Welcome to the website of the ACT Indoor Cricket Federation.

The ACTICF is the peak sporting organisation for indoor cricket in Canberra and the ACT region. The ACTICF is a member of Indoor Cricket Australia.

The primary brief of the ACTICF is day to day administration, coaching and umpire accreditation, elite inter-centre competitions (known as Superleague), and finally, fulfilling the ACT's commitment to Indoor Cricket Australia of providing state teams for national tournaments.

The ACTICF website contains information on the current and past activities of the ACTICF and it's representatives, as well as information on the affilliated indoor cricket centres in the ACT.

The ACTICF is seeking applications from those interested in becoming involved with the ACTICF as an official for Australian Championships in 2009.

Up to nine sides could be representing the ACT at Australian Championships next year meaning that the ACTICF will rely heavily on the support of its members.

For full details on positions available and the tournaments at which the sides will compete, please see this forum post or contact Steve Hart.

The Trans Tasman series and Australian Masters World Series were concluded earlier this month, with Australia clean sweeping the Tran Tasman and winning all bar one of the contested divisions in the Masters World Series.

The ACTICF congratulates Jason Floros (Australian Juniors), Jamie Parkinson (Australian Juniors Manager), Vinesh Bennett (Australian Men) and Bill Floros (Australian Men Manager) on their trans tasman win, and Rod May (Australian Over 35's), Jamie Droney (Australian Over 35's Coach) and Cameron Walter (Australian Over 45's Manager) on their world championships. Steve Hart also coached the New Zealand Over 30's side and was a runner up in the World Series Final.

The Australian Masters sides will be playing against New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka for World Series Trophies Trophies October 27 to 1 November in Christchurch, New Zealand.

For more details on the series visit the ICA website www.aicf.com.au or the NZIS website www.nzindoorsports.org.nz

ACTICF is represented in the Australian Over 35 men by Rodney May.  Jamie Droney is Coach of the Over 35's and Cameron Walter is Manager of the Australian Over 45's.  Steve Hart is Coach of the New Zealand Over 30 men.

The Australian Extreme and Australian Electric sides will be playing against New Zealand for the Trans Tasman Trophies October 2 to 4 in Auckland, New Zealand.

For more details on the three test series visit the ICA website www.aicf.com.au or the NZIS website www.nzindoorsports.org.nz.  This series will be the first under the combined ICA/CA banner and will feature the Australian Extreme teams wearing the official Australian one day shirts.

Jason Floros is playing for the Australian Junior boys, Jamie Parkinson is Manager.

Vinesh Bennett is our sole playing representative for the Australian Extreme men.  In a late call up Bill Floros will join the squad as Manager.

Superleague for 2008 has been completed with a clean sweep for Indoor Sports Weston with its two sides competing for every Grand Final.

In Mens 3 1st Blast 186 (3) d 3rd Weston 96 (1).  Player of the Grand Final was Mick Strecker

Mens 2 saw 1st Weston 137 (2) victorious over 2nd Blast 125 (2).  Tyler Denis receiving the individual honor.

Indoor Sports Weston made it 7 straight victories in the Premier Mens Division. 1st Weston 176 (3) defeated 2nd Blast 72 (1).  Preston Hart was named Player of the Grand Final.
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Following the first week of finals all Superleague Grand Final teams have been decided and we see the sides entered by Indoor Sports Weston (Weston and Blast) competing against each other in all grades.

As a result, following consultation with representatives from Kambah Steeds a decision has been made to move the Grand Finals to Indoor Sports Weston.

The representative teams presentation function has also been moved to Indoor Sports Weston and will commence at 2PM.

The following players will represent the ACTICF at the Australian Masters Championships to be held at St Mary's Indoor Cricket Centre in July this year.

Over 30's
1 Stu Fox, 2 Scott Baker, 3 Paul Creech, 4 Merlyn Evans, 5 Anthony Malzard, 6 Adam Millard, 7 Brad Morgan, 8 Karl Morris, 9 David Warner, 10 Rob Reeves and 71 Pete Manwaring. The side will be coached by Cameron Walter.

Over 35's
1 Alex Kwong, 2 Rod Baesjou, 3 Craig Richardson, 4 Rodney May, 5 Jason Booth, 6 Glenn Doyle, 7 Iain Cox, 8 Dean Cox, 9 Anthony Mayo, 10 Marty Bennett and 56 Jamie Droney. The side will be coached by Jamie Droney and Vinesh Bennett.

Over 45's
1 Tom Bedford, 2 Ian Hamill, 3 Chris Henry, 4 Leroy Jerrim, 6 David Pennell, 7 Richard Shutt, 8 Grant Leighton, 9 Geoff Story, 10 Wayne Streeter and 26 Ted Hempstead. The side will be coached by Cameron Walter.

The Canberra Rockets finished the 2008 Championsips in 3rd place, losing in the Preliminary final to WA by 5 runs.  WA were subsequently defeated by QLD in the National decider.

Individual honours went to Jason Floros who was named player of the series and Vinesh Bennett who regained his place in the Australian Mens side.

It is believed that Jason is the first player ever to be named as Player of the series in a Junior Division and an Open Division in the same year.

The 2008 Australian Open Championships will commence this Sunday in Ipswich, Queensland.

The ACT Rockets will be looking to go one better than their second place finish in last years tournament and will have a full schedule of 12 games to get through before the finals series.

Live coverage of each ACT game will be available to registered users in the ACTICF Forum.

The Australian Junior Championships concluded earlier today.

For the 3rd National Championships in a row the ACTICF had a team in a National Chanpionship game with the Under 18's exceeding all expectations and becoming the first ACT Junior side to make a decider. The team was made up of many of last years Under 16's side that narrowly lost in the preliminary final. Unfortunately on the day the team could not get over the top of QLD, but they fought hard.

Jason Floros was named player of the series and also to the Australian side that will take on the Kiwis in the trans-tasman tests later this year.

In other divisions South Africa defeated WA in the 14's and SE Qld defeated NSW Blues in the 16's. In the Junior girls division NSW defeated Qld as well.

The ACTICF under 14's and Under 16 sides were not as successful as the 18's but represented the ACTICF with pride.

The next hit outs for ACTICF sides will be the Autsralian Open Championships in Ipswich later this month.