
and there's a barbecue on as well. So it should
be a great night on Monday night.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
And is that sort of the main event that territories
can go along too if they do want to interact
and see the women's the women's team.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yeah, absolutely, We've put all our eggs in that basket.
So that's the best opportunity to engage with them while
they're in town. And then they're shooting off to Kakadu.
Actually on Wednesday and Thursday for a bit of a
cultural opportunity there. So yeah, really exciting weekend. We're delighted
to host them. You know, they've been incredibly successful. You know,
they've won seven fifty over World Cup, sixty to twenty
(07:32):
World Cups, more World Cups in any other country combined.
They've just been amazing for a long period of time
and have inspired a generation of young girls to play
the game.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, I was going to ask you, how do you
have any numbers in terms of the young girls that
play cricket in the Northern Territory at the moment.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yeah, Well, we're just seeing, certainly our junior numbers just
going out all the time. And like a lot of sports,
you know that it poses challenges with grounds and fields
and fields under lights and stuff. But yeah, our junior
numbers are really really st and we're seeing more and
more girls playing, which is fantastic. Actually, one of our
volunteers at Tracy Village actually won a national award which
(08:11):
will go love on Friday for what Tracy Village has
done in the women and girls space. Yeah, fantastic. So
we're seeing a huge level of interest in women and
girls cricket in the territory. Our local competition in Darwin's
two divisions this year for the first time. Good so
there certainly, Yeah, we're on a growth trajectory there, which
is I think also why it's so exciting to have
the women's team.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Here exactly right, How wonderful and how wonderful for those
for those juniors to be able to see women at
that elite level here in the Northern Territory and it
inspires them, right, But that's how those dreams are.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Made, absolutely, and you just you know, you know, as
a parent, you can't underestimate the power of that. You
really get the opportunity to get up close to your hero,
get a photo, get an autocraft to a young boy
or girl that can be you know what inspires them
to sort of dream big and go after it. And
we don't always get those opportunit news up here. So
when they happen, I just think it's it's really exciting.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It is awesome. Gave before I let you go. I
mean there's still more to come as well. After after that,
I believe in August you've got well, we've got those
two twenties against excuse me, South Africa in August Sorr.
I haven't quite joked there at the same time, mate,
that'll be I mean you touched on that a moment ago,
but there is like there's literally so much happening at
(09:24):
the moment.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and it's great, and you know, we want more
of it. You know, we think the global sort of
power and interesting cricket where there's billions of fans that
are fanatical about it. The territory is becoming more and
more multicultural, and so we just think cricket's got a
really big role to play here and you can drive
tourism and visitation and education sector population growth, you know.
(09:47):
I think we think the international aspect of cricket can
be a real point of difference in the future of
the territory. So we want more international teams coming here.
We want eyeballs on the territory and we want people
to see what a great place this is.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, absolutely, well INTI Cricket CEO Gavandovey always good to
catch up with you. Thank you so much for your
time this morning.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It was a pleasure. I think.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Thank you
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