WACA - Great Southern Regional Cricket

🏏 WA Country Season Launch 2026/27 🏏

The countdown to the new season is on! Join us for the WA Country Season Launch as we share important updates, opportunities and resources to help your club or association hit the ground running.

📅 Monday 21 September 2026
⏰ 7:00pm

We'll be covering:
✅ Country Pathway Program Updates
✅ Funding Opportunities for Clubs and Associations
✅ Country Club Case Studies
✅ WA Cricket's Think. Mental Health Partnership
✅ Coach360
✅ Child Safeguarding
✅ How to Engage with Your Regional Cricket Board
✅ And much more!

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Be sure to invite others from your club or association to join us. We look forward to connecting with cricket communities from across regional Western Australia and setting the stage for a successful 2026/27 season.

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Coach360 is here 🤝

As coaching has evolved, so has coach development. Coach360 gives coaches access to flexible learning, modern resources and personalized development, all in one place.

Find out more ➡️ https://learn.cricket.com.au/home

📢 We're Hiring – Cricket Manager (Great Southern & Esperance) 🏏

Are you passionate about cricket and making a difference in regional communities?

We're looking for an enthusiastic and driven Cricket Manager to lead the growth, participation, and development of cricket across the Great Southern region and Esperance.

Based in Albany, this full-time role will work closely with clubs, schools, volunteers, and community stakeholders to create strong participation pathways and support the future of cricket in regional WA.

If you're a strong relationship builder with a passion for sport and community development, we'd love to hear from you!

👉 Apply via SEEK:

Cricket Manager - Great Southern & Esperance Job in Albany, Albany & Great Southern WA - SEEK Are you ready to drive cricket growth across regional WA? Supporting clubs, boosting participation & pathways of all ages & abilities

Awesome to see some of the Great Southern's best up and coming cricketers joing the Great Southern Academy of Sport for this year!

Congrats Patrick and Beau!

🏏 WACC TALENT SERIES 🏏

A massive congratulations to the three Great Southern products who represented the region at the recent WACC Talent Series matches in Perth

Dash Germinario and Oliver Douglas both competed in the U18 male series, finishing 3rd and 4th respectively on the run scorers list

Tess Badger was selected in the U15 Female age group and finished second on the wicket takers list from her two matches

Well done to all involved in this new event on the Country Cricket calendar!

🏆 JUNIOR COACH OF THE YEAR 🏆

Congratulations are in order for Allan Hobley from Nyabing Cricket Club, who has just won Junior Coach of the Year at the WA Cricket Community Cricket Awards on Monday night

Allan has been an incredible coach and the driving force behind Nyabing's junior cricket revival, returning for the first time in nearly 40 years 🙌

Leave your messages of congratulations for Allan below! 👇

🙌 VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH 🙌

A massive congratulations go to Callan Tonkin from the Newdegate Cricket Club, who was the Great Southern Volunteer of the Month for February

Callan has been the driving force behind the return of junior cricket in Newdegate. A brand new Cricket Blast program, along with kids now playing junior cricket for neighbouring clubs, have all been thanks to Callan's hard work

He has also led the Green Range Ongerup Cricket Association for the last two seasons, bringing them back to Senior Country Week, as well as introducing them to the Great Southern CA T20 competition

Thanks for everything you've done for cricket in your community Callan! A true asset to your club and community!

🏆 2025/26 COMMUNITY CRICKET AWARDS 🏆

A huge congratulations to all of the Great Southern representatives who have been named as finalists in the WA Cricket Community Cricket Awards for the 2025/26 season

We have 5 finalists from the region this season across 5 different awards categories, with winners to be announced at the awards night tonight

Be sure to pass on your best wishes to all of our finalists!! 🙌

🏏 2026 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CARNIVAL 🏏

What a weekend it was for the Great Southern team at this seasons U14 Regional Development Carnival, hosted in Perth for the first time

The team performed extremely well on field, with some incredible individual performances along the way

Some notable highlights from the weekend include:
• Winning all four matches
• Alex Wright (Mount Barker) Most Runs - 209 @ Avg of 104.5 (incl scores of 91 & 89n.o)
• Owen Pretorius (Albany) Highest Score of 100n.o vs Peel
• Patrick House (Albany) & Ayrton Sedunary (Albany) Most Wickets - 6 each
• Campbell Hare (Albany) Best Bowling - 3/4 vs Mid-West
• Charlie Greenslade (Albany) - 6 catches

A huge thanks to Russell Hare (Albany) for his time and expertise in coaching the team. All the boys thoroughly appreciate your time and have all gone home better players from your coaching.

Lastly, a massive thankyou to the parents for their commitment to getting their kids to Perth and supporting them all weekend. A massive commitment, and I'm sure all the boys are extremely grateful!

Albany & Districts Cricket Association
Great Southern Cricket Association
Broomehill Cricket Club
Australs North Cricket Club
Katanning Junior Cricket Club
Collingwood Park Cricket Club
Mount Barker Bulls Cricket Club
Royals Cricket Club Albany

🏏 GRAEME WOOD SHIELD 2026 🏏

A big congratulations to Great Southern Grammar, who took out this year's Graeme Wood Shield today

They went through the day undefeated, beating Albany Senior High School in the final game of the day to take out the title, winning by 10 wickets

Lochlan Otway (Denmark SHS) led the runscorers over the day with 102, while Beau Loton (Denmark SHS) was the leading wicket taker with 5

Looking forward to seeing everyone again next year!

Albany Senior High School
Denmark Senior High School
North Albany Senior High School