Cricket World Cup Trophy Coming to Town!

Dunedin (Monday, 24 November 2014) – Join the build up to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 by coming along to the Octagon on Wednesday morning.

Make the most of a great opportunity to see the World Cup Trophy when it arrives in the city at 6am as part of a nationwide tour.

Cricket World Cup, the Dunedin City Council and Otago Cricket are staging a community event in the Octagon which will feature an interactive exhibition on the history of the tournament, a chance to test your cricket skills, giveaways and the opportunity for a free photo with the trophy. Fans can also expect to meet cricketing legends Chris Harris, Ken Rutherford and Shayne O’Connor, plus local cricketing star Suzie Bates and some Otago Volts.

DCC Events Special Projects Co-ordinator Tammy Jackman says, “Excitement is building for this international event and this is a wonderful opportunity to get down to the Octagon and get your photo taken with one of the greatest sporting trophies in the world.

“It would be great to see as many people as possible supporting this wonderful event.”

The Octagon event runs from 6am to 9am and Ms Jackman is encouraging people to swing by before work and school to join in the fun. The trophy will be piped into the Octagon at 6.40am. The Terrace Bar is opening early so people can head there for breakfast and the chance to pick up free tickets to the next Volts game.

At 9.30am, the trophy will leave the Dunedin Railway Station on the Taieri Gorge Railway, heading to Middlemarch.

The trophy tour started in Auckland on 6 November and in terms of other southern stop offs, the trophy visits Queenstown tomorrow and Invercargill on Thursday (the last event of the tour).

The 11th ICC Cricket World Cup is being hosted by New Zealand and Australia from 14 February to 29 March next year. Dunedin is one of seven New Zealand cities which will host matches. The first game in Dunedin will be played on 17 February. All Dunedin matches will be played at the highly-regarded University Oval.

For more details, visit www.dunedin.govt.nz/cricketworldcup.

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