Burnside_West_Christchurch_University_Cricket_Club
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club
Cricket club in Canterbury, New Zealand
Burnside West Christchurch University Cricket Club or BWCUCC is a cricket club that plays at Burnside Park, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. It is one of the oldest cricket clubs in Christchurch, having been established in 1905.[1]
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As of the start of the 2016/17 season the club has 11 adult teams which play in several grades in the Christchurch Metropolitan Cricket Association. The club also has 10 junior Saturday teams in the Christchurch Junior Cricket Association leagues. They also have a very well supported Friday night league for younger cricketers (school years 1–3) who are just being introduced to the game.
While the club has benefited from several mergers over the years from the West Christchurch Cricket Club, which then merged with University Cricket who were at Ilam Fields, Christchurch, and then subsequently they merged with Burnside Cricket to form the new club and to further establish Burnside Park, or as cricketers would call it, Burnside Oval.
BWCUCC has had several players represent both the provincial team of Canterbury cricket team and internationally with the New Zealand national cricket team