da bet7： South Australia will play host to an Aboriginal Cricket Carnival next weekfrom March 11-13.
South Australian Cricket Association07-Mar-2002South Australia will play host to an Aboriginal Cricket Carnival next weekfrom March 11-13.The SA Aboriginal Cricket Carnival was first held in the late 1980’s where6-8 Aboriginal community teams competed in limited overs cricket at Park 25in Adelaide. The Carnival ran for 5 consecutive years during the late 80’sand early 90’s.The SA Aboriginal Sport and Recreation (SAASRA) facilitated the event toencourage the Aboriginal communities to become involved in the sport.A need was identified through community consultation to re-instate a numberof Carnivals of various sports and link those Sporting Associations andtheir development programs to the Aboriginal community.SAASRA in conjunction with the SA Cricket Association (SACA) discussed andsupported the concept of the Aboriginal Carnival. This concept was furthersupported by an initiative of the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) who iscurrently developing a National Strategy to encourage Aboriginal people intocricket at local, regional, state and national level.A Super 8’s State Team will be chosen from the Carnival to compete at theImparja Cup to be held at Alice Springs in April 2002. Teams competing inthis years Carnival will represent the following communities:Pt. Pearce, Yorke PeninsulaKoonibba, West CoastPt. LincolnPort AugustaMurraylandsGerard, RiverlandWhyallaMetro Adelaide