The club was thrilled this week for Mitch Hay who was capped for the Blackcaps in T20 and One Day International formats during their tour of Sri Lanka. Mitch becomes the clubs 16th Blackcap in the history of the club and joins some legends of NZ Cricket on our honour board. To top it of he also achieved a World Record 6 dismissals as a keeper for T20’s in his second match.

Mitchells journey in cricket started in the backyard at home with his big brother Matt and parents Pete and Raelyn. Attending Merrin School and playing all sports. Pete signed the boys up to Friday Night Junior Cricket which was run by Peter Burke, and going on from their into Saturday Morning Junior cricket and playing in the CJCA Tournaments. Peter Hay got wrangled into “helping” with the boys’ cricket and is his generous time volunteering for CJCA and becoming President and becoming involved with the Christchurch Boys High School cricket program being on their committee and chair, and is now President of BWCUCC.

Mitch is second Black Cap to come out of Peter Burkes Friday Night cricket program following Tom Latham. It is a lot of dedication, commitment, talent, drive are some of the ingredients for success

Playing sport through Christchurch Boy High School and representing the school in two Gillette Cup campaigns in 2016 (winners) 2017 (winners) and 2018 (runners up to Wellington College) the club was still lucky to have both Matt and Mitch involved in coaching on Friday Night Cricket. Furthering his age group cricket and into representative level, its been terrific that Mitch, Matt and Will O’Rourke have made themselves available when they are able to attend club prizegiving’s and junior events.

Representative honours followed with Canterbury Cricket, NZ Development and NZ A representative cricket all while completing his engineering degree at the University of Canterbury where he was recognised with individual sporting blues awards.

Congratulations Mitch from everyone at the club