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Speaker 1: Joining me in the studio right now is Joel Morrison,

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Speaker 1: who is indeed the CEO of NT Cricket. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to you, Joel, Good morning Katy.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you, Great.

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Speaker 1: To see you.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday I think it was, or maybe it was the

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Speaker 1: day before. Now it must have been yesterday. It's only

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Speaker 1: true history. I keeping day the week. It is yesterday.

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Speaker 1: We'd started to get a couple of messages from our

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Speaker 1: listeners wondering what is going on with the T twenty cricket.

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Speaker 1: They said, come on, Welphie, can you tell us exactly

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Speaker 1: when it's kicking off, where we need to be all

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff because they're excited.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm here for you, Katie, because we've got a

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Speaker 2: massive festival of cricket coming up which gets underway on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: It's our CU top end T twenty, which you'll see

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Speaker 2: eleven straight days and nights of cricket with the Melbourne

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Speaker 2: Renegades in town, with the Melbourne Stars taking on the

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Speaker 2: Northern Territory, a Cricket Australia Invitational eleven and Papua New

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Speaker 2: Guinea battling it all out.

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Speaker 1: How cool? So how many players are we talking being

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Speaker 1: in the Territory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well there's the five teams and there's probably between

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Speaker 2: thirteen and fourteen players, So do the mass because I'm

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Speaker 2: terrible at mask. But there's a lot going on and

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Speaker 2: it forms the second and final installment of the Cricket

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Speaker 2: three to six five program this year, which has been

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Speaker 2: running since June. We just had the CDU Strike League

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Speaker 2: conclude on the weekend with a thrilling and fifty over

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Speaker 2: final between the Southern Storm and the Northern Tide and

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Speaker 2: a number of those players will now be selected for

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Speaker 2: the NT or the Cricket Australia eleven and then take

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Speaker 2: on these teams from the Big Bash League and PNG

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Speaker 2: who have previously played in a T twenty World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, so we're talking some big names going to

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Speaker 1: be here.

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Speaker 2: That's right. So we've got Darcy Short who's returned home

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Speaker 2: to play for the Northern Territory, who plays for the

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Speaker 2: hoe By Hurricanes and has played for Australia. Are the

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Speaker 2: names like Jake Fraser McGirk, Chris Tremaine, Mackenzie, Harvey, Tom Rodgers,

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Speaker 2: Nick Clark and so some big names who run arounds

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Speaker 2: on the domestic scene and play in the Big Bash

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Speaker 2: League and State cricket too.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that, I know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: people listening going to be thinking, all right, when do

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Speaker 1: I need to get there? How much is it going

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Speaker 1: to cost? How can I catch all the action? So

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Speaker 1: talk us through all of that as well.

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Speaker 2: Joel, absolutely, Well, the easiest thing to do is head

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Speaker 2: to nt crickets dot com a U all the informations there.

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Speaker 2: But from this Thursday we go eleven days and nights

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Speaker 2: straight of T twenty cricket. So every single night six

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Speaker 2: o'clock at DX Arena, except for Sundays, we'll be playing

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Speaker 2: at Gardens Oval and it'll be afternoon matches. So if

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Speaker 2: you want to get along and check out some great

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Speaker 2: games of cricket, there's plenty going on. You'll have plenty

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Speaker 2: of options and all the details on how to buy

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Speaker 2: tickets are on the website. And it's only ten dollars

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Speaker 2: for an adult under tens free and twenty dollars for

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Speaker 2: a family.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's wonderful, very affordable for people to be able

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Speaker 1: to head along and you know, catch what is going

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Speaker 1: to be some fantastic sport right here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: You've had a busy year. I mean, cricket in the

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Speaker 1: Northern territories had a massive year. Really, how great do

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Speaker 1: you think it is? You know, to see these types

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Speaker 1: of games happening here in the territory.

