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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: International Cricket is returning to TiO Stadium VI June for

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Speaker 2: the first time in fifteen years, and efforts are underway

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Speaker 2: to install the dropping cricket pitch ahead of the Under

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Speaker 2: nineteens Men's World Cup qualifier between New Zealand and Papua

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Speaker 2: New Guinea. The Northern Territory Government's contributing three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars towards the project and is stumping up

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand to help NT Cricket to host the clashes

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Speaker 2: and joining me on the line to tell us more.

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Speaker 2: It is NT Cricket CEO Gavin Dovey.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Gav.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Katie, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 2: How long has this work been well in the works?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that Phoebe. I mean I've only been in the

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Speaker 3: role for a couple of months, but my predecessor, John

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Speaker 3: Morrison and the board here I think for a while

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Speaker 3: we've been trying to get a dropping wicket back into too,

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Speaker 3: and I think last year we saw an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: align that to getting these ICC Under nineteens qualifiers here,

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Speaker 3: So yesterday I'm thrilled to see those two things come together.

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Speaker 1: And I do remember speaking to well to Joel about it.

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Speaker 2: I think it was last year and we were really

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Speaker 2: hoping that it would mean that there'd be more international cricket.

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Speaker 2: Why was the drop in pitch the way to go?

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Speaker 2: Is that the best option?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think there's only one venue in the territory

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Speaker 3: that's ICC credited and that's TiO Stadium. So you know,

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Speaker 3: that's the critical piece of infrastructure for us here in

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Speaker 3: terms of getting that up and running, and that's sort

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Speaker 3: of the gateway then for getting international cricket here. We'll

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Speaker 3: start with these under nineteen qualifiers and then hopefully, you know,

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Speaker 3: that'll be the lead to getting more international contents down

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Speaker 3: the track. You know, that's certainly our aim and our ambition.

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Speaker 2: I reckon the territory would absolutely love that, gave tell

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Speaker 2: us with these qualifiers, with the Under nineteen Men's World

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Speaker 2: Cup qualify, is it just the one match or is

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Speaker 2: there going to be be more?

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Speaker 3: No, it's an event that will take place between the

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Speaker 3: twelfth and the twenty first of June. The twenty one Games.

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Speaker 3: Sevent teams are battling it out to get a final

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Speaker 3: spot in the Under nineteen World Cup next year and

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Speaker 3: of those twenty one games, we're going to see through

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Speaker 3: them at TOO Stadium. So the first one of those

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Speaker 3: will be on the eighteenth of June when the Kiwis

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Speaker 3: take on Papa New Guinea, and then there'll be another

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Speaker 3: one on the nineteenth and the twenty first. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: thrill that will be able to have through those games

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Speaker 3: over at Too. But for those that love their cricket,

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Speaker 3: they'll be able to see, you know, some of these

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Speaker 3: other games at DX Arena here, Gardens over and the like.

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Speaker 3: So there's going to be plenty of cricket happening around Dula.

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Speaker 1: That's massive.

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Speaker 2: That's a real coup for us in the territory, isn't

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Speaker 2: it to see that kind of talent on display. I mean,

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Speaker 2: we're talking about cricket's future.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think I mean the growth and the

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Speaker 3: popularity of cricket around the world is phenomenal, and the

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Speaker 3: age of Spacific region is a great example of that.

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Speaker 3: Of some of the countries participating here, you might not

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Speaker 3: necessarily associate with cricket countries like Indonesia in Japan, but

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Speaker 3: the governments are investing a lot of money in sort

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Speaker 3: of cricket development. So really exciting, really exciting to see

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Speaker 3: them playing here and seeing some sort of the talent

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Speaker 3: that are going to be coming through the ranks and

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Speaker 3: most likely playing franchise cricket around the world in the future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Now with this dropping cricket pitch, Like, how important is

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Speaker 2: it for us in terms of trying to draw even

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Speaker 2: bigger matches and even more cricket action to the territory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, as I said before, it's it's critical.

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Speaker 3: You know, the ICC A credit a certain amount of

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Speaker 3: and toos is accredited here and so we needed to

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Speaker 3: get a dropping pitch back into it. There hasn't been

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Speaker 3: a long garp and you know, we haven't hosted a

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Speaker 3: also thrilled that we're going to going to be able

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Speaker 3: we can then start putting our hand up to Cricket

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Speaker 2: Oh Gav, how soon are you hoping that that might

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Speaker 2: actually happen? Have you given yourself a time frame? Well,

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Speaker 2: just as soon as we can.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, it's always nice to under promise and

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Speaker 3: over deliver so of work ahead of it, but I'd

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Speaker 3: we'll be working really hard to try and get astray

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Speaker 3: here that year. I reckon it'd be great to get

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Speaker 3: they're just they're phenomenal. Their record in recent years and

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Speaker 3: their achievements have just been unbelievable. So I'd love to

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Speaker 3: as well at some point.

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Speaker 2: And how incredible, you know, for our youngsters as well

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Speaker 2: to see cricket of that caliber and level happening here

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those things where it gives the kids

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Speaker 2: the moment the nationals are taking place with our school

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's really important. I think I've been lucky

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Speaker 3: you just you see the power that that you know,

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Speaker 3: I think we'd love to get to a point where

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Speaker 3: all the boys and girls that love cricket here in

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Speaker 3: watch their heroes in their backyard, get an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: I think that's incredibly powerful from what I've seen, so

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Speaker 3: I love to be able to make that happen. And

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Speaker 3: as you said, the under twelve National champ are taking

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Speaker 2: How are they going, Gavin? Are they all doing pretty well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Pretty good? Yeah, doing pretty well. I mean the

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Speaker 3: and our boys in particular, the NTA Boys had a

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Speaker 3: great win the other day over Victoria which was just

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Speaker 3: fantastic to see. So yeah, I think crickets in pretty

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: And Gav, you've obviously taken took the reins of NTA

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Speaker 2: cricket a couple of months ago. How's it going, because

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Speaker 2: previously you were managing the Australian cricket team, weren't you.

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Speaker 3: I was, Yeah, yeah, big Jamey, I did that for

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Speaker 3: a while. Very very lucky and privilege to do that.

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Speaker 3: For a decent period. But I'm thoroughly enjoying the role here,

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Speaker 3: thoroughly enjoying the time in Darwin and the territory of

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Speaker 3: my family who joined it, and just an incredible community,

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Speaker 3: very welcoming and everyone made us through it home pretty quick.

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Speaker 3: So I'm really excited about hopefully spending a long time

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Speaker 3: here and doing some good things with cricket and the community. Well.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful stuff And Gavin, no doubt we'll catch up again

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Speaker 2: very soon, but keep us up to date with, you know,

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Speaker 2: with any of that movement when it comes to the

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Speaker 2: international cricket coming back to the territory, but anything else

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Speaker 2: great that's going on with cricket.

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Speaker 1: Mate, Thank you, Yeah, fantastic. Thanks that nice Katie, Thank

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Speaker 1: you