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 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 succesful 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.

The team to represent the ACTICF as the Canberra Rockets in the Open Mens division of this years National titles is as follows:

#40 William Floros, #41 Preston Hart, #52 Jason Hays, #59 Dwane Hall, #62 Brett Weinman, #67 Justin Haywood, #72 Matthew Wheatley, #73 Vinesh Bennett, #75 Andrew Lamond, #76 Rob Tunningley, #77 Jason Floros and #78 Mark Hall.

Congratulations to all players.

The team will be coached by Steve Hart, Team Manager Marie Hart, Team Physio is David Kennard and Cameron Walter will serve as Team Statistician.

The next team session is at University of Canberra for fitness on Wednesday 23 April commencing at 6PM.

The following players have been selected to represent the ACT at Australian Junior Championships to be held at Caboolture Indoor Sports in Queensland.

Players are requested to contact their coach for details of the next training session.

Under 14's - Coach Cameron Walter
Jacob Abbey, Sam Boyton, Tim Bromwich, Sandy Craze, Jake Floros, Tim Floros, Brad Jones, Ryan King, Brad Macarthur and Nick Winter
Next training session at Indoor Sports Weston 4:30PM Friday 18 April.

Under 16's - Coach Steve Hart
Aaron AYRE, Jack DOYLE, Kyle MCDONALD, Rhys BELL, Tom CARROLL, Matt GERSTENBERG, Matt EPHRAUMS, Luke RYAN, Matt FLOROS and Paul O'Malveney
Next training session at Indoor Sports Weston 10:00AM Sunday 20 April.

Under 18's - Coach Bill Floros
Jason Floros(c), Michael Spaseski, Tom Boyton, Nick Burridge, Chris Nicolaidis, Matthew Winter, Tom Rowe, Brock Winkler, Michael Minns and Eric Witheridge
Next training session at Indoor Sports Weston 10:00AM Sunday 20 April.

Congratulations to all players selected.

Congratulations to the following ACTICF players/staff who have been selected as Australian Coaches and Managers.

Jamie Parkinson - Australian Junior Boys Manager
Jamie Droney - Australian Over 35's Coach
Cameron Walter - Australian Over 45's Manager

The ACTICF wishes them and the Australian teams under their charge all the best.

Final trials for the 2008 ACTICF Junior representative sides will continue this coming weekend.

Trial Dates:
Venue: Weston Indoor Sports, 45 Liardet Street, Weston ACT 2611. Phone 6288 0444.
Friday 11th April 4.30pm - 6.00pm
Sunday 13th April 10.00am - 12.30pm

Players born between 10th June 1989 and 9th June 1991 would be expected to play in the 18 and Under division.
Players born between 10th June 1991 and 9th June 1993 would be expected to play in the 16 and Under division.
Players born on or after 10th June 1993 would be expected to play in the 14 and Under division.

Nationals will be hosted by Caboolture Indoor Sports from Wednesday 4 June 2008 to Monday 9 June 2008. It is expected that all players will be available from Tuesday night on 3 June to fly to Brisbane and will be returning to Canberra late on Monday afternoon/evening.

For further information contact Steve Hart on 0417 754 479.

The 2008 Winter Superleague will commence on Saturday 19 April with Round 1 to be hosted by Indoor Sports Kambah.

A few changes to last years format including rotating times for all grades and a slightly earlier overall starting time.

Full draw and further information will be available soon, in the meantime please contact your centre for further information.

First training session for Canberra Rockets 2008 squad will be held Wednesday 13 February.

A fitness session including running up Mt Ainslie is the order of the day.

Players wanting details should contact Steve Hart on 0417 754 479.

All other divisions will be starting trials and training sessions in the near future.