By Kirra Livingstone
THE Sunshine Coast Cricket Association and the Sunshine Coast Scorchers team will now be based in Landsborough this cricket season.
The association, which had been based in Buderim, jumped at the chance to take on the Landsborough lease at Tunnel Ridge Road, saying the benefits including an improved income stream would be beneficial.
Sunshine Coast Cricket Association President Chris Baker said the women’s Scorchers team will also play at the Landsborough grounds, which they used to compete on some years ago.
“This will be really good for us,” Chris said.
“If we are doing that with a few little improvements, just to make it all better for everyone … it should be really good.”
He added: “It’s more what the building offers, it outweighs those disadvantages (of distance) because we can use it for all sorts of things.”
Another benefit of the lease will be the income flow the association will receive by renting their space to other groups when they don’t need to use the area.
“We hope to be able to generate a bit of an income stream out of it and you can hire it out and groups can use it on a regular basis,” Chris said.
“And we can make a little bit of money out of it which helps do what we’ve got to do.”
It will also benefit local cricket hinterland clubs, Glass House, Maleny and Landsborough. “They will benefit from it because whereas they used to have to drive up to Buderim all the time to do things now it’s that much closer for them,” he said.
“But we’ve got a pretty spread-out region, we actually go from Gympie to Caboolture.”