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What a great carnival

The Adelaide Vintage Cricket Carnival was a tremendous success.  Great wickets, superb facilities, excellent lunches and social functions that have set the benchmark for what cricket events have to deliver.  

Adelaide 2003-Cricket Experience in a Cricketing Paradise

Vintage Cricket Organisers, Cricketers and Supporters are extremely grateful to:

South Australia Cricket Association
Port Adelaide Cricket Club
Marion Cricket Club
Kensington Cricket Club 
Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club.

We all enjoyed their support, hospitality, encouragement, fabulous pitches and outstanding clubrooms.

The players were very grateful to the members of the South Australian Umpires Association who so quickly entered into the spirit of Vintage Cricket maintaining a firm hand on rare errant behaviour and adjudicating on the vagaries of Vintage Cricket and Vintage Cricketers.

Individuals from England, Canada and USA enjoyed great weather and a spirit and camaraderie hard to beat when they joined teams from Australia and New Zealand. But the lasting memory will be of playing competitive cricket, against cricketers of similar abilities on some of the best pitches that many have experienced. Club facilities, grounds and pitches are so good, it is no wonder Adelaide is home to the Australian Cricket Academy and produces so many outstanding cricketers.

Put that alongside tours of Adelaide Oval, a good session in the Chappell Bar, a Master Chef Lesson (and dinner) for wives and a couple of husbands, a cricketers evening featuring ex Test Player Wayne Phillips and friends and a brilliant farewell Dine and Dance and you have a cricketing week that was judged by players, umpires and supporters to be second to none.

On the rest days, teams and their supporters frequented the Barossa, the golf courses and in true cricketing tradition returned to the Adelaide Oval to watch South Australia deal to Tasmania.

It was great to see some of South Australias former State players join with their slightly less skilled mates to form teams that provided strong opposition for the visiting teams.

It says something about Vintage Cricket that local teams that played in the first Vintage Cricket Carnival are signing up to take part in the second Carnival to be held in Perth in March 2005 and are in the process of establishing a Vintage Cricket League to play regular friendlies amongst their clubs.

Special thanks are due to the South Australia Minister of Tourism, the Honourable Jane Lomax-Smith who took time off from her busy schedule to visit the Adelaide Oval and welcome the teams and their supporters to Adelaide. South Australia Tourism and their colleagues at Australia Major Events contributed significantly to the outstanding success of the Vintage Cricket Carnival. South Australia is a great place to visit and a wonderful place to play cricket.

Adelaide and South Australia Cricket set the standards for a true cricket experience and provided the ideal launching pad for the Vintage Cricket movement.

Vintage Cricket is proud to have spent a week in Adelaide amongst South Australian cricketers and through the support of Vintage Cricketers have been able to make cash donations to the Junior Section of the South Australian Clubs that so willingly and so freely hosted the Vintage Cricket Carnival