Founded in 1905, Burnside West Christchurch University is a cricket club in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a rich and proud history. Based at the picturesque Burnside Oval, in the heart of Christchurch’s North West, BWCUCC provides club cricket playing, coaching, and development opportunities for all ages.
Teams
We provide cricketing playing, coaching, and development for all ages (starting from Year 1), and skill levels from social to elite competitive cricket. Follow the links below for information about cricketing opportunities at BWCUCC.
All cricket start on the 7th October 2017, and with pre-season underway shortly now is good time to get in contact to discuss playing for BWCUCC this season.
New players wanted now!
Premier Men’s players – if you are interested in playing for our Premier Men’s cricket and want to get involved in competitive senior cricket then you need to talk to either or Premier’s Men Coach, Paul O’Brien or our Club Captain Brett Thomson.
Burnside Cricket is one of eight premier cricket clubs in the Christchurch, New Zealand’s second largest city. The club’s headquarters are at Burnside Oval, in the north-west of Christchurch. The Club’s top team competes in the Premier grade, which is the highest metropolitan competition. Each season, there are two day, one day and Twenty/20 titles to be won.
Christchurch Metro Cricket grades have something for everyone, whether you are a social or serious cricketer, or whether you want to play all day or just spend three hours in a T20 match.
The Burnside West Christchurch University CC Afternoon Grade Teams
In addition to the clubs 3 morning grade teams, we have got a range of afternoon grade teams that play 40 Over one day games or in the 20/20 competition. If you want to get involved in one of these teams them please contact the club by email or talk to the club captain Brett Thomson.
You can also contact the club via our Facebook page for game updates.
Match Day
Matches can be either at home or at opposition grounds, but most summer Saturdays there will be good cricket to watch at Burnside Oval, starting no later than 11am
Practices
Grass net practices three nights a week from 5.30pm:
Tuesdays. Premier and 2nd Grade teams Wednesdays. An open club training for the 2A and 2B teams, and players from our afternoon grade teams Thursdays. Premier team and special training group
In addition, our artificial practice pitches are available for players and teams who would like to organise other practices.
In exciting news BWCUCC and Merivale-Papanui Cricket Club are collaborating to encourage girl’s and women’s cricket at time where there is a growing interest in the game.
The pathway for girl’s starts off in both club in Junior Cricket either in a or Friday night program, playing mixed cricket at club or school.
All girls teams from Year 5/6 up will be playing as ‘North West Women’s Cricket’ all the way from CJCA grades to Christchurch Metro Cricket Women’s Cricket grades.
Currently the NWWC Convenor is Ross Hastings, with Angus McIntosh being the Coach of the Women’s Div1 side.
Ross Hastings can be contacted via email: r.hastingsnz@gmail.com
You can register here for the new season at CricHQ on the following link, please note if you have already registered at BWCUCC or MPCC then you will be transferred to NWWC. Subscriptions are $100.00 for the season.
(ONLINE REGISTRATIONS are now closed – please contact cricket@burnsidecricket.org.nz or Ross Hastings if you are keen to register – we are still accepting registering players just not online!)
MPCC and BWCUCC have been partners in girls and women’s cricket for over 10 years, mainly due to player numbers which means we often share and exchange players at different skills levels to form Girl’s only sides.
In 2015/16 there was the formation of the North West Zone for Woman’s cricket which is intended to provide a pathway for Youth Woman towards Premiers Woman’s cricket. As a club we fully support this focus of combining several clubs strengths to form age appropriate and skill levels sides to compete in the Christchurch Metro Competition.
Please contact the club if you have any specific enquiries with Women’s Cricket.
When Canterbury University Cricket Club merged with the West Christchurch Cricket Club in 1957, the combined organisation became the club of choice for University players wanting to further their cricket careers. Burnside Oval became the home of University cricketers when the West Christchurch University Club was part of another merger with the Burnside Cricket Club in 1972.
This 55 year tradition, with University students joining the club in numbers each year, and adding considerable benefit to the club both on and off the field, continues to this day. If you would like to play yourself, please email cricket@burnsidecricket.org.nz , or contact us via the Club’s Facebook page or speak to the club captain Brett Thomson on brett.thomson@iag.co.nz or 0211435185.
In February 2017 a Canterbury Universities combined side travelled to Wellington to play Victoria University Cricket Club in a T20 Tournament for the ‘Neil Wood Memorial Trophy’ this was match was first played in 1907, this is hoped to be a regular feature of competative cricket.
Matt Janett, Will Young (CD Skipper, former BWCUCC player while at Uni), Alex McDuff
Team Meeting, Match played in Wellington vs VUWCC
VUWCC and BWCUCC
If you want to play competitive Premier Grade cricket we encourage you to stay for the summer, however if you are just here and would like to a match we will try and accommodate you into one of our sides.
Burnside Cricket is proud to be a partner, along with the Merivale Papanui Cricket Club, Burnside High School, Papanui High School and Christchurch Metropolitan Cricket, in North West Youth Cricket (NWYC).
