The best young male cricketers from regional NSW are on the Central Coast this week for the McDonald\u2019s Country Colts competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Running from Tuesday, September 30 to Friday, October 3, the tournament will feature a mix of 50-over and T20 cricket.<\/p>\n
Performances will be closely watched by selectors, with strong showings able to lead to spots in the NSW Country Under-19 side for the national championships.<\/p>\n
Games will be played at the Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex at Tuggerah, a facility with four side-by-side grounds that promise plenty of high-quality cricket action.<\/p>\n
Cricket NSW Deputy Chair of Country Cricket, Michael Erdeljac, said the event was a key part of the pathway for young players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is where country talent really gets to shine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll eight zones in one place, chasing the shield and spots in the NSW Country Under-19 side \u2013 it doesn\u2019t get much more exciting than this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThese boys are playing for pride, opportunity, and a chance to take their game to the next level.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust look at Jake Scott \u2013 he was on these grounds last year, and now he\u2019s a NSW contracted player.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the pathway in action.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cA huge thanks to Central Coast Cricket, the incredible ground staff led by Paul Deaves, and McDonald\u2019s for supporting the future stars of country cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n
All matches will be live streamed, with links available on the Country Cricket Facebook page each match day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best young male cricketers from regional NSW are on the Central Coast this week for the McDonald\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-178431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}