Ohoka Cricket Club

🏏 MIDWINTER CRICKET TRAINING SESSIONS 🏏

Hi everyone! My name is DJ Lyons from the Ohoka Cricket Club and I'm excited to be running a 3-session Midwinter Cricket Training Programme starting on Saturday 28 June for Year 10 players, with Year 9 players also welcome depending on numbers.

📍 Venue: Hagley Training Centre

Over the three monthly sessions, I'll be working on:

🏏 Batting mindsets and techniques
🏏 Bowling mindsets and techniques
🏏 Building confidence and game awareness
🏏 Progressive skill development, with each session building on the previous one

📅 Session 1: Saturday 28 June
⏰ Time: TBC (likely 11:00am – 12:30pm)
💲 Cost: $45 per player, per session

Numbers will be limited to ensure quality coaching and individual attention.

👥 Current registrations: 3
👥 Maximum players: 12

These sessions are also being run as a fundraiser to help support my trip to the Over 40 Cricket World Cup, so I greatly appreciate the support from players and families.

If you're keen to improve your game over the winter months and learn in a small-group environment, I'd love to hear from you.

📧 Contact: [email protected]

Please get in touch to secure your place.

DJ Lyons

Junior Cricket Festival Dates for the 2026/27 Season.

2026/27 Canterbury Country Cricket tournament & festival dates are here!

A huge thank you to Property Brokers for their ongoing support of Canterbury Country Cricket and helping make these opportunities possible for our young cricketers 💙❤️

From Year 11/12 tournaments through to primary festivals, there’s plenty to look forward to this season

Self-nomination links will be released soon, so keep an eye on our page for details and get ready to put your name forward!

Congrats to our very own DJ Lyons, off to Guyana for the NZ over 40's World Cup!

New Zealand has named its squad to play in the IMC Over-40s World Cup in Guyana later this year.

There are plenty of new faces in the 15-man squad - 6 debutants in total - and some more experienced internationals, including 3 veterans of the previous World Cup in 2024.

Congratulations to all players named!

Stay tuned for further details.

Card Bingo Fund Raising Night

Join us for a fantastic night of fun, laughter, and community spirit at our Card Bingo Fundraiser for the Ohoka Cricket Club, proudly hosted at the Kakanui Tavern. This is a great chance to get together with friends, enjoy a relaxed night out, and test your luck with some classic bingo action — all while supporting the club.

With great prizes up for grabs and plenty of banter guaranteed, it promises to be an enjoyable evening for everyone. Every dollar raised will go towards supporting the club and helping keep cricket accessible and thriving in our community. 🏏

Where - Kakanui Tavern, Kaiapoi
Date - Monday 20th April
Time - 6.30pm start

A big thanks to everyone who turned up to help with the Autumn pitch renovations and end of season clean up.
Thanks to Jared and Andrew who removed all of the sponsorship signs and scoreboards on Friday.
John has been hard at work scarifying, soiling and seeding pitch footmarks. Lofty, Graeme, Smitten and Richard joined John to help mow, seed, fertilize and soil pitches.
Ben and George had a clean up in the storage room.

Cricket Club Working Bee

As they say, many hands make light work.

Calling all Ohoka Cricket Club supporters, members and volunteers — we’d love your help at our working bee this Saturday! It’s a great chance to pitch in, tidy up the grounds, and make sure everything is sorted for winter renovations, taking down signage and paking up for the off-season.

Whether you can spare an hour or longer, every bit helps and makes a real difference. Bring along a rake, shovel, or just yourself, and enjoy a bit of good company while giving back to the club we all love. See you there! 💪🏏

Where - Mandeville Sports Grounds
When - From 11am on Saturday

Michael Loffhagen Cup - Club Person of the Year

Huge congratulations to our legendary Club President Graeme Johnson for being named our Person of the Year.

This award is a testament to genuine dedication and passion for the Ohoka Cricket Club. A great President sets the tone for the club’s culture — fostering community, driving standards, and ensuring the club continues to grow both on and off the field.

To be recognised in this way shows the impact of that leadership, and the respect and appreciation felt by those around him. It’s people like Graeme who are the backbone of community sport, and this recognition is richly deserved.

Our very hard working but quiet secretary, Mike Harvey, was our club Personality of the Season. Mike completes grant applications, committee meeting minites and helps organise events at Ohoka Cricket Club including being photographer at prizegiving ((except for his own photo!!!) Congratulations Mike and Thank you 🙏)

Team MVP’s

The pinnacle for any player is to be named MVP at the end of the season. At Ohoka these are generally voted on by team mates so to get that recognition is a great honour.

This year the MVP’s were as follows.

Scott Carrying ChCh/North Canterbury
Paul Reid

VIP Frames & Trusses Division 5
Ryan Kelly/Jared Williams

Flit Airport Parking Masters
Jason Keeys

Reliable Foundations New Zealand LTD Masters
Tony Doornebal

Protranz Seniors
George Belcher

HarrisonBloy Plumbing & Bathrooms Premiers
Leo Wilson

3rd Grade Player of the Year

It was awesome to see Club Patron Les Cherry coming along to the Prize Giving to present the Trophy be donated many moons ago for the 3rd Grade Player of the Year.

The Cherry name is synonymous with Ohoka Cricket with fourth generation players Molly, Logan and Jacob now starting to make their mark.

Well done to Paul Reid for claiming the trophy this year.