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Mackay Bash for Cash cricket tournament tightened after rain

The inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash cricket tournament has been tightened with players and officials welcoming the change..

Pioneer Valley play SWIN Seamers at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash
Pioneer Valley play SWIN Seamers at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash

The inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash cricket tournament has kicked off with the rain forcing a few tweaks to the program.

The competition held at the Harrup Park Country Club, originally planned as a T20 tournament, has been revamped into shorter T8 games.

Harrup Park general manager Adrian Young said the competition was going fantastically despite the change.

Pioneer Valley play SWIN Seamers at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash
Pioneer Valley play SWIN Seamers at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash

“Unfortunately we had about 70 millimetres of rain over the past few days,” Mr Young said.

“The other fields were too wet to play on, so we’ve played all the games today on field one.”

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Mr Young said the shortened games were allowing for a better atmosphere, with players sticking around to watch the other teams bat it out.

“It’s been fantastic,” he said.

“We are actually now looking into doing short T10 games for tournaments in the future.”

Nine games were played on Saturday, kicking off at 9am and running through until 10.30pm with teams from around the state making the trip for a hit.

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Bundaberg team Across the Waves player Sean Stuchbery was impressed with the set up.

Stuchbery said his team had travelled more than eight hours for the competition.

Bundaberg team Across the Waves travelled more than eight hours to play at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash
Bundaberg team Across the Waves travelled more than eight hours to play at the inaugural MI Scaffold Great Barrier Reef Arena T20 Bash for Cash. Picture: Bash for Cash

“Coming from Bundaberg, to see this amount of green like this is unreal,” he said.

“These facilities, they’re just unreal.”

The competition will run through the long weekend with finals planned for Monday.

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