DateDecember 2016DescriptionThis document also archived at Perma CC in April of 2017: https://perma.cc/X855-YNJY
The discovery that cricket was first played in Tauranga in 1866 started some research that has reached a conclusion with the writing of "From the Government Paddock to the Bay Oval - One Hundred and Fifty Years of Cricket in Tauranga".
This is not a definitive history of the growth of cricket in Tauranga City but rather numerous snapshots of the game during the last 150 years.
Acknowledgments
Papers Past
Bay of Plenty Times
New Zealand Cricket
Bay of Plenty Cricket
INDEX
1) The Beginning
2) Affiliation to New Zealand Cricket
3) Peace Arrives in New Zealand
4) Two Bay of Plenty Legends Emerge
5) Club Cricket Over the Years
6) The Day That the Best Cricket Players in the World Came to Tauranga
7) Ping Pongs Scrapbook
8) Tauranga Cricket Clubs - 2016
9) TCA-WBOPCA Trophy Winners
10) From Tauranga Secondary School Cricket to the Black Caps
11) Four Hat-Tricks in One Weekend
12) Twenty 20 Cricket
13) Bay Oval Development
14) Bay Oval Timeline
15) Formation of the Western Bay of Plenty Cricket Association
Appendix - Tauranga and Mount Maunganui International and Major Association Matches
Appendix - WBOPCA Centuries and Six Wicket Bags 2009-10 to 2015-16
Leabourn, Barry, From the Government Paddock to the Bay Oval by Barry Leabourn (December 2016). Pae Korokī, accessed 29/11/2023, https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/49140