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Speaker 2: So important because not only does it highlight and promote

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Speaker 2: Darwin as a destination, it allows our young boys and

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Speaker 2: girls to rub shoulders with their heroes. But really importantly,

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Speaker 2: because we own and operate the Cricket three six five program,

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Speaker 2: we're able to put our territory players, coaches and match

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Speaker 2: officials into the games as well to help them have

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Speaker 2: a pathway to a level cricket so so important for

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Speaker 2: us in terms of normally it's a challenge with cricket

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Speaker 2: because we play out of sync with the rest of

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Speaker 2: the country in Darwin because of the dry season, wet season.

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Speaker 2: It's not possible with the monsoon rain we get over

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Speaker 2: the summer the play cricket. So normally you wouldn't get

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Speaker 2: the chance to rub shoals with those heroes and pathways

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Speaker 2: can be a challenge. But with the Cricket three to

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Speaker 2: six fire program being in place now for the last

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Speaker 2: two years, heroes are in our backyard, great pathways and

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Speaker 2: we're seeing a lot of young territories really shine on

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Speaker 2: the stage. That's been great.

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Speaker 1: Stall. Yeah, that is such a wonderful thing to see.

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Speaker 1: And then when you talk about that, like at the

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Speaker 1: junior level, have you seen like a ballooning of numbers

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Speaker 1: in terms of people wanting to come and learn how

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Speaker 1: to play cricket.

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Speaker 2: Most definitely credit to all the clubs and the volunteers

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Speaker 2: and the Darwin and District's cricket competition. Over the last decade,

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Speaker 2: junior numbers are going north. We've seen our women's competition

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Speaker 2: grow from having no teams about five years ago to

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Speaker 2: now every single club has a women's team in the competition,

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Speaker 2: so it's been great to see. And even with our

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Speaker 2: senior men teams as well, those numbers are growing too,

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Speaker 2: So that the clubs and the volunteers that be commended

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Speaker 2: for their wonderful job they're doing.

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Speaker 1: That is wonderful to hear. So now with the T

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Speaker 1: twenty cricket, obviously everybody can go to Ntcricket dot com

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Speaker 1: dot au to get all of that info. What's next,

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Speaker 1: what's coming up, what's still to go this year?

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Speaker 2: Well, after Cricket three six five, we head into the

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Speaker 2: final series for local crickets, so it's getting really tight

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Speaker 2: a table across all grades, so people will be looking

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Speaker 2: forward to finals. And then we move into the Alice

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Speaker 2: Springs season which gets played over summer, so cricket never

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Speaker 2: stops in the Northern Territory. We love that that goes

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Speaker 2: year rounds. And then we also have our underage teams

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Speaker 2: which go down and play in the National Championship, so

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Speaker 2: still plenty on that's where we work our way finally

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Speaker 2: to Christmas good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, Joel, I love sport, I love all sports, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's fantastic what's going on at the moment

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Speaker 1: with cricket. I know that a lot of our listeners

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Speaker 1: are going to be very pleased to get that further information.

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Speaker 1: And no doubt you get plenty of crowds there at

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Speaker 1: the cricket over the coming days and.

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Speaker 2: T twenty is the perfect vehicle for that. Will have matches,

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Speaker 2: under lights, will have fireworks at the NT games. We'll

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Speaker 2: have some food trucks as well, so come along give

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Speaker 2: it a go. And I know you're an the merging

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Speaker 2: cricket fan, Ktie, so I've got a family pass here

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Speaker 2: for you with a fixture so you can identify when

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Speaker 2: you want to take the family down and we'd love

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Speaker 2: to host you there and many others from across Duh

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Speaker 2: and get down and support the territory as we take

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Speaker 2: on some of the best players in the country.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know that I like to have my kids

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Speaker 1: at as many sports, as many sports as possible. My

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Speaker 1: aim is to keep them out of trouble as they

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Speaker 1: get older, and the busier they are, the better it is.

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Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 2: I think the great news for your kids as well

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Speaker 2: as there's plenty of space at Dex Area so they

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Speaker 2: can run around, we can hype them up on sugar

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Speaker 2: and they can watch a great cricket as well, and

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Speaker 2: you can relax on the hill and have a great evening.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, oh Joel, it's always wonderful to catch up with

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Speaker 1: you mate. Thanks so much for joining us in the

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Speaker 1: studio this morning anytime. Thanks you