Cricket has joined the ever-growing list of sports affected by the region’s recent drenching with the Wagga competition set for a delayed start and the city forced to relinquish a major representative carnival.
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The season-opening Twenty20 fixtures – due to run over two weekends from October 15 – are set to be axed and the official start to the regular season delayed until November 5.
The condition of grounds makes October a virtual write-off already.
“The rollers cannot access the grounds,” Wagga cricket operations manager Melanie Rosengren said.
“Some of the pitches are not too bad but getting on to the outfields is impossible and so is mowing obviously.”
The first three weeks of the competition can be pushed back a week with a general bye scheduled for November 19-20 no longer required after Wagga gave up hosting rights to the NSW Country Championships.
“We can’t guarantee we’ll meet the quality of the pitches, so that’s a big loss to Wagga,” Rosengren said.
Disruption to local sporting events reached a peak this week including:
- World Field Archery Championships’ final two days cancelled
- City of Wagga Open golf tournament postponed
- Friday’s Wagga greyhounds and Leeton trots cancelled
- Saturday’s Wagga picnic races cancelled (phantom meeting will go ahead)
- Next Friday’s Lockhart picnic races cancelled
The weekend’s Riverina Open tennis is still planning to go ahead as is the Paddle NSW event on Lake Albert.