What a shame about the South Island cricket tournament, and thanks for the shout out. We had such a great week (except the Marlborough game). Hopefully we see the name change to the Southern Volts for white ball cricket
In the 1970s Tennis NZ changed from individual provinces competing at at national level to regional based teams. for the first two years we were still called Otago and, indeed players tended to come from Otago. South Canterbury joined us, after not getting fair selection recognition from Canterbury, and when a Southlander got selected, we took the fair and obvious step and called it Southern Districts. The event is now only played at junior level and a large percentage of players come from Southland or Southern Lakes (Wanaka/Queenstown).
What a shame about the South Island cricket tournament, and thanks for the shout out. We had such a great week (except the Marlborough game). Hopefully we see the name change to the Southern Volts for white ball cricket
In the 1970s Tennis NZ changed from individual provinces competing at at national level to regional based teams. for the first two years we were still called Otago and, indeed players tended to come from Otago. South Canterbury joined us, after not getting fair selection recognition from Canterbury, and when a Southlander got selected, we took the fair and obvious step and called it Southern Districts. The event is now only played at junior level and a large percentage of players come from Southland or Southern Lakes (Wanaka/Queenstown).
The netball team is called “southern steel”