Management of the Carnival

The local Management of the 2007 Trans Tasman Vintage Cricket Carnival will be undertaken by a professional and enthusiastic committee of players and administrators drawn from local club, Geyserland Googlies; Bob Sharplin, New Zealand Vintage Cricket Representative who lives in Rotorua; Gary Troup, ex-New Zealand International who is an adviser to Vintage Cricket and the Vintage Cricket Office in Auckland.

In addition Events Venues Management, Rotorua are providing positive assistance with the provision of playing facilities. Local clubs are keen to host visiting teams and there have been a number of clubs within a one hour radius of Rotorua seeking to stage fixtures and host visitors.

Bob Sharplin and his group will be responsible for cricket arrangements, preparation of pitches (which will be under the supervision of Events Venues, Rotorua and a series of council and club ground staff), liaison with local teams, management of hospitality and hosting of the Carnival functions.

Vintage Cricket is represented in New Zealand by Bob Sharplin previously a New Zealand Chairman of Golden Oldies Cricket and now a key administrator of Vintage Cricket. Bob is a Foundation Director of Vintage Cricket, a past player and administrator, a non-playing member of the Geyserland Googlies and the king of cricketing fun and friendship in his region. Peter Green, also a past organiser of a Golden oldies Cricket Festival (Sydney 1996) but now firmly in place as a Founding Director of Vintage Cricket and the Australian Representative of Vintage Cricket, will be in Rotorua offering his own form of positive support and encouragement to the management of the Carnival. Gary Troup who in his past played Test and One Day International cricket for New Zealand and who is now a committed adviser to Vintage Cricket is contributing to the planning and intends not only to be in Rotorua as an administrator but will be playing for Troupys Troopers drawn mostly from the Papatoetoe Cricket Club in Auckland.

Further management and marketing is carried out from the Vintage Cricket Office in Auckland, New Zealand where the team is led by Peter McDermott, a past Chairman of the Board of New Zealand Cricket, past delegate to the ICC in London and co-Chairman of the Management Committee of the 1992 Cricket World Cup hosted in Australia and New Zealand.

A professional, experienced management group has been formed to ensure the successful implementation of the 1st Trans Tasman Vintage Cricket Carnival.