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Children playing beach cricket

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Children playing beach cricket

Cricket is often played informally by families and friends in the park or at the beach. Here two seven-year-olds, Madeleine Anderson and Evelyn Jacobs, play at Waihī Beach in the Bay of Plenty on Boxing Day 2004.

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Don Neely, Cricket – Cricket in the 21st century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38280/children-playing-beach-cricket (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Don Neely, published 15 November 2012, updated 1 April 2016.