Tara Murray
The Gisborne and District Cricket Association continues to expand with a new club to join the competition for the 2022-23 season.
Kilmore will join the competition, after member clubs supported the club’s application to field sides in the competition at the recent annual general meeting.
Outgoing GDCA president Rob McIntyre said Kilmore will field four senior teams and six junior teams in the upcoming season which will start in October.
“After 50 years in the Seymour District Cricket Association, the move to the GDCA will provide the club with a larger competition for its junior teams and an opportunity to field senior and junior female teams in future,” he said.
“Club president, Brett Butler informed the meeting that affiliating with the GDCA with its much larger number of senior and junior grades will allow the club to continue to grow in an area of increasing population.”
Kilmore finished seven in the Seymour District Cricket Association B-grade competition in the 2021-22 season with four wins.
It’s second and third XI both played in the C-grade competition.
McIntyre told Star Weekly that after discussions with Kilmore that it was felt that the club’s first XI should start in the Johnstone Shield, the association’s second division.
That competition is mixture of first and second XI sides.
Kilmore joins Eynesbury, Aintree, Melton Centrals, Kyneton and Trentham and Malmsbury as clubs to have joined the association in some form since 2016.
In other news out of the meeting, McIntyre decided not to seek re-election as association president after six years in charge.
Bacchus Marsh’s Richard Bayly, who joined the board of management in 20-21 will take over as president.
McIntyre will continue on the board as competitions manager and retains his positions of Central Highlands Cricket Region president, vice-president of the Victorian Country Cricket League and Vic Country chairman of selectors.