NWYC is a club for players of Year 9 to Year 13 age. Players are mainly from the two partner schools, Burnside High School & Papanui High School – However there is no restriction on just these schools.
Please find attached the registration form for the 1/2 year of 2017 for NWYC can be found here: registration form
One of the aims of NWYC is to provide a pathway for young cricketers between their junior cricket and their joining Burnside or Merivale-Papanui clubs after leaving school. Burnside High and Papanui High players represent their schools in mid-week teams.
All NWYC players have access to qualified coaches and a Saturday manager to aid their development as cricketers. Canterbury Cricket liaises closely with NWYC to ensure that development opportunities are also available for players through its coaching staff and via Christchurch and Canterbury representative teams.
You can also attend our registration days at Burnside Park from 10am to 12pm on the 8th,15th, 22nd and 29th of September.
Age and Stage Cricket – Check out these changes to junior cricket which will affect our Year 4 – Year 8 Teams
Friday Night Junior Cricket
Friday night Junior Cricket is from 6pm on Burnside Oval each week, starting in October. It finishes for the December/January school holidays in December. This is for ages up to Year 5 where we offer junior programs Year 1&2 and Year 3&4 and are 1 hour skills based sessions in two groups:
Superstar Academy – (formerly Have a Go)
For the youngest players (Year 1 & 2), there is a focus on skill development and confidence building through the Superstar Academy program. (previously Have-a-go)
Kiwi Cricket
Advanced Year 2s, Year 3 & 4’s. This is still based and works up to short gameplay as the end of the sessions. Some of our advanced Year 4 will then play after the Christmas Holiday’s in CJCA T20 Year 4 north zone cricket on Saturday mornings.
As players head into Year 5, they move into more traditional cricket through junior 20/20 matches and play on Saturday Mornings.
From Year 5 to Year 8, players are selected for Saturday morning teams and start playing matches against teams from other clubs. All junior players have access to qualified coaches during the week at practice, however Parents will be asked to help manage a team on Saturday’s.
Saturday morning Junior Cricket starts at 9am each week, beginning in October. It finishes for the December/January school holidays in December, recommencing in February. We lose our Year 8 players to secondary school in February so the teams have a bit of a reshuffle.
Our year 5/6 girls team had an excellent season, we would really like to keep the support going to girls cricket at BWC.
A number of the junior grades have a challenge shield that is up for grabs each Saturday just like the Ranfurly Shield. The shields are named after individuals who have given much to junior cricket over a long period of time. Two of the shields are named after Burnside Life Members who have given many years of service to Canterbury Junior Cricket.
The Derek Cockburn Shield is played for by the Junior Premier (Year 8) grade.
The inscription on the Derek Cockburn Shield reads: Derek Cockburn has been a leading coach and selector of juniors in the North West of Christchurch since 1959. He has also fostered junior cricket through the South Island Tournament which has grown from 8 to 14 teams. He was made a life member of Burnside West CC in 1986 after assisting Zimbabwe officials in setting up junior cricket there, all in part of a Goldie Oldie exchange. Derek was awarded CJCA Life Membership in 1990, presented with the Sir Jack Newman trophy for service by NZ Cricket in 2007, made Patron of the CJCA in 2010 and in the same year received the ICC Centenary Medal for his outstanding service voluntarily given to cricket.
BWU3 win the Peter Burke Shield in 2015/2016
The Peter Burke Shield is the challenge trophy for the Year 7 Section 1 grade. The inscription on this shield reads: Peter Burke enrolled his two sons with Burnside-West in 1993. He introduced new concepts to the North-West – first the Friday and Monday activity for beginners and synthetic pitch blocks. He was the Junior Cricket Assoc President from 2002 to 2005 while being S.I.T. Manager during the rise of Tom Latham and Corey Anderson. Peter became the 26th BWUCC Life Member in its 108 year history. He also has an ability to sniff out grants from worthy sponsors.
Players moving from Year 8 to Year 9 join our Youth programme, run under the auspices of North West Youth Cricket
NWYC is a collaboration between our Club, the Merivale-Papanui Cricket Club, Burnside High School and Papanui High School. NWYC has a range of teams from Under 14 (year 9) to a 1st XI that plays in the top school grade in Christchurch.
To find out more about Youth Cricket please click here
Players do not have to come only from the two schools and clubs. Everyone of high school age is very welcome to play for NWYC. After Year 13 finishes, players’ involvement with NWYC ends and they can move on to play Senior Cricket for either Burnside Cricket or the Merivale-Papanui Cricket Club.
This is a second level of Honorary Membership named after New Zealand Cricketer Jack Kerr who served BWCUCC for over 77 years as a player, committee member, club captain, selector, President and Patron. You can read more about Jack Kerr on Wikipedia
The ‘Pride” comes from our club crest of a Lion and being part of the pride, as well the pride we have in our club.
This membership is also an option available for playing members who are in a position and wish to do more for the club. The “Jack Kerr Pride” members will receive exclusive communication & invitation to events. The additional funds raised by these members will be spent on directly improving the club and players. Jack Kerr Members will have a direct say in where the funding is to be used.
