Gippsland is about to host the world’s finest feminine cricketers throughout the 2026 Commonwealth Video games, with ladies’s T20 cricket set to be performed at Moe.
Key factors:
- Ted Summerton Reserve at Moe is considered one of two venues that can host the ladies’s T20 cricket
- The state authorities additionally introduced capturing and parashooting will be part of badminton, rugby sevens and street biking in Gippsland
- The athletes village has additionally been introduced for Morwell with plans to make it helpful past the video games
The Australian ladies will likely be defending the title they claimed earlier this 12 months when each the T20 format and girls’s cricket made their debut within the Video games in Birmingham.
The recognition of the ladies’s sport is on the rise: In 2020 86,000 individuals watched the Australian aspect win the T20 World Cup on the MCG.
At an area stage, the second season of the Latrobe Valley and District Cricket Affiliation’s ladies’s competitors will begin later this month with eight groups, up from six final 12 months.
Sarah Prime captains the Mirboo North workforce and can also be the competitors’s consultant on the board.
She says the Commonwealth Video games will present younger women that skilled cricket is a risk.
“The ladies’s sport is simply rising and rising and I simply love that our women, our ladies, our younger teenagers [of] all ages can get down there and see it and see themselves,” she stated.
“When you can see it, you may be it … you’ll be able to place your self there and that drives you.
“If you cannot, it is actually exhausting to see the place you slot in.”
Gippslanders will likely be hoping to see two homegrown expertise taking to the sector at Ted Summerton Reserve in Moe with Bairnsdale’s Sophie Molineux and Traralgon’s Nicole Faltum.
It is considered one of two venues the place ladies’s T20 cricket will likely be performed in 2026, with the second but to be introduced.
Taking pictures and parashooting, badminton, rugby sevens and street biking may also be held within the Gippsland area.
‘Lasting legacy’
The situation of the athletes’ village in close by Morwell has additionally been revealed, with design work to be completed in session with the area people and conventional house owners.
“We’ll be working actually exhausting [to make sure] that lodging won’t solely be helpful for the few weeks that it is going for use for the Commonwealth Video games, however for 20 years plus previous that,” Minister for Commonwealth Video games Legacy Shaun Leane stated.
Latrobe Metropolis Mayor Kellie O’Callaghan stated the village could be a “beneficial legacy” of the video games.
“It is going to present us with alternatives for reasonably priced housing, for pathways for additional participation in social housing, and likewise ageing in place, which is essential in our area people as nicely,” she stated.
“We will not underestimate the impression that this may have for our neighborhood.”
