The winter season is under way, with Aussie Rules, Football, Baseball and even Cricket happening live on the vault across Australia and overseas.

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Cricket Australia announced today a partnership with Melbourne based online sports management company, InteractSport, to provide a national online cricket management system, to enhance administration and statistics gathering for players at all levels.

During the announcement, Australian cricketer Michael Clarke endorsed the partnership:
“It’s an exciting step for cricket and for all community players out there who, in this system, will be treated the same as international cricketers. It means that if you’re playing in your local Under 12’s team you can compare your statistics and results with not only your team mates and opponents, but every other Under 12 player in the country.”

InteractSport initially developed the ResultsVault Cricket system in 1999 for the use of a handful of Melbourne based cricket clubs. It now services more than 2200 cricket organisations world wide involving more than 190,000 players. The details and statistics from over 280,000 matches is available online covering clubs from Bunbury to North Texas, Glenorchy to Rotorua and Emu Plains to Durban.

InteractSport Director, Andrew Walton, says:
“After an extensive process it is a great honour for us to be selected by Cricket Australia to provide the online systems that will power the national cricket management solution. This will be the biggest and most comprehensive program of its kind in sport in Australia and the end result will be a world class platform that will encourage the growth of the sport at the grassroots level.”

Cricket state bodies will be strongly encouraging community clubs to register their interest for the ResultsVault system prior to next season, to utilise the online system’s features including: registrations, fixture generating, full score cards, player statistics, ladders, team communication and media reports.

Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland stated:
“Partnering with InteractSport to implement a National cricket management solution will ensure that Australian cricket continues to meet the future challenges, ease the increasing administration burden at all levels and co-ordinate our resources more effectively within the game. Online competitions, results and statistics is also an ideal medium to bring diverse communities together to celebrate cricket. We are delighted in this outcome to strengthen the relationships that exist in Australian cricket.”

As clubs jostle for ladder positions in last-ditch attempts to secure a finals berth, the past couple of rounds in the Gippsland region of Victoria have seen some remarkable cricketing results

About 100kms east of Melbourne, in Drouin, 25 year old Rhyce Gouge netted 10/14, in 10.3 overs, a haul which included an astonishing nine unassisted wickets.

Gouge, a 31 match player with Drouin CC, saw his opponents, Western Park – in the Division 4, Rd 13 WDCA game – all out for 58;  the only catch for the innings taken by M Barrand.

This comes a fortnight after a match up the road, between Hallora and Jindivick, which saw number eight bat, John Rassmussen, hold his own big day out, to be not out for 234; Jindivick declaring at 9/419.

Russmussen could be entering the history books with a 10th wicket partnership of 235 that was unbeaten with the all time Test Match record of 151 set in 97/98 by Azhar Mahmood and Mushtaq Ahmed at Rawalpindi against South Africa.

Selectors, coaches and trainers might want to check with the Warragul and District Cricket Association if a special blend of vitamin rich drinking water is coming from their Gippsland catchment areas.

And please let us know if you have any recent star performances to add.