Taita Player Milestone

Congratulations to Shaun, Jonny and Dip on achieving your well deserved milestones for Taita District Cricket Club.

Shaun Gillespie

Shaun Gillespie is set to become the second player in Taita’s long history to play 300 club games this weekend. This is a huge achievement. Joining the club from Naenae College in 2004, Shaun has been a stalwart of the club ever since. He has spend multiple years as Club Captain and Reserve Captain. Shaun is now the clubs youngest ever Life Member. Shaun has taken 345 wickets, with 3 five wicket bags. His batting prowess was achieved when playing for the thirds on Fraser 6A scoring a career high of 63.

Jonny Hare

Congratulations Jonny Hare plays his 200th game for Taita Cricket, this is an outstanding milestone and Jonny is only the 4th player in the current generation to play 200 games for Taita. Jonny joined Taita in 2005 and has been a loyal Taita player ever since. Jonny has scored 1675 runs for the club with a top score of 93, he has taken 43 stumpings and 73 catches, most behind the stumps

Dip Correia

Congratulations 100 Caps Dip Correia. Dip joined Taita in 2017 and has been a key contributor to the success that the Taita thirds have had since he joined the club. Dips has scored 2446 runs with 2 hundreds with a top score of 127. He has taken 153 wickets with a best of 8/39.

Past Player Day 28th Nov

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Saturday 28th November

Taita will use our first past players day of the season, when Taita Premier Men take on Victoria University at Fraser Park to celebrate Dave Stewart a long standing Taita member and Life Member who sadly passed away during the winter.

To commemorate the day Fraser Park 1 will be renamed the Dave Stewart Oval for the day.

The Premier players will be wearing a black arm band and with the family, both teams will do a minute’s silence before the game to remember Dave.

The bar will be open from 3pm and we encourage all Taita supporters to come down watch the Premiers play, socialise and reminisce.

Nibbles will be available at 4pm

Dave Stewart

(1949–2026)

Ewen CHatField Trophy

Taita Prems Vs Onslow Prem @ Fraser Park

First 50 over game of the 2026/27 Ewen Chatfieild Trophy game went down to the last ball, not quite our day needing 3 off the last ball to win or 2 to tie. A scrambling 2nd run only to fall just short to tie the game.

Plenty of positives to take out of the Premiers performance.

We move on to next week where we take on Victoria University.