Udayana Cricket Club (Indonesia) Media Release

Udayana

Cricket Club, Udayana eco Lodge, Jimbaran, Bali

Email lodge@denpasar.wasantara.net.id

Tel 62 361 261204 Fax 62 361 701098

Announcement

On Sunday December

15th a new cricket club (The Udayana CC) was inaugurated at a meeting of over

50 people in the meeting rooms of Udayana eco Lodge, Jimbaran, Bali. This club,

which has replaced The Jimbaran CC as Udayana was a famous Balinese king whereas

Jimbaran is a location name. The club is under the umbrella of THE BALI INTERNATIONALCRICKET FOUNDATION which was formed in 1995. The new club is unique in many

aspects.

• It is the first

cricket club ever organized by and for the Indonesian people (see details

of Boards below).

• It is the first

cricket organisation in Indonesia to be recognized by KONI (The Indonesian

Government Department of Sport). The Head of KONI (Denpasar) is on the Board

of Trustees.

• The club has

developed within the Bali International Cricket Foundation (BICF) and is part

of the national development program for Indonesia as initiated by the International

Cricket Council (ICC).

• Its headquarters

are at Udayana eco Lodge (see www.ecolodgesindonesia.com)

with access to good accommodation, restaurant, bar and swimming pool facilities.

However the main attraction to visiting cricket teams are access to four nets

and a cricket oval (the same size as The Adelaide oval) in the Lodge 35 ha

complex, the only protected eco area in the Nusa Dua area of Bali.

• Udayana eco

Lodge also hosts the national cricket training center where the national schools

cricket training program is planned and executed. Key trainers are based at

the Lodge and are also key executives in the Udayana cricket club.

The club trains

regularly and currently has two teams, an adult one that holds the Bali League

Trophy 2002 and an Under 15 who also won the 2002 area league in Bali for U15s.

There are four kinds of member, namely, Foundation (Rp 200,000/a), Adult playing

(Rp 25,000/a), Social (Rp 50,000/a) and Junior (under 18 - Rp 5,000/a). Foundationmembership is open to anyone in the world and will close on February 28th 2003.Enquiries re Foundation Membership please contact Gede Ori at email iaeup@denpasar.wasantara.net.id

The best way to

help us is to play against us in tournaments (eg Bali Sixes in April 2003) or

by arranging a touring team to play with us. The impact of cricketers from other

locations in Indonesia and other countries cannot be underestimated. Also income

so derived helps support the national development of the game.