The under-13s wrapped up this week, while the under-15s will begin filtering into the city for next week’s carnival over Saturday and Sunday. 

“I think everyone was pretty happy, the town put on a good show but we didn’t lose any games to rain – we had a few shortened games but didn’t lose any,” Cumming said. 

“We had a slight change in structure to leave the third day open to make the grand final as good as it can possibly be and that seemed to work well.”

Tuesday’s games all required a switch to synthetic and a shorter format – Twenty20 – and Cumming said it “all tended to work”. 

“We’ve been doing it for a long time now, we know how to make a call to go synthetic,” he said. 

“Something that was different this year was we had support for a lot more senior and junior clubs helping out to put the covers on. They made a big difference, everyone chipped in.”

There will be 12 boys’ sides and six girls’ outfits taking to fields across Orange next week for the under 15 version of the carnival.