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Training's going to be Ace this month!
Moonee Valley Cricket Club will be taking a different tack (or track) on training on Tuesday, January 25. We're going to spend the evening whizzing around the track at the venue of our major sponsor, Ace Karts.
Coach Lou Raffaele has declared that this is an official training event, so there will be NO SENIOR TRAINING at Ormond Park that evening. Training is at Ace Karts.
The company has done an excellent deal for Moonee Valley Cricket Club, with $40 giving people a 10-minute warm-up and then a full 20 minutes of racing.
The night starts at 6pm at Ace Karts, at 20 Carrington Dve. Sunshine, just off the Western Ring Rd.
For more details, and information on how to book, etc. see the news item at the top of this page.

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Christmas Cheer at Moonee Valley                                

Celebrating some winning form at our Christmas Party at the Ormond Park pavilion on Saturday, December 18 are (left to right) First Eleven captain Mark Gauci, batsman Joel Wilford and Second Eleven acting captain Bede Gannon.

Watch this space for more photos and info from the Christmas party.

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Cricket makes the world go round at Moonee Valley

Moonee Valley's latest cricket import, Ihtisham Uddin, has arrived in Australia from Pakistan, and has lost no time in settling in to training.

Ihtisham, who as recently as a month ago was playing first class cricket back home, is match-fit and raring to go.

He joins a veritable United Nations vying for spots in Moonee Valley's First Eleven.

And while there are tensions between the countries on the sub-continent, that's just not the case at Moonee Valley - as the picture here shows.

Welcoming Ihtisham are our champion Arosha Perera (left), from Sri Lanka, and chairman of selectors Amit Chaudhary (right), who came from India.

When you include Joel Wilford, Kris Garland and Simon Thornton from England, you can see cricket really does make the world go round at Moonee Valley.

Amit Chaudhary played a key role in liaising with Ihtisham as he worked through his visa application, and was the first person from our Club to welcome him when he arrived on November 10.

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