Ben Wilkinson To Play for Southern District Stingrays
DLCA scholar Ben Wilkinson will play for The Southern Districts CC aka Stingrays, a semi-professional cricket club in Adelaide this Winter.
The Stingrays compete in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, which is administered by the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA).
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The club entered the SACA A grade competition in season 1993/94 after a steady period of development in the lower SACA grades and also with Adelaide and Suburban Turf Association. The zoned area for the club covers from Hallet Cove to Victor Harbor, and the area out to Strathalbyn and Langhorne Creek in the East.
Southern Districts CC has five senior teams plus two under 16 teams, two under 14 teams plus an under 17 team, Ray Sutton team (primary school) and a Scorpions Shield girls team. The Stingrays play their senior home games at Bice Oval, Christies Beach, South Australia.
Current club captain Shane Deitz is the club's first Southern Redbacks (State) team player.
Ben will be recording a weekly video blog from Australia which you can view every Monday during his time at the DLCA, the first blog was recorded yesterday before Ben's club arrangements with the Stingrays were finalised. Please click here to watch version 1.0 of the blog